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[Fwd: CfP: AD HOC NETWORKS JOURNAL -- Special Issue on BIO-INSPIRED COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS]
by Lars Wolf 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: AD HOC NETWORKS JOURNAL -- Special Issue on BIO-INSPIRED COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS Datum: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:08:08 +0100 Von: Falko Dressler <dressler(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-ERLANGEN.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organisation: University of Erlangen, Germany An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers AD HOC NETWORKS JOURNAL (ELSEVIER) Special Issue on BIO-INSPIRED COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS Submission deadline: February 28, 2007 _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ A wide spectrum of applications and services is currently being developed and designed to be built on top of various heterogeneous and significantly challenging network architectures such as wireless mesh, mobile ad hoc and wireless sensor/actor networks. These heterogeneous wireless communication architectures are mainly characterized by heterogeneous and resource-constrained nodes, restricted communication channels,highly dynamic environments,lack of any fixed infrastructure, and large scale network deployments that strongly vary in their density.These features and challenges,in turn, mandate intelligent, adaptive, autonomic,coordinated,self-organizing, and efficient processing and communication approaches to handle the complexity of these ambitious wireless systems. The turn to nature has brought us many unforeseen great concepts. Natural biological systems intrinsically possess and exploit similar features by providing elegant and extremely efficient solutions for the challenges and tasks faced in their natural operation. It is of extreme importance to bridge the communication technologies with biological sciences and capture the analogy between these two distinct disciplines. To this end, solution strategies inspired by the biological systems have been recently proposed to address the challenges of many computing and communication systems. This special issue is dedicated to capture the state-of-the-art and the recent advances in the area of biologically-inspired computing and communication in heterogeneous wireless architectures such as wireless mesh networks, mobile ad hoc networks, and wireless sensor and actor networks. Papers describing mathematical models,algorithms, protocols, tools, evaluation methods, and experimental studies of computing and communication architectures that are inspired by and derived from biological systems are solicited for this special issue. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Bio-inspired mathematical models, methods and tools * Biological and bio-inspired computing, data processing algorithms * Joint bio-inspired data processing and communication * Embryonics-based fault-tolerant computing and communication * Bio-inspired network and communication algorithms and protocols * Novel applications and services inspired by biological systems * Experimental studies of bio-inspired computing and communications * Bio-inspired topology control and network reconfiguration methods * Bio-inspired localization, synchronization, mobility approaches * Evolution and self-healing of network architectures and protocols * Immune and self-healing network defense and information security * Bio-inspired nano-scale and molecular computing and communication * Bio-inspired distributed control and sensing of networked wearable and implantable medical devices Submission Instructions and Important Dates: ____________________________________________ Prospective authors:Please submit the PDF of your paper, biographies and photos of the co-authors to http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc and choose Special Issue: Bio-Inspired Computing as the Article Type. Papers must be formatted in single-column format, double-spaced, and use at least 11pt fonts. Papers must not exceed 25 pages including references.For details on the journal and special issue,please refer to http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc . Submission Deadline: February 28, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: August 30, 2007 Camera-Ready Papers Due: November 30, 2007 Online Publication Date: April 2008 Journal Publication Date: August 2008 Guest Editors: ____________________________________________ Ozgur B. Akan (akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr) Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Falko Dressler (dressler(a)informatik.uni-erlangen.de) University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Kenji Leibnitz (leibnitz(a)ist.osaka-u.ac.jp) Osaka University, Japan Taieb Znati (znati(a)cs.pitt.edu) University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA -- Dr.-Ing. Falko Dressler Computer Networks and Communication Systems University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Phone: +49 9131 85-27914 / Fax: +49 9131 85-27409 EMail: dressler(a)informatik.uni-erlangen.de / fd(a)acm.org WWW: http://www7.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~dressler/

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[Fwd: [Tccc] TEN DAYS to go: CfP: (WinMee/WiTMeMo'07) 3rd Int'nal Workshop on WirelessNetwork Measurement]]
