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ICST - MobiQuitous 2008 - Call for Papers
by info＠icstconferences.org 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

CALL FOR PAPERS The Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008) July 21-25, 2008, Dublin, Ireland http://www.mobiquitous.org Sponsored by ICST Technically-sponsored by Create-Net IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals: March 1, 2008 Paper registration: March 8, 2008 Paper submission: March 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 4, 2008 Camera-ready version: May 18, 2008 THEME Combinations of mobile and ubiquitous computing are becoming increasingly present in our daily life. Through the use of mobile devices embedded in the surrounding physical environment, users can be provided with transparent computing and communication services at all times and in all places. The complexity of providing such services stems from the fact that the communication devices and the objects with which they interact may both be mobile. Their implementation requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services, and an understanding of the cross-layer interactions between all of these components. The Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008) will provide a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions design and deployment will be able to interact and exchange experiences needed to build successful ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include systems, applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, data management and services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing. TOPICS OF INTEREST Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. Technical papers clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working system are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Ubiquitous architectures, systems and applications - Wearable computing and personal area networks - Wireless technologies (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi, WiMAX) - Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems - Ad hoc and sensor network support for ubiquitous computing - Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless networks - Wireless/mobile service management and delivery - Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems - Service and knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms - Location-based services and tracking in ubiquitous environments - Context- and location-aware applications - Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems - Context modeling, services and frameworks - Toolkits, testbeds, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing - Rapid prototyping of ubiquitous applications - Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing - Mobile and ubiquitous data management and processing - Data replication, migration and dissemination in ubiquitous environments - Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile and ubiquitous environments - Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Paper submission will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). 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. PUBLICATION All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal. WORKSHOPS Several workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related to mobile and ubiquitous systems. Proposals for workshops should be at most four pages in length and should be submitted to the workshop co-chairs by March 1, 2008. ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Steering Committee Chair Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Program Chair Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University, USA Workshop Co-Chairs Christian Becker, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Fabian E. Bustamante, Northwestern University, USA Posters Chair Dean Eckles, Nokia Research, USA Demonstrations Co-Chairs Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan Alan Messer, Samsung Electronics, USA Publicity Co-Chairs Cristian Borcea, NJIT, USA Siobhán Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK Christian Becker, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Guohong Cao, Penn State University Dean Eckles, Nokia Research, USA Jonathan Engelsma, Motorola, Inc. Joseph B. Evans, University of Kansas, USA Tao Gu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Jonna Hakkila, Nokia Research, Finland Y. Charlie Hu, Purdue University Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland Sharad Mehrotra, University of California at Irvine Alan Messer, Samsung Electronics, USA Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech Daniel Mosse', University of Pittsburgh Matt Mutka, Michigan State University Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan Jason Nieh, Columbia University Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Kishore Ramachandran, Georgia Tech Tinku Rasheed, Create-Net Stefan Saroiu, University of Toronto, Canada Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. 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[Tccc] Call for Participation, SIMUTools 2008
