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[Tccc] [CAMPUS08] 2nd Call for papers
by Hassine Moungla 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

CALL FOR PAPERS 1st International DisCoTec Workshop on Context-aware Adaptation Mechanisms for Pervasive and Ubiquitous Services Tuesday 3rd June 2008 Oslo, Norway http://discotec08.ifi.uio.no/Campus08 Overview. There is a huge market potential for mobile applications in Europe today. Most people already carry a mobile device of some sort wherever they go, and an increasingly diverse set of devices (PDAs, smart phones, GPS, etc.) are becoming widely available. Recently, service- orientations (e.g., OSGi) have evolved to address these highly dynamic environments. However, it is still technically difficult, using existing method and tool supports, to create such services-oriented applications. For example, the very large range of devices, types of infrastructure, ways in which it can change, situations in which users can find themselves, and the functions they want, introduce great complexity and pose considerable technical challenges. To overcome these difficulties, and promote the development and widespread deployment of innovative mobile applications, more and more projects are addressing the development of context-aware adaptation mechanisms for leveraging the development of mobile applications. These projects aims at providing simple but powerful integrated approaches to support the development of applications interacting in pervasive and ubiquitous environments. Thus, the CAMPUS workshop will focus on the promising approaches in the domain of context-aware adaptation mechanisms supporting the dynamic evolution of the execution context (e.g., network/device/service failures). Research Topics The workshop will address an extensive set of topics related to adaptation mechanisms for context-aware services. The following contributions will be particularly welcome:- Context-awareness mechanisms for distributed systems: - How to capture the relevant contextual properties of a distributed system? - How to support the distribution of the context information in an efficient manner? - How to enforce the security and privacy issues for context data? - How to describe ontologies for context management? - How to map context-awareness to situation-awareness using context reasoning? - Adaptation mechanisms for distributed systems: - How to represent the adaptation knowledge of a distributed system? - How to reason about pieces of software that need to be adapted in a distributed manner? - How to reconfigure a distributed system with respect to the dynamic nature of the environment? - How to deal with anticipated versus unanticipated adaptation? - How to integrate human/computer interaction issues in adaptive systems? - How to ensure robustness and transactional adaptations? - Innovative applications of context-awareness and adaptation mechanisms: - Experiences in developing context-aware and adaptive applications and services, - Testing and validation of adaptive applications and services, - Development methodology for adaptive applications and services, - Tool support for context-aware adaptation mechanisms and adaptive services, - Design of platforms and infrastructures supporting context-aware adaptation mechanisms, - New domains of applications for context-aware and adaptive applications and services. Important dates Paper Submission: March 20, 2008 Paper Notification: May 01, 2008 Camera Ready: May 15, 2008 Workshop: June 03, 2008 Workshop Format The workshop will be organised as a one-day event, consisting of a series of sessions, each devoted to the presentation of papers belonging to a common domain. Each session will end with a mini-panel between the presenters, led by the session chair or a pre-selected devilâEUR^(TM)s advocate. This format has been found to lead to lively and productive discussions. The workshop will include a special session for the presentation of posters and demos of ongoing research efforts and software prototypes. The workshop will conclude with a panel, moderated by one of the organizers, to discuss open issues and future trends in the field, with the aim of wrapping up the overall contributions of the event. Submission & Publication Selection of workshop participants will be based on the submission of a paper, poster or demo. Moreover, other participants may be invited by the organizing committee. Thus, the CAMPUS program committee seeks: - Technical papers, describing concrete results achieved, in no more than 12 pages (EASST style), - Position papers, describing on-going work and interim results, in no more than 6 pages (EASST style). Papers will be peer-reviewed, and selected based on their originality, technical strenght and topical relevance. All workshop papers will be published in a special issue of Electronic Communications of the EASST. Paper submission must be electronically as postscript or PDF (via the Submission website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=campus08). Organisation Committee Romain Rouvoy, University of Oslo, Norway (Program chair) Mauro Caporuscio, INRIA, France (Publicity chair) Michael Wagner, University of Kassel, Germany (Publication chair) Steering Committee Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany Svein Hallsteinsen, SINTEF ICT, Norway Geir Horn, SINTEF ICT, Norway ValÃ©rie Issarny, INRIA, France Program Committee Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK Mauro Caporuscio, INRIA, France Licia Capra, University College of London, UK Denis Conan, Intitut TELECOM, SudParis, France Vittorio