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[Fwd: [Tccc] [mycolleagues] Call for papers - Special issue of Computer Communications (fwd)]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [mycolleagues] Call for papers - Special issue of Computer Communications (fwd) Datum: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:02:15 -0300 (BRT) Von: Carlos Becker Westphall <westphal(a)inf.ufsc.br> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:44:30 -0400 (EDT) From: SHERALI ZEADALLY <ag8673(a)wayne.edu> To: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br Subject: [mycolleagues] Call for papers - Special issue of Computer Communications Apologies for any cross-postings -------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Computer Communications Special Issue on Mobility Protocols for ITS/VANET Information technologies and mobile communications have penetrated various intelligent transportation system (ITS) services on-the-road such as dedicated short range communications (DSRC) for electronic toll collection, WiFi hotspots for traveler and traffic information services, and GSM/GPRS/WCDMA cellular networks and GPS for advanced navigation, route guidance and vehicular positioning systems. Each system or technology has its own pros and cons. There are significant challenges that need to be addressed on how to integrate these heterogeneous access networks effectively to deliver ubiquitous connectivity, i.e., to achieve seamless handoff and device mobility among different networks, for ITS services. Many technological breakthroughs are required for each layer and mobility protocol technology shows great promise to enable ubiquitous service access and connectivity for ITS. Mobility protocols maintain end-to-end connections between mobile nodes and their corresponding nodes even when mobile nodes change their point of attachment of the access network. This special issue focuses on protocols for mobility, i.e., protocols that support mobile links and possible handoffs for intelligent transportation systems and vehicular ad hoc networking (VANET). It will cover the following topical areas but are not limited to: * Communication and service architecture of mobility supported ITS * Algorithms and protocols for ITS and VANET * Handoff mechanisms for mobility supported ITS * Mobile routing and network mobility protocols for ITS?and VANET * Mobile IPv4/IPv6 for ITS * QoS issues for ITS and VANET * Security protocols for ITS * Media access control and ad hoc routing protocols for inter-vehicular networks * Mobile sensor networks for traffic and incident management * Performance modeling and evaluation of mobility protocols for ITS * Field trials and performance measurement of ITS or VANET systems, characterization of wireless performance on ITS/VANETs * Implementation of mobility support ITS subsystems and services * Roadside-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communication Guest Editors Han-Chieh Chao (Corresponding Editor) College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science National Ilan University I-Lan, Taiwan, ROC hcc(a)niu.edu.tw Sherali Zeadally Department of Computer Science and Information Technology University of the District of Columbia Washington, DC 20008, USA szeadally(a)udc.edu Submission Details We seek original contributions not currently under review by other journals. All papers for this section must be submitted in PDF format through Computer Communications web site at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/comcom. Submissions will each receive a minimum of three reviews. Details about preparing your submission can be obtained through the following link: http://www.elsevier.com/framework_products/promis_misc/130606Comcom.pdf. Paper Submission Deadline: July 1, 2007 First Reviews: September 1, 2007 Revised Paper Deadline: October 1, 2007 Final Reviews: November 15, 2007 Final Manuscripts: December 15, 2007 Publication: First Quarter of 2008 ---------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Call for papers: SPIE/ACM MMCN 2008]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for papers: SPIE/ACM MMCN 2008 Datum: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:41:51 -0400 Von: Michael Zink <zink(a)newworld.cs.umass.edu> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ===================================================================== Call for Papers and Announcement SPIE/ACM MMCN 2008 Multimedia Computing and Networking 2008 http://mirage.cs.uoregon.edu/mmcn2008 In cooperation with: ACM SIG Multimedia Part of the IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 30 and 31 January 2008 San Jose Marriott and San Jose Convention Center San Jose, CA, USA ===================================================================== For 15 years, the multimedia computing and networking conference has brought together researchers, practitioners and developers to contribute new ideas in all facets of multimedia systems, networking, applications, and other related areas of computing. Traditionally the conference features presentations of full and short papers, a keynote talk, and a panel of experts. Presenters are encouraged to make multimedia presentations and demonstrate their proposed solutions. Authors of a few accepted papers with the highest quality are invited to submit the extended version of their papers to a special issue of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal. Original papers on all emerging technologies and traditional areas of multimedia, including but not limited to: Multimedia Computing . multimedia OS services . power-aware systems . video-on-demand services . mixed and augmented reality systems Measurement and Modeling . performance measurement of multimedia systems . statistical modeling of server traffic and server software . multimedia system simulations and benchmark comparisons Multimedia Networking . home, mobile and broadband networks . QoS control and scheduling . push technologies and content distribution . peer-to-peer media systems . Internet data streaming, delivery and wide-area caching . multimedia security and rights management Case Studies and Applications . multimedia search engines . entertainment and networked games . distributed augmented and virtual reality . multimedia authoring Authors are invited to submit both research and industrial papers on original, unpublished work that is not currently under submission at any other conference. Papers whose contributions are supported by experimental evaluations are strongly encouraged. Both full and short papers are considered. Full paper submissions should not exceed 12 single-spaced, single column pages including figures, tables, and references, using a typeface no smaller than 10 points. Short paper submissions should not exceed 8 pages. All papers must be electronically submitted to the conference website at http://www.electronicimaging.org. Please also submit a 500-word text abstract with your paper submission that includes your topic area. Further information about MMCN'08 can be found at http://mirage.cs.uoregon.edu/mmcn2008. | Full Paper for Review Due: 16 July 2007 | | Short Paper for Review Due: 16 July 2007 | | Final Manuscript Due: 12 November 2007 | | 200-word Final Summary Due: 19 November 2007 | | Proceedings of this conference will be published and | | available at the meeting. | Conference Chairs: Reza Rejaje, Univ. of Oregon (USA) Roger Zimmermann, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore) Publicity Co-Chairs: Wei Tsang Ooi, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore) Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster Univ. (UK) Michael Zink, Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst (USA) Program Committee: Tarek Abdelzaher, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (USA) Kevin Almeroth, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara (USA) Scott A. Brandt, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz (USA) Surendar Chandra, Univ. of Notre Dame (USA) Mark Claypool, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) David Hung-Chang Du, Univ. of Minnesota (USA) Wu-chi Feng, Portland State Univ. (USA) Pascal Frossard, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/Lausanne (Switzerland) Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research (UK) Carsten Griwodz, Univ. of Oslo (Norway) Yang Guo, Thomson Lab (USA) Ahsan Habib, Siemens TTB Center/Berkeley (USA) Mohamed Hefeeda, Simon Fraser University (Canada) P�l Halvorsen, Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) Seon Ho Kim, Univ. of Denver (USA) Baochun Li, Univ. of Toronto (Canada) Kang Li, Univ. of Georgia (USA) Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster Univ. (UK) Ketan Mayer-Patel, Univ. of North Carolina/Chapel Hill (USA) Klara Nahrstedt, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (USA) Wei Tsang Ooi, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore) Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Subhabrata Sen, AT&T Labs-Research (USA) Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Univ. of California/Irvine (USA) Dongyan Xu, Purdue Univ. (USA) Zhi-Li Zhang, Univ. of Minnessotta (USA) Michael Zink, Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst (USA)

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[Fwd: CCNC 2008 - Call for Technical Session Papers Deadline]
by Sven Lahde 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CCNC 2008 - Call for Technical Session Papers Deadline Datum: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:58:03 -0400 Von: meetings(a)comsocconferences.org An: conferencesx(a)comsocconferences.org WELCOME TO THE 5th ANNUAL IEEE CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE 2008 (CCNC) Don’t Delay: Call for Technical Session Papers Deadline is 29 June 2007 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, is a major annual international conference organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of consumer communications and networking. With world class keynote speakers, Six Technical Tracks, Special Sessions, Tutorial and Workshop programs that are already filled to bursting CCNC 2008 promises to be bigger and better than ever! Keynote Speakers are: Dr. Henry Tirri, Research Fellow and Head of System Research Centers, Nokia Research Michail Bletsas, Chief Connectivity Officer, One Laptop Per Child Dr. Hosoo Lee, Executive VP/Director of Software Laboratories in Corporate Technology Operations, Samsung Electronics Technical Session Tracks - Wireless Routing and Transport - Network Access and Communications - Multimedia Networking - Communications and Information Security -P2P Networking and Content Distribution - Emerging Technologies and Applications IMPORTANT Deadline Dates for Technical Sessions Papers Technical Papers Due: 29 June 2007 Acceptance Notification: 14 September 2007 Final Camera Ready Artwork: 5 October 2007 All accepted papers will be included in IEEE eXplore and registered in the Engineering Information Index and selected papers will be candidates for publication in special section of IEEEE Communications Magazine. Other Important Information and Deadlines Special Sessions - P2P Media Streaming - Image/Video Processing & Wireless Sensor Networks - Sensor Networks in Intelligent Transportation Systems - Beyond GPS: Where Navigation meets Consumer Communications Special Sessions Papers Due: 22 July 2007 Acceptance Notification: 14 September 2007 Final Camera Ready Artwork: 5 October 2007 Workshops - 4th IEEE International Workshop on Digital Rights Management Impact on Consumer Communications - 4th IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment (NIME ’08) - 2nd IEEE Broadband Wireless Access Workshop (BWSWS 2008) - 2nd IEEE Workshop on Cognitive Radio Networks in conjunction with CCNC 2008 - 1st IEEE International Workshop on Digital Entertainment and Creative Technology - 1st IEEE Peer-to-Peer for Handheld Devices Workshop (P2P HD 2008) Workshop Paper Dues: 22 July 2007 Acceptance Notification: 14 September 2007 Final Camera-ready Copy: 5 October 2007 Tutorials & Demonstrations We're still filling out the Tutorial and Demonstration programs - if you have a proposal for either then please let us know. Tutorial Deadline Submission Deadline Date: 17 August 2007 Acceptance Notification 1 September 2007 Demonstration Deadline Submission Deadline Date 7 September 2007 Acceptance Notification 20 September 2007 For a full list of all the deadlines, and the requirements for submissions, please visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/. There are also many Patron opportunities if you want to be associated with the biggest and best Consumer Communications and Networking event in the world then please let us know. General Co-Chairs Stan Moyer, Telcordia Technologies, USA Dave Marples, Technolution B.V., UK Technical Program Chair Bin Wei, AT&T Labs, USA Steering Committee Chair Rob Fish, NETovations Group, USA Publicity Chair Alexander Gelman, NETovations Group, USA To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsocconferences.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsocconferences.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Fwd: Call for Posters/Demos (deadline 02 July), WiNTECH 2007, A workshop in MobiCom 2007]
by Lars Wolf 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Posters/Demos (deadline 02 July), WiNTECH 2007, A workshop in MobiCom 2007 Datum: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:35:34 +0530 Von: Bhaskaran Raman <braman(a)CSE.IITK.AC.IN> Antwort an: Bhaskaran Raman <braman(a)CSE.IITK.AC.IN> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Note: we have extended the poster/demo submission deadline to Mon 02 July 2007. WiNTECH 2007: The Second ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization A workshop in MobiCom 2007 10 Sep 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada In recent years, some wireless technologies (e.g., WiFi, sensor networks) have matured to the point of finding wide acceptance in the real-world and leading to many new and interesting applications. At the same time, several new networking and radio technologies (e.g., dynamic spectrum access, UWB) are emerging to address the performance limitations of existing technologies and make wireless networking more ubiquitous. Realistic evaluation of such diverse set of technologies and their mutual interactions will play a major role in identifying the key performance bottlenecks, thus shape future advances in wireless technology. The importance of testbed-based evaluation of wireless network protocols/applications as well as characterization of real-world aspects using traces from operational networks is gaining wider recognition in the mobile and wireless networking research community. This workshop intends to bring together researchers working in the broad area of experimental wireless networking. This workshop will serve as a forum to share new ideas/experiences in all experimental aspects of wireless networks and systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area. The workshop program will include an interactive session with demos and posters. We welcome demonstrations of novel wireless network testbed capabilities and measurement results. The posters may describe work in progress and offers an excellent opportunity for feedback and discussions on early research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design and evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms * Experiences/lessons from recent testbed deployments * Hybrid experimentation approaches combining use of multiple evaluation methodologies * Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures * Testbed management issues and monitoring support * Wireless testbed case studies * Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols, including the impact of cross-layer interactions * Large-scale and heterogeneous wireless network evaluations * Approaches for real-world evaluation of mobile networks * Evaluation environments for sensor and satellite networks * Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing * Implementation approaches to ease transition between different evaluation methodologies * New measurement methodologies and infrastructures * Measurement and characterization (modeling) of real-world aspects of wireless networks such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics * Interference and spectrum usage measurements * Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different testbeds/evaluation methodologies * Software tools in support of measurements, trace/data collection and management Important Dates * Poster/demo submission deadline: Mon 02 Jul 2007, 23:59 EDT * Poster/demo notification: Mon 09 Jul 2007 * Camera ready submission: Mon 16 Jul 2007, 23:59 EDT * Workshop date: Mon 10 Sep 2007 Poster/demo submission instructions Please make poster and demo submissions by providing a writeup as per the following requirements: * A maximum of TWO 8.5"x11" pages (including figures, tables, and references) * The writeup must be in two-column format, using 10-point size or greater and reasonable margins * It must use PDF format Submit by emailing