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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks (Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication)]
by Lars Wolf 03 May '06

03 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks (Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication) Datum: Wed, 3 May 2006 16:07:38 +0200 Von: Prasad, Anand <prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> CC: Aissi, Selim <selim.aissi(a)intel.com>, Sunghyun Choi <schoi(a)snu.ac.kr>, Ravikumar <jravikumar2002(a)yahoo.com> Apologies if you recieved this CFP multiple times. ---- Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks Guest Editors Anand R. Prasad, DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH, Munich, Germany Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation, Portland, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Jeevarathinam Ravikumar, Consistel, Singapore Scope of Special Issue Mobile communication has evolved in a rapid pace from the introduction of Analog Cellular networks in 1980s. Technology has gone through tremendous changes in terms of security, access techniques, protocol stacks, bandwidth usage and also convergence into packet switching based on All-IP network from the conventional circuit switched techniques. Complexity has increased due to the introduction of different access technologies, available services, and other aspects as mentioned above during the telecom evolution for the past 20 years. Pressure is mounting to harmonize various technologies under a common IP backbone so that seamless handover can be provided that exploits the benefits of available radio access technologies. Seamless handover should be achieved not only for Inter-Technology but also for Inter-Operator handover. Operators and the consumers will be greatly benefited in terms of cost effectiveness, enhanced features, location independence and ease of use through the introduction of seamless heterogeneous handover mechanisms. Several standardization activities have already started working on technical solutions for seamless handover. One of the well known activities is that of next-generation networks (NGN) making use of IMS based solution for service provisioning and handover between fixed and mobile operators. Within 3GPP and 3GPP2, activities are on-going to provision handover between different technologies and recently, in 3GPP, between different domains. This activity within 3GPP falls under All-IP Network (AIPN) System Architecture Evolution (SAE)/Radio Access Network (RAN) Long Term Evolution (LTE). IEEE 802 is also looking into media-independent handover (MIH) in 802.21 while 802.11u is working on inter-technology handover. Handover enhancement within IEEE 802.11 is taking place within Task Group R (TGr). IETF has produced some solutions in the seamoby working group while further enhancements are being done in various other groups including mobopts, mipshop and mobike. Along with standardization activities, various operators and vendors are also involved in developing harmonized solution for heterogeneous networks, like, UMA. At the same time a lot of research and development activities are taking place by academia, research institutes and industries too. So far, the work has focused on one specific topic of handover such as security, QoS, and routing. However, the focus should be on developing an end-to-end network perspective that covers the whole span of the network from radio aspects to OSS aspects that includes value added services. With the above background, this special issue invites people to present papers on seamless handover in heterogeneous networks in the following (but, not limited to) areas: - Handover security - Solutions for mobility support - Charging and billing, and AAA infrastructure - Fraud Management across various networks - Access Control techniques in heterogeneous networks - QoS provisioning for inter-technology and intra-/inter-domain handover - Content provisioning and seamless use of VAS across different networks - Standardization activities - Testbed or measurement results Important dates Deadline of paper submissions: 15th May 2006 Notification of acceptance: 1st October 2006 Final Manuscripts Due: 1st November 2006 Publication of Feature Topic: February 2007 Submission Papers should follow the Springer format (11pt, single column, double spaced). Manuscript should be submitted on-line at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/wire/ <https://www.editorialmanager.com/wire/> You MUST select article type: "Special Issue: Seamless Handover" Author information is available at: http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-00 0.html <http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-0 00.html> Guest Editors Contact Information Anand R. Prasad DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH Landsbergerstrasse 308-312 80687 Munich, Germany E-mail: prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com <mailto:prasad@docomolab-euro.com> Selim Aissi Mobile Platforms Group Intel Corporation CO5-166, 15400 NW Greenbrier Parkway Beaverton, Oregon, 97007, USA E-mail: selim.aissi(a)intel.com <mailto:selim.aissi@intel.com> Sunghyun Choi School of Electrical Engineering Seoul National University Kwanak P.O.Box 34 Seoul 151-600, Korea E-mail: schoi(a)snu.ac.kr <mailto:schoi@snu.ac.kr> Jeevarathinam Ravikumar Consistel (Singapore) Pte Ltd 5 Jalan Kilang Barat, #08-01/03 Petro Centre Singapore 159349 E-mail: jravikumar(a)consistel.com <mailto:jravikumar@consistel.com> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE COM MAG CALL FOR PAPERS "QoS Routing" JUNE 1st]
by Lars Wolf 02 May '06

