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International Workshop on Collaboration and Cognition in Next Generation Networks (CoNGN'2008) www.criticalnet.org/congn2008

In conjunction with CollaborateCom'2008 Orlando, Florida, November, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The rapid developments in the Internet and emerging alternative network protocol stacks promise unprecedented levels of sharing of information, computing and communication resources through distributed collaborations of diverse network elements. Collaborative networking comprises complex systems with many tunable interdependent components, parameters and network performance objectives. To realize their potential, collaborative networks need to provide effective and efficient support for ubiquitous integration of heterogeneous technologies such as mobile devices and infrastructures, web services, grid computing systems, various operating environments, and diverse COTS products. In addition, research is needed to provide network cognition, which entails learning and reasoning by the diverse network elements to dynamically select the ideal network operating state and adapt to varying network and group contexts in order to optimize end-to-end performance of the network as a whole. Moreover, networking aspects such as autonomicity, security, trust, management, quality-of-service support and localization need to be cognizant of group dynamics. Aparently, numerous challenges face the realization of collaborative networking. These challenges include balancing the competing goals of collaboration, autonomy and security; allowing mobile users and groups to seamlessly communicate throughout multiple heterogeneous networks and enjoy multiparty multimedia applications while on the move between different administrative domains; developing new APIs to enable applications to detect available access networks and learn their characteristics, thus becoming aware of location, context, and quality-of-service; and carefully optimizing network parameters across the entire protocol stack. The key goal of this workshop is to foster active interactions among diverse researchers and practitioners, and generate added momentum towards research addressing collaborative and cognitive networking aspects. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: Architectural principles for decentralized information, computing and communication resource sharing Moving networks and dynamic coalition environments Collaboration-aware network management Peer-to-peer collaborative networking Bio-inspired collaborative networking Cognitive and autonomic network protocols and services Collaborative sensor-actuator networks Policy-based management of collaborative networks Coopererative, un-cooperative, and anti-cooperative behavior characterization, identification, modeling, and impact analysis Context modelling and management in collaborative networks Network monitors, API and network discovery services Security, trust, and privacy models, frameworks, architectures, and systems for collaborative networks Security, dependability, privacy, QoS, performance, and energy awareness and trade-offs Middleware for large-scale, distributed, multi-modal collaboration Admission, delegation, accountability, and information flow control in collaborative networks Ubiquitous communication support for social networking Web services and grid technologies for supporting multidomain collaborative applications Testbeds and experimental frameworks for collaboration and cognition in network prtocol stacks

General Co-Chairs • Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA • Silvia Geordano, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland • Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Program Chairs • Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA • Cristina Pinotti, University of Perguia, Italy • M. Tamer Refaei, NIST, USA • Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Publicity Chairs • James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA • Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Virginia Tech, USA Panel Chair • Wael AbdelMageed, University of Maryland, USA

Technical Program Committee Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Farag Azzedine, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany Luiz DaSilva, Virginia Tech, USA Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, USA Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, USA Kami Makki, University of Toledo, USA Peter Muller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland David Simplot-Ryle, University of Lille 1, France Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA Robin Sommer, ICSI/LBNL, USA Doru Tiliute, University of Suceava, Romania David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, USA Mohamed Younis,University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA Moustafa Youssef, Nile University, Egypt

Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically via email to CoNGN-submission@criticalnet.org. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper.The workshop will adhere to the page limit, duplicate paper policy, and formatting guidelines of CollaborateCom'2008. These guidelines can be found at http://www.collaboratecom.org/information/sub_guidelines.php The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings, following the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) format. For more information visit the workshop website.

Important Dates Paper Submission: September 22, 2008 Acceptance Notification: October 13, 2008 Camera Ready Due: October 20, 2008 Workshop Date: November 13, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc