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SAKS 08: Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beitr ägen
by Michael Zapf 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, anbei schicke ich den Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für einen neuen Durchgang unseres SAKS-Workshops, der nächstes Jahr in Wiesbaden stattfinden wird. Weitere Details entnehmen Sie bitte dem unten stehenden Text. Viele Grüße Michael Zapf ------------------------------8<------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS SAKS 2008 http://www.self-org.info/saks/ Workshop über Selbstorganisierende, Adaptive, Kontextsensitive verteilte Systeme 10. März 2008, Fachhochschule Wiesbaden im Rahmen eines gemeinsamen Treffens der GI/ITG-Fachgruppen KuVS und Betriebssysteme *** Einreichungstermin: 14.01.2008 *** Motivation Die aktuelle Entwicklung verteilter Systeme wird geprägt von neuartigen technischen Möglichkeiten, IT-Systeme überall in unserem täglichen Leben einzusetzen und sie auf die Umgebung oder den Anwender selbständig reagieren und anpassen zu lassen. Mit der wachsenden Zahl dieser vernetzten Systeme steigt der Aufwand beträchtlich, solche IT-Landschaften aufzubauen und zu verwalten. Statische Konfiguration und manuelle Steuerung der Systeme werden in Zukunft dieser wachsenden Größe, Dynamik und Allgegenwart der IT-Systeme nicht mehr gerecht. Stattdessen sind dynamische Anpassungsfähigkeit, autonomes Handeln und Selbstverwaltung gefordert. Häufig wird dieser Ansatz von Beispielen aus der Natur genährt: Ameisenkolonien und Fischschwärme dienen als Inspiration und Vorbilder für die Entwicklung selbstorganisierender und anpassungsfähiger Systeme. Doch jenseits der nahe liegenden Simulationen von natürlichen Vorgängen hat die Forschung einen bislang nur schwer einschätzbaren, langen Weg vor sich. Zahlreiche Begriffe der Systemtheorie, wie etwa Selbstorganisation oder Emergenz, lassen eine strenge Definition innerhalb der Informatik bislang vermissen. Es zeigen sich zwar allerorten Bemühungen, natürliche Phänomene in der Erwartung nachzubilden, die Komplexität großer Netze autonomer Systeme zu beherrschen, doch sind diese bislang kaum über den Prototypzustand hinausgelangt und in der realen Anwendung noch wenig überzeugend. Der Workshop widmet sich den Themen Selbstorganisation, Kontextsensitivität und Adaptivität in verteilten Systemen. Dabei sind alle Belange verteilter Systeme von der Kommunikation über die Middleware bis zu den Anwendungen von Interesse. Der Themenbereich ist absichtlich weit abgesteckt, damit die inhärente Vielfalt und die zahlreichen Querbezüge diskutiert werden können. Nur so kann sich die Informatik diesem ungemein vielschichtigen Problemfeld nähern und zu konstruktiven Ansätzen gelangen. Ziel Ziel des Workshops ist eine Fortsetzung des Ideenaustauschs, wie er in den gleichnamigen Veranstaltungen SAKS an der Universität Kassel 2006 sowie im Workshop an der KiVS-Tagung in Bern im März 2007 zu erleben war. Die Bestandsaufnahme von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten, die im deutschsprachigen Raum auf dem beschriebenen Gebiet bearbeitet werden, soll fortgesetzt werden. Wir hoffen, dass der Workshop die Kooperation der beteiligten Akteure und Fachgruppen weiter stärkt und mittelfristig zu einer stärkeren internationalen Sichtbarkeit der deutschsprachigen Forschung und Entwicklung auf diesem Gebiet führt. Insbesondere ist die Teilnahme von Vertretern aus der Industrie erwünscht, um den Kontakt zur industriellen Praxis zu intensivieren und gemeinsame Interessen auszuloten. Themen und Beiträge Der Workshop soll primär der Diskussion und der Vernetzung der Akteure beider Fachgruppen dienen. Daher sind neben Berichten über bereits erzielte Ergebnisse auch Vorstellungen von neuen Projekten und laufenden Arbeiten sehr erwünscht. Die folgende Liste nennt beispielhaft einige mögliche Themen für Beiträge zum Workshop: - Selbstorganisation, Selbstkonfiguration und andere Selbst-Eigenschaften - Methoden zur Konstruktion und Evaluation von Selbst-Eigenschaften - Selbstorganisation in Service-orientierten Architekturen (SOA) - Selbstorganisation in Robotersystemen - Selbstorganisation des Rechenzentrumsbetriebs - Autonomic Computing und Communications - Organic Computing, biologisch inspirierte Ansätze - Emergenz: Theorie und Praxis - Softwarearchitekturen für autonome Systeme - Adaptivität in Anwendungen, Middleware und Betriebssystemen - Vertrauen und Verlässlichkeit bei selbstorganisierenden Systemen - Kontextmodelle und Kontextverarbeitung - Entwicklungsmethoden für personalisierte kontextsensitive Dienste - Anwendungen: Berichte über Forschungsprototypen - Industrielle Anforderungen und Projekte Die eingereichten Beiträge werden vom Programmkomitee des Workshops im Hinblick auf ihr Diskussionspotential und ihren Beitrag zu einem repräsentativen thematischen Querschnitt ausgewählt. Einreichung Die Einreichung von Artikeln wird über E-Mail an saks08(a)self-org.info vorgenommen. Beiträge sind bevorzugt in Deutsch einzureichen, können aber auch in Englisch verfasst werden. Sie müssen im PDF-Format vorliegen und können einen Umfang von 6 bis 12 Seiten aufweisen. Formatvorlagen werden dem LNCS-Stil entsprechen und können über die Webseite http://www.self-org.info bezogen werden. Akzeptierte Beiträge werden auf den Webseiten http://www.self-org.info bzw. http://www.betriebssysteme.org vor der Veranstaltung zum Herunterladen angeboten. Wichtige Daten Einreichung von Beiträgen 14.01.2008 Benachrichtigung der Autoren 01.02.2008 Endgültige Version 15.02.2008 Workshop 10.03.2008 Organisationskomitee Sandra Haseloff Universität Kassel Markus Schmid Fachhochschule Wiesbaden Michael Zapf Universität Kassel Programmkomitee Klaus David Universität Kassel Kurt Geihs Universität Kassel Sandra Haseloff Universität Kassel Franz J. Hauck Universität Ulm Klaus Herrmann Universität Stuttgart Reinhold Kroeger Fachhochschule Wiesbaden Gero Mühl Technische Universität Berlin Michael Zapf Universität Kassel ------------------------------8<------------------------------ -- Dr. Michael Zapf ...................... 0561 / 804 6279 (Fax: -6277) Fachgebiet Verteilte Systeme (Distributed Systems) Fachbereich Elektrotechnik / Informatik (16) Universität Kassel Wilhelmshöher Allee 73, 34121 Kassel

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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] INTETAIN 08 - Call for Participation
