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Med-Hoc-Net 2004 CFP
by Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira 07 Nov '03

07 Nov '03

Med-Hoc-Net 2004 ================ The Third Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop June 27-30, 2004, Bodrum, Turkey http://www.medhoc04.diit.unict.it/ Call for Papers --------------- Ad-hoc network applications are emerging continuously imposing their own stringent constraints which cannot be fulfilled by generic approaches and thus spur new research efforts. The aim of Med-Hoc-Net 2004 is to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry from all over the globe to share their ideas, views, results, and experiences in the field of ad-hoc networking and communications. Med-Hoc-Net 2004 will include presentations of theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative ad-hoc systems, prototyping efforts, case studies, and advancements in technology directly affecting ad-hoc networking and communications infrastructures. After Sardinia (Italy) and Mahdia (Tunisia), this year the workshop will take place in another beautiful spot on the Mediterranean Sea: Bodrum (Turkey) where you will find wonderful nature and amazing historical sites close to hand. Bodrum is easy to reach via frequent flight connections from Istanbul. Topics of Interest: ------------------- The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2004 cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Novel ad-hoc network architectures and applications, - Sensor network applications and protocols, - Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes, - Interfacing ad-hoc systems with different networks, - Resource discovery and management, - Power management and control, - Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc networks, - Multimedia location services, - Self organization and network reconfiguration, - Protocols for QoS support in ad-hoc networks, - QoS support in Bluetooth, HomeRF, HIPERLAN, IEEE 802.11 etc., - MAC protocols, scheduling, and radio resource sharing in ad-hoc networks, - Unicast and multicast routing algorithms and protocols, - Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks, - Congestion control, - Performance evaluation of ad-hoc network protocols through simulations, analysis, and measurements, - Security in ad-hoc networks, - Fault tolerance and error recovery - Signal processing algorithms (coding, compression) for ad-hoc networks The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. PAPERS OF PARTICULAR MERIT WILL BE PUBLISHED IN AD HOC NETWORKS (ELSEVIER) JOURNAL. Submission and Important Dates: ------------------------------- Manuscripts must be formatted according to the IEEE double-column standard format, except the font size, which must be 11pt. Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e., Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica, or their equivalent. The maximum length of the manuscript is 12 pages. Papers should be submitted in pdf or ps format via email to medhoc04(a)diit.unict.it according to the following timetable: Full Paper Electronic Submission: February 3, 2004 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: April 12, 2004 Camera ready submission of full papers: April 30, 2004 Tutorial date: June 27, 2004 Conference dates: June 28-30, 2004 Keynote Speakers: ----------------- Leonard Kleinrock (UCLA, USA), and Imrich Chlamtac (UTDallas, USA). Steering Committee: ------------------- Khaldoun Al Agha (LRI, France), Mario Gerla (UCLA, USA), Farouk Kamoun (ENSI, Tunisia), Giovanni Pau (UCLA, USA), and Guy Pujolle (LIP6, France). Organization Committee: ----------------------- General Chair: Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA General Vice Chair: Erdal Cayirci, Istanbul Technical University, TURKEY Technical Program Chairs: Giacomo Morabito, University of Catania, ITALY Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Tutorial Chairs: Francesca Cuomo, University of Rome - La Sapienza, ITALY Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, GREECE Publicity Chairs: Buyurman Baykal, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira, Drexel University, USA Registration Chair: Sebnem Baydere, Yeditepe University, TURKEY Technical Program Committee: ---------------------------- Khaldoun Al Agha, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, FRANCE Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, UK Eitan Altman, INRIA, FRANCE Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, ITALY Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, CANADA Walid Dabbous, INRIA, FRANCE Magda El Zarki, University of California at Irvine, USA Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Paul J. M. Havinga, University of Twente, NETHERLANDS Farouk Kamoun, ENSI, TUNISIA Holger Karl, Technical University of Berlin, GERMANY Ulf Korner, Lund Institute of Technology, SWEDEN Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA Marwan Krunz, Arizona State University, USA Albert Levi, Sabanci University, TURKEY Janise McNair, University of Florida, USA Lazaros Merakos, University of Athens, GREECE Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, CANADA Ariel Orda, Technion, ISRAEL Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, ITALY Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", ITALY Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, CYPRUS Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRANCE Paolo Santi, CNR, ITALY Adrian Segall, Technion, ISRAEL Ness Shroff, Purdue University, USA Moshe Sidi, Technion, ISRAEL Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, GREECE Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CANADA Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Leandros Tassiulas, University of Thessaly, GREECE Bernhard H. Walke, Aachen University of Technology, GERMANY Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Michele Zorzi, University of Ferrara, ITALY -------------------------------------------------- For more information on the workshop, please check http://www.medhoc04.diit.unict.it/