02 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE COM MAG CALL FOR PAPERS "QoS Routing" JUNE 1st Datum: Tue, 02 May 2006 20:02:38 +0200 Von: Abdelhamid Mellouk <mellouk(a)univ-paris12.fr> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Dear All, The deadline for this feature topic is fast approaching (june 1st) .. ************************************************************************************ Please note the following CFP: Deadline for Papers Submission is june 1st. Call for Papers: IEEE Communications Magazine, http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfpcommag0207.htm Special Issue on "Quality of Service based Routing Algorithms for Heterogeneous Networks" Background Currently, due to the growing needs in telecommunications (VoD, Video-Conference, VoIP, etc.) and the diversity of transported flows, Internet network does not meet the requirements of future integrated-service networks, which will carry out multimedia data traffic with a high Quality of Service (QoS). Therefore, it is necessary to develop a high quality control mechanism to check the network traffic load and ensure QoS requirements. It's clear that the integration of these QoS parameters will increase the complexity of the algorithms used in heterogeneous networks. Thus, there will be QoS relevant technological challenges in today emerging heterogeneous networks that include different types of networks (e.g., wired, wireless, mobile, etc.). We shall focus in this special topic on QoS routing policies, and their effectiveness on heterogeneous wired and wireless networks. Thus, in this special issue, we are seeking papers that explore routing algorithms which take into account the dynamic's change of communication networks and discuss their advantages and drawbacks when compared to traditional solutions. Compared to the previous special issues on the integration of QoS, this issue will focus on a tutorial-based approach, and on the evolution of routing decisions applied in heterogeneous networks, which may include the load level traffic patterns and topology of the network changes, that the routing policy adapts the decision's router. Scope of Contributions Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of QoS routing policies and related areas with concrete experimental studies to show the validity of their approach. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics that include, but are not limited to : - Dynamic state-dependent routing policies - Quality of Service policies versus Best effort policies - Routing in hybrid Networks - Dynamic Routing in inband or outband network control protocols - Traffic shaping in QoS Routing - Policy-Based Management in QoS Routing - Ad hoc networking routing solutions for heterogenous wired and wireless networks - The role of dynamic routing in irregular traffic networks - QoS based routing and data gathering protocols for wireless sensor networks Submission Instructions For manuscript submission, the authors should follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines under "Information for Authors" at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. Manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. Please select "February 2007/ Quality of service based routing algorithms for heterogeneous networks" in the drop down menu. For any inquiries, please contact mellouk(a)univ-paris12.fr Schedule of Submissions Manuscripts Submission June 1, 2006. Acceptance Notification October 1, 2006. Final Revised Manuscripts Due November 15, 2006. Publication Date February 2007 Guest Editors Abdelhamid Mellouk Universite de Paris XII-Val de Marne, IUT Creteil-Vitry FRANCE Email: mellouk(a)univ-paris12.fr Pascal Lorenz Universite de Haute Alsace, IUT de Colmar FRANCE Email: lorenz(a)ieee.org Azzedine Boukerche SITE, University of Ottawa CANADA Email: boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca Moon Ho Lee Instiute of information & Communication, Chonbuk National Univ. KOREA Email: moonho(a)chonbuk.ac.kr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: SecQoS Workshop 2006 deadline approaching]
by Lars Wolf 02 May '06

02 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SecQoS Workshop 2006 deadline approaching Datum: Tue, 2 May 2006 17:46:00 +0200 Von: Cristina Costa <cristina.costa(a)create-net.it> Organisation: Create-Net An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> **************************************************************************** Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies **************************************************************************** Dear Colleagues, The paper submission deadline for the Second IEEE Communications Society/CREATE-NET Workshop on Security and QoS in Communication Networks (SecQoS'06) is getting closer: Manuscript Submission Due Date: May 10, 2006 Workshop Date: September 1, 2006 Workshop Web Site: http://www.secqos.org The workshop papers will be published in CD-ROM proceedings and online on IEEE Xplore. Authors of best contributions will be invited to submit extended papers to a special issue on Security and QoS in Communication Networks of the Springer's Telecommunication Systems Journal (http://www.springer.com/journal/11235). Please visit the workshop web site for the CFP and latest information. On behalf of the SecQoS organizing committee, Best regards, Cristina Costa <cristina.costa(a)create-net.org> and Wenye Wang <wwang(a)eos.ncsu.edu> SecQoS '06 Co-Chairs

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP]
by Lars Wolf 02 May '06

02 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP Datum: Tue, 2 May 2006 09:42:51 -0400 Von: Michael Zink <zink(a)newworld.cs.umass.edu> An: 2007(a)newworld.cs.umass.edu, for(a)newworld.cs.umass.edu, icec(a)listserver.tue.nl, MMCN(a)newworld.cs.umass.edu ** 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 **************************************************** Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ===================================================================== Call for Papers and Announcement SPIE/ACM MMCN 2007 Multimedia Computing and Networking 2007 http://www.ifi.uio.no/mmcn2007 In cooperation with: ACM SIG Multimedia Part of the IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 28 January - 1 February 2007 San Jose Marriott and San Jose Convention Center San Jose, CA, USA ===================================================================== The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners contributing to all facets of multimedia computing and networking. We especially encourage full and original papers on emerging technologies such as home networking and digital appliances, mixed and augmented reality systems, multimedia and QoS support for WLANs and 3G networks, multimedia in P2P networks, grids, and sensor networks, power-aware computing and communications, mobile and fixed wireless multimedia networks and content distribution networks. The conference will feature industrial design experiences and showcase tools for next-generation multimedia systems and applications. Presenters will be encouraged to make multimedia presentations and demonstrate their solutions in person. All presentations are plenum presentations. Papers are solicited in all areas of multimedia, including, but not limited to: Multimedia Computing . multimedia OS services . power-aware systems . video-on-demand services . peer-to-peer media systems . mixed and augmented reality systems Measurement and Modeling . performance measurement of multimedia systems . statistical modeling of server traffic and server software . multimedia system simulations and benchmark comparisons Multimedia Networking . home, mobile and broadband networks . QoS control and scheduling . push technologies, content distribution and other emerging access technologies . Internet data streaming, delivery and wide-area caching . multimedia security and rights management Case Studies and Applications . multimedia search engines . entertainment and networked games . distributed augmented and virtual reality . multimedia authoring Authors are invited to submit both research and industrial papers on original, unpublished work describing current research and novel ideas in the area of multimedia computing and networking. Papers whose contributions are supported by experimental evaluations are strongly encouraged. Full paper submissions should not exceed 12 single-spaced, single column pages including figures, tables, and references, using a typeface no smaller than 10 points. Short paper submissions should not exceed 8 pages. Papers must be electronically submitted to the conference website at http://www.electronicimaging.org. Please also submit a 500-word text abstract with your paper submission that includes your topic area. MMCN meeting information may also be found at http://www.ifi.uio.no/mmcn2007. | Full Paper for Review Due: 17 July 2006 | | Short Paper for Review Due: 17 July 2006 | | Final Manuscript Due: 23 October 2006 | | 200-word Final Summary Due: 20 November 2006 | | Proceedings of this conference will be published and | | available at the meeting. | Conference Chairs: Roger Zimmermann, Univ. of Southern California (USA) Carsten Griwodz, Univ. of Oslo (Norway) Publicity Co-Chairs: Wei Tsang Ooi, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore) Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster Univ. (UK) Michael Zink, Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst (USA) Program Committee: Tarek Abdelzaher, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (USA) Surendar Chandra, Univ. of Notre Dame (USA) Adrian Cheok, Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore) Mark Claypool, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) David H. Du, Univ. of Minnesota (USA) Wu-chi Feng, Portland State University (USA) Pascal Frossard, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/Lausanne (Switzerland) Ahsan Habib, Siemens TTB Center/Berkeley (USA) Pål Halvorsen, Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) Martin Karsten, Univ. of Waterloo (Canada) Baochun Li, Univ. of Toronto (Canada) Kang Li, Univ. of Georgia (USA) Ketan Mayer-Patel, Univ. of North Carolina/Chapel Hill (USA) Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster Univ. (UK) Reza Rejaie, Univ. of Oregon (USA) Christoph Rensing, Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany) Utz Roedig, Univ. College Cork (Ireland) Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Wei Tsang Ooi, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore) Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Univ. of California/Irvine (USA) Michael Zink, Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst (USA) **************************************************** ** 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: [ISCC06] 2006 International Conference on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC2006)]
by Lars Wolf 02 May '06

02 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC06] 2006 International Conference on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC2006) Datum: Tue, 2 May 2006 20:19:50 +0800 Von: Alvin Chan <cstschan(a)comp.polyu.edu.hk> An: <ukubinet-announce(a)doc.ic.ac.uk>, <iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it> Sincere apologies if you receive this call for papers multiple times. -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS CIC2006 The 2006 International Conference on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC2006) October 25-27, 2006, Hong Kong, China http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/cic2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ============= Cooperative computing aims at enabling different parties to work together towards a pre-defined non-trivial goal. It involves important technological areas like computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), workflow, computer-assisted design, databases, distributed systems, and concurrent programming. In the past few years, the prosperity of cooperative computing has been accelerated by the ubiquity of the Internet and the advent of wireless technologies, giving rise to the new research discipline of Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC). Now, cooperating parties can work on the Internet at any time and place. At the same time, we have also witnessed an enormous leap in communication speed. This has opened up a wide range of new cooperative applications that were not feasible in the past. Publication =========== The CIC2006 conference has partnered with World Scientific Publisher to publish the conference proceedings as book chapters in a book entitled "Cooperative Internet Computing". The book is scheduled to be published after the conference. Best papers will be selected for publication in the International Journal on High Performance Computing (pending). Scope and Interests ==================== The Conference invites papers on all aspects of Cooperative Internet Computing, and their applications. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Cooperative Information System Architectures * Human-Computer Interaction for Cooperation * Agents and Brokers for Cooperative Computing * Middleware for Collaboration * Workflow Systems * Distributed Multimedia Systems * Collaborative Internet Learning * Pedagogical Theories for Collaborative Internet Learning * Mobile Cooperative Systems * Evaluation Methodologies for CIC systems * Interaction Models and Protocols for CIC Systems * Internet Communication Infrastructure for Collaboration * Computer-Supported Cooperative Work * Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing * Enterprise Knowledge Management * Java, CORBA, DCOM, and XML Cooperative Application * Innovative and Emergent CIC Applications * Case Studies Submission Information ======================= Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 15 pages, including tables and figures, with PDF, PostScript, or MS Word format. Electronic submission through the submission website is strongly encouraged. Hardcopies will be accepted only if electronic submission is not possible. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Submission Web Site: http://cic2006.comp.polyu.edu.hk/myreview IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: June 30, 2006 Acceptance notification: Aug 1, 2006 Camera ready due: Sep 15, 2006 Conference: October 25-27, 2006 CONTACT ADDRESS Associate Prof. Edward Ho, Department of Computing The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Email: cic2006(a)comp.polyu.edu.hk _______________________________________________ Iscc2005 mailing list Iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc2005

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Game-On 2006 CfP, @TUBSIBR
by Oliver Wellnitz 02 May '06

02 May '06

GAME-ON 2006 November 29 - December 1, 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS Technische Universitaet Braunschweig Braunschweig, Germany Organized by EUROSIS-ETI Supported by Ghent University, Larian Studios, The Moves Institute, Binary Illusions, ModelBenders LLC, University of Bradford, Sheffield University, Liverpool John Moores University and TU Delft Conference website http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/news/ibr/game-on-2006/index.html The aim of the 7th annual European Game-On Conference on simulation and AI in Computer Games, is to bring together researchers and games people in order to exchange ideas on programming and programming techniques, which will be beneficial to the gaming industry and academia. Secondly it aims to steer young people into this industry by providing how-to tutorials and giving them the opportunity to show their ideas and demos to the gaming industry. The conference will concentrate mostly on the programming of games, with special emphasis on simulation, AI and fuzzy sets, and physics related computer graphics. Next to that, all of this will be fused in the topic of computer game design in stand-alone and networked games. Software providers will be able to show their latest packages and give hand-on tutorials for the participants. Companies will also have the opportunity to seek new talent at this event. The conference will cover two core tracks Artificial Intelligence Physics and Simulation a number of peripheral tracks Graphics Simulation and Techniques Facial, Avatar, NPC, 3D in Game Animation AI and Simulation Tools for games design Game Design Rendering Learning & Adaptation Intelligent/Knowledgeable Agents Collaboration & Multi-agent Systems Opponent Modelling Rendering Techniques Voice Interaction Artistic input to game and character design Storytelling and Natural Language Processing Security Issues in Online Gaming Some Special Sessions will be organised on: Networked gaming AIBO Based Gaming Applications Wargaming methodology and techniques applied to strategic game design using Campaign managers, character generators, terrain generators. Multiplayer wargaming and Web Wargaming Aerospace Simulations, Board Games etc.... Games for training. Games Console Design Tutorials, "Aren't we great" presentations, Student Demos. Students are encouraged to show demos of their work to the companies present at the conference. The best demo will receive a prize from the organizers. LOCATION AND VENUE The conference will be held at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany; More information will be available on the web. POSTER SESSION The poster session only features work in progress. Next to the actual poster presentation, these submissions also feature as short papers in the Proceedings. STUDENTS SESSION This session is for students who want to present their work in progress or part of their doctoral thesis as a paper. Student papers are denoted by the fact that only the name of the student appears on the paper as an author. They are published as short papers in the Proceedings. DIVERSE ACTIVITIES For demonstrations or video sessions, please contact Philippe Geril. Special session will be set up for vendor presentations in co-ordination with the scientific program. User Group meetings for simulation languages and tools can be organised the day before the conference. If you would like to arrange a meeting, please contact the Conference Chairs. We will be happy to provide a meeting room and other necessary equipment. Partners for projects session(s) will be organised by EUROSIS to give potential project teams or individuals the opportunity to present their research in order to link up with fellow researchers for future research projects. Those wishing to participate in this session need to send a proposal to Philippe Geril EXHIBITION A special exhibition will be held during the conference focused on gaming tools. For more information please contact EUROSIS for further details. Email: Philippe.Geril(a)biomath.ugent.be REGISTRATION FEES Registration Fees Author EUROSIS Other Members Participants Pre-reg before 485 EURO 485 EURO 535 EURO November 10th 2006 Reg after Pre-registration 535 EURO 595 EURO November 10th '2006 required Student authors pay: 250 EUR Students who register after November 10th and who are not authors pay 350 EUR. Before November 10, they pay 295 EUR. The registration fee includes a copy of the Proceedings, lunches, conference dinner, get-together party, coffee breaks, company visit and demonstrations. PAPER SUBMISSION TYPES FULL PAPER (including abstract, conclusions, diagrams, references) During review, the submitted full papers can be accepted as a regular 5 page paper. If excellent, full papers can be accepted by the program committee as an extended (8-page) paper. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the International Program Committee. EXTENDED ABSTRACT (at least five pages) Participants may also submit a 5 page extended abstract for a regular (5 pages) or short (3 pages) paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the GAMEON'2006 Conference Proceedings. SHORT ABSTRACT (at least three pages) Participants may also submit a 3 page abstract for a short paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the GAMEON'2006 Conference Proceedings. ONE PAGE ABSTRACTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED. All EUROSIS Proceedings are indexed by ISI-Thomson and IEE-INSPEC DEADLINES AND REQUIREMENTS Send all submissions in an ELECTRONIC FORM ONLY in uuencoded, zipped Microsoft Word format, PDF or Postscript format indicating the designated track and type of submission (full paper or an extended abstract) to EUROSIS (Philippe.Geril(a)biomath.ugent.be). Please provide your name, affiliation, full mailing address, telephone / fax number and Email address on all submissions as well. For submissions please put in the subject of your Email the following indications: GAMEON2006 and designated track or USE THE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION SITE!! Only original papers, which have not been published elsewhere, will be accepted for publication SUBMISSION DEADLINES EARLY BIRD SUBMISSION: JULY 31 SEPTEMBER 15 2006: Submit contributed full-papers (5 to 8 proceedings pages) not previously published. These submissions, when accepted will be published as regular or extended papers, depending on their quality. Submit extended abstracts (5 abstract pages) or short papers (3 abstract pages), reports of industrial projects and summaries of posters. These submissions, when accepted will be published as regular, of up to 5 proceedings page papers. Submit one -to -three page proposals to present tutorials, to organise and chair panel sessions, to organise user meetings, vendor sessions or to exhibit software SEPTEMBER 15, 2006: Submit abstracts for student and poster session LATE PAPER SUBMISSION DATE: SEPTEMBER 25 OCTOBER 15, 2006: Notification of Acceptance or Rejection NOVEMBER 10, 2006: Authors provide camera-ready manuscript NOVEMBER 29-DECEMBER 1, 2006: Conference OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD The 2006 GAMEON Conference Committee will select the Outstanding Paper of the Conference. The author of this paper will be awarded a free registration for a EUROSIS conference. Only papers SUBMITTED AS FULL papers will be eligible for the Outstanding Paper Award. LANGUAGE The official conference language for all papers and presentations is English. REPLY CARD First Name: Surname: Occupation and/or Title: Affiliation: Mailing Address Zip code: City: Country. Telephone: Fax: E-Mail: Yes, I intend to attend the GAMEON'2006: [ ] Presenting a paper, by submitting a full paper [ ] Presenting a short paper (by submitting an extended abstract) [ ] Participating in the industrial program [ ] Organizing a vendor session [ ] Proposing a panel discussion (please mention names of panellists) [ ] Contributing to the exhibition [ ] Without presenting a paper The provisional title of my paper / exhibited tool is: With the following highlights: The paper belongs to the category (please tick only one): [ ] Artificial Intelligence [ ] Physics and Simulation [ ] 3D Scalability [ ] Facial Animation [ ] Skeletal Animation and Fully Scaled Rendering [ ] 3-D in Game Animation [ ] Tools [ ] Design [ ] Rendering [ ] Security [ ] Voice Interaction [ ] Cognitive Psychology [ ] Artistic Input [ ] Wargaming [ ] Applications [ ] Games Console Design [ ] Networked Gaming [ ] AIBO Based Gaming [ ] European Projects [ ] Exhibition [ ] Poster session [ ] Student Session Other colleague(s) interested in the topics of the conference is/are: Name: Address: Name: Address: If you would like to receive more information about EUROSIS and its activities, please tick the following box: [ ] YES, I would like to know more about EUROSIS [ ] NO, please remove me from your database. Please email your reply or send or fax this card immediately to: (fax: +32.9.264.58.25) CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS Philippe Geril EUROSIS European Simulation Office Ghent University, Faculty of Engineering, Dept.of Industrial Management, Technologiepark 903 , B-9052, Zwijnaarde-Ghent, Belgium. Tel: +32.9.264.55.09 Fax: +32.9.264.58.25 Email: philippe.geril(a)biomath.ugent.be www.eurosis.org -- Philippe Geril Tel: +32.9.264.55.09 EUROSIS -ETI Fax: +32.9.264.58.25 Ghent University E-mail: Philippe.Geril(a)biomath.ugent.be Dept.of Industrial Mgmt. E-mail: pgeril(a)yahoo.co.uk Technologiepark 903 E-mail: philippe.geril(a)eurosis.org Campus Ardoyen URL: http://www.eurosis.org B-9052 Ghent-Zwijnaarde URL: http://biomath.ugent.be/~eurosis Belgium URL: http://www.sim-center.net ********************************************************************* * Your Scientific information site on * * Computer Simulation - Concurrent Engineering - Multimedia- Games * * WWW.EUROSIS.ORG * *********************************************************************