by Sean White 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** INTETAIN 08 2nd International Conference on INtelligent TEchnologies for interactive enterTAINment Call for Participation http://intetain.org/ We invite you to participate in the INTETAIN 08 conference in Playa del Carmen, Cancun, Mexico, January 8-10, 2008. Details of the preliminary program are at http://intetain.org/preliminaryprogram.htm Keynote speaker: Ken Perlin, NYU Media Research Lab "The Illusion of Life, Revisited" INTETAIN 2008, held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI, aims to stimulate interaction among academic researchers and commercial developers of interactive entertainment systems. In addition to paper presentations, posters, and demos, the conference will foster discussions through a workshop and special events. INTETAIN 2008 focuses on the development of novel user-centered intelligent computational technologies and interactive applications for entertainment, being made possible through the use of a wide range of interactive device technologies (e.g., mobile and wearable devices, home entertainment centers, haptic devices, wall screen displays, information kiosks, holographic displays, fog screens, distributed smart sensors, and immersive displays) and media delivery infrastructures (e.g., multimedia networks, interactive radio, streaming technologies, DVB-T/M, ITV, P2P, satellite broadcasting, UMTS, Bluetooth, Broadband, and VoIP). We look forward to seeing you at the conference! INTETAIN 08 Playa del Carmen, Cancun, Mexico January 8-10, 2008 http://intetain.org/ Sponsored by ICST and Technical Sponsor: Create-Net **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl **************************************************** _______________________________________________ ICEC mailing list ICEC(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: CFP: IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet]
by Lars Wolf 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet Datum: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:45:56 +0100 Von: Xiaoming Fu <fu(a)CS.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Referenzen: <46BC4F83.70002(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Call for Papers IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet Important Data ============== Manuscript Submission Due: March 1, 2008 Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2008 Final Manuscript Due: July 15, 2008 Special Issue Publication Date: September/October 2008 Call for Papers =============== Network Address Translators (NAT) and IP firewalls have been introduced to the Internet some time ago, and over the time become an integral part of the Internet architecture. Moreover, there are also other types of middleboxes, such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) gateways, Application Layer Gateways (ALG), Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEP) and web proxies. These intermediary boxes perform functions different from normal IP packet treatment, which can even change the content of packets or do rerouting of IP packets. There have been diverse views on the value of middleboxes. Some believe that middleboxes introduce problems for network applications as well as challenges to the traditional end-to-end Internet architecture. These issues range, for instance, but not limited to, from naming and addressing of nodes behind NATs, directionality of communication establishment, and performance impairments. On the other hand, many administrators and operators see the middleboxes represent an important part for their network operations. For example, firewalls are widely deployed with the intention of securing enterprise, campus and home networks, so as to block attacks to nodes or keep nodes from sending malicious traffic. The Internet community has acknowledged the emergence of the middleboxes and developed middlebox control and coordination protocols that allow end hosts (or application proxies) to learn about the presence of middleboxes and communicate their needs (i.e. required packet treatment) to those devices. A number of middlebox control protocols, such as UPnP, MIDCOM and STUN, have been developed over the years and are partially used in current deployments. The papers in this special issue will focus on the state-of-the-art research in various aspects of middleboxes and middlebox control mechanisms, which help to understand their impact to the Internet architecture and network operations, and how they can be further integrated, or leveraged for different purposes, such as load balancing and mobile network environments, among the others. Specifically, within the aforementioned context in Internet middleboxes and their control mechanisms, the special issue will present tutorials, surveys and original research articles (written in a tutorial manner readable by non-specialists) that cover the following subjects, but not limited to: • Middlebox-supported network architectures vs. other Internet evolution alternatives (e.g., IPv6) • Design and/or performance evaluation of middlebox software architectures • Control and coordination across middleboxes and their traversal mechanisms • Security, including authentication, authorization and accounting issues with middlebox control/traversal mechanisms • Scalability and performance studies of middlebox control/traversal mechanisms • Deployment scenarios and case studies (corporate, ISP, content providers, mobile environments etc.) based on middleboxes • Interaction and implications with other network protocols and components • Interaction and implications with end-to-end applications and services • Related standardization efforts Manuscript Submission ===================== With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors must follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html. Submitted papers must be original and must not be under current consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should submit a PDF format of their complete papers via http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6198&. Guest Editors ============= Prof. Xiaoming Fu Institute for Computer Science University of Goettingen Goettingen Germany Email: fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de Martin Stiemerling NEC Europe Laboratories Network Research Division Heidelberg Germany Email: stiemerling(a)netlab.nec.de Prof. Henning Schulzrinne Department of Computer Science Columbia University New York, NY USA Email: hgs(a)cs.columbia.edu

