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[Fwd: [Tccc] Personalized Networks'06 cfp]
by Lars Wolf 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Personalized Networks'06 cfp Datum: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:50:24 +0100 Von: Paolo Bellavista <pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call for papers CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================ First International Workshop on Personalized Networks http://pernets.org/ To be held in conjunction with: The 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services (ACM/IEEE MOBIQUITOUS 2006) July 17-21, 2006 - San Jose, California, USA ============================================================ Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: May 8, 2006 Camera-Ready Submissions: May 31, 2006 (Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library) ============================================================= Purpose of this workshop The ubiquitous nature of wireless networks has spawned many interesting applications that were unimagined hitherto. It has also brought many challenges for the communication and networking community to ponder. On the one hand, we see present day mobile devices capable of providing many integrated services that only yesterday required several different devices. For instance, most cell phones nowadays provide high speed data access, still and video cameras, PDA functionality, etc. These advances in device sophistication and service offerings, including wireless hotspots, have made a difference in the way we communicate. With increased user mobility and the desire to always be connected, we have seen a growing interest in Personal Area Networks (PANs) and Body Area Networks (BANs). These networks can be tuned and applied meaningfully for individual users and their requirements. On the other hand, the Internet has changed our way of interacting dramatically. These two major communication areas are having an in-depth influence on the way we communicate; it is worth considering them 'together' as the future communication vehicle. (Please visit http://pernets.org/ for more information and submission instructions) Scope of the submission We seek original contributions which are aimed at finding solutions to the problems outlined above towards a Personalized Network. We have identified the following major topics under which we try to categorize the submissions. However, we will consider any other original, interesting, and imaginative ideas and thoughts towards meeting the goal of a Personalized Network. * Addressing and routing * Architectural framework of personalized networks * Context-aware and application-driven communication substrates * Dependability * Handling of QoS across heterogeneous and dynamically changing link layers * Innovative applications or prototypes and demonstrations of person-centric applications * Interactions between persons through their networks, federations of such networks * Interworking between PANs, ad hoc networks, etc, and infrastructure-based heterogeneous networks * Mapping of functional requirements to physical devices and resources * Modeling and simulation of personalized networks * Mobility of personalized networks * Multimedia services for personalized networks * New QoS concepts in personalized networks * P2P paradigm in personalized networks * Resource, service and context discovery * Security, privacy and accounting * Self-organization and adaptation * Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use Why should you participate in this workshop? Personalized Networks is a concrete vision of the future networks, which attracts researchers from both wired and wireless domains. This workshop is an ideal platform to share a vision of where we are heading, interact, and strongly advocate an exciting new avenue for researchers and practitioners in the field of communication. Further, the final program would consist of carefully selected - with at least three peer reviews - and high quality submissions with a large emphasis on new ideas rather than incremental contributions to the field. Submissions of shorter versions of full papers that can be submitted to other conferences/journal in the near future are discouraged. General Chairperson Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Program Co-Chairpersons Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands Sai Shankar, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Publicity Chairperson Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Technical Program Committee Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Milind M Buddhikot, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA Chun-Ting Chou, Philips Research, New York, USA Carlos Cordeiro, Philips Research, New York, USA Piet Demeester, University of Ghent, Belgium Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, Boston, USA Carmelita Görg, University of Bremen, Germany Minaxi Gupta, Indiana University, USA K. V. S. Hari, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Frank den Hartog, TNO, Netherlands Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands James Irvine, Strathclyde University, Scotland H. S. Jamadagni, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Ernö Kovacs, NEC Europe, Heidelberg, Germany Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Guy Leduc, Universite de Liege, Belgium Anthony Lo, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Piet van Mieghem, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Ingrid Moerman, University of Ghent, Belgium Luis Muñoz, University of Cantabria, Spain Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Giovanni Pau, University of California Los Angeles, USA Jorge Pereira, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium Ramjee Prasad, University of Aalborg, Denmark Tarek Saadawi, City University of New York, USA Amardeo Sarma, NEC Network Laboratories, Germany Sai Shankar, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Sirin Tekinay, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Djamal