by WATTEYNE Thomas RD-TECH-GRE 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Dear colleagues, Please find attached the call for participation for SIMUTools 2008. Early registration deadline is *January 31, 2008*. My sincere apologies for cross-posting. Thomas Watteyne. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIMUTools 2008 First International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems March 3-7, 2008, Marseille, France http://www.simutools.org early registration deadline is *January 31, 2008* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (pdf version: http://www.simutools.org/docs/CallForParticipation.pdf) Simulation software has a prominent place in the set of tools and techniques used to study communications, networks, and systems. The first aim of SIMUTools 2008 is to provide a meeting place for researchers and professionals who want to exchange and share their latest contributions to the design and improvement of techniques and tools in this rapidly evolving technology. The second aim of the conference is to give a prominent place to inter-domain approaches and actively support and promote valuable contributions to the general field of Simulation Engineering. --------------- Conference Program --------------- The detailed technical program is available at http://www.simutools.org/. The conference features the following keynote speakers: - Thomas R. Henderson (The Boeing Company, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington) - Richard M. Fujimoto (Parallel and Distributed Simulation, College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology) - Bernard P. Zeigler (Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation) --------------- Industry Track --------------- SimulationWorks is the industry track of the conference; it promotes results that have been applied or have a potential application in an industrial field. The industry track features a keynote presentation by Richard Black (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK). More information can be found at http://www.simulationworks.org/. --------------- Related Workshops --------------- Four workshops will be held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2008: - QoSim: 1st International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet (www.qosim.org) - PNTAP: International Workshop on Petri Nets Tools and Applications (www.pntap.org) - OMNeT++: 1st International Workshop on OMNeT++ (www.omnet-workshop.org) - NCM&S: Workshop on Net-Centric Modeling & Simulation (osa.inria.fr/NCMS) --------------- Venue and Accomodation --------------- SIMUTools 2008 will take place in the Mercure Marseille Beauvau Vieux Port Hotel. Located in the centre of Marseille, it overlooks the Canebiere and the Vieux Port. It is the oldest in Marseille, but has been completely restored keeping its old-world charm with antique furnishings and Provencal style and decor. To register for the hotel, use the hotel registration form available on our website, with the code "ICST" when registering. Register before January 31, 2008 for the reduced Conference room price. --------------- Registration --------------- The early registration deadline is *January 31, 2008*. Reduced registration fees are available for students and members of ICST, CREATE-NET, ACM and INRIA. Joint registration to SIMUTOOLS and one or more related workshops is also possible for a reduced fee. ---------------------- Organization Committee ---------------------- Steering Committee Chair, Imrich Chlamtac (Create-Net, Italy) Co-Chair, John Heath (University of So Maine, USA) General Chairs Sándor Molnár (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary) John Heath (Univ. of So Maine, USA) Technical Program Chairs Olivier Dalle (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France) Gabriel A. Wainer (Carleton Univ., Canada) Industry Track Chairs Bozidar Radunovic (Microsoft Research Ltd., United Kingdom) Herb Schwetman (Sun Microsystems Laboratories) Finance Chair Karen Decker (ICST) Local Chair Claudia Frydman (LSIS - Univ. Aix-Marseille, France) Workshops Chairs Kejie Lu (Univ. of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) Hua Zhu (San Diego Research Center, USA) Local Workshop Chair Joanna Moulierac (Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France) Publication Chair Tricha Anjali (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA) Publicity Chair Thomas Watteyne (INRIA, France Telecom R&D, France) Conference Organization Chair Tibor Kovács (ICST) Technical Program Committee A. D'Ambrogio (Univ. Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy) F. Barros (Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal) J-P. Briot (LIP6, Paris, France) A. Bruzzone (Univ. of Genoa, Italy) F. Cappello (INRIA Futurs & LRI, Orsay, France) C. Casetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) C. Christoffersen (Lakehead Univ., Canada) M. Debbah (SUPELEC, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France) B. Espinasse (LSIS, Marseille, France) S. Floyd (ICIR, Berkeley, USA) J-M. Garcia (QoSDesign, France) N. Giambiasi (LSIS, Marseille, France) E. Gokturk (Univ. of Oslo, Norway) T. Henderson (Boeing Phantom Works & Univ. of Washington, USA) D. R.C. Hill (ISIMA, Aubière, France) D. Hong (N2NSoft, France) K. Jensen (Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark) T. Jimenez (Univ. of Avignon, France) H. Karatza (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece) T. G. Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) E. Kofman (Univ. Nacional de Rosario, Argentina) M. Lacage (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) P. L'Ecuyer (Univ. of Montreal, Canada) Z. Liu (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) C-H. Lung (Carleton Univ., Canada) P. J. Mosterman (The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, USA) I. Nikolaidis (Univ. of Alberta, Canada) R. Puigjaner (Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain) M. Quinson (Univ. Henry Poincaré & Loria, Nancy, France) G. F. Riley (Georgia Tech Institute, USA) R. Szabó (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary) D. Tutsch (Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany) A. Uhrmacher (Univ. of Rostock, Germany) J. Garcia Villalba (Complutense Univ. of Madrid, Spain) J-M. Vincent (ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France) C. Williamson (Univ. of Calgary, Canada) B. P. Zeigler (Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation, USA) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[MM-INTEREST] Call for Papers: International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments, IEEE VR
