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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP: Ubiquitous and Pervasive Entertainment]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP: Ubiquitous and Pervasive Entertainment Datum: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:55:46 -0000 Von: Edmond Prakash <e.prakash(a)mmu.ac.uk> An: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> Referenzen: <20071120083704.23D50502C7(a)iris.tue.nl> ** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** Ubiquitous and Pervasive Entertainment Call for Papers http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijcgt/si/upe.html Today the computer game and interactive market is highly competitive, and entertainment industry needs to find new forms of entertainment to stay competitive. In the age of ambient intelligence - which deals with making computers invisible available throughout the natural environment of the consumer - the technical foundations for new forms of entertainment, education, training, and art are laid. This form of entertainment can be referred to as ubiquitous and pervasive entertainment. However, not solely technology makes a new form of entertainment successful. Players and users today are more knowledgeable. They demand more and expect interactive digital media applications that have a much more diverse set of features than in the past. Ubiquitous and pervasive entertainment provides these new features with its natural and smart ways how consumers can interact with game content. Another trend in today's game environment is the quest to be more collaborative and social to give in such a way additional value to services. As seen on the Internet, social media sites attract more and more members to activate and broaden their social networks with games and entertainment content. Also, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Entertainment benefits from the viewpoints of social media's collaborative production and distribution models which builds on user-generated content, peer productions, and open interfaces with external software modules. From the consumer viewpoint the question remains, are they also ready to join collective action and transform into co-designers and active participants before the end result is there to consume. This special issue deals with the latest in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Entertainment. This special issue on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Entertainment is a multidisciplinary approach to view newly emerging entertainment technology. It focuses on the latest scientific research and developments in the field of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Entertainment. This special issue presents some selected papers from the MindTrek Conference 2007, held between 2nd and 4th October 2007 in Tampere, Finland. Authors submitted to different tracks of the conference, and revised versions of their paper will be invited for the special issue. The special issue is also open for outside contributions as well as contributions from the conference. The topics to be addressed in this special issue include, but not limited to, the following: Ubiquitous and ambient services, devices, and environments Context awareness, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes Software, hardware, and middleware framework demonstrations Pervasive and ubiquitous games Entertainment and experience technology Technical description of artistic works related to ubiquitous computation Authors should follow the International Journal of Computer Games Technology manuscript format described at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijcgt/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due January 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews April 1, 2008 Publication Date July 1, 2008 Guest Editors: Artur Lugmayr, NAMU Lab,Tampere University of Technology, Finland Katri Lietsala, Hypermedia Lab,Tampere University, Finland Jan Kallenbach, Laboratory of Media Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland **************************************************** ** 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: [Tccc] 2nd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (IEEE AutoNet]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] 2nd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (IEEE AutoNet Datum: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:33:53 -0500 (EST) Von: Ratul Guha <rguha(a)research.telcordia.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu 2007)*************************************************** APOLOGIES IF MULTIPLE COPIES RECEIVED *************************************************** Call for Participation 2nd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (IEEE AutoNet 2007) Co-located at IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 Washington, D.C., U.S.A. November 30, 2007 (Friday) Duration: 9:00 - 17:00 URL: http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2007 for Workshop W8 This one-day workshop intends to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to address recent developments and challenges in deploying vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-with-infrastructure networking technologies, and their applications including safety-assistance and driver-convenience. The tentative Workshop Agenda is as follows. 