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[Fwd: [OC-ML] Deadline extension: ARCS 2008]
by Lars Wolf 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [OC-ML] Deadline extension: ARCS 2008 Datum: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:54:14 +0200 (CEST) Von: Fabian Rochner <rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de> An: rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de Dear subscribers of the Organic Computing Mailinglist, the deadline for submissions to ARCS 2008 has been extended to October 1. You can find the call for papers below, further details on the conference can be found at http://arcs08.inf.tu-dresden.de/. Regards Fabian Rochner *********************************************************************** Call for Papers ARCS 2008 21st International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems - System Architecture and Adaptivity February 25-28, 2008, Dresden, Germany http://arcs08.inf.tu-dresden.de/ *Submission Deadline Extension: October 1, 2007* *********************************************************************** The ARCS series of conferences has over 30 years of tradition reporting top notch results in computer architecture and operating systems research. This year's special focus is set on adaptivity and adaptive system architectures. We intend to cover a wide spectrum reaching from pre-fabrication adaptation of architectural templates to dynamic run-time adaptation of deployed systems. Like the previous conferences in this series, it continues to be an important forum for computer architecture research. In 2008 ARCS will be hosted by University of Dresden, which has one of the leading information technology schools in Europe. The proceedings of ARCS 2008 is planned to be published by Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS). *Paper submission* Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers on one of the following topics: - Computer architecture topics such as CPU architectures, multi-cores, memory systems, and parallel computing. - Adaptivity and adaptive system architectures such as reconfigurable systems in hardware and software. - Operating Systems including but not limited to scheduling, memory management, power management, and RTOS. - System aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing such as sensor nodes, novel input/output devices, novel computing platforms, special purpose devices, architecture modelling, middleware, and localization technology. - Organic and Autonomic Computing including both theoretical and practical results on self-organization, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and self-protection techniques. - Embedded systems including but not limited to architecture, communication, design methodologies, and applications. - Network Centric and Grid Computing issues with a focus on middleware. Submissions should be done through the link provided at the conference website http://arcs08.inf.tu-dresden.de/. Papers should be submitted in pdf or postscript format. They should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style and not exceed 12 pages. *Workshop and Tutorial Proposals* Proposals for workshops and tutorials within the technical scope of the conference are solicited. Submissions should be done through email directly to the workshops and tutorials chair (Andreas Koch, koch(a)esa.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de). *Important Dates* Paper submission deadline: October 1, 2007 Notification of acceptance: November 19, 2007 Camera ready papers: December 3, 2007 *Organizing Committee* General Chairs: Christian Hochberger, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Rainer G. Spallek, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany PC Chairs: Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Andreas Koch, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany *Program Committee* Nader Bagherzadeh, University of California Irvine, USA Michael Beigl, University of Braunschweig, Germany Mladen Berekovic, IMAP, Belgium and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Guillem Bernat, Rapita Systems and University of York, UK Arndt Bode, Technical University of Munich, Germany Koen De Bosschere, Ghent University, Belgium Jiannong Cao, The Hongkong Polytechnic University, China Francisco J Cazorla, UPC, Barcelona Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria Werner Grass, University of Passau, Germany Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Wolfgang Karl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Spyros Lalis, University of Thessaly, Greece Paul Lukowicz, University of Passau, Germany Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Erik Maehle, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany Christian Müller-Schloer, University of Hannover, Germany Burghardt Schallenberger, Siemens AG, München Pascal Sainrat, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France Hartmut Schmeck, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Lothar Thiele, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Gerhard Tröster, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Mateo Valero, UPC, Barcelona Lucian Vintan, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania Klaus Waldschmidt, University of Frankfurt, Germany Stephan Wong, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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[Fwd: [acf-members] CFP: 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2008]