Cortellessa, UDA, Italy Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway Ioannis Fikouras, Ericsson, Germany Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany Svein Hallsteinsen, SINTEF ICT, Norway Geir Horn, SINTEF ICT, Norway Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Per HÃ¥kon Merland, SINTEF ICT, Norway Hassine Moungla, INRIA, France Nearchos Paspallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Roland Reichle, University of Kassel, Germany Romain Rouvoy, University of Oslo, Norway Ulrich Scholz, EuropeanMedia Laboratory GmbH, Germany Lionel Seinturier, University of Lille 1, France Roberto Speicys-Cardoso, INRIA, France Giovanni Toffetti Carughi, USI, Switzerland Massimo Tivoli, UDA, Italy Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine Michael Wagner, University of Kassel, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Hassine Moungla ARLES Project INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt Domaine de Voluceau B.P. 105 78153 Le Chesnay FRANCE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CFP UNA'08
by Lars Wolf 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

1st Workshop on Urban Networks and Applications (UNA 08) Lakeshore Hotel, Hsinchu, Taiwan, August 4-6, 2008 http://una.cs.ucc.ie held in conjunction with the 13th IEEE Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference http://www.ccrc.nthu.edu.tw/acsac2008 Urban settings are host of diverse networking technologies, from cellular and wired broadband to WiMAX, WiFi, Bluetooth and, more recently, mesh and sensor networks. While this rich environment offers opportunities for connectivity, inter-operability and sharing of services and resources, the co-existence of these heterogeneous technologies, competing for the same resources and offering similar services, poses difficult engineering and legal problems. For example, network planning is a major issue that can determine the effective use of each network and, when possible, inter-operability of the networks. Cities administrations are keen to deploy and take advantage of public service networks, whereas citizens are interested to use public or private services at home, at work or while driving or walking. Private initiatives may selectively focus on certain niche services. Overall, urban networks can increase the quality of life in cities and can make the distinction among cities. In achieving this goal, many technical challenges have to be tackled. This workshop will be a forum for discussion of new and interdisciplinary ideas on new architectures, paradigms, concepts, service models and novel applications for urban networks. The topics for submission include but are not limited to: cognitive radio technologies congestion control micro- and pico-cell control architecture hybrid cell configuration sensor networks in urban settings personal area networks vehicular networks mesh networks mobile ad hoc networks networks planning networks inter-operability data mining of a large volume of data in urban networks database support for urban networks network and service discovery mobility supporting services context awareness mobile middleware ubiquitous and urban computing urban network systems and applications locative media and applications access, security and privacy in urban networks Submissions Both research and industry papers are solicited. Submitted papers should be original, unpublished work and not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers reporting work in progress are welcome. Questions about the submission process should be directed to the workshop chair. All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by members of the international program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of ACSAC 2008, which is to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Papers are limited to 8 pages including figures and references and they must follow the IEEE 8.5"x11" two-column format guidelines described at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through https://www.softconf.com/starts/UNA2008 The publication of a paper requires at least one of the authors to register and be present at the conference. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected. Important dates Paper submissions due: March 20, 2008 Acceptance notification: April 30 2008 Final camera-ready due: May 10, 2008 Workshop Chair Dan Grigoras University College Cork, Ireland d.grigoras(a)cs.ucc.ie Workshop Publicity Chair Daniel Doolan University College Cork, Ireland d.doolan(a)cs.ucc.ie Program Committee Jemal Abawajy Deakin University, Australia Onur Altintas Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Akira Arutaki NEC Communication Systems, Japan Antonio Capone Politecnico di Milano, Italy Valentin Cristea Politehnica University Bucharest, Romania Lars Eggert Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland Mario Gerla University of California, Los Angeles, USA Mads Haahr Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Max Lenardi Hitachi Europe, Sophia Antipolis, France Diego López de Ipiña Deusto University, Spain Seung Jin Lim Utah State University, USA Chun-Yuan Lin Chang Gung University, Taiwan Alex Nicolau University of California, Irvine, USA Joerg Ott Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland Giovanni Pau University of California, Los Angeles, USA Gregor Schiele Mannheim University, Germany Cormac Sreenan University College Cork, Ireland Lars Wolf Technical University Braunschweig, Germany

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[Fwd: Mobicom'08 Call For Papers: Abstract Registration due in 8 days!]
