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[Fwd: [Tccc] CALL FOR PAPER IEEE NIME06 - IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Entertainment]
by Lars Wolf 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CALL FOR PAPER IEEE NIME06 - IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Entertainment Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:58:31 -0700 From: Giovanni Pau <gpau(a)cs.ucla.edu> To: TCCC List <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> /* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. */ *********** CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment (NIME'06) http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/conf_program/nime_workshop/ Co Located with CCNC 2006 January 7-10, 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society THE PROCEEDINGS WILL BE PUBLISHED BY IEEE AND AVAILABLE IN THE IEEE EXPLORE ******** The growing availability of digital contents and the simultaneous cost reductions in storage, processing, and networking is driving the growth of the entertainment technology. While in the past entertainment technology traditionally offered predominantly passive experiences, continual advances in network and computer technologies are providing tools for implementing greater interactivity and for enabling consumers to enjoy more exciting experiences, such as, for example, interactive digital TV, interactive theatre and orchestrated music and sound design. This phenomenon is pulling together an extremely diverse group of experts specializing in different technical areas, such as networking, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, games, animation, multimedia design, human-computer interaction, educational media and software engineering. Even though high-tech entertainment promotes interdisciplinary fusion, yet only the ubiquity of wireless/wired communication is considered suitable for accepting the challenge of building a large interactive environment for the delivery of the maximum entertainment value to millions of consumers worldwide. In this respect, there is a great hope that the wired and wireless may take over this complex scenario for fulfilling the consumer expectations. The second IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment provides an open forum for researchers, engineers and academia to exchange the latest technical information and research findings on next-generation networked multimedia concepts, technologies, systems, and applications for entertainment covering existing deployments, current developments and future evolution. Authors are solicited to submit complete unpublished papers in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. Technologies for Entertainment: - Architectures, Platforms and Protocols for Networked Games - Internetworking, Vertical Roaming and Session Handoffs for Entertainment (Internet to WLAN, to 3G/BT/...) - Home LANs, Body and Personal Area Networks for Entertainment - Media and Device Adaptation - Music and Movie Distribution - Next Generation Wireless Technologies for Entertainment (IEEE802.11n, UWB and Beyond) - Opportunistic Multi-hopping and Opportunistic Networks for Entertainment - QoS and Security Support for Entertainment - Resource and Service Discovery Technologies (P2P, LDAP, etc) - Technologies for Networked In- Home/Car/Flight/Train Entertainment - TV-Centric and Broadcast Networks for Entertainment Entertainment Applications: - Agent-based Entertainment - Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality - Artificial Intelligence - Evolutionary Entertainment - Interactive Television and Theater - Massive Multiplayer Games - Mobile and Wireless Entertainment - Networked Entertainment - Networked Narrative and Digital Interactive Storytelling - Networked Video, Music and Sound Design - Pervasive Entertainment - Personalized and User-Adapted Television - Sport, News and Entertainment - Virtual Technology and Virtual Environments for Entertainment - Wearable Entertainment - Wireless and Mobile Gaming - Testbed and Performance Evaluatio Important Dates August 10, 2005 Paper submission September 23, 2005 Author Notification October 7, 2005 Camera-ready Copy Sponsoring Committee IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communications Technical Committee Co-Chairs Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna, Italy, roccetti(a)cs.unibo.it) Giovanni Pau (UCLA, USA, gpau(a)cs.ucla.edu) Abdennour El-Rhalibi (Liverpool John Moores University, UK, A.Elrhalibi(a)livjm.ac.uk) Technical Program Committee (to be confirmed) Yucel Altunbasak (Georgia Tech, USA) Alessandro Amoroso (University of Bologna, Italy) Robert Askwith (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, Italy) Paul Bousted (University of Wollongong, Australia) Gary Chan (Univ. Science and Tech, HK) Adrian D. Cheok (Natioal University, Singapore) Jun-Hong Cui (University of Connecticut, USA) Jeff Derby (IBM, USA ) Sudhir Dixit (Nokia Research Center, USA) Stefano Ferretti (University of Bologna, Italy) Enrica Filippi (STM, France) Nelson Fonseca (Universiy of Campinas, Brazil) Pascal Frossard (EPFS, Switzerland) Mário Marques Freire (University of Beira Interior, Portugal Borko Furht (FAU, USA) Marco Furini (University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy) Maria Teresa Gatti (STM, Italy) Mario Gerla (UCLA, USA) Alex Gelman (Panasonic, USA) Charlie Judice (Verizon, USA) Alan Kaplan (Panasonic, USA) Taekyoung Kwon (Seoul National University, Korea) Brijesh Kumar (Panasonic, USA) Inwhan Kim (Samsung, Korea) Leonard Kleinrock (UCLA, USA) Rioychi Komiya (Multimedia University, Malaysia) Barcin Kozbe (Ericsson, USA) Newton Lee (Disney, USA) Yujin Lim (SAIT-Samsung, Korea) Ching-Yung Lin (IBM, USA) Madjid Merabti (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Stan Moyer (Telecordia, USA) Ryohei Nakatsu (Kwansei University, Japan) Algirdas Pakstas (University of North London, UK) Guy Pujolle (LIP 6, France) Ramesh Rao (UCSD, USA) Farzad Safaei (University of Wollongong, Australia) Mark Smith (HP LAB, USA) Clark Taylor (University of California at San Diego, USA) Fouad Tobagi (Stanford, USA) Stefano Tomasin (University of Padova, Italy) Mehmet Ulema (Manhattan College, USA) Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada) Heather Yu (Panasonic, USA) Lars Wolf (IBR, Germany) Kevin Wong (Murdoch University, Australia) Steven Wright (Bellsouth, Usa) Guidelines for Paper Submission: Original papers from the above mentioned topics or related areas will be considered. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE CCNC 2006 proceedings. The paper should be used as the basis for a 20minute presentation to be held at the Workshop. Submission guidelines should be strictly followed. Submit a five-page manuscript in double-column IEEE-type format by selecting the CCNC2006 NIME Workshop at the EDAS paper submission site following the author information provided below. Author Information: Workshop authors MUST submit their papers through the EDAS web site http://edas.info/Paper.cgi?c=4595 together with a short abstract (approximately 150 words) using the EDAS web site forms. Please note that authors must create their own accounts in the EDAS web site http://edas.info/ before submitting paper(s) including authors' full names, affiliations and complete addresses, telephone numbers and electronic mail addresses. Papers may only be submitted in PDF format. Papers must be written in English and follow the instructions in the Manuscript Formatting and Templates page. Document templates are located at: - Word: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instruct.doc - LaTeX: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/LaTexmacros.zip Papers should be no longer than five (5) pages. Papers will undergo a rigorous double blind review process. Hence, the first page of each paper should only contain: paper title, abstract, list of keywords indicating the paper's topic area (preferably from the list in the Call for Papers) and text of the paper. Authors' full names, affiliations and complete addresses including telephone numbers and electronic mail should be removed from the submitted paper. All paper submissions will be carefully reviewed and reviews will be returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure the high quality of the accepted papers. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. For further information on the NIME Workshop, please contact one of the NIME Workshop Chairs. Quick guideline on submitting papers through EDAS: 1. Log on to http://edas.info (Enter your EDAS user id and password. If this is your first time using EDAS, you will need to set up an account.) 2. Click on go to the current list of conferences and special issues. 3. Look under Accepting Submissions. Click on CCNC2006 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (in the third column under Submissions and Management). You will be brought to the paper submission page titled EDAS: IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference. 4. On the paper submission page, you will find the list of all the tracks/sessions of CCNC 2006. Choose the "Submit Paper" button corresponding to "CCNC2006 NIME Workshop". Please notice your paper may not be reviewed properly if appropriate track/session is not selected. 5. Fill in the submission form including the authors, paper title, and paper abstract. 6. Double check the information you provided in the form and click on the ~Qsubmit' button. 7. Upload your paper. We accept PDF format only. You will receive a notice from the conference if we encounter any printing problem or other problems. Note: Every paper accepted for the CCNC 2006 NIME workshop MUST have attached to it at least one registration at the full CCNC 2006 member/nonmember rate. Thus, for a paper for which all authors are students, one student author will be required to register at the full registration rate. For papers where at least one author is already registered at the full rate, this fulfills the obligation for up to four papers where all the other authors are students. ======================================== "Life is a rollercoaster; enjoy the ride!" (Unknown) ======================================== Giovanni Pau, PhD UCLA - Computer Science Department 3803A BH, Boelter Hall Los Angeles, 90095 CA Ph: (310) - 206-3212; Cell: (310) - 617-4728 Fax: (310)- 825-7578 http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~gpau _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Wiley IJCS special issue on Energy-Efficient Network Protocols and Algorithms on Wireless Sensor Networks]
