-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Special issue of IEEE Network Magazine on Composable context aware services Datum: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:51:38 -0400 Von: Andrew T. Campbell campbell@cs.dartmouth.edu An: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

Hi Folks:

Please consider submitting a paper.

The submission deadline is fast approaching - November 10, 2007.

Best, Andrew

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Call for papers

Special issue of IEEE Network Magazine on

Composable context aware services

Wireless networks are revolutionizing the world around us. Imagine going about your day, only carrying a small mobile “companion” device. Your companion is small but the world around you is replete with a variety of displays, IO peripherals, sensors, and storage devices. As you near these resources, your companion “borrows” some of them and instantly morphs itself into a full fledged computer. All this happens without the hassles of wires, with utmost simplicity, and robust security. Beyond connectivity, your companion knows you, understands your preferences, tracks your calendar, and even learns your habits. It's capable of taking actions appropriate to your current situations, with little or no inputs from you. The device provides uses that you need and makes use of what is around to provide a higher-level of computing experience.

Scope of special issue

The purpose of this special issue will be to present a landscape of the state-of-the-art in research and practice of networking for composable context aware computing and connectivity. This special issue will present a collection of articles which discuss (a) high-level software, applications, and middleware that are needed to create and support composable services, (b) design of network protocols and software stacks for automatic composition, (c) the impact of context awareness to simplify network configuration, and (d) Implications for network system architecture and design. Papers should bridge the gap from academic research to early experience or deployment of monitoring infrastructure as embedded network management entities. In particular, papers must fit the target audience of IEEE Network and, therefore, have content that has tutorial value and be comprehensive.

Submissions should preferably address one of the following topics:

Topics of interest include

· High-level software and applications needed to support and provide composable services · Security and privacy issues in the context of composable services · Middleware infrastructure needed to bridge the gap between connectivity provided by underlying network protocols and high-level software that creates composable services. · Communication protocols and architectures for device ensembles/collection of devices (set up, discovery, performance optimizations) · Security architectures for device introduction and setup · Wireless device composition – system architecture, design, and implications of communications of wireless devices for such environments (except the physical layer aspects of such devices such as antenna design) · Integration of location awareness into communications stack and mobility · Application of context-based inferencing to adapt in the presence of accessibility to multiple communication networks · Architecture and structure of applications that use collaborative network sensing to create context-aware applications · Challenges and solutions in constructing applications that can dynamically compose and provide a service based on the resources available in the immediate vicinity · Novel approaches to network management and operation esp. in the context of mobile, wireless networks · System architecture tradeoffs of communication vs computation to support a variety of devices and form factors in the composable/context aware environments · Implications of context awareness to WPAN-, WLAN-, WMAN- and cellular-based networks · Sensory issues such as composing or inferring user context from multiple sensor data

Manuscript submission Authors must submit their manuscript (single column, double-spaced) electronically in PDF format by email to Raj Yavatkar (raj.yavatkar@intel.com) before the deadline. The manuscript should be written in single column, double-spaced, in accordance to the guidelines of the IEEE network magazine (http:// www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/). Please also include information about the manuscript (title, complete list of authors, corresponding author's contact, abstract, and keywords) in the body of your submission email message.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: November 10, 2007 Feedback to Authors: March 10, 2008 Final Manuscripts to Publisher: May 10, 2008 Publication of Special Issue: July/August 2008

Guest editors

Raj Yavatkar Intel Corporation 2111 NE 25th Ave, JF5-254 Hillsboro, OR 97124 E-mail: raj.yavatkar@intel.com

Andrew T. Campbell Dartmouth College Sudikoff Lab: HB 6211 Hanover, NH 03755 E-mail: Campbell@cs.Dartmouth.edu

Lakshman Krishnamurthy Intel Corporation 2111 NE 25th Ave, JF3-254 Hillsboro, OR 97124 E-mail: Lakshman.krishnamurthy@intel.com

Tarek Abdelzaher University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801-2302 Email: zaher@cs.uiuc.edu

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