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ICST - CfP (Deadline Extended): International Symposium on Vehicular Computing Systems (ISVCS) 2008: Dublin, Ireland
by info＠icstconferences.org 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

------------------------------------------------------------ -**********************************************************- -* *- -* International Symposium on Vehicular Computing Systems *- -* ISVCS 2008 *- -* *- -* July 22-24, 2008 *- -* Trinity College Dublin, Ireland *- -* *- -* http://www.isvcs.eu/ *- -* *- -* Call for Papers *- -* *- -* *- -* Co-located with MobiQuitous 2008 *- -* *- -* Sponsored by ICST *- -* Technically-sponsored by Create-Net *- -* *- -**********************************************************- ------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES - EXTENDED Paper registration: March 22, 2008 (extended) Paper submission: March 29, 2008 (extended) Notification of acceptance: May 4, 2008 Camera-ready version due: May 18, 2008 THEME The ISVCS is an annual event that seeks to bring together people from academia, industry and government interested in building and using vehicular computing systems, middleware, protocols, services and applications. The symposium is primarily interested in papers reporting on innovative research resulting in real implementations and working prototypes. Work in progress and new ideas will also be accepted as well as presentations of new products. The program will consist of technical sessions, product/industrial presentations, a keynote, a demonstration session, a poster session and one panel, scheduled over 2.5 days. During the event, an industrial exhibition will be also organized. Short tutorials, especially in non-technical related areas, such as transportation policies and social aspects will also be organized, in order to offer a multi-disciplinary perspective on the field. The event is co-located with MobiQuitous 2008 (http://www.mobiquitous.org/), allowing researchers and practitioners from these related fields to meet and exchange their ideas and experiences. TOPICS OF INTEREST The symposium calls for three categories of contributions: research, position and product presentation papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Design and implementation of computer systems for network-connected vehicles - Middleware and service architectures for safety, road sensing, route planning, in-car networking and other vehicle-centric applications - Protocols for data collection and dissemination over network-connected cars - Security and privacy issues in vehicular networks, systems, services and applications - Location-aware computing models for vehicular systems - Driver-to-computer interfaces - Data management systems for road sensing and traffic monitoring - Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication protocols - Inter-vehicle distributed systems for entertainment and gaming - Pervasive computing applications using vehicular networks - Tools and methodologies for vehicular computing systems verification and evaluation - Fault-tolerance solutions for vehicular computing systems - Maintenance for vehicular computing software - Experience reports of testing vehicular computing systems on real-world conditions - Policies, laws and regulations for adopting vehicular computing technologies - Social and psychological implications of vehicular computing applications SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Paper submission will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 10 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures. PUBLICATION All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Please visit the Publications page for more information. SPECIAL ISSUE Best papers presented in ISVCS will be considered for publication in the Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal, Special Issue on Advances and Applications in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Ren Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Steering Committee Chair Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Program Co-Chairs Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Raja Sengupta, UC Berkeley, USA Industry Chair Fan Bai, General Motors, USA Poster/Demo Chair Sam Reisenfeld, UTS, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST Conference Coordinator Dorothy Bany, ICST -------------------------------------------------- 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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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 10 Mar '08

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[Tccc] CFP: ACCESSNETS 2008
by Jun Zheng 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * ACCESSNETS 2008 * * Third International Conference on Access Networks * * October 15-17, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA * * http://www.accessnets.org * * * ************************************************************** ----- Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2008 ----- OVERVIEW: With the rapid growth of the Internet as well as the increasing demand for broadband services, access networks have been receiving growing investments in recent years. This has led to a massive network deployment with the goal of eliminating the bandwidth bottleneck between end-users and the network core. Today many diverse technologies are being used to provide broadband access to end users. The architecture and performance of the access segment (local loop, wired and wireless access networks, and even home networks) are getting increasing attention for ensuring quality of service of diverse broadband applications. Moreover, most access lines will no longer terminate on a single device, thus