by Lars Wolf 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: Wiley IJCS special issue on Energy-Efficient Network Protocols and Algorithms on Wireless Sensor Networks Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:53:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Jun Zheng <vjzheng(a)site.uottawa.ca> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ========================================================== * Call for Papers * * * * A Special Issue * * of * * Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems * * on * * Energy-Efficient Network Protocols and Algorithms * * for Wireless Sensor Netowrks * * * ========================================================== Wireless sensor networking is an emerging technology that promises a wide range of potential applications in both civilian and military areas, and has therefore received tremendous attention from both academia and industry in recent years. A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of a large number of inexpensive and small nodes with sensing, data processing, and communication capabilities, which are densely deployed in a region of interest and collaborate to accomplish a common task, such as environmental monitoring, military surveillance, and industry process control. Distinguished from traditional wireless networks and ad hoc networks, WSNs are characterized of dense node deployment, unreliable sensor node, frequent topology change, and severe power, computation, and memory constraints. These unique characteristics and constraints present many new challenges to practical realization of WSNs, such as energy conservation, self-organization, fault tolerance, etc. In particular, sensor nodes are usually battery-powered and should operate without attendance for a relatively long period of time. In most cases, it is very difficult and even impossible to change or recharge batteries for these sensor nodes. For this reason, energy efficiency is of primary importance for the operational lifetime of a sensor network. To prolong the lifetime of a sensor network, energy efficiency must be considered in almost every aspect of sensor network design, not only at the physical layer but also at the link layer and the network layer. From the networking perspective, energy efficiency must be considered in the design of various network protocols and algorithms, including those for topology discovery, self-organization, medium access control, routing, data aggregation, fault-tolerance, etc. An energy-efficient network protocol or algorithm can provide significant power savings in individual sensor nodes and thus prolong the lifetime of the entire network. However, most existing network protocols and algorithms for traditional wireless ad hoc networks cannot effectively address the power constraint and other constraints of sensor networks. To realize the vision of sensor networks, it is imperative to develop various energy-efficient network protocols and algorithms in order to efficiently use the limited power in each sensor node and prolong the lifetime of the network. The aim of this special issue is to present a collection of high-quality research papers that focus on energy-efficient network protocols and algorithms for WSNs. We are soliciting original contributions that were previously unpublished and are currently not under consideration by any other journal. As applicable to this theme, topics of interests include but are not limited to: - Topology discovery and self-organization - Medium access control (MAC) - Routing and data dissemination - Multicasting, geocasting, and broadcasting - Quality of service routing - Energy and resource management - Query processing and data aggregation - Localization and time synchronization - Fault-tolerance and self-healing - Performance modeling and analysis Prospective authors should prepare their manuscript in accordance with the publication format described in the Instructions to Authors (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/5996/ForAuthors.html). There will be only one round of technical reviews and acceptance will be limited to papers requiring only minor to moderate revisions. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscripts (which should be compressed if the file size exceeds 1 MB) to jzheng(a)ieee.org according to the following timetable: Manuscript Submission: January 1, 2006 Acceptance notification: May 1, 2006 Final manuscript due: July 1, 2006 Tentative publication date: Late 2006 Guest Editors Dr. Jun Zheng School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa 800 King Edward Street Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada Tel: (613)562-5800x6243 Fax: (613)562-5664 Email: jzheng(a)ieee.org Dr. Petre Dini Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134-1706, USA Tel: (408) 853-4050 Fax: (408) 527-6351 Email: pdini(a)cisco.com Prof. Abbas Jamalipour School of Electrical & Information Eng. University of Sydney Sydney NSW 2006, Australia Phone: +61 2 9351 2843 Fax: +61 2 9351 3847 Email: a.jamalipour(a)ieee.org Prof. Pascal Lorenz University of Haute Alsace IUT, 34 rue du Grillenbreit Colmar, 68008, France Tel: 33 (0)6 3263-0204 Fax: +61 2 9351 3847 Email: lorenz(a)ieee.org Prof. Dr. Do van Thanh Wireless Communications Telenor R&D Norwegian University of Science & Technology Snarøyveien 30 1331 Fornebu, Norway Tel: +47 909 77 102 Fax: +47 962 10 492 Email: thanh-van.do(a)telenor.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Journal Special issue on Security Issues in Sensor Networks]
by Lars Wolf 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Journal Special issue on Security Issues in Sensor Networks Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:58:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Yang Xiao <yangxiao(a)ieee.org> Reply-To: yangxiao(a)ieee.org To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org CC: yangxiao(a)ieee.org (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies) International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), Special Issue on Security Issues in Sensor Networks http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~yxiao/IJSN_Snesor_Security.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------Guest Editors Yang Xiao, The University of Memphis, USA E-mail: yangxiao(a)ieee.org Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong E-mail: csjia(a)cityu.edu.hk Bo Sun, Lamar University, USA E-mail: bsun(a)cs.lamar.edu Xiaojiang Du, North Dakota State University, USA E-mail: bsun(a)cs.lamar.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------Security in Sensor networks differ from those in other traditional networks with many aspects such as limited memory space, limited computation capability, etc. Therefore, sensor network security has some unique features which do not exist in other networks. The need to address security issues, and provide timely, solid technical contributions of security solutions in sensor networks establishes the motivation behind this special issue. This special issue is dedicated to sensor network security. A paper should have security in sensor networks as the focus. Specific areas of interest include, but not limit to: . Key Managements in sensor networks . Secure Routing in secure networks . Light weight Encryption and authentication in Sensor networks . Attacks and solutions in Sensor networks . Other areas which are related to both security and sensor networks. The manuscripts should be submitted as an e-mail attachment in PDF format to Prof. Bo Sun at bsun(a)cs.lamar.edu. If the file is larger than 1MB, the authors are encouraged to use WINZIP. Furthermore, each author is required to help the review process of the special issue. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule: Submission deadline: Oct. 15, 2005 Notification: Jan. 15, 2006 Final Paper Submission: Feb. 1, 2005 Publication of special issue: Middle 2006 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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FW: IEEE International Sympoisum on Multimedia 2005
by Xiaoyuan Gu 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

-----Original Message----- From: Pascal Frossard [mailto:pascal.frossard@epfl.ch] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:54 PM To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org Subject: IEEE International Sympoisum on Multimedia 2005 -- sorry for any duplicate, deadline approaching ---- Dear all, Please find in attachment the CFP for ISM 2005, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia. Feel free to circulate. For more information, please check the symposium website at http://ism2005.eecs.uci.edu. Best regards, Pascal ---------------------------------- Prof. Pascal Frossard Signal Processing Institute - EPFL Switzerland - 1015 Lausanne Tel: +41 21 693 5655 Fax: +41 21 693 7600 http://lts4www.epfl.ch

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FW: IEEE CCNC'06 Special Session on "Video over Wireless"
by Xiaoyuan Gu 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

FYI -----Original Message----- From: Wang, Haohong [mailto:haohongw@qualcomm.com] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 7:29 PM To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org Subject: CfP: IEEE CCNC'06 Special Session on "Video over Wireless" Dear colleagues, Enclosed please find the CfP for a Sepcial Session on "Video over Wireless", IEEE CCNC'06 at Las Vegaus, January 2006. Please feel free to circulate. Thanks. Haohong <<cfp.pdf>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- Haohong Wang Qualcomm CDMA Technology Phone: (858) 658-1665 Email: haohongw(a)qualcomm.com Homepage: <http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~haohong> http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~haohong

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[Fwd: [Tccc] LOCAN2005: Deadline extended to July 7th]
by Lars Wolf 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] LOCAN2005: Deadline extended to July 7th Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 02:34:40 +0200 From: Pedro M. Ruiz <pedrom(a)dif.um.es> To: 'IETF Manet' <manet(a)ietf.org> CC: mip6(a)ietf.org, tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Dear all, The deadline for the following workshop has been extended to July 7th, Please, find below the revised CFP. Regards, Pedro M. Ruiz University of Murcia http://ants.dif.um.es/staff/pedrom/ We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - LOCAN 2005 1st International Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks in conjunction with MASS-2005 (www.mass05.wpi.edu) Washington, DC, USA, November 7-10, 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline extended to July 7th. SUBJECT AND SCOPE ----------------- This workshop covers comprehensively the algorithmic issues in the hot area of ad hoc and sensor networking. The design