by Lars Wolf 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] TEN DAYS to go: CfP: (WinMee/WiTMeMo'07) 3rd Int'nal Workshop on WirelessNetwork Measurement] Datum: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:13:28 +0200 (EET) Von: Maria G. Papadopouli <mgp(a)ics.forth.gr> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd Int'nal Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WinMee) jointly organised with the 3rd Int'nal Workshop on Wireless Traffic Measurements & Modeling (WiTMeMo) http://www.winmee.org April 20, 2007 Limasson, Cyprus in conjunction with the Int'nal Symposium on Modeling & Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc & Wireless Networks (WiOpt'07) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless networks are more complex and vulnerable than their wired counterpart. Furthermore, the interaction of different layers and technologies create challenging situations that cannot be foreseen during the design and testing stages of technology development. It is therefore critical to perform comprehensive empirical studies in a wide range of production environments to uncover deficiencies and identify possible optimizations and extensions. The availability of high-quality measurement and modeling studies would make it possible to develop wireless networks that are more robust, easier to manage and scale, and able to utilize scarce resources more efficiently. The objective of the workshop is to attract the most recent developments in the area of wireless network measurement and bring together active researchers in an environment that encourages discussion and exchange of ideas. The submitted papers will be up to 4-pages long in the IEEE double-column format. The final version of the accepted papers will be up to 6 pages long. Submitted papers should have measurement as their main subject or they should use measurements to validate their modeling/analysis results. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Characterization and modeling of wireless demand and network topology * Benchmarks for wireless networking algorithms, protocols and applications * Operational experience concerning the performance of wireless networks *Prediction and inference of user access, demand and mobility * Challenges with wireless measurements * Experimental (in)validation of assumptions in wireless environments * Metrics for wireless network performance evaluation * Wireless network troubleshooting techniques and recommendations * Experience with building/designing/expanding wireless networks * Description of tools for building and/or managing wireless testbeds * Techniques for improving experiment repeatability * Techniques for validating results obtained from wireless testbeds * Measurement-based guidelines for capacity planning IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: December 8, 2006 EXTENSION to December 14, 2006 Notification deadline: January 31, 2007 Camera-ready due: March 1, 2007 Workshop date: April 20, 2007 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submitted papers must not exceed 4 pages in length. Papers should be formatted in two columns with a 10-point font size. Paper submission will be through EDAS. More details will be posted in November. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Workshop Co-Chairs Maria G. Papadopouli, University of Crete, FORTH, UNC Constantine Dovrolis, Georgia Institute of Technology TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jack Brassil, HP-Labs Mark Claypool, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Jordi Domingo-Pascual, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Constantine Dovrolis, Georgia Institute of Technology Philipp Hofmann, DoCoMo Euro-Labs Matti Latva-aho, University of Oulu Henrik Lundgren, Thomson Paris Research Lab Gerald Maguire, KTH Xiaoqiao Meng, UCLA Maria Papadopouli, University of Crete, FORTH, UNC George Polyzos, Athens Univ. of Economics & Business Pablo Rodriguez, Microsoft UK Lili Qiu, University of Texas-Austin Theodoros Salonidis, Intel Research Vassilis Siris, University of Crete, FORTH Peter Steenkiste, CMU Mark Yarvis, Intel Corporation John Zahorjan, University of Washington Hui Zang, Sprint ATL -- Maria Papadopouli http://www.csd.uoc.gr/~maria http://www.ics.forth.gr/mobile _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers/Abstracts IEEE INFOCOM 2007 High-Speed Networks Workshop (Anchorage, AL, May 11, 2007)]
by Lars Wolf 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers/Abstracts IEEE INFOCOM 2007 High-Speed Networks Workshop (Anchorage, AL, May 11, 2007) Datum: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:29:02 -0600 Von: Byrav Ramamurthy <byrav(a)cse.unl.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Dear Colleagues, Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE INFOCOM 2007 HIGH-SPEED NETWORKS WORKSHOP Anchorage, Alaska, May 11th, 2007 http://iweb.tntech.edu/nghani/infocom/index.htm Sponsored by ------------ United States Department of Energy, Office of Science Technical Co-Sponsorship by --------------------------- IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on High-Speed Networking (TCHSN) IEEE ComSoc Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC) Several e-Science applications have already demonstrated the need for agile networks operating well beyond 100 Gbps. Moreover, current trends point towards the need for a sustained terabits/sec end-to-end throughput and unprecedented levels of scalability to accommodate the requirements of emerging applications in a broad range of domains, including entertainment, computational monitoring and steering, multi-scale simulation and combustion modeling, remote instrumentation, and network-based visualization. Several attempts have been made to address emergent bandwidth needs by deploying larger capacities in the network core. Increasing physical-layer transmission speeds, however, has not yielded dramatic increases in end-to-end user-level throughputs. Moreover, the limitations of current network protocols and traffic engineering frameworks have proven to be a serious impediment to large-scale deployment of distributed bandwidth-intensive applications. To overcome these limitations, there is a critical need for novel "clean-state" approaches which transcend the traditional methodologies, network architectures and protocols used today . This workshop is designed to provide a unique forum to explore new frontiers in the area of ultra high-speed and high-performance networks, not constrained by the features and limitations of current networks, with a particular focus on enabling large-scale distributed e-Science applications. The objective is to facilitate discussion and exchange of ideas among members research community centered on the design, validation and deployment of ultra-high speed network architectures and protocols to support the end-to-end requirements of bandwidth-intensive applications in a transparent and optimal manner. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, include: Innovative "clean-slate" network architectures for next generation ultra-high speed networks Switching technologies including packet, burst and circuit switching Ultra high-speed transport protocols Novel approaches and strategies for highly secure ultra-high speed networks, protocols and systems Dynamic provisioning in ultra high-speed optical networks Control and signaling plane technologies (GMPLS, UNI, NNI, etc.) Application optimized network middleware Novel protocols and mechanisms for large-volume data transfers over long distances High-speed I/O and storage systems Remote visualizations and instrumentation design and tools Remote computational monitoring and steering tools and mechanisms Submission Guidelines Authors are encouraged to submit a two-page abstract in PDF format. All abstract submissions should be emailed to the TPC co-chairs at nghani(a)tntech.edu and byrav(a)cse.unl.edu and will be acknowledged. Authors will be notified about the selected abstracts and requested to provide final presentation slides and extended paper versions (up to 5 pages in length). These materials will be compiled on to CD format in advance of the event and distributed to the registered attendees. Additionally, the extended papers will also be published in the IEEE Xplore listings. Important Dates Two-page abstract due: February 28th, 2007 Notification of acceptance: March 7th, 2007 Slides and full papers due: March 28th, 2007 Workshop date: May 11th, 2007 Workshop General Chair ---------------------- Thomas Ndousse, Department of Energy Organizing Committee -------------------- Thomas Ndousse, Department of Energy Nagi Rao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas Dallas Malathi Veeraraghavan, University of Virginia Olufemi Komolafe, University of Glasgow Workshop Panel Chair -------------------- Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh Local Co-Chair -------------- Robert Baldwin, Alaska Science and Technology Chunming Qiao, SUNY Buffalo Technical Program Co-Chairs --------------------------- Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Tech University Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Technical Program Committee --------------------------- Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany Joe Evans, University of Kansas at Lawrence, USA Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Erin Fulp, Wakeforest University, USA Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California Davis, USA Chunming Qiao, State University of New York Buffalo, USA Joe Touch, University of Southern California / ISI, USA Jonathan Turner, Washington University St. Louis, USA Don Petravick, Fermi National Lab, USA Admela Jukan, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Lina Battestilli, MCNC, USA Heinrich Stuettgen, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh, USA Takashi Shimizu, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan Maurice Gagnaire, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France Best regards, Nasir Ghani and Byrav Ramamurthy -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Byrav Ramamurthy Associate Professor Room 363, Avery Hall Dept. of Computer Science and Engg. Phone: (402) 472-7791 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Fax: (402) 472-7767 Lincoln NE 68588-0115 Email: byrav(a)cse.unl.edu Web: http://www.cse.unl.edu/~byrav ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (HotOS XI Call for Papers)]
by Lars Wolf 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CfP: 5th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2007]
by Lars Wolf 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CfP: 5th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2007 Datum: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:25:04 +0100 Von: Rauterberg, G.W.M. <G.W.M.Rauterberg(a)tue.nl> An: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> ** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** 5th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2007 Interactive TV: a Shared Experience http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/euroitv2007 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 24-25, 2007 Sponsored by CWI In-Cooperation with ACM (SIGMM, SIGCHI, and SIGWEB) Co-organized by IFIP TC14 Paper submission will be peer-reviewed. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer LNCS. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue in a journal. A selection of the best papers will be published in a special issue of ACM Computers in Entertainment (http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/). Final Call for Papers Following on from previous conferences, the steering committee of EuroITV has decided to hold the 5th European Interactive TV conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. EuroITV brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that include human-computer interaction, media studies, computer science, telecommunications, audiovisual design and management. The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality papers addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. Special Theme The special theme for the EuroITV 2007 conference is: "Interactive TV: a shared experience" We welcome submissions that address interactive TV with a focus on the following emerging research and practice issues: - Shared TV: sociability, playability, emotional design - Shared Home: cross-media, home media station, smart home - Shared Distribution: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, mobile TV - Shared Content: recommendations, end-user annotations - Shared Communications: instant messaging, video conferencing Important Dates Full and short papers Submissions December 15, 2006 Courses and workshops Proposals November 1, 2006 Doctoral consortium, Videos, demos, panels January 26, 2007 Research in progress February 17, 2007 Keynote speakers: "Interactive Media: Shared Experiences in the Extended Home Environment" Maddy Janse; Philips Research, The Netherlands "Interactive Television in Brazil: System Software and the Digital Divide" Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares; PUC-RIO, Brazil "The Future of Entertainment Computing" Matthias Rauterberg; Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands Workshops: "Social Interactive Television" Duration: Half day (5 hours) Organizers: David Geerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Gunnar Harboe, Motorola Labs, US Noel Massey, Motorola Labs, US "Personalization in iTV" Duration: Half day (5 hours) Organizers: Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Pieter Bellekens, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Zeljko Obrenovic, CWI, The Netherlands "The Future of Television: Ambient Entertainment and Interactive TV" Duration: Session (3 hours) Organizers: Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany "Interactive Applications for Mobile TV" Duration: Session (3 hours) Organizers: Johan Lilius, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Petri Vuorimaa, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Tutorials: "Shape shifted TV: Authoring and delivering new forms of interactive TV" Duration: Full day (6 hours) Organizers: Marian F. Ursu, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London, UK Ian Kegel, BT, UK Doug Williams, BT, UK "User-generated Content - a Mega-trend in the New Media Landscape" Duration: Half day (3 hours) Organizer: Jens F. Jensen, Aalborg Univesity, Denmark "Modern Techniques in Professional Film & TV Productions" Duration: Session (2 hours) Organizer: Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland "Introduction to iTV: State of the Art and Future Directions" Duration: Session (2 hours) Organizers: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany Pablo Cesar, CWI, The Netherlands Final Call for Papers, we invite - Full and short papers - Demos, videos - Proposals for doctoral consortium Submissions guidelines are available in the webpage of the conference (http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/euroitv2007). Topics Your contributions on any aspect of interactive TV are invited. Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics: - Authoring, production, content enrichment, and annotations - Business models, media management, media economics - Communication services, video conferencing, messaging - Content management, digital rights management - Interactive storytelling, Interactive advertising - Electronic program guide, video search, video navigation - Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports) - Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL) - Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology - Personalization, user modelling, intelligent user interfaces - Usability, accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction - Ethical, regulatory and policy issues - Ambient intelligence - Audience research - P2P broadcast - Mobile TV - VR systems, 3DTV - t-commerce, t-learning - Entertainment computing - Meta-data - Television content modelling - Games, betting, play-along game shows Organizing Committee General Chair: P. Cesar, CWI Conference co-chairs: K. Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar J. Jensen, Aalborg University Doctoral colloquium chair: J. Masthoff, University of Aberdeen Work in progress chair: L. Pemberton, Brighton University Demonstration chairs: B. Gammon, BBC New Media M. Howell, BBC New Media Workshops chairs: L. Ardissono, University of Torino A. Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology Tutorials chairs: B. Bushoff, Sagasnet C. Peng, VTT Treasurer D.G.C. Broekhuis, CWI Program Committee S. Agamanolis, Independent Scholar, USA L. Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy L. Aroyo, Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands L. Barkhuus, University of Glasgow, UK A. Berglund, Linkoping University, Sweden M. Bove, MIT Media Lab, USA B. Bushoff, Sagasnet, Germany P. Cesar, CWI, the Netherlands K. Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany O. Daly-Jones, Serco Usability Services, UK N. Ducheneaut, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA L. Eronen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland B. Gammon, BBC New Media, UK D. Geerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium D. Goren-Bar, Haifa University, Israel T. Hujanen, University of Tampere, Finland J. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark J. Henriksson, Nokia, Finland C. Klimmt, Hanover University of Music and Drama, Germany H. Knoche, UCL, UK M. Howell, BBC New Media, BBC, UK N. Lee, ACM Computers in Entertainment, USA G. Lekakos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece J. Lilius, Abo Akademi University, Finland P. Looms, Danish Broadcasting, Denmark R. Luckin, University of Sussex, UK A. Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland J. Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, Scotland M. Pagani, Bocconi University, Italy J. Pazos, University of Vigo, Spain L. Pemberton, Brighton University, UK C. Peng, VTT, Finland J.A. Pouwelse, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands R.P. Picard, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden R. Puijk, Lillehammer University College, Norway C. Quico, TV Cabo, Portugal B. Rao, Polytechnic University, USA T. Rasmussen, Aalborg University, Denmark M. Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands B. Shen, HP Labs, USA L.F.G. Soares, PUC-RIO, Brazil J. Stewart, University of Edinburgh, UK G. Uchyigit, Imperial College London, UK P. Vuorimaa, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland J. Yagnik, Google Research, USA Z. Yu, Nagoya University, Japan Social Events and Excursions Social events will be arranged during the conference. Contact For up to date information and further details please visit: http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/euroitv2007 Send your contributions and any inquiry about the conference to: euroitvinfo(at)cwi.nl Host CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science (http://www.cwi.nl) **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl **************************************************** _______________________________________________ ICEC mailing list ICEC(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Autonomics'07 in Rome - first cfp]
by Lars Wolf 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Autonomics'07 in Rome - first cfp Datum: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:58:17 +0100 Von: Paolo Bellavista <pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Invitation & Call-for-Papers ***** AUTONOMICS ***** First International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems http://www.autonomics-conference.eu/ 28-30 October 2007, Rome (Italy) In recent years, a plethora of electronic devices embedded into everyday objects and able to interface with the surrounding environment have emerged, foreshadowing the deployment of pervasive context-aware services. Similar to the Internet, these trends will revolutionize existing paradigms of communication, networking, and computing. In particular, the complexity hidden in such dynamic large-scale networks and services calls for self-management and autonomicity as a necessary condition for obtaining purposeful systems. The challenges posed by such a vision cover a wide range of disciplines and sciences, including computing, communication, distributed systems, and control systems. Further, these challenges call for a new, integrated and multidisciplinary approach to pervasive computing and communication environments, giving rise to a new converged science, able to work at the junction of systems, computing and communication sciences. The AUTONOMICS conference provides an international forum driving the emergent science of autonomic systems, bringing together research communities in communication and computing, promoting cross-fertilization among the different disciplines involved. Scope: The primary research challenges faced are the communication, design, programming, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of autonomic, pervasive, context-aware systems running on top of dynamic, possibly large-scale, distributed systems. Authors are invited to submit papers to Autonomics07 reporting on original research related to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of autonomic systems. The conference intends to attract attendees with diverse backgrounds. We solicit papers in autonomic, pervasive, and context-aware systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations of autonomic systems - Models and metrics - Energy-efficient algorithms - Programming paradigms - Middleware for pervasive systems - Software architectures and toolkits - Positioning and tracking technologies - Architectures & algorithms for self-* systems - Privacy, security, dynamic trust and social issues - Location- and context-awareness - Tools, languages and platforms - Applications and systems - Resource, network and service (self) management - Enabling technologies for pervasive environments Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Full paper due: April 18, 2007 Notification of acceptance: July 22, 2007 Final version due: September 5, 2007 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages in ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS (http://cocus.create-net.it) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: F. Davide (Telecom Italia, Italy) Vice Chair: D. Miorandi (CREATE-NET, Italy) TechnicalProgram Co-Chairs: R. Baldoni (Univ. of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) V. R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University, US) Steering Committee Chair: I. Chlamtac (CREATE-NET, Italy) Workshop Chair: A. Manzalini (Telecom Italia, Italy.) Publicity Co-Chairs: J. Tang (Montana State Univ., US) P. Bellavista (Univ. of Bologna, Italy) M. Takizawa (Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan) Industry Chair F. Morabito (Telecom Italia, IT) Finance Chair: K. Decker (ICST, US) Conference Coordinator: Zs. Kaszab (ICST, US) Webmaster: S. Scipioni (Univ. of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] SECON 2007: 3 days to paper registration deadline!]