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [acf-members] CFP: 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2008 Datum: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:50:48 +0100 Von: Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> Antwort an: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org, Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org, acf-bod(a)cs.tcd.ie, David Hutchison <dh(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk>, "James P.G. Sterbenz" <jpgs(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk>, randy(a)cs.Berkeley.edu, Ken Calvert <calvert(a)netlab.uky.edu> CC: Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> [Colleagues: We would be grateful if you would distribute the attached widely -- Simon] The 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing Chicago, IL, USA June, 2008 http://www.acis.ufl.edu/~icac2008/ Call for papers SCOPE To deal with the increasing business, system, and technical complexity of computing systems, devices, networks and applications must learn to manage themselves in accordance with high-level guidance from humans -- a vision that has been referred to as autonomic computing. Meeting the grand challenges of autonomic computing requires significant scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software and system architectures that support the integration of these new technologies. The purpose of the 5th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-08) is to bring together researchers and practitioners to address all aspects of self-management in computing systems. In doing so, we will continue to develop and nurture a growing community that can work together to realize the vision of scalable self-managing systems. The conference builds on previous highly influential meetings in New York, Seattle, Dublin and Jacksonville. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing. In particular, this conference will focus on three areas: networking applications of autonomic technologies, semantic reasoning as used in autonomic devices, systems and applications, and research and/or reports on prototype systems or experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Autonomic computing systems that exhibit autonomic characteristics, such as self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, self-protection, and self-governance. * Fundamental scientific aspects of self-managing systems: understanding, controlling, and/or exploiting emergent behavior; methods to automate manual operations; implementation of new device, network and system functionality; behavior orchestration. * Software architectures for self-managing systems, based on appropriate supporting technologies such as Grid Services, agent-based systems, Web Services, model-based systems or novel paradigms such as biological, economic or social computing. * System-level technologies, middleware or services that entail interactions among two or more elements of self-managing components, devices and systems. * Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler technologies for building self-managing components, systems and applications. * Self-managing components, such as server, storage, network, mobile device, data center or specific application elements. Emphasis should be placed on techniques or lessons that may generalized to other components. * Interfaces to autonomic systems, including user interfaces, mechanisms for controlling behavior, and techniques for defining, distributing, and understanding policies. * Applications of autonomic systems with respect to future Internet and other next generation architectures. * Experiences with autonomic systems or component prototypes: measurements, evaluations, or analyses of system behavior, user studies, or experiences with large-scale deployments of self- managing systems or applications. * General management topics, such as minimization of power/energy consumption, modeling of communications entities (e.g., SLAs), negotiation/conversation support, behavior enforcement, tie in with IT governance, and legacy system support. PAPER/POSTER SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing as indicated above. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on merits including correctness, originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference themes. Submitted papers must include original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. They should also not be under review or be submitted to another forum during the ICAC-08 review process. Posters are not subject to any of these restrictions. Authors should submit full papers or posters electronically (PDF or postscript) via EDAS using the link on the ICAC-08 conference web site, and should follow IEEE CS format - style files can be found at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/ proceedings/. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press, which will be distributed at the conference. Submissions will be accepted in electronic form through the EDAS system (http://www.edas.info, conference identifier 'ICAC-08') only. Questions may be addressed to the program chairs. WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION ICAC-08 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on specific topics of general interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshops are expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that may not be addressed in sufficient detail in the main scientific program. ICAC-08 will feature a demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Entries will be judged by a separate subcommittee led by the demo/ exhibit chair. Please see the conference web site for more information. STUDENT AWARDS A student best paper award will be presented, consisting of a commemorative plaque, complimentary student registration to the conference and an honorarium that will partially cover travel & hotel costs. (A student paper is defined as one in which the principal (not sole) author is a student.) The student will be required to present the paper to receive the award. IMPORTANT DATES Full paper: 08:00 GMT, Dec 7, 2007 Workshop proposals: Mar 3, 2008 Demo/Exhibit proposals: Mar 3, 2008 Author notification: Feb 25, 2008 Final manuscripts: April 7, 2008 ORGANISATION General Chairs: Jose Fortes Univ. of Florida, USA Kumar Goswami HP Labs, USA Programme Chairs: John Strassner Motorola Labs, USA (john.strassner(a)motorola.com) Simon Dobson UCD Dublin, IE (simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie)

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[Fwd: [acf-members] CFP: Special issue of Computer Networks on Autonomic and self-organising systems]
