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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (SOSP'07 Call for Papers)]
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (SOSP'07 Call for Papers) Datum: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:37:37 -0700 Von: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Antwort an: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> An: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles October 14-17, 2007 Skamania Lodge Stevenson, WA www.sosp2007.org General chair Thomas C. Bressoud, Denison University bressoud(a)denison.edu, (740) 587-5630 Program chair M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT kaashoek(a)csail.mit.edu Sponsored by ACM SIGOPS Authors are invited to submit papers to the 21st SOSP reporting on original research related to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of operating systems. We seek submissions of high quality that significantly further the knowledge and understanding of the systems community. In keeping with SOSP tradition, we will favor work that explores new territory, continues a significant research dialog, or reflects on experience with practical applications of the community's knowledge. Papers of particular merit will be forwarded to ACM Transactions on Computer Systems for possible publication in a special issue. The symposium attracts attendees with diverse backgrounds. We solicit papers in the traditional core of the operating system field, as well as in the interfaces to areas such as computer architecture, networking, programming languages, and databases. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: Robustness of complex systems Mobile computing Scalability and performance Fault tolerant computing Security Power management Storage systems Sensor networks I/O architectures Web services Overlay networks Empirical studies Virtualization System management A good paper will demonstrate that the authors: * are attacking a significant problem, * have devised an interesting, compelling solution, * have demonstrated the practicality and benefits of the solution, * have drawn appropriate conclusions, * have clearly described what they have done, and * have clearly articulated the advances beyond previous work. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. In addition to citing relevant, published work, authors should relate their SOSP submissions to relevant submissions of their own that are simultaneously under review for this or other venues. The SOSP PC reserves the right to ask authors to provide copies of related simultaneously-submitted papers. Submissions will be done electronically. Detailed instructions for the submission process will be posted on the conference Web site, <www.sosp2007.org>. Submitted papers must be no longer than fourteen (14) 8.5"x11" or A4 pages in a typeface no smaller than 10 point. The page limit includes everything: references, title page, figures, appendices, etc. Authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions, and not identify themselves either explicitly or by implication (e.g., through the references or acknowledgments). Submissions violating the detailed formatting and anonymization rules on the Web site will not be considered for publication. There will be no extensions for reformatting. Blind reviewing of full papers will be done by the program committee, with limited use of outside referees. Papers will be provisionally accepted subject to revision and approval by a program committee member acting as a shepherd. On acceptance, authors will be required to sign an ACM copyright release form. Your submission indicates that you agree to this. Papers will be held in full confidence during the reviewing process, but papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be rejected without review. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to supply electronic versions of their papers and encouraged to supply source code and raw data to help others replicate and better understand their results. There will be a scholarship program to support student registration and attendance. Details will be posted on the Web site. Important Dates Deadline to register abstracts March 11, 2007 Submission deadline (HARD, NO EXTENSIONS) March 18, 2007 Acceptance notification June 22, 2007 (tentative) Camera-ready deadline Aug 5, 2007 (tentative) Program Committee Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, U. Wisconsin Andrew Myers, Cornell Paul Barham, Microsoft Research Jeff Mogul, HP Labs Peter Chen, U. Michigan Vivek Pai, Princeton Mike Dahlin, U. Texas Adrian Perrig, CMU Jeff Dean, Google Sharon Perl, Google Richard Draves, Microsoft Research Sylvia Ratnasamy, Intel Peter Druschel, MPI-SWS Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford Carla Ellis, Duke Mema Roussopoulos, Harvard Hermann Haertig, TU Dresden Stefan Savage, UC San Diego M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT Michael Schroeder, Microsoft Research Orran Krieger, IBM Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley Hank Levy, U. Washington Yuanyuan Zhou, U. Illinois David Mazieres, Stanford WeiMin Zheng, Tsinghua U. Conference organizers General Chair: Thomas C. Bressoud, Denison University Local Arrangements: Jonathan Walpole, Portland State University Sponsorships: Jacob R. Lorch, Microsoft Research Publicity: Jason Flinn, University of Michigan Scholarship committee: Robbert van Renesse & Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs). Finally, this mailing list is made available for use by publicity chairs of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and the SIGOPS officers. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command (paste it!) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To unsubscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To get more information about manipulating your subscription to this list, go to http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/doc.html To contact the owner of the list or to report a problem with the list, email SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-request(a)ACM.ORG To request that an announcement be included in monthly mailings, go to http://sysnet.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CFP: EvoCOMNET 2007]
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACF-Members: CFP: EvoCOMNET 2007 Datum: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:05:13 +0200 Von: Di Caro Gianni <gianni(a)idsia.ch> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org ****** EvoComNet2007 ****** 4th European Workshop on the application of Nature-inspired techniques to Telecommunication Networks and other Connected Systems Valencia, Spain, April 11-13, 2007 --------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: 10 November 2006 Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2006 Camera ready papers: 08 January 2007 --------------------------------------------- http://www.evostar.org/ EvoCOMNET 2007 is the fourth European Workshop on the application of Nature-inspired techniques to networked systems, with special emphasis to telecommunication networks. EvoCOMNET 2007 is part of EVO*, that joins the Europe's premier co-located events in the field of Evolutionary Computing and Nature-inspired techniques. The rapid advances in computing and transmission technologies are giving impetus to the large-scale deployment of interconnected systems for communication and transport of data, voice, video and resources. The global Internet, and cellular, satellite, and Wi-Fi networks, as well as power and logistic networks, just to mention a few remarkable examples, are at the same time ubiquitous and at the very heart of the functioning and success of modern societies. On the other hand, all these networks are increasingly heterogeneous, complex, and dynamic, such as they present a number of challenging issues concerning their analysis and design, management and control, robustness and security. Biological systems show a number of properties, such as self-organization, adaptivity, scalability, robustness, autonomy, locality of interactions, distribution, which are highly desirable to deal with the growing complexity of current and future networks. Therefore, in recent years a growing number of effective solutions for problems related to networked systems have been proposed by taking inspiration from the observation of natural systems and processes such as natural selection, insect societies, immune systems, cultural systems, collective behaviors of groups of animals/cells, etc. The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum to present the cutting edge research on Nature-inspired approaches to network-related problems. The workshop sought to provide a deep insight into the effective potentialities of Nature-inspired design to tackle the numerous problems arising in networked systems, and, in particular, in modern telecommunication networks. ------------------------------------ Areas of Interests and Contributions ------------------------------------ EvoCOMNET 2007 solicits contributions dealing with the application of ideas from natural processes and systems to the solution of problems of practical and/or theoretical interests in all domains related to the analysis, design, control, management, protection, and testing of network systems. All systems based on a physical network structure and/or on an abstract network model are of interest for the workshop. The scope of the workshop emphasizes the following domains: * Communication systems: telecommunications; mobile, satellite, optical, and voice communications; personal communication systems; switching and routing; transmission systems; access systems; communication systems simulation; station and antenna design; information and speech processing; intrusion detection; error control coding; compression and cryptography; propagation and channel modelling; protocol design; etc. * Networks: networks and graph problems; unconstrained and constrained network design problems; network flows; network and computer security; Internet problems; electrical, power, and data networks; computer networks; location and link design; reliability and failure; corporate network design; location placement; network physical and software architecture; network hardware and software technologies; operations, maintenance, and management; signalling and control; active networks; network services and applications; etc. * Wireless networks: mesh networks; mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs); peer to peer mobile networks; sensor area networks; GSM/GPRS networks; energy efficient and techniques and QoS for MANETs and sensor area networks; real world implementations; network services and applications in wireless mobile networks; security in wireless networks; hybrid networks; intelligent mobile agents for network control and management; RFID based systems; robotic networks; etc. * Connected systems: network problems in non-technical environments; manufacturing, distribution and logistics networks; supply and disposal networks; inter-personal communication; communication analysis; inter-organisational communication; supply chains; information networks; etc. * Formal methods and techniques: formal techniques and methods to model the behavior and working of above-mentioned systems. - Particularly welcomed are submissions contributing with: * Applications of Nature-inspired techniques (e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Ant Algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Immune Systems, Cultural Algorithms, etc.) to novel network-related problems * Definition of novel Nature-inspired techniques and/or general frameworks specifically addressing network challenges * Detailed comparative studies of Nature-inspired solutions versus more classical/established techniques * Analytical studies of the behavior and working of the proposed solutions * Real-world implementations * Studies based on real-world data sets * Live demonstrations of algorithm behavior -------------------- Submission procedure -------------------- High quality papers are sought on the topics related to the focus of the workshop, ranging from theoretical work to innovative applications. Submitted papers must be a maximum of TEN A4 pages long and must conform to Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science format for multi-author proceedings. Please download the LNCS package for proceedings directly from the Springer web site. The reviewing process is DOUBLE BLIND. Authors should remove their names from submitted papers, and avoid statements and references that would identify the authors. Papers must be submitted using the conference management software. Please follow the instructions on the web site ----------- Publication ----------- All the peer-reviewed papers accepted in the EVO* workshops will be published in the volume "Applications of Evolutionary Computing" in Springer's LNCS series. We will also consider the possibility to arrange a journal special issue with the best papers submitted. --------------- Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: 10 November 2006 (deadline extended!) Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2006 Camera ready papers: 8 January 2007 Events: 11-13 April 2007 ---------------- Workshop Chairs ---------------- Muddassar Farooq Informatik III 44221 Dortmund Germany muddassar.farooq(a)udo.edu Gianni Di Caro IDSIA Galleria 2 6928 Manno-Lugano Switzerland gianni(a)idsia.ch -------------------------- Workshop Program Committee -------------------------- Payman ARABSHAHI - University of Washington (USA) Eric BONABEAU - Icosystem Corp. (USA) Frederick DUCATELLE - IDSIA, Lugano (Switzerland) Luca M. GAMBARDELLA - IDSIA, Lugano (Switzerland) Jin-Kao HAO - University of Angers (France) Marc HEISSENBUETTEL - Swisscom Mobile Ltd. (Switzerland) Malcolm I. HEYWOOD - Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada) Nur ZINCIR-HEYWOOD - Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada) Bryant JULSTROM - St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud (USA) Vittorio MANIEZZO - University of Bologna (Italy) Alcherio MARTINOLI - EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland) Jose' Luis MARZO - University of Girona (Spain) Ronaldo MENEZES - Florida Tech., Melbourne (USA) Roberto MONTEMANNI - IDSIA (Switzerland) Martin ROTH - Deutsche Telekom Ltd., Berlin (Germany) Leon ROTHKRANTZ - Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) Chien-Chung SHEN - University of Delaware, Newark (USA) Kwang M. SIM - Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong) Mark C. SINCLAIR - Royal University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia) George D. SMITH - University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK) Christian TSCHUDIN - University of Basel (Switzerland) Tony WHITE - Carleton University, Ottawa (Canada) Yong XU - University of Birmingham (UK) Lidia YAMAMOTO - University of Basel (Switzerland) Franco ZAMBONELLI - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia (Italy) +++++++++ posted to acf-members by "Di Caro Gianni" <gianni(a)idsia.ch> +++++++++