Zeglache, INT, Paris, France 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] CFP: Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2006) Datum: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 17:19:26 -0500 Von: Tristan Henderson <tristan(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu *************************************************************** ******************** CALL FOR PAPERS ************************* *************************************************************** Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2006) Submission deadline: March 31, 2006 (5 PM PDT) Conference dates: August 2-5, 2006 Location: Boston, USA http://www.wicon.org Sponsored by ICST and Create-Net, IEEE Computer Society sponsorship pending Built on this year's successful conference inaugural, the Wireless Internet Conference (WICON) will continue to provide a premier international forum to discuss novel research results related to the emerging Wireless Internet. The conference addresses technologies aimed at providing seamless connectivity, richer services, and better quality for wireless data users while supporting heterogeneity in communication technologies, network architectures, and applications. The focus of the conference is on architectural, networking, security, performance and management aspects of cellular, WiFi, WiMax and other Wireless Internet technologies. Preference will be given to papers describing implementations, deployment, measurements, empirical performance evaluation and experiments. The conference will also put a special emphasis on integration and convergence issues of various wireless technologies and architectures, as well as cross-layer aspects, such as QoS, billing, and security. Given the existence of other conferences on mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, and the like, papers that are oriented to ad hoc and sensor networks are discouraged unless they directly focus on the conference theme of the Wireless Internet. WICON is soliciting both research track and industry track papers. All papers should describe original work that has been neither previously published nor is under review by another conference or journal. The page limit is 10 pages in IEEE double column format. Industry track papers must have at least one author from industry, and should describe interesting technical aspects of industrial applications, prototypes, experiences, and standards; performance and design details are encouraged, whereas papers focused on marketing or product information will not be accepted. For easy identification, all industry track papers should have as their title "Industry Track: rest of title." Papers will be submitted by electronic submission through COCUS system: http://cocus.create-net.it. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Implementation, deployment and measurements o performance of 2G, 3G, WiFi and WiMax systems o wireless network design, dimensioning and analysis o implementation, experimental systems and measurements o user behavior, traffic measurements and forecasting - Mobile network architectures o mobile networks beyond the 3rd generation o IP Multimedia Subsystem architecture and protocols o hybrid wireless architectures, fixed mobile convergence o service network architectures - Applications and services for mobile users o application platforms and middleware o application performance, performance enhancement o VoIP over wireless and cellular networks o vertical wireless application design (e.g. health care) o design and performance of wireless Internet applications (e.g., mobile gaming) - Wireless management, security and systems issues o wireless network management and diagnosis o security, malware, viruses and spam in wireless Internet o pricing and billing o reliability of wireless networks and services Organizing Committee: General Chairs: Ravi Jain, Google Ram Ramjee, Bell Labs Technical Program Co-Chairs: Lili Qiu, University of Texas at Austin Andras Valko, Ericsson Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Research Consortium Conference coordination and registration: Kitti H. Kovacs, ICST Finance Chair: Farooq Anjum, Telcordia Workshop Co-Chairs: Chiara Petrioli, Universit di Roma Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison Industry Track and Sponsorship Co-Chairs: Sujata Banerjee, Hewlett-Packard Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs Publicity Co-Chairs: Tristan Henderson, Dartmouth College Mun Choon Chan, National University, Singapore Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino Local Arrangements Chair: Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University Panel Chair: Sneha Kasera, University of Utah Poster Co-Chairs: Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Rajeev Shorey, National University, Singapore _______________________________________________ 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 (EuroSys 2006 Poster Submission)]
by Lars Wolf 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (EuroSys 2006 Poster Submission) Datum: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 09:21:04 -0800 Von: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Antwort an: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> An: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG EuroSys 2006 Poster Submission Information EuroSys 2006 will host an interactive poster session. Poster submissions will be peer-reviewed on the basis of an extended abstract describing the poster and, if available, a PDF file for the poster itself. Accepted abstracts and the associated posters will be available from the EuroSys web site. To submit a poster, please: * Write a 1-page extended abstract of the research to be described by the poster; All submissions should begin with the following information: Title: (title of proposed presentation) Name: (your name) E-mail: (your e-mail address) Student: (are you a student? yes/no) SUBMISSIONS LONGER THAN ONE PAGE WITH NOT BE ACCEPTED. * Place the abstract on the web as a ASCII, HTML, postscript or PDF format document * Mail the URL for the document's location to the Poster Session Chair, Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller(a)emn.fr> (and please mention "EuroSys POSTER" in the subject). If you have already completed the poster at the time of submission, please include a second URL to the actual poster in PDF format for use by the committee. If you are do not have access to a web server on which to post your abstract, you may email your abstract and poster as attachments directly to the Poster Session Chair. Important Dates: Deadline for poster extended abstract submission March 12th, 2006 Notification of poster acceptance April 1, 2006 Poster session April 19, 2006 ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs). Finally, this mailing list is made available for use by publicity chairs of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and the SIGOPS officers. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command (paste it!) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To unsubscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To get more information about manipulating your subscription to this list, go to http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/doc.html To contact the owner of the list or to report a problem with the list, email SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-request(a)ACM.ORG To request that an announcement be included in monthly mailings, go to http://sysnet.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ICCCN 2006 CFP]
by Lars Wolf 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ICCCN 2006 CFP Datum: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:59:18 -0600 Von: Byrav Ramamurthy <byrav(a)cse.unl.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu ICCCN 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS http://sa1.sice.umkc.edu/icccn06 October 9 - 11, 2006 Arlington, Virginia, USA Sheraton Crystal City Hotel (near Washington DC) Sponsors*: Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE TCCC and Nokia (*pending approval) ICCCN is a major international conference for the presentation of novel and fundamental advances in the field of Computer Communications and Networks. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving Computer Communications and Networks. SCOPE: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications of Computer Communications and Networks. We invite you to submit papers that present challenging and innovative results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Sensor & Ad-hoc Networking Network Security and Dependability Peer-to-Peer, Grid, and Overlay Networks Optical & High-Speed Networking Wireless Mobile Networking Network Architecture & Hardware Internet Services & Network Management IMPORTANT DATES: Regular paper submission deadline: April 24, 2006 Poster paper submission deadline: April 24, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 26, 2006 Camera ready papers due: July 28, 2006 SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS: Submitted manuscripts may NOT exceed 8 pages and must be submitted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Files should be submitted in Postscript or PDF format and formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper. Submitted papers may NOT have appeared in, nor be under consideration for, another journal or conference. The Program Committee reserves the right to NOT review papers that either exceed the above length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include the title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation, e-mail address(es), fax/phone number(s), and postal address(es). In case of multiple authors, indicate which author is responsible for correspondence about the submission. REVIEW AND PUBLICATION OF MANUSCRIPTS: All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, correctness, relevance, quality of presentation, and technical strength and significance. An accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors at the conference venue and must be limited to 6 pages (with an allowance of up to two extra pages at a cost of US$150 per extra page beyond 6 pages if the paper is accepted for publication) in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). ICCCN06 proceedings will be published by the IEEE Communications Society. STUDENT POSTER PAPER SESSIONS: The conference includes student poster sessions that highlight recent and ongoing research that has not been published elsewhere. An electronic (Postscript or PDF) version of the poster must be submitted to the conference website, along with a 200-word abstract. The first author of the poster must be a student at the time of submission; the student is expected to attend the conference and be available for discussion during the poster sessions. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. Students with accepted posters receive a discount from the regular conference registration fee. The paper and poster sessions are two fully independent conference tracks with separate review procedures. Submitted papers are NOT considered for poster sessions, and poster submissions are NOT considered for paper sessions. Submission of identical research material to both paper and poster sessions is not permitted. STUDENT FORUM: We encourage submissions from students. Travel assistance may be available for students with top quality papers. The student must be the first author of accepted paper and must attend and give presentation to be qualified. BEST PAPER AWARDS: ICCCN plans to award one best paper in each of the three following areas: Theory & Simulation Systems Software Hardware and Architecture The authors of each best paper will be recognized at the conference. Please contact the Program Co-Chairs below with any questions: Prof. Wu-chun Feng Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 feng(a)cs.vt.edu; +1 540-231-1192(voice); 540-231-6075(fax) Dr. Katherine Guo Center for Networking and Network Management Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies 101 Crawfords Corner Road, Room 4G-506 Holmdel, New Jersey 07733 kguo(a)bell-labs.com +1 732 949 8956 (voice); +1 732 949 4513 (fax) Publicity Chair: Dr. Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Tech University, (931) 372-3046, nghani(a)tntech.edu Local Arrangement Chair: E.K. Park, UMKC, ekpark(a)umkc.edu; 816-235-1497 Vice-Program Chairs: 1. Internet Services & Network Management: Xiaodong Zhang, The Ohio State University http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~zhang zhang(a)cse.ohio-state.edu 2. Network Security and Dependability Dongyan Xu, Purdue University http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/dxu dxu(a)cs.purdue.edu 3. Peer-to-Peer, Grid, and Overlay Networks: Bobby Bhattacharjee, University of Maryland http://www.cs.umd.edu/~bobby/ 4. Optical & High-Speed Networking: Debanjan Saha, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center http://debanjan.sahafamily.com/ dsaha(a)us.ibm.com 5. Wireless Mobile Networking: Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wwang/ wwang(a)eos.ncsu.edu 6. Sensor & Ad-hoc Networking: Junshan Zhang, Arizona State University http://www.eas.asu.edu/~junshan/ junshan.zhang(a)asu.edu 7. Network Architecture & Hardware: James P.G. Sterbenz University of Kansas (US) and Lancaster University (UK) http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~jpgs jpgs(a)comsoc.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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EC-TEL: First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
by Martin Gutbrod 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

[Apologies for cross-posting. A friendly reminder: deadline is end of this month!] __________________________________________________ First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning - Innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing - Crete, Greece - October 1-4, 2006 URL: http://www.ectel06.org Organized by the PRO-LC Cluster (http://www.professional-learning-cluster.org/) __________________________________________________ With the shift towards the knowledge society, changing working conditions and the continuous evolution of information and communication technologies, peoples' knowledge and skills need continuous development. Technology enhanced learning is one of the strategic objectives of the EU/IST Work Programme, with the goal of "improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of learning, for individuals and organizations, independent of time, place and pace." Innovative infrastructuctures, methods and approaches are needed to reach this goal, and will facilitate transfer and sharing of knowledge between individuals and in organisations. For e-learning, as in e-commerce and e-business, systemic changes wrought by emerging technologies are also changing the relationships between consumption and production - in this case of knowledge - as what many call 'Web 2.0' becomes more interactive and user-generated content becomes more widespread. The First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning provides a unique forum for all research related to technology- enhanced learning, as well as its interactions with knowledge management, business processes and work environments. It will provide a competitive yet broad enough forum for technology enhanced learning research in Europe and world-wide through specialized workshops and the main conference. The conference will provide unique networking possibilities for participating researchers throughout the week and include project meetings and discussions for several EU/IST projects funded within the 6th framework program under the action line of "Technology-Enhanced Learning and Access to Cultural Heritage". We welcome submissions describing innovative research on all relevant issues, focusing on aspects from computer science, business and/or education, as well as experience reports and case studies describing innovative applications of new learning environments and approaches. EC-TEL 2006 invites submissions in the following categories: - Papers and posters - Doctoral consortium papers - Industrial reports - Workshops Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: - Collaborative Learning: Learning Communities, Distributed Teams, Instructional Methods for Collaborative Learning, Problem Solving Support, Collaborative Knowledge Building and Sharing, Collaborative Games, Online Experiments - Personalized Learning: Reasoning Techniques, Adaptation Patterns and Techniques, Data Mining, Learner Modeling, Learner Assessment and Testing, Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Instructions, Competencies in Workplace Learning - Multimedia Content: Autoring of Multimedia/ Virtual Reality Content, Multimedia / Virtual Reality Streaming, Web Video Lectures - Semantic Web, Metadata and Learning: Learning Objects, Learning Activities, Learning Design, Narrative and Navigation Models, Semantic Clustering, Metadata for Search and Information Retrieval Workplace Learning: - Knowledge Management and Learning, Business Processes and Learning, Cost and Economy Models, Leveraging Expertise, Informal Learning, Social Software, Organizational Learning, Knowledge Sharing. - Learning Repositories and Infrastructures for Learning: Peer-to-Peer Infrastructures, Runtime Engines for Learning Design and Learning Objects, Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning, Deployment Strategies, Re-Use of Learning Objects, Re-Authoring and Re-Purposing - Experience Reports, Assesment, and Case Studies All submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity by three reviewers. Format: Publication of the proceedings is planned in Springer LNCS (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). For camera-ready format instructions, please see "For Authors" instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The page limit is 15 pages for full papers, 6 pages for posters. Selected papers will be considered for special issues of relevant journals. Important Dates: Deadline for Paper Submissions: March 