by Lars Wolf 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] SECON 2007: 3 days to paper registration deadline! Datum: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:57:29 -0500 (EST) Von: Vijay Raghunathan <vr(a)ecn.purdue.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu **************** 3 DAYS TO PAPER REGISTRATION DEADLINE!! *************** ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE SECON 2007 The Fourth IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks http://www.ieee-secon.org/2007/ Merged with IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc & Sensor Networks (IWWAN) San Diego, California, USA June 18-21, 2007 ======================================================================== The fourth annual IEEE SECON conference will provide a unique forum to exchange ideas, techniques, and applications, discuss best practices, raise awareness, and share experiences among researchers, practitioners, standard developers and policy makers in the field of sensor, ad-hoc, and mesh networks and systems. IEEE SECON grew out of IEEE INFOCOM in 2004, in order to create an event that focused on the important and exciting topics of sensor, mesh and ad-hoc communications and networks. This year, SECON has been merged with the IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN). Original technical papers that address the communications, networking, applications, systems and algorithmic aspects of mesh and sensor networks, as well as those that describe practical deployment and implementation experiences are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in the conference proceedings. Papers presenting novel contributions in such disciplines as communications, networking protocols and architectures, algorithms, embedded systems, middleware and information management, and novel applications are solicited. PAPERS: Full papers describing original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences, and industrial and commercial developments in sensor, ad-hoc, and mesh communications and networks are solicited. Authors are particularly encouraged to submit papers that have a deep focus on a specific discipline, are stimulated by the synergistic interaction of diverse disciplines, or describe practical application of technology to real-world problems. Submitted papers should not be concurrently under review at any another workshop, symposium, conference, or journal. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectures and protocols to support wireless communication, localization, time synchronization, routing, data dissemination, and other distributed services in heterogeneous, large-scale, distributed mesh and sensor networks. * Algorithms and theories for management, supervisory control, and monitoring of distributed ad-hoc networks, and techniques for the interpretation and use of sensor data in decision-making processes. * Theories and models on fundamental information and communication aspects of wireless mesh and sensor networks. * Mechanisms for authenticated, secure communication and data dissemination in sensor and mesh networks. * Algorithms and protocols to support quality of service in mesh and sensor networks, including admission control, resource allocation and fairness, and capacity planning. * Performance measurement and modeling techniques for large-scale distributed ad-hoc and sensor networks and their evaluation. * Integration of sensors into engineered systems, including techniques for exploiting on-sensor renewable power sources, mechanisms for online self-calibration and self-testing, and schemes to maximize accuracy and minimize false alarms. * Hardware platforms and testbeds incorporating multiple sensors, embedded processors, actuators, and wireless interfaces. * Software architectures, middleware, and tools for mesh and sensor network applications development, deployment, and management. * Practical implementations, case-studies, and real-world experiences in designing and deploying large scale ad-hoc, mesh, and sensor network applications. POSTERS, DEMOS, AND EXHIBITS: SECON will also include poster/demo sessions that provide an interactive forum to present work in progress, showcase real system implementations, highlight industrial/commercial developments, and discuss key research challenges in the fields of sensor, mesh, and ad-hoc networks. Details about the poster and demo submission procedure will soon be available on the conference web site. PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Paper submissions will be handled electronically through the EDAS web based system. Details about the submission process including formatting instructions and templates are available at the conference website located at http://www.ieee-secon.org/2007/. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be archived on IEEE Xplore. IEEE Communications Society policy mandates that all accepted SECON 2007 papers must have at least one associated registration at the regular rate. For authors co-authoring multiple papers, one regular registration is valid for up to three papers. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration: November 30, 2006 (by 11:59pm PST) Full paper submission: December 7, 2006 (by 11:59pm PST) Decision notification: February 26, 2007 Camera ready paper due: March 22, 2007 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITEE: GENERAL CHAIR: Rene Cruz, UC San Diego (cruz(a)ece.ucsd.edu) VICE-CHAIR: Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester (wheinzel(a)ece.rochester.edu) TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara (almeroth(a)cs.ucsb.edu) Robin Kravets, UIUC (rhk(a)cs.uiuc.edu) PANELS CO-CHAIRS: Wenye Wang, NC State University Al Harris, University of Padova POSTERS/DEMOs CO-CHAIRS: Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan Jie Liu, Microsoft Research WORKSHOP CHAIR: Rajeev Shorey, GM Research PUBLICITY CHAIR: Vijay Raghunathan, Purdue University LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR: Curt Schurgers, UC San Diego EXHIBITS CHAIR: Cedric Westphal, Nokia TRAVEL AWARDS CHAIR: Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona WEB CHAIR: Navid Ehsan, UC San Diego STANDING COMMITTEE: Fred Bauer, PacketHop (fred(a)fredbauer.com) - Chair Hamid Aghvami, King's College London Mischa Dohler, France Telecom Harvey Freeman, Booz Allen Hamilton Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Available on the conference webpage ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: 2nd Call for Papers: WPNC'07 - 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication]