by Lars Wolf 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Mobicom'08 Call For Papers: Abstract Registration due in 8 days! Datum: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:06:42 -0800 Von: Cedric J A. Westphal <cwestphal(a)docomolabs-usa.com> An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> Dear MMC TC members: we wanted to remind you that the deadline for abstract registration for Mobicom’08 is quickly approaching. 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 Mobicom’08 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/ We include the official Call for Paper below. Please accept my apologies if you are inconvenienced by multiple messages similar to this one. Best regards, Cedric Westphal, Mischa Dohler, Ryuji Wakikawa, Mobicom’08 Publicity Chairs. 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.

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[Mycolleagues] Call for papers: Special Issue on Emerging Wireless Networks, Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier
by Dr. Isaac Woungang 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Call for Papers Special issue on: Emerging Wireless Networks, Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier http://www.elsevier.com/framework_products/promis_misc/cfp367special.pdf Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements. The last few years have experienced a steep growth in research on wireless networks having attractive claims. Researchers are currently envisioning different attractive properties of wireless systems such as the ability to self- organize, self-configure, self-heal, self-manage and self-maintain. Different wireless networks having the potential to offer cost-effective home and enterprise access networking solutions are being researched. Technologies such as Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), WiFi, WiMax, Bluetooth, 802.20, 802.22 and software defined radio are gaining popularity. Even though these technologies hold great promises for our future, there are several challenges that need to be addressed. This Special Issue aims to publish high quality research papers relating to different emerging wireless network technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:  Broadband wireless access networks  Wireless Internet  Software defined radio  Bluetooth technology  Ultra-wide band radio  Emerging Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks  Wireless Mesh Networks  IEEE 802.11/802.20/802.22  Emerging wireless network security issues  Wireless telemedicine and e-health  Emerging issues in 3G and 4G wireless networks  Emerging wireless network architecture  Multimedia over emerging wireless networks  Underwater sensor Networks  Supplying power to the distributed wireless sensors  Very low-powered sensors  Cooperative wireless communications  Multi-hop relay wireless communications Tutorial-type articles (but NOT a review of the literature) about the latest on an emerging wireless network topic (such as wireless sensors) are also of interest to this Special Issue. Guest Editor: Isaac Woungang Department of Computer Science Ryerson University, Toronto Ontario, CANADA E-mail: iwoungan(a)scs.ryerson.ca Submission Details: Original, high quality contributions that are not yet published or that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought. Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to iwoungan(a)scs.ryerson.ca. Please mention “C&EE Special Issue Submission” in the subject line of your e-mail. After sending your manuscript, if you do not get a confirmation of receipt of your submission within 2-3 business days, please resend your original e-mail again. A guide for authors for preparing their papers is available at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/367/ authorinstructions Contributing authors might be asked to review some of the papers submitted to this special issue. Important Dates: Manuscript Due: July 1, 2008. Acceptance Notification: November 1, 2008. Camera-Ready Final Manuscript Due: December 1, 2008 _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] Call for papers: Special Issue on Emerging Wireless Networks, Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier
by Dr. Isaac Woungang 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Call for Papers Special issue on: Emerging Wireless Networks, Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier http://www.elsevier.com/framework_products/promis_misc/cfp367special.pdf Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements. The last few years have experienced a steep growth in research on wireless networks having attractive claims. Researchers are currently envisioning different attractive properties of wireless systems such as the ability to self- organize, self-configure, self-heal, self-manage and self-maintain. Different wireless networks having the potential to offer cost-effective home and enterprise access networking solutions are being researched. Technologies such as Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), WiFi, WiMax, Bluetooth, 