30, 2006 Notification to Authors: June 1, 2006 Camery-Ready Papers: June 30, 2006 Conference: October 3 - 5, 2006 Deadline for Workshop Proposal Submissions: March 30, 2006 Notification of Workshop Acceptance: May 1, 2006 Deadline for Proceedings of Workshops: September 1, 2006 Workshops: October 1 - 2, 2006 Co-located Events and PRO-LC Meetings: September 29 - 30, October 5 - 6, 2006 Program Committee Chairs: Wolfgang Nejdl, Germany Klaus Tochtermann, Austria Publicity Chair: Erik Duval, Belgium Workshop Chair: Peter Scott, UK Industry Chair: Volker Zimmermann, Germany Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Katherine Maillet, France Ralf Klamma, Germany Program Committee Members: Heidrun Allert, Austria Kalina Bontcheva, UK Paul de Bra, The Netherlands Paul Brna, UK Peter Brusilovsky, USA Fabrizio Cardinali, Italy Stefano Ceri, Italy Pierre Dillenbourg, Switzerland Peter Dolog, Germany Erik Duval, Belgium Dieter Euler, Switzerland Monique Grandbastien, France J^rg M. Haake, Germany Kai Hakkarainen, Finland Friedrich Hesse, Germany Nicola Henze, Germany Wayne Hodgins, USA Geert-Jan Houben, Belgium Matthias Jarke, Germany Ralf Klamma, Germany Rob Koper, The Netherlands Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria Peter Loos, Germany Erica Melis, Germany Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan Enrico Motta, UK Gustaf Neumann, Austria Roy Pea, USA Juan Quemada, Spain Jeremy Roschelle, USA Vittorio Scarano, Italy Peter Scott, UK Marcus Specht, The Netherlands Ralf Steinmetz, Germany Julita Vassileva, Canada Vincent Wade, Ireland Gerhard Weber, Germany Organizing Chair: Constantin Makropolous, Greece Organizing Committee: Peter Dolog, Germany Sofia Kalokerinou, Greece Vana Kamtsiou, Greece Martin Wolpers, Belgium Helen Zabaka, Greece Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/semanticweb/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: semanticweb-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! 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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - Workshop on Networking in Public Transport]
by Lars Wolf 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - Workshop on Networking in Public Transport Datum: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:53:54 +1100 Von: Lavy Libman <Lavy.Libman(a)nicta.com.au> Organisation: NICTA An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Dear colleagues, Please find below the first call for papers for the Workshop on Networking in Public Transport (WNEPT). We apologize in advance for any cross-postings and duplicates. ========================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Networking in Public Transport (WNEPT 2006) in conjunction with QShine 2006 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada August 10, 2006 http://www.wnept.org Public transport (PT) systems, including buses, taxis, trains, ships and airplanes, are used daily by millions of people worldwide, ranging from regular commuters in metropolitan areas to long-distance business and leisure travellers. The ability to communicate and access information during travel is becoming increasingly crucial to maintain productivity or provide entertainment for PT passengers. However, despite phenomenal advances in mobile wireless networking technologies in recent years, commercial deployments of special networking solutions to support PT passengers remain scarce (except in airplanes). For the most part, mobile end users can only communicate by connecting directly to their individual wireless service providers. This prevailing situation offers a very limited and often inadequate support for the wide range of applications and needs of PT passengers, such as broadcast of multimedia entertainment and travel-related updates, and interactive multiplayer games. Additionally, networking support to PT vehicles is necessary to enable other PT-specific applications that do not directly involve the passengers, such as real-time surveillance, remote telemetry, and management of PT-specific road infrastructure (e.g. traffic lights on priority bus lanes and rail crossings). All of these require the deployment of integrated on-board network solutions to connect between passengers, content/application servers and other vehicle-mounted devices, neighboring vehicles, roadside infrastructure, and the Internet. Moreover, some inherent features of PT, such as the repetitiveness and predictability of routes and timetables, can be used to design specialized network protocols to further improve the quality of service perceived by PT passengers. Authors are invited to submit original full papers on any aspect of public transport networking. Contributions describing theoretical research, protocol design, experiments and measurements, commercial deployments, business models, or position/vision statements are all encouraged. Descriptions of work in progress, test trials, and future work plans are highly appreciated. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Broadband access to trains and airplanes * Mobile routers and network mobility * Intra-vehicle networks * IP and IPv6 mobility support for public transport * Multiple access networks in public transport * Authorization and authentication in public transport * Inter-vehicular communications, VANETs * Intermittent-connectivity and delay-tolerant networks * Protocol design for predictable mobility * Signalling between public transport and roadside infrastructure * Content distribution and on-board caching * Location privacy for public transport passengers * Novel public transport applications and services * Billing and charging for public transport networking * Experimental results and practical deployments Important dates: Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2006 Notification: June 16, 2006 Final Version Due: June 30, 2006 For further information and submission instructions, visit http://www.wnept.org . _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: The submission deadline of ITST2006 is extended to 15, March.]
by Lars Wolf 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: The submission deadline of ITST2006 is extended to 15, March. Datum: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:56:09 +0800 Von: Yan ZHANG <yanzhang(a)ieee.org> Antwort an: Yan ZHANG <yanzhang(a)ieee.org> An: <manet(a)ietf.org>, <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <itc(a)comsoc.org>, <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> CC: Wen Guangjun <wgj(a)uestc.edu.cn> We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ================================================================= ***************************************************************************** ITST 2006: The 6th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications Chengdu -CHINA; 21 - 22 - 23 June, 2006 http://www.itst2006.uestc.edu.cn Email: itst2006(a)uestc.edu.cn **************************************************************************** ??Due to numerous requests, we are pleased to announce that the deadline for the paper submission of ITST2006 has been extended until March 15th, 2006, 11:59pm. Please note that this new deadline is a hard deadline that can not be extended. ??We welcome submissions of a full-length paper (4 pages normally and 6 pages maximum) on telecommunications and intelligent transport system applications before March 15th, 2006. ??We would appreciate if you could redirect this announcement to anybody who you think would be interested. If you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact: itst2006(a)uestc.edu.cn or to have a look at the website: http://www.itst2006.uestc.edu.cn Your sincerely On behalf of the Organizing Committee Guangjun Wen

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[Fwd: [Tccc] (no subject)]
by Lars Wolf 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] (no subject) Datum: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 15:56:08 -0800 (PST) Von: Prasant Mohapatra <prasant(a)cs.ucdavis.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: ramjee(a)dnrc.bell-labs.com, Yongguang Zhang <ygz(a)microsoft.com>, prasant(a)cs.ucdavis.edu, petrioli(a)di.uniroma1.it Dear Colleague, We would like to encourage you to submit highly innovative research papers to the Twelfth ACM SIGMOBILE Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking(ACM MobiCom 2006) - the premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. ACM MobiCom 2006 will be held in Los Angeles, USA from September 23rd-29th. The CFP is attached below. Paper submission deadline is March 17th. Papers must be pre-registered by March 10th. Paper registration and submission are now open in EDAS. Our intent is for ACM MobiCom 2006 to be more inclusive of papers across a broad spectrum of topics in wireless networking and mobile computing. We would also like to solicit submissions of highly original papers identifying new areas and methodologies. To help encourage this, we intend to accept approximately 50% more papers than in previous years and we have added the possibility to submit short "Hot Topics" papers that present revolutionary new ideas or that challenge existing assumptions prevalent among the research community. With your help, we believe this will lead to an exciting program. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to meeting you in Los Angeles in September. Regards, Chiara Petrioli & Ram Ramjee PC Chairs, ACM SIGMOBILE MobiCom 2006 ------------------ We apologize for multiple copies ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS MobiCom 2006 The Twelfth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking September 23-29, 2006 Los Angeles, California, USA http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2006/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ACM MobiCom 2006, the Twelfth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, is the twelfth in a series of annual conferences sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. The MobiCom conference series serves as the premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. MobiCom is a highly selective conference focusing on all issues in mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking at the link layer and above. MobiCom 2006 will be held in September 2006 in Los Angeles, California. PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of mobile computing or wireless and mobile networking. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, limited bandwidth, limited power and/or intermittent connectivity - Applications and services for mobile users - Fundamental aspects of mobile computing and wireless networking - Integration and inter-working of wired and wireless networks - Location-dependent applications and protocols - Modelling, measurement and simulation aspects of mobile networks - Mobile ad hoc and sensor networks - Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking - Performance of mobile and wireless networks and systems - Security, privacy, and fault-tolerance of mobile/wireless systems - Wireless access technologies for mobile nodes (e.g., multi-radio and mesh systems, personal area networks) - Implementations and experimental mobile systems The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. HOT TOPIC PAPERS: The conference also strongly encourages the submission of short papers in the field of mobile computing and wireless networking that present revolutionary new ideas or that challenge existing assumptions prevalent among the research community. These "Hot Topic papers" should provide stimulating