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [acf-members] CFP: Special issue of Computer Networks on Autonomic and self-organising systems Datum: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:50:46 +0100 Von: Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> Antwort an: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org, Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org, acf-bod(a)cs.tcd.ie, David Hutchison <dh(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk>, randy(a)cs.Berkeley.edu, Ken Calvert <calvert(a)netlab.uky.edu> CC: Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> [Colleagues: We would be grateful if you would distribute the attached widely -- Simon] Computer Networks Journal ========================= Special issue on autonomic and self-organising systems Guest editors: John Strassner, Motorola US Hermann de Meer, Universitat Passau DE Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin IE Context ======= The complexities of modern computing and communications systems are well-known, as are the impact that these complexities have on their construction, composition, management, maintenance and evolution. It is now well-accepted that the total costs of system ownership can have a significant effect on the economics of many service offerings, as well as threatening life and economic health in the event of failures. Autonomic computing and communications apply notions of feedback control, self-organisation, monitoring and reasoning to the construction and management of large systems. Originally suggested by IBM as a way to control total costs of ownership, the fields have expanded to address the design and implementation of stable, "self-*" algorithms as well as the overall design and analysis of adaptive properties and behaviour. Such self-* systems offer to improve the dynamic responses of systems to changing conditions, simplifying their construction, management and deployment. Although often considered separately, the interdependence of computing and communications in the modern world implies that we apply autonomic techniques on a whole-system basis that encompasses both aspects of systems design. In this special issue we have two aims: to provide a guide to a unified field of autonomic computing and communications through invited contributions addressing cross-system and whole-system techniques; and to present novel research contributions that advance the state of autonomic and self-organising systems design. With this in mind, we invite research contributions including (but most definitely not limited to) the following topics: - techniques for self-organisation at a system level - foundational science of autonomics and self-organisation - application of novel techniques to large-scale problems - self-stabilising and self-optimising algorithms - evaluations and evaluation methodologies for self-organising systems - managing trade-offs between system aspects Contributions addressing issues that cross between the autonomic computing and communication fields are particularly welcome. Important dates =============== - Submissions: 14 December 2007 - Notification of acceptance: 4 February 2008 - Camera-ready copy due: 24 March 2008 - Tentative issue date: August 2008 Submission ========== Research contributions may be made through the Elsevier editorial manager, formatted according to the journal style. Details are available from http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/ journaldescription.cws_home/505606/description Requests for further information may be addressed to the guest editors: john.strassner(a)motorola.com, demeer(a)fmi.uni-passau.de and simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie

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[Fwd: [KuVS ELG] CFP: special issue on autonomic and self-organizing systems]
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [KuVS ELG] CFP: special issue on autonomic and self-organizing systems Datum: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:10:38 +0200 Von: Hermann de Meer <demeer(a)fmi.uni-passau.de> An: undisclosed-recipients: ; Dear colleague, please take this oportunity to publish into account! Please feel free to distribute this CFP further. Best Regards, Hermann de Meer --cut here---- Computer Networks Journal ========================= Special issue on autonomic and self-organising systems Guest editors: John Strassner, Motorola US Hermann de Meer, Universitat Passau DE Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin IE Context ======= The complexities of modern computing and communications systems are well-known, as are the impact that these complexities have on their construction, composition, management, maintenance and evolution. It is now well-accepted that the total costs of system ownership can have a significant effect on the economics of many service offerings, as well as threatening life and economic health in the event of failures. Autonomic computing and communications apply notions of feedback control, self-organisation, monitoring and reasoning to the construction and management of large systems. Originally suggested by IBM as a way to control total costs of ownership, the fields have expanded to address the design and implementation of stable, "self-*" algorithms as well as the overall design and analysis of adaptive properties and behaviour. Such self-* systems offer to improve the dynamic responses of systems to changing conditions, simplifying their construction, management and deployment. Although often considered separately, the interdependence of computing and communications in the modern world implies that we apply autonomic techniques on a whole-system basis that encompasses both aspects of systems design. In this special issue we have two aims: to provide a guide to a unified field of autonomic computing and communications through invited contributions addressing cross-system and whole-system techniques; and to present novel research contributions that advance the state of autonomic and self-organising systems design. With this in mind, we invite research contributions including (but most definitely not limited to) the following topics: - techniques for self-organisation at a system level - foundational science of autonomics and self-organisation - application of novel techniques to large-scale problems - self-stabilising and self-optimising algorithms - evaluations and evaluation methodologies for self-organising systems - managing trade-offs between system aspects Contributions addressing issues that cross between the autonomic computing and communication fields are particularly welcome. Important dates =============== - Submissions: 14 December 2007 - Notification of acceptance: 4 February 2008 - Camera-ready copy due: 24 March 2008 - Tentative issue date: August 2008 Submission ========== Research contributions may be made through the Elsevier editorial manager, formatted according to the journal style. Details are available from http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/ journaldescription.cws_home/505606/description Requests for further information may be addressed to the guest editors: john.strassner(a)motorola.com, demeer(a)fmi.uni-passau.de and simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie _______________________________________________ ELG mailing list ELG(a)kuvs.de http://mail-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/elg

