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ICST - IWCTS 2008 - Call for Papers
by info＠icstconferences.org 11 May '08

11 May '08

**SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 17, 2008** CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************************** First International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science IWCTS 08 http://cts.cs.uic.edu/iwcts.htm July 21, 2008, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland To be held in conjunction with: The Fifth International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008) *********************************************************************** In the near future, vehicles, travelers, and the infrastructure will collectively have billions of sensors that can communicate with each other. This environment will enable numerous novel applications and order of magnitude improvement in the performance of existing applications. However, information technology (IT) has not had the dramatic impact on day-to-day transportation that it has had on other domains such as business and science. In terms of the real-time information available to most travelers, with the exception of car navigation systems, the transportation experience has not changed much in the last 30-40 years. During this same time, the miniaturization of computing devices and advances in wireless communication and sensor technology have been propagating computing from the stationary desktop to the mobile outdoors, and making it ubiquitous. Transportation systems, due to their distributed/mobile nature, can become the ultimate test-bed for this ubiquitous (i.e., embedded, highly-distributed, and sensor-laden) computing environment of unprecedented scale. Information technology is the foundation for implementing new strategies, particularly if they are to be made available in real-time to wireless devices such as cell phones and PDAs. A related development is the emergence of increasingly more sophisticated geospatial and spatio-temporal information management capabilities. These factors have the potential to revolutionize traveler services, and the provision and analysis of related information. In this revolution, travelers and sensors in the infrastructure and in vehicles will all produce a vast amount of data that could be interpreted and acted upon to produce a sea change in transportation. The emerging discipline of computational transportation science (CTS) combines computer science and engineering with the modeling, planning, and economic aspects of transportation. The discipline goes beyond vehicular technology, and addresses pedestrian systems on hand-held devices, non-real-time issues such as data mining, as well as data management issues above the networking layer. CTS addresses issues of efficiency, equity, mobility, accessibility, and safety by taking advantage of ubiquitous computing. --- SCOPE OF THE SUBMISSION The International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science invites submissions of original, previously unpublished papers on CTS issues. Position papers that report novel research directions or identify challenging problems are also invited. Papers incorporating one or more of the following themes are especially encouraged: - Uncertain information distributed among moving travelers/vehicles and the infrastructure - Information in pedestrian, biking, and other non-motorized transportation applications - Ride- and car-sharing using social networks - Computation of costs of multi-modal traveling - Information regarding transfers to alternate modes of transportation - Data mining techniques for travel information - Dynamic shortest path computations using forecasts - Human-computer interfaces in intelligent transportation applications - Privacy and security issues in transportation information - Social and institutional information related to travel - Real-time negotiation among travelers - Mobile artificial-intelligence aspects related to transportation - Sensor information related to transportation HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must be in English and not exceed 6 pages double column in ACM SIG format (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. Position papers are limited 4 pages. All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the technical program committee. Authors are asked to register the titles and abstract of their papers in advance. To register or submit a paper, please visit http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcts08 or see the workshop website for more details. --- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: May 17, 2008 Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2008 Camera-ready submissions: June 8, 2008 --- General Chairperson Peter Nelson University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Program Chairperson Ouri Wolfson University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Technical Program Committee Amr El Abbadi University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Walid Aref Purdue University, USA Claus Brenner Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany Glenn Geers National Information Communications Technology Australia Fosca Giannotti Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy Le Gruenwald University of Oklahoma, USA Christian Jensen Aalborg University, Denmark Der-Horng Lee National University of Singapore D. T. Lee Academica Sinica, Taiwan Harvey Miller University of Utah, USA Pitu Mirchandani University of Arizona, USA Dino Pedreschi University of Pisa, Italy Mahadev Satyanarayanan Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Monika Sester University of Hannover, Germany Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Pravin Varaiya University of California, Berkeley, USA Chip White Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Stephan Winter The University of Melbourne, Australia Bo Xu University of Illinois at Chicago, USA -------------------------------------------------- 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://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=ggjzadyfjh and enter your email address.

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[Tccc] Call for Papers: IEEE ISWCS'08 (extended through May 25, 2008)
by Chin-Tser Huang 11 May '08

11 May '08

Call for Papers IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2008 (ISWCS'08) 21 - 24 October 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland http://www.iswcs.org/iswcs2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless communications is at the centre of a new and passionate era for telecommunications. The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) positions itself as a recognised and dynamic forum for researchers and technologists to present and discuss original ideas in all fields related to wireless communication systems. In 2008, ISWCS will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland. The event follows the successful ISWCS'04 in Mauritius, ISWCS'05 in Siena, ISWCS'06 in Valencia and ISWCS'07 in Trondheim. ISWCS'08 is sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and IEEE Iceland Section, technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (pending approval), and supported by the University of Iceland Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - 3G, 4G and beyond systems - Antenna and RF subsystems - Coding, modulation & equalization - Convergence of wireless systems - Cross-layer design & optimisation - Audio / video on wireless networks - Experimental systems & field trials - Fixed and nomadic wireless access - Generic access networks (GANs) - Heterogeneous wireless networks - Intelligent transportation systems - Location and positioning - MIMO - Mobility management - Modelling, analysis and simulation - QoS in wireless networks / systems - Radio interfaces and technologies - Radio resource management - Relaying and user cooperation - RFID - Satellite & high altitude systems - Security/privacy in wireless systems - Service and middleware platforms - DSP for wireless systems - Software radio / cognitive radio - Space-time coding and diversity - Spectrum sharing and coexistence - Traffic control and engineering - UWB - Wireless access techniques - Wireless ad-hoc networks - Wireless networks and systems - Wireless comm. & net. in ITS - Wireless / Mobile Internet - Wireless LANs and PANs - Wireless mesh networks - Wireless network architectures - Wireless net. information theory - Wireless propagation and channel - Wireless switching and routing - Wireless sensor networks - Wireless services and applications Submission Guidelines Both extended abstracts and full papers are welcome. For extended abstracts, the length should not be longer than 2 pages, and for full papers, not more than 5 pages (in IEEE two- column format, 10pt). Papers must be submitted electronically via TrackChair. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed for their quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for inclusion in a planned special journal issue. Proposals for Tutorial are also being solicited and should be sent, together with a one page summary and the presenter¡¦s biography, to the Tutorial Chair. Important Dates Submission: extended through 25 May 2008 Acceptance: 07 July 2008 Author registration: 03 Aug. 2008 Camera-ready paper: 03 Aug. 2008 Tutorial proposal: 03 Aug. 2008 Tutorials: 21 Oct. 2008 Conference: 22-24 Oct. 2008 Conference General Chair: Karl Guomundsson, University of Iceland, Iceland Conference General Co-Chairs: Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland Boon Sain Yeo, SensiMesh, Singapore Technical Advisory Committee Chair: Victor Bahl, Microsoft, USA Technical Program Chair: Saemundur Thorsteinsson, Siminn, Iceland Technical Program Co-Chairs: Yuming Jiang, NTNU, Norway Chin-Tser Huang, University of South Carolina, USA Speaker Chair: Kristinn Andersen, Marel, Iceland _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Extended Demo deadline IEEE WiVeC - 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications
by Moritz Killat 09 May '08

09 May '08

[We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message] IEEE WiVeC 2008 -- 2nd Call for Demos We are pleased to announce that the deadline for the submission of demo proposals to IEEE WiVeC 2008 has been extended to **May, 19th 2008**. This is a firm deadline. This year, the WiVeC demo session will be designed to allow industrials and researchers to showcase their latest industrial applications and research prototypes in WiVeC related topics. Demo proposals covering innovative technologies, platforms, analysis tools and applications related to wireless vehicular communications are encouraged. Due to the particular nature of demos of vehicular communication technologies, movies or visualizers demonstrating the course of a vehicular testbed performed on a remote site also qualify to WiVeC'08 demo session. In order to optimize the illustration of the design of such demo, candidates are yet encouraged to bring examples of some transportable equipments used for their testbed. We also would like to emphasize that this year, accepted demonstrations will be included in IEEE Xplore. Demo proposal of 2 A4 pages should be submitted to the Demo Chair Dr. Jérôme Härri at haerri(a)tm.uni-karlsruhe.de Further submission guidelines may be found below. --------------- 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WiVeC'08) 21--22 September 2008, Calgary Marriott, 110 9th Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 5A6 Canada http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/ Sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC) will cover all vehicular wireless communications aspects of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Person (V2P) communications, including implications on transport efficiency and safety, implications on automotive electronics, liability issues, standardizations efforts and spectrum assignment. After a successful first WiVeC edition in 2007 (http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2007/) with over 150 participants in the 2-day event, the second IEEE WiVeC symposium will be co-located with the 68th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2008 Fall conference and will take place at the Calgary Marriott Hotel in Calgary on the 21st and 22nd of September 2008. Combined registrations packages will be offered for WiVeC and VTC events. This year, the WiVeC demo session will be designed to allow industrials and researchers to showcase their latest industrial applications and research prototypes in WiVeC related topics. Poster and demo sessions will be co-located to ensure maximum visibility and a close interaction between presenters and participants. Demo proposals covering innovative technologies, platforms, analysis tools and applications related to wireless vehicular communications are encouraged. Submissions describing both mature or innovative systems and prototypes developed for commercial use or for research purposes, from industries or universities, are encouraged. Submission Instructions : ------------------------- The submitted demo proposal should include in a maximum of 2 A4 pages, including figures and references : 1. Title, authors and contact information. 2. Technical content to be demonstrated. 3. An overview of the demonstration set-up (the inclusion of photographs of the demonstrator are encouraged) and the results that will be shown to attendees. 4. Any URLs that link to screen-shots, live demos, or related information The submission format should follow the IEEE submission guidelines (http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/A4.rtf). Demo proposals may be sent to the Demo Chair Dr. Jérôme Härri at haerri(a)tm.uni-karlsruhe.de The authors should also email the Demo Chair with information on the equipment or facilities required for the system demonstration (e.g., power supplies, Internet connections, table dimensions, etc). Demonstrations could be supported by a poster describing the general set-up of the demonstration, its background and technical content to be demonstrated. Demo participants interested to use a poster should also inform me. Demonstrations will be selected based on their novelty, technical quality, and attractiveness of the demonstrated system. *Accepted demonstrations will be included in IEEE Xplore and the Conference CDROM*. Please note that for every accepted demonstration, it is required that at least one person registers for the conference and presents the demo. However, no additional paper charge is needed for authors that are already presenting a regular paper in IEEE WiVeC'08. Important Dates for Demos : ------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: *19 May 2008* Notification of acceptance: *30 May 2008* Camera-ready papers due: *9 June 2008* -- Dr. Jérôme Härri Assistant Professor Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Institut für Telematik Geb. 20.20 Zirkel 2 D-76131 Karlsruhe Tel: +49 721 608-6407 Fax: +49 721 32550 Email: haerri(a)tm.uni-karlsruhe.de Url: http://dsn.tm.uni-karlsruhe.de/haerri.php _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Call for Paper zur Automotive – Safety & Security 2008
by gi-mitglieder-info＠gi-ev.de 09 May '08