by Carsten Griwodz 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2008) at IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 http://peers-at-play.org/MMVE08/ March 8th, 2008 Reno, Nevada, USA With the increasing number of potential users of virtual and augmented reality systems, as indicated by the recent booms of massively multiuser online societies, the design of distributed, massively multiuser virtual environments (MMVEs) becomes increasingly important, posing new requirements on both distribution platforms and virtual reality systems. Facing these challenges is a community-spanning effort, necessitating the pooling of the resources and experiences of the virtual reality and the networking/ distributed computing communities. This workshop hopes to provide a link between these communities to foster the development of highly distributed, flexible and robust virtual environments. We aim to gather the practitioners and researchers in these fields under one roof to discuss their findings, incite collaborations, and move the state of the art forward. Keynote by Jon Watte (CTO, Forterra Systems) Jon Watte will give a keynote at the workshop, in which he'll describe some surprising places virtual worlds have been adopted; what the future looks like; and some sketches for open research areas. In addition to his job as CTO of serious virtual world platform company Forterra Systems, Jon is a regular contributor to the independent game development community. A Microsoft DirectX/XNA MVP and moderator of the Multiplayer and Networking forum on independent games site GameDev.Net, Jon has several published articles in the field and has spoken on the future direction of the interoperable 3D web on several occasions. He combines practical experience with solid theoretical underpinnings to bring success to the field of massive-scale, interactive distributed simulation. Prior to heading up Forterra Systems, Jon worked on products such as There.com, BeOS, and Metrowerks CodeWarrior. Important Dates Submission Deadline: January 26th, 2008 Acceptance Notification: February 7th, 2008 Camera Ready Version: February 9th, 2008 Workshop Date: March 8, 2008 Organizers Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany Daniel Weiskopf, Universiy of Stuttgart, Germany Ben Leong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Shun-Yun Hu, National Central University, Taiwan Program Committee Dewan Tanvir Ahmed, University of Ottawa, Canada Christian Bouville, IRISA, France Bing-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Yiorgos Chrysanthou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Mike Eissele, University of Stuttgart, Germany Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Joerg Haehner, University of Hannover, Germany Aaron Harwood, University of Melbourne, Australia Jehn-Ruey Jiang, National Central University, Taiwan Pedro Morillo Tena, University of Valencia, Spain Jauvane C. Oliveira, LNCC, Brazil Juan Manuel Orduna, University of Valencia, Spain Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Gwendal Simon, ENST Bretagne, France Sandeep Singhal, Microsoft Corporation, USA Shinichi Ueshima, Kansai University, Japan Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Krzysztof Walczak, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Suiping Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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[Tccc] CFP IEEE JSAC special issue
by Thanos Vasilakos 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless and Pervasive Communications for Healthcare Wireless and Pervasive Communications for Healthcare, a new and growing interdisciplinary field, calls for innovation in information and communications technology to facilitate reliable, comprehensive, and high quality heathcare. Advances in networking infrastructure as well as middleware are vital to delivering telemedicine services regardless of a patient's physical location. In-home care for elderly persons is costly and can require sensors, wireless monitoring devices, and networking infrastructure and middleware to automatically contact emergency services. Healthcare is motivating unique basic research challenges in wireless and pervasive communications due to requirements for safe signal propagation characteristics, low network latency, low packet loss, high quality image and video transmission, and the need for safe, secure, and dependable operation. The goal of this issue is to report on cutting-edge research in communications for healthcare. Basic research papers are solicited, but papers on systems integration or deployment will also be considered. We seek papers that describe original and unpublished contributions, and that reflect those aspects of communications research for healthcare which are distinctly different from communications research in general. Possible topics include: . New Network architectures for wireless telemedicine . Unique wireless network research issues to support healthcare applications . Regionally-lossless and near-lossless coding for medical images . Unique middleware for enabling medical applications . Equipping ambulances with wireless and sensor networks . E-surgery using large bandwidth connections . Mobile and