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: MobiArch'08 - ACM SIGCOMM workshop]
by Lars Wolf 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: MobiArch'08 - ACM SIGCOMM workshop Datum: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:18:25 +0200 Von: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert(a)nokia.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ACM MobiArch 2008 An ACM SIGCOMM 2008 Workshop *** PAPER REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MARCH 17, 2008 *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM MobiArch 2008 The 3rd ACM International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture An ACM SIGCOMM 2008 Workshop Seattle, WA, USA, August 22, 2008 http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/workshops/mobiarch/ Recent developments in wireless access technologies and mobile devices are beginning to make widespread user, terminal and network mobility a reality in the commercial Internet. At the same time, the Internet architecture struggles to incorporate the functionality that will sustain this increasingly more mobile and more dynamic Internet use. Efficient mobility management and mobility optimizations, locator-identifier splits, multihoming, security and related network operation and management functions are still in the early stages of development. It is, however, already clear that supporting widespread mobility poses to significantly impact the original end-to-end design of the Internet. At the same time, critical momentum is building to significantly revise or even replace the current Internet architecture. Several substantial Future Internet initiatives have started in Europe, the US and Asia, and the topic is also actively being discussed in the vendor and network operator communities. These Future Internet efforts offer the exciting opportunity to design radically different approaches to supporting host and network mobility and multihoming, and may eventually lead to an internetwork architecture with significantly more advanced mobility features than those that the piecemeal extensions of the current Internet protocols result in. MobiArch'08 welcomes submissions from both researchers and practitioners that explore recent advances in architectures, protocols and emerging technologies to enable mobility and multihoming in the Internet, as well as concepts and designs to support widespread mobility and multihoming in future internetworks. Early results, position papers, systems and measurement papers are particularly welcome. TOPICS MobiArch'08 covers all aspects related to mobility in the current and future Internet, including, but not limited to: * Architectures and protocols for mobility support at all layers of the Internet protocol stack, as well as cross-layer approaches * Novel concepts to support widespread mobility and multihoming in a Future Internet * Routing and addressing issues (including locator/identifier splits) and their impact on the Internet architecture * Multihoming, including flow distribution and load-sharing for wireless and mobility * Performance evaluation, experimentation and modeling of Internet mobility * Models for mobility patterns and their experimental validation * New wireless technologies and services and their impact on the Internet architecture * Location management, positioning and data management for wireless and mobility * Accounting, access control, security and privacy issues and their impact on the Internet architecture * Social, economic, scalability and deployment issues SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must be no longer than six pages, including all figures and references, must be in PDF format, and must follow the ACM formatting guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Submissions that do not adhere to these requirements will be rejected without further review. Peer review is single-blind; the authors names and affiliations are to be included on the submission. Submissions cannot be previously published or be under concurrent review elsewhere. The submission of position papers is encouraged; please clearly identify position papers as such when submitting. Papers may be submitted at http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6140 TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Lars Eggert (co-chair, Nokia Research Center, FI) Linda Doyle (co-chair, Trinity College, IE) Bengt Ahlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SE) Jari Arkko (Ericsson, FI) Marcelo Bagnulo (University Carlos III of Madrid, ES) Olivier Bonaventure (Université Catholique de Louvain, BE) Wesley Eddy (NASA/Verizon (US) Joseph Evans (University of Kansas, US) Ted Faber (USC Information Sciences Institute, US) Stephen Hailes (University College London, UK) Roger Karrer (T-Labs, DE) Rajeev Koodli (Nokia Research Center, US) Donal O'Mahony (Trinity College, IE) Jörg Ott (Helsinki University of Technology, FI) Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers University, US) Dave Thaler (Microsoft Research, US) Ryuji Wakikawa (Keio University, JP) Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University, DE) Lixia Zhang (UCLA, US) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[ieeeacig] ATC-08 Final CFP (submission deadline: January 5th)
by ATC-08 Program Chair 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

