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CFP: Special Session on "QoS, Reliability and Performance Modelling" in CSNDSP 2008
by Periklis Chatzimisios 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Special Session on "QoS, Reliability and Performance Modelling" organized in association with the Sixth Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2008) 23-25 July 2008, Graz, Austria Important Dates: ================ Full Paper due: January 27, 2008 Notification of acceptance by: April 1, 2008 Camera ready paper due: May 5, 2008 Scope: ====== CSNDSP 2008 is organizing a Special Session on "QoS, Reliability and Performance Modelling" aiming to offer the opportunity to leading researchers, industry professionals and academics around the world to meet, present latest research results and discuss future directions. Topics of Interest: =================== All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers, including a TPC member. Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics: - QoS in the Internet - QoS and Routing (MPLS, Multicast Service) - QoS Network Architectures and Network services - Standardization Aspects of QoS and Reliability - Traffic Modelling, Control and characterization - Performance Modelling - Queuing Theory - Network Design - Simulation and Measurements techniques - Tools and software for Performance Evaluation - Envisaged performance studies on Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Paper submission: ================= Papers should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Please visit http://www.csndsp08.tugraz.at/ for submission guidelines. It would be helpful if authors mention the Special Session when submitting their papers. Further inquiries could also be directed to the Special Session organizers. Special Session organizers: =========================== Hind Castel, Institut National des Telecommunications, France Periklis Chatzimisios, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Technical Program Committee: =========================== Gennaro Boggia (Politecnico di Bari, Italy) Tijani Chahed (Institut National des Telecommunications, France) Thomas Lagkas (Aristotle University, Greece) Ian Marsh (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) Lynda Mokdad (University of Paris-Dauphine, France) Jalel Ben-Othman (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France) Nihal Pekergin (University of Paris12, Creteil, France) Rouzbeh Razavi (University of Essex, UK) Luca Vollero (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy) Theodore Zahariadis (TEI of Chalkida, Greece) -- Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios Researcher in Wireless Communications & Multimedia Networks Department of Informatics, TEI of Thessaloniki GR-57400, Thessaloniki (GREECE) Phone: +30 2310-791604 Fax: +30 2310-791290 Email: peris(a)it.teithe.gr, pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org Web: http://www.it.teithe.gr/~peris ------------------------------------------------ PIMRC 2008: http://www.pimrc2008.org MediaWiN 2007: http://mediawin.it.teithe.gr CSNDSP 2008: http://www.csndsp.com

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[Fwd: CFP WiMAN 2008]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP WiMAN 2008 Datum: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:46:09 +0100 Von: Frank Reichenbach <frank.reichenbach(a)uni-rostock.de> An: multicomm(a)comsoc.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Second IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN'08) Beijing, China, June 20, 2008 in conjunction with ICDCS 2008 http://www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang/WiMAN2008/index.htm Submission Deadline: December 7, 2007 **************************************************************************************** Recently, wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest from academia, industry, and standard organizations. With several favorable characteristics, such as dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, easy maintenance, high scalability and reliable services, wireless mesh networks have been advocated as a cost-effective approach to support high-speed last mile connectivity and ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, or community networking. Despite recent advances, and the technical accumulations from more than a decade's research effort in mobile ad hoc networks, many research issues remain in all protocol layers of wireless mesh networks. For example, the introducing of mixed (infrastructure and ad hoc) architecture, multi-radio, multi-channel, and multi-antenna, have brought new challenges in the design of physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application scenarios, such as all-wireless office, are urging researchers to address enhanced QoS support and various security issues in the design of different protocol layers for wireless mesh networks. This workshop aims to bring together the technologies and researchers who share interest in the area of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks. The main purpose is to promote discussions of research and relevant activities in the design of architectures, protocols, algorithms, services, and applications for wireless networks. It also aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area. We plan to seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress at the all layers of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks, from application layer to the physical layer. Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the following: Multi-radio and �multi-channel wireless mesh networking Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond) Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols Quality of Services provisioning Multimedia communications over mesh and ad hoc networks Network deployment, localization, and synchronization Topology construction and maintenance Modeling and performance evaluations Cross layer optimizations Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms Intelligent system techniques for mesh and ad hoc networks Testbed, prototype, and practical systems Novel applications of mesh and ad hoc networks Vehicular mesh and ad hoc networks Wireless sensor networks Self-adaptive and self-organizing wireless networking systems Important Dates --------------- Paper submission due: December 7, 2007 Acceptance notification: February 11, 2008 Camera-ready due: March 9, 2008 Workshop: June 20, 2008 Submissions and Publications ---------------------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of the papers should be limited to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) with at most two additional pages with extra charge. One additional page costs $150. Please check the workshop webpage for detailed submission instructions. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. All accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings by IEEE Computer Society Press and IEEE online library. Organizing Committees --------------------- Workshop Program Co-Chairs Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA (cpoellab(a)cse.nd.edu) Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA (liqzhang(a)cs.iusb.edu) Workshop Program Vice Chair Jun Luo, University of Waterloo, Canada (j7luo(a)engmail.uwaterloo.ca) Publicity Co-Chairs Yong Cui, Tsinghua University, China (cuiyong(a)tsinghua.edu.cn) Frank Reichenbach, University of Rostock, Germany (frank.reichenbach(a)uni-rostock.de) Technical Program Committee Wessam Ajib, University of Qu�bec at Montr�al, Canada Hasnaa Aniss, UQAT-LRCS, Canada Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Malik Audeh, Tropos Networks, USA Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Edoardo S. Biagioni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University, USA Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia Gang Ding, Olympus Communication Technology, USA Junzhao Du, Xidian University, China Karoly Farkas, University of West Hungary, Hungary Shinichi Honiden, University of Tokyo, Japan Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Abdelmajid Khelil, TU Darmstadt, Germany Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA Hyunjeong Hannah Lee, Intel Research, USA Guoqing Li, Intel Research, USA Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA Hock Beng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Guoqiang Mao, The University of Sydney, Australia Shivajit Mohapatra, Motorola Labs, USA Luis Montestruque, EmNet LLC., USA Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR, Italy Kaoru Sezaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Haiying Sheng, University of Arkansas, USA Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA David Surma, Indiana University South Bend, USA Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong, China Takashi Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan Jianbin Wei, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, USA Jiang (Linda) Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Yang Yang, University College London, UK Yang Yu, Motorola Labs, USA Advisory Committee Hossein Hakimzadeh, Indiana University South Bend, USA Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame, USA Yingbo Hua, University of California Riverside, USA Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA Bahar Sadeghi, Intel Research, USA Loren Schwiebert, Wayne State University, USA Wei Zhao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA ****************************************************************************************

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[Fwd: [Cost290] [Fwd: CFP IWQoS 2008]]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Cost290] [Fwd: CFP IWQoS 2008] Datum: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:51:49 +0200 Von: Yevgeni Koucheryavy <yk(a)cs.tut.fi> An: cost290(a)cs.tut.fi ------------------------------------------------------------ 16th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON QUALITY OF SERVICE (IWQoS 2008) June 2-4, 2008 University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands http://iwqos08.ewi.utwente.nl/ ------------------------------------------------------------ *** Abstract deadline: January 21, 2008 *** *** Paper submission deadline: January 28, 2008 *** CALL FOR PAPERS Since 1994, IWQoS has served as the prime annual workshop on Quality of Service, providing an international forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting edge research in the field. Building on the success of previous workshops, the objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in this area to discuss recent and innovative results, and to identify future directions and challenges in developing practical computer/communication systems where predictable, controlled, and robust performance is a central requirement. IWQoS has a long standing tradition of being highly interactive, while maintaining highest standards of competitiveness and excellence. The scope of the workshop covers the main and currently important aspects of QoS research, including related issues such as availability, reliability, security, pricing, resource management, and performance guarantees. The program will include the following highlights: - Key-note by industrial speaker - A session with short position papers - Key-note and invited paper The session with short position papers will be highly interactive and leave much room for the audience to get involved. The short papers will go through the general reviewing process. TECHNICAL PROGRAM As in previous years, the workshop covers a broad spectrum of QoS issues in communications networking. IWQoS 2008 will particularly emphasize the increasing importance of application level QoS and perceived QoS, i.e., the quality of applications as experienced by the end users, which is usually expressed in terms of a 'mean opinion score' (MOS). Relevant topics for the workshop include the following: - End-to-end QoS provisioning in heterogeneous network environments - Application protocols and QoS - QoS in overlay and peer-to-peer networks - QoS adaptation, adaptive applications - Perceived QoS for VoIP and multimedia applications - Mapping network performance to perceived QoS - Service-level agreements (SLAs) and QoS - QoS modelling for gaming applications - Measurement based QoS estimation and verification - QoS in wireless, mobile, ad hoc and sensor networks - QoS in context aware systems (also related to mobility) - End-to-end QoS signalling and support - QoS in home networks, intranets and Metro Ethernets - Operating systems support and end-system design for QoS COMMITTEE General chair: Boudewijn Haverkort, University of Twente TPC co-chairs: Hans van den Berg, TNO Information and Communication Technology Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Local chair: Georgios Karagiannis, University of Twente BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD Award will be given at the conference to the best student paper, whose first author is/was a student at the time of the paper submission. PROCEEDINGS IWQoS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results and that neither have been published nor are currently under review for another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. The proceedings will be published by IEEE ComSoc. We also solicit submissions for the short position papers session. The short papers will be included in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract deadline: January 21, 2008, 11:59pm CET - Paper submission deadline: January 28, 2008, 11:59pm CET - Notification of acceptance: March 18, 2008 - Camera-ready papers due: April 8, 2008 - Early registration deadline and hotel reservation cut-off date: April 15th, 2008 - Workshop dates: June 2-4, 2008 - Workshop reception and welcome party: June 1, 2008 This e-mail and its contents are subject to the DISCLAIMER at http://www.tno.nl/disclaimer/email.html _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IFIP Networking 2008]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IFIP Networking 2008 Datum: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:38:09 +0100 Von: Andreas J Kassler <andreas.kassler(a)kau.se> Antwort an: andreas.kassler(a)kau.se Organisation: Karlstad University An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Sincere apologies for receiving this CFP more than once. Please consider submitting a paper to IFIP Networking 2008. ** Paper Submission Deadline: December 1, 2007 ** *********************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Conference Title: IFIP Networking 2008 Conference Location & Date: Singapore, May 5th to 9th of 2008 Host: Nanyang Technological University Publication: Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). URL: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/networking2008/ Networking 2008 is the seventh event in a series of International Conferences on Networking, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC 6). The main objectives of Networking 2008 are to bring together active and proficient members of the networking community, from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances in this broad and fast-evolving field of telecommunications, and to highlight key-issues, identify trends and refresh vision in the field of telecommunications. The conference objectives will be pursued through technical sessions, keynote talks, and tutorials offered by invited experts, as well as panel discussions on hot topics. The technical sessions will be structured into three tracks: . Applications and services Quality of service, Authentication and security, Intrusion detection, Web architectures and protocols, Network measurements and testbeds, Network management systems, Content distribution, Peer to peer and overlay networks, Pricing and billing, Multimedia protocols . Next Generation Internet technologies All-IP networking, Congestion control, Evolution of IP network architecture, Multilayer design and optimization, MPLS and GMPLS, Multicasting, Network modeling and simulation, Quality of Service, Real-time voice/video over IP networks, Resource allocation, Routing and switching, Scheduling and queue management, Traffic engineering . Wireless and Sensor Networks Ad hoc and sensor Networks, Broadband wireless access, Location management, Location services, Handoff, Mobile networks, Mobility models, Cross-layer design, Mesh networks, Wireless protocols, Multicast and anycast, Energy and power management, Routing, Scheduling, Synchronization, Fault tolerance and recovery, Self-organization, Modeling and performance evaluation Important Dates Submission of full papers: December 1, 2007 (11:59 EDT) Notification of acceptance: February 11, 2008 Camera-ready Copy Due: February 25, 2008 Paper Submission Guidelines All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Papers must be submitted electronically. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures, according to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper as well as a number of student travel grants. Details of the submission will be available in the website. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper as well as a number of student travel grants. Download the Call for Paper: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/networking2008/CFP2008.pdf _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CFWP: Internet of Things 2008
by Florian Michahelles (IOT 2008 Workshops Chair) 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

************************************************** Call for Internet of Things 2008 Workshop Papers ************************************************** INTERNET OF THINGS 2008 International Conference for Industry and Academia March 26-28, 2008, Zurich (Switzerland) Organized by ETH Zurich, University St.Gallen, and MIT www.internet-of-things-2008.org We are proud to play host to a range of interesting workshops in the area of the Internet of Things. Below please find the titles, abstracts, and organizer names of the four workshops that will be held on Wednesday, March 26, 2008, in the Conference Hotel. Please follow the individual links to the workshop homepages for detailed topics, deadlines, and submission information. WS1: Producing Standards for the Internet of Things (PROSIT) Organizers: Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen, Robin Williams, Univ. of Edinburgh Workshop homepage: http://www.prosit-ws.org WS2: Sketchtools - Creative Tools for Prototyping Smart Devices Organizers: Matt Cottam, Tellart Jasper Speicher, Tellart Katie Wray, Tellart Workshop homepage: http://sketchtools.com/iot08/ WS3: 1st International Workshop on Interoperable Vehicles (IOV 2008) Organizers: Markus Strassberger, BMW Robert Lasowski, Softlab Group Workshop homepage: http://www.iov2008.org WS4: Designing the Internet of Things for Workplace Realities: Social and Cultural Aspects in Design and Organisation (Social-IoT) Organizers: Daniel Boos, ETH Zurich Katharina Kinder, Lancaster University Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University Workshop homepage: http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/social-iot2008/ For more information please see below or visit http://www.internet-of-things-2008.org/cfp/workshops.html. ----------------------------------------------------------------- WS1: Producing Standards for the Internet of Things (PROSIT) Imagine a network with literally billions of mobile nodes, without any pre-defined communication infrastructure, whose nodes are primarily sensors and actuators with limited processing capabilities. Such networks exhibit specific communication requirements between individual nodes, and between nodes and central access points that provide connectivity with the outside world. Many, if not most of these nodes are integrated into everyday devices; they will be found inside cars, at home, and in the shopping mall. The application areas based on such networks are varied and numerous, including, for example, intelligent homes, car safety, and item tracking. Many such applications will become part of our lives, and are prone to collect information that would be considered as private by many. For the average user, it will be next to impossible to establish who has access to these information, and for which purposes. This unprecedented penetration of virtually everyone's life suggests the need for a close scrutiny of the various processes to be associated with the development of such a technology and its subsequent wide deployment. International standardisation of information and communication technologies (ICT) is among the most important of these processes. It is linked to both the technological development and the policy and legal frameworks within which the technology is to be developed and deployed. Accordingly, this Workshop aims to discuss the development of adequate standards setting processes for the Internet of Things. The analysis of the current situation in ICT standards setting, the current legal situation with respect to the role of standards, and the development of recommendations on how to adapt the processes to adequately serve the environment created by the IoT will be addressed through insights from various disciplines. Organizers: Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen Robin Williams, Univ. of Edinburgh Workshop homepage: http://www.prosit-ws.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- WS2: Sketchtools - Creative Tools for Prototyping Smart Devices As an "Internet of Things" becomes a reality and everyday objects become enabled with information processing capabilities, we must carefully and considerately design the interaction between humans and these (not quite completely, but increasingly) ubiquitous digital devices. Designers should always have access to tools that allow them to prototype and/or sketch the product, object, system, or experience that they are responsible for. The design process is heavily dependent on cycles of prototype and revision - software developers go through numerous iterative cycles of production and updates to refine a product; industrial designers create sketch models out of foam, wood, fabric, etc. to model interaction; engineers use scale sketch models as proofs of concept or to explore new ideas. However, prototyping ubiquitous computing devices is a difficult task. The broad range of technologies involved - wireless communications, RFID, sensors, localization devices, networking, processors, etc. - makes it difficult to have all of the expertise necessary to sketch human/digital interaction. Physical computing toolkits provide a way for designers to experiment with how the physical actions of the user translate into the digital response of the system, and vice versa. It is that translation that defines the interaction between the user and the digital object; the interaction between the human and the internet of things. The workshop aims at gathering a group of people invested in the physical computing field to discuss ideas, methods, challenges, innovations, and potentials of physical computing toolkits. Organizers: Matt Cottam, Tellart Jasper Speicher, Tellart Katie Wray, Tellart Workshop homepage: http://sketchtools.com/iot08/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- WS3: 1st International Workshop on Interoperable Vehicles (IOV 2008) Since a couple of years, some initial telematics services that inform the driver about current road and traffic conditions are already in the market. With new wireless communication capabilities available like WLAN, WiMAX or UMTS, many additional services become feasible. Therefore, one of the major automotive trends is keeping both the vehicle and the driver seamlessly connected with their environment, providing high-quality traffic related information, increasing active safety and offering passengers high-bandwidth internet connectivity. On the one hand, the vehicles require information from the environment in order to optimally support the driver. On the other hand, the local knowledge of vehicles which is based on a variety of on-board sensor systems can also contribute to support other (not necessarily automotive) services. Enabling new opportunities of interaction between vehicles, passengers, (mobile) devices and services, there are a couple of topics that have to be thought of e.g. novel applications, network management and scalability, security and privacy, market introduction and roll-out strategies. Organizers: Markus Strassberger, BMW Group Research and Technology Robert Lasowski, Softlab Group Workshop homepage: http://www.iov2008.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- WS4: Designing the Internet of Things for Workplace Realities: Social and Cultural Aspects in Design and Organisation (Social-IoT) The rise of the Internet of Things has important socio-technical implications for organizations. While ubiquitous and wireless technologies are developed to enable new ways of working, to increase safety and to facilitate coordination, they may interfere with established work practices, undermine productivity and individuals satisfaction, and have an unforeseen impact on relations of power and control. These issues, however, are rarely addressed in development and research projects for the Internet of Things and in the public discourses surrounding it. This workshop has the goal to increase awareness of organizational issues of the Internet of Things and to provide a forum for discussion of design approaches to manage critical organisational issues. Furthermore we would like to build a bridge between the various research communities exploring organizational, social and cultural aspects of the Internet of Things and ubiquitous computing. We welcome contributions from practitioners, technologists, designers and social scientists in organizational studies, science and technology studies, anthropology and human computer interaction. Organizers: Daniel Boos, ETH Zurich Katharina Kinder, Lancaster University Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University Workshop homepage: http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/social-iot2008/ -- For more information see: www.internet-of-things-2008.org Questions? Want no e-mails? Contact us: <info(a)iot2008.org>

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[Tccc] CFP--IEEE ISCC 2008, July 6-9 Morocco
by Nidal Nasser 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Thirteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ISCC 2008 July 6-9, 2008 - Marrakech, Morocco http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2008 Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Computer Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Technical Topics *** Continuing the tradition of this series of symposia, ISCC 2008 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in the areas listed below. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to the creation, management, dissemination, and communication of information. You are invited to submit a full paper, or a proposal for a panel, invited session, or tutorial, related to the following topics: * Access Networks * Bioinformatics * Data Mining and Database Applications * Distributed Systems Architecture and Management * Digital Satellite Communications * E-Commerce and E-Services * Economic and Regulatory Issues * Fault-Tolerance and Error Recovery * Grid and Cluster Computing * Human Language Technologies * Image Processing and Visualization * Internet Services and Applications * Internet Protocols - Advances and Evolution * Management of Telecommunications Services * Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks * Digital Media Technologies * Modeling and Simulation * Network Design, Optimization, and Management * Network Reliability and Quality of Service * Optical Networking * Overlay and Programmable Networks * Peer-to-Peer Computing * Real Time Communication Services * Routing and Multicast * Security and Cryptography * Software Engineering * Standards * Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile Communications * Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures *** Important Dates *** Dec. 15, 2007 Submission Deadline Feb. 22, 2008 Notification of Acceptance Apr. 12, 2008 Final Manuscript Due *** Submissions *** * Papers should describe original work and be 15 double-spaced pages or less in length. A concise and representative abstract should be included. The paper should clearly indicate the complete postal and electronic mailing addresses, as well as the phone number of the corresponding author. Please follow the submission guidelines at http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2008 * Accepted papers up to 6 pages in the IEEE double-column proceedings format will be published with no additional charge. Papers that exceed that page limit will be charged an over length fee. * For additional information contact the technical co-chairs and local co-chairs. *** Organization Committee *** Conference General Chair: Adel Elmaghraby, U. of Louisville, USA adel(a)louisville.edu Technical Program Co-chairs: Abdelghani Bellaachia, George Washington University, USA, bell(a)gwu.edu Saad Biaz, Auburn University, USA, biazsaa(a)auburn.edu Local Committee Co-Chairs: Amine Bensaid, Al Akhawayn U. of Ifrane, Morocco, amine(a)alakhawayn.ma Driss Aboutajdine, School of Science, Rabat, Morocco, aboutaj(a)fsr.ac.ma Finance and Registration Chair: Reda Ammar, U. of Connecticut, USA Plenary Chair: Mahmoud Daneshmand, AT&T Labs Publication Chair: Chi-Ming Chen, AT&T Labs, USA Keynote Chair: Ahmed Tantawy, IBM, USA Web Chair: Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Queen's U., Canada Publicity Chair: Nidal Nasser, U. of Guelph, Canada Steering committee: Reda Ammar, U. of Connecticut, USA Antonio Corradi, U. of Bologna, Italy Mahmoud Daneshmand, AT &T, USA Adel Elmaghraby, U. of Louisville, USA Hussein Mouftah, U. of Ottawa, Canada Sartaj Sahni, U. of Florida, USA Ahmed Tantawy, IBM, USA We hope to see you in beautiful Marrakech, Morocco! _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP - 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2008)]
by Lars Wolf 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP - 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2008) Datum: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:08:01 +0100 Von: Burkhard Stiller <stiller(a)IFI.UZH.CH> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organisation: University of Zurich, IFI An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE [Apologies for possibly receiving multiple copies of this CFP.] Call for Papers 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security AIMS 2008 "Resilient Networks and Services" http://www.aims2008.org 1-3 July 2008 Jacobs University Bremen, Germany The AIMS conference is a single-track event integrating normal conference paper sessions, tutorials, keynotes, and a PhD workshop into a highly interactive event. One of the goals of AIMS is to look beyond borders and to stimulate the exchange of ideas across different communities and among PhD students. AIMS 2008 focuses on resilient networks and services and in particular on novel technologies that can provide resilience in a scalable, economic, secure, and autonomic way. To achieve resilience, new techniques such as autonomic and fully distributed algorithms, virtualization techniques, or self-organizing overlays must be explored. Modeling, analysis, and visualization is essential in order to understand the emerging overall system behavior. * Conference Topics Authors are invited to submit unpublished papers that are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, or related topic areas: Scalable and autonomic infrastructures - Autonomic network and service management - Dynamic overlays and P2P-based management systems - Fully decentralized and distributed approaches Economic management - Economic aspects of IT infrastructures - Distributed accounting and monitoring - Reputation and incentive mechanisms Security and trust management - Inter-domain trust management and security concepts - Resilience and reliability of network and service infrastructures - Defense against distributed attacks and botnets - Management and evaluation of security services Virtualization - Virtualization of resources and services - Management of virtual network laboratories (e.g. GENI, PlanetLab) - Economics of network and service virtualization - Management of Grid resources and virtual organizations Modeling and visualization - Modeling of management technologies and procedures - Modeling and analysis of policies and promises - Visualization of management data and systems behavior * Conference Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format. Only original, full papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted to the AIMS 2008 paper track. Each submission will be limited to 12 pages in the LNCS paper format. Papers exceeding 12 pages, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. Paper submission is handled by the JEMS system, accessible from the AIMS 2008 Web page. Submissions to the conference are expected to report substantial research results relevant for the subjects listed above. * PhD Workshop Submission The PhD workshop provides PhD students the opportunity to present, discuss, and obtain feedback from the AIMS 2008 audience about their research work. PhD students are invited to submit short papers (4 pages, written in English and in PDF format) describing the current state of their research. The paper should include a clear description of the research problem and the chosen approach, argue why the problem is hard and the approach novel, and it should outline the results achieved to date. Specific, low-level technical details should be avoided. Papers should have no more than two authors--the student and the advisor. Accepted submissions will be published in the AIMS proceedings. * Best Paper Award The program committee will select one paper for the Best Paper Award (all regular papers are eligible). The winner will be presented at the conference. * Location Jacobs University Bremen is a highly selective, private institution for the advancement of education and research. The green campus located in the city of Bremen has ideal meeting facilities and can host a large number of people during the summer on campus. * Deadlines 10 Feb 2008 Conference paper submission deadline 10 Feb 2008 PhD workshop paper submission deadline 06 Apr 2008 Notification about paper acceptance 06 Apr 2008 Notification of PhD workshop paper acceptance 20 Apr 2008 Camera ready paper copies due 01 Jul 2008 AIMS 2008 conference * Organization