802.20, 802.22 and software defined radio are gaining popularity. Even though these technologies hold great promises for our future, there are several challenges that need to be addressed. This Special Issue aims to publish high quality research papers relating to different emerging wireless network technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:  Broadband wireless access networks  Wireless Internet  Software defined radio  Bluetooth technology  Ultra-wide band radio  Emerging Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks  Wireless Mesh Networks  IEEE 802.11/802.20/802.22  Emerging wireless network security issues  Wireless telemedicine and e-health  Emerging issues in 3G and 4G wireless networks  Emerging wireless network architecture  Multimedia over emerging wireless networks  Underwater sensor Networks  Supplying power to the distributed wireless sensors  Very low-powered sensors  Cooperative wireless communications  Multi-hop relay wireless communications Tutorial-type articles (but NOT a review of the literature) about the latest on an emerging wireless network topic (such as wireless sensors) are also of interest to this Special Issue. Guest Editor: Isaac Woungang Department of Computer Science Ryerson University, Toronto Ontario, CANADA E-mail: iwoungan(a)scs.ryerson.ca Submission Details: Original, high quality contributions that are not yet published or that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought. Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to iwoungan(a)scs.ryerson.ca. Please mention “C&EE Special Issue Submission” in the subject line of your e-mail. After sending your manuscript, if you do not get a confirmation of receipt of your submission within 2-3 business days, please resend your original e-mail again. A guide for authors for preparing their papers is available at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/367/ authorinstructions Contributing authors might be asked to review some of the papers submitted to this special issue. Important Dates: Manuscript Due: July 1, 2008. Acceptance Notification: November 1, 2008. Camera-Ready Final Manuscript Due: December 1, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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IEEE VTS Conference Update
by IEEE E-Notice 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

VTC2008-Fall in Calgary ======================= Last Call for submissions to VTC2008-Fall in Calgary. The official deadline is 29 February, but due to a number of requests for extensions the submission site will remain open through to 3 March 2008. Full details can be found at http://www.vtc2008fall.org VPPC2008 in Harbin, China ========================= The deadline for the Vehicle Power and Propulsion conference, 3-5 September 2008 in Harbin, China is also almost upon us, with abstracts due to be submitted by 1 March 2008. Full details can be found at http://www.vppc2008.com Workshop on Positioning, Navigation & Communication 2008 (WPNC2008) =================================================================== The 5th in this series of workshops will take place in Hannover, Germany on 27 March 2008. Make plans to attend to find out about state of the art approachs and systems for location and positioning. Full details at http://www.wpnc.net ================================================================================ You have received this mailing because you are a member of IEEE and/or one of the IEEE Technical Societies. To unsubscribe, please go to http://ewh.ieee.org/enotice/options.php?SN=Wolf&LN=VT006 and be certain to include your IEEE member number. If you need assistance with your E-Notice subscription, please contact k.n.luu(a)ieee.org ================================================================================

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Call for Papers 6. Workshop Automotive Software Engineering
by gi-mitglieder-info＠gi-ev.de 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Mitglieder des FB Softwaretechnik, der 6. Workshop Automotive Software Engineering findet im Rahmen der 38. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik (www.informatik2008.de) Anfang September 2008 in München statt. Der Workshop ist am 09. September geplant. Den Call for Papers finden Sie auf den Internetseiten der Fachgruppe "Automotive Software Engineering" http://www.gi-ev.de/fachbereiche/softwaretechnik/ase/aktuelle_veranstaltunge n.html . Weitere Informationen zum Workshop finden Sie demnächst unter www.bmwcarit.de/gi/ase2008. Die Organisatoren Manfred Broy, TU München, Reinhard Stolle, BMW Car IT, und Alexandre Saad, BMW Group, sowie das Leitungsgremium der FG "Automotive Software Engineering" laden Sie herzlich zur Einreichung von Beiträgen und zur Teilnahme ein. Bitte leiten Sie diese Information in Ihren Organisationen weiter. Mit freundlichen Gruessen Dr. Bernhard Hohlfeld bernhard.hohlfeld (at) daimler.com If you are not the intended addressee, please inform us immediately that you have received this e-mail in error, and delete it. We thank you for your cooperation.