of data communication techniques in multi-hop ad hoc networks has challenges at all layers of communication. This workshop concentrates on the network layer problems like data communication (routing, QoS-routing, geocasting, multicasting, broadcasting, etc.) and topology control (neighbor discovery, power adjustment, neighbor elimination, etc.). Additionally, sensor networks are currently recognized as one of the priority research areas by NSF. The area of sensor networking is gaining momentum within the researh community. This workshop will address ongoing research on this field, including problems such as: physical properties, sensor training, security through intelligent node cooperation, medium access, sensor area coverage with random and deterministic placement, object location, sensor position determination, energy efficient broadcasting and activity scheduling, routing, connectivity, data dissemination and gathering, sensor centric quality of routing, temporal message ordering, path exposure, tree reconfiguration, topology construction, and transport layer. The main paradigm shift is to apply localized (or greedy) schemes as opposed to existing protocols requiring global information. Localized algorithms are distributed algorithms where simple local node behaviour achieves a desired global objective. Localized protocols provide scalable solutions, that is, solutions for wireless networks with an arbitrary number of nodes, which is the main goal of this plan. Sensor and rooftop/mesh networks, for instance, have hundreds or thousands of nodes. The main objective of the workshop is to present state of the art research results on data communication and topology control in rapidly growing area of ad hoc and sensor networks, with emphasizes on localized techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *Medium access control *Analytical, mobility and validation models for ad hoc networks *Hybrid networks and wireless Internet *Security in ad hoc networks *Data management issues, query processing, and data delivery *Routing, broadcasting and multicasting in ad hoc networks *Energy-efficient protocols for ad hoc networks *Quality of service in medium access control and routing *Topology construction and maintenance in ad hoc networks *Neighborhood discovery and mobility management IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Manuscript Submission: July 7, 2005 (Extended deadline) Acceptance Notification: July 29, 2005 Final Manuscript Due: August 26, 2005 PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced and two-column pages using at least 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inches pages. See style files, author guidelines and instructions at the conference website. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, as proceedings of the MASS2005 workshops. For submission details, please visit the LOCAN 2005 website (http://ants.dif.um.es/locan2005/). PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- Dr. Pedro M. Ruiz Dept. Information and Comms. Engineering, University of Murcia, Spain pedrom(a)dif.um.es Dr. David Simplot-Ryl IRCICA/LIFL, Univ. Lille 1, INRIA Futurs, France David.Simplot(a)lifl.fr ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND PC MEMBERS ------------------------------------- The list of PC members and additional information about the workshop will be continuously updated at the LOCAN 2005 website. http://ants.dif.um.es/locan2005/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: PERVASIVE 2006: Preliminary Call for Papers]
by Verena Kahmann 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: PERVASIVE 2006: Preliminary Call for Papers Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:49:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Rene Mayrhofer (PERVASIVE 2006 Publicity Co-Chair) <rene(a)soft.uni-linz.ac.at> To: <kahmann(a)tm.uka.de> PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing PERVASIVE 2006 Dublin, Ireland May 7--10, 2006 http://www.pervasive2006.org/ The PERVASIVE 2006 Chairs and Organising Committee are pleased to announce the preliminary call for papers for the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing to be held in Dublin Ireland from the 7th to the 10th of May 2006 in the Burlington Hotel. PERVASIVE is an international conference held annually which aims to present significant research contributions in the area of pervasive computing technologies, systems and applications. The last three conferences in this series were held in Munich (May 2005), Linz/Vienna (April 2004) and Zurich (August 2002). It provides a forum for researchers, developers, and users throughout the world to present advances in computing technology toward new modes of operation (ubiquitous, continuous, and self-organised) and toward new usage models (ambient, context-aware, and closely integrated into human activities and environments). In addition to a highly selective single-track program for technical papers, PERVASIVE 2006 will include a keynote address, late breaking results, videos, poster presentations, workshops, demonstrations, an outreach public lecture and a doctoral colloquium. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished research work in all areas. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Device, communication, and interaction technologies for pervasive computing * Pervasive sensing, perception and inference for context technologies * Software infrastructure, middleware and frameworks for pervasive computing systems and environments * Analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of pervasive systems and applications * Deployment and management of pervasive systems and services and emerging industrial scenarios * Pervasive computing interaction models, user interfaces and user experience * Privacy, security and trust in pervasive computing. Important Dates: September 30, 2005 : Paper Submission Deadline December 16, 2005 : Notification of Acceptance/Rejection February 10, 2006 : Camera-Ready Paper Deadline May 7, 2006 : Workshops May 8 - 9, 2006 : Main Conference May 10, 2006 : Doctoral Colloquium General Chair: Paddy Nixon, University College Dublin, Ireland Conference Chair: Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin, Ireland Program Committee Co-Chairs: Ken Fishkin, Intel Research, USA Bernt Schiele, Darmsadt University of Technology, Germany Late-Breaking Results Co-Chairs Tom Pfeifer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich, Germany Woontack Woo, GIST, S. Korea Workshops Co-Chairs Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Centre, Germany Video Co-Chairs Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Frederic Vernier, l'Université Paris-Sud, France Demonstrations Chair Kieran Delaney, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Bill Yerazunis, MERL, USA Doctoral Colloquium Co-Chairs Matthew Chalmers, University of Glasgow, UK Joe Kiniry, University College Dublin, Ireland Volunteers Co-Chairs Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland Steven Neely, University College Dublin, Ireland Publicity Co-Chairs Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland Rene Mayhofer, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria Local Organising Committee Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland Paddy Nixon, University College Dublin, Ireland Gregory O'Hare, University College Dublin, Ireland Tom Pfeifer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin, Ireland Full Details: http://www.pervasive2006.org/

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[Fwd: [CFP] ACM MM Workshop on Service Composition]
by Lars Wolf 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [CFP] ACM MM Workshop on Service Composition Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 08:31:08 +0200 From: Christian Becker <christian.becker(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE> Reply-To: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> To: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE ** please apologize multiple copies of this call ** Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Service Composition (MSC’05) Singapore, November 13, 2005 http://www.l3s.de/msc05/index.html AIMS AND SCOPE -------------------------- Service-oriented architectures promise to introduce a maximum of flexibility and reus-ability of components into multimedia applications. Since most multimedia applications consist of several complex steps, the composition of basic services to achieve more com-plex goals is a mission critical problem. Moreover, important parameters for QoS have to be closely monitored and aggregated along the service chains to predict or guarantee cer-tain values for the execution of complex workflows. Service composition is also a concept strongly discussed and researched in the Web community today. Web services are expected to take over an essential part of everyday’s responsibilities and their composition is necessary to extend their benefits to even com-plex tasks and value chains. However, most of these Web-based concepts and constructs today suffer from being generally invariant to data types including the new datatypes that are being heavily explored in the multimedia community. Using these well-understood and standardized datatypes the efficient provisioning and improved reusability of compo-nents becomes feasible. Thus, the move from data-driven to service-driven architectures promises to open up a whole new field of value adding multimedia applications dynami-cally built on top of basic components. MSC’05 provides a forum for presenting new challenges and research results in multime-dia service composition. Its predecessor was held in the framework of the Brave New Topics (see www.mm2004.org/acm_mm04_braveMMservice.htm) at ACM Multimedia Conference 2004 in New York, USA. We invite researchers, and industrial practitioners to participate and share their knowledge in this forum. We solicit the following types of papers: * Research papers (up to 10 pages) * Application/experience papers (up to 10 pages) All accepted papers will be published by the ACM within a dedicated volume for the workshops of ACM Multimedia 2005. TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------------------------- Papers should address specific challenges for service composition in multimedia systems, and propose or evaluate methods, architectures and techniques to overcome these chal-lenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - integration of web and multimedia service composition frameworks - system integration aspects in service composition - service composition support in middleware systems - session management for service compositions - service routing and aspects of distribution - role of service discovery in dynamic composition - semantic enhancements for service discovery /selection - service composition and meta-data representation - semantic distances between advertised service capabilities - ontology-based service capability descriptions (e.g. OWL-S) - service interoperability, interface design and impact on QoS - service level agreements and QoS guarantees of service chains - multimedia service personalization and customization - multimedia application decomposition and service modeling - multimedia process workflows and service composition lifecycle PAPER SUBMISSION AND IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished papers. Submissions should be formatted according to the ACM guidelines and have up to 10 pages. Submis-sions have to be sent by July, 29th 2005 to the workshop chairs • 29 Jul 2005 Workshop papers due • 22 Aug 2005 Notice of acceptance for workshop papers • 29 Aug 2005 Camera ready papers due ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------ Co-Chairs: Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) Wolf-Tilo Balke (L3S Research Center, University of Hannover, Germany) PC members: Christian Becker (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Hao-Hua Chu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Peter Dolog (University of Hannover, Germany) Xiaohui Gu (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Dejan Milojicic (HP Labs Palo Alto, USA) Nalini Venkatasubramanian (UC Irvine, USA) Matthias Wagner (NTT DoCoMo Euro Labs, Germany) Klaus Wehrle (University of Tübingen, Germany) Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Dongyan Xu (Purdue University, USA)

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: Second Call for Papers - IWAN 2005 - Proposals due 15/07/2005]
by Lars Wolf 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ACF-Members: Second Call for Papers - IWAN 2005 - Proposals due 15/07/2005 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:25:49 +1000 From: Robin Braun <Robin.Braun(a)uts.edu.au> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> *I W A N 2 0 0 5* Seventh Annual International Working Conference on Active and Programmable Networks November 21-23 2005, Sophia Antipolis, Nice, FRANCE. Co-organized by : INRIA (RESO Team) and HITACHI Europe _http://www.iwan2005.net_ ** *Call For Papers* Active and programmable networking has, over the past several years, laid the foundations of providing easy, but robust, introduction of new network services to devices such as routers and switches by adding dynamic programmability to network equipment. Network programmability and service deployment architectures can bring the right services to the customer at the right time and location. The methods and technologies explored in active and programmable networking research have helped to realise the trend towards ad-hoc networks, autonomic computing and communications, sensor networks and content-aware distribution. Also, active and programmable networks will continue to play an important role in future network architectures where the Quality of Service aspects of performance, security and resilience are crucial. IWAN 2005 brings together members of various communities using active and programmable network techniques to address the above challenges, and it provides a forum for discussion and collaboration involving researchers, developers, service providers and potential users. We encourage the submission of papers that cover all aspects of active network based communication, including foundations of robust languages and security mechanisms, active transport, active services and service deployment, active terminals, and active management. In addition, the meeting will focus on relating active techniques to customer needs and services. It is expected that most submissions will include proofs of concept and/or quantitative results. However, we welcome high quality descriptive contributions where the ideas are particularly novel or where the concepts introduced are likely to influence the work of others. Authors are invited to submit papers addressing, but not limited to, the following active and programmable networking topics: * Architectures and new concepts for programmability and flexibility in networks * Standardization of frameworks * Secure and robust network operation * Formal descriptions, analysis, and methodologies * Self-organizing and self-managing networks * Cognitive networks * Design and development methodologies and tools * Overlay networks * Storage in networking * Active and programmable technologies for Grids * Security within programmable and active frameworks * Applications and experiments * Service creation, deployment, and management * Programmable network elements and devices * Network processor platforms * Hardware and software platforms for autonomous infrastructures * Mobile and ad-hoc networking; mobile platforms * Programmability and software radios * Content- and context-aware distribution * Autonomic programmable networking * Building complex systems *Information for Authors:* Submissions should describe original work (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be 10 single-spaced pages (5,000 words) or less in length. Submissions should include: title, authors, affiliations, 150 word abstract, and list of keywords. Identify the author responsible for correspondence, including