General Chair: - Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Technical Program Chairs: - David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland - Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany PhD Workshop Chairs: - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands Tutorials and Keynotes: - Arosha Bandara, Imperial College London, UK * Steering Committee - Arosha Bandara, Imperial College London, UK - Mark Burgess, HIO, Norway - Olivier Festor, INRIA, France - David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands - Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany - Rolf Stadler, KTH, Sweden * Technical Program Committee - Panayotis Antoniadis, University of Pierre and Marie Curie Paris, France - Arosha Bandara, Imperial College London, UK - Jan Bergstra, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Mark Burgess, Oslo University College, Norway - Georg Carle, Univeristy of Tuebingen, Germany - Isabelle Chrisment, Nancy University, France - Alva Couch, Tufts University, USA - Costas A. Courcoubetis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece - Vasilios Darlagiannis, EPFL, Switzerland - Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany - Gabi Dreo Rodosek, University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany - Olivier Festor, INRIA Lorraine, France - Thomas Fuhrmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil - Heinz-Gerd Hegering, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany - James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, Korea - Alexander Keller, IBM, USA - Jorge Lobo, IBM Research, USA - Emil Lupu, Imperial College London, UK - Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada - David A. Maltz, Microsoft Research, USA - Martin May, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - George Pavlou, CCSR, University of Surrey, UK - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Bruno Quoitin, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium - Danny Raz, Technion, Israel - Helmut Reiser, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany - Giancarlo Ruffo, Universita di Torino, Italy - Joan Serrat, UPC, Spain - Radu State, INRIA Lorraine, France - Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland - Maarten van Steen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Kurt Tutschku, University of Wuerzburg, Germany - Marcel Waldvogel, University of Konstanz, Germany - Felix Wu, University of California at Davis, USA

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[Fwd: CfP - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Bandwidth on Demand (BoD 2008)]
by Lars Wolf 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Bandwidth on Demand (BoD 2008) Datum: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:07:58 +0100 Von: Burkhard Stiller <stiller(a)IFI.UZH.CH> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organisation: University of Zurich, IFI An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE [Apologies for possibly receiving multiple copies of this CFP.] Call for Papers 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Bandwidth on Demand (BoD 2008) http://www.csg.uzh.ch/events/bod08/ In conjunction with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2008 http://www2.dcc.ufmg.br/eventos/noms2008/ April 11, 2008 Salvador da Bahia, Brazil "From Bandwidth on Demand to Networks on Demand - Bandwidth Trading in the Era of Network Virtualization" Scope The second BoD workshop follows the first successful workshop which was held in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2006. Driven by the recent technical advances in telecommunications, especially in the area of network virtualization and wireless mesh networks, as well as based on the new potential of emerging peer-to-peer (P2P) and next generation networking (NGN) concepts, the goal of this workshop is to take a fresh and innovative look at the concept of bandwidth on demand (BoD). The rapid technological progress in the area network virtualization, mainly driven by new optical fiber technology and virtual router infrastructures, is generating a new trend for "on demand" provisioning of bandwidth or even whole networks for applications that require short-term bandwidth assignments at large scale, such as large sporting events or cultural open air activities. However, suitable business models for "on demand" bandwidth services are currently missing. The BoD 2008 workshop seeks original papers, both from industry as well as academia, dealing with the technical, economic, and legal dimensions of BoD mechanisms. The workshop will include presentations and discussions of accepted technical papers, as well as invited talks and a panel session. Topics of Interest * Technical design of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective bandwidth trading infrastructures, including market mechanisms as a way to increase efficiencies o Scalability of bandwidth trading mechanisms o Secure and reliable bandwidth trading mechanisms o IP-based and decentralized trading mechanisms o P2P trading infrastructures, distributed markets, P2P auctions o Management of bandwidth trading infrastructures o Provisioning of bandwidth on demand o Provisioning of networks on demand * Economic studies and modeling of market and business models in carrier and service provider networks o Economics of networks on demand o Economic management of network virtualization o Game theoretical bandwidth on demand models o Cost and revenue models o Bandwidth on demand business models o Market liquidity aspects * Resource allocation and provision in non-profit bandwidth trading systems (economic modeling, incentive mechanisms, policies) o Neighborhood wireless mesh networks o Peer-to-peer Internet access sharing o Network testbed infrastructures (e.g., GENI, Planetlab) * Industrial developments of new technologies that facilitate or create impediments to bandwidth on demand o Network virtualization technologies o Wireless mesh networks o Network management aspects o Technical improvements in transport and data networks * Legislative and regulatory issues related to the Telecom Act and in comparison to other commodities markets such as the electric grid o Telecom legislation o Telecom regulation o Commodities markets o Legal issues of P2P trading infrastructures Paper Submissions Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 8 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Submissions must be in PDF and will be handled using the JEMS system. Please refer to http://www.csg.uzh.ch/events/bod08/ for further submission instructions or contact bod08(a)ifi.uzh.ch for additional information. Those papers accepted will be published in proceedings with an ISBN number. Important Dates * Submission deadline: January 7, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: February 7, 2008 * Final versions of papers due: February 21, 2008 * Workshop date: April 11, 2008 Workshop Chairs * Panayotis Antoniadis, LIP6, France * David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland * Kohei Shiomoto, NTT Labs, Japan * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Jean Walrand, UC Berkeley, USA

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[Tccc] MMTC-Track within EuroMicro SEAA 2008
by Paul Mueller 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

******************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ******************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------- -- Call for Paper -- -- -- -- EuroMicro 2008 -- -- Multimedia and Telecommunications Track -- -- Network of the Future and its Applications -- -- -- -- http://www.icsy.de/conferences/euromicro2008/ -- -- -- -- Sept. 1st - Sept. 5th, 2008 -- -- Parma, Italy -- -- -- -- http://seaa2008.isti.cnr.it/ -- -- -- -------------------------------------------------------- The current inter-networking paradigm, although highly successful as exemplified by the Internet, has become sub-optimal due to its sheer popularity. There has always been an answer to all requirements, no matter whether caused by new applications or technologies. So, over time the formerly simple and clear Internet architecture became a patchwork of new balconies, workarounds and bypasses. In this conference track we should discuss the two mainstreams in this area: the “Clean-Slate Approach” as well as the “Evolutionary Approach”. Beside future networks also new applications especially in the Grid using collaboratively distributed computer resources are emerging and becoming popular. One of the major goals in Grid computing is to hide its complexity from the software developers and end users resulting in new approaches for Grid architects, middleware and application developers. We invite you to contribute to this conference track by submitting papers in one or more of the categories outlined below. Multimedia • IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) • (Multimedia) Information systems for emergency services • Integration of IP and broadcast services • Middleware and reflective systems support for wireless multimedia • Ambient multimedia services • Home entertainment • Gaming Telecommunications • Future Internet (Clean-Slate versus Evolution) • Embracing P2P communities as a new business approach for Telcos • Access networks • Layer-2 Technologies • Self-engineering communications • Performance evaluation of fixed and mobile networks • QoS control and scheduling • Security Grid Computing • Programming models, tools and environments • Software architectures and middleware • Virtualization • Robustness, fault-tolerance and self-healing • Scalability • Data distribution and data access • Ad-hoc computing grids • Integration of problem solving environments • Distributed applications We encourage submissions demonstrating the potential of new approaches by providing case studies, experiments, and quantitative data. Submission of papers -------------------- Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of their paper to http://www.icsy.de/EM08 Papers should not exceed 8 pages (in IEEE/CS proceedings format; 10pt, single-space, double-column) or 6000 words and include an abstract of up to 150 words. A cover page should clearly show the name, mailing address, e-mail address and fax number of the author to contact, as well as the topic areas of the submitted paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE. Selected papers will be offered the opportunity to appear as extended versions in a special issue of a scholarly journal. The following signed statement should be included on the cover page: "Neither this paper nor any version close to it has been or is being offered elsewhere for publication. All necessary clearances have been obtained for the publication of this paper. If accepted, the paper will be made available in Camera-ready forms by June 6th 2008, and it will be personally presented at the EUROMICRO 2008 Conference by the author or one of the co-authors. The presenting author(s) will pre-register (full fee) for EUROMICRO 2008 before the due date of the Camera-ready paper." Program Chairs --------------- Paul Mueller University of Kaiserslautern pmueller(a)informatik.uni-kl.de phone +49 631 205 2263 Rainer Stotzka Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe stotzka(a)ipe.fzk.de phone +49 7247 82 4738 Program Committee ------------------ Hendrik Berndt, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Switzerland Isabel Campos, Instituto de Fisica Cantabria, Santander, Spain Hermann deMeer, University of Passau, Germany Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany Bernd Freisleben, University of Marburg, Germany Thomas Friese, Siemens AG, Germany Gerhard Haßlinger, T-Systems, Germany Frank Kargl, University of Ulm, Germany Marcel Kunze, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany David Larrabeiti, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain Daniel Kofman, ENST Paris, France Prabhat Kumar Mahanti, University of New Brunswick, Canada Laurent Mathy, University of Lancaster, UK Ludek Matyska, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Andreas Mauthe, University of Lancaster, UK Harald Müller, Siemens AG, Germany Marcin Plociennik, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland Erwin P. Rathgeb, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany Ivica Rimac, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Simon P. Romano, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy Jens Schmitt, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Matti Mikael Siekkinen, University of Oslo, Norway Ralf Steinmetz, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Phuoc Tran-Gia, University Wuerzburg, Germany Michael Weber, University of Ulm, Germany Important dates ---------------- Submission deadline: March 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 9, 2008 Camera-ready paper due: June 6, 2008 Updated information -------------------- http://www.euromicro.org General information --------------------- This track is an integral part of the EUROMICRO SEAA 2008 conference. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. -- ___________________________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Paul Mueller email: pmueller(a)informatik.uni-kl.de University of Kaiserslautern Phone: ++49-(0)631-205-2263 Dep. of Computer Science Fax: ++49-(0)631-205-3056 Paul Ehrlich Strasse Geb. 34 http://www.icsy.de D-67653 Kaiserslautern Germany ___________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[EUROSIS] EUROMEDIA 2008, April 9-11, 2008, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Call for Papers
by Eurosis 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

------------EUROMEDIA 2008, APRIL 9-11, 2008, UNIVERSITY OF PORTO, PORTO, PORTUGAL, CALL FOR PAPERS------------ EUROMEDIA 2008 14TH ANNUAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS WEBSITE http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/461 UNIVERSITY OF PORTO PORTUGAL APRIL 9-11, 2008 Organized by ETI Sponsored by EUROSIS Delft University of Technology Belgacom TTVI Ghent University DG-INFSO Introduction The 2008 Euromedia conference covers the latest developments in web-multimedia and communications technology while also looking at their implementation in Broadband networking, mobile computing, broadband networking, distributed computing, telematics, E-technology and real world environments like embedded systems, security systems and training systems. New topics are human computer interaction with a focus on the interaction of users with multimodal interfaces and the usability and experiences of users with multimodal systems based on different media. The EUROMEDIA conference is held concurrently with the ECEC and FUBUTEC conferences. The conference is structured around 5 tracks: WEBTEC-MEDIATEC-COMTEC-APTEC and ETEC This year the conference will feature the following Special tracks: - Knowledge Management and e-Mobility - In-Car Applications - Facial Recognition or Non Verbal Communication - Virtual Reality 2.0 Applications Special Workshops: - Medical Imaging Systems - D-TV Applications WEBTEC The WEBTEC conference focuses on new developments with respect to Internet, Intranet, HTML, and WWW. Because of the large amount of new tools and developments, scientific papers focusing on this subject should always include references to other ideas and products. If your paper describes a new language or tool, include the theoretical basis,application, and (tested) experiences. Topics: Internet Viewers and Programs * Development and Design Tools for the Web * Tactical Internet * Web Programming * Web Simulation and Animation * Interactive Web Publishing Tools * Dynamic New Languages and Standards * Java Security * CORBA and the Web * IPV6 (next generation internetprotocol) Visual Programming Languages * Advanced Web Authoring and Development Tools * Visual Web Programming * Visual HTML - XML , XSL editors * Applets and Scripting Languages over Networks 3D Web Programs * 3D Worlds * Rule Based Programming for 3D Environments (avatars) * Building Online Communities Video and Audio Streaming on the Web * Video Telephony, Web Video and Web Conferencing * Video and Audio Libraries * Internet telephone networks AI on the Web * Intelligent Agents, Knowbots and REBOL Bots * Worm Programs, Data Mining and MDX, SQL, SQLJ Based Tools * Mobile Network Agents * Site Analysis Tools * Collaborative Filtering * Intelligent Interactive Characters * Semantic Web Applications * Webbased Information Systems Software for Web-based Business Applications and E-Commerce * Building Interactive Advertising and Information Interfaces * Business Objects and Business to Business E-Commerce * Customer Tracking Tools, E-Commerce Tools & Architectures * Electronic Cash Transfer Protocols on the Web * Joint Electronic Payments Initiative * Internet Open Trading Protocols * Security and E-Commerce * Web Based Training and Web Based Networked Simulation * PC VR Based Training MEDIATEC The MEDIATEC conference looks at new developments in multimedia technology. Step by step, multimedia computing becomes more common and more popular. DVD technology, videoconferencing, and real-time 3-D animation have become widely available for standard hardware platforms. The type of papers we are looking for try to give a theoretical foundation to developments in multimedia hardware and software, if possible comparing different alternatives so that empirical results can form a basis for new standards and choice among alternatives. Topics: Multimedia Techniques and Telecommunications * Real Time Interactive Systems * Hardware for multimedia storage * Hardware and networks for multimedia transmission * CD-Interactive Systems and Online DVD Technology * Removable Storage Technology * Multimedia Sensors (RF Tags) * Intelligent Analysis and Interpretation of Multimedia Data Multimedia Authoring Tools and Software * Presentation Tools * Presentation Software * Animation /Facial Animation * Animation Tools * 3D Authoring Tools, 3D Graphics, 3D Accelerators and Motion Capture * Video and Audio Editing * PC-DVD Video Imaging, Editing Techniques and Tools * Video Compression Techniques and Tools * Video Accelerators * Non Linear Video Editing Systems * Digital Video * MPEG 5 PC-Video Encoding and Decoding * (MPEG) Image Compression * Colour Palette Strategies * Audio Editing * Digital Audio Software * CD Recording Software * Voice Recognition Systems * Industrial Applications * automatic speech recognition Multimedia Building Blocks * Multimedia Databases * Toolboxes for Moving Graphics * Productivity Tools * Multimedia and CORBA COMTEC The COMTEC conference covers different types of communication technology utilising both fixed and mobile infrastructures. Of course, this conference must be seen in alliance with the overall theme of the conference: new media that are used on a world-wide basis in relation to information and communication infrastructures. Topics: Telecommunications Technologies * High Speed Interconnects * Optical Networks and Switching * Transport Networks * HSI in Parallel/Distributed Systems * Message Passing Communication Standards * Communication Servers and Networks * Access Networks and Protocols * Systems and Applications Software * Clusters and Load Balancing * Traffic Models and Performance Simulations * Fault Tolerance, Reliability Models, Performance Studies and System Validation Networks * Quality of Service * Multicast * ISDN, Intelligent Networks, LAN-WAN Interconnection, WIFI * Broadband and Wideband Networks * Information Super Highways, GRID * Network Management * Case Studies on Large Networks Simulation technology * Network Planning & Management & Software Radio * Broadband convergence networks (BcN) Network Security * Encryption and Coding * Software Protocols * Privacy, ID Verification, Authentication, Message Integrity, Message Non-Repudiation and Security Policies * Access Control + Firewalls + Intrusion Detection * Smart Card Technology Mobile Communications * Satellite Services * WAP compliant Broadband Mobile Communication * Voice Paging, Mobile Fax, Mobile Video Text * 3G Networks * Mobile Networks Planning * W-CDMA (3rd generation mobile telecommunications) * Mobile adhoc networks (MANETS) TV Technology * CATV, HDTV, 3D TV * Interactive Video * DAVIC * Digital TV * DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) QoS * QoS in TP Networks * QoS in ATM Networks * QoS in Public Networks * QoS in Mobile Networks * QoS in Heterogeneous Networks * QoS Charging APTEC The APTEC conference shows how effectiveness and efficiency of individuals and public and private organisations can be improved using telematics, advanced communications, and multimedia technology. Papers in the APTEC conference should present the relation between the type of activity that is supported by new technology and the characteristics of the technology itself. If possible, empirical test results should be included in the paper. Topics: Telematics Consumer Applications * Home Banking * Video-on-Demand, Video and PC-Gaming * Video Kiosks Cooperative Telematics Applications * Home Shopping * Teleconsulting * Teleworking * Teleprocessing * Telepresence * Web Enabled Devices Tele-Education * Tele-Teaching * Multimedia and DVD Technology * Computer Based Training * CBT Authoring Software * Computer Assisted Instruction * Simulation Based Training * Interactive Tools * Tele-Education on the Web * Case Studies Integrated Enterprise Software and Groupware * Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) * VHDL and Verilog Applications * Product Data Interchange * Synthetic Environments and Simulation on the Web * Distributed Simulation (DIS) * Virtual Reality * Innovative e-mail applications * Shared Memory, Shared Screen * Group Decision Support * Group Scheduling * Group Editing * Video Conferencing and standards * Desktop Video Conferencing * Workflow Software * Putting Interactive Training Online Telemedicine * Multimedia * Real-Time Systems * Telediagnostic * Fault Tolerance * Telemonitoring * Data Bases * Case Studies Ubiquitous computing Applications * health care * Pervasive computing * Video human interaction * Mediascapes * Interactive posters * Electronic tags * Ambient intelligence * System architecture and concepts, software and intelligent receptors * Smart homes and transport (cars,planes, Digital home concept) * smart surroundings using ubiquitous wireless sensor networks * self organising digital sensor networks of individual motes * GPS, active RFID technology * context aware systems (f.ex SIREN) * privacy and security from motes, smart sensors to smart dust Embedded Systems and future product market combinations * modelling specification and validation of embedded systems * intelligent clothing and polytronics * rfid technology * intelligent products and environments * active silenced machines (adaptronics) * simulated environments (reverse engineering) * man-machine interaction (converging technology) * security systems (biometric and other dataprocessing techniques Multimodal communication *context sensitive sensing *affective computing *speech recognition, recognition of facial expressions *recognition of emotion in text, speech and video *usability *engineering experiences ETEC The ETEC conference reviews the latest trends and technologies applied in the growing field of electronic commerce. This event will be exclusively dedicated to practical applications in business to business and business to customer environments. This programme provides valuable guidance on reconfiguring the structure and interaction between organisations, businesses, and customers, to create effective new possibilities and to stay ahead of competition, by implementing new advanced information and communications technology. It focuses on the reality rather than the hype which tends to surround these items. This conference is a unique occasion to find out the key issues and essential facts from case studies and unbiased expert presentations. Topics include: . Tele-X . E-commerce . Security . Medical Information Systems . Challenges of tomorrow and beyond Trust and security: provisions and instruments . Online availability of public services . Service survivability and maintainability . Interoperability of services . Security in e-democracy (including e-participation and e-voting) . E-justice (administration and workflow security for legal processes) . Secure federating information access (from different government and third party agencies) . Security and reliability in media integration . Secure e-government and Identity Management . Security and reliability of Smart Card System . Availability and reliability of mobile services . Data protection and data privacy (e.g. e-health and e-education) . Intrusion detection and prevention . Anti-spam legislation and solution . Public-private- partnerships management . Role-based management and usage restriction Special Tracks Special Track on Knowledge Management and e-Mobility * Knowledge warehouse * Knowledge acquisition and datamining * E-blended learning * MPEG2 standards in e-mobility Special Track on In-Car Applications This track will cover the embedded systems envisaged in future car design based on multimedia applications. * Look-Ahead Radar * Automatic Braking * Blind Spot Detection * Steer by Wire * LEDS * Lane Departure Warning * Conversational Voice Recognition * Browsiness Sensors * Cockpit Controllers * Split Displays * In-car Entertainement Systems * Glass Cockpit * Smart Navigation * Networking Special Track on Facial Recognition or Non Verbal Communication Facial expressions play an important role in human communication. We are able to read emotions from human faces. Turn taking in human dialogues can be regulated by facial expressions. There is an ongoing discussion about the universal character of emotions. Psychologist P. Ekman claims that there are 6 universal emotions corresponding with unique facial expressions: happiness, sadness, disgust, anger, fear and surprise. But there are much more emotions, which can be conveyed