leading to the necessity of having a home network designed for applications that transcend simple Internet access sharing among multiple personal computers and enable multimedia support. Therefore, the access network and its home portion have become a hot investment pool from both a financial as well as a research perspective. The aim of the annual International Conference on Access Networks (AccessNets) is to provide a forum that brings together scientists and researchers from academia as well as managers and engineers from the industry and government organizations to meet and exchange ideas and recent work on all aspects of access networks and how they integrate with their in-home counterparts. AccessNets'08 is the third edition of this exciting event, which will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on Oct. 15-17 2008. The conference will consist of technical sessions, workshops, and panels. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the workshops and panels will focus on development, application, and related business issues in this hot and exciting area. TOPICS: The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * FTTx and PON technologies * xDSL technology and DSM * Hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) technology * Cable-based access technology * Powerline communication technology * Digital satellite access technology * WiFi and WiMax networks * Wireless mesh networks * Integrated wired/wireless networks * Long reach Ethernet * Home networks * Networked appliances * Hybrid wired/wireless LANs * Municipal and community networks * Network architectures and protocols * Medium access control * Cross-layer design * OFDM, OFDMA, CDMA techniques * MIMO techniques * Service convergence * Quality of service provisioning * Network scalability and upgradeability * Network survivability and security * Deployment/standardization statuses PAPER SUBMISSION: Please visit the conference website (http://www.accessnets.org) for detailed instructions. Paper Publication: All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of AccessNets 2008. * Selected best papers will be considered for publication in a Special Issue on Broadband Access Networks of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. * Selected outstanding papers will be considered for publication in Inderscience International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems. * Selected outstanding papers will be considered for publication in Inderscience International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission due April 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance June 15, 2008 Final manuscript due July 15, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: MeshTech 2008 - Atlanta, GA, USA - Sept. 29, 2008
by Enzo Mingozzi 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS MeshTech 2008 Second IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies and Standards for Wireless Mesh Networking http://www.ing.unipi.it/meshtech08 co-located with IEEE MASS 2008 sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE TC on Distributed Processing, IEEE TC on Simulation, and IEEE TC on Computer Communication September 29, 2008 Atlanta, GA, USA Wireless mesh networks are emerging as a key technology for next generation wireless networking. A wireless mesh network is characterized by dynamic self - organization, self-configuration and self-healing, which allow it for easy and fast, highly scalable, reliable and cost- effective network deployment under very diverse environments, and provision of better coverage and capacity to stationary and mobile users. Because of this, wireless mesh networks have not only become a hot topic in the research community, but are also experiencing a very fast deployment in many today's environments, such as public city-wide broadband WiFi networks, rural networks, private neighbourhood communities, or private business networks that are characterized by frequent topology changes, cabling troubles, or hard environmental conditions. Triggered by these fast advances in both research and industry communities, several standardization bodies have started working on specifying recognized protocols and architectures for interoperable WMNs, including both the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN standards committee (inside the IEEE 802.16/WiMAX, the IEEE 802.11s, the IEEE 802. and the IEEE 802.15.5 Working Groups) and the IETF in the context of wireless access and mobility support in Next Generation Internet (inside, e.g., the MIPSHOP, NETLMM and MANET Working Groups). However, it is still to be fully understood what technological challenges these standardization efforts have to face, how they will evolve, and what application scenarios will be able to drive their possible success. Building on the success of the last year event, MeshTech 2008 aims at bringing together again practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to discuss the recent advances and future evolution of next generation mobile mesh/multi-hop relay networking technologies and standards. Within the scope of wireless mesh networks, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Routing protocols - Medium access control protocols - Quality of Service and fairness provisioning - Mesh networks configuration and management - Topology discovery, association and control - Mesh networks measurement - Mobility management - Interworking in heterogeneous wireless mesh networks - Coexistence with existing wireless infrastructures - Security architectures, functions and protocols - Performance evaluation - Comparative study of competing solutions - Cross-layer design and optimization - Advanced antenna technologies - Cognitive and frequency-agile radios - Fault tolerance, anomaly detection and error recovery schemes PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers must be submitted electronically to EDAS by May 10, 2008, 11:59pm EDT. You can find detailed submission instructions at http://www.ing.unipi.it/meshtech08/submission.html. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the workshop and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the main proceedings of IEEE MASS 2008 and published by the IEEE. IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript Submission Due: May 10, 2008 (11:59pm EDT). Notification of acceptance: June 25, 2008. Final Manuscript Due: July 18, 2008. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy. Xudong Wang, Kiyon Inc., USA. TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Leonardo Badia, IMT Lucca, Italy. Michael Bahr, Siemens AG, Germany. Lars Berlemann, Deutsche Telekom, Germany. Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy. Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland. Antonio Capone, Polytechnic of Milano, Italy. Javier Cardona, Cozy Bit, USA. Claudio Cicconetti, University of Pisa, Italy. Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy. Dee Denteneer, Philips Research, The Netherlands. Donald Eastlake, Motorola, USA. Steve Emeott, Motorola, USA. Karoly Farkas, University of West Hungary, Hungary. Frank Fitzek, University of Aalborg, Denmark. Susan Hares, NextHop, USA. Guido Hiertz, RWTH Aachen, Germany. Kyeong Soo Kim, Institute of Advanced Telecommunications, Swansea University, UK. Jarkko Kneckt, Nokia Research Center, Finland. Taekyoung Kwon, Seoul National University, South Korea. Myung J. Lee, City University of New York, City College, USA. Luciano Lenzini, University of Pisa, Italy. Azman Osman Lim, NICT, Japan. Stefan Mangold, Swisscom Innovations, Switzerland. Sebastian Max, RWTH Aachen, Germany. Daniele Miorandi, Create-Net, Italy. Mitsuo Nohara, KDDI Corporation, Japan. Alexander Safonov, Russian Academy of Science, Russia. Kazuyuki Sakoda, Sony Corporation, Japan. Vasilios Siris, University of Crete/FORTH-ICS, Greece. Hideyuki Suzuki, Sony, Japan. Rakesh Taori, Samsung, South Korea. Christian Wietfeld, University of Dortmund, Germany. Yunpeng Zang, RWTH Aachen, Germany. _______________________________________________ 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: ACM WMUNEP 2008
by smadim2＠grads.ece.mcmaster.ca 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

[CFP] 4th ACM WMuNeP 2008, Submission Deadline June 10th, 2008 We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message -------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE FOURTH ACM INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING AND PERFORMANCE MODELING (WMUNEP 2008) 27-31 October 2008, Vancouver, Canada http://wmunep2008.mcmaster.ca/ To be held jointly with the 11-th ACM MSWIM http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/mswim2008/ SCOPE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling (WMuNeP 2008) will be a highly selective one-day event, held in conjunction with the 11th Annual ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2008). This workshop is devoted to cover different aspects of wireless multimedia networking and performance modeling for WLANs, WPANs, WMANs, WWANs, MANETs, VANETs and sensor networks such as wireless video and wireless streaming, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, synchronization, analysis and performance modeling. TOPICS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): -Wireless multimedia network management -Wireless multimedia traffic modeling -Middleware and reflective systems support for wireless multimedia -Proxy-based systems for video transcoding and content distribution -Performance modeling, monitoring and evaluation of wireless multimedia networks and systems -Multipoint, multicast wireless multimedia services -Deployment of wireless multimedia applications, services and networks -Protocols for wireless multimedia networks -QoS and Resource Allocation in wireless multimedia networks -Integration of wireless multimedia networks to broadband networks -End-to-end IP multimedia wireless communications -Coding and transmission for wireless multimedia networks -Distributed wireless multimedia services -Content-based wireless multimedia information retrieval tools -Video, streaming, real-time wireless multimedia communications and applications -Wireless multimedia right protection and watermarking -Pricing mechanisms for wireless multimedia networks -E-Commerce and related applications for wireless multimedia networks -Multimedia evaluation and processing for wireless networks -Cross layer design for wireless multimedia networks -Software tools for system performance and evaluation of wireless multimedia networks -Case studies showing the role of evaluation in the design of systems -Wireless multimedia sensor networks IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission: June 10, 2007 Author Notification: July 16, 2008 Camera-ready Paper: August 1, 2008 Other information on WMuNeP2008 can be found at the workshop site: http://wmunep2008.mcmaster.ca/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: ACM TAAS Special Issue on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Wireless Networking Systems
by Zhang, Liqiang 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