9:00 AM 9:05 AM, Opening and Welcome 9:05 AM 9:30 AM, Keynote Speech Reengineering of Network towards Sensor and Automobile Communications Prof. Tadao Saito, CTO and Chief Scientist Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan 9:30 AM 12:00 Noon, Morning Session Enhanced Perimeter Routing for Geographic Forwarding Protocols in Urban Vehicular Scenarios by K. Lee, J. Harri*, U. Lee and M. Gerla University of California Los Angeles, USA; and *University of Karlsruhe, Germany Border Node Based Routing Protocol for VANETs in Sparse and Rural Areas by M. Zhang and R. Wolff Montana State University, USA Invited Talk V2V Networks and Applications Prof. Raj Rajkumar Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. Location-Based Message Aggregation in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks by H. Saleet and O. Basir University of Waterloo, Canada Local Peer Groups and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications by J. Chennikara-Varghese, W. Chen, R. Onishi* and T. Hikita+ Telcordia Technologies, USA; *Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA; and +Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan An Automobile Control Method for Alleviation of Traffic Congestions Using Inter-Vehicle Ad Hoc Communication in Lattice-Like Roads by S. Inoue, K. Shozaki, and Y. Kakuda Hiroshima City Univeristy, Japan 12:00 Noon 1:00 PM, Lunch 1:00 PM 5:00 PM, Afternoon Session Invited Talk DSRC Standards, Prototyping and Field Testing Dr. Luca Delgrossi, Vehicle IT & Services Research (REI/VP) Mercedes-Benz Research and Technology North America Inc., U.S.A. Wireless Traffic Service Communication Platform for Cars by T. Sukuvaara, D. Stepanova, P. Urmi, P. Eloranta*, E. Suutari+, and K. Ylisiurunen# Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; *Mobisoft, Finland; +Sunit, Finland; #Infotripla, Finland The Feasibility of a Search Engine for Metropolitan Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks by C. Wewetzer, M. Caliskan, A. Luebke, and M. Mauve* Volkswagen Group, Germany; and *University of Dusseldorf, Germany Invited Talk Securing Vehicular Communications and Transportation Safety Cannot Be At Odds Dr. Panagiotis (Panos) Papadimitratos Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Vulnerabilities of Geocast Message Distribution by E. Schoch, F. Kargl, T. Leinmuller* UlmUniversity, Germany; and *Denso Automotive, Germany A Certificate Validation Protocol for VANETs by K. Papapanagiotou, G. Marias*, P. Georgiadis University of Athens, Greece; and *Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece Illusion Attack on VANET Applications - A Message Plausibility Problem by N-W Lo and H-C Tsai National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan An Entropy Based Model for System-Level Downlink Capacity Requirements in V2R Telematic Systems by P. Belanovic and T. Zemen Telecommunications Research Center (FTW), Vienna, Austria Synthesizing Realistic Vehicular Mobility for More Precise Simulation of Inter-vehicle Communication by K. Nakanishi, T. Umedu, T. Higashino, H. Kitaoka*, and H. Mori* Osaka University, Japan; and Toyota Central R&D Labs, Japan Intra-vehicular Wireless Networks by M. Ahmed, M. Ames*, T. ElBatt+, C. Saraydar*, T. Talty*, J. Yin# HRL Laboratories, USA; *General Motors R&D, USA; +San Diego Research Center, USA; and #TrellisWare Technologies, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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New Deadline: Submission until Dec. 10, 2007
by gi-mitglieder-info＠gi-ev.de 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

New Deadline: Submission until Dec. 10, 2007 -------------------------------------------- ARCS 2008 February 25-28, Dresden (Germany) 1st GI/ITG FG APS+PC Workshop Ambient Assisted Living - Human centric Assistance Systems February 26, 2008 http://vaust.uni-lueneburg.de/arcs2008_aal_workshop Call for Papers: ARCS 2008 PDF-Download http://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/sonstige_einrichtungen/vaus t/files/ARCS2008_AAL-Workshop_E.pdf Submit a Paper http://www.conftool.net/aal2008/ The demographic change of most Industrial Communities is still in progress. Caused by an increasing life expectancy, aging of the baby boom generation and low actual birthrates it is assumed that the number of elderly people will be doubled in 2050. Especially the number of the 80+ people will have been tripled since today. Regarding actual social trends the proportion of elderly people living alone will increase highly. On the other hand the demographic change will be a chance for the European Community and its economy. More and more elderly people will need and buy goods, services and appropriate technologies in order to participate in social life. The demographic change will be a challenge for the European Community in terms of social impacts and public finances. It is not possible to increase the public institutional care systems in the same way due to incurring unacceptable costs. Hence transition of elderly people into institutional care has to be delayed. Many individual persons need support and