by facial expressions, way of speaking, gestures and other body language. For many years researchers have been involved in the automatic recognition and generation of emotions. There are systems which are able to read faces and analyze speech signals to recognize emotions. Researchers have developed “talking faces” which are able to show facial expressions and to speak with appropriate emotions. At this moment here robots and avatars which are able to display emotions and are able to recognize emotion. The goal of the session/track is to invite researchers to present papers in the area of non verbal communication. Special Track on Virtual Reality 2.0 Applications This track will cover Virtual Reality 2.0 Applications using Motion Capture Technology in * Advertising * Healthcare * Market research * Auto Safety * Mobile Phones * Security Workshops Medical Imaging Systems The workshop will cover topics related with medical imaging systems, such as image acquisition, signal processing, image processing and analysis, virtual reality, computer aided diagnosis, surgery, therapy, and treatment, computational bio-imaging and visualization, software development, tele-medicine systems and their applications. D-TV Workshop 2nd Workshop on Digital Television & Digital Special Interest Channels at the Euromedia 2008 - From Realisable Visions to Feasible and Sustainable Applications. The programme consists of parallel sessions with lectures, practitioner's workshops, poster sessions, and a specialised exhibition. CONFERENCE VENUE University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Http://www.fe.up.pt TUTORIALS Tutorials can be proposed in the following three categories: T1- Introductory tutorials T2- State of the Art Tutorials T3- Software and Modelware Tutorials Tutorial proposals should be emailed to Philippe.Geril(a)eurosis.org POSTER SESSION The poster session only features work in progress. Next to the actual poster presentation, these submissions also feature as short papers in the Proceedings. STUDENTS SESSION This session is for students who want to present their work in progress or part of their doctoral thesis as a paper. Student papers are denoted by the fact that only the name of the student appears on the paper as an author. They are published as short papers in the Proceedings. DIVERSE ACTIVITIES For demonstrations or video sessions, please contact EUROSIS. Special session will be set up for vendor presentations in co- ordination with the scientific program. User Group meetings for simulation languages and tools can be organised the day before the conference. If you would like to arrange a meeting, please contact the Conference Chairs. We will be happy to provide a meeting room and other necessary equipment. Exhibition There will be a special exhibition section for universities and non-profit organisations, and a special section for publishers and commercial stands. If you would like to take part in this exhibition please contact the EUROSIS for a full price schedule and stand layout. Deadlines and Requirements EARLY BIRD SUBMISSION December 20, 2007 SUBMISSION DEADLINE JANUARY 20, 2008 Full Paper or Extended Abstract Submission January 20, 2008 Short Paper Submission Deadline: January 20, 2008 LATE PAPER SUBMISSION: FEBRUARY 5, 2008 Acceptance Notification: February 15, 2008 Camera-Ready Copies: March 17, 2008 Registration Fees Author EUROSIS Other Members Participants Pre-registr. Before 485 EURO 485 EURO 535 EURO 25/03/2008 Registr. After Pre.Reg. 535 EURO 595 EURO 25/03/2008 Req. Registration fees should preferably be paid in EUROs, but can also be paid in the equivalent amount of US$.. Payment is possible by Creditcard The registration fee includes one copy of the Conference Proceedings, coffee and tea during the breaks, all lunches, a welcome cocktail, the conference dinner and conference visit. Author Registration Authors are expected to register early (at a reduced fee) and to attend the conference at their own expense to present the accepted papers. Without early registration and payment, the paper will not be published in the Conference Proceedings. Each registration covers one presentation. PAPER SUBMISSION TYPES FULL PAPER (including abstract, conclusions, diagrams, references, at least five pages, double column) During review, the submitted full papers can be accepted as a regular 5 page paper. If excellent, full papers can be accepted by the program committee as an extended (8-page) paper. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the International Program Committee. EXTENDED ABSTRACT (at least five pages, single column) Participants may also submit a 5 page extended abstract for a regular (5 pages) or short (3 pages) paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the EUROMEDIA'2008 Conference Proceedings. SHORT ABSTRACT (at least three pages) Participants may also submit a 3 page abstract for a short paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the EUROMEDIA'2008 Conference Proceedings. ONE PAGE ABSTRACTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED. Refereeing and Camera-ready papers The notification of acceptance or rejection, in combination with suggestions to improve the paper, will be sent by FEBRUARY 15, 2008. Along with the notification of acceptance, an author kit with complete instructions for preparing a camera-ready copy for the Proceedings will be sent to authors of accepted abstracts or drafts. The camera-ready copy of the papers must be in by MARCH 17, 2008. In order to guarantee a high-quality conference, the camera-ready papers will be checked as well, to check see the suggestions of the program committee have been incorporated. REPLY CARD Surname:.................................................. First Name:............................................... Affiliation:.............................................. MailingAddress:........................................... .......................................................... ......................................................... Zipcode:...........City:.................................. Country:.................................................. Telephone:....................Fax:........................ E-mail:................................................... Yes, I intend to attend the 2008 Euromedia Conference: * Without presenting a paper * Contributing to the Exhibition * Proposing a vendor presentation with the following title:.................................................... * Proposing a tutorial about the following subject: * Proposing a panel discussion with the following title: * Proposing the following short paper (abstract at least 2 pages) * Proposing the following full paper (based on extended abstract or full paper submission Title of submission .................................. ................................... The paper belongs to the following theme (please tick one): [] WEBTEC * Internet Viewers and Programs * Visual Programming Languages * 3D Web Programs * Video and Audio Streaming on the Web * AI on the Web * Software for Web-based Business Applications [] MEDIATEC * Multimedia Techniques and Telecom * Multimedia Authoring Tools and Software * Multimedia Building Blocks [] COMTEC * Telecommunications Technologies * Networks * Network Security * Mobile Communications * TV Technology * QoS [] APTEC * Telematics Consumer Applications * Cooperative Consumer Application * Tele-Education * Integrated Enterprise Software and Groupware * Telemedicine * Ubiquitous Computing Applications * Embedded Systems and Future Product Market Combinations * Multimodal communication [] ETEC * Tele-X and E-Commerce * Knowledge Management and E-Mobility Special Tracks: [] Knowledge Management and e-Mobility [] In-Car Applications [] Facial Recognition or Non Verbal Communication [] Virtual Reality 2.0 Applications Special Workshops: [] Medical Imaging Systems [] D-TV Do you know others interested in the topic of the conference? Name: .................................... Address: ..................................... ........................................... For general information, contact the EUROSIS: European Simulation Office, c/o Philippe Geril Ghent University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Management, Technologiepark 903, B-9052 Ghent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium Tel. (Office) +32.9.264.55.09; Fax: +32.9.264.58.25 E-mail: philippe.geril(a)eurosis.org Or website: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/461 -- Unsubscribe from this newsletter: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=newsletter/confirm/remove/0a40f1ec086459t102

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