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[Fwd: IAMCOM 2008 - Call For Papers]
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IAMCOM 2008 - Call For Papers Datum: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:17:47 +0200 Von: Kurt Geihs <geihs(a)UNI-KASSEL.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 ******************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS =============== IAMCOM 2008 Workshop on Intelligent Networking: Adaptation, Communication, and Reconfiguration January 10, 2008. Bangalore, India http://www.iamcom.org <http://www.iamcom.org/> Paper submission deadline: 10 October, 2007, Friday Midnight, CET Workshop co-Sponsored by: IEEE Communications Society (www.comsoc.org <http://www.comsoc.org/>) CreateNet (www.create-net.it <http://www.create-net.it/>) [held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM conference COMSWARE 2008, with a large participation from industries and government labs] ******************************************************************* SCOPE ====== The topic of assured communications between the application end-points in a distributed embedded system is quite important for the military, automotive, aerospace, and E-Commerce domains. It synergizes three sub-areas of research: adaptation of system operations to the network resources & environment conditions, reliable communications between end-points in the presence of failures, and self-reconfigurations at various system levels for increased resilience. The topic has spurred the need for Intelligent Networking at various layers of the system architecture to support these critical functionalities. IAMCOM 2008 will thus offer a unique and focused forum for researchers from academia, government and industry to share ideas and disseminate new results in this important area.. ******************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS =============== Intelligent Networking has become popular in the context of distributed embedded systems for aerospace, automotive, military, E-commerce, and eco-surveillance applications. Unlike the telecom-centric networks of the 90's that had an inward focus on network signaling & control today's intelligent networks are designed from an application perspective. Here, networks could mean a set of collaborative data processing nodes that serve as application proxies ( e.g., airborne nodes in a police surveillance network). The goal of contemporary Intelligent Networking is to improve application-level reliability & performance, security, QoS assurance, and the like. The need for intelligent networking arises because the target application systems are too complex to be studied in isolation. A holistic approach to design that addresses both application and network, can result in performance gains. Often, mathematical models and/or closed-form representations of target application systems do not exist or are too unwieldy to allow offline analysis. For instance, network outages can have a profound impact on the application reliability in many military applications, but can be tolerated in certain commercial application domains. The mapping relationship between the network events and the application activities are deeply buried in the system operations, with no apparent mechanism for the system designers to track these cross-layer relationships. The complex nature of modern day embedded systems applications provides a new dimension to the concept of intelligent networking --- and hence opens a set of new research directions. This new dimension covers three aspects: adaptation to resources & environment, reliable communications between nodes, and reconfigurations at various system levels. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for the presentation of ongoing work in embedded systems control & management pertaining to the three pillars of adaptation, communication, and reconfiguration. Papers are solicited on the following topics: 1. QoS assurance architectures 2. Network state fusion, monitoring 3. Utility-based QoS adaptation 4. Vehicular network security 5. Capacity provisioning 6. Survivable links: restoration & routing 7. Dynamic resource allocations 8. Distributed management & control 9. Self-healing networks 10. Cross-layer approaches in system design 11. 'Control-Theoretic' approaches to performance management 12. Embedded systems applications --- aerospace, automotive, military & sensor networks 13. Latency-sensitive data streaming & fusion 14. Service-level specification & verification 15. Energy-aware wireless operations 16. QoS stability in wireless networks 17. MAC-layer optimizations in wireless networks 18. Incentive based QoS models for wireless networks 19. Reliable communications in vehicular networks: Emergency Response 20. GPS based location & tracking 21. Location-sensitive data fusion Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and through the IEEE Digital Library Xplore. IMPORTANT DATES: ================ Full Papers due: October 5, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: November 5, 2007 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: November 30, 2007 Workshop Date: January 10, 2008 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ==================== Kaliappa Ravindran, City University of New York, ravi(a)cs.ccny.cuny.edu <mailto:ravi@cs.ccny.cuny.edu> Andrew Macdonald, General Motors Research, andrew.macdonald(a)gm.com <mailto:andrew.macdonald@gm.com> HONORARY CHAIR ==================== L. M. Patnaik, Indian Institute of Science, India, lalit(a)micro.iisc.ernet.in <mailto:lalit@micro.iisc.ernet.in> PROGRAM CHAIRS: ================ R.Chandramouli, Steven's Institute of Technology, USA Thomas Furhman, GM Research, USA S. Murugesan, Southern Cross University, Australia G. Manimaran, Iowa State University, USA Di Yeng, Florida International University, USA Walter Colitti, Vrijie Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Rainer Berbner, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe, Germany Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany Vijay Mann, IBM India Research Lab, India Sibabrata Ray, Google Inc., USA Shangping Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Shambhu Upadhyaya, University at Buffalo, USA Son T. Vuong, University of British Columbia, Canada Xiaoyun Zhu, Hewlett Packard, USA Olivier Festor, INRIA, France William Nace, AFOSR-AOARD, Japan M. Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie-Mellon University S. Srikanth, AU-KBC Research Center, India Pradip K. Das, Jadavpur University, India Detailed submission instructions are available at: http://www.iamcom.org/submission_instructions.htm ******************************************************************* -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Prof.Dr. Kurt Geihs T. +49 561 804-6275 F. +49 561 804-6277 -- Univ. Kassel, FB 16, Wilhelmshöher Allee 73, D-34121 Kassel -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

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[Fwd: newsletter WWW2008 CALL FOR PAPERS - and upcoming deadlines]
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: newsletter WWW2008 CALL FOR PAPERS - and upcoming deadlines Datum: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:01:48 +0800 (HKT) Von: newsletter(a)www2008.org Antwort an: info(a)www2008.org An: newsletter(a)www2008.org ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Seventeenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008) April 21 - 25, 2008, Beijing, China http://www2008.org ******************************************************************** WWW2008 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. Papers may be submitted to the following tracks: * Browsers and User Interfaces * Data Mining * Internet Monetization * Mobility * Performance and Scalability * Rich Media * Search * Security and Privacy * Semantic / Data Web * Social Networks and Web 2.0 * Web Engineering * XML and Web Data In addition, the conference solicits original research papers to the following alternate tracks: * Industrial Practice and Experience * Technology for Developing Regions * WWW in China IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Refereed papers due: November 1, 2007 (11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time; no extensions will be granted) Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2008 (tentative) Conference dates: April 21 - 25, 2008 OTHER SUBMISSION DEADLINES -------------------------- **Workshops Proposals: October 1, 2007 ***** Tutorial Proposals: November 1, 2007 Developers Track: January 18, 2008 Panel Proposals: January 25, 2008 Posters: January 25, 2008 (estimated) Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work and can be up to 10 pages in length. Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers from an International Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in online proceedings published by the ACM Digital Library and the conference's web site. The Program Committee will select a small number of excellent papers for fast-track journal publication in the ACM Transactions on the Web. Authors of accepted papers will retain copyright to their work, but will be required to sign a copyright release form to IW3C2. Detailed formatting and submission requirements are available at http://www2008.org/. <http://www2008.org/> General queries regarding WWW2008 submissions can be sent to: submissions(a)www2008.org. The WWW2008 program will also include Tutorials and Workshops, Panels, a W3C track, a Developers track, Posters, and Exhibitions. See http://www2008.org for details. General Chairs: * Jinpeng Huai, Beihang University (China) * Robin Chen, AT&T Labs (USA) General Vice Chairs: * Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Microsoft Research Asia (China) * Yunhao Liu, HK University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong) PROGRAM CHAIRS * Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia (China) * Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Research (USA) * Xiaodong Zhang, The Ohio State University (USA) ************************************************************ You may subscribe or unsubscribe (http://lists.www2008.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter) the WWW2008 Newsletter directly or send an email to info(a)www2008.org ************************************************************ _______________________________________________ newsletter mailing list Visit WWW2008 http://www2008.org

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - 9th ACM MOBIHOC]
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - 9th ACM MOBIHOC Datum: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:43:52 -0400 (EDT) Von: My T. Thai <mythai(a)cise.ufl.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS =================================================== The 9th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing May 26-30, 2008, Hong Kong http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2008 Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE =================================================== ACM MobiHoc is the premier international symposium dedicated to addressing challenges emerging from the design and applications of wireless communication networks. This symposium will be held in Hong Kong during the week of May 26, 2008. It will bring together researchers and practitioners from a broad spectrum of wireless networking research to present the most up-to-date results and achievements in the field. The symposium will include a highly selective technical program, hands-on research demonstrations, a distinguished keynote address, panels, and tutorials. We invite paper, poster, and demonstration submissions on a variety of wireless ad hoc networks such as mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless personal area networks, vehicular networks, RFID networks, and hybrid networks including unmanned aerial vehicles and underwater unmanned vehicles. The symposium solicits high-quality theoretical as well as practical works on a broad range of issues important to the design, performance control, and security of wireless ad hoc networks. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Transport, Network, and MAC protocol design - Cross-Layer Design and Control - Energy Efficiency - Modeling and Performance Analysis - Network control - Distributed algorithms - Computational Complexity and Approximability - Scaling Laws and Fundamental Limits - Network Coding - Optimization based techniques - Location Discovery - Functional Computation and Data Aggregation - Distributed Sensing, Coordination, and Control - Network Security, Privacy, and Trust - Resiliency, Fault tolerance, and Reliability - Quality of Service - System design and Testbeds - Measurements and Data Collection The symposium especially encourages the submission of exploratory studies that identify new challenges in the network design, innovative services, and applications that may stimulate far-reaching future research. This year's symposium will introduce a Best Paper Award among all the papers submitted to the conference. =========================================================== SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format. Papers must not exceed 10 pages (US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must NOT appear in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. Instructions on paper submission and formatting are available on the symposium webpage. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs. ============================================================ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Abstract Registration: November 16, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: November 22, 2007, 5pm PT Notification of Acceptance: Feburary 28, 2008 Camera-Ready Version Deadline: March 22, 2008 ============================================================ TPC CO-CHAIRS: Ness B. Shroff shroff(a)ecn.purdue.edu Peng-Jun Wan wan(a)cs.iit.edu _________________________________________________ My T. Thai Assistant Professor CISE Dept University of Florida Web : www.cise.ufl.edu/~mythai _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [TCHSN] Re: CFP for ANI at ICC'08: Deadline Sept 28]
by Lars Wolf 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCHSN] Re: CFP for ANI at ICC'08: Deadline Sept 28 Datum: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:45:52 -0700 Von: Chunming Qiao <drqiao01(a)stanford.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, tchsn(a)ri.uni-tuebingen.de, itc(a)comsoc.org The Deadline for Paper submission for ICC 2008 has been extended to September 28 2007. This is the absolute deadline and THERE WILL BE NO EXTENSION BEYOND THIS DATE. Please submit your papers to the Symp on Advances in Networks and Internet (ANI). -- Chunming Qiao Visiting Professor EE Department Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-9515 _______________________________________________ Tchsn mailing list Tchsn(a)ri.uni-tuebingen.de http://www.ri.uni-tuebingen.de/mailman/listinfo/tchsn

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline extension to October 10: Special Issue of PMC on Homeland and Global Security]
by Lars Wolf 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Deadline extension to October 10: Special Issue of PMC on Homeland and Global Security Datum: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:54:39 +0200 Von: Raffaele Bruno <raffaele.bruno(a)iit.cnr.it> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive duplicates of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal Special Issue on Homeland and Global Security The development, deployment and coordination of pervasive and mobile computing (PMC) has been studied for a number of years, and much of this research is beginning to transition into real solutions for a variety of domains. One domain that is ripe for PMC research and development is homeland and global security. Much of the security mission involves the monitoring of various environments (e.g., ports, borders, mass transit hubs, financial centers, power grids, the Internet) and the prediction and detection of threats to these environments. PMC represents a general solution to maintaining security in these environments. In this special issue we seek contributions representing the state-of-the-art in PMC research and technology targeted toward homeland and global security. Components of such approaches include novel sensor and sensor systems for the detection of various threats, efficient and effective deployment of mobile devices and sensors in such environments, heterogeneous systems for surveillance and threat detection, secure and fault tolerant coordination and communication of sensors in homeland and global security environments, information fusion for prediction and detection of threats, integration and registration of data from multiple sources, and effective decision-making in dynamic environments. And since the nature of the challenge restricts in situ testing of the various approaches, high-fidelity simulation and modeling of such systems is necessary, including the mobile devices and sensors, their communication, the data produced, the characteristics of potential threats, and the temporal interaction in response to the sequence of events leading up to the threat. The objective of this special issue is to gather high quality research papers that address PMC applied to the challenges of homeland and global security. Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts containing original research in this area. Topics on integrated and demonstrated systems and experiments with real- world data and involving users are highly encouraged. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: · Sensors and sensor networks for threat detection · RFID-based tracking · Biometric devices · Biological/chemical sensors · Screening devices · Deployment of mobile devices and sensors · Secure and fault tolerant coordination and communication · Sensor data and information fusion · Decision-making in dynamic security environments · Command and control software systems · Testing and evaluation methodologies · Simulation and modeling of security domains and systems · Secure smart environments · Learning and training systems · Disaster mitigation and emergency response Manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The manuscript should be at least 1.5 spaced and must not exceed 30 pages (all inclusive.) If the paper was published in a conference, the submitted manuscript should be a significantly enhanced version. Authors are also required to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. The manuscript preparation guidelines can be obtained from the PMC Journal's web page (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc). Important Dates: Deadline for submission (HARD): Extended to October 10, 2007 Author Notification: December 1, 2007 Revisions Due: February 1, 2008 Final Decision: March 15, 2008 Authors should submit their full manuscripts to the PMC Special Issues Editor-in-Chief, Behrooz Shirazi, using the Elsevier online Editorial System (EES) at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc Guest Editors: Larry Holder, Mohan Kumar and Raffaele Bruno _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP: 5th IEEE Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea'08)']
by Lars Wolf 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: 5th IEEE Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea'08)' Datum: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:45:02 +0200 Von: Daniela Nicklas <nicklas(a)ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de> Antwort an: Daniela Nicklas <nicklas(a)ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de> Organisation: Universität Stuttgart An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de [Apologies for possible multiple copies] Call for Paper ======================================================================== 5th Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea'08) co-located with the Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Hong Kong, 17 – 21 March 2008 ======================================================================== http://www.percom.org http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/COMOREA Workshop Scope There is a growing interest in context-aware applications that intelligently support user tasks by acting autonomously on behalf of users. Behaviour of context-aware applications depends not only on their internal state and user interactions but also on the context sensed during their execution. Some early models of context information already exist, however many research issues related to context information modeling are still not fully addressed. Existing context models vary in types of context information they can represent. While some models take the user’s current situation, e.g. “in a meeting”, into account others model the physical environment, i.e. locations. A more generic approach to context modeling is needed in order to capture various features of context information including a variety of types of context information, dependencies between context information, quality of context information and context histories. In addition, to ease software engineering problems encountered in programming context-aware applications, appropriate abstractions are necessary to support discovery and reuse of context information as well as scalable methods of context processing and management. This workshop’s aim is to advance the state of the art in context modeling and reasoning and also discuss fundamental issues in context processing and management. The goal is to identify concepts, theories and methods applicable to context modeling and context reasoning as well as system-oriented issues related to the design and implementation of context-aware systems. Particular attention will be paid to hybrid approaches to context modeling, e.g. an integration of non-ontology based context models with ontology based context models. In particular, the following topics are of interest to this workshop: * Context modeling techniques * Domain-specific context models * Ontology-based approaches to context modeling and reasoning * Hybrid context models (integration of various modeling techniques) * Advanced issues in context modeling, including issues of information quality and ambiguity * Context reasoning algorithms, their complexity and accuracy * Discovery and reuse of context information * Privacy of context information * Distributed and scalable context management * Experiences with using context models to build context-aware applications * Tool support for context modeling and development of context model-based applications * Balance of autonomy with user control Submissions Submitted papers will be refereed by the workshop Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the PerCom 08 Workshops proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Submitted papers should address at least one of the workshop topics. The papers should be in the IEEE format and should be no more than 5 pages in length. Research papers must be an original unpublished work and not under review elsewhere. Experience reports must be stated as such and a comprehensive discussion of the taken approach, experiences, and its assessment is expected. Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair CoMoRea page, http://www.easychair.org/CoMoRea08/ The authors of accepted papers of outstanding quality will be encouraged to submit an extended version to the PMC Special Issue on Context Modelling, Reasoning and Management. Important Dates Paper submissions: September 28, 2007 Notification: November 23, 2007 Camera ready version: December 21, 2007 Workshop: March 17 or 21, 2008 Program Committee Daniela Nicklas, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Karen Henricksen, NICTA, Australia -- chairs – Anand Ranganathan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany Daniele Riboni, University of Milan, Italy Daqing Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research,Singapore Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui, Oxford University Computing Lab, UK Gregor Schiele, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Jalal Al-Muhtadi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia John Bateman, Bremen University, Germany Martin Bauer, NEC Heidelberg, Germany Oliver Brdiczka, INRIA, France Ricky Robinson, NICTA, Australia Waltenegus Dargie, Technical University of Dresden, Germany

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