##################### ATC-08 Call For Papers ###################### The 5th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing - Bring Safe, Self-x and Organic Computing Systems into Reality - http://www.ux.uis.no/atc08/ Organized by University of Stavanger and Oslo University College, Norway Technical Sponsorship by the IEEE Task Force on Intelligent Ubiquitous Computing Oslo, Norway, June 23-25, 2008 ################################################################### Computing systems including hardware, software, communication and networks are growing dramatically in both scale and heterogeneity, becoming overly complex. Such complexity is getting even more critical with the ubiquitous permeation of embedded devices and other pervasive systems. To cope with the growing and ubiquitous complexity, Autonomic Computing (AC) focuses on self-manageable computing and communication systems that exhibit self-awareness, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, self-protection and other self-x operations to the maximum extent possible without human intervention or guidance. Organic Computing (OC) additionally emphasizes natural-analogue concepts like self-organization and controlled emergence. Any autonomic or organic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trust and/or distrust relationships in the Internet and in pervasive infrastructures are key factors to enable dynamic interaction and cooperation of various users, systems and services. Trusted/Trustworthy Computing (TC) aims at making computing and communication systems as well as services available, predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable, sustainable, dependable, persist-able, security/privacy protect-able, etc. A series of grand challenges exist to achieve practical self-manageable autonomic systems with truly trustworthy services. ATC-08 addresses the most innovative research and development in these challenging areas and includes all technical aspects related to autonomic/organic computing (AC/OC) and trusted computing (TC). ATC-08 is a successor of the First Int'l Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Ubiquitous and Embedded Systems (TAUES-05, Japan), the Int'l Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems (TACS-06, Austria), the 3rd International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-06, China), and the 4th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-07, Hong Kong). Topics include but are not limited to the following: - AC/OC Theory and Models Nervous/organic models, negotiation, cooperation, competition, self-organization, emergence, etc. - AC/OC Architectures and Systems Autonomic elements & their relationship, frameworks, middleware, observer/controller architectures, etc. - AC/OC Components and Modules Memory, storage, database, device, server, proxy, software, OS, I/O, etc. - AC/OC Communication and Services Networks, self-organized net, web service, grid, P2P, semantics, agent, transaction, etc. - AC/OC Tools and Interfaces Tools/interfaces for AC/OC system development, test, monitoring, assessment, supervision, etc. - Trust Models and Specifications Models and semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust, over-trust, cheat, risk, reputation, reliability, etc. - Trust-related Security and Privacy Trust-related secure architecture, framework, policy, intrusion detection/awareness, protocols, etc. - Trusted Reliable and Dependable Systems Fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy, robustness, survivable systems, failure recovery, etc. - Trustworthy Services and Applications Trustworthy Internet/web/grid/P2P e-services, secured mobile services, novel applications, etc. - Trust Standards and Non-Technical Issues Trust standards and issues related to personality, ethics, sociology, culture, psychology, economy, etc. == IMPORTANT DATES == Submission Deadline: January 05, 2008 Authors Notification: March 05, 2008 Final Manuscript Due: April 05, 2008 == ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION == Prepare your paper according to the LNCS style maximum 15 pages in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) at the ATC-08 submission site: http://www.ux.uis.no/atc08/sub/ == PAPER PUBLICATION == Accepted papers are planned to be published by Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS), EI indexing (pending). The page limit of the final camera-ready paper will be announced in the paper acceptance notification. At least one of authors of an accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the conference; otherwise the paper will be removed from the digital library after the conference. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of the Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing (JoATC), the International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), and the International Journal on Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS). == INDUSTRIAL TRACK == Please go to http://www.ux.uis.no/atc08/industrial.html for Industrial Track's Call for Presentations == Organizing Committees == General Chairs Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo University College, Norway Program Chairs Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Xiaolin (Andy) Li, Oklahoma State University, USA Geng Yang, Nanjing University of Post & Telecommunications, China Program Vice Chairs Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan Hein Meling, University of Stavanger, Norway Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland Stephen R. Tate, University of North Texas, USA Honorary Chairs Christian Muller-Schloer, University of Hannover, Germany Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Steering Committee Jianhua Ma (Chair), Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany International Advisory Committee Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Chin-Chen Chang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan Zhong Chen, Peking University, China Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, USA Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Victor C.M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada David Ogle, IBM, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Franz J. Rammig, University of Paderborn, Germany Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Xinmei Wang, Xidian University, China Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Mazin Yousif, Intel, USA Award Chairs Bjarne E. Helvik, Norwegian University of Science & Technology Bin Xiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Panel Chair Erik Hjelmås, Gjøvik University College, Norway Publicity Chairs Jinhua Guo, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Ting-Wei Hou, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Jan Newmarch, Monash University, Australia Fangguo Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China International Liaison Chairs Ho-Fung Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia Benno Overeinder, Vrije University, The Netherlands Nguyen Huu Thanh, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK George Yee, National Research Council, Canada Industrial Track Chairs Leif Nilsen, Thales Norway Josef Noll, Unik/Movation, Norway Publication Chairs Tony Li Xu, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Son Thanh Nguyen, University of Stavanger, Norway Financial Chair Kari Anne Haaland, University of Stavanger, Norway Web Administration Chairs Son Thanh Nguyen, University of Stavanger, Norway Program Committee See ATC-08 web site: http://www.ux.uis.no/atc08/ If you have any further questions, please contact the ATC08 Secretariat <atc08(a)ux.uis.no> ============ End of ATC-08 CFP ================ -- !! 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[Cost290] CPF - 13th IFIP Conference on Personal Wireless Communications