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ACM SIGCOMM 2004 CFP
by SIGCOMM 2004 07 Nov '03

07 Nov '03

******** CALL FOR PAPERS ******** ACM SIGCOMM 2004 August 30 - September 3 Portland, Oregon USA http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2004 DEADLINES Registration/abstract of paper: 30 January 2004 (required and firm) Submission of full paper: 6 February 2004 (firm) Paper notification 30 April 2004 Camera ready papers 21 June 2004 Workshop proposals 1 December 1003 Tutorial proposals 1 February 2004 The SIGCOMM 2004 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design, implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, and simulation. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: -Network, transport, and application-layer protocols -Networking issues for Web, multimedia, and gaming applications -Routing, switching, and addressing -Resource management, quality of service, and signaling -Operating system support for networking -Wireless, mobile, ad hoc, and sensor networks -Network management and traffic engineering -Experimental and measurement results from operational networks -Network fault-tolerance and reliability, debugging, troubleshooting -Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks -Analysis and design of network architectures and algorithms -Tools and techniques for network measurement and simulation -Network security, vulnerability, and defenses -Fundamental insights into network and traffic characteristics We welcome two categories of paper submissions -- full papers and position papers. As in previous years, SIGCOMM 2004 will have a poster session and student travel grant program. Details will be posted on the conference web site as they become available, http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2004 TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS The Data Communications Festival will continue in 2004 with a distinct set of tutorials and workshops to be held Monday August 30th and Friday September 3rd. For more information on the workshop proposals, please see the conference web page. FULL PAPERS Full Papers are no more than 14 pages long and typically report novel results firmly substantiated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting will be provided on the website. POSITION PAPERS Position papers are no more than 8 pages long and attempt to shape research directions by offering new perspectives, wisdom, and guidance, rather than by presenting mature work with quantitative results. More detailed information for authors of position papers will be available on the web site as the submission deadline draws closer. POSTERS Posters are one 30" x 40" (75cm x 100cm) page long, and present ongoing work. Student submissions will be favored. MISCELLANEOUS There will also be a Student Paper Award, Student Travel Grants, and a SIGCOMM Award recognizing lifetime contributions. Contact Mark Crovella <crovella(a)cs.bu.edu> to nominate a candidate for the SIGCOMM Award. FOR MORE INFORMATION General Chair: Raj Yavatkar, Intel Corp <raj.yavatkar(a)intel.com> Program Chairs: Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech <ewz(a)cc.gatech.edu> Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Labs <jrex(a)research.att.com> Conference Coordinator: Joe Touch, USC/ISI <touch(a)isi.edu> Workshop Chair: Harrick Vin, U of Texas, Austin <vin(a)cs.utexas.edu> Tutorial Chair: Christophe Diot, Intel Corp <christophe.diot(a)intel.com> Local Arrangements: Wu-chang Feng. OGI@OHSU <wuchang(a)cse.ogi.edu> Poster Chair: Prashant Shenoy, U of Mass, Amherst <shenoy(a)cs.umass.edu> Student Grants: Tilman Wolf, U of Mass, Amherst <wolf(a)ecs.umass.edu> Publicity Chair: Allyn Romanow, Cisco Systems <allyn(a)cisco.com> Webmaster: Prashant Chandra, Intel Corp <prashant.chandra(a)intel.com> Registration Chair: Marcel Waldvogel, IBM, Zurich <mwl(a)zurich.ibm.com> Treasurer: Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan, U of Texas, Austin <chris(a)cs.utexas.edu>

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Election of the TC6 Chair
by Andre Danthine 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

Dear TC6 national delegates and WG chairmen. We are now ready to enter the last stage of the TC6 Chairman election. ../.. You will find as attachments their contributions in - pdf ../.. Andre --

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Election of the TC6 Chair
by Andre Danthine 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