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[Fwd: Call for Papers: ACM PE-WASUN'06]
by Lars Wolf 02 May '06

02 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: ACM PE-WASUN'06 Datum: Mon, 1 May 2006 12:28:47 -0400 Von: CFP ACM PE-WASUN 2006 <conf(a)site.uottawa.ca> An: undisclosed-recipients:; CC: rshaikh(a)site.uottawa.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: ACM* PE-WASUN 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd ACM* International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks http://ares.insa-lyon.fr/pe-wasun06 Torremolinos, Malaga, SPAIN, October 2-6, 2006 Jointly with the 9th ACM/IEEE * MSWiM Symposium http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2006 *ACM/IEEE Pending upon Approval ------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: Full paper due: June 10th, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modeling and evaluation will play a crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. This workshop brings together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Probabilistic or predictive performance models and analysis of ad hoc, sensor, pervasive and ubiquitous networks - RF channel capacity modeling and analysis - Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks - Mobility modeling and management - Analytical modeling - Simulation methods - Tracing and trace analysis - Performance measurement, monitoring and evaluation tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks - Software tools for automatic network performance and evaluation - Network performance improvements by optimization algorithms - Energy-efficient protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks - Wireless mesh networks - Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks Workshop Co-Chairs: Lichun Bao University of California, Irvine, USA Isabelle Guerin Lassous INRIA/CITI, Lyon, France Technical Program Committee Members: Khalid Al-Begain Univ. of Glamorgan, UK Prithwish Basu BBN Technologies, USA Paolo Bellavista University of Trento, Italy Brahim Bensaou Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK Fernando Boavida University of Coimbra, Portugal Luciano Bononi University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada Michele Colajanni University of Modena, Italy J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Mario Gerla UCLA, USA Vittoria Gianuzzi University of Genova, Italy Ben Liang University of Toronto, Canada Zhen Liu IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Bernard Mans Macquarie University, Australia Pietro Manzoni Politechnic University of Valencia, Spain Kenichi Mase Niigata University, Japan Jelena Misic University of Manitoba (Canada) Mohamed Naimi University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Sotiris Nikoletseas Computer Technology Institute, Greece Mirela Notare Barddal University, Brazil Mohamed Ould-Khaoua University of Glasgow, UK Guy Pujolle UniversitÃ©aris 6, France Pedro M. Ruiz University of Murcia, Spain Marco Spohn Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil Mineo Takai University of California, Los Angeles, USA Damla Turgut University of Central Florida, USA Fabrice Valois Insa de Lyon, France Publicity Chair: Marcelo Dias de Amorim CNRS/LIP6, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Accepted papers will appear on the workshop proceedings that will be published by ACM press. At least one of the authors of accepted papers must attend the conference to present his paper. Paper should be submitted on PE-WASUN web site: http://ares.insa-lyon.fr/pe-wasun06/authors.html. Paper length should be no mo re than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. A template for ACM SIG Proceedings style (LaTeX2e and MS Word) ca n be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/tem plate.html. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. A special issue will be planned in a scholarly journal to include selected high-quality papers from the workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates Full paper due: June 10th, 2006 Acceptance notification: July 10th, 2006 Camera ready due: TBA

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNet 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 01 May '06

01 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNet 2006) Datum: Mon, 01 May 2006 10:05:30 -0700 Von: Wei Ye <weiye(a)ISI.EDU> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Our Apologies if you have received multiple copies of the CFP. Volkan Rodoplu and Wei Ye WUWNet 2006 Publicity Co-Chairs ----------------------------------------------------- The First ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet 2006) http://wuwnet.engr.uconn.edu/ In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2006 September 29, 2006 Los Angeles, California, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ----------------------------------------------------- Overview & Scope **************** The oceans cover 71% of the earth's surface and represent one of the least explored frontiers, yet the oceans are integral to climate regulation, nutrient production, oil retrieval and transportation. As such, there is significant interest in monitoring aquatic environments for scientific, environmental, commercial, safety, and military reasons. While there is a need for highly precise, real-time, fine grained spatio-temporal sampling of the ocean environment, current methods such as remote telemetry and sequential local sensing cannot satisfy current needs, let alone future needs. The notion of an underwater network is relatively new due to the lack of maturity of underwater acoustic communication. However, networks are necessary in order to achieve the monitoring goals noted above. The physical challenges of acoustic underwater communication require us to completely re-think how a network should be designed and deployed in this environment. Challenges to be overcome by underwater acoustic modem and network designers include: severely limited range-dependent bandwidth and attenuation, extensive time-varying multipath propagation, and low speed of sound propagation in water resulting in long propagation delays. Moreover, a unique feature of underwater networks is that the environment is constantly mobile, naturally causing the node passive mobility. All the above distinct features of underwater networks yield new challenges for every level of the network protocol suite. The goal of the proposed workshop is to bring together researchers and practioners in areas relevant to underwater networks. Thus, many layers of the "stack" from the physical layer to the application layer will be represented. The objective is to serve as a forum for presenting state of the art research, exchanging ideas and experiences, and facilitating interaction and collaboration. The workshop will span one day, including presentations of technical papers, tutorial/survey papers, a panel session and a poster/demo session. Submissions for regular technical papers and poster/demo extended abstracts should describe original research, not published or currently under review for other workshops, conferences, or journals. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Network architecture design - Efficient acoustic communications - Cooperative underwater communications - Medium access control - Routing and forwarding - Reliable data transfer - Security and robustness - Power management - Data storage and management - Localization and synchronization - Data fusion, dissemination, tracking - Network modeling and simulations - Capacity analysis - New techniques for aquatic applications - New applications for underwater networks Submission Guidelines ********************* All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers must be in PDF format, no longer than 8 pages for regular papers (10 pages for tutorial/survey papers and 4 pages for poster/demo papers), and must follow ACM single-space, double-column format, 10 pt. Submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and novelty through a rigorous review process. Over-length papers will be automatically rejected. Detailed instructions for paper submission are posted on the workshop website. Important Dates *************** Submission deadline: June 30, 2006 Acceptance notification: July 28, 2006 Camera-ready version: August 11, 2006 Workshop date: September 29, 2006 Organizing Committee ******************** General Co-chairs: Jun-Hong Cui (University of Connecticut) Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California) Technical Program Co-chairs: Kevin Fall (Intel Research, Berkeley) Milica Stojanovic (MIT/WHOI) Publicity Co-chairs: Volkan Rodoplu (University of California, Santa Barbara) Wei Ye (USC/ISI) Treasurer: Shengli Zhou (University of Connecticut) Publications Chair: Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington University) Technical Program Committee *************************** Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology) Lee Freitag (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Mario Gerla (University of California, Los Angeles) João Pedro Gomes (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal) John Heidemann (USC/ISI) Ronald A. Iltis (University of California, Santa Barbara) Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore) Joseph A. Rice (Naval Postgraduate School) Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Mani Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles) Yongguang Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Michele Zorzi (Universita'di Ferrara, Italy) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP -- IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'07), Jan. 2007]
by Lars Wolf 01 May '06