wearable technologies for next generation drug trials . Organic Computing for Healthcare Networks . Remote tactile sensors for remote diagnosis . Actuators and prompters for rehabilitation and behavior modification . Sensors and mobile devices for continuous patient monitoring . Cyber-physical systems for patient monitoring . Sensor networks for hospitals, operating rooms, elderly monitoring . Autonomic Sensor Networks for Healthcare Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors under http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/. Authors MUST submit their manuscripts through the EDAS peer review website. Submission deadline: July15, 2008 Acceptance Notification: Nov 15, 2008 Final Manuscript due: Jan 15, 2009 Publication: 2nd quarter 2009 Guest editors: Athanasios V. Vasilakos Department of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering University of Western Macedonia, 50100, Kozani, Greece vasilako(a)ath.forthnet.gr Hsiao-Hwa Chen Institute of Communications Engineering National Sun Yat-Sen University Taiwan 804, hshwchen(a)ieee.org Hussein Mouftah School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5,,mouftah(a)site.uottawa.ca Ibrahim Habib Department of Electrical Engineering City College and Graduate School City University of New York Convent Avenue at 140th Street New York, NY 10031, hab <mailto:habib@ccny.cuny.edu> ib(a)ccny.cuny.edu Kevin Montgomery National Biocomputation Center 701A Welch Road, Suite 1128 Stanford, CA 94305 kevin(a)cohiba.stanford.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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MobileHCI 2008: Workshop Proposals deadline 21 January 5pm CET
by Robert James Steele 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

** In-Cooperation with SIGMOBILE event ----------------- REMINDER - the first deadlines for submission to MobileHCI 2008 are approac hing quickly * Workshop proposals deadline: 21 January * Full papers: 4 February Our apologies in case of multiple copies. +-------------------------------------------------------------+ MobileHCI 2008 The 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Royal Tropical Institute Conference Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2 - 5 September 2008 http://www.mobilehci2008.org +-------------------------------------------------------------+ MobileHCI is the leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. The 10th conference in the MobileHCI series provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for all mobile and wearable computing devices and services. Categories for submissions --------------- Full Papers / Short Papers / Posters / Demonstrations / Panels / Workshops / Industrial Case Studies / Doctoral Consortium / Student Design Competition / Mobile Experiences Important Dates --------------- 21 January 2008: Workshop Proposal due 4 February 2008: Full Papers due 3 March 2008: Short Papers, Posters, Demonstrations, Panels, Industrial Case Studies, Doctoral Consortium, Student Design Competition due 7 April 2008: Notification of acceptance 28 April 2008: Mobile Experience proposals due 9 May 2008: Final camera-ready versions due Suggested topics --------------- * Audio and speech interaction * Context-dependent systems * Designing (interactive services for) Web sites for mobile devices * Ethnographical and field studies with mobile technology * Evaluation of mobile devices and services/Usability of mobile devices and services * Group interaction and mobility * Intelligent environments * Location-aware interaction * Methods to evaluate mobile usability/User experience research for & with mobile devices * Model-based design of interactive mobile systems * Mobile phenomena * Mobility and work environments * Multimodal interaction * Novel user interfaces and interaction techniques * Perception and modeling of the environment * Safety issues (e.g., in-car user interfaces, payments) * Specific classes of handheld devices (PDA, Pocket PC, WAP phone, etc.) * 3D graphics on mobile devices * 3G/4G devices and services * Visualization techniques for the mobile context * Interdisciplinary perspectives towards mobile interaction (e.g. Social aspects) * User centered design tools and methods for mobile systems * Wearable computing * Mobile Entertainment * Urban and Location based gaming * Smart clothes * Mobile social networks * Mobile persuasion * Personal monitoring & coaching with mobile devices * Trust, privacy, content protection, legal aspects & issues in mobile applications & services * Implicit interaction styles for mobile devices * Studies on the use of mobile devices for special target groups (e.g. seniors) Conference attendance by at least one author is mandatory. MobileHCI 2008 is organized by Telematica Instituut and Philips Research Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE. For more information, please browse to http://www.mobilehci2008.org or e-mail info(a)mobilehci2008.org We look forward to seeing you in Amsterdam! Program Committee ----------------- Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research Europe, the Netherlands Maddy Janse, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Kris Mihalic, Yahoo! Mobile, USA Fabio Patern�, CNR/ISTI, Italy Henk de Poot, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Panos Markopoulos, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg & CURE, Austria Marc Smith, Microsoft Research, USA Elly Pelgrim, Philips Research Europe, the Netherlands Elisabeth Dykstra-Erickson, ACCESS Systems America, USA Pieter Jan Stappers, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Organizing Committee -------------------- Henri ter Hofte, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Ingrid Mulder, Telematica Instituut & Rotterdam University, the Netherlands Esmeralda Wouters, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Gea Costeris, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Olga Steen, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Joke Kort, TNO Information and Communication Technology, the Netherlands Thiemo Burger, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Martijn Kriens, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Daan Velthausz, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Jozien Ensing, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Elize Harmelink, Philips Research Europe, the Netherlands Margot Franken-Richelle, Philips Research Europe, the Netherlands Pieter Jan Stappers, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Rob Kottink, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Johan Koolwaaij, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands ----------------------------------------------------- To be removed from future issues of the SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. 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ICST - ISVCS 2008 Call for Paper
by info＠icstconferences.org 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '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 Paper registration: March 8, 2008 Paper submission: March 15, 2008 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 Rene Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Steering Committee Chair Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Program Chair Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Industry Chair Fan Bai, General Motors, USA Poster/Demo Co-Chairs Raja Sengupta, UC Berkeley, USA 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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[Tccc] CFP: Mascots 2008 - 16th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
by Helen Karatza 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

MASCOTS 2008 16th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems September 8-10, 2008 Baltimore, Maryland USA http://www.mascots-conference.org/index-2008.html The 16th annual MASCOTS conference is a well-established forum for state-of-the-art research on the measurement, modeling, and performance analysis of computer networks, distributed/parallel systems, wireless/cellular telecommunication networks, and Web-based systems, and is cosponsored by the IEEE and ACM. The 16th edition of this conference will take place September 8a?"10, 2008 at the Tremont Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The conference will bring together academics and industry practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results. The technical program for the 3-day conference will include tutorials, keynote talks, refereed papers, and posters. The conference organizers encourage researchers worldwide to submit their latest work in computer system performance analysis and evaluation, with results of theoretical and/or practical significance. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: Paper Submission: Poster Submission: Tutorial Proposals: Notification Decisions: Camera-ready Versions: March 21, 2008 April 1, 2008 (firm deadlinea?"no extensions) May 1, 2008 May 1, 2008 May 15, 2008 June 9, 2008 PAPERS MASCOTS 2008 seeks original technical papers describing research in the areas of computer networks and computer systems performance evaluation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Computer Architecture Computer Networks Distributed/Parallel Systems Industrial Practice and Experience Internetworking Protocols Multimedia Systems Performance Evaluation Methodologies Pervasive Web and Mobility Sensor Networks Storage Systems Web-based Systems Wireless Networks Submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size no less than 10 point. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in any other conference or journal. Accepted papers for MASCOTS 2008 will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. Authors will be required to sign a copyright transfer form. Detailed formatting and submission requirements will be provided on the conference Web site. Authors of highly-ranked papers may be invited to submit extended versions of their work to appropriate IEEE or ACM journals. POSTERS Posters provide a forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research, and to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Material submitted as a full paper may also be submitted as a poster paper; if the full paper is accepted, the poster submission will not be considered. Poster paper submissions may be up to 2 pages in length, excluding references, formatted as described above. Accepted poster papers will be allocated up to 3 pages in the conference proceedings. TUTORIALS A program of tutorials will cover topics of current interest to Web design, development, services, operation, use, and evaluation. These half and full-day sessions will be led by internationally recognized experts and experienced instructors using prepared content. GENERAL CHAIRS Jackie Akinpelu (JHU-APL, USA) Douglas Schmidt (JHU-APL, USA) PROGRAM CHAIRS: Ethan Miller (UC Santa Cruz, USA) Carey Williamson (U. of Calgary, Canada) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ismail Ari (Hewlett Packard Labs) Tim Brecht (University of Waterloo) Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University) Ken Christensen (University of South Florida) Dror Feitelson (Hebrew University) Tony Field (Imperial College, UK) Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary) Garth Goodson (Network Appliance) Kanchi Gopinath (Indian Institute of Science) Peter Harrison (Imperial College, UK) Windsor Hsu (Data Domain) Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh) Anupam Joshi (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County) Nikolai Joukov (IBM) Helen Karatza (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki) Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary) Ellen Liu (University of Manitoba) Darrell Long (University of California at Santa Cruz) Anirban Mahanti (Indian Inst. of Technology Delhi) James Martin (Clemson University) Daniel Menasce (George Mason University) Yannis Nikolaidis (University of Alberta) Michael O'Sullivan (University of Auckland) Jianping Pan (University of Victoria) George Riley (Georgia Tech) Bianca Schroeder (University of Toronto) Thomas Schwarz (Santa Clara University) Kai Shen (University of Rochester) Robert Simon (George Mason University) Adam Wierman (Cal Tech) Rob van der Mei (CWI Amsterdam) STEERING COMMITTEE Dharma Agrawal (U. of Cincinnati, USA) Kallol Bagchi (U. of Texas at El Paso, USA) Thomas BrA$unl (U. of Western Australia, Australia) Giovanni Chiola (Universitat di Genova, Italy) Doug DeGroot (U. of Leiden, Netherlands) Patrick Dowd (U. of Maryland, USA) Jozo Dujmovic (San Francisco State U., USA) David Finkel (Worcester Polytechnic Inst., USA) Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA) Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College, UK) Darrell Long (U. of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Marco Marsan (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) George Riley (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA) Herb Schwetman (Mesquite Inc., USA) Kishor Trivedi (Duke U., USA) Jean Walrand (U. of California at Berkeley, USA) -------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP--VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET) 2008]
by Lars Wolf 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP--VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET) 2008 Datum: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 16:35:39 -0500 Von: Ken Laberteaux <klaberte(a)ACM.ORG> Antwort an: Ken Laberteaux <klaberte(a)ACM.ORG> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS ACM VANET 2008 Vehicle to Vehicle -- Vehicle to Roadside -- Vehicle to Internet The Fifth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2008 Date: To be announced San Francisco, California, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE http://www.sigmobile.org/workshops/vanet2008/ Important Dates (tentative): Paper Submission Deadline: April 6th Notification of Acceptance: June 6th Camera-Ready Deadline: June 27th The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the development of vehicular inter-networking (VANET) technologies. Based on short- and medium-range communication as well as on cellular systems, vehicular inter-networking will enable vehicular safety applications (including collision and other safety warnings) as well as non-safety applications (like real-time traffic congestion and routing information, high-speed tolling, mobile infotainment, and many others). The creation of high-performance, highly reliable, highly scalable, secure, and privacy-preserving VANET technologies presents an extraordinary challenge for the wireless research community. A high degree of communication reliability is needed under unfavorable conditions. Clearly, the specificity of vehicular inter-networking in terms of mobility behavior, applications scenarios, and application requirements makes VANET research an exciting and demanding application- and purpose-driven sub-discipline of wireless networking. Furthermore, VANET present a very active field of research, development, standardization, and field trials. Throughout the world, there are many national and international projects in government, industry, and academia devoted to VANET. These include consortia like Vehicle Safety Consortium (US), Car-2-Car Communication Consortium (Europe), and Advanced Safety Vehicle Program (Japan), standardization efforts like IEEE 802.11p (WAVE), and field trials like the large-scale Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Program (VII) in the US. Following the successes of VANET 2004 held in Philadelphia, VANET 2005 held in Cologne, Germany, VANET 2006 in Los Angeles, CA, and VANET 2007 in Montréal, QC, Canada, the Fifth ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Inter-Networking (VANET) will be held in San Francisco, CA in conjunction with MobiCom 2008. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of vehicular inter-networking (VANET). All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Channel modeling - Modulation and coding - Power control and scalability issues - Medium access control protocols - Multi-channel organization and operation - Communication protocol design - Safety and non-safety applications - Vehicle-to-vehicle/roadside/Internet communication - Simulation frameworks - Field operational testing - Network management - Security issues and countermeasures - Privacy issues Submission Instructions All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers must be in PDF format, no longer than 10 pages (single- or double-column), in font no smaller than 11 points, and must fit properly on US Letter-sized paper (8.5 inch x 11 inch) with reasonable margins. Submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through a double-blind review process, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Detailed instructions for paper submission will be posted on the VANET 2008 web page at: http://www.sigmobile.org/workshops/vanet2008/. Organizing Committee: General