09 May '08

Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen zur Automotive – Safety & Security 2008 Sicherheit und Zuverlässigkeit für automobile Informationstechnik 19. – 20. November, Stuttgart Veranstaltungsort: Auditorium Boschzentrum am Feuerbach, Borsigstraße 14, Stuttgart Erwünscht sind Beiträge zu folgenden Themen aus dem Automotive Engineering oder ähnlichen Bereichen der Softwareentwicklung: • Zuverlässigkeit und Sicherheit für fahrbetriebskritische Software und IT-Systeme • Evaluation und Zertifizierung von Sicherheitseigenschaften automobiler Firmware/Software • Zuverlässigkeit mit AUTOSAR • Zuverlässige Echtzeit-Betriebssysteme • Zuverlässige Integration von modellbasierten Architekturen mit regelungstechnischen Werkzeugen • Betriebssicherheit und Manipulationsschutz von Firmware und Software im Fahrzeug • Verlässliche Aktualisierungsverfahren • Zuverlässigkeit und Sicherheit bei Ferndiagnose und Fernwartung von Fahrzeugen • Sichere Steuerungs- und Kommunikationssysteme (X-by-Wire, Bussysteme, Bluetooth, WLAN etc.) • Nutzungs-, Bewegungsprofile und Datenschutz • Fortschritte bei Normen und Standardisierungen • Werkzeuge zur Verbesserung der Zuverlässigkeit im Automotive Software Life Cycle • Zuverlässigkeitsaspekte kognitiver Fahrerassistenzsysteme • Zuverlässigkeit von Multi-Core-Architekturen Termine: 16. Juni 2008 Einreichung der Beiträge (erweiterte Kurzfassung, Vollfassung bevorzugt) 15. Juli 2008 Benachrichtigung über Annahme 5. Sept.2008 Eingang Druckvorlage der Langfassung des Beitrags (max. 15 Seiten) Einreichung der Beiträge und Kurzfassungen: Einreichung der Beiträge (erweiterte Kurzfassung, Vollfassung bevorzugt) bitte nur per E-Mail an: beitrag(a)automotive2008.de Format der schriftlichen Fassung: RTF Format, max. 15 Seiten, Schriftgröße 12 pt, Layout nach Richtlinien des Shaker Verlags, siehe http://www.automotive2008.de Tagungsbericht: Die wissenschaftlichen Beiträge der Tagung werden als Fachbericht im Shaker Verlag in der Reihe Softwaretechnik publiziert. Programmkomitee: Gemeinsamer Vorsitz: Hubert B. Keller, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Erhard Plödereder, Universität Stuttgart Gerhard Beck, Rohde Schwarz SIT GmbH, Nellmersbach Carsten Böckmann, Volvo Gothenburg, Schweden Manfred Broy, TU München Peter Dencker, ETAS GmbH, Stuttgart Dirk Dickmanns, EADS, Ottobrunn Simon Fürst, BMW AG, München Günter Glöe, TÜV Nord, Hamburg Peter Göhner, Universität Stuttgart Klaus Grimm, Daimler AG, Sindelfingen Karl-Erwin Großpietsch, FG FERS, St. Augustin Albert Held, Daimler AG, Ulm Thomas Kropf, Robert Bosch GmbH, Leonberg Sergio Montenegro, DLR, Bremen Isabel Münch, BSI, Bonn Kai Rannenberg, J. W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/Main Hans-Christian Reuss, Universität Stuttgart Francesca Saglietti, F.-A.-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg Christian Scheidler, Daimler AG, Berlin Jörn Schneider, Robert Bosch, Schwieberdingen Claus Stellwag, 3Soft GmbH, Erlangen Hans-Jörg Wolff, ETAS GmbH, Stuttgart Die Tagung Automotive 2008 wird das technische Programm mit eingeladenen Hauptvorträgen umfassen. Eine Ausstellung zu Werkzeugen zur Softwareentwicklung für das Automobil wird die Tagung begleiten (Kontakt unter: ausstellung(a)automotive2008.de). Aktuelle Informationen zur Tagung finden Sie unter: http://www.automotive2008.de/ Veranstalter: Gesellschaft für Informatik mit den Fachgruppen Ada, ASE, ENCRESS, EZQN; VDI/VDE-Gesellschaft Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik mit dem FA 5.11 ES; TÜV Nord; Ada Deutschland. Organisation: Katharina Ade, Peter Dencker, ETAS GmbH; Hubert B. Keller, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Dr. Peter Dencker Sprecher FG Ada ETAS GmbH Borsigstr. 14 70469 Stuttgart Phone +49 711 89661-375

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[Tccc] *SUBMISSION EXTENSION*: IEEE QoISN'08: QoI for Sensor Networks
by Chatschik Bisdikian 08 May '08

08 May '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Registration Date: May 20, 2008 (150 word abstract) Submission Date: May 25, 2008 (6 pages) Author notification: July 18, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- QoISN: First IEEE Workshop on Quality of Information (QoI) for Sensor Networks ------------------------------------------- September 29 - October 2, 2008 Atlanta, Georgia [in conjunction with the: Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2008)] Workshop co-chairs: Chatschik Bisdikian IBM T.J. Watson Research Center bisdik(a)us.ibm.com James P. Richardson and Vicraj Thomas Honeywell Labs {james.p.richardson, vic.thomas}(a)honeywell.com http://www.cse.psu.edu/IEEEMASS08/qoisn.htm ------------------------------------------- In the dynamic, ad-hoc world envisaged for wireless sensor networks, the notion of the quality of information (QoI) produced by the network will be key to bringing together data capturing and information processing systems to support the on-demand information needs of a broad spectrum of applications such as remote real-time habitat monitoring, utility grid monitoring, environmental control, supply-chain management, health care, machinery control, intelligent highways, military intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR), border control, and hazardous material monitoring. QoI, broadly speaking, represents a level of confidence that may be placed on information. It touches every part of the end-to-end flow of sensor-derived information, from the sensors themselves and the observation data they produce to the various fusion layers that process these data and eventually to the applications (and their users) that use them. The objective of the QoISN Workshop is to foster constructive discussions among researchers from academic, industrial and governmental institutions for formalizing the science of QoI for sensor networks. We seek novel contributions covering all aspects of QoI for sensor network, including: - Formal QoI characterization and representation; - QoI performance metrics and estimation techniques; - Sensor fault analysis and sensor data cleansing and their impact on QoI; - QoI-aware networking; - Security, privacy, and data provenance and their impact on QoI; - QoI driven data fusion; - QoI calculus, brokering, and trade-off analysis; - QoI-driven system design; - QoI impact at the application level (e.g., detection-based decision making - and surveillance analysis) Paper preparation/submission details: Authors should prepare a PDF file following the IEEE single-space, two-column format using at least 10 point size type. The maximum page limit is 6 pages. Papers deemed outside the scope of the Workshop or longer than 6 pages will be administratively disqualified. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE. The paper must be correctly formatted to fit on U.S. "letter" size page (8.5" by 11") with at least 1" margins on all 4 sides. Please use only standard fonts such as Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as related information, can be found at the IEEE Computer Society website. Paper submission is managed through EDAS ( http://www.edas.info/showConferenceDetails.php?c=6460&). All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Please submit your paper to EDAS. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work. Following the convention of past MASS conferences, there will be NO workshop-only or workshop-specific registration. A full conference registration is needed and will include the ability to attend any workshop and regular conference session. ------------------------------------------- Important dates Paper registration (250 word abstract): May 20, 2008 (*** NEW ITEM***) Paper submission (6 pages): May 25, 2008 (*** NEW DATE***) Author notification: July 2, 2008 Camera ready: July 18, 2008 ------------------------------------------- The QoISN'08 Workshop Program Co-Chairs _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Special Session on Wireless AdHoc Networks at the 5th IEEE Symposium on Swarm Intelligence
by Di Caro Gianni 08 May '08