the author's name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag Heidelberg in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. See IWAN2005 web site (_http://www.iwan2005.net_ <http://www.iwan2005.net/>) for paper uploading instructions. *Important Dates:* * July 15, 2005: Papers proposals * August 1, 2005: Tutorial proposals * September 15, 2005: Authors notified of acceptance * September 20, 2005: Poster and demonstration submissions * October 1, 2005: Revised papers due for inclusion in proceedings * November 21 : IWAN05 Tutorial day * November 22-23 : IWAN05 Conference days *Organizing Committee:* * General Chair: David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK * Program Comittee Chairs: Spyros Denazis, Hitachi Europe, France / Univ. Patras, Greece - Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France - Gary J. Minden, The University of Kansas, USA * Publication Chair: Alessandro Bassi, Hitachi, France * Publicity Chair: Jean-Patrick Gelas, INRIA, France - Robin Braun, University of Technology of Sydney, Australia * Tutorial Chair : Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany * Local Arrangements committee : Beatrice Dessus, Hitachi Europe, France - Daniele Herzog, INRIA, France * Local Technical Support : Jean-Christophe Mignot, LIP, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France IWAN 2005 is co-organized by : INRIA (RESO Team) and HITACHI Europe UTS:Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Deputy Director Institute for Information and Communication Technology *Robin Braun* /Professor of Telecommunications/ University of Technology, Sydney Ultimo, NSW Australia Robin.Braun(a)uts.edu.au <mailto:Robin.Braun@uts.edu.au> www.eng.uts.edu.au/~robinb <http://www.eng.uts.edu.au/~robinb> tel: fax: mobile/txt: +61 2 9514 2460 +61 2 9514 2435 +61 400 220 251 // // ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. 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[Fwd: COMENTS 2005]
by Lars Wolf 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: COMENTS 2005 Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:45:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Anupam Banerjee <anupamb(a)andrew.cmu.edu> To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org COMNETS-2005 2nd IEEE/Create-net International Workshop on Deployment Models and First/Last Mile Networking Technologies for Broadband Community Networks www.comnets.org Date: Oct 7th, 2005 Location: Boston, USA Based on the success of its predecessor, the First International Workshop on CN and FTTx, held in Dallas, TX in October 2003, COMNETS 2005 is planned to cover the whole spectrum of issues related to community networks and will integrate the main aspects of planning, design, implementation and operation of Community networks. Community networks have evolved during the last decade in North America and, more recently, in Europe, from the concept of freenets or civic nets tothe idea of open access networks, and represent a dramatic shift from the classical telecom infrastructures, service provisioning methods and business models. The design of community networks requires the solution of challenging engineering tasks. The first objective of the workshop is to address network technology issues that include the optimal combination of wire-based and wireless technologies for the access part, the integration of the core/distribution and access networks, the provisioning of end-to-end quality of service for multimedia and other applications, the design of scalable applications and services tailored to the bandwidth and the access quality. On the other hand, CNs, often being created, owned and operated with the participation of a local or regional government, are based on specific business models and service provisioning methods. Thus, the second objective of the workshop is to address the related business and social issues that include business models for planning, implementing, and operating CNs, legal/regulatory environment, planning of e-government, e-health, e-learning services. Case studies from all over the world are most welcome.Original unpublished papers are solicited in areas including but not restricted to the following: •Guidelines for network design and technology selection •QoS support and service differentiation •Implementation/operation experience •New technology testing experience •Wireless community networks •Wireline (PLC, Fiber, xDSL) community networks •Legal frameworks: experiences and new challenges •Business oriented tests and case studies •Municipal fiber, customer owned fiber networks •Public-private ownership structures •Killer applications for community networks (e-gov, e-health applications, e-learning) •Providing entertainment services on CNs •Case studies and experiences Important Dates: June 30th 2005 Paper submission deadline Aug 31th 2005 Acceptance Notification Sept 15th 2005 Camera Ready papers Oct 7th 2005 Workshop Organizing committee General and Program Chairs: Ashwin Gumaste(Fujitsu Laboratories) Hakki Cankaya(Alcatel Research) Csaba A. Szabo(BUTE Hungary) Standards Chair: Wael William Daeb(Cisco Systems) Industry Liaison: Scott Valcourt(University of New Hampshire) Publicity Chair: Anupam Banerjee (CMU) Steering committee Chairs: Imrich Chlamtac,(CREATE-NET Research) Csaba A. Szabo,BUTE, Hungary

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