your poster/demo writeup (pdf file) to: Bhaskaran Raman, (braman [at] cse [dot] iitk [dot] ac [dot] in) WiNTECH'07 Website http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/wintech07/ TPC chairs: Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University (prs [at] cs [dot] cmu [dot] edu) Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Kanpur (braman [at] cse [dot] iitk [dot] ac [dot] in) Steering Committee: Rajive Bagrodia, UCLA Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh Edward Knightly, Rice University Joe Evans, University of Kansas TPC members: Rajive Bagrodia, UCLA Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin Ian Chakeres, Motorola Kameswari Chebrolu, IIT Kanpur Tzi-Cker Chiueh, State University of New York at Stony Brook Ramesh Govindan, University of Southern California Tristan Henderson, University of St Andrews Glenn Judd, Carnegie Mellon University Edward Knightly, Rice University Henrik Lundgren, Thomson Research Mahesh Marina, The University of Edinburgh Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology Vikram Srinivasan, National University of Singapore Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin Haitao Zheng, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara ----------------------------- To be removed from future issues of the SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. 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[Fwd: [EUROSIS] CFP: GAMEON'2007, November 20-22, 2007, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy]
by Lars Wolf 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [EUROSIS] CFP: GAMEON'2007, November 20-22, 2007, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Datum: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:04:46 +0200 Von: Eurosis <info(a)eurosis.org> Antwort an: info(a)eurosis.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de ------------CFP: GAMEON'2007, NOVEMBER 20-22, 2007, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA, BOLOGNA, ITALY------------ GAME-ON 2007 November 20 - 22, 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS University of Bologna Bologna, Italy Organized by EUROSIS-ETI Supported by Ghent University, Larian Studios, The Moves Institute, Binary Illusions, ISA, ModelBenders LLC, Liverpool John Moores University and TU Delft Conference website http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/256 The aim of the 8th annual European Game-On Conference on simulation and AI in Computer Games, is to bring together researchers and games people in order to exchange ideas on programming and programming techniques, which will be beneficial to the gaming industry and academia. Secondly it aims to steer young people into this industry by providing how-to tutorials and giving them the opportunity to show their ideas and demos to the gaming industry. The conference will concentrate mostly on the programming of games, with special emphasis on methodology, simulation, AI and fuzzy sets, and physics related computer graphics. Next to that, all of this will be fused in the topic of computer game design in stand-alone and networked games. Software providers will be able to show their latest packages and give hand-on tutorials for the participants. Companies will also have the opportunity to seek new talent at this event. The conference will cover three core tracks: Game Development Methodology Game Development Methodology, Game Design and Research Methods, Production Roles, Techniques and Process Management, Social and Technical Interactions in Art and Engineering, Participatory Media and Heterogeneous Development Approaches, Sociotechnical MOG Development, Communities and Sustainability, Business and Requirements Modeling for Game Projects, Software Architecture and Modeling in Games, Interaction Design and Usability in Game Contexts, Play Testing, Gameplay Experience Evaluation Artificial Intelligence Designing (Extensible) AI Engines with Built-in Machine Learning Technologies, Using Adaptive Markov Models, Using Decision Trees, Production Rules and Learning , Using Fuzzy Logic for membership functions and inference procedures , Using Rule Based AI or a Finite State Machine (FSM) , Using Fuzzy State Machines (FuSM) or Cascaded FuSMs , Using Artificial Life and layered AI Techniques , Level-of-Detail AI, Using scripting languages to govern NPC Bots, synthetic characters, or believable agents , Controlling simulated characters (Group Behaviour control) using f.ex. flocking algorithms based on extensible scripting systems , Cognitive Modeling: (combining geometric models and inverse kinematics to simplify key-framing. physical models for animating particles. Bio-mechanical modeling, behavioral modeling), Domain knowledge specification and character instruction, Creating AI Networks using supervised learning and genetic algorithms, and pathfinding, Using Databases using the winnowing algorithm , Using Multi-user Data Management. Physics and Simulation; Collision detection, contact resolution and manifold generation (methods Lin-Canny, OBB Trees, I-Collide and Ray Tracing) ; Calculation optimization between objects ; The closest point algorithm by Gilbert Johnson and Keerthi (GJK) between convex and union-of convex objects ; Contact equation formulation (point-plane, edge-edge and sphere-plane) ; LCP (Linear Complementary problems) Based contact resolution ; Iterative constraints and penalty methods for contact resolution, Micro-Collisions, Software Object Interaction. a number of peripheral tracks 3-D Scalability ; MRM (Multi-Resolution Mesh) Technology and the Messiah and Lith Tech Engines ; Scalable level of detail-oriented rendering ; Methods for scaling animation quality ; Scaling animation quality, new animation steps, on interpolated key-frame animation or key-frame morphing ; Bump mapping: emboss-dot product and environment mapped bump map (EMBM) Facial Animation; Facial animation for Real-Time, Model Behaviour of 3D Modeling; Modelling the bone structure of faces, Facial Hair etc.. Skeletal animation and fully scaled rendering; Physical Simulation, 3D Character Animation and physical controllers ; Simulation performance ; Rigid body physical animation and rigid body dynamics ; Polygon Character Design and level of Detail under Technical Constraints ; Particle systems, full polygonal models or sprites ; Smooth rendered skins, soft skinning, head animations and full body animation (Skin, extrude and boolean, Design, composition and anatomy) ; Skeletal, skinning, single skin meshes ; Creating Character Animation Assets ; Real-Time motion Synthesis, Kinematics and Dynamics, Animating the real-time run cycle ; T-Buffers and motion blur ; Motion Capture Techniques. 3D in Game Animation; Creating and scaling special effects in Real-Time 3D: environmental weapon effects and general pyrotechnics, software used to produce single frame and animated textures, booth looping and linear, and the pivotal role of alpha channels. Modeling an animation of the geometry needed and the system used to encode additional engine-specific timing and trigger data into the files. The use of the engine particle system and scripting capabilities, Weighted vertices, Streaming SIMD Extension Overview (floating point instruction) ;Pre-rendered cinematics ; Scaling of special effects and texture tricks: particle systems for generating smoke and fire, texture tricks, for volumes, lens flares and onscreen pyrotechnics, Animation Blending Tools; Silicon Graphics (MAYA, as a game prototyping environment), 3D Programming for Rage Programmable Shaders (Renderman), 3D Studio Max, Scratch,XNA and other Open Source Games Software Design; Game Engine Design and game environment creation; Using rapid prototyping (NEMO-DEV) and generic technology (generic world building engine), portable code ; Using Math for Game programming by solving simultaneous Equations ; Using Modularity and isolation abstraction, data hiding, functional independence, cohesion and coupling ; Using Java as an embedded Game scripting engine ; Procedural content placement, level design, enemy and entity placement ; Using Databases in online Games ; Programming in Linux, C++ and Visual Basic ; Programming Web Games in Java Scalable 3D games ; Creating large 3D worlds ; Creating Multiplayer online Games ; Techniques for scaling game content, and approaches to scaling game content ; C++ optimization Strategies and Techniques ; 3D Engine optimization; Optimizing games for the MIPS RISC Architecture ; Game design: User set set according to hard limits, pre-runtime profiling and runtime profiling history of Game