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[Tccc] CfP for IEEE PIMRC 2008 - VoIP Technologies Workshop
by Evangelos Papapetrou 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

[Apologies for multiple postings] 1st CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE PIMRC 2008 - VoIP Technologies Workshop VoIP Technology: Research and Standards for reliable applications http://www.cs.uoi.gr/~voippimrc08/ Aim of the workshop ------------------------ The trend to all IP-based networks has been fuelled by the Internet’s flexibility that allows the development of innovative services. In this context, the integration of heterogeneous infrastructures as well as applications is of paramount importance. Voice over IP (VoIP), also referred to as Internet or IP telephony, is an example of application that brings the well-known circuit-switched service to the context of IP-based networks. Over the last years, VoIP has received the wide acceptance of users and network operators due to its countless benefits. While users enjoy the flexibility and the monetary savings that VoIP provides, service providers take advantage of its cost-effectiveness. Although VoIP has evolved rapidly, recent advances provide new opportunities for meeting numerous daunting challenges for reaching the quality of traditional telephony service. To this end, he VoIP community is taking advantage of new networking technologies (i.e., WiMAX, Wireless Mesh networks, overlay networks, etc) and innovative design trends and technologies (i.e., cross-layer architectures, QoS advances, network coding, etc). The aim of this workshop is to serve as a forum for scientists and engineers from academia, industry as well as from regulatory and standardization authorities, where they could share recent advances and design trends in VoIP technology. Topics of Interest ------------------------ The aim of this Workshop is to cover a wide spectrum of topics related to VoIP communications, ranging from QoS mechanisms to the design and performance evaluation of different VoIP components. Original papers are solicited that present research, development and deployment issues and challenges, as well as experimental results and applications in the area of Internet Telephony. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Emerging VoIP services in all-IP mobile networks * Cross-layer design of VoIP services * Call continuity between VoIP and traditional circuit-switched networks * VoIP over Heterogeneous Networks * Test methods and measurments * Design, implementation and VoIP testbed results * QoS mechanisms tailored to VoIP transmission * Header Compression schemes * Voice codecs and silence suppression * VoIP over WLAN, WiMAX and Wireless Mesh Networks * Call admission control and QoS support for VoIP * Security in VoIP communications Submission of Papers ------------------------ Submitted papers should be 5 double-column pages (over-length pages will be charged according to PIMRC policy). Both submissions and full papers should be uploaded to the VoIP Technologies Workshop submission track (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6355&track=4147&) in the EDAS system. Papers should be in English and formatted according to IEEE paper templates available on the PIMRC’08 website. For more details on the workshop please visit the webpage http://www.cs.uoi.gr/~voippimrc08. Papers will be reviewed by the program committee for their technical merit, originality, significance, readability, and relevance to the workshop. Emphasis will be given to papers extending VoIP technology to novel areas as well as to papers coming from industry. Submissions are due on April 11. Authors will receive notification of acceptance/rejection by May 19. Camera-ready copies of accepted papers are due on June 2 and will be published in PIMRC’ 08 proceedings. The maximum length of final papers will be 5 pages in double column. Important Dates ------------------------ Submission deadline for full papers: Friday, April 11, 2008 Notification of acceptance : Monday, May 19, 2008 Camera-ready copy hard deadline: Monday, June 2, 2008 Workshop date: Monday, September 15, 2008 Workshop Chairs ------------------------ Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Qian Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong TPC Chairs ------------------------ Jorg Ott Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Evangelos Papapetrou University of Ioannina, Greece Program Committee ------------------------ Colin Perkins University of Glasgow, UK Dorgham Sisalem Tekelec, Germany Gonzalo Camarillo Ericsson Nomadic Lab, Finland Haitham Cruickshank University of Surrey, UK Huseyin Uzunalioglu Lucent Technologies , USA Juergen Quittek NEC Europe, Germany Maryan Vazquez Castro University of Barcelona, Spain Noel Crespi GET-INT, France Tomaso de Cola DLR, Germany Contact Information ------------------------ Fotini Niovi Pavlidou Professor Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, 54124, Hellas Tel: +30-2310-996285 FAX: +30-2310-996285 Email: niovi(a)auth.gr Evangelos Papapetrou Lecturer Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina Ioannina, 45110, Hellas Tel: +30-26510-98878 Fax: +30-26510-98890 Email: epap(a)cs.uoi.gr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[cfp] [Fwd: ICST - CfP: Mobimedia 2008, 7-9.7.2008 at Oulu, Finland]