08 May '08

**************************************************************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S **************************************************************** Special Session at the 5th IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium: SWARM INTELLIGENCE FOR WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS St. Louis, Missouri, USA, September 21-23, 2008 http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2008/?q=node/5 IMPORTANT DATES ***************** Paper submission: May 15, 2008 Notification: June 15, 2008 Camera-Ready: July 15, 2008 Conference: Sept 22-23, 2008 SCOPE ******* Wireless ad hoc networks are communication networks that consist entirely of wireless nodes, placed together in an ad hoc manner, i.e. with minimal planning. Nodes can enter or leave the network at any time, and may be mobile, so that the network topology continuously experiences alterations during deployment. Examples include: Wireless ad hoc networks pose substantially different challenges compared to more traditional communication networks: they are highly dynamic, have limited resources (in terms of bandwidth, computation power, battery, etc.), have a highly decentralized organization, rely on often unreliable wireless communication channels, etc. As a consequence, new algorithms and protocols are needed for all aspects of the organization of these networks. Swarm Intelligence methods seem particularly interesting in this context. This is because their ability to solve difficult tasks in a distributed and robust way using locally interacting simple agents fits closely to the typical environment created by an ad hoc network. In this special session, we solicit novel and interesting contributions in this area, with special reference to applications of Swarm Intelligence in the domain of: - Mobile ad hoc networks - Sensor networks - Networks of mobile robots Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Distributed medium access control using Swarm Intelligence - Swarm Intelligence routing protocols in ad hoc networks - Swarm Intelligence transport layer protocols in ad hoc networks - Swarm Intelligence for QoS provisioning - Self-configuration, self-optimization and self-adaptation through swarm intelligence - Off-line optimization for ad hoc networks through swarm intelligence - Comparisons between Swarm Intelligence and other algorithms for ad hoc networks - Implementation of Swarm Intelligence approaches in testbeds - Evaluation of Swarm Intelligence approaches in real-world settings SUBMISSION ************ Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than eight (8) pages including results, figures and references. Authors should submit their papers as PDF through the online submission system, which is available at: http://www.computelligence.org/SIS/2008/Sub/ The paper format is the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings and can be found at: http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2008/paperform.html A Microsoft Word version of the paper format can be found at: http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2008/paperform.doc ORGANIZERS ************ Anna Forster (University of Lugano, Switzerland), anna.egorova.foerster(a)lu.unisi.ch Frederick Ducatelle (IDSIA-SUPSI, Switzerland), frederick(a)idsia.ch Gianni Di Caro (IDSIA-SUPSI, Switzerland), gianni(a)idsia.ch Ganesh Venayagamoorthy, (Missouri U. of Science and Technology, USA), ganeshv(a)mst.edu ************************************************************************************ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] ACM Workshop on Network Data Anonimization: submission deadline approaching
by Elisa Boschi 08 May '08