by Geert Heijenk 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

***************************** PWC 2008****************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 13th IFIP international Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC 2008) October 1-3, 2008 --- Toulouse, France. http://www.irit.fr/PWC2008/ ABOUT PWC 2008 ----------------------------- Wireless and mobile networks, applications and services are rapidly growing areas that have attracted significant attention due to their potential impacts on the quality of life in multiple domains (health, emergency services, disaster recovery, commerce, shopping, TV, games…). To enable wireless and mobile computing, it is necessary to integrate technologies from the fields of distributed computing, networking, communications and signal processing. MWCN (Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks) and PWC (Personal Wireless Communications) are two conferences sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8 that provide forum for discussion between researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments in mobile and wireless networks, services, applications and computing. In 2008, MWCN and PWC are coupled to form the first edition of IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC). MWCN and PWC topics are revisited in order to make them complementary and covering together the main hot issues in wireless and mobile networks, services, applications, computing, and technologies. PWC´2008 is the thirteenth conference of this series sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8 and will be held in Toulouse (France) from 1 to 3 October 2008. The conference will consist of three days of scientific presentations. Previous events were held in Prague (Czech Republic) in 2007, Albacete (Spain) in 2006, Colmar (France) in 2005, Delft (The Netherlands) in 2004, Venice (Italy) in 2003, Singapore in 2002, Lappeenranta (Finland) in 2001, and Gdansk (Poland) in 2000. Performance of wireless networks is the major factor that determines their feasibility for the given set of application requirements. Performance has many different aspects, from different layers, and all of these are intimately related to topology, energy efficiency, management, user mobility, and security issues. The key goals of this improvement include Quality of Service (QoS) support mechanisms, efficient channel access mechanisms, security and energy saving mechanisms, etc. The effort to improve the wireless networks is linked with many technical challenges including compatibility with legacy networks, complexity in implementation, and practical values in real market, etc. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------------------- The PWC 2008 technical committee solicits papers describing original, previously unpublished, completed or on-going research. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Management and control of mobile and wireless networks - Handoff management - Location management - Connection management - Bandwidth management and capacity enhancement - Resource and information management - Network and service management and control - Energy efficiency of protocols and devices and power management 2. Quality of service - QoS support in mobile and wireless networks - QoS for voice and video in wireless/mobile networks - Admission control - Routing and Scheduling in mobile and wireless networks 3. Security - Security and privacy in mobile and wireless networks - AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) in mobile and wireless networks 4. Internet - Wireless Internet - IP-based wireless/mobile multimedia services - IP-based wireless/mobile networks - Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks 5. Design approaches and methodologies - Network self-organization, adaptability, reconfigurability - Autonomic networking - Opportunistic networking - Cross-layer design in mobile and wireless networks 6. Software and middleware - Software engineering for wireless and mobile network/service development - Middleware support for QoS provision - Middleware support for network configuration and adaptation 7. Modeling and performance evaluation - Traffic and network modeling in wireless/mobile networks - Analysis and simulation of wireless/mobile networks - Evaluation of mobile network testbeds BEST PAPER AWARD AND TRAVEL GRANTS ---------------------------------------------------------- A best paper award (500 EUR) and two travel grants (750 EUR each) will be awarded to PWC 2008 conference participants. PAPER PUBLICATION ------------------------------ >>>> Proceedings publication: Springer IFIP series >>> A maximum of 10 best papers will be selected from accepted and presented papers for publication in a special issue of International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking www.igi-global.com/ijbdcn IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: March 10, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 13, 2008 Final paper due: May 30, 2008 CONFERENCE COMMITTEES ---------------------------------------- General Chairs -------------------- Zoubir MAMMERI, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse (France) Partick SENAC, ENSICA (France) Steering Committee ------------------------ Khaldoun AL AGHA, Paris-Sud University (France) Robert BESTAK, Czech Technical University (Czech Republic) Pedro CUENCA, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (Spain) Sonia HEEMSTRA DE GROOT, Twente Institute (The Netherlands) Ignacious NIEMEGEERS, Delft University of Technology, (The Netherlands) Tadao SAITO, Toyota Info technology Center (Japan) Jan SLAVIK, TESTCOM (Czech Republic) Otto SPANIOL, University of Technology