ideas or visions that may open up exciting avenues and/or influence the direction of future research. Descriptions of new products or evolution of existing work are not appropriate topics for papers in this category. While an exhaustive evaluation of the proposed ideas is not necessary for Hot Topic papers, insight and in-depth understanding of the issues is expected. Hot Topic papers will be reviewed by MobiCom program committee, and accepted papers will be part of the technical program and published in MobiCom proceedings. They should be submitted using the same submission procedure adopted for the full papers. The title of these submissions must start with the words "Hot Topic:" i.e., "Hot Topic: Rest of the Title." SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 12 pages (8 pages for "Hot Topic" papers), in font size no smaller than 10 points, and must fit properly on US "Letter"-sized paper (8.5x11 inches) with reasonable margins. The deadline for registering the title and the abstract of the paper with our electronic submission system is March 10, 2006, and the deadline for submitting the actual paper is March 17, 2006. Detailed instructions on the paper submission procedure and format are available on the conference web pages. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must not appear in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers (or substantially similar papers) must not be currently under review for any other publication. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs at mobicom_pcchairs(a)acm.org. TUTORIALS: Proposals for tutorials are solicited. Evaluation of tutorial proposals will be based on the expertise and experience of the instructors, and on the relevance of the subject matter. Potential instructors are requested to submit a tutorial proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch, to the Tutorial Co-Chairs. PANELS: Panels are solicited that examine innovative, controversial, or otherwise provocative issues of interest. Proposals should not exceed 3 pages, including biographical sketches of the panelists. Potential panel organizers should contact the Panel Co-Chairs. RESEARCH DEMOS AND EXHIBITS: Proposals for research demos are solicited. Proposals should not exceed 3 pages and should include a description of the demo and equipment to be used. Send proposals to the Research Demo Chair. STUDENT POSTER SESSION: Student posters are solicited that present recent and on-going research by students on mobile computing and mobile wireless networking. The poster submissions should include a 2-page description of the student's research. Accepted posters will be put on the conference web page; however, they will not be printed in the conference proceedings. Please send submissions to the Student Poster Chairs. ACM STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION: MobiCom 2006 will host the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). Students submitting to the MobiCom 2006 Poster Program can opt to have their posters considered also by the SRC committee. Selected competitors will receive up to $500 USD for their conference travel, depending on need, and will earn a chance to compete in the SRC Grand Finals. The winners will be recognized at the Annual ACM Awards Banquet. Competitors should be prepared to attend the poster session and, if selected for further competition, give a short talk about their research projects. Winners will be announced at the conference. The Student Research Competition is open to graduate and undergraduate students whose submissions are accepted by the SRC committee. To be considered, complete a submission to the Student Poster Program and indicate that you would like to participate in the SRC. Current ACM student membership and student status as of the submission deadline are required for the lead student. BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD: Papers with a student as a primary author will be considered for the Best Student Paper award, with an award of $1000 USD. Students must indicate with their submission that they would like to be considered for this award. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts submission due: March 10, 2006 Paper submissions due: March 17, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 16, 2006 Camera-ready version due: July 17, 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair Mario Gerla UCLA gerla(a)cs.ucla.edu Program Co-Chairs Chiara Petrioli Rome University "La Sapienza" petrioli(a)di.uniroma1.it Ram Ramjee Bell Labs ramjee(a)bell-labs.com Steering Committee Imrich Chlamtac (Chair) CreateNet, Italy Victor Bahl Microsoft Research, USA Dave Johnson Rice University, USA Christopher Rose Rutgers University, USA FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please contact the General Chair or Program Co-Chairs for more information. For information on ACM SIGMOBILE and the MobiCom series of conferences, see http://www.sigmobile.org/ or contact mobicom_info(a)acm.org. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: DSOM 2006]
by Lars Wolf 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

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[Fwd: Reminder: Call for Contributions: UbiComp 2006]