08 May '08

[apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------- Network Data Anonymization (NDA) Workshop An ACM CCS workshop October 31, 2008 Alexandria, VA, USA http://www.ics.forth.gr/~antonat/nda08.html -------------------------------------------- Over the last decade, the network security community (and the Internet measurement community in general) has suffered from two fundamental and related problems: (1) a lack of "real" network data for research studies and prototype testing, and (2) a lack of network data sharing among organizations, which impedes cooperation in network defense; as attacks typically cross organizational boundaries, effective prevention requires defenders to look beyond their own perimeter in cooperation with other organizations. Anonymization techniques are crucial for the safe sharing of network data. They are necessary to obscure certain identifying information (e.g., IP addresses) in order to protect the privacy of end users and the security of internal networks. While current network data anonymization techniques are generally acknowledged to be useful, it is difficult to ensure they are free from information leakage. Also, anonymization involves fundamental tradeoffs between the protection of user privacy and the utility of the resulting data, and these tradeoffs need to be better understood. This workshop seeks to focus on new and innovative solutions for anonymizing network data that will ensure appropriate protection of host identities, network configurations, and network security practices within enterprise networks. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: - data sharing via anonymization - privacy-preserving data mining - data anonymization tools - data anonymization policy creation/implementation - data anonymization case studies/best practices - streaming data anonymization - anonymization issues specific to network data - business services enabled by anonymization - data protection laws relevant to data anonymization Papers submitted documenting attacks on anonymized systems are strongly encouraged to propose a corresponding protection solution. While the focus of this workshop is on network data anonymization, applications of anonymization to other data domains ( e.g., medical data, homeland security, reputation systems, government records, transportation etc.) are welcome if the authors include a statement of relevance. ---------------- Important Dates: ---------------- Paper submissions due: Sunday, May 25, 2008 Author notification: Monday, July 7, 2008 Camera ready papers due: Sunday, August 10, 2008 Workshop at CCS '08: Friday, October 31, 2008 --------------------- Organizing Committee: --------------------- Bill Yurcik, University of Texas at Dallas (USA) [Program Chair] Spiros Antonatos, ICS-FORTH (Greece) Michele Bezzi, SAP Research (France) Elisa Boschi, Hitachi Europe (Switzerland) Brian Trammell, CERT/NetSA (USA) ---------------------------- Technical Program Committee: ---------------------------- Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) Matthias Bossardt, KPMG (Switzerland) Nevil Brownlee, CAIDA/University of Auckland (New Zealand) KC Claffy, CAIDA/University of California San Diego (USA) Michael Collins, CERT/NetSA (USA) Marco Cremonini, University of Milan (Italy) Michalis Foukarakis, ICS-FORTH (Greece) Carrie Gates, CA Labs (USA) David Maltz, Microsoft (USA) John McHugh, Dalhousie University (Canada) Ruoming Pang, Google (USA) Stefano Paraboschi, University of Bergamo (Italy) Dave Plonka, University of Wisconsin at Madison (USA) Carsten Schmoll, Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany) Tim Shimeall, CERT/NetSA (USA) Panos Trimintzios, European Network and Information Security Agency (Greece) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Extended deadline IEEE WiVeC - 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications
by Sepulcre Ribes, Miguel 07 May '08