by Lars Wolf 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: 2nd Call for Papers: WPNC'07 - 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication Datum: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:47:01 +0100 Von: Jens Schroeder <jens.schroeder(a)ikt.uni-hannover.de> An: <germany-com(a)IEEE.ORG> ### SUBMISSION DATE EXTENDED TO Dec. 10, 2006 ### ### 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ### 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication 2007 (WPNC07) Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany March 22, 2007, right after CeBIT07 www.wpnc.net The Institute of Communications Engineering (IKT) of the University of Hannover, and its partners IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, IEEE Communications Society Germany Chapter, VDE ITG, PULSERS and IHK Hannover are proud to announce the 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication 2007 (WPNC'07), which will take place at the University of Hannover, Germany, 22 March 2007, right after CeBIT'07. ### Scope ### Mobile position-aware systems, combined with modern wireless technologies, are getting more and more important. When developing systems of this kind, problems in various fields of information and communication technology need to be solved. The workshop shall give an overview of state-of-the-art approaches and systems. As many technologies are available to deal with the variety of applications, we would like to continue to cover ultra-wideband technology as it is becoming of great importance in the area of positioning, navigation and communication. ### Topics ### You are invited to submit papers presenting scientific work or practical implementations addressing, but not limited to the following topics: * Positioning * Outdoor-Radio Systems (terrestrial & satellite-based) * Indoor-Positioning * Hybrid Approaches * Navigation * Pedestrian Navigation * Vehicle and Robot Navigation * Communication and Services * Integrated Positioning and Communication * Location Based Services * Application Scenarios * Ultra-Wideband * Positioning and Localization * Architectures, Systems, Protocols * Hybrid Positioning and Communication * Regulatory Issues, EMC/EMI ### Submission Guidelines ### Full-paper or poster submissions in the form of extended abstracts (max. 2 pages) or full papers (max. 10 pages) are requested electronically in PDF-format in English language until Dec. 10, 2006. Paper submission is handled only through the TrackChair paper review system at http://wpnc07.trackchair.com. With acceptance, complete contributions of up to 10 pages are expected until Feb. 16, 2007. ### Important Dates ### Submission of Extended Abstracts until: Dec. 10, 2006 Notification of acceptance or denial until: Jan. 08, 2007 Submission of Camera Ready Manu-scripts until: Feb. 16, 2007 ### Publishing ### The workshop proceedings in book-form will be published in the series Hannoversche Beiträge zur Nachrichtentechnik by SHAKER publishing. In addition, an application to publish in the IEEE Xplore database has been filed. ### Contact ### Prof. T. Kaiser Prof. K. Jobmann email: workshop2007(a)wpnc.net phone: +49 (0) 511 762 2814 web: www.wpnc.net ### Technical Program Committee ### Susanne Boll University of Oldenburg, Germany Dorota Brzenzinska Ohio State University, USA Vicente Casares-Giner Polytechnique University of Valencia, Spain Li-Der Chou National Central University, Taiwan Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Manuel Esteve Polytechnique University of Valencia, Spain Hermann Eul Infineon, Germany Adolf Finger TU Dresden, Germany Laurent Herault CEA-LETI, Centre de Grenoble, France Adam Hoeher University of Kiel, Germany James Irvine University of Strathclyde, UK Klaus Jobmann University of Hannover, Germany Thomas Kaiser University of Hannover, Germany Rolf Kraemer IHP Microelectronics, Germany Thomas Kürner TU Brunswick, Germany Kyandoghere Kyamakya University of Klagenfurt, Austria Heinz Lüdiger IMST, Germany Andreas F. Molisch Lund University, Sweden Kyle OKeefe University of Calgary, Canada Kaveh Pahlavan Worcester Polytechnique Institute, USA Robert Piché Tampere University, Finland Ulrich Reimers TU Brunswick, Germany Hermann Rohling TU Hamburg Harburg, Germany Robert Schober University of British Columbia, Canada Reiner Thomä TU Ilmenau, Germany Andy Ward Ubisense, UK

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[Fwd: [CfP]: UbiComp Challenge]
by Lars Wolf 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [CfP]: UbiComp Challenge Datum: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:45:39 +0100 Von: Matthias Kranz <matthias(a)hcilab.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de UbiComp Challenge ----------------- UbiComp 2007 [1] will introduce a new instrument to promote and encourage high quality research in the area of UbiComp: The UbiComp Challenge. It is a field test intended to accelerate research, development and applicability of UbiComp technology. Using an "eating your own dog's food" approach, the UbiComp2007 Challenge is seeking for submissions of how to implement an audience voting system to finally determine the winner of the "Best Presentation Award" which will be given at UbiComp2007 for the first time. The central requirement is that the proposed solution makes clever and efficient use of UbiComp technology, and can actually be implemented by the proposers before and used at the conference in September 2007. The conference organizers reserve a grant of up to 2000 EUR to buy necessary equipment claimed and justified by the best proposal. The challenge call [2] is intentionally underspecified in terms of approaches and technologies to allow for a creative and innovative scientific solution employing all kinds of ubiquitous computing technologies and techniques that are appropriately addressing the problem space. The challenge offers an excellent way to showcase tangible results of ubiquitous computing research and development to approx. 