01 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP -- IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'07), Jan. 2007 Datum: Mon, 01 May 2006 09:57:54 -0500 Von: Yi Shang <shangy(a)missouri.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE COPIES ******************************************************************************************* - CALL FOR PAPERS - CCNC2007 - IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 11 - 13 January 2007 Las Vegas, NV, USA - Harrah's Hotel & Casino (Co-located with the International Consumer Electronics Show, 8-11 January 2007) "SEAMLESS CONSUMER CONNECTIVITY" Visit: http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2007 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, is a major annual international conference organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of consumer communications and networking. CCNC 2007 will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of wireless, multimedia, and consumer networking, enabling technologies (such as middleware), and novel applications and services. The conference will include a peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, special sessions, business application sessions, tutorials, and demonstration sessions. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. Authors should submit a five-page technical paper manuscript (or a two-page demonstration summary) in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract through EDAS, following the submission guidelines available on the CCNC2007 website. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Wireless Networking * Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks * Body and Personal Area Networks * Wireless QoS * Cross Layer Optimization * Vehicle Networks * Wireless Access Networks (Wireless LANs, WiMAX, Cellular Networks) * Multi-hop networks * Seamless Roaming Techniques and Technologies * Wireless Home Networks: Architecture and Protocols * Wireless Security * Wireless Multimedia Networks * Power and Topology Management * Emerging Wireless Technologies (e.g., Ultra Wideband, OFDM) Multimedia Networking * Peer to Peer Networking * Software Radio for Multimedia Support * Image/Video Sensor Networks * Multimedia Support over Multi-hop Networks * Distributed Coding * Network Diversity for Multimedia Support (e.g., Path Diversity, Multiple Antennas etc.) * Network Security and Privacy * Multimedia Forensics * Technology and Economics of Entertainment Networks * High Definition Audio/Video Networking * Internetworking * Distributed Gaming Protocols * Last Mile Network Technologies * Multimedia Distribution Protocols * Multimedia Network Architecture * Network Management and Control * Multimedia QoS Protocols * QoS Support and Performance * Residential Gateways Enabling Technologies * Multimedia Technologies (e.g., Retrieval, Processing, Synchronization, Integration, Systems, etc.) * Digital Rights Management Systems * Gaming and Virtual Reality * Human-Machine Interface and Interaction * Thin Client Support * User and Service Mobility * Service Composition * Look-up Technologies * Operating Systems for Mobile Devices * Database Management Systems * The Semantic Web * Data and Program Migration * Service and Device Discovery * Standards and Interoperability * Wearable Computers * Pervasive Computing and Contextual Systems * Home and Internet Middleware (e.g. Java, .Net, XML, OSGi, JTWI, JXTA, MHP/OCAP, UPnP, etc.) * Embedded Platforms Novel Applications * Networked Appliances * Peer-to-Peer Applications and Services * Mobile Applications * Entertainment and Games * Multimedia Applications (Video Conferencing, Video-on-Demand, Distance Learning, Voice/Video over IP, IPTV, etc) * Home Automation * Medical and Health Care * Surveillance, Home Monitoring * Service Evaluation * Accessibility * Multi-Modal Interactions and Applications * Context-Aware Services and Applications * User Interface for Mobile Devices * Seamless Mobility * Quad Play * e-Commerce, m-Commerce * Location-based Services * Personalization * Virtual Home Environments * Field Trials and Usability # There will be a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. # There will be a Best Demonstration Award for the best demonstration, as judged by a special Venture Advisory Committee. # Several Student Travel Grants will be made available. Important Dates: * Technical paper submission deadline and Special Session proposal submission deadline: 30 June, 2006 * Technical application panel and tutorial proposal submission deadline: 1 September, 2006 * Paper acceptance notification deadline: 15 September, 2006 * Demonstration proposal submission deadline: 18 September, 2006 * Final camera ready paper submission deadline: 10 October, 2006 NEW IEEE/COMSOC POLICY: all accepted CCNC 2007 technical paper presenters must register at the FULL registration rate. For authors presenting multiple papers, one FULL registration is valid for up to three papers. Steering Committee: Chair: Rob Fish, Panasonic, USA Vice Chair: Stan Moyer, Telcordia, USA John Barr, Motorola, USA Maurizio Beltrami, Philips, Netherlands V. Michael Bove Jr., M.I.T., USA K.C. Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Alex Gelman, Panasonic, USA Alan Kaplan, Panasonic, USA Ki Won Lee, Samsung Electronics Co. LTD., Korea Dave Marples, Telcordia Technologies, UK Madjid Merabati, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Naohisa Ohta, Keio University, Japan Kumar Ramaswamy, Thomson Inc., USA Curtis Siller, Cetacean Networks, USA Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA Heather Yu, Panasonic, USA Doug Zuckerman, Doug Zuckerman Associates, USA Organizing Committee: * General Chair: John Barr, Motorola, USA * Technical Program Chair: Wenjun Zeng, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA * Technical Program Vice Chairs: o Wireless Networking: Gary Chan, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech, China o Multimedia Networking: Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA o Enabling Technologies: Alan Messer, Samsung, USA o Novel Applications: Bin Wei, AT&T Research Labs, USA * Special Sessions co-Chairs: Hang Liu, Thomson, USA; Qian Zhang, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech, China * Workshop Chair: Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada o DRM Workshop Chair: Xin Wang, ContentGuard, USA o NIME Workshop co-Chairs: Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy; Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA; Abdennour El-Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK o HWN-RMQ Workshop Chair: Muhammad Jaseemuddin, Ryerson University, Canada * Technology Applications Panels Chair: Stan Moyer, Telcordia Technologies, USA * Demo Chair: Dave Marples, Telcordia Technologies, UK * Tutorial Chair: Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, Scotland * Career Forum Chair: Zhu Liu, AT&T Labs, USA * Publication Chair: Yingtao Jiang, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA * Publicity/Liaison Chairs: o Europe: Guenter Schaefer, Technische Universtaet Ilmenau, Germany o North America: Yi Shang, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, USA o Asia Pacific: Morikawa Hiroyuki, University of Tokyo, Japan o Latin America: Nelson da Fonseca, State University of Campinas, Brazil * Patron Chair: John Barr, Motorola, USA * Local Arrangements Chair: Mei Yang, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA * IT co-Chairs: Lina Dong & Yingnan Zhu, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA * Finance Chair: Mike Kincaid, MSK Associates, USA * Treasurer: Bruce Worthman, IEEE Communications Society, USA * IEEE Society Liaison: Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada * IEEE Communications Society Project Manager: Diane Williams, IEEE Communications Society, USA Patrons: Panasonic Please visit the website (http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2007) for more info on the: CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS CALL FOR DEMONSTRATION PAPERS CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CHINACOM2006 deadline has been extended to May 15th, 2006
by Yabin Ye 01 May '06