help by innovative technologies to stay as long as possible in their own living environment independently. Focus of the Workshop: Human centric Assistance Systems Ambient Assisted Living is an interdisciplinary approach. Medical, social, ethical and commercial aspects are as important for systemic solutions as technological aspects. The GI/ITG FG APS+PC is soliciting contributions dealing with topics of human centric assistance systems. Social, medical and technological aspects of highly deterministic scenarios like e.g. vital data sensing, processing and communications are as welcome as non deterministic scenarios like e.g. community building for social participation introducing knowledge based methods. Technological Aspects · Pervasive Computing, Ambient Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Ambient Intelligence · Smart environments, sensor networks, integrated building technologies, home platforms · Wearable Computing Systems, Wireless Communications, Mobile Computing · User Interfaces · UWB Technologies, UWB Communications, UWB Remote Sensing · Technologies for vital data sensing · Position tracking, inertial sensors · Knowledge based Methods · Middleware · Context-aware Smart Products, locations based Services · Convergence of Environmental Networks, Local Area Networks and Internet · Adaptive and learning capable systems, SELF-X · Trust · System on Chip platforms · Method, tools and reference architectures for AAL Solutions · Service oriented platforms Medical and Social Aspects · Vital data and sensing methods · Modelling of medical and psychological situations, basic disease pattern and appropriate health care, individualization of models · Ethical and social aspects of AAL Systems · Social preferences of eldery people · Parameters of acceptance · AAL scenarios Ambient Assisted Living Solutions · Social Integration · E-Health, E-Care · Decentralized Communications Support · Autonomous Intelligent Systems Sustainability of AAL Solutions Deadlines Submission until Dec. 10, 2007 Notification of acceptance Jan. 10, 2008 Final version until Jan. 21, 2008

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE INFOCOM 2008 High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2008)]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE INFOCOM 2008 High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2008) Datum: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:45:33 -0600 (CST) Von: Ashwin Gumaste <ashwin(a)cse.iitb.ac.in> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Call for Papers IEEE INFOCOM 2008 High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2008) Phoenix, Arizona, USA Sunday, April 13, 2008, from 1 pm to 6 pm http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~hsn2008 Technical Sponsors * IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on High-Speed Networking (TCHSN) * IEEE ComSoc Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC) Traditionally held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM, the workshop on High-Speed Networks brings together researchers from a wide spectrum of areas related to end-to-end communications at rates up to the Tbps range. While physical transmission media enable such high-bitrate communications, existing link, network, transport, and application protocols and their software and hardware implementations in both end systems and core nodes have not yet realized this potential. The limitations of the current designs justify exploration of novel clean-slate approaches to dependable high-bitrate networking desired in e-Science, medicine, entertainment, data centers and other application domains. HSN 2008 provides a unique forum for discussions centered on the design, validation and deployment of high-speed networks without imposing the constraint of straightforward integration of the proposed ideas into the existing network infrastructure. All topics pertinent to high-speed networking are of interest. They include but are not limited to the following: * Network architectures including clean-slate approaches * Switching technologies including packet and circuit switching * Transport protocols including congestion control, scheduling and reliable delivery * Applications requiring high-speed end-to-end services * Cross-layer network protocols * Security at high bitrates and with large data volumes * Node design including network processors, configurable logic, input/output and storage * Innovative physical transmission media and associated systems * Metropolitan area networks, Carrier Ethernet and next-generation optical transport * High-speed access technologies Submission Guidelines The workshop solicits submissions between 3 and 6 pages long. The following is a summary of the submission guidelines: * File format: PDF * Formatting instructions (except for the size): http://cse.unl.edu/~byrav/INFOCOM2008/paper-layout.html * Size of original submissions: between 3 and 6 pages * Maximum size of camera-ready versions: 6 pages * System for original submissions and reviews: EDAS * Publication venue for camera-ready versions: IEEE Xplore Important dates are as follows: * Paper submission: February 7, 2008 * Acceptance notification: March 15, 2008 * Camera-ready version due: April 4, 2008 General Chairs * Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico, USA * Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Technical Program Committee Chairs * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India Technical Program Committee * Lachlan Andrew, California Institute of Technology, USA * Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland * Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany * Vincent Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center, Finland * Maurice Gagnaire, ENST, France * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India * Mohan Gurusamy, National University of Singapore, Singapore * David Hunter, University of Essex, UK * Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Admela Jukan, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany * Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka University, Japan * Tom Lehman, University of Southern California, ISI-East, USA * Jayaram Mudigonda, HP Labs, USA * Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Chunming Qiao, State University of New York Buffalo, USA * Nageswara Rao, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA * George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA * David Starobinski, Boston University, USA * Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA * Joe Touch, University of Southern California, ISI, USA * Marcel Waldvogel, University of Konstanz, Germany * Jianping Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong * Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA * Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: 2nd Intl. IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN'08)
by Christian Poellabauer 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

[Apologies for possible multiple copies] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------- 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 Wireless LAN, PAN, MAN and WAN 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 Implications of smart antennas on MAC and routing protocols Quality of Services provisioning Multimedia communications over mesh and ad hoc networks Network deployment, localization, and synchronization Topology construction and maintenance Methods and tools for mesh and ad hoc networks simulation Modeling and performance evaluations Physical layer techniques Cross layer optimizations Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms Self-organization, self-configuration network architectures Intelligent system techniques for mesh and ad hoc networks Security-related issues in 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. Submission method will be posted on the workshop webpage shortly. 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 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 Junzhao Du, Xidian University, China Karoly Farkas, University of West Hungary, Hungary Shinichi Honiden, University of Tokyo, Japan Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, 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 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 ************************************************************************ **************** _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Iscc] IEEE Policy 2008 -- 2nd Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Iscc] IEEE Policy 2008 -- 2nd Call for Papers Datum: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:42:22 -0500 Von: Alessandra Toninelli <alessandra.toninelli(a)unibo.it> An: iscc(a)mail.ing.unibo.it [Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this cfp] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --- POLICY 2008 --- 2008 IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks 2-4 June 2008 Palisades, NY, USA http://www.policy-workshop.org/2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The policy workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on policy-based systems across a wide range of application areas including policy-based networking, privacy and security management, storage area networking, and enterprise systems. POLICY 2008 is the 9th in a series of successful workshops which since 1999 have provided a forum for discussion and collaboration between researchers, developers and users of policy-based systems. This year, in addition to the latest research results from the communities working in any area of policy-based management and computing, we encourage contributions on policy-based techniques in support of management and security of all types of wireless networks: cellular, Wi-Fi, Mobile Ad Hoc, hybrids, etc. POLICY 2008 invites unpublished novel contributions on all aspects of policy-based management. This year, as part of the technical program we also plan a special session devoted to the demonstrations of innovative policy based systems. Papers must describe original work and must not have been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be evaluated for technical contribution, originality, and significance. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: POLICY MODELS AND LANGUAGES: * Abstract models and languages for policy specification * Representing policies in XML, RDF, and OWL * Semantic Web rule languages for policy reasoning * Policy standards, their extensions and refinements * Formal semantics of policies * Relationships between policies in IT processes and devices or across multiple applications * Methodologies/tools for discovering, specifying, analyzing, refining, evaluating and visualizing policy * Models of policy negotiation * Representation of belief, trust, and risk in policies POLICY APPLICATIONS: * Application of policies for autonomic computing, QoS adaptation, and security * Application of policies for identity and privacy management * Business rules and organizational modeling * Identity management * Personalization * Risk adaptive policy systems * Database policies * Policy applications in on-demand, utility based computing * Resource virtualization and policy-based collaboration * Case studies of applying policy-based management POLICIES IN WIRELESS NETWORKS: * Service management in mobile ad hoc networks * Policy systems for small devices * Policy-based spectrum management * Privacy and security * Policies in location based services * Context-aware policies in pervasive and mobile computing ------------------------------------------------ PAPER or DEMO SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------ Papers under review elsewhere must NOT be submitted to Policy 2008. Paper or demo submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their technical merit and novelty. For System Demo, of particular interest are systems that illustrate research contributions and innovative applications of policy based technologies. Policy 2008 invites contributions in the form of either: * Technical papers (max. length 8 pages). * Short position papers describing preliminary systems or experimental results (max. length 4 pages). Please check out http://www.policy-workshop.org/2008 for details. --------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------- Paper Registration deadline: 15 December 2007 Paper submission deadline: 21 December 2007 Author notification: 5 March 2008 System demonstration submission deadline: 3 March 2008 System demonstrator notification: 17 March 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair * Dakshi Agrawal -- IBM Research, US Program Chairs * Ehab Al-Shaer -- DePaul University, US (ehab "AT" cs.depaul.edu) * Lalana Kagal -- MIT, US lkagal "AT" csail.mit.edu) * Jorge Lobo -- IBM Research, US (jlobo "AT" us.ibm.com) Finance Chair * Claudio Bartolini -- HP Labs, UK Publicity Chair * Alessandra Toninelli -- University of Bologna, Italy Publication Chair * Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville -- Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil System Demonstrations Chair * Daniel Olmedilla -- L3S Research Center and Hannover University, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Akhil Sahai -- HP Laboratories Alva Couch -- Tufts University Andrea Westerinen -- Microsoft Corp Andreas Schaad -- SAP Anna Cinzia Squicciarini -- Purdue University Arcot Rajasekar -- University of California at San Diego Arosha Bandara -- Open University Babak Sadighi -- Swedish Institute of Computer Science Bhavani Thuraisingham -- The University of Texas at Dallas Bruno Crispo -- Vrije Universiteit Carl Gunter -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Christian Jensen -- University of Denmark Duminda Wijesekera -- GMI Elisa Bertino -- Purdue University Emil Lupu -- Imperial College Filip Perich -- Shared Spectrum Francisco Garcia -- Agilent Gail Ahn -- UNC Charlotte Gregory Cirincione -- Army Research Lab Hanan Lutfiyya -- University of Western Ontario Helge Janicke -- De Montfort University Hong Li -- Intel Corporation John Strassner -- Motorola Labs Ken Moody -- Cambridge University Lisandro Z. Granville -- UFRGS Manish Dave -- Intel Corporation Marco Casassa Mont -- Hewlett-Packard Labs Marianne Winslett -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Morris Sloman -- Imperial College London Nahid Shahmehri -- Linkopings University, Sweden Naranker Dulay -- Imperial College London Olivier Festor -- LORIA - INRIA Lorraine Pierangela Samarati -- University of Milan Rebecca Montanari -- University of Bologna Ritu Chadha -- Telcordia Sanjai Narain -- Telcordia Seraphin Calo -- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Sushil Jajodia -- George Mason University William Winsborough -- University of Texas at San Antonio Yuri Demchenko -- University of Amsterdam _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: WWASN 2008 workshop (extended deadline)]
by Lars Wolf 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: WWASN 2008 workshop (extended deadline) Datum: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:08:23 -0500 Von: Katrin Höper <khoeper(a)engmail.uwaterloo.ca> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies for multiple copies. Please distribute to interested colleagues and students. The Fifth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks WWASN2008 http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~softart/WWASN2008.html A full day workshop held on June 20, 2008 in conjunction with the ICDCS 2008, The International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems June 17-20, 2008 in Beijing, China Manuscript Submission: December 8, 2007 (extended!) Acceptance Notification: February 11 , 2008 Final Manuscript Due at IEEE: March 9, 2008 SUBJECT Wireless ad-hoc networks are formed by a set of hosts or nodes that communicate with each other over a wireless channel. They operate in a self-organized and decentralized manner and message communication takes place via multi-hop spreading, wherein a packet is sent to its target node through a set of intermediate nodes that act as routers. Wireless networks and mobile computing research has until recently concentrated on single-hop networks such as cellular or satellite systems. However, multi-hop scenarios in which network nodes communicate via other network nodes, for example conference, hospital, battlefield, rescue, and monitoring scenarios, are rapidly becoming prevalent in practice. This workshop covers the area of ad hoc networking in single- and multi-hop scenarios, from physical issues up to application aspects. In particular, it will cover physical, data link, network and transport layers, as well as applications, security, simulation and power management issues in sensor, local area, personal, and mobile ad hoc networks. It is the goal of this workshop to review ad hoc protocols and models and to reflect the latest in the state of the art in ad hoc networks. It seeks to provide up to date information on research and development activities in the rapidly growing area of ad hoc networks. The workshop will also address the rapidly growing field of sensor networks, including (but not limited to) the issues related to their topology, routing, performance, data gathering and filtering, energy efficiency, and mobility. The submitted articles will be carefully reviewed for quality and relevance. Each article will be reviewed by experts of the same topic. In the selection process, a comprehensive coverage will be sought, covering the most important topics such as (but not limited to): - Key communication abstractions for ad hoc and sensor networks - Topology construction and maintenance - Physical, media access, and routing layers - Routing, broadcasting and multicasting - Energy-efficient protocols - Quality of service in medium access control and routing - Fault tolerance and redundancy schemes - IEEE 802.11 and 802.15.x-based medium access control - Hybrid networks and wireless internet - Models for analysis, performance assessment, mobility, and validation models - Methods and tools for ad hoc and sensor networks simulation - Heterogeneous networks and challenges in analyzing and designing them - Pervasive and wearable computing - Security, trust, and other security-related issues - Data management issues, query processing, and data delivery - Applications and history of ad hoc and sensor networks _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: New Deadline: Submission until Dec. 10, 2007]
by Lars Wolf 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: New Deadline: Submission until Dec. 10, 2007 Datum: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:09:14 +0100 (CET) Von: gi-mitglieder-info(a)gi-ev.de An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de New Deadline: Submission until Dec. 10, 2007 ARCS 2008 February 25-28, Dresden (Germany) ARCS 2008 - Architecture of Computing Systems 1st GI/ITG FG APS+PC Workshop Ambient Assisted Living - Human centric Assistance Systems February 26, 2008 Call for Papers: ARCS 2008 PDF-Download Submit a Paper The demographic change of most Industrial Communities is still in progress. Caused by an increasing life expectancy, aging of the baby boom generation and low actual birthrates it is assumed that the number of elderly people will be doubled in 2050. Especially the number of the 80+ people will have been tripled since today. Regarding actual social trends the proportion of elderly people living alone will increase highly. On the other hand the demographic change will be a chance for the European Community and its economy. More and more elderly people will need and buy goods, services and appropriate technologies in order to participate in social life. The demographic change will be a challenge for the European Community in terms of social impacts and public finances. It is not possible to increase the public institutional care systems in the same way due to incurring unacceptable costs. Hence transition of elderly people into institutional care has to be delayed. Many individual persons need support and help by innovative technologies to stay as long as possible in their own living environment independently. On the part of medicine general practitioners home visits play the main role in developing diagnosis and treatment concepts for the elderly people. As a consequence of the demographic change much more home visits will be required. Critical questions arise at this point. Is it possible to reduce the amount of visits by using appropriate technologies? What would be the social impacts? Would it be possible to economize home visits, e.g. by using remote vital data sensing technologies? On the part of technology Ambient Intelligence is one of the key words. Computational power embedded into buildings sensors, actors and devices in day-to-day usages give chances for seamless integration of mobile users into wireless networking environments offering cooperative services for independent living and social