Dear TC6 national delegates and WG chairmen. We are now ready to enter the last stage of the TC6 Chairman election. The two candidates are Otto Spaniol and Ramon Puigjaner Both had to provide - a short CV with an emphasis to the TC6 related activities - a statement of interest for the TC6 Chairmanship position. Why do they want to be chairman, what activities they intend to continue, to discontinue, to create, what will change in TC6 under their leadership. - a statement about the way they see the relationship between them (as TC6 chairman) and the Council and the General Assembly. You will find as attachments their contributions in two formats - MS Word - pdf (PDF attachments in an second message)MODIFIED We will proceed to an electronic vote. In Oman we set up the details of the procedure Taking into account the hectic situation of the spam polluted mail environment and the protection introduced by some ISPs, it has been decided that your vote will have to be send to two people : - Dorothy Hayden, IFIP Secretary who accepted to help TC6 even if the secretariat in Laxenbourg is still missing the people to replace Plamen - Peter Redford, one of the oldest member of TC6 and the (un)official permanent secretary of our meetings. Both of them have received from Augusto the list of the people entilted to vote i.e. the representatives of the official members of IFIP and the WG chairperson. Of course the two hats does not allow a double vote... Dorothy and Peter will, each on their site, check every vote. When the voting period will be closed, they will exchange their results. If their is a discrepancy, they will have to check the origin of it and resolve the problem. When they agree together, Dorothy will mail the results (to the TC6 mailing list) Number of received votes : Votes for Otto Spaniol : Votes for Ramon Puigjaner : Null and Abstention votes : Abstention vote will occur if a positive vote is not expressed for ONE of the two candidates Null vote will occur if a positive vote is expressed for BOTH candidates. I will mail to you the detailed instructions and voting forms in a separate email. I take this opportunity to send you my best wishes for the next three years... Andre -- -------------- ANDRE DANTHINE andre.danthine(a)ulg.ac.be INSTITUT D'ELECTRICITE MONTEFIORE, B28 UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE B-4000, LIEGE (BELGIUM) 25, rue Henri Fays B-4160 Anthisnes (Belgium)

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Fwd: Your message to ifip-tc6 awaits moderator approval
by Andre Danthine 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

Here is the explanation of the problem. This message has been received almost 24 hours after my original message. Moderator action is done moderato... To avoid any more delay I am resending the original message in two parts to avoid the size limit Best regards Andre > > >Your mail to 'ifip-tc6' with the subject > > Election of the TC6 Chair > >Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. > >The reason it is being held: > > Message body is too big: 267941 bytes with a limit of 256 KB > >Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive >notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel >this posting, please visit the following URL: > > ../.. --

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TC6 Chairman election - A problem
by Andre Danthine 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

I sent to you TWO emails via the TC6 list The first one was explaining the situation and had as attachements the statements and the CV of the candidates. The second one sent a quarter of an hour later was the invitation to vote. It appears that the first message was not forwarded to the list. I did not receive any message concerning a problem on the way to the list manager. I suspect that the message has not been forwarded to each of us as a list is moderated but I do not know why. I try to get some information. Wait to reply to the request to vote until you have received the first one. Sorry about it Andre -- -------------- ANDRE DANTHINE andre.danthine(a)ulg.ac.be INSTITUT D'ELECTRICITE MONTEFIORE, B28 UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE B-4000, LIEGE (BELGIUM) 25, rue Henri Fays B-4160 Anthisnes (Belgium)

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Election of the TC6 Chair
by Andre Danthine 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Dear TC6 national delegates and WG chairmen. We are now ready to enter the last stage of the TC6 Chairman election. The two candidates are Otto Spaniol and Ramon Puigjaner Both had to provide - a short CV with an emphasis to the TC6 related activities - a statement of interest for the TC6 Chairmanship position. Why do they want to be chairman, what activities they intend to continue, to discontinue, to create, what will change in TC6 under their leadership. - a statement about the way they see the relationship between them (as TC6 chairman) and the Council and the General Assembly. You will find as attachements their contributions in two formats - MS Word - pdf We will proceed to an electronic vote. In Oman we set up the details of the procedure Taking into account the hectic situation of the spam polluted mail environment and the protection introduced by some ISPs, it has been decided that your vote will have to be send to two people : - Dorothy Hayden, IFIP Secretary who accepted to help TC6 even if the secretariat in Laxenbourg is still missing the people to replace Plamen - Peter Redford, one of the oldest member of TC6 and the (un)official permanent secretary of our meetings. Both of them have received from Augusto the list of the people entilted to vote i.e. the representatives of the official members of IFIP and the WG chairperson. Of course the two hats does not allow a double vote... Dorothy and Peter will, each on their site, check every vote. When the voting period will be closed, they will exchange their results. If their is a discrepancy, they will have to check the origin of it and resolve the problem. When they agree together, Dorothy will mail the results (to the TC6 mailing list) Number of received votes : Votes for Otto Spaniol : Votes for Ramon Puigjaner : Null and Abstention votes : Abstention vote will occur if a positive vote is not expressed for ONE of the two candidates Null vote will occur if a positive vote is expressed for BOTH candidates. I will mail to you the detailed instructions and voting forms in a separate email. I take this opportunity to send you my best wishes for the next three years... Andre -- -------------- ANDRE DANTHINE andre.danthine(a)ulg.ac.be INSTITUT D'ELECTRICITE MONTEFIORE, B28 UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE B-4000, LIEGE (BELGIUM) 25, rue Henri Fays B-4160 Anthisnes (Belgium)