01 May '06

(Apology for duplicates) Dear Colleague, We have received a very large number of submissions and also a large number of requests for extension. Consequently the deadline has been extended to May 15th, 2006. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended Submission Deadline, May 15th, 2006) CHINACOM 2006: First International Conference on Communications and Networking in China October 25-27, 2006 Beijing, China http://www.chinacom.org <http://www.chinacom.org/> All accepted papers will be indexed by Engineering Information (EI) and be made available in IEEE Xplore and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library. Accepted papers will also be recommended for a special issue of a top journal. Extended Paper Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2006 Jointly co-sponsored by: Create-Net, ICST In cooperation with: ACM, SIGMOBILE, SIGSAC Technical co-sponsored by: IEEE, VTS, APS, CVTC, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), OBS/OPS Forum, and IEE (pending), IEEE CS (pending), IEEE CSS (pending) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CHINACOM 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ================================================== INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ================================================== Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Tech., USA Yeheskel (Zeke) Bar-Ness, New Jersey Institute of Tech., USA Bob Brodersen, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA Junliang Chen, BUPT, China Roberto Coisson, Italian Embassy in China, Italy Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA, USA Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University, USA Byeong Gi Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Guangnan Ni, Institute of Computing Technology, China Hequan Wu, Chinese Academy of Eng., China Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft, USA ================================================== STEERING COMMITTEE ================================================== Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy Bo Li (Co-Chair), HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== GENERAL CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Jintong Lin, BUPT President, China Khaled Ben Letaief, HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== GENERAL Vice CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Zheng Zhou, BUPT, China Yabin Ye, Create-Net, Italy ================================================== TPC CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Dongjin Wang, USTC, China Laurie Cuthbert, Queen Mary, Univ. of London, UK Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada Chunming Qiao, SUNY at Buffalo, USA ================================================== WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Jing (James) Yang, UTstarcom, USA T. Russell Hsing, Telcordia, USA ================================================== INDUSTRY SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Heather Yu, Panasonic, USA Xiongyan Tang, CNC, China Wenwu Zhu, Intel, USA ================================================== PANELS CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Pingzhi Fan, Southwest Jiaotong Univ., China Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin, Germany ================================================== PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Zhensheng Zhang, San Diego Research Center, USA Tan Wong, Univ. of Florida, USA ================================================== PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Tee Hiang Cheng, NTU, Singapore Zhongcheng Hou, CIC, China Honggang Zhang, Create-Net, Italy ================================================== LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR ================================================== Luyong Zhang, BUPT, China SYMPOSIA CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Frontiers on Communications and Networking ================================================== Haniph A. Latchman, Univ. of Florida, USA Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, China Boon Sain Yeo, Wavex Technologies, Singapore ================================================== Optical Communications and Networking ================================================== Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Xue Chen, BUPT, China Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada ================================================== Wireless Communications and Networking ================================================== Andreas F. Molisch, MERL,USA /Lund Univ. Sweden Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada Kazem Sohraby, University of Arkansas, USA Jianhua Lu, Tsinghua University, China ================================================== Advances in Internet ================================================== Hai Jin, HUST, China Qian Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== Communications Theory and Signal Processing for Communications ================================================== Ahmed H. Tewfik, Univ. of Minnesota, USA Jing Tiffany Li, Lehigh University, USA ================================================== Networking Security and Information Assurance ================================================== Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores Univ., UK Thomas Woo, Bell labs, USA +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The aim of CHINACOM is to bring together Chinese and International players in networking and communications under one roof, building a showcase in communications and networking research in China. China's information technology industry and research have been developing at an enormous pace in the last 20 years. Currently China has the largest wireless mobile and the second largest Internet subscriber population in the world. By the end of 2005, the mobile phone users have reached 388 million (19% of the world market), and the number will be over 500 million by 2008 and over 150 million will be multimedia applications. Internet users have exceeded 100 million (half of them are broadband service subscribers). The total sale of optical cables & fibers reached 15 million kilometers in 2004, with the sale of the whole optical communication facility market reaching 1.5 billion USD. Furthermore, business/market factors in this area in China are unique since they are Government driven and mixed with culture, technology, and market forces. CHINACOM is being positioned as the premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental research advances in the field of Communications, Networks, and Internet Applications. The conference will consist of Technical Symposia, and Workshops. The Technical Symposia will describe significant research in all areas defined below; while the Workshops will focus on development, applications and related business issues. PAPERS: The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to: ================================================== Symposium-Frontiers on Communications and Networking ================================================== Bio-inspired networks Nano-Networks OSS/BSS/NGOSS Data mining Future internet architecture design Linear network coding Cooperation diversity and cooperative coding Autonomic communications/networking principles Multimedia broadband networking for smart homes Theory and algorithms of networking such as routing, congestion control, traffic engineering, peer-to-peer/overlay and security Power-line communications Detection and iterative processing techniques Theoretical foundations for network autonomics Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic networks and systems Adaptive security and safety mechanisms for self-protection and self-healing Applications and services such as location-based services, VoIP, IPTV, content services, L2/L3VPNs, Cognitive communications and networking ================================================== Symposium-Optical Communications and Networking ================================================== Routing and wavelength assignment ASON/GMPLS control plane Traffic grooming and traffic engineering Multicasting in optical networks Optical Packet /Burst Switching (OPS/OBS) Optical network protection and restoration Optical switches architecture and performance Optical grid Passive optical networks (A/B/G/EPONs) Optical network test beds and field trials Hybrid wireless-optical metro/access networks Signaling and monitoring in optical networks Ultra-high-speed transmission systems (>40 Gb/s) Modulation formats and coding Signal processing and forward error correction DWDM and CWDM transceivers and Transponders Optical regeneration (including all-optical) Fixed and reconfigurable OADMs Chromatic dispersion and PMD compensation Optical systems design and simulation OE and passive devices' applications Optical Ethernet and new service paradigms Impact of the physical-layer impairments on optical network design and traffic engineering ================================================== Symposium-Wireless Communications and Networking ================================================== PCS, GPRS, EDGE, 3GPP, UMTS, IMT2000 CDMA, TDMA, OFDM, air interfaces Handoff protocols & management Smart Antennas, cell & capacity planning Wireless LANs, mobile Internet Network topology control Flow & congestion control TCP over wireless Wireless multicasting Chaotic broadband (wireless) communications B3G/4G mobile network architectures Wireless multimedia Multiple and wireless access techniques Wireless switching and routing techniques Ultra-wideband (UWB) and Cognitive Radio Resource allocation and interference management Propagation and channel characterization MIMO techniques, Space-time coding Sensor and Ad hoc wireless networks WiMAX and beyond WiFi ================================================== Symposium-Advances in Internet ================================================== Provisioning and management of IP services Distributed Internet applications Novel applications and new paradigms Handling Internet dynamics/heterogeneity Traffic measurement, analysis, modeling China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) Multimedia and Internet application Pervasive/GRID computing Platforms for rapid creation and deployment of network services Design methodologies for Internet services Emergency services Services enabling protocols and extensions Peer-to-Peer applications and technologies leveraging/supporting peer-to-peer applications Middleware for new Internet based applications Converged networks and applications (including VoIP and 3G/NGN telecom networks) Applications leveraging content networking technologies delivering applications on the Internet Services over the wireless Internet Security and privacy management in hosted Internet applications ================================================================= Symposium-Communication Theory and Signal Processing for Communications ================================================================= Adaptive Antennas Adaptive Modulation and coded modulation Broadcast channels Channel estimation and modeling Communications electronics Channel Capacities Equalization Error Control Coding and ARQ Interference mitigation and signal separation Multiple access channels Multiuser systems and multiuser detection Network coding Receiver techniques Source coding and joint source-channel coding Space-Time codes and MIMO Speech and video signal processing Synchronization Signal processing algorithms Signal processing for UWB OFDM and multicarrier systems Image processing for communications Relay channels and user cooperation Signal processing for data storage Signal processing in wireless communications Speech and video signal processing Signal processing for multimedia ================================================== Symposium-Networking Security and Information Assurance ================================================== Power-reliability-security trade-offs in wireless networks Cross-layer approaches to security Mobile network security Location aware security in mobile networks Throughput-Security trade-offs in wireless networks Secure group multimedia communications Secure PHY/MAC/routing protocols Distributed security systems Secure cooperation in wireless networks Jamming and counter measures Attacks on security and vulnerability analysis Application layer encryption Digital watermarking and biometrics for secure information access Capacity and security analysis of covert channels Security Engineering Security in large-scale environments Security protocols Security of ad-hoc/sensor networks WORKSHOPS: Proposals for workshops are solicited. Potential chairs are requested to submit a workshop proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch of each chair, to one of the Workshop Chairs by June 6th, 2006. Evaluation of workshop proposals will be based on the relevance of the subject matter, and the expertise and experience of the chair. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in IEEE conference proceedings format, which are limited to 5 two-column pages in a font no smaller than 10-points. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please submit the paper through the COCUS System, http://cocus.create-net.it/cocus/welcome.do. Please visit the conference website http://www.chinacom.org/submissions.html for detailed submission requirements and procedures. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the CHINACOM 2006 Conference Proceedings. All accepted papers will be made available in IEEE Xplore and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Accepted papers will also be recommended for a special issue of a top journal. ================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ================================================== Paper Submission Due, May 15th, 2006 (Extended) Notification of Acceptance, June 30th, 2006 Camera Ready Versions Due, July 31st, 2006 Conference Dates, October, 25-27, 2006 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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