Design. Rendering; Rendering Equations and architectures; Image Based Rendering (polygon counts (throughput) and overdraw (filtrate); Photorealistic rendering using Open GL and Direct 3D ; Multi texture tricks like gloss mapping, dynamic environment mapping, detail texturing and bump mapping Spatial aliasing and Anti-aliasing and accumulation buffers ; Setup, Rendering and Transforms ; Full floating point setup ; Perspective-corrected texture mapping, multiple filtering modes, sophisticated texture blending for special effects and effective looking transparency ; Classical local illumination equations and colour theory; Creating Reflections and shadows with stencil buffers and Z-Buffers ; Light maps and changing texture coordinates, shadow maps, projected shadow maps ; Methods for scaling lighting and shadows, lighting calculations ; Equation on a per pixel basis, pixel path and voxel animation ; Procedural Texture Methods and Theory and Real-Time ; Procedural Texture Implementation ; Parametric Surfaces, Deforming surfaces, Curved surfaces and tri-linear flip-flopping Using NURBS (non-uniform rational B-splines) and other parametric surfaces for representing 3D Geometry ; Matrix Manipulations ; Methods for scaling geometry using parametric curves and surfaces in relation to polygonal models ; Progressive meshes and subdivision surfaces On-Line Gaming and On-Line Game Security As online gaming becomes more and more popular security issues now come into the forefront of secure game play using public key cryptography, symmetric key cryptography, digital signatures, authentication and available cryptographic toolkits. Voice Interaction; Using Intelligent Speech Synthesis Algorithms, Speech Processing, Voice Interaction, Speech Synthesizer; Interaction with AI-NPC's, Voice-Over Net Technology (one to one, and one to many) Cognitive Psychology applied to games, based on player to game interactions and biometric data analysis. Artistic input to game and character design Storytelling and Natural Language Processing Applications Wargaming methodology and techniques applied to strategic game design using Campaign managers, character generators, terrain generators. Multiplayer wargaming and Web Wargaming Serious Games applications Aerospace Simulations, Board Games etc... Games for training Handheld Gaming Devices - Mobile Gaming Gaming with I-Toy, WII and other handheld devices such as phones, Virtual Sat-Nav Gaming. Focusing on the man-machine interaction part Perceptual User Interfaces for Games Humans communicate using speech, gesture, and body motion, yet today's computers do not use this valuable information. Instead, computers force users to sit at a typewriter keyboard, stare at a TV-like display, and learn an endless set of arcane commands -- often leading to frustration, inefficiencies, and disuse. The idea behind PUI is that a computer system "hears" users' voice commands and "sees" their gestures and body positions. Interactions are natural, more like human-to-human interactions. PUI use here machine perception to allow users to interact with computergames and within computer gaming environments. By reading gestures, motions and speech we should be able to in a much more natural way interact with the games. But sensor systems deliver only raw position and pose information. For interface use, these are not the desired quantities—we need to understand the abstractions appropriate for a natural interface and consider how the various perceptual input degrees of freedom should relate to available commands and options. Special track: Gaming with robots Aibo, Bionicles, Mindstorms etc... Tutorials, "Aren't we great" presentations, Student Demos. Students are encouraged to show demos of their work to the companies present at the conference. The best demo will receive a prize from the organizers. The conference will be held at the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. The exact location can be found here: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/286 POSTER SESSION The poster session only features work in progress. Next to the actual poster presentation, these submissions also feature as short papers in the Proceedings. STUDENTS SESSION This session is for students who want to present their work in progress or part of their doctoral thesis as a paper. Student papers are denoted by the fact that only the name of the student appears on the paper as an author. They are published as short papers in the Proceedings. DIVERSE ACTIVITIES For demonstrations or video sessions, please contact Philippe Geril. A Special session will be set up for vendor presentations in co-ordination with the scientific program. User Group meetings for simulation languages and tools can be organised the day before the conference. If you would like to arrange a meeting, please contact the Conference Chairs. We will be happy to provide a meeting room and other necessary equipment. Partners for projects session(s) will be organised by EUROSIS to give potential project teams or individuals the opportunity to present their research in order to link up with fellow researchers for future research projects. Those wishing to participate in this session need to send a proposal to Philippe Geril EXHIBITION A special exhibition will be held during the conference focused on gaming tools. For more information please contact EUROSIS for further details. Email: Philippe.Geril(a)eurosis.org REGISTRATION FEES Registration Fees Author EUROSIS Other Members Participants Pre-reg before 485 EURO 485 EURO 535 EURO November 1st 2007 Reg after Pre-registration 535 EURO 555 EURO November 1st '2007 required Student authors pay: 250 EUR Students who register after November 1st and who are not authors pay 350 EUR. The registration fee includes a copy of the Proceedings, lunches, conference dinner, get-together party, coffee breaks, company visit and demonstrations. PAPER SUBMISSION TYPES FULL PAPER (including abstract, conclusions, diagrams, references) During review, the submitted full papers can be accepted as a regular 5 page paper. If excellent, full papers can be accepted by the program committee as an extended (8-page) paper. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the International Program Committee. EXTENDED ABSTRACT (at least five pages) Participants may also submit a 5 page extended abstract for a regular (5 pages) or short (3 pages) paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the GAMEON'2007 Conference Proceedings. SHORT ABSTRACT (at least three pages) Participants may also submit a 3 page abstract for a short paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the GAMEON'2007 Conference Proceedings. ONE PAGE ABSTRACTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED. All EUROSIS Proceedings are indexed by ISI-Thomson and IEE-INSPEC DEADLINES AND REQUIREMENTS Send all submissions in an ELECTRONIC FORM ONLY in uuencoded, zipped Microsoft Word format, PDF or Postscript format indicating the designated track and type of submission (full paper or an extended abstract) to EUROSIS (Philippe.Geril(a)eurosis.org). Please provide your name, affiliation, full mailing address, telephone / fax number and Email address on all submissions as well. For submissions please put in the subject of your Email the following indications: GAMEON2007 and designated track or USE THE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION SITE!! Only original papers, which have not been published elsewhere, will be accepted for publication SUBMISSION DEADLINES EARLY BIRD SUBMISSION: JULY 15 AUGUST 15 2007: Submit contributed full-papers (5 to 8 proceedings pages) not previously published. These submissions, when accepted will be published as regular or extended papers, depending on their quality. Submit extended abstracts (5 abstract pages) or short papers (3 abstract pages), reports of industrial projects and summaries of posters. These submissions, when accepted will be published as regular 5 page proceedings papers. Submit one -to -three page proposals to present tutorials, to organise and chair panel sessions, to organise user meetings, vendor sessions or to exhibit software Submit abstracts for student and poster session LATE SUBMISSION DATE : SEPTEMBER 15 OCTOBER 1, 2007: Notification of Acceptance or Rejection NOVEMBER 5, 2007: Authors provide camera-ready manuscript NOVEMBER 22-24, 2007: Conference OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD The 2007 GAMEON Conference Committee will select the Outstanding Paper of the Conference. The author of this paper will be awarded a free registration for a EUROSIS conference. Only