500 attendees from academia and industry, which is also the amount of people which are expected to use the winner's system at the same time, so it should scale adequately. We believe that the experiences and findings from developing and running a system of this scale provide valuable results to the UbiComp community. The UbiComp Challenge committee will carefully review all submissions to identify the most appealing approach, which is still realistic to be implemented in the given timeframe: Submission Deadline: Feb 01, 2007 Notification: Mar 15, 2007 Conference: Sep 16-19, 2007 We expect submissions in form of an abstract that describes the ubicomp technology being adopted and discusses the novelty and distinguishing ideas, but also provide justification for the feasibility of the approach and cost estimates. The challenge abstract of the best five submissions will be published in the Conference Supplement and should therefore be self-contained. The best submissions are also given the opportunity to showcase their apporaches in the UbiComp demo program. The abstracts should be a maximum of 8 pages, in the LNCS conference publications format, including all figures and references and one additional page for the review process summarizing all pieces of equipment you expect to use and a complete cost estimation of your solution. Submit your proposals as PDF document to challenge(at)ubicomp2007.org We are looking forward to your submissions! UbiComp 2007 Challenge Chair Matthias Kranz, University of Munich [1] http://www.ubicomp2007.org/ [2] http://www.ubicomp2007.org/calls/#Chall

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[Fwd: CfP ACM TAAS Special Issue on Organic Computing]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP ACM TAAS Special Issue on Organic Computing Datum: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:11:08 +0100 Von: Hartmut Schmeck <schmeck(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> An: OC-Interessenten:; Dear colleague, I'd like to draw your attention to the CfP for a Special Issue of ACM TAAS on Organic Computing. Please, distribute this CfP to further colleagues who might be interested in submitting a paper. Kind regards Hartmut Schmeck !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! with apologies for multiple postings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Call for Papers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Special Isssue of ACM TAAS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on Organic Computing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems Special Issue on Organic Computing SCOPE Organic Computing (OC) has emerged recently as a challenging vision for future information processing systems, based on the insight that we will soon be surrounded by systems with massive numbers of processing elements, sensors and actuators. Because of the size of these systems it is infeasible for us to monitor and control them entirely from external observations; instead they will need to help us monitor, control and adapt themselves. To do so, these components will need to be aware of their environment, to communicate freely, and to organize themselves in order to perform the actions and services that are required. The presence of such networks of intelligent systems in our environment opens up fascinating application areas but, at the same time, bears the problem of their controllability. Hence, we have to construct these systems as robust, safe, and trustworthy as possible. In order to achieve all these goals, our computing systems will have to act more independently, flexibly, and autonomously. Thus, we are interested in new analytic methods and architectures underlying complex systems. In OC, we put an emphasis on systems that exhibit life-like properties, such as being self-organizing, self-configuring, self-healing, self-protecting, self-explaining, and context-aware. The vision of OC and its fundamental concepts arose independently in different research areas like Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Computer Science & Engineering. In this special issue, we welcome contributions from all these areas to OC. We seek theoretical as well as carefully evaluated practical papers dealing with complex computing systems that adapt dynamically to the current conditions of their environments, exhibit self-x properties as described above, and are partly inspired by biological information processing principles. For more information on OC see: OC Page: http://www.organic-computing.org DFG research program OC: http://www.organic-computing.de/SPP IEEE OC Task Force: http://www.neuroinformatik.rub.de/thbio/project/oc ACM TAAS ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) is a venue for high quality research contributions addressing foundational, engineering, and technological aspects of complex computing systems exhibiting autonomous and adaptive behavior. TAAS encourages contributions advancing the state of the art in the understanding, development, and control of such systems. For more information, please follow the link: http://www.acm.org/pubs/taas REVIEW & SUBMISSION PROCESS Manuscripts will first be screened for topical relevance, and those that pass the screening process will undergo a full review procedure according to the standards of TAAS. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a preliminary single page abstract by February 16, 2007. This will help in planning an efficient review process and providing initial feedback to the prospective authors. The manuscripts should be formatted according to the ACM TAAS guidelines available from the journal homepage and submitted to: octf(a)neuroinformatik.rub.de GUEST EDITORIAL TEAM Kirstie L. Bellman, The Aerospace Corporation, USA Christian Igel, Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany Hartmut Schmeck, Institut fuer Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany Rolf P. Wuertz, Institut f¨ur Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany IMPORTANT DATES Single page abstract submission (not required) deadline is February 16, 2007. Paper submission deadline is May 1, 2007. Submission feedback to authors will be sent in July 2007. The tentative publication date is June 2008. supported by the IEEE Emergent Technologies Task Force Organic Computing

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