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FW: DAIS-FMOODS 2003 - Paris 18-21 Nov - 2nd Call for Participation
by Augusto Casaca 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

-----Original Message----- From: owner-itc(a)www.i-teletraffic.org [mailto:owner-itc@www.i-teletraffic.org]On Behalf Of dncr Sent: segunda-feira, 3 de Novembro de 2003 15:46 To: itc(a)i-teletraffic.org Subject: DAIS-FMOODS 2003 - Paris 18-21 Nov - 2nd Call for Participation DAIS-FMOODS'03 - Paris 18-21 Nov - 2nd Call for Participation Pleas Note: The early registration deadline has been extended to November 5th! Dear Colleagues, * DAIS'03 Distributed Applications & Interoperable Systems (4th IFIP Internationl Conference of the series) * FMOODS'03 Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems (6th IFIP Internationl Conference of the series) will be held jointly, 18 to 21 November, in Paris - FRANCE. http://fedconf.enst.fr Salient Features: * Complementary domains: foundations & practice of Distributed Systems. * Special focus on: Component based design and reconfiguration issues. * High quality acceptance rates: - 18/63 for FMOODS and - 21/76 (long papers) and 5/12 (short papers) for DAIS. * Five invited talks: - Can concurrency and distribution become easy? by Bertrand Meyer - Java's Integral Types in PVS by Bart Jacobs - Middleware? Muddleware! by Andrew Herbert - Research Challenges of Autonomic Computing by David Chambliss - The Domain Specific Languages: Components in a Semantic Framework by Alan Cameron Wills. * One registration gives access to all sessions and to both proceedings * A rich pre-conferences day (18 Nov) with 4 tutorials and 3 workshops. * Tutorials (half day): - Context-Aware Systems for Pervasive Computing - Developing Security Critical Distributed Systems with UML - Semantic Web enabled Web Services - Action-Based Model Checking * Workshops: - Adaptable Service Provision (one day) - Communication Abstractions for Distributed Systems (half day) - PhD (half day) For more information visit the conferences web site http://fedconf.enst.fr. Please note that early registration (offering substantial savings) has been extended to November 5th. We look forward to seeing you in Paris, The DAIS-FMOODS organizers

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TC6 meeting and calendar
by Augusto Casaca 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

Dear TC6 members, We received an invitation from Vilas to have the second meeting of TC6 in 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand. The proposed dates are November 26th (afternoon) and 27th (full day). Let me thank Vilas for this invitation. As we had discussed this possibility favourably during our meeting in Muscat, I will consider it approved if I have no comments until middle of next week (November 5th). I attach also an updated version of the TC6 calendar. Best regards Augusto

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DAIS-FMOODS 2003 - Paris 18-21 Nov - 2nd Call for Participation
by dncr 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

DAIS-FMOODS'03 - Paris 18-21 Nov - 2nd Call for Participation Pleas Note: The early registration deadline has been extended to November 5th! Dear Colleagues, * DAIS'03 Distributed Applications & Interoperable Systems (4th IFIP Internationl Conference of the series) * FMOODS'03 Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems (6th IFIP Internationl Conference of the series) will be held jointly, 18 to 21 November, in Paris - FRANCE. http://fedconf.enst.fr Salient Features: * Complementary domains: foundations & practice of Distributed Systems. * Special focus on: Component based design and reconfiguration issues. * High quality acceptance rates: - 18/63 for FMOODS and - 21/76 (long papers) and 5/12 (short papers) for DAIS. * Five invited talks: - Can concurrency and distribution become easy? by Bertrand Meyer - Java's Integral Types in PVS by Bart Jacobs - Middleware? Muddleware! by Andrew Herbert - Research Challenges of Autonomic Computing by David Chambliss - The Domain Specific Languages: Components in a Semantic Framework by Alan Cameron Wills. * One registration gives access to all sessions and to both proceedings * A rich pre-conferences day (18 Nov) with 4 tutorials and 3 workshops. * Tutorials (half day): - Context-Aware Systems for Pervasive Computing - Developing Security Critical Distributed Systems with UML - Semantic Web enabled Web Services - Action-Based Model Checking * Workshops: - Adaptable Service Provision (one day) - Communication Abstractions for Distributed Systems (half day) - PhD (half day) For more information visit the conferences web site http://fedconf.enst.fr. Please note that early registration (offering substantial savings) has been extended to November 5th. We look forward to seeing you in Paris, The DAIS-FMOODS organizers

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