07 May '08

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers and Demos] FINAL EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE (papers and demos): 19th May 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WiVeC'08) 21-22 September 2008, Calgary Marriott, 110 9th Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 5A6 Canada http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/ <http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/> Sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Wireless vehicular communications has been identified as a key technology for increasing road safety and transport efficiency, and providing Internet access on the move to ensure wireless ubiquitous connectivity. The potential of this technology has been acknowledged with the establishment of ambitious research programs worldwide, such as the European eSafety initiative, the US programs derived from the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative and the Japanese InternetITS and AHS programs. The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) currently covers through its areas of interest (Mobile Radio, Transportation Systems and Automotive Electronics) all technical aspects needed to make wireless vehicular communications a reality. As a result, the IEEE VTS society has decided to establish a technical symposium on wireless vehicular communications, with the first issues planned to be co-located with the reputed IEEE VTC conferences. The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC) will cover all vehicular wireless communications aspects of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Person (V2P) communications, including implications on transport efficiency and safety, implications on automotive electronics, liability issues, standardizations efforts and spectrum assignment. After a successful first WiVeC edition in 2007 (http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2007/ <http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2007/> ) with over 150 participants in the 2-day event, the second IEEE WiVeC symposium will be co-located with the 68th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2008 Fall conference and will take place at the Calgary Marriott Hotel in Calgary on the 21st and 22nd of September 2008. Combined registrations packages will be offered for WiVeC and VTC events. All accepted papers will be included in the VTC 2008-Fall conference proceedings and will be published on the IEEE Xplore database. A selection of the best WiVeC papers will be published in a special issue of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine http://www.ieeevtm.org <http://www.ieeevtm.org/> Authors are encouraged to submit full papers (a maximum of five pages) through the conference web site. Topics of interest ------------------ The WiVec Symposium seeks original papers - not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal - in the area of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-person (V2P) wireless communications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * RF technologies, antenna design, physical layer and propagation models. * Radio resource management and interference management. * Spectrum assignment and EMC regulations. * Architecture, networking protocols (including ad-hoc, routing, data dissemination, etc) and their evalutation. * QoS and cross-layer optimization design. * Communications systems and technologies. * Testbeds and simulation platforms. * Interworking with sensor network technologies. * In-car electronics and embedded integration of wireless vehicular communications. * Roadside infrastructure. * Mobility management, mobility and vehicle traffic models. * Digital maps and location technologies. * Decision and control issues. * Human-Machine Interface. * Applications (Ecall, toll collection, traffic information, wireless diagnosis etc.). * Security, liability and privacy. * Standards development, business models, policies (e.g., Cooperative aspects of vehicular communication). * Assessment of impact on transport efficiency and safety. * Scalability issues in metropolitan-wide vehicular networks. Regular Paper Submissions ------------------------- Authors are encouraged to submit full length papers (maximum 5 pages) following the submission guidelines provided at http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/ <http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/> Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. A selection of the best WiVeC papers will be published in a special issue of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (www.ieeevtm.org <http://www.ieeevtm.org/> ). Important Dates for regular papers ---------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 19th May 2008 Notification of acceptance: 7h June 2008 Camera-ready papers due (strict deadline): 14th June 2008 Call for Demos --------------- Together with the poster session, WiVeC will feature a demo session designed to allow industrials and researchers to showcase their latest industrial applications and research prototypes in WiVeC related topics. Poster and demo sessions will be co-located to ensure maximum visibility and a close interaction between presenters and participants. Demo proposals covering innovative technologies, platforms, analysis tools and applications related to wireless vehicular communications are encouraged. Submissions describing both mature or innovative systems and prototypes developed for commercial use or for research purposes, from industries or universities, are encouraged. The submitted demo proposal should include in a maximum of 2 A4 pages following the WiVeC paper format: 1. Title, authors and contact information. 2. Technical content to be demonstrated. 3. An overview of the demonstration set-up (the inclusion of photographs of the demonstrator are encouraged) and the results that will be shown to attendees. 4. Any URLs that link to screen-shots, live demos, or related information The authors should also email the Demo Chair with information on the equipment or facilities required for the system demonstration (e.g., power supplies, Internet connections, table dimensions, etc). Demonstrations could be supported by a poster describing the general set-up of the demonstration, its background and technical content to be demonstrated. Demo participants interested to use a poster should also inform the demos chair. Demonstrations will be selected based on their novelty, technical quality, and attractiveness of the demonstrated system. Accepted demonstrations will be included in IEEE Xplore and the Conference CDROM. Please note that for every accepted demonstration, it is required that at least one person registers for the conference and presents the demo. However, no additional paper charge is needed for authors that are already presenting a regular paper in IEEE WiVeC'08. Important Dates for Demos ------------------------- Demo Submission Deadline: 19th May 2008 Notification of acceptance: 7h June 2008 Camera-ready papers due (strict deadline): 14th June 2008

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[Tccc] CFP: Journal of High Speed Networks, Special Issue on QoS Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks
by Kemal Akkaya 07 May '08

07 May '08

Apologies if you receive multiple copies. -------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------- Journal of High Speed Networks Special Issue on QoS Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks -------------------------------------------------------- Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) is a promising technology that offers solutions for low-cost broadband Internet access by extending the local area networks to wide area. Unlike mobile ad hoc and sensor networks, the mesh nodes in a WMN are stationary and have access to unlimited power. Typically, mobile clients connect to the mesh nodes and use the backbone to communicate with one another over large distances and with nodes on the Internet through a gateway. One of the distinct characteristics of WMNs is that the mesh nodes can employ multiple radios and utilize multiple channels which thereby bring a potential to improve the throughput and bandwidth of the network. In addition, directional and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas can be employed. Such technologies can be exploited for end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning that can be used to offer some level of service differentiation to facilitate multimedia/real-time data communication, Video on Demand, VoIP, etc. over WMNs. Prior research on QoS provisioning in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks has mostly addressed the challenges under the single channel paradigm. While the research community has recently started to study the QoS challenges in WMNs, the current focus has largely been on bandwidth guarantees for traffic going out of the WMN to the Internet via the gateway(s). Therefore, further research is needed to provide QoS guarantees for intra-WMN traffic not only on bandwidth but also on delay, delay jitter and reliability so that WMNs can be realized as a technology in the near future. The goal of this special issue is to collect papers in the area of QoS provisioning in multi-radio, multi-channel, multi-hop WMNs. We solicit papers which will address QoS challenges under multiple radios and channels, provide the foundation for applications such as Video on Demand, teleconferencing and VoIP, and deal with channel assignment and routing problems simultaneously. Topics of interest include, but not limited to: - QoS routing with multiple radios/channels - Providing delay and delay jitter guarantees - Cross-layer design and optimization - Dynamic channel assignment with QoS routing - MIMO techniques for QoS provisioning - Handling mobility of mesh clients during QoS support - Performance analysis - Wireless mesh network testbed design and measurements - Fault-tolerance and QoS provisioning - Security and QoS provisioning - Utilization of cognitive radio for QoS provisioning - Centralized vs. distributed QoS algorithms Important Dates: - Manuscript Due: November 14, 2008 - Acceptance Notification: January 14, 2009 - Final Manuscript Due: February 4, 2009 Submission Guidelines: All submissions to the Journal must be in English and based on original research of some fundamental significance. The paper must not be published or submitted for publication elsewhere, although part of the paper may have been published in conference proceedings. A manuscript largely based on a conference paper must be so identified. It is expected that the author(s) have obtained necessary approval or clearance prior to submitting the paper. All submissions to the Journal will be reviewed by competent referees and are considered on the basis of their technical correctness, contribution, novelty, readability and usefulness to the Journal's readership. The font size should be at least 10 and the number of pages should not exceed 15. IEEE transaction style is preferable. Please send the papers in pdf format to kemal(a)cs.siu.edu with a title of Special Issue of Journal of High Speed Networks. Guest Editors: Kemal Akkaya Dept. of Computer Science Southern Illinois University Carbondale Carbondale, IL 62901 Email : kemal(a)cs.siu.edu Suleyman Uludag School Computer Science University of Michigan Flint Flint, MI 48502 Email : uludag(a)umflint.edu Ali Bicak Stradford University Falls Church, Virginia 22043 Email: bicakali(a)ieee.org -- Kemal Akkaya Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901 Tel: 618-453 60 54 Fax: 618-453 60 44 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: JCOMSS Special Issue - Medical Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks]
by Lars Wolf 07 May '08

07 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: JCOMSS Special Issue - Medical Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks Datum: Wed, 7 May 2008 16:39:21 +0100 Von: Joel Rodrigues <joeljr(a)ieee.org> An: multicomm(a)comsoc.org (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CFP Special Issue on* Medical Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks* (_http://lab405.fesb.hr/jcomss/index.php?call=1_) ** JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS (_http://lab405.fesb.hr/jcomss/index.php_) Submission deadline: June 1, 2008 Guest Editors: Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal (_joeljr(a)ieee.org_ <mailto:joeljr@ieee.org>) Farid Farahmand, Central Connecticut State University, USA (_farahmandfar(a)ccsu.edu_ <mailto:farahmandfar@ccsu.edu>) Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France (_lorenz(a)ieee.org_ <mailto:lorenz@ieee.org>) Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play an important role in medical diagnosis and patient monitoring. New wireless sensors and medical devices continue to be developed to create safer health care environments. The rapid growth of using such devices and technologies in medical fields has created new opportunities and applications. However, enormous challenges still remain to be resolved in order to develop flexible, reliable, secure, and power-efficient networks suitable for medical needs. High-quality, original, unpublished contributions will be considered for the issue. Authors wishing to submit papers should send an electronic version (PDF or postscript file only) with a separate cover letter containing the paper title, authors with affiliations, and up to 200 words abstract, to one of the Guest Editors. Topics include, but not limited to, the following: • /Biomedical Sensors and Systems / • /Biotelemetry / • /Biosurveillance Systems and Applications / • /Body Sensor Networks / • /Clinical Biofeedback / • /Communications Protocols and Architectures / • /e-Health / • /Embedded Computing Systems / • /Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing / • /MicroElectricoMechanical Systems (MEMS) / • /Mobile Applications / • /Modeling and Simulation / • /Performance Evaluation / • /Real-time Systems / • /Security and Privacy / • /Telemedicine / • /Weareable Sensors and Systems / • /Wireless Sensor Networks / // Best regards, Joel Rodrigues __________________________________________________ Joel Rodrigues PhD, MSc, Eng, IEEE Senior Member. Networks and Multimedia Group, Institute of Telecommunications Department of Informatics, University of Beira Interior Rua Marques d'Avila e Bolama 6201-001 Covilha, Portugal

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