by Lars Wolf 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICST - CfP: Mobimedia 2008, 7-9.7.2008 at Oulu, Finland Datum: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:15:02 -0500 Von: info(a)icstconferences.org Antwort an: info(a)icst.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message! ************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS MobiMedia2008 4th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference *** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 14th of March 2008 *** ************************************************************* Sponsored by ACM, ICST, CREATE-NET and VTT MobiMedia 2008 Web-site: http://www.mobimedia.org Paper submission: http://www.cocus.eu 7-9th of July, Oulu, Finland Scope ----- The development and deployment of the multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly. Different type of semantic characteristics of media, human interpretation of audiovisual information, coding standards and interaction with networking, mobility and security protocols are research issues that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions. The efficient delivery and deployment of multimedia applications and services over emerging diverse and heterogeneous wireless networks is a challenging research objective. The research efforts e.g. for the 3G/4G and 3G LTE visions of interworking among heterogeneous technologies to achieve multimedia session continuity, retain multimedia QoS characteristics etc., amplifies the need to evaluate the conditions and restrictions under which delivery of such services can be accomplished. The demand for eff! icient multimedia communications can be also seen as one of main driving forces towards the Future Internet and Post-IP solutions. The interoperability of applications, transport and network protocols and radio access, as well as the demand for improved quality of service and user experience, security and mobility support creates a challenging study field and also possibilities for research of novel communication protocols and methods towards the Future Internet. In addition for the technical challenges caused by the increased amount of multimedia usage and delivery through different community services, peer-to-peer networks, Web, Internet IPTV etc. the multimedia delivery is also affecting to industry value chains, commerce transactions between businesses (B2B), and business and customers (B2C). Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers from industry and academia, working in multimedia coding and mobile networking fiel! ds to study new applications, solutions, and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications. The conference key reseach areas include, but are not limited to * Application and channel coding paradigms, including for example joint source and channel coding paradigms, scalable video coding, wireless and ad hoc network solutions, ciphering and authentication. * Networking and transmission mechanisms including for example transport and network protocol solutions, cross-layer techniques, rate control and adaptation mechanism for video delivery, impact of mobility and heterogenous networks in multimedia delivery and p2p content delivery * Multimedia services, business models and concepts, including for example new business models and service concepts, trust and security paradigms for multimedia delivery, test beds and experimentation platforms for multimedia delivery. Papers ------ The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Multimedia semantic characteristics in wireless, mobile and ubiquitous environments * Multimedia QoS in wireless networks * Extraction and usage of semantic information with multimedia * Performance evaluation of multimedia services * Multimedia Retrieval in wireless and mobile environments * Mechanisms supporting triple-play services in emerging wireless networks * Scalable Coding of multimedia in wireless and mobile networks * Cross-Layer techniques for multimedia communications over wireless networks * Joint source-channel coding * Multimedia services over ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks * Rate Control and Adaptation for wireless multimedia * P2P multimedia streaming in wireless and mobile networks * Transport protocols for multimedia in emerging wireless networks * Mobile Content Delivery Networks * Test and experimentation test beds for multimedia delivery * Impact of heterogeneous wireless network environment and mobility * Trust and security in multimedia delivery * Service concepts and new business models Technical program ----------------- The conference will also include invited panels to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on emerging topics are invited Paper submission and publication -------------------------------- MobiMedia 2008 invites manuscripts that present original materials not previously published in, or currently under review by, another conference or journal. Submissions should be full-length papers of up to 7 pages (including all figures and references) formatted according to ACM publication template. Full-length papers should report on completed work and will be considered for oral presentations. A separate abstract of no longer than 200 words should be submitted as well. Submissions will be judged by their originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be made available in ACM Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI and ISI Index. Poster sessions and demonstrations ---------------------------------- MobiMedia 2008 invites the poster and demonstration session parallel with the main conference event. These short papers should report on work in progress or discuss open problems, and will be considered for poster presentations. A maximum of 4 page proposal for poster/demonstration presentation for the session should be submitted to the Poster Session co-chairs. For information on exhibit space or sponsorship opportunities, please contact the corresponding conference Poster and Demosession Chair, General Co-Chairs and Conference Organizing Co-Chairs. Workshops and special sessions ------------------------------ Proposals