papers SUBMITTED AS FULL papers will be eligible for the Outstanding Paper Award. International Journal of Computer Games Technology Selected papers of the event will be published in the International Journal of Computer Games Technology. LANGUAGE The official conference language for all papers and presentations is English. REPLY CARD First Name: Surname: Occupation and/or Title: Affiliation: Mailing Address Zip code: City: Country. Telephone: Fax: E-Mail: Yes, I intend to attend the GAMEON'2007: [ ] Presenting a paper, by submitting a full paper [ ] Presenting a short paper (by submitting an extended abstract) [ ] Participating in the industrial program [ ] Organizing a vendor session [ ] Proposing a panel discussion (please mention names of panellists) [ ] Contributing to the exhibition [ ] Without presenting a paper The provisional title of my paper / exhibited tool is: With the following highlights: The paper belongs to the category (please tick only one): [ ] Artificial Intelligence [ ] Physics and Simulation [ ] 3D Scalability [ ] Facial Animation [ ] Skeletal Animation and Fully Scaled Rendering [ ] 3-D in Game Animation [ ] Tools [ ] Design [ ] Rendering [ ] Security [ ] Voice Interaction [ ] Cognitive Psychology [ ] Artistic Input [ ] Wargaming [ ] Applications [ ] Games Console Design [ ] Networked Gaming [ ] Handheld Gaming [ ] Perceptual User Interfaces [ ] Robot Based Gaming [ ] European Projects [ ] Exhibition [ ] Poster session [ ] Student Session Other colleague(s) interested in the topics of the conference is/are: Name: Address: Name: Address: If you would like to receive more information about EUROSIS and its activities, please tick the following box: [ ] YES, I would like to know more about EUROSIS [ ] NO, please remove me from your database. 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[Fwd: [Tccc] 1st Int. Summer School on Network and Service Management]
by Lars Wolf 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] 1st Int. Summer School on Network and Service Management Datum: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:56:49 +0200 Von: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder(a)jacobs-university.de> Antwort an: j.schoenwaelder(a)jacobs-university.de An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu 1st International Summer School on Network and Service Management July 9-13, 2007 organized by EMANICS and hosted by the Jacobs University Bremen, Germany http://emanics.org/content/view/80/135 Scope: ------ The 1st international summer school on network and service management provides advanced classes on selected advanced topics in network management. The courses will be accompanied with practical hands-on labs in order to combine the theoretical background with some practical experience. The instructors are well known members of the academic and industrial community. Overview: --------- Courses and associated practical labs will be organized by instructors who are well known experts. The courses introduce technologies, which are later further studied by the students in a series of exercises of lab experiments. * Topic #1: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) - Border Gateway Protocol BGP (Iljitsch van Beijnum) - BGP Analysis and Simulation (Bruno Quoitin) * Topic #2: Packet Capturing and Time Series Storage (CAPTIME) - Round Robin Databases (RRDs) (Tobi Oetiker) - Monitoring Traffic with ntop (Luca Deri) * Topic #3: Flow Export and Visualization (FLOWVIZ) - NetFlow and IPFIX (Maurizio Molina) - NetFlow Sensor (NfSen) (Peter Haag) The labs will assume working experience with Unix/Linux systems and there might be further lab specific prerequisites. Participants are expected to bring personal notebooks (preferably with a CD-ROM) and they are expected to know how to install software and how to administrate their system. More details will be provided by each lab instructor. Location: --------- Jacobs University Bremen is a highly selective, private institution for the advancement of education and research. It is located on a green campus in the city of Bremen, Germany. The campus has ideal meeting facilities and can host a large number of people during the summer on campus. The city or Bremen is well connected. The local airport provides connectivity to the major airports in Europe and the airports in Hannover and Hamburg are about an hour by train from the city center. Schedule: --------- The overall schedule for the week is show below. The summer school will start on Monday after lunch time and close on Friday at lunch time. [Lunch] Monday: 14:00 - 15:00 Welcome and Overview (Lecture Hall R2) 15:30 - 17:00 Lab Setup and Introduction (Computer Hall R1) 17:30 - ..... Trip to Bremen Downtown Tuesday: 09:00 - 10:30 Course Slot #1 (BGP) (Lecture Hall R2) 11:00 - 12:30 Course Slot #2 (BGP) (Lecture Hall R2) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 18:00 Lab Exercises (BGP) (Computer Hall R1) Wednesday: 09:00 - 10:30 Course Slot #3 (CAPTIME) (Lecture Hall R2) 11:00 - 12:30 Course Slot #4 (CAPTIME) (Lecture Hall R2) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 18:00 Lab Exercises (CAPTIME) (Computer Hall R1) Thursday: 09:00 - 10:30 Course Slot #5 (FLOWVIZ) (Lecture Hall R2) 11:00 - 12:30 Course Slot #6 (FLOWVIZ) (Lecture Hall R2) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 20:00 Excursion to Relax and Interact Friday: 09:00 - 13:00 Lab Exercises (FLOWVIZ) (Computer Hall R1) [Lunch] Accommodation: -------------- Jacobs University Bremen is a campus university and has all facilities available on campus to host students and instructors, including a student bar or the university club for the evenings. We have allocated rooms in our new and comfortable student colleges to host summer school participants and instructors. The first option is a single room in a double apartment with shared ensuite bathroom and the slightly more expensive option is a single room with ensuite bathroom. All rooms include full board. Registration: ------------- The number of students that can participate is limited to 40. It is therefore important to register early. Preference will be given to PhD students. Registration fees, including room and board, shared bathroom: Early bird rate (until May 15st): 320.- Euro Normal rate (after May 15st): 350.- Euro Registration fees, including room and board, ensuite bathroom: Early bird rate (until May 15st): 350.- Euro Normal rate (after May 15st): 380.- Euro Registration fee, excluding room and board: Early bird rate (until May 15st): 170.- Euro Normal rate (after May 15st): 200.- Euro To register, you have to fill out a online registration form: http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/emanics/index.php Once accepted, you will receive a bill which you have to pay via bank transfer. Instructors: ------------ * Iljitsch van Beijnum (www.bgpexpert.com, Netherlands) Iljitsch van Beijnum is a networking consultant and writer who focuses on BGP and IPv6. After working for several Dutch ISPs and starting one with a group of others in the 1990s, he became a freelance consultant and wrote a book about BGP (O'Reilly, 2002) and one about IPv6 (Apress, 2005) and started contributing to the IETF multi6 and shim6 working groups. * Bruno Quoitin (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium) Bruno Quoitin is a research fellow within the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium. His main research interests are interdomain routing and large scale network modeling. He is the main author of C-BGP, an open-source BGP routing solver (http://cbgp.info.ucl.ac.be). * Tobias Oetiker (Oetiker + Partner, Switzerland) Tobias Oetiker is an electrical engineer by education and a system administrator by vocation. For the last ten years he has been working for the ETH Zurich, making sure students and staff get ahead with their computers. Last year he started to work for his own company OETIKER+PARTNER, spending amongst other things much more payed time on his pet open source projects MRTG, RRDtool, and SmokePing. In November 2006, Tobias received the prestigious SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award for his work on MRTG and RRDtool. Find out more about Tobi Oetiker on http://tobi.oetiker.ch/ * Luca Deri (ntop.org, Italy) Luca Deri is the leader of the ntop project (http://www.ntop.org/) aimed at developing an open source monitoring platform for high speed traffic analysis. He currently shares his time between NETikos S.p.A. and the University of Pisa where he has been appointed as lecturer at the CS department. His home page is http://luca.ntop.org/. * Maurizio Molina (Dante, United Kingdom) Maurizio Molina graduated in Electronic Engineering (Italian Laurea) from the Polytechnic of Turin in 1993. Since then, he has worked in the telecommunications industry, mainly in research centres, including Telecom Italia Labs (Turin, Italy) and the NEC Network Laboratories (Heidelberg, Germany). He published several papers about IP and ATM traffic modeling and network measurements. He contributed to the ITU-T ATM standardization process, and to working groups in the IETF (on IPFIX and PSAMP). He joined DANTE's Systems group in November 2004, working on performance monitoring, security and authentication and authorization infrastructures. * Peter Haag (Switch, Switzerland) Peter Haag is a member of SWITCH-CERT, the Swiss Education & Research Network CERT. He received a master's degree (1991) in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and worked as a digital hardware design engineer for four years. In 1995, he changed into the design, development and operation of Internet Server Systems. In 2002, Peter Haag joined SWITCH as an network security engineer. Within SWITCH-CERT he is in charge of incident handling, computer forensics, malware analysis and security tool design. He is the author of the open source netflow tools nfdump and NfSen. At the moment he is actively involved in several projects doing netflow and traffic analysis. Topics: ------- Below is a brief description of the topics covered in the summer school. Topic #1: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) * Border Gateway Protocol BGP (Iljitsch van Beijnum) This session will provide an introduction into BGP and how it is used in the current internet for global policy routing. Some hands one experiments will give students a practical understanding how BGP is being used by Internet Service Providers. * BGP Analysis and Simulation (Bruno Quoitin) The purpose of the BGP Analysis and Simulation session is to get some hands on real world BGP data and analysis/simulation tools. In a first step, we will briefly review the prominent BGP-related data formats and analysis/simulaton tools. We will show what kind of analysis they allow to perform, what research results have been published and what are the limitations. In a second step, we will perform some basic analysis of data collected in the Abilene backbone as well as by the RouteViews and RIPE RCC projects. Basic notions of one scripting language such as Perl or Python are assumed for this part. Finally, we will learn step-by-step how to build a model of a BGP network. For this purpose, we will rely on the C-BGP simulator. We will build a model of a simple transit network (the Abilene backbone network) as well as a model of a large-scale Internet-like network. Based on these models, we will experiment advanced traffic engineering configurations. Topic #2: Packet Capturing and Time Series Storage (CAPTIME) * Storing time series data with RRDtool (Tobi Oetiker) The first step is to find ways to acquire interesting data. Once the data is here, the challenge is to find a sensible way to store, analyze and present it. RRDtool helps you with these tasks. The class will give you an overview of RRDtool's capabilities and some insights into the finer points of this tool. The lab exercises will focus on applying RRDtool to store and graph data you acquired yourself, allowing you to quickly write your own monitoring application. * Monitoring Traffic with ntop (Luca Deri) This class will introduce students to network traffic monitoring and cover the design and implementation of ntop, a popular open-source application developed by the instructor. ntop is able to collect traffic from various sources including packet traces, live network feeds, NetFlow and sFlow sources. Traffic metrics and statistics are saved on disk in RRD format for historical and trend analysis. The lab exercise will show students how to use ntop for effective traffic monitoring. Topic #3: Flow Export and Visualization (FLOWVIZ) Netflow data is information collected and exported by routers about IP flows transiting through them. The most classical definition of a flow (although not the only one) is "packets with the same 5-tuple: src IP, dst IP, src port, dst port, protocol". Information about the volume and duration of flows can be used for several different applications, ranging from billing, to traffic engineering and planning, to performance troubleshooting, and security. All these applications can rely on a common Netflow exporting and collection platform, while the Netflow processing tools may differ. In this FLOWVIZ module we first give the high level picture of what Netflow data is, and what are the fundamental functional blocks involved in its generation, collection and analysis. We then enter in some details about the main challenges associated when these modules have to be mapped with real equipments, particularly in high-speed networks. After that, we look in more detail at the current and forthcoming standards for representing per flow information: we will explore the main evolution of Cisco Netflow through its most used versions (v5, v8 and v9) and how the IETF IPFIX (IP Flow Information eXport) Working Group undertook the challenge of evolving a proprietary (though widely deployed) industry standard (Netflow) into an official IETF standard. We then move to presenting how Netflow data is collected, bringing the concrete examples of SWITCH (the Swiss National Research and Educational Network) and GEANT2 (the European backbone network for education and research). The collected Netflow data needs then to be analysed by appropriate tools. Since there are tenths of such tools, both commercial and open source, sometimes very application specific, we can just give a quick overview and adequate references. We get on the contrary in the details of nfdump-NfSen, the flow collection, visualization and analysis tool developed by Peter Haag at SWITCH. Nfdump and NfSen were developed with the daily security tasks of a CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) in mind. We will explain nfdump, the command line tool, and how to look at the traffic. NfSen, on top of nfdump, is the web based graphical interface, as well as the toolbox for further flow processing. We will give an overview on how to use the web interface, including how plugins work and how to write them. The Lab part of the FLOWIZ module consists of two different sections - the nfdump hands-on part and the NfSen hands-on part. Each students will have it's own environment based on UBUNTU Linux (VMware Image) with all tools and netflow data preinstalled. All netflow data is taken from a real live network and is anonymised. The students get used to work with nfdump, the command line tool, to search for top talkers, bandwidth consumers and further more. NfSen will run in simulation mode, so all NfSen exercises can be repeated many times. Students will have the opportunity to investigate unusual network behaviour, digging into the details with nfdump and NfSen. Organizers: ----------- * Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany * Bendick Mahleko, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany * Radu State, LORIA - INRIA Loraine, Nancy, France Sponsors: --------- * EMANICS <http://www.emanics.org/> /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <http://www.jacobs-university.de/> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for papers -- Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal, Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks]