by Lars Wolf 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Reminder: Call for Contributions: UbiComp 2006 Datum: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:11:17 +0100 Von: Matthias Kranz <matthias(a)hcilab.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ====================== UbiComp 2006 - The Eigth International Conference on Ubiquituous Computing http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2006/ Conference Date: 17. - 21.09.2006 Conference Venue: Marriott Newport Beach, Orange County, California Hosted by: Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Overview: ========= Ubicomp is the premier international forum for research in ubiquitous computing, bringing together designers, computer scientists, social scientists, and artists, to discuss recent developments and future advance. Orange County is located in coastal Southern California, south of Los Angeles and north of San Diego. Typical September weather is sunny and dry with temperatures around 25C. We invite you to submit original, high-quality research contributions in all program categories, including full papers, demonstrations, posters, videos, and the doctoral colloquium. Contributions on all topics related to ubiquitous computing are welcome, including: * tools and techniques for designing, implementing, & evaluating ubiquitous computing systems * mobile, wireless, and ad hoc networking infrastructures for ubiquitous computing * laboratory and in situ studies of ubiquitous computing technologies in use * location-aware and context-based systems for ubiquitous computing * privacy, security, and trust in ubiquitous and pervasive systems. The UbiComp conference has traditionally had a strong workshop program. Workshops allow small groups to gather for intensive discussion around focused topics of interest. The goal of workshops is to share understandings and experiences, to foster research communities, to learn from each other and to envision future directions. NOTE: Ubicomp 2006 will have two days for workshops. Important Dates and Deadlines: ============================== 03/31/2006: Paper and workshop proposals 06/16/2006: Demos and videos 08/18/2006: Early registration 09/17-21/2006: Conference Call for Papers: ================ Ubicomp 2006 welcomes original, high-quality research contributions in the area of ubiquitous, pervasive and handheld computing systems and their applications. This conference seeks to present novel research results impacting the design and usage of ubiquitous computing technology that migrates beyond the desktop. Submissions should report original research that contributes to our understanding of ubiquitous computing and help advance the state of the art. Examples of appropriate areas of inquiry include: Improving natural interaction (e.g. applied sensing, fusion and reasoning, AI and speech technologies for Ubicomp, increasing machine understanding of human action & vice versa) Constructing ubicomp systems (e.g., systems and toolkit support for constructing, maintaining and deploying and prototyping Ubicomp environments) Embedding computation (e.g. novel user interfaces, computational and sensing/ actuator platforms, assistive technolgies, applied to Ubicomp) Understanding ubicomp and its consequences (e.g. conceptual models, lessons learnt, user studies and results from Ubicomp experiments) Deploying ubicomp technologies (e.g. privacy, security, and trust, real-world and deployment experiences, studies of ubicomp settings) Ubicomp 2006 seeks papers that reflect the full breadth and scope of ubiquitous computing research, including conceptual development, empirical investigations, technological advances, application experiences, and more. Authors should write for the broader Ubicomp audience, however, and make clear how their work contributes to the whole. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of the contribution to the field, technical correctness and presentation. Papers submitted must not have been previously published or be under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal, workshop or other publication. We solicit papers up to 18 pages but explicitly welcome shorter papers. All paper submissions will be treated as full papers, but it is important that their length is appropriate for their content. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors are required to attend the conference to present their work. Paper submissions must be anonymized to facilitate blind review. Authors are encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimize references that may reveal the identity of the authors or their institutions. Relevant references to an author's previous research should not be suppressed but instead referenced in a neutral way. All paper submissions will be handled electronically by the EDAS system. Note that submission is a two-stage process - authors need to register their paper first and then submit the final manuscript. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and conform to the guidelines specified in the call for papers. Authors without EDAS user names will be required to register with the system using the same link as above. Reviewers will be instructed to maintain the confidentiality of all materials for submitted papers throughout the entire reviewing process. Submissions should contain no information that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication. Contacts: ========= General Chair: Crista Lopes, University of California, Irvine, USA Technical Program Committee Chairs: Paul Dourish, University of California, Irvine, USA Adrian Friday, Lancaster University, UK For additional information regarding UbiComp 2006, please visit http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2006/

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