for one-day workshops or special session to be held in conjunction with the conference are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include the workshop name, its scope and a list of topic of interests. Proposals should be submitted directly to Workshop Chair and to e-mail: mobimedia(a)willab.fi. Important Dates --------------- Proposals for Workshops and Special Sessions due: February 10, 2008 Full Papers due: March 14, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: May 2, 2008 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: May 24, 2008 Conference Dates: July 7-9, 2008 STEERING BOARD: GENERAL CHAIRS: TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS: --------------- --------------- ------------------------ Imrich Chlamtac Jyrki Huusko Rahim Tafazolli Luigi Atzori Tapio Frantti Djamal Zeghlache Frank Fitzek -------------------------------------------------- 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] CFP for PETRA Conference
by Christos Douligeris 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

======================================= ****************************** ******** Call for Papers ******* ****************************** * * *1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments* *(PETRA) 2008* *July 15-19, Athens, GREECE* * * **Conference Web Site*: http://www.petrae.org/* As the diffusion of computing technology into everyday life continues at an exponential rate, elements of technology are increasingly being embedded in artifacts and environments. One important environment for this diffusion is the domestic environment, or Oikos as it was known in ancient Greece. Peoples’ living environments are particularly important when one takes into account the world’s aging population and the fact that as people grow older they are increasingly relying on technology. People will however, have differing levels of computer knowledge and assisted living needs. As a result of these differences the first key area of PETRA is: how to build pervasive technologies for assistive environments that are non-intrusive and easy to use for the end user. The second key area is the technology, as it is now increasingly possible to assist people who have health care needs in their homes by using sensors, databases, personal area networks, ubiquitous connectivity, distributed intelligence and adaptive easy to use interfaces and interactions. However in order to provide such support it is necessary to combine efforts from many areas of engineering and computer science e.g. security, embedded systems, distributed systems, data management and networking. It is at this critical moment that we would like to invite researchers working in the area of healthcare and assisted living to submit their original research findings to the PETRA conference. * * * * Topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to: *· *Tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for designing, implementing and deploying pervasive applications in assistive environments *· *Privacy, security and trust *· *Social impact of the use of pervasive technologies on the user in pervasive assistive environments *· *Wearable, ambient and home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring technologies *· *Mobile and wireless technologies for healthcare information storage, transmission, processing, and feedback *· *Sensor networks for pervasive care *· *Standards and interoperability *· *Probes for gathering requirements in household settings *· *Context aware mobile networks *· *Signal and Image Processing for Ambient Intelligence and Pervasive Computing *· *Reasoning systems and Machine Learning for Assistive Environments *· *Usability and HCI issues, Multimodal Interfaces *Conference Proceedings:* ACM will be the publisher of the proceedings of the PETRA conference and the conference proceedings will be a volume in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series in the ACM Digital Library. Authors should use the ACM Word or LaTeX style templates to prepare their articles. See: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification categories and terms. The Classification Scheme can be found at: http://www.acm.org/class/1998/ * * *Journal:* *· *The best papers from the 1st ACM International Conference on "PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments - PETRA 2008" will be invited for publication in a special issue of the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal (Springer)- Special Issue on Pervasive Technologies for Assistive Environments. *· *Selected papers describing research work on the social impact and effect of the use of pervasive technologies will be invited for publication in a special issue of the International Journal Universal Access in the Information Society - UAIS. The theme of the UAIS Special Issue is: PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSISTIVE ENVIRONMENTS: SOCIAL IMPACT, FINANCIAL, GOVERNMENT AND PRIVACY ISSUES. *· *Selected posters will appear at eJeta. *Important dates:* *· *Paper Submission Deadline: */February 28, 2008 (Extended)/* *· *Notifications of Acceptance: */March 20, 2008/* *· *Submission of Final Camera Ready Paper: */April 10, 2008/* *· *Workshop Proposal Submissions Deadline: */January 20, 2007/* *· *Notifications of Acceptance: */January 30, 2008/* *· *Paper Submission to Workshops: */March 30, 2008/* *· *Notifications of Workshops Paper Acceptance: */April 30, 2008/* *· *Camera Ready Workshops Papers: */20 May, 2008/* *· *Tutorial Proposal Submissions Deadline: */February 20, 2008/* *· *Poster** Submissions Deadline: */March 30, 2008/* *· *CONFERENCE DATES: */JULY 15-19, 2008/* * * *Submission information:* Submissions must present unpublished work, not submitted to other journals or conferences for consideration of publication. Submitted papers should be up to 8 pages, formatted according to ACM Word or LaTeX style templates. Papers may be accepted either as full papers (8 pages) or short papers (4 pages). Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in the official conference proceedings by ACM. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the conference and present the paper. * * *People* */ /* */Steering Committee/* Fillia Makedon - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Lynne Baillie - */Telecom. Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria/* Ilias Maglogiannis - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* Grammati Pantziou - TEI of Athens (Department of Informatics), Greece Vangelis Karkaletsis - */NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* Regular* Student** Early registration: April 15, 2008 TBA… TBA… Late registration: May 15, 2008 TBA… TBA… On-site registration: June 15, 2008 TBA… TBA… */ /* */General Chairs/* Fillia Makedon - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Lynne Baillie - */Telecom. Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria/* */ /* */Program Committee Co-Chairs/* Kimon Valavanis - University of South Florida, USA Ilias Maglogiannis - University of the Aegean, Greece */ /* */Organizing Committee Chairs/* Grammati Pantziou - */TEI of Athens (Department of Informatics), Greece/* Ilias Maglogiannis - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* */ /* */Program Committee/* Yiannis Aloimonos - */University of Maryland, USA/* Vassilis Athitsos - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Lynne Baillie */- Telecom. Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria/* David Benyon - */Napier University Merchiston Campus, UK/* Andrew Campbell - */Dartmouth College, USA/* Guanling Chen - */University of Massachussetts at Lowell, USA/* Diane Cook - */Washington State University, USA/* Domenico Cotroneo - */University of Napoli Federico II, Italy/* Sajal Das - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Christos Douligeris */- University of Piraeus, Greece/* Salim Hariri - */Arizona State University, USA/* Stathes Hadjiefthymiades - */Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens/* Heng Huang - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Vangelis Karkaletsis - */NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* Dimitrios Kosmopoulos */- NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* Morten Kyng - */University of Aarhus, Denmark/* */Zhengyi Le - Dartmouth College and University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Fillia Makedon - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Ilias Maglogiannis - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* Ian McClelland - */Philips Applied Technologies, Netherlands/* Dimitris Metaxas - */Rutgers University, USA/* Alex Mihailidis - */University of Toronto, Canada/* Charles Owen - */Michigan State University, USA/* Maja Pantic - */Imperial College, UK/* Grammati Pantziou - */TEI of Athens (Department of Informatics), Greece/* Costas Pattichis - */University of Cyprus, Cyprus/* Joi Roberts - */Motorola, USA/* Niilo Saranummi - */VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland/* Andreas Savvides - */Yale University, USA/* Bhavani Thuraisingham - */University of Texas at Dallas, USA/* Magda Tsolaki - */Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece/* John Waterworth - */Umea University in Northern Sweden/* */ /* */Organizing Committee/* Eric Becker - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Petros Belsis - */TEI of Athens, Greece/* Charalampos Doukas - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* James Ford - */Dartmouth College, USA/* Zhengyi Le - Dartmouth College and University of Texas at Arlington, USA Vangelis Metsis - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Rajat Mittal - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Manolis Wallace - */University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus, Greece/* Rong Zhang */- Dartmouth College, USA/* */ /* */Industry Relations Co-Chairs/* Lynne Baillie - */Telecom. Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria/* Jeff Lei - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Dimitrios Kosmopoulos */- NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* */ /* */Workshop Co-Chairs/* Christos Douligeris */- University of Piraeus, Greece/* Zhengyi Le - */Dartmouth College and University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Dimitrios Kosmopoulos - */NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* Dimitrios Vogiatzis - */NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* */ /* */Poster Co-Chairs/* Heng Huang - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Euripidis Loukis - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* */ /* */Publicity Co-Chairs/* Andreas Savvides - */Yale University, USA/* Balakrishnan Prabhakaran - */University of Texas at Dallas, USA/* */ /* */Keynote Speakers/* Frederica Darema - */Senior Science and Technology Advisor, NSF/CISE/* Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos - */University of Minnesota, USA/* */ /* */Invited Speakers/* Dinesh Bhatia - */University of Texas at Dallas, USA/* Matt Bishop - */University of California, Davis, USA/* Michail Bletsas */- MIT Media Lab, USA/* Roger Bostelman - */National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA/* Bill Carroll - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Magda Tsolaki - */Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece/* Aria Tzika - */Harvard University, USA/* _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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