by Lars Wolf 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for papers -- Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal, Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks Datum: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:28:09 -0400 Von: Zhang, Liqiang <liqzhang(a)iusb.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal http:/www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang/comcom/wimesh.htm Full papers due: August 31, 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 research efforts 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. The special issue seeks original and unpublished papers that address theoretical and experimental work at all layers of wireless mesh networks. Papers are solicited from, but are not limited to, the following topics: Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh networking MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond) Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols Topology construction and maintenance Physical layer techniques Cross layer optimizations Testbed, prototype, and practical systems Methods and tools for wireless mesh networks simulation Modeling and performance evaluations for wireless mesh networks Security-related issues in wireless mesh networks Quality of Service and multimedia communications over wireless mesh networks Intelligent system techniques for wireless mesh networks Novel applications of wireless mesh networks Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms Self-organization, self-configuration network architectures Wireless LAN, PAN, MAN and WAN Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Full papers due: August 31, 2007 Notification of acceptance: December 31, 2007 Cameral-ready due: February 29, 2008 Publication date: Spring/Summer 2008 SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW GUIDELINES --------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting recent developments in the topics related to the special issue. The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Parallel submissions will not be accepted. All submitted papers, if relevant to the theme and objectives of the special issue, will go through an external peer-review process. Submitting a paper implies the willingness of reviewing one paper submitted to the special issue. Submissions should include an abstract, 5-10 key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The paper length should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages including figures and references on 8.5 by 11 inch paper using at least 11 point font. For more information, please contact guest co-editors. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted via the journal's online submission and peer-review system at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/comcom. A prospective author should 1. Register in EES (follow the instructions on the site) 2. Select: Submit Manuscript from Main Menu 3. When choosing Article Type, please select the title of the special issue ("Wireless Mesh Networks" for this Special issue submission) you are submitting to. GUEST EDITORS ------------- Dr. Xiaobo Zhou Dept. of Computer Science University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, CO 80933 Email: zbo(a)cs.uccs.edu Dr. Liqiang Zhang Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences Indiana University South Bend South Bend, IN 46615 Email: liqzhang(a)cs.iusb.edu ************************************************************************ **************** _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: HotNets-VI Call For Papers]
by Lars Wolf 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: HotNets-VI Call For Papers Datum: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:08:29 -0400 Von: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> Antwort an: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> An: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Call for Papers The Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-VI), to be held in Atlanta, GA, will bring together researchers in the networking systems community to engage in lively discussion of future trends in networking research and technology. The workshop, which is sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM, provides a venue for researchers to present and discuss ideas that have the potential to significantly influence the community in the long term; the goal is to promote community-wide discussions of those ideas. Each potential participant should submit a short position paper describing such an idea. The paper could, for example, expose a new problem, advocate a new solution, or re-frame or debunk existing work. We encourage submissions of early work, with novel and interesting ideas, across the broad range of networking systems research. We expect that work introduced at HotNets-VI, once fully thought through, completed, and described in a finished form, may be relevant to conferences such as SIGCOMM, NSDI, SOSP, OSDI, SenSys, or MobiCom. Topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to: A research agenda for Web 2.0 Architectural support for security or availability Computing in the cloud: what role for networking research? Ensuring correctness for distributed protocols Evolution of storage area networks Lessons drawn from failed research, and controversial or disruptive topics Measurement and management of metro-area WiFi networks Network coding: hype or reality? Power as a first-class design property; "green" protocols/implementations Protocol design for optical switching The future role of network processors Third-world networking challenges Understanding the economics of operational costs Unique challenges of massive multi-player game systems Validation of measurement-based research: what are our standards? Position papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of spawning insightful discussion and technical merit. Online copies of accepted position papers will be made publicly available via the Web prior to the workshop, and printed proceedings will be published. Additionally, a workshop summary will be published in ACM SIGCOMM's Computer Communication Review (CCR), widely disseminating the ideas discussed at the workshop. Attendance will be limited to around 60 people in order to ensure an interactive workshop atmosphere. Invitations to attend the workshop will be extended according to the following priorities: o the Program and Steering Committees, one author per paper, and any speakers invited by the Program Committee o co-authors of accepted and submitted papers, preferring students as available scholarships allow o event-sponsor representatives and additional authors of submitted papers at the discretion of the Program Committee The workshop will be held at the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, which is the new home of the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/klaus/), in the Midtown area of Atlanta. Hotnets-VI is sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM and NSF. Submission Instructions Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages (10 point font, 1 inch margins). Authors may choose to submit a blind or non-blind paper. A blind submission will not indicate the names or affiliations of the authors in the paper; a non-blind submission will include the names and affiliations of each author on the first page of the paper. Only electronic submissions in PostScript or PDF will be accepted. Submissions must be written in English, render without error using standard tools (Ghostview or Acrobat Reader), and print on US-Letter sized paper. Please number your pages. HotNets-VI reviews will follow standard academic practice, although some rejected papers may not receive full-length reviews. Submission information will be posted by mid-July at http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/HotNets-VI Important Dates Submissions due: Friday, 3 August 2007 (11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time) No extensions will be granted. Notification of acceptance: Monday, 1 October 2007 Camera-ready copy due: Wednesday, 24 October 2007 Workshop (Atlanta, GA): Wednesday-Thursday, 14-15 November 2007 Organizers: General Chair Constantine Dovrolis, Georgia Tech Program Committee David Andersen, CMU Dave Clark, MIT Krishna Gummadi, MPI-SWS Kevin Jeffay, UNC Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan Craig Partridge, BBN Vern Paxson, ICSI/LBNL (co-chair) Stefan Savage, UCSD (co-chair) Nina Taft, Intel Research Alec Wolman, Microsoft Research

