February 2003 - ifip-tc6 - lists.rwth-aachen.de

FW: [IFIP] Time for change:IFIP.org premiere
by Augusto Casaca 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quarta-feira, 12 de Fevereiro de 2003 