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CALL FOR PAPERS Third IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC 2009) June 15, 2009 - Island of Kos (Greece) http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2009/

jointly organized by the

SOCIALNETS project funded by the FET-IST Programme under the FET proactive initiative on Pervisive Adaptation (PerAda) http://www.social-nets.eu

ANA project funded by the FET-SAC Programme in the area Situated and Autonomic Communications (SAC) http://www.ana-project.org/

Fast Track on Computer Communications Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom

**** Submission Deadline --- 5 February 2009 **** ---------------------------------------------------------------

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum between the autonomic and opportunistic communication communities to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. The synergies between autonomic and opportunistic communications & social networks studies and technologies are one of the primary interests of this year’s edition. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of autonomic and opportunistic communications and are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployments are welcome.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Architecture and models for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Economic, biological and social models used for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Social networking technologies applied to autonomic and opportunistic communications * Tools and techniques for designing, analysing and building autonomic and opportunistic networks * Adaptive security for self protection of networks * Mobility models for opportunistic networking * Novel management techniques for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Sensing, monitoring and measurements for self-managing networks * Advanced technologies for enabling autonomic and opportunistic communications * Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and measurements * Algorithmic aspects associated with autonomic communications environments and problems

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------- Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2009/. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the workshop. Extended versions of workshop selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier).

IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Full papers due: 5 February, 2009 Notification: 23 March, 2009

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --------------------

WORKSHOP Chairs Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University, Greece

STEERING Committee Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece

PUBLICITY Co-Chairs Emilio Ancillotti, IIT-CNR, Italy Nikolaos Laoutaris, Telefonica Research, Spain

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed) -----------------------------

Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Eleonora Borgia, IIT-CNR, Italy Levente Buttyan, BUTE, Hungary Vania Conan, Thales, France Franca Delmastro, IIT-CNR, Italy Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Serge Fdida, UPCM Paris VI, France Philip Ginzboorg, Nokia, Finland Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Emmanouil V. Magkos, Ionian University, Greece Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK Daniele Miorandi, Create-net, Italy Refik Molva, Eurécom, France Joerg Ott, HUT, Finland Antonios Panagakis, University of Athens, Greece Symeon Papavassiliou, NTUA, Greece Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Calicrates Policroniades, Telenor, Norway George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Konstantinos Psounis, University of Southern California, USA Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden Fabrizio Sestini, EU Commission Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Pablo Vidales, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Roger Whitaker, Cardiff University, UK Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeous, Greece Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena-Reggio, Italy