of Aachen (Germany) Jozef WOZNIAK, Technical University of Gdansk (Poland) Technical Program Committee ----------------------------------- Available at www.irit.fr/PWC2008/ Organizing Committee ---------------------------- G. Boudour (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) D. Espes (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) W. Masri (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) J. Petit (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) C. Teyssie (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2008: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2008: Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:45:12 -0500 Von: shamik <shamik(a)cs.ucf.edu> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. *********************************************** IEEE MoViD 2008 First IEEE Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery In conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2008 http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ 23 June 2008 Newport Beach, CA, USA *********************************************** The unprecedented growth in video content generation and delivery has created the new era of video Internet where video-based applications have gained tremendous popularity. This trend has forced the network and service providers to understand the limitations of current Internet and bring new technologies for delivering the video content to the end-user. Furthermore, criticality of the wireless networks pose new challenges in video delivery specific to the diverse set of underlying network technologies including Wi-Fi, WiMax etc. The focus of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the wireless network technologies and video delivery mechanisms for supporting the broad spectrum of emerging video-centric applications. The workshop will have the goal of understanding the research and deployment challenges in building the Next Generation Mobile Video Internet. Specifically, the workshop intends to address the following topics: a) Research challenges in developing new methods for delivering rich video experience to users over existing wireless technologies; b) New visions and concepts that will drive evolution of wireless access technologies to support high definition video content with diverse QoS requirements; c) Deployment challenges in new video delivery models (broadcast/multicast) to mobile users. The workshop aims to foster interaction among researchers and exchange new ideas by bringing together members of the video and networking communities. The workshop will provide an interesting venue to discuss widely varying beliefs and understanding being formed among the academic and industrial communities in terms of how next generation mobile video content should delivered to end-users. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in the following areas (but not limited to): Application-specific technologies in supporting **Mobile VoD, SDV, IPTV **Mobile video conferencing **Mobile video gaming **Video surveillance and sensing Performance **Quality of experience metrics **Video quality measurement **Performance analysis **Experimental results from testbed/deployments Encoding and Transport **Wireless video coding techniques **Adaptive media coding **Link adaptive transport mechanisms Wireless network techniques and protocols **802.11 WLAN/802.11n **802.16 WiMax **3G cellular networks **DVB-H **MAC/PHY layer techniques Wireless delivery models **Broadcast/multicast/simulcast **P2P mobile video **Vehicular video delivery Submission Instructions ======================= Papers should contain original material and not previously published, or currently submitted elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. All submissions will be handled electronically. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined WoWMoM 2008 workshop proceedings. Important Dates =============== Submission Deadline: Feb 11 Accept/reject notification: Mar 15 Camera ready paper due: Apr 02 Workshop Organizers =================== Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida Samrat Ganguly, NEC Laboratories, America Technical Program Committee (List incomplete) =========================== Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison Sujit Dey, University of California, San Diego Dilip Krishnaswami, University of California, Davis Giridhar Mandayam, Qualcomm Raja Neogi, Radisys Inc. Thinh Nguyen, Oregon State University Vikram Srinivasan, Bell Labs, India Deepak Turaga, IBM Research Stephan Wenger, Nokia Research Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine Jian Zhang, University of New South Wales Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore Publicity Chair =============== Shamik Sengupta, Stevens Institute of Technology Web Chair ========== Wenjing Wang, University of Central Florida =============================================== http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - Distributed Collaborative Sensors Network]
by Lars Wolf 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - Distributed Collaborative Sensors Network Datum: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:50:51 +0100 Von: Herve Guyennet <guyennet(a)lifc.univ-fcomte.fr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Workshop on "Distributed Collaborative Sensors Networks" will be held on the 19th of May in Irvine, USA, in adjunction with the 2008 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2008) May 19-23, 2008 The Hyatt Regency Irvine Irvine, California, USA http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/08/ CALL FOR PAPERS Submission Deadline: January 15, 2008 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The 1st International Workshop on Distributed Collaborative Sensors Networks aims at providing opportunities to present the most recent advances and future challenges in the field of distributed, wireless and mobile communications in sensors networks, as they relate to collaboration. Wireless Sensors Networks constitute a significant current technology, attracting considerable research interest from various disciplines. Indeed, the wireless sensor technology is employed in emerging areas with high potential for scientific research, being used for biomedical, environmental or industrial applications. These applications generally require intelligent dense environment monitoring which generates important data volumes. Data collection and analysis need to deal with cooperation and coordination topics in order to prolong network lifetime and to provide useful, synthesized information for automation, decision making and support. Topology control, by means of clusters or groups, is another applied technique to overcome these challenging problems. The 1st International Workshop on Distributed Collaborative Sensors Networks will focus on the research of developing collaboration infrastructures and solutions in the context of wireless sensors networks, aiming to bring together researchers and practitioners in these fields. In addition, the workshop will highlight recent innovative research results which will strengthen the formal foundation of this emerging area. This workshop is to be held as part of the 2008 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS08). Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): - Data and Resource Sharing in Sensors Networks - Collaborative Data Management on Large Scale - Distributed Sensors Architectures - Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks - Interfacing with Wireless/Mobile Systems - Routing and Data Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks - Group Collaboration in Sensor Networks - Visualization Techniques and Visual Languages for Collaborative Sensor Networks - Multi-sensor Data Fusion - Methods for Ad Hoc Deployment - Algorithms for Sensor Localization and Tracking of Mobile Users - Energy Issues and In-Situ Calibration Methods - Performance Evaluation of Distributed Sensor Networks - Trust and Security Issues in Distributed Collaborative Sensor Systems - Intelligent Sensor Technologies and Applications - Applications Enabled by Collaborative Sensor Network Architectures SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We invite papers reporting original and unpublished research work on above and any other related topics from researchers in academia and industry. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, addresses, fax and phone numbers, and email addresses. Include also an abstract of no more than 300 words along with a short list of keywords. Please submit an electronic copy of your full manuscript (not exceeding 10 pages in IEEE format, single-spaced, double-column, including figures, tables and references). Electronic submissions will be accepted only in PDF format, sent by email to the organizers. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the Symposium's web site later. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. All accepted papers are required to be presented and will be included in the conference proceedings. All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed by the technical program committee members and the reviewers they invite. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Initial selection will be based on full papers. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS The technical program committee of DCSN 2008 is co-chaired by Herve Guyennet LIFC, 16 Route de Gray, 25030 Besançon, France Email: guyennet(a)lifc.univ-fcomte.fr Violeta Felea Email: felea(a)lifc.univ-fcomte.fr LIFC, 16 Route de Gray, 25030 Besançon, France Technical Program Committee The members of the Program Committee are: - Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Huah Yong Chan, University Sains, Malaysia - Patrice Clemente, ENSI Bourges, France - Dan Grigoras,, University College Cork, Ireland - Jean-Christophe Lapayre, LIFC, Besançon, France - Vincent Lecuire, CRAN Nancy, France - Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy - Vladimir Oleshchuk, Agder University College, Norway - Thierry Villemur, LAAS, Toulouse, France IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline January 15, 2008 Notification of Acceptance February 8, 2008 Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due March 3, 2008 If you have questions regarding workshop paper submission or the workshop content, please contact Herve Guyennet (guyennet(a)lifc.univ-fcomte.fr) or Violeta Felea (felea(a)lifc.univ-fcomte.fr). For information or questions about the full Symposium's program, tutorials, exhibits, demos, panel and special sessions organization, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/08/ or contact the symposium co-chairs: Bill McQuay at AFRL/IFSD, WPAFB (William.McQuay(a)wpafb.af.mil) or Waleed W. Smari at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton (Waleed.Smari(a)notes.udayton.edu). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[ISCC] WEWSN 2008 cfp (within IEEE DCOSS 2008)
by davide brunelli 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] _____________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS WEWSN 2008 - Workshop on Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks to be held in conjunction with DCOSS 2008 June 14, 2008, Santorini Island, Greece http://cone.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/wewsn08/ _____________________________________________________________________ Overview A typical wireless sensor network is expected to work without human intervention for a long time period. Hence, energy is of paramount importance in wireless sensor networks in order to achieve maximum network lifetime. Due to the energy constraint of sensor devices, wireless sensor network necessitates an energy-aware design to ensure the longevity of the network. While most wireless sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing devices, new technologies like energy harvesting have been emerging and getting much attention in the research community recently. In addition, each layer of the protocol stack can employ various techniques to conserve energy while the hardware designs of motes can focus on extending its lifetime. This workshop intends to bring together the researchers working on energy-related issues in wireless sensor network. WEWSN will be held as a one-day workshop in conjunction with DCOSS '08, co-locating with several related workshops on special topics, including the Workshop on Localized Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (LOCALGOS), the Workshop on Information Theory for Sensor Networks (WITS), the Workshop on Sensor Network Engineering (IWSNE), the Workshop on Wireless Sensor Network Deployments (WiDeploy). Therefore, the workshop aims at providing an ideal venue for researchers to share their ideas and discuss their latest research works. Scope Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research related to energy in wireless sensor network. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following featured topics: - Architectures for energy management - Node deployment - Sleep management algorithms - Coverage and connectivity algorithms - Energy models, conservation, optimization - Energy and bandwidth efficient distributed signal processing algorithms - Topology control - Routing algorithm, data collection, congestion control, resource management - Energy scavenging, energy harvesting - Medium access control, error control protocols - Traffic management protocol - Energy-efficient system services (e.g. localization, time synchronization) - WSN hardware and operating systems Paper Submission Instructions We only accept original papers that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions have to conform to the IEEE-Transactions format and should not exceed 7 pages. All submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wewsn2008 . The use of LATEX typesetting is highly recommended. It is your responsibility to make sure that the manuscript is free of printing problem. At least one of the author(s) of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the paper. Important Dates Paper submission: February 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: April 2, 2008 Camera-ready version: May 2, 2008 Workshop date: June 14, 2008 Organizing Committee General Chair: Christian Schindelhauer, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany Program Committee Davide Brunelli, University of Bologna, Italy Syed Ali Khayam, NUST Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Pedro Jose Marron, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Hartmut Ritter, Free University Berlin, Germany Kay Uwe Römer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Kurt Rothermel, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Muneeb Ali, TU Delft, The Netherlands Zartash A. Uzmi, Lahore Univ. of Management Sci. (LUMS), Pakistan -- +----------------------------------------------------------+ Davide Brunelli, PhD e-mail: davide(dot)brunelli(at)unibo(dot)it DEIS - University of Bologna Viale Risorgimento 2 - 40136 Bologna - Italy Ph: +39 051 2093787 Fax: +39 051 2093785 skype: davide.brunelli http://www-micrel.deis.unibo.it/~brunelli/ _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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IEEE EW2008 CFP: European Wireless Conf. 2008 - Prague (EW2008)
by conference-services＠ieee.org 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

Call for Papers EUROPEAN WIRELESS CONFERENCE (EW2008), 22-25 June 2008, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ew2008.org Authors are encouraged to submit original, high quality research papers addressing the below stated areas. All papers will be peer reviewed for its originality, scientific contribution and technical content. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore database. Important dates * paper submission 19 January 2008 * tutorial proposal 19 January 2008 * paper acceptance notification 5 April 2008 * tutorial acceptance notification 5 April 2008 * final paper version 3 May 2008 Tutorial submission instructions Send the outline of the tutorial to ew2008-tutorial(a)ew2008.org. Paper submission instructions Please use the EDAS (http://edas.info/) system for submission. Conference topics: 1) Transmission Techniques and Signal Processing Modulation and Coding for Wireless Communications Signal Processing for Wireless Communications Synchronization, Channel Estimation, Equalization Iterative Detection and Processing MIMO Systems, Space-Time Coding, Diversity Fundamental Limits, Information Theory Multiple Access Schemes, Multiuser Detection Algorithms Interference Mitigation and Management Techniques Network Coding and Cooperative Diversity and Processing Adaptive Systems OFDM and OFDMA 2) Radio Channel and RF Subsystem Radio Channel Measurements Radio Channel Modeling Antenna Issues in Wireless Communications Smart Antennas and MIMO systems Compact Antennas for Mobile Terminals Modeling and Mitigation of RF System Imperfections 3) Radio Network Aspects Ad-hoc Wireless Networks Transport Layer Issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks Protocols and Architecture for Wireless Networks Radio Resource Management Mobility Management and Billing Technologies QoS and Resource Allocation in Mobile Networks Security and Robustness in Wireless Networks Mobile/Wireless Networks Modeling and Simulation 4) Radio Communication Systems and Technology Ultra-Wideband Communications Software Radio & Re-configurability, Cognitive Radio Cross-layer Design in Mobile and Wireless Networks Power Management for Small Terminals 2G - 3G - 4G Migration, Convergence and Interworking WiFi, WiMAX, 3GPP LTE Wireless LAN/PAN/BAN Location-based Services and Positioning High Altitude Platforms and Satellites Wireless Broadband Mobile Access Paper preparation All submitted papers must be original, not previously published or being under consideration for publication in another conference or journal. The paper must clearly exhibit its originality, scientific contribution and technical content. The paper must be written in English language. Only full papers are accepted for submission. The paper length is 5 printed pages (maximum 7 printed pages). The paper must be in PDF Xplore compatible format only. Executive Committee Alister Burr (University of York, United Kingdom) Luis Correia (IST Lisbon, Portugal) Alain Sibille (ENSTA Paris, France) Bernhard Walke (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Conference General Chair Jan Sykora (CTU in Prague, Czech Republic) Jan.Sykora(a)fel.cvut.cz ================================================================================ You have received this mailing because you are a member of IEEE and/or one of the IEEE Technical Societies. To unsubscribe, please go to http://ewh.ieee.org/enotice/options.php?SN=Wolf&LN=CONF and be certain to include your IEEE member number. If you need assistance with your E-Notice subscription, please contact Khanh Luu. ================================================================================

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