Co-Chairs: Varsha Sadekar, General Motors Paolo Santi, Italian Natl. Research Council Technical Program Co-Chairs: Yih-Chun Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Martin Mauve, Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf Technical Program Committee: Fan Bai , General Motors Levente Buttyan Budapest University of Technology and Economics Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University Andreas Festag, NEC Europe Ltd Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL Markus Jakobsson , Indiana University Daniel Jiang, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. Frank Kargl, Ulm University Timo Kosch , BMW Ken Laberteaux, Toyota Research Christof Paar, Ruhr-University Bochum Panagiotis (Panos) Papadimitratos, EPFL Maxim Raya, EPFL Björn Scheuermann, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Rajeev Shorey, General Motors Research Daniel Stancil, Carnegie Mellon University Pravin Varaiya, University of California at Berkeley Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University Andre Weimerskirch, escrypt GmbH Web and Publicity Chair: Ken Laberteaux, Toyota Technical Center ----------------------------------------------------- To be removed from future issues of the SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession (c) 2007 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved. -----------------------------------------------------

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[Tccc] MobiHoc'08 call for posters
by Mihaela Cardei 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Dear Colleagues, Posters presenting early work and preliminary results are solicited. The poster session will provide an excellent opportunity for initial feedback on early research results. Poster descriptions of no more than 3 pages (US letter size 8.5 x 11 inches) using font size 10 should be submitted to the Poster Chair Mihaela Cardei (mihaela(a)cse.fau.edu). Please include the words "Poster Abstract:" to precede the title on the cover page. A selected subset of poster abstracts will be published in ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review. Poster Submission Deadline: March 7, 2008 Acceptance Notifications: March 18, 2008 More information on the conference is available at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2008 We look forward to receiving your submission. Best Regards, Mihaela Cardei Poster Chair for MobiHoc 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen WMAN-FG 2008
by Matthias Frank 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

============================================================== Bitte entschuldigen Sie ggf. mehrfache Kopien dieses Aufrufs. Bitte leiten Sie den Aufruf auch an interessierte KollegInnen/MitarbeiterInnen weiter! ============================================================== 1. GI/ITG KuVs Fachgespräch WMAN (Wireless Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks) Fachgespräch der GI/ITG-Fachgruppe Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme Universität Ulm, 24./25.04.2008 Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen Zielsetzung: Mobile Ad-hoc Netzwerke (MANETs) stellen heute eines der aktivsten Forschungsgebiete dar. Neben der grundlegenden Organisation des Routing-Prozesses finden sich in MANETs weitere wichtige Fragestellungen wie Autokonfiguration, Sicherheit oder effizienter Nutzung von Ressourcen. Bedingt durch die beschränkten Ressourcen mobiler Kleingeraete, das Fehlen zentraler Instanzen und die hohe Dynamik von Ad-hoc Netzen lassen sich bekannte Lösungen aus dem Bereich drahtgebundener Netze nicht ohne Weiteres übertragen. Aus diesen Gründen behandelt dieses Fachgespräch die zugrundeliegenden Funktechnologien ebenso wie Fragestellungen bis zur Anwendungsschicht. Auch konkrete Anwendungsszenarien wie Fahrzeug-Fahrzeug-Kommunikation oder Unterwasser-Ad-hoc Netze sind von Interesse. Die aus vielfältigen Themenbereichen bekannten Fachgespräche der KuVs zeichnen sich durch eine kommunikative, diskussionsorientierte Atmosphäre aus, bei der auch junge Forschungsaktivitäten sowie initiale Ideen zu Herausforderungen des jeweiligen Themenkreises präsentiert werden sollen. Autoren sind eingeladen, eine Kurzfassung ihrer zur Diskussion zu stellenden Aktivitäten im Umfang von maximal 2 Seiten als PDF einzureichen (in deutscher oder englischer Sprache, Formatierung im Stil der IEEE Transactions, siehe http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html). Die endgültigen Kurzfassungen (sowie ggf. die Präsentationsfolien) sollen in einem Technischen Bericht der Universität Ulm zusammengefasst und veröffentlicht werden. Ferner ist geplant, im Anschluss an das Fachgespräch ausgewählte Beiträge zur Einreichung einer Vollversion für ein Themenheft der PIK (Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation) einzuladen. Einreichungen sollen formlos per E-Mail an die drei Organisatoren geschickt werden (Termin und E-Mailadressen siehe unten). Wichtige Daten Fr 29.02.2008 - Frist für Einreichungen Mo 17.03.2008 - Benachrichtigung Do 10.04.2008 - Endgültige Fassung Do 10.04.2008 - Anmeldeschluss Do 24.04. - Fr 25.04.2008 Fachgespräch Veranstaltungsort/Genaue Zeiten Das Fachgespräch wird an der Universität Ulm stattfinden. Beginn der Veranstaltung ist am Do 24.04.2008 um 13.00 Uhr, um möglichst vielen TeilnehmerInnen die Anreise am Donnerstagvormittag zu ermöglichen. Das Treffen endet am Fr 25.04.2008 um 12.00 Uhr. Organisation Matthias Frank, Universität Bonn, matthew(a)cs.uni-bonn.de Frank Kargl, Universität Ulm, frank.kargl(a)uni-ulm.de Burkhard Stiller, Universität Zürich, stiller(a)ifi.uzh.ch

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