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CAMAD 2007 - LAST Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CAMAD 2007 - LAST Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:14:10 +0300 Von: Helen Karatza <karatza(a)csd.auth.gr> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD '07) Athens, Greece, 7 September, 2007 Part of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2007) Athens, Greece, 3-7 September, 2007 www.pimrc2007.org Endorsed by Communications Systems Integration and Modeling, and Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committees of IEEE ComSoc **************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: 15 June 2007 Notification: 15 July 2007 Camera Ready due: 30 July 2007 Scope of CAMAD 2007: ==================== The 12th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) provides a forum for discussion of recent developments on analytical and simulation tools and techniques for the performance evaluation of communications systems. The workshop launched in 1986 and organized every 2 years thereafter is often held in cooperation with flagship IEEE Communication Society conferences (Int. Conference on Communications - ICC, Global Telecommunication Conference - GLOBECOM). Last CAMAD'06 was a two days stand-alone event, held in the beautiful city of Trento, just before ICC 2006 (Istanbul, Turkey). CAMAD '07 is an effort to establish the workshop as an annual event motivated by the ever increasing interest in this hot research and development field. The workshop is soliciting papers describing original work, unpublished and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, on topics, including but not limited to, the following: * Modeling and Simulation techniques for Integrated Communication Systems * Traffic Engineering and Analysis * Traffic Modeling * Network Measurements * Simulation techniques for large-scale Networks * Simulation and Fast Simulation Techniques for Communication Networks * Validation of Simulation Models with Measurements * Network Optimization and Resource Provisioning * Next Generation Internet * Overlay and Virtual Networks * Autonomic Communication Systems * Cross-Layer & Cross-System Protocol Design * Network Monitoring * Modeling and Design of Network Services and Systems * Wireless, Mobile, Ad hoc and Sensor Networks * Modeling and Design of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks * Seamless Integration of Wireless, Cellular and Broadcasting Networks with Internet * Design of Satellite Networks * Integration of Terrestrial and Satellite Networks The event is Part of IEEE PIMRC 2007, and is endorsed by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committees on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM) and Satellite and Space Communications (SSC). Submission Information: ======================= Prospective authors are invited to submit full paper of not more than eight (8) IEEE style pages including results, figures and references. For submission please go to PIMRC 2007 website (http://www.pimrc2007.org/) and select 'Workshop paper submission instructions' ( that can be found at http://www.pimrc2007.org/econf2/en/site.action?contentid=41&module=) for directions on submitting your contribution. Papers will be reviewed with the standard reviewing procedure (each paper being sent to at least 3 independent anonymous reviewers). Accepted papers will be published within PIMRC 2007 proceedings and on IEEExplore. The best accepted paper will receive the Best Paper Award, sponsored by IEEE ComSoc CSIM Technical Committee. General Chair ============== Charalabos Skianis, NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece Technical Program Co-Chairs =========================== Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy Publication Chair ================= George Kormentzas, University of Aegean, Greece Steering Committee Chair ======================== Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State Univ., USA Steering Committee ================== Nelson L.S. da Fonseca, UNICAMP, Brazil Fabrizio Granelli, Univ. of Trento, Italy Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France Hussein Mouftah, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Technical Program Committee ============================ Fatih Alagoz (Bogazici Univ., Turkey) Igor Bisio (Univ. of Genoa, Italy) Giulia Boato (Univ. of Trento, Italy) Stephen Bush (GE Global Research Center, USA) Carlo Caini (Univ. of Bologna, Italy) Periklis Chatzimisios (TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece) Nelson Fonseca (State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil) Luiz A. Da Silva (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA) Tomaso De Cola (CNIT - Univ. of Genoa, Italy) Spyros Denazis (Hitachi Europe, France) Michael Devetsikiotis (NCSU, USA) Christos Douligeris (Univ. of Piraeus, Greece) Rachid El Azouzi (Univ. of Avignon, France) Marc Emmelmann (Tech. Univ. of Berlin, Germany) Victor Frost (Univ. Kansas, USA) Stefano Giordano (Univ. of Pisa, Italy) Fabrizio Granelli (Univ. of Trento, Italy) Rose Qingyang Hu (Mississippi State Univ., USA) Changcheng Huang (Carleton University, Canada) Abbas Jamalipour (Univ. of Sydney, Australia) Athanasios Kanatas (Univ. of Piraeus, Greece) Dzmitry Kliazovich (Univ. of Trento, Italy) Kimon Kontovasilis (NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece) Anastasios Kourtis (NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece) Fotios Lazarakis (NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece) Georgios Lazarou (Mississippi State Univ., USA) Jie Li (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Renato Lo Cigno (Univ. of Trento, Italy) Pascal Lorenz (Univ. of Haute Alsace, France) Alexander Markhasin (Siberian State Univ. of Telecom. and Information Sciences, Russia) Ahmed Mehaoua (U. of Paris - Rene Descartes, France) Mohammad S. Obaidat (Monmouth Univ., USA) Ibrahim Onyuksel (Northern Illinois Univ., USA) Evangelos Pallis (CTRC, Greece) Otilia Popescu (Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA) Neeli Prasad (Aalborg Univ., Denmark) Helena Szczerbicka (Univ. of Hannover, Germany) Petia Todorova (Fraunhofer-FOKUS, Germany) Ahmed Toufik (LaBRI-Univ. of Bordeaux I, France) Ljiljana Trajkovic (Simon Fraser Univ., Canada) Vassilis Tsaoussidis (Demokritos Univ., Greece) Maria-Angeles Vazquez Castro (UAB, Spain) Steven Wright (BellSouth, USA) ----------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] Call for papers for MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 08)]
by Lars Wolf 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] Call for papers for MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 08) Datum: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:19:36 +0200 Von: Frank Nack <Frank.Nack(a)CWI.NL> Antwort an: Frank Nack <Frank.Nack(a)CWI.NL> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS The 14 th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2008) Kyoto, Japan, 9 - 11 January 2008 http://research.nii.ac.jp/mmm2008/ The International MultiMedia Modeling (MMM) Conference is a leading international conference http://research.nii.ac.jp/mmm2008/ for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. The conference calls for original high-quality papers in, but not limited to, the following areas related to multimedia modeling technologies and applications: 1. Multimedia Content Analysis * Image/Video/Audio Content Analysis * Media Assimilation and Fusion * Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval and Browsing * Multimedia Indexing * Multimedia Abstraction and Summarization * Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Data * Statistical Modeling of Multimedia Data 2. Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications * Media Representation and Algorithms * Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression * Multimedia Database, Content Delivery and Transport * Multimedia Security and Content Protection * Wireless and Mobile Multimedia * Multimedia Standards and Related Issues 3. Multimedia Applications and Services * Real-Time, Interactive Multimedia Applications * Ambiance Multimedia Applications * Multi-Modal Interaction * Virtual Environments * Personalization * Collaboration, Contextual Metadata, Collaborative Tagging * Web Applications * Multimedia Authoring * Multimedia-Enabled New Applications (E-Learning, Entertainment, Health Care, Web2.0, SNS, etc.) Paper Submission Guidelines Papers should be less than 10 pages in length, conforming to the formatting instructions of Springer Verlag, LNCS series www.springer.com/lncs. Papers will be judged by an international program committee based on their originality, significance, correctness and clarity. All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through the MMM2008 Paper Submission Website: http://research.nii.ac.jp/mmm2008/. To publish the paper in the conference, one of the authors needs to register and present the paper in the conference. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to "The Visual Computer" journal. Important Dates Submission of full papers : 6 Jul. 2007 (23:59 Japan Standard Time (GMT+9)) Notification of acceptance : 10 Sep. 2007 Camera-ready Copy Due : 5 Oct. 2007 Author registration : 5 Oct. 2007 Conference : 9 -11 Jan. 2008 General Co-Chairs Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Noboru Babaguchi, Osaka University, Japan Program Co-Chairs Shin’ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Minoru Etoh, NTT DoCoMo Research Laboratories, Japan Frank Nack, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

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