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Contents: --------- 1. CFP SASO'07 (Deadline 31 Jan 2007) 2. CFP ECBS'07 (Deadline 5 & 20 Jan 2007) 3. CFP PCAC'07 (Deadline 22 Nov 2006) ------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Papers SASO 2007 International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007 http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (approval pending)

The complexity of current computer systems has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence or biology) to find new ways of designing and managing networks, systems and services. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising facets of a paradigm shift.

Self-adaptive systems work in a top-down manner. They evaluate their own global behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that they are not accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when better functionality or performance is possible. Self-organizing systems work bottom-up. They are composed of a large number of components that interact locally according to simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from these local interactions, and it is difficult to deduce properties of the global system by studying only the local properties of its parts.

This edition of SASO will focus on engineering, as opposed to speculative and conjectural visions. Contributions should present novel theoretical results, or practical experience with building systems, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems are particularly encouraged.

Topics

o Self-* properties: - self-organization - self-adaptiveness - self-management - self-monitoring - self-tuning - self-repair - self-configuration - etc. o Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems o Management and control of self-* systems o Robustness and dependability of self-* systems o Engineering and control of emergent properties in self-* systems o Biologically and socially inspired self-* systems

Systems & Technologies

o P2P applications o Mobile robots o Sensor networks o Mobile ad hoc networks o Grids o Embedded systems, ubiquitous computing o Autonomic computing, autonomic communications o Computer networks, telecommunication networks o Multi-agent systems o E-business systems and services o Complex adaptive systems

Research Communities

o Distributed artificial intelligence o Networking o Software engineering o Distributed systems o Integrated management o Robotics o Knowledge-based systems o Machine learning o Control theory o Mathematical optimization

Organization

General Co-Chairs: Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy Howard E. Shrobe, MIT, USA

Program Committee Chairs: Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Mark Jelasity, University of Szeged, Hungary

Finance Chair: Paul Robertson, MIT, USA

Applications Track Chair: Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Tutorial Chair: David Hales, University of Bologna, Italy

Panel Chair: Robert Laddaga, BBN Technologies, USA

Publicity Chair: Hermann De Meer, University of Passau, Germany

Sponsor Chair: Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland

Local Arrangements Chair: Thomas J. Green, MIT, USA

Submission Instructions

See conference website. All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press style guide.

Important Dates

Submission: January 31, 2007 Notification: March 19, 2007 Final paper: April 6, 2007

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2007)

The University of Auckland, New Zealand, 11-14 July 2007.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/iceccs07/

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Complex computer systems are common in many sectors, such as manufacturing, communications, defense, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and health care. These systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks, and are driven by many diverse requirements on performance, real-time behavior, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, long life concerns, and other areas. Such requirements frequently conflict, and their satisfaction therefore requires managing the trade-off among them during system development and throughout the entire system life.

The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to determine how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transition experts are all welcome. The scope of interest includes long-term research issues, near-term complex system requirements and promising tools, existing complex systems, and commercially available tools. -----------------------------------------------------------------------

SCOPE AND TOPICS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems, including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding, controlling, or coping with complexity. Topic areas include, but are not limited to:

+ Avionics and Automobile Software + Content Production and Distribution Systems, Mobile and Multi- channel Systems + Context Awareness Computing + Formal Methods and Approaches to Manage and Control Complex Systems + Human Factors and Collaborative Aspects + Integration of Heterogeneous Technologies + Interoperability and Standardization + Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing + Real-time and Embedded Systems + Sensor Network Systems and Applications + Software and System Development and Control Processes for Complex Systems + Software Architecture and System Engineering + Software Complexity Visualization + Systems and Software Safety and Security + Tools, Environments, and Languages for Complex Systems + Verification Techniques for Complex Software Systems + Virtual Environments for Managing Complexity + Web Services Modeling and Compositions

Different kinds of contributions are sought, including research papers, lessons learned, status reports, and discussion of practical problems faced by industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a rich and comprehensive conference program that can fit the interests and needs of different classes of attendees: professionals, researchers, managers, and students. A program goal is to organize several sessions that include both academic and industrial papers on a given topic and culminate panels to discuss relationships between industrial and academic research.

Papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be reviewed by program committee members, and papers accepted in either category will be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers should describe original research, and industrial experience reports should describe practical projects carried out in industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them. -----------------------------------------------------------------------

PAPER SUBMISSION ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format. Papers should not exceed 10 pages including figures, references, and appendices and be in PDF format. Submissions of papers will be carried out electronically via the Web (Submission Page). Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a copyright release form. IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the proceedings. Final versions of accepted papers will be limited to 10 pages in the aforementioned IEEE proceedings format. -----------------------------------------------------------------------

IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: January 5, 2007 Paper submission: January 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance: March 9, 2007 Camera ready copy due: April 8, 2007 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Woodcock, University of York, United Kingdom Wolfram Schulte, Microsoft Research, USA Paul Strooper, The University of Queensland, Australia -----------------------------------------------------------------------

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL CHAIRS Michael G Hinchey, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA Gillian Dobbie, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

PROGRAM CHAIRS Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

WORKSHOP CHAIR Steve Reeves, The University of Waikato, New Zealand

SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR Jim Woodcock, Special Session Chair on Grand Challenges - Complex Program Verifier, University of York, United Kingdom

LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR John Hamer, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Ian Warren, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

PROGRAM COMMITTEE Timo Aaltonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Robert Amor, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Doo-Hwan Bae, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Pierfrancesco Bellini, University of Florence, Italy Shawn Bohner, Virginia Tech, USA Jan Bosch, Nokia Research Center, Finland Jonathan Bowen, Museophile Limited, United Kingdom Manfrey Broy, Technical University of Munich, Germany Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom W.K. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, China Albert M. K. Cheng, University of Houston, USA Wei Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Myra Cohen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Jim Davies, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Ewen Denney, RIACS / NASA Ames Research Center, USA Jurgen Dingel, Queen's University, Canada Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, United Kingdom Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Robert France, Colorado State University, USA Yuxi Fu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Chris George, United Nations University, China Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Volker Gruhn, University of Leipzig, Germany Jun Han, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia Jane E. Hayes, University of Kentucky, USA John Hosking, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Zhenjiang Hu, University of Tokyo, Japan Pankaj Jalote, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India Phillip Laplante, Penn State University, USA Kung-Kiu Lau, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Kueng Hae Lee, Hankuk Aviation University, Korea Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China Peter Lindsay, University of Queensland, Australia Zhiming Liu, United Nations University, China Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan Brendan Mahony, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia Andrew Martin, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Hong Mei, Peking University, China Huaikou Miao, Shanghai University, China Shin Nakajima, National Instutite of Informatics, Japan Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy Richard Paige, University of York, United Kingdom Sungyong Park, Sogang University, Korea Mauro Pezze, University of Lugano, Switzerland Shengchao Qin, Durham University, United Kingdom Zhongyan Qiu, Peking University, China Steve Reeves, The University of Waikato, New Zealand Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Emil Sekerinski, McMaster University, Canada Rudolph E. Seviora, University of Waterloo, Canada Xiaoyu Song, Portland State University, USA Mark Staples, National ICT Australia, Australia Frank Stomp, Wayne State University, USA Paul Strooper, The University of Queensland, Australia Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Paul Swatman, University of South Australia, Australia Kenji Taguchi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Tetsuo Tamai, The University of Tokyo, Japan Mark Utting, The University of Waikato, New Zealand Farn Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Hai Wang, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Ian Warren, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Jim Woodcock, University of York, United Kingdom Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden Huiqun Yu, East China University of Science and Technology, China Daqing Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

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CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================== The Second IEEE International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Ad Hoc Communications (PCAC-07)

to be held in conjunction with The IEEE 21th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-07),Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007 http://www.aina-conference.org/2007/ ===================================================================

Aims and Scopes --------------- Pervasive computing has emerged as a new computing and communication environment with the aim of providing services anytime and anywhere for everyone. To facilitate resource sharing and support group communications, pervasive computing devices should be able to support ad hoc communications and networking. With ad hoc communications, seamless and transparent access to services and applications can be achieved while providing mechanisms for establishing spontaneous and interactive networking among communicating entities. Despite considerable progress in mobile computing and wireless communication technologies, new user demands and emerging applications introduce challenges in several areas including security, privacy, processing, auto configuration, scalability, software infrastructure, communication models and networking infrastructure. To support flexibility and unlimited mobility, services and applications should adapt to heterogeneous networking environment supporting multihop communication in hybrid wired/wireless environment.

This symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to present their current research results and discuss future trends in pervasive computing and ad hoc communications.

Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Pervasive computing architectures - Wearable computers - Smart devices and smart spaces - Location-dependent and personalized applications - Service discovery mechanisms - Agent technologies - Mobility management - Sensors and actuators - Resource management - Embedded systems - Device and service interaction - Location-aware services - Middleware for pervasive computing - Middleware fro ad hoc computing - Hardware, OS and convergence issues - Security and privacy issues for pervasive computing systems - Positioning and tracking technologies - Identification and authentication technologies - Social Issues and Implications of pervasive computing - Data management infrastructure and algorithms - Caching and prefetching strategies - Resource discovery - Ad hoc communication and networking - Group communication and management - Ad hoc computing - User interfaces and interaction models - Prototyping and performance evaluation - Personal Area networks - Integration of wired and wireless networks - Enabling technologies such as Bluetooth, 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, and 802.20 - Context based and implicit computing - Ad hoc networking protocols and service discovery - Wireless Mesh Network

Submissions and Proceedings --------------------------- The manuscript should follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is eight (8) pages. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality,technical strength, significance and quality of presentation. The CD proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and available online through IEEE Xplore.

Outstanding papers will be considered for a Special Issue in Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI) (http://www.aspbs.com/juci.html).

PCAC-07 submission website: http://pcac07.ehpclab.org/

Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: Nov. 22, 2006 Authors Notification: Jan. 22, 2007 Authors Registration: Jan. 31, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: Feb. 19, 2007

Organising Committee -------------------- General Co-Chairs: Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Jian Ma, Nokia, China

Steering Chair: Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Program Co-Chairs: Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Program Committee ----------------- Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy) Pascal Chatonnay (NUMERICA/ISTI/LIFC , France) Yuh-Shyan Chen (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, South Korea) Chun Tung Chou (University of New South Wales, Australia) Tarik Cicic (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway) Felipe A. Cruz-Perez (CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico) Fei Dai (North Dakota State University, USA) Falko Dressler (University of Erlangen, Germany) Paal E. Engelstad (Telenor R&D, Norway) Carles Gomez (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Peter C.J. Graham (University of Manitoba, Canada) Jadwiga Indulska (The University of Queensland, Australia) Susumu Ishihara (Shizuoka University, Japan) Andreas Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden) Dimitrios Katsaros (Aristotle University, Greece) Guanling Lee (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan) Jie Li (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Leszek T. Lilien (Western Michigan University, USA) Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Luigi Logrippo (Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada) Seng Wai Loke (Latrobe University, Australia) Cecilia Mascolo (University College London, UK) Chris McDonald (The University of Western Australia, Australia) Yongwan Park (Yeung Nam University, South Korea) Elhadi Shakshuki (Acadia University, Canada) Timothy K. Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan) Tor Skeie (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway) Limin Sun (Institute of Software, China Academy of Science, China) Xueyan Tang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Torab Torabi (LaTrobe University, Australia) Javier Garcia Villalba (Complutense Univ. of Madrid, Spain) Jianping Wang (University of Mississippi, USA) Tadeusz A. Wysocki (University of Wollongong, Australia) Yang Xiao (University Alabama, USA.) Yingqi Xu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Boon Sain Yeo (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Qing-An Zeng (University of Cincinnati, USA) Baoxian Zhang (Graduation University, China Academy of Science, China) Baihua Zheng (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Hao Zhu (Florida International University, USA)