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP-NETWORKING2007: DEADLINE EXTENDED to November 15, 2006: 6th IFIP International Conference on Networking]
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP-NETWORKING2007: DEADLINE EXTENDED to November 15, 2006: 6th IFIP International Conference on Networking Datum: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:40:59 +0300 Von: Ozgur B. Akan <akan(a)ece.gatech.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [*** Submission Deadline has been *extended* to November 15, 2006 ***] We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** ******** Networking 2007 ******** ****** ****** **** IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6) **** ** International Conference on Networking ** * * * May 14-18, 2007 * * Georgia Tech Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA * * * * http://www.ifip-networking.org * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * ********************************************************************** Networking 2007 is the sixth event in a series of International Conferences on Networking, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC 6). The main objectives of Networking 2007 are to bring together active and proficient members of the networking community, from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances in this broad and fast-evolving field of telecommunications, and to highlight key-issues, identify trends and refresh vision in the field of telecommunications. The conference objectives will be pursued through technical sessions, keynote talks, and tutorials offered by invited experts, as well as panel discussions on hot topics. The technical sessions will be structured into three tracks. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking. Topics include, but are not limited to: (1) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: =============================== Authentication and security; Algorithms and protocols; Admission control; Data dissemination; Environment monitoring; Energy and resource consumption; Fault tolerance and error recovery; Interconnection of ad hoc / wired networks; Localization; Location services; MAC protocols; Mesh networks; Mobility; Modeling and performance evaluation; Network reconfiguration; Power management; Quality of Service; Resource allocation; Routing; Scheduling; Self-organization; Time synchronization; Traffic shaping; (2) Wireless Networks: ====================== Broadband wireless access; Cellular networks ( 2G, 2.5G, 3G and Beyond); Cross-layer design and optimization; Location management; Handoff; Ubiquitous networks; Hybrid networks; Interworking of 2G, 3G, 4G Mobile IP networks; Mobile networks architecture and protocols; Mobility models; Multimedia over wireless; Overlay networks; Quality of Service; Standards and Protocols; Wireless local and personal area networks; Wireless multimedia systems; Wireless protocols; Wireless authentication and security; Wireless network modeling, algorithms, and simulation; Wireless network reliability; Wireless LAN/MAN/WAN interoperability; (3) Next Generation Internet: ============================= All-IP networking; Congestion control; Evolution of IP network architecture; Multilayer design and optimization; MPLS and GMPLS; Multicasting; Multimedia protocols; Network management systems; Network measurements and testbeds; Network modeling and simulation; Peer-to-peer networks; Pricing, billing, and economic models; Quality of Service; Real-time voice / video over IP networks; Resource allocation; Routing and switching; Scheduling and queue management; Traffic engineering; Traffic management; Traffic modeling; Web architecture and protocols; Important Dates: ================ Submission deadline :*(Extended)* November 15, 2006 (11:59pm EDT) Notification of acceptance : February 1, 2007 Camera-ready version : February 21, 2007 Submission Details: =================== Authors are invited to submit full papers including references, figures, and tables, of up to 6 pages, double-column format, with minimum 10-point font, 2.5cm margins at the top, bottom, and on each side. Papers must be submitted electronically via EDAS. Detailed submission instructions are available on the conference website. All papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper. Organization Committee: ======================= General Co-Chairs: ------------------ Ian F. Akyildiz Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Raghupathy Sivakumar Georgia Institute of Technology, USA TPC Co-Chairs: -------------- Eylem Ekici Ohio State University, USA Janise McNair University of Florida, USA Jaudelice de Oliveira Drexel University, USA For more information about the conference, see http://www.ifip-networking.org/ -- Dr. Ozgur B. Akan Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey 06531 Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 1261 E-mail: akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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New2an CFP
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

The 7th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking NEW2AN 2007 http://www.new2an.org/ September 3 - 7, 2007 St.Petersburg, Russia CALL FOR PAPERS About the Conference Next-generation mobile networks will evolve out of existing wired and wireless networks of different nature by means of convergence, fusion and mutual penetration; next-generation multimedia services in turn pose new requirements and challenges on treatment of traffic within communication networks. This forms a framework on harmonization of results obtained separately in different areas of network research like network performance evaluation, architecture and protocol design, and low layer network design. The conference goal is in the identification, investigation and integration of new algorithms, approaches, architectures, methods and mechanisms to enable proper and efficient operation of a next-generation IP-based wireless network. Special emphasis will be given to next-generation traffic issues, it indeed remains true that much uncertainty surrounds the future traffic features and volumes, mainly because of converged type of traffic resulted from converged network operation under converged services and applications. Moreover, wireless access networks and their interaction shall be widely examined and addressed throughout the conference. Since the middle of the 1990s a sequence of seminars and conferences sponsored by International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) have been successfully organized in Saint-Petersburg. The meeting point between east and west, the mutual history and experience can be seen and felt in the host country and the beautiful city. Topics of interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * New Teletraffic and Network Traffic Challenges and Paradigms * Emerging Teletraffic Models and Tools * Future Internet Services: Teletraffic and Performance Issues * Traffic Classification and Characterization * Performance Evaluation of Mobile and Wireless Networks * Multidisciplinary Approaches for Traffic Analysis and Management * Traffic Engineering & QoS in all-IP Networks * Network Modeling, Simulation, Emulation and Tomography * Network Planning and Network Engineering * Resource Management and Congestion control * Traffic and performance monitoring in Future Networks * Overlay Networks * 3G and Beyond Networks * Autonomous Communications * Ad hoc and Sensor Networks * Wireless Mesh and Multi-Hop Networks * Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks * Wireless Protocols * Mobility Management * Medium Access Control Protocols and Scheduling Techniques for Wireless Systems * Cross-layer Interactions * Applications for Multimedia-enabled Wired And Wireless all-IP Networks * Network Security * AAA, pricing, charging and billing for Wireless Technologies Paper submission Authors are invited to submit full papers in English of not more than 20 double-spaced pages, 12 pt font size. All papers must include a title, complete contact information for all authors, and keywords on the cover page. The corresponding author should be identified clearly. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via on-line submission procedure. Proceedings will be published by LNCS Springer (pending). Selected best papers will appear in a journal special issue. Important dates Paper submission April 04, 2007 Notification of acceptance May 29, 2007 Camera ready version June 12, 2007 Conference dates September 3 - 7 , 2007 The Conference is organized by Tampere University of Technology (Finland) and Baltic IT (Russia) in cooperation with ITC (International Teletraffic Congress), Popov Society, IEEE (Pending), COST 290 and support of NOKIA. For further and up-to-date information please visit official web page of the Conference http://www.new2an.org

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[Fwd: CFP#4: Journal of Computer Communications: Special Issue on Foundations of P2P Computing]
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP#4: Journal of Computer Communications: Special Issue on Foundations of P2P Computing Datum: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:29:58 -0400 Von: Editorial Help <editor(a)cs.kent.edu> An: tcgn(a)comsoc.org *Apology if you have received multiple copies. ******************************************************************* Call for Papers – Special Issue on Foundations of Peer-to-Peer Computing: Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications • Submission Deadline: October 28, 2006 Website: http://www.cs.kent.edu/~editor/jcompcomm06-p2p/ Guest Editors: Javed I. Khan & Adam Wierzbicki ________________________________________ Peer-to-peer computing has quite conspicuously emerged as one of the most innovation rich areas in computer networking. P2P has emerged out of user community but it is increasingly finding its base on rich foundation of computing. Various aspects of peer-to-peer systems are now being modeled, formalized, and even engineered based on distributed hashing, complex search models, self-organization, complex networking, and graph theories. The objective of this special issue of the Journal of Computer & Communication is to highlight recent innovative research results which will strengthen the formal foundation of this area. ________________________________________ The special issue invites papers from diverse P2P community ranging from practitioners, system builders, networking researchers, computing engineers, as well as social scientists. Authors from these divergent communities are encouraged to submit high-quality and original works. The review process of this special issue will be respectful to the difference in the scientific methodologies used by the communities. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to the following: P2P systems, practice & performance • Case study architectures • Performance analysis of existing systems • Distributed hashing, routing, advanced & special search • Self-organization neighborhood optimization • Fault tolerance, stability, churning • Privacy and security P2P overlay networks • Publish/subscribe & event routing overlays • Multicast optimization • Multimedia and streaming overlays Social engineering • Reputation and trust functions. • Social engineering • Virtual communities on P2P: socials study • Study of P2P virtual networks Applications • File sharing, distributed storage/caching, backup storage. • News feed • P2P games, online auction. • Multimedia streaming, distribution. • Anonymous systems ________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES • Submission: October 28, 2006 • Acceptance decision: February 6, 2007 • Final paper due: March 6, 2007 • Publication date: Spring 2007 ________________________________________ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are request to submit the manuscript electronically by using online manuscript submission. The manuscript should be original, previously unpublished and should not be under concurrent submission elsewhere. To submit your manuscript please logon at http://authors.elsevier.com/journal/comcom. Then select article type “SI: Foundation of Peer-to-Peer Computing”, and follow the instructions. For any query about the special issue feel free to contact the guest editor at: Prof. Javed I. Khan javed(a)kent.edu Department of Computer Science Kent State University 233 MSB, Kent, OH-44242 Prof. Adam Wierzbicki adamw(a)pjwstk.edu.pl Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology Ul. Koszykowa 86 02-008 Warsaw, Poland ******************************************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a closed mailing list exclusively for the business of the IEEE ComSoc TCGN. As a member of the list you are encouraged to use it for all messages that meet this general criteria. To make this list "self correcting" please send any concern you may have to mailmanager(a)comsoc.org. You can leave this list by sending a blank email from the address you are subscribed under to tcgn-remove(a)comsoc.org.

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[Fwd: www2007info WWW2007 Newsletter -- October Issue]
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: www2007info WWW2007 Newsletter -- October Issue Datum: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:53:11 -0600 Von: www2007announce(a)iw3c2.org Antwort an: www2007info(a)iw3c2.org An: www2007announce(a)iw3c2.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WWW2007 Newsletter -- October/06 Issue ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is the third issue of the WWW2007 Newsletter. In this issue: 1. Paper submissions due November 20 2. Tutorial proposals due November 27 3. Two new Silver Sponsors confirmed 4. Super EarlyBird Passports still available 5. The Banff Springs Hotel awaits you ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Paper submissions due November 20 ------------------------------------ The deadline for paper submissions to WWW2007 is less than a month away! WWW2007 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. All refereed papers must be submitted on or before November 20, 2006 (by 11:59pm Hawaii time). This is a hard deadline: NO EXTENSIONS!! In addition to regular papers, we also solicit submissions of position papers articulating high-level architectural visions, describing challenging future directions, or critiquing current design wisdom. The WWW2007 technical program will be divided into 13 tracks, and authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an enhanced version of their work for a special issue of the ACM Transactions on the Web. The Call For Papers, with the complete list of research tracks, program committee members, as well as formatting and submission details can be found at http://www2007.org/cfp.php 2. Tutorial proposals due November 27 ------------------------------------- The deadline for submitting Tutorial proposals to WWW2007 is also fast approaching. Tutorial proposals are desired for both half-day and full-day sessions on topics of current and ongoing relevance to Web design, services, operation, use, and evaluation. Proposals must clearly identify the learning objectives, the target audience, the relevance to the WWW2007 audience, references to relevant material, and a short biography of the presenter(s). The deadline for submitting Tutorial proposals is November 27, 2006. Formatting and submission instructions can be found at http://www2007.org/prog-Tutorials.php 3. Two new Silver Sponsors confirmed ------------------------------------ Finnegan Henderson and Google join the University of Calgary as Silver Sponsors of WWW2007. Finnegan Henderson is a law firm specializing in intellectual property law. The firm has traditionally specialized in the high tech sector, and has represented clients in the areas of gene therapy, multimedia content delivery systems, cardiocare products, and Internet operating systems. In 2002, the firm was included for the first time in American Lawyer's list of the 100 largest U.S. law firms. Finnegan Henderson is the only law firm in the listing that focuses exclusively on intellectual property law Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the way people connect with information. Google's innovations in Web search and advertising have made its Web site a top Internet destination and its brand one of the most recognized in the world. Google maintains the world's largest online index of Web sites and other content. Google's automated search technology helps people obtain nearly instant access to relevant information from its vast online index. More information at http://www2007.org/sponsors.php 4. Super EarlyBird Passports still available -------------------------------------------- Until November 1, you can get a Super EarlyBird Passport for $1295 CDN. Only 20 such passports will be available, and 12 have been requested already. The regular Early Registration deadline is March 5, 2007. Two registration options are available for WWW2007. The conference Passport covers all 5 days of the event, while the 3-day ticket covers any 3 consecutive days of the conference. Full registration gives you access to the welcoming reception; tutorials; workshops; core conference sessions, including plenaries, panels, posters, and refereed papers; proceedings CD; exhibit area; daily lunch and coffee breaks; plus the Thursday evening banquet buffet at Brewster's MountView Barbecue. The on-line registration system will be activated in early November. Please note that the registration fees are not yet finalized. Tentatively, the Passport registration will cost $1350 CDN (by March 5), while the 3-day registration will cost $800 CDN (by March 5). Early registration fees for students are $800 CDN (Passport) and $500 CDN (3-day). More information at http://www2007.org/registration.php 5. The Banff Springs Hotel awaits you ------------------------------------- If you are planning to attend WWW2007, please think seriously about making your hotel reservation soon. Hotel rooms are at a premium in Banff in the summer, both in price and availability. A large petroleum industry conference (http://www.piass.org) will make it even harder to find hotel rooms in Banff next May. The main WWW2007 room block is at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. We encourage as many of you as possible to stay there, perhaps sharing a room if necessary. The room block is open now for booking. The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel is located in a spectacular setting in the Rocky Mountains, just above the Bow Falls, and within walking distance of downtown Banff. The main view from the hotel is across the valley and towards Mount Rundle. The hotel, built over a century ago by the Canadian Pacific Railway in a Scottish baronial style, marked the beginning of the tourism boom for Banff National Park. Today, it retains its historic elegance and magnificent views of the Bow River and surrounding peaks, but now includes modern amenities that make for a luxurious lodging experience, including a world-class spa, 10 restaurants and bars, golf course, tennis courts, pool, and gym. High speed Internet access is also available. The Banff Springs is a one-of-a-kind hotel in a truly breathtaking setting. And yes, the conference rate of $279 CDN per night (plus service charges and taxes) is really a fabulous deal. Check it out! More information at http://www2007.org/hotel.php ----------------------- The WWW2007 Newsletters will be sent periodically, roughly once every month leading up to the conference. The newsletters will be archived at the 'Media and Publicity' section of http://www2007.org/ Contact the WWW2007 Publicity Chair (Denilson Barbosa, denilson(a)ucalgary.ca) with news and/or announcements for upcoming editions. We have made every effort to keep the circulation of the newsletters amongst those interested in receiving them. If you are not in this group, please accept our apologies; we ask you to send an email to contact(a)iw3c2.org requesting to be removed from our mailing list. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE JSAC - Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems]
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE JSAC - Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems Datum: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:17:22 +0800 (HKT) Von: Dr. Danny Tsang <eetsang(a)ee.ust.hk> Antwort an: eetsang(a)ee.ust.hk An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: eetsang(a)ece.ust.hk CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, emerging with Napster in 1999, has become increasingly popular, accounting for as much as 70% of Internet traffic by some estimates. Along with the widespread adoption of broadband residential access and the increasing demand of multimedia service over the Internet, we are now witnessing the emergence of a new class of popular P2P applications, namely, P2P audio and video streaming. Popular P2P video streaming applications have successfully demonstrated the support of thousands of concurrent peers per channel at bit rates in excess of 400 kbps. While traditional P2P file distribution applications are targeted for elastic data transfers, P2P streaming focuses on the efficient delivery of audio and video content under tight timing requirements. Still in its infancy, both live and on-demand P2P streaming present many research challenges. To date, a number of architectures have been suggested by using either the tree-based push approach (e.g., Narada and SplitStream) or the mesh-based pull approach (e.g., CoolStream) which basically divides the media content into blocks for trading among peers. Further improvements are possible by taking advantage of advanced source and channel coding techniques such as layered coding, multiple description codes, fountain codes, and network coding. Given the initial success of P2P live streaming, questions still remain about how to extend the existing peer-to-peer models for more advanced applications with more stringent requirements such as video-on-demand services and how to support live and on-demand streaming in the same P2P network. Furthermore, with the wide deployment of wireless networks (WLAN, ad hoc, and 3G networks) and various wireless backhaul technologies (wireless mesh networks and WiMax), there are still open research challenges on how to realize a large-scale P2P media streaming over highly dynamic wireless channels and with user mobility. This special issue solicits original state-of-the-art works addressing all aspects related to supporting peer-to-peer multimedia content distribution service from both theoretical and implementation aspects. It aims at putting together a collection of the latest high-quality research results in this area. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Novel live or on-demand P2P streaming architectures * Traffic measurement and deployment experience * Topology design and locality aware P2P system * Performance evaluation and analysis * Applications of advanced coding techniques * Security issues * Routing and QoS provisioning * Digital rights management * Content partitioning and block scheduling algorithms * Wireless P2P streaming * Peer-matching algorithms for efficient media distribution * Cross-layer design Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/. All papers should be submitted in PDF format via email to Danny H.K. Tsang, eetsang(a)ece.ust.hk, according to the following timetable. Along with the paper submission, authors are also requested to submit a cover letter via email to the above email address, which contains the paper title, authors with affiliations, and an abstract. Submission deadline: March 1, 2007 Acceptance notification: July 1, 2007 Final manuscript due: September 1, 2007 Publication of issue: First Quarter 2008 Guest Editors Danny H.K. Tsang Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong eetsang(a)ece.ust.hk Keith W. Ross Dept. of Computer & Information Science Polytechnic University Six MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA 11201 ross(a)poly.edu Jin Li Communication & Collaboration Systems Microsoft Research Redmond, WA, USA jinl(a)microsoft.com Pablo Rodriguez Systems & Networking Research Group Microsoft Research Cambridge, U.K. pablo(a)microsoft.com Hui Zhang Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213 hzhang(a)cs.cmu.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: The 5th IEEE Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON)]
by Lars Wolf 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: The 5th IEEE Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON) Datum: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:41:04 -0500 Von: Kamil Sarac <ksarac(a)utdallas.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, Kamil Sarac <ksarac(a)utdallas.edu> Dear Colleagues, (This message is sent to multiple lists. Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of it.) ============================================================================================= The 5th IEEE Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services http://www.cs.utdallas.edu/e2emon07/ 21st May 2007, Munich, Germany In conjunction with the IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (IM2007) E2EMON is a workshop focusing on advances in end-to-end (e2e) monitoring technology, and particularly new distributed monitoring techniques for emerging technologies such as Grid, overlay, peer-to-peer (p2p) and ad hoc networks, and e2e path measurements. E2EMON offers a unique opportunity for researchers in this area to exchange ideas and experiences concerning the next-generation of monitoring systems. The workshop also provides an intimate setting for discussion and debate through panels and group work. The program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the area of e2e monitoring. The workshop will be held in conjunction with IM2007, which draws many leading researchers in the field of Network and Systems Management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. TOPICS ------- * Active and programmable monitoring * Adaptive monitoring systems * Ad-hoc and sensor network monitoring * Correlation-based monitoring * Distributed and centralized monitoring prototypes * Distributed application steering * High-speed network monitoring * Languages for packet and distributed monitoring * Large-scale monitoring techniques * Monitoring and measurements * Monitoring embedded systems & pervasive environments * Monitoring grid & pervasive computing environments * Monitoring models, architectures and systems * Monitoring of path characteristics * Monitoring of service level agreements * Monitoring overlay networks and P2P services * Multicast network/service monitoring * Open monitoring platforms * Overlay monitoring services * Real-time monitoring * Traffic monitoring and data mining * Visualization of monitoring information IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Submission deadline : January 1, 2007 * Notification of acceptance : February 20, 2007 * Final version : March 5, 2007 PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Papers must be original material, not currently be under review, and not have been previously published by another conference or journal. They must be written in English. They must follow the IEEE two-column document style, limited to 8 US Letter size pages, with a main text font size of no less than 10pt. Submissions must be in PDF format, containing only fully embedded and subsetted PostScript Type 1 and/or TrueType fonts. To submit your paper, please go to the EDAS system at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/ and select IM2007-E2EMON. For submission details, see the E2EMON website. Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------- * Kamil Sarac, University of Texas at Dallas * Timur Friedman, Université Pierre et Marie Curie TPC members ------------ * Ehab S. Al-Shaer DePaul University, USA * Ernst Biersack Institut Eurécom, France * Herbert Bos VU Amsterdam, Netherlands * Raouf Boutaba University of Waterloo, Canada * Nevil Brownlee The University of Auckland, New Zealand and CAIDA * Marcus Brunner NEC Europe Ltd., Germany * Taesang Choi ETRI, Korea * Mark Crovella Boston University, USA * Salvatore d'Antonio CINI, Italy * Jordi Domingo-Pascual University Polytechnic of Catalunya, Spain * Timur Friedman Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France * Vera Goebel University of Oslo, Norvey * Ahsan Habib University of California Berkeley, USA * Choong Seon Hong Kyung Hee University, Korea * James Won-Ki Hong POSTECH, Korea * Hani Jamjoom IBM Watson, USA * Turgay Korkmaz The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA * Simon Leinen SWITCH, Switzerland * Evangelos P. Markatos ICS Forth, Greece * Masayuki Murata Osaka University, Japan * Philippe Owezarski LAAS-CNRS, France * Aiko Pras University of Twente, Netherlands * Reza Rejaie University of Oregon, USA * Fulvio Risso Politecnico di Torino, Italy * Keith Ross Polytechnic University, USA * Kavé Salamatian Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France * M. Yahya Sanadidi UCLA, USA * Kamil Sarac The University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Yuval Shavitt Tel Aviv University, Israel * Neil Spring University of Maryland, USA * Radu State LORIA - INRIA Lorraine, France * Henk Uijterwaal RIPE, Netherlands Sincerely, Kamil Sarac -- Kamil Sarac Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75083-0688 Phone: (972) 883 2337 Fax: (972) 883 2349 Email: ksarac(a)utdallas.edu Web: www.utdallas.edu/~ksarac _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Deadline extension for the MDM 2007!]
by Lars Wolf 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Deadline extension for the MDM 2007! Datum: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:56:34 +0200 Von: Pedro Jose Marron <marronpo(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-STUTTGART.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 [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this E-mail] Paper submission deadline extended due to multiple requests to November 6. Abstract submission extended to October 30. ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'07) Mannheim, Germany, May 7-11, 2007 http://mdm2007.uni-mannheim.de In Cooperation with ACM SIGMOD/SIGMOBILE (pending), IEEE CS (pending) and Infos ========================================================================== SCOPE: The rapid advances in computing and wireless communication technologies along with their integration into commodity devices such as personal digital assistants, mobile phones, and portable computers provide a technical infrastructure that enables a broad range of mobile services and applications. These include scenarios where seamless access to a computing infrastructure is provided, scenarios where interaction and data sharing among mobile users occur in mobile ad hoc networks, and hybrid scenarios that combine these two. The continued miniaturization of computing devices along with improvements in the performance/price ratio enable new services and applications, e.g., in environmental monitoring and transportation. Although substantial research has been conducted, this area remains ripe with open research challenges, e.g., in relation to context-aware computing, such as location-based services or ubiquitous computing applications; mobile applications in hybrid networks; and consistency and data processing in sensor networks. The conference focuses on research contributions within data management in relation to mobile, wearable, and pervasive computing. The conference invites submissions within this area. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. TOPICS OF INTEREST: * Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing * Location and mobility semantics * Data placement, caching, replication and relocation to support mobility * Data dissemination in mobile environments * Data presentation, scripting and exchange languages * Data management for pervasive computing * Data management in sensor networks * Resource advertising and discovery techniques to support mobility * Metadata management and exchanges * Query processing and optimization for mobile users * Transactions and workflows in mobile computing * Middleware support for mobility * Middleware support for ubiquitous computing * Multimedia delivery in 3G mobile networks * Context-aware computing and location-based services * Operating system and network support for mobile devices * Security and privacy issues of mobile data management * Integration of sensor networks into pervasive environments * Quality of service issues for data-intensive services * Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems * Data mining for mobile application SUBMISSION: The conference invites original, unpublished submissions whose length does not exceed 8 pages in the camera-ready IEEE style. Submissions in PDF format must be uploaded to the conference web-based submission system. More information will be available at: <http://mdm2007.uni-mannheim.de>. Industrial/experience papers as well as proposals for panels, demos, tutorials, and workshops are also sought by October 30th, 2006. Submission instructions will be made available on the conference homepage. Industrial/experience papers are expected to discuss novel aspects of deployed applications and/or prototypes as well as experiences and standards. Updated dates: Abstract Registration October 30, 2006 Paper Submission November 6, 2006 Notification of Acceptance January 23, 2007 Camera-Ready Copies Due February 23, 2007 CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS: Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Pedro Jose Marron, University of Stuttgart, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Jianwen Su, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA INDUSTRIAL/EXPERIENCE TRACK CHAIR: Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany DEMONSTRATION CHAIR: Dieter Pfoser, CTI, Greece LOCAL ORGANIZING CHAIR AND COMITTEE: Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany (chair) Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Armin Heinzl, University of Mannheim, Germany Martin Schader, University of Mannheim, Germany PUBLICITY CHAIR: Klemens Boehm, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada PANELS CHAIR: Agnes Voisard, Fraunhofer ISST and FU Berlin, Germany TUTORIALS CHAIR: Ralf Hartmut Gueting, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany WORKSHOPS CHAIR: Birgitta Koenig-Ries, University of Jena, Germany FINANCIAL/REGISTRATION CHAIR: Torben Weis, University of Stuttgart, Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Jalal Al-Muhtadi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Michael Beigl, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland Claudio Bettini, University of Milano, Italy Peter Boncz, CWI, Netherlands Thomas Brinkhoff, Oldenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Erik Buchmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Marco Conti, IIT, Italy Bin Cui, Peking University, China Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany Hannes Frey, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, University of Southern California, USA Bugra Gedik, IBM Research, USA Stephane Grumbach, CNRS/LIAMA, China Joerg Haehner, University of Stuttgart, Germany Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University, USA Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France Ibrahim Kamel, University of Sharjah, UAE Dimitris Katsaros, Aristotele University of Thessaloniki, Greece Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan George Kollios, Boston University, USA Alexandros Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh, USA Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, Korea Bin Lin, NCR/Teradata, USA Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, China Bernhard Mitschang, University of Stuttgart, Germany Ken Moody, Cambridge University, UK Moira Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Mourad Ouzzani, Purdue University, USA Dieter Pfoser, CTI, Greece Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Anand Ranganathan, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA Kay Roemer, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland Simonas Saltenis, Aalborg University, Denmark George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Joerg Sander, University of Alberta, Canada Ichiro Satoh, NII, Japan Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA Markus Schneider, University of Florida, USA Michel Scholl, CNAM Paris, France Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Yufei Tao, City University of Hong Kong, China Yannis Theodoridis, University of Pireaus, Greece Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA Vassilis Tsotras, University of California at Riverside, USA Wei Wang, Fudan University, China Carola Wenk, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Cui Yu, Monmouth University, USA Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University, USA ************************************************************************* PD Dr. habil. Pedro Jose Marron University of Stuttgart IPVS, Distributed Systems Group Universitaetsstr. 38 Phone: +49-711-7816-223 D-70569 Stuttgart Fax: +49-711-7816-424 Germany email: pedro.marron(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de *************************************************************************

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[Fwd: [OC-ML] Call for papers: Workshop "Organic Computing" at ARCS 2007]
by Lars Wolf 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [OC-ML] Call for papers: Workshop "Organic Computing" at ARCS 2007 Datum: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:16:54 +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, at ARCS 2007, taking place March 12-15, 2007 at Zurich, a workshop on Organic Computing will take place on the last day of the conference. Deadline for submissions to this workshop is December 21st. Further details on the conference can be found at http://arcs07.ethz.ch/. Regards, Fabian Rochner ================================================== WORKSHOP ORGANIC COMPUTING - TOOLS, APPLICATIONS AND ARCHITECTURES March 15, 2007, ETH Zürich Organic Computing has emerged as a challenging vision for future information processing systems. Organic Computing is based on the insight that in the near future we will be surrounded by large collections of autonomous systems equipped with sensors and actuators to be aware of their environment, to communicate freely, and to organize themselves in order to support people at work and in their everyday life. This presence of networks of intelligent systems in our environment opens fascinating application areas but, at the same time, bears the problem of their controllability. Hence, we have to construct these systems - which we increasingly depend on - as robust, safe, flexible, and trustworthy as possible. In particular, a strong orientation of these systems towards human needs as opposed to a pure implementation of the technologically possible seems absolutely central. In order to achieve these goals, our technical systems will have to act more independently, flexibly, and autonomously, i.e. they will have to exhibit life-like properties. We call those systems "organic". Hence, an "Organic Computing System" is a technical system, which adapts dynamically to the current conditions of its environment. It will be self-organizing, self-configuring, self-healing, self-protecting, self-explaining, and context-aware. The vision of Organic Computing and its fundamental concepts arose independently in different research areas like Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Computer Engineering. Central aspects of Organic Computing systems have been and will be inspired by an analysis of information processing in biological systems. The focus of this OC workshop will be on technical applications, tools and architectures for organic computing systems. Workshop topics - tools and toolboxes for organic computing - organic computing applications - architectures for organic computing - self-X in production systems - complex adaptive systems - technical usage and controllability of emergence Deadlines Submission until Dec. 21, 2006 Notification of acceptance Jan. 13, 2007 Final version until Jan. 21, 2007 Submission of papers Papers can be submitted in PDF format in english. The papers should have a maximum of 10 pages and must be formatted in the VDE-Verlag style. http://www.vde-verlag.de/buecher/tagungd.html Papers must be submitted at http://ocws07.informatik.uni-augsburg.de Worshop chairs Wolfgang Trumler, University of Augsburg Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg Program committee Bernhard Bauer, Universität Augsburg Jürgen Becker, Universität Karlsruhe Michael Beigl, Universität Braunschweig Uwe Brinkschulte, Universität Karlsruhe Martin Emele, Robert Bosch GmbH Dietmar Fey, Friedrich Schiller-Universität Jena Stefan Fischer, Universität Lübeck Hans-Ulrich Heiß, TU Berlin Jörg Henkel, Universität Karlsruhe Andreas Herkersdorf, TU München Christian Hochberger, TU Dresden Wolfgang Karl, Universität Karlsruhe Paul Lukowicz, Universität Passau Erik Maehle, Universität zu Lübeck Christoph von der Malsburg, Universität Bochum Christian Müller-Schloer, Universität Hannover Wolfgang Reif, Universität Augsburg Jochen Schiller, Freie Universität Berlin Hartmut Schmeck, Universität Karlsruhe Bernhard Sick, Universität Passau Dirk Timmermann, Universität Rostock

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