participation anywhere. Accurate context recognition and data mining in mobile and highly dynamic ad hoc peer-to-peer environments are basic prerequisites for useful services. Middleware based convergence of environmental network services, local area and internet services involve ontologies for sharing context informations across the networks. Focus of the Workshop: Human centric Assistance Systems Ambient Assisted Living is an interdisciplinary approach. Medical, social, ethical and commercial aspects are as important for systemic solutions as technological aspects. The GI/ITG FG APS+PC is soliciting contributions dealing with topics of human centric assistance systems. Social, medical and technological aspects of highly deterministic scenarios like e.g. vital data sensing, processing and communications are as welcome as non deterministic scenarios like e.g. community building for social participation introducing knowledge based methods. Technological Aspects · Pervasive Computing, Ambient Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Ambient Intelligence · Smart environments, sensor networks, integrated building technologies, home platforms · Wearable Computing Systems, Wireless Communications, Mobile Computing · User Interfaces · UWB Technologies, UWB Communications, UWB Remote Sensing · Technologies for vital data sensing · Position tracking, inertial sensors · Knowledge based Methods · Middleware · Context-aware Smart Products, locations based Services · Convergence of Environmental Networks, Local Area Networks and Internet · Adaptive and learning capable systems, SELF-X · Trust · System on Chip platforms · Method, tools and reference architectures for AAL Solutions · Service oriented platforms Medical and Social Aspects · Vital data and sensing methods · Modelling of medical and psychological situations, basic disease pattern and appropriate health care, individualization of models · Ethical and social aspects of AAL Systems · Social preferences of eldery people · Parameters of acceptance · AAL scenarios Ambient Assisted Living Solutions · Social Integration · E-Health, E-Care · Decentralized Communications Support · Autonomous Intelligent Systems Sustainability of AAL Solutions Deadlines Submission until Dec. 10, 2007 Notification of acceptance Jan. 10, 2008 Final version until Jan. 21, 2008 ARCS 2008 - Architecture of Computing Systems ___________________________________________________ Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralph Welge welge(a)uni-lueneburg.de Forschungsgruppe VauST (Verteilte autonome Systeme und Technologien) Universitaet Lueneburg Fakultaet Umwelt und Technik Volgershall 1 21339 Lüneburg Tel.: +49-4131-677 5462 Fax.: +49-4131-677 5300 Sekretariat: +49-4131-677 5316 Mobile: +49-151-112 02 937

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[Fwd: ICINCO 2008 - Int'l Conf. Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics: extended deadline.]
by Lars Wolf 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICINCO 2008 - Int'l Conf. Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics: extended deadline. Datum: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:36:40 -0500 Von: ICINCO Secretariat <postmaster12(a)303media.net> Antwort an: secretariat(a)icinco.org <secretariat(a)icinco.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Dear Lars Wolf Let me kindly inform you that the paper submission deadline for ICINCO 2008 has been extended to December 4, which is rapidly approaching in case you're interested in submitting a paper. Please find additional details below. We also would like to highlight the possibility to submit to the following ICINCO satellite workshops: - Multi-Agent Robotic Systems (MARS) - Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing (ANNIIP) - Intelligent Vehicle Control Systems (IVCS) Kind regards, Marina Carvalho ICINCO Secretariat Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq. 2910-595 Setúbal, Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 185 Fax: +44 203 014 5435 Email: secretariat(a)icinco.org Web: http://www.icinco.org ************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - ICINCO 2008 http://www.icinco.org May 11 - 15, 2008 Funchal, Madeira - Portugal Co-sponsored by IFAC and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society In cooperation with AAAI Co-organized by INSTICC and University of Madeira ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The conference is composed of 3 main tracks: 1. Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization 2. Robotics and Automation 3. Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by Springer. The proceedings will be indexed by ISI ProceedingsSM, INSPEC and DBLP. EI already agreed to index the proceedings of ICINCO 2006. Proceedings of ICINCO 2007 are under evaluation and the proceedings of ICINCO 2008 will be evaluated by EI after their publication. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Submission: December 4, 2007 **extended and final deadline** Authors Notification: January 25, 2008 Final Paper Submission and Registration: February 11, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Miguel Ayala Botto, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal - Peter Simon Sapaty, Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine - Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A. (list not yet complete) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS: (Full paper submission deadline: February 4, 2008) - Multi-Agent Robotic Systems (MARS) (http://www.icinco.org/MARS.htm) - Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing (ANNIIP) (http://www.icinco.org/ANNIIP.htm) - Intelligent Vehicle Control Systems (IVCS) (http://www.icinco.org/IVCS.htm) ----------------------------------------------------------------- To SUBSCRIBE: http://internetmailmanager.com/s/reg.Asp?a=47BAMBPN5GYNA9L9JJPMJFG&b=A49M98… ----------------------------------------------------------------- To FORWARD: http://internetmailmanager.com/s/fwd.asp?a=47BAMBPN5GYNA9L9JJPMJFG&b=A49M98… ----------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE: http://internetmailmanager.com/s/us.asp?a=47BAMBPN5GYNA9L9JJPMJFG&b=A49M98K… ---------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ANSyM'2008: Submission deadline extended to Nov.25, 2007]
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ANSyM'2008: Submission deadline extended to Nov.25, 2007 Datum: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:53:39 +0200 (EET) Von: Costin Badica <badica_costin(a)software.ucv.ro> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ANSyM2008: Adaptive Networked Systems and Media ------------------------------------------------ Submission deadline extended to November 25, 2008 !!! June 18-20, 2008, Wroclaw, Poland http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/ANSyM2008 Special session within the framework of IEA/AIE 2008 conference http://www.iea-aie.pwr.wroc.pl/ Please submit your paper here: http://www.iea-aie.pwr.wroc.pl/conftool Session Organizers ------------------ Dan Popescu, http://automation.ucv.ro/membri/Dan%20Popescu/DPopescu.htm University of Craiova, Romania, dpopescu(a)automation.ucv.ro Costin Badica, http://software.ucv.ro/~badica_costin University of Craiova, Romania, badica_costin(a)software.ucv.ro Adrian Giurca, http://www.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/~agiurca/index.htm Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany, giurca(a)tu-cottbus.de Call for Papers --------------- Adaptability is a generic property of a system that consists in the systems capability to self-adjust its behavior according to its input, load or users in order to meet certain performance criteria. Adaptability has been described as a characteristic of autonomous behavior and is often related to possessing learning capabilities through analysis of past behaviors and interactions. Adaptability has been intensely studied by various areas of engineering including artificial intelligence, control systems and human centered systems. Adaptability has been set as an important requirement for systems devised to work in new generation global networked and distributed environments like wireless networks, P2P networks, Web systems, multi-agent systems, grids, etc. Such systems are expected to pose new challenges for the development and application of adaptation techniques, due to their special characteristics including: interconnectivity, interactivity, distribution, heterogeneity and fault-tolerance. This special session welcomes submissions covering all aspects of adaptability in networked systems and media, including (but not limited to): - Self-configuring and self-structuring systems - Adaptive control in communication networks - Adaptive networked control systems - Rule-based adaptive systems - Computational intelligence and adaptability - Adaptability in multi-agent systems - Personalized and adaptive hypermedia - Adaptive information provisioning - Adaptive coordination - Adaptability in e-services, including e-learning and e-commerce - Adaptive negotiation - Context-aware systems - Machine learning methods for adaptive systems - Adaptive security systems Papers acceptance will be judged based on their relevance, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions. The papers will be published in the IEA/AIE 2008 conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Important dates --------------- Papers submission: November 25, 2007 (extended) Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2008 Final submission: February 28, 2008 Workshop date: To be announced (Inside June 18-20, 2008) Program Committee ----------------- Rajendra Akerkar, Technomathematics Research Foundation, India Steve Banks, University of Sheffield, UK Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania Dorian Cojocaru, University of Craiova, Romania Jens Dietrich, Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, New Zealand Petr Dostal, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada Maria Ganzha, Elblag University of Humanities and Economics, Poland Dariusz Krol, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Ronaldo Menezes, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Philippe Trigano, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Poland Janusz Sobecki, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Vladimir Rasvan, University of Craiova, Romania Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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