Apologies if you receive multiple copies ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems Special Issue on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Wireless Networking Systems http://taas.acm.org/TAAS-ACM-SelfOrg-WSN.pdf **************************************************************************************** Recent advances in wireless communications and networking, distributed sensing and control, and real-time and embedded systems have led to some new computing paradigms, such as ubiquitous and pervasive computing, wireless sensor networks, and cyber-physical systems. Many novel and attractive applications are made possible, such as advanced automotive systems, environmental control, critical infrastructure control, high confidence medical devices and systems, etc. In these applications, a large scale wireless networking system that consists of massive numbers of connected processing elements, sensors, and actuators often plays a key role. The high complexity of such large scale heterogeneous systems raises new challenges to the system design: we expect the system to be context-aware and self-adaptive to internal and external environments to achieve reliable and robust performance; to be self-organizing and scalable so that managing and maintaining costs could be minimized; to have programmable architecture and protocols for achieving optimal performance in different situations/scenarios, etc. These challenges need to be addressed under joint efforts from different areas, such as networking, system, control, AI, biology, and others. The special issue seeks original and unpublished papers that address theoretical and experimental work related to self-adaptive and self-organizing wireless networking systems (SASOWNS). Papers are solicited from, but are not limited to, the following topics: * Self-adaptive architectures, algorithms, and protocols * Control theoretical approaches for self-optimization * Self-organizing wireless mesh, ad hoc, and sensor networking * Self-configurable and programmable MAC and routing protocols * Biological, economic, and social models for large scale SASOWNS * Applications and testbeds of SASOWNS * Autonomic and autonomous wireless networking systems IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper submission due: July 31st, 2008 Acceptance notification: Dec. 31st, 2008 Camera-ready due: Feb. 28th, 2009 Tentative publication date: June/Sep. 2009 SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW GUIDELINES --------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting important developments (or advances) in the topics related to the special issue. The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Parallel submissions will not be accepted. If an earlier version of the manuscript was published/accepted in conferences, authors should state so in the cover letter. The manuscript must be a substantial extension to the previously published/accepted work and a summary of changes and a copy of the previous conference paper must be submitted together with the submission to the special issue. Guest editors will pre-screen submitted manuscripts for their suitability in the issue. Submissions passing the pre-screen process will go through a rigorous peer-review process according to the standards of TAAS. Submitting a paper implies the willingness of reviewing one paper submitted to the special issue. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- The manuscripts should be formatted according to the ACM TAAS guidelines available from the journal homepage (http://www.acm.org/pubs/taas) and submitted to the guest editors through email (cpoellab(a)cse.nd.edu). GUEST EDITORS ------------- Dr. Michael Lemmon Dept. of Electrical Engineering University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 Email: lemmon(a)nd.edu Http: www.nd.edu/~lemmon Dr. Christian Poellabauer Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 Email: cpoellab(a)cse.nd.edu Http: www.cse.nd.edu/~cpoellab Dr. Liqiang Zhang Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences Indiana University South Bend South Bend, IN 46615 Email: liqzhang(a)cs.iusb.edu Http: www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang Dr. Xiaobo Zhou Dept. of Computer Science University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, CO 80918 Email: zbo(a)cs.uccs.edu Http: www.cs.uccs.edu/~zbo **************************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Mobicom'08 Call For Papers: Abstract Registration is TOMORROW
by Mischa Dohler 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

Dear all, The deadline for abstract registration for Mobicom08 is tomorrow. The important dates to keep in mind are: Abstracts submission due: March 7, 2008 Paper submissions due: March 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: June 19, 2008 Camera-ready version due: July 7, 2008 Mobicom08 will be held in the scenic San Francisco Bay Area on September 14-19. All relevant information can be found at: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2008. The work conducted within TCCC is very relevant to Mobicom08. I am including the official Call for Paper below. With best regards on behalf of the Mobicom08 Publicity Chairs, Mischa Dohler. ______________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS MobiCom 2008 The Fourteenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking September 14-19, 2007 San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2008/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ACM MobiCom is the premier international conference dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. It has served as an exciting international forum since 1995, addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. This year, we will continue this tradition, but we especially encourage the submission of papers in the experimental systems area. This area has seen exciting developments in recent years and explicit efforts will be taken to represent it strongly at MobiCom this year. Authors are invited to submit full papers, challenges papers, student posters, and research demos and exhibits, presenting new research related to the theory or practice of mobile computing and/or wireless and mobile networking. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking * Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, limited bandwidth, limited power and/or intermittent connectivity * Fundamental understanding of mobile computing and wireless networking * Wireless and mobile techniques for delay tolerant, mobile ad hoc, and wireless sensor networks * Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of mobile and wireless systems * Wireless access technologies (e.g. mesh systems, PANs) * Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks * Protocols exploiting novel technologies such as UWB, MIMO, directional antennas, and software radios * Techniques for dynamic spectrum use * Architectures, algorithms and protocols for cognitive wireless networks and their integration in the Internet * Modeling, measurement and simulation of mobile networks * Experimental test-beds for mobile/wireless networks * Performance evaluation of mobile and wireless networks, protocols, and systems * Next generation (beyond 802.11) wireless technologies and related systems and protocols Submission Instructions Detailed instructions on how and where to submit your paper can be found at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2008/cfp.pdf Important Dates Abstracts submission due: March 7, 2008 Paper submissions due: March 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: June 19, 2008 Camera-ready version due: July 7, 2008 General Chair - jj(a)soe.ucsc.edu: J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, UC Santa Cruz and PARC Technical Co-Chairs - mobicom08_pcchairs(a)acm.org: Raghupathy (Siva) Sivakumar, Georgia Tech Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please contact the General Chair or Program Co-Chairs for more information. For information on ACM SIGMOBILE and the MobiCom series of conferences, see http://www.sigmobile.org/ or contact mobicom_info(a)acm.org. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CfP: Mobile Gaming '08 @ Informatik 2008 in Munich]
by Lars Wolf 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CfP: Mobile Gaming '08 @ Informatik 2008 in Munich Datum: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:23:04 +0100 Von: Irma Lindt <irma.lindt(a)fit.fraunhofer.de> Organisation: Fraunhofer FIT An: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> ** 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 **************************************************** (We apologize for possible multiple copies.) ******************************************************************** *** Mobile Gaming '08 *** *** Workshop @ Informatik 2008 in Munich *** *** http://sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/mobile-gaming/ *** ******************************************************************** OVERVIEW Mobile Games rely on physical movement of players in a world that weaves the real environment and virtual dimensions together. They combine two gaming traditions in a novel way, which have been mutual exclusive till now: outdoor games and computer games. Game design is facing new challenges. Currently only few games exploit the potential, which is offered by augmented and mixed reality, global networking, location-awareness and sensors. Theory and methodology to survey mobile gaming experiences are far from maturity. The question is, how to understand mobility and physical movement within mixed game worlds? How to study gaming experiences of mobile players, who are moving independently through urban space? What are the roles of the player's community and its culture for playing games? Development and design of mobile games are challenging us with core issues of ubiquitous computing, the complexity of mobile, distributed systems, the particular dynamics of game situations and the changing contexts, the diversity of actors, using the technology, and the issues of interaction beyond the desk, encompassing the players body, multiple human senses and diverse usage modes. The diversification of hard- and software leads to additional challenges regarding interoperability and calls for flexible frameworks supporting the integration. This workshop aims to increase the perception of mobile gaming as a rich domain for research in many directions in the German-speaking science and market area. We invite researchers and developers to exchange their experiences, identify urging research issues and to look for ways how to exploit and enhance the basic conditions for research in this domain. TOPICS OF INTEREST We invite technical papers and position statements to be submitted to the workshop. The workshop topics include, but are not limited to: Experience and design of mobile games: mobile gaming experience and gaming activities physical movement in mixed reality settings and embodied interaction mobile games in everyday life: the magic circle of play and its spatial, temporal and social expansions reinterpretation of traditional games as digital mobile games mobile edutainment - the didactical potential of mobile games serious games: teaching complex processes based on pervasive technology mobile gaming as testbed for business cases Technical challenges of mobile games: augmented and mixed reality in mobile games gaming context: predictable and unforeseeable context dimensions user interfaces for mobile games graspable interaction: sensors and actors in mobile games technologies for location-awareness and positioning recording and replayability of mobile games supporting the large variety of hard- and software systems: problems and solutions using technological limitations creatively DATES AND DEADLINES Paper submission: April 28, 2008 Notification of authors: June 2, 2008 Camera ready version due: July 1, 2008 Workshop Mobile Gaming '08: September 9, 2008 FORM OF SUBMISSION The workshop aims to offer a forum for presentation and discussion of new research results. It focuses on mobile games and further applications with a playful character. Location, other context, and mobility of users should be basic design aspects of the considered applications. Submissions might be written in German or English and should not exceed six pages. Format must obey the LNI standard. Details about LNI as well as templates for Word and LaTex are available on the workshop's website. Since printing will be black and white authors should be careful when using colored images or diagrams. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be included in the Workshop Proceedings of Informatik 2008. The proceedings will be published by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). ORGANIZERS The workshop is jointly organized by: Pascal Bihler, Universität Bonn Barbara Grüter, Hochschule Bremen Irma Lindt, Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin Holger Mügge, Universität Bonn PROGRAM COMMITTEE Linda Breitlauch, MediaDesign Hochschule Düsseldorf Wolfgang Broll, Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin Armin B. Cremers, Universität Bonn Jürgen Fritz, Fachhochschule Köln Julian Kücklich, University of Ulster Peter Möckel, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin Stefan Müller, Universität Koblenz Albrecht Schmidt, Universität Duisburg-Essen Clemens Türck, Ravensburger Spieleverlag, Ravensburg Steffen P. Walz, ETH Zürich CONTACT DETAILS Workshop web page: http://sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/mobile-gaming Please contact the organizer Pascal Bihler, email: bihler(a)iai.uni-bonn.de **************************************************** ** 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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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

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[Cost290] The 1st Russian Conference on Smart Spaces ruSMART 2008; St.Petersburg, Russia
by Yevgeni Koucheryavy 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

The 1st Russian Conference on Smart Spaces ruSMART 2008 September 05, 2008 St.Petersburg, Russia http://www.new2an.org/rusmart co-located with The 8th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking NEW2AN 2008 September 01 - 05, 2008 St.Petersburg, Russia http://www.new2an.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS About the Conference Recent advances in the field of wireless networks have moved them beyond their traditional areas of application to a much broader scope. They form a space where users can access a number of wireless technologies to interact with various services. Similarly, existent and future services form a space providing an unlimited set of possibilities ranging from browsing to interactive video conversations. All these layers form a smart environment that can harmonize a number of technologies at each architectural layer to provide the best user experience. This conference will explore and explain the scope and challenges of smart spaces. In this regard, the conference aims to bring together research professionals from diverse fields including but not limited to wireless communication, ubiquitous networks, software development, multimedia, services, and business in both academia and industry. The 1st Russian Conference on Smart Spaces ruSMART 2008 will take place on September 5th, 2008. It will be co-located with the 8th International Conference Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking NEW2AN 2008. The ruSMART 2008 will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia - the meeting point of East and West. Through its stunning architecture and wonderful art galleries and museums, among a number of other attractions, the wealth of history of East and West can be seen and felt in this beautiful city. Topics of interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Wireless technologies for smart spaces - Personal and body networks, wearable computing - Distributed and pervasive services - Service discovery in smart environments - Convergence of technologies for smart space - Smart environments for home, city, office, shop, persons, etc - Business models for smart spaces - Social, and economic aspects and problems of smart space - Architecture and platforms for smart space - Tools for modeling smart spaces Paper submission Authors are invited to submit full papers in English of not more than 20 double-spaced pages, single column, 12pt font size (reviewer-friendly format). All papers must include a title, complete contact information for all authors, and keywords on the cover page. The corresponding author should be identified clearly. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via on-line submission procedure. Proceedings will be published by LNCS Springer combined with NEW2AN 2008 proceedings. Accepted papers would not be more than 12 pages in LNCS format. Selected best papers will appear in a journal special issue. Important dates Paper submission April 21, 2008 Notification of acceptance May 26, 2008 Camera ready version June 09, 2008 Conference dates September 5 , 2008 The Conference is organized by Nokia Research Center (Finland), Tampere University of Technology (Finland) and BalticIT (Russia) in cooperation with ITC (International Teletraffic Congress), IEEE Russia Northwest BT/CE/COM Chapter, Popov Society, and support of NOKIA. For further and up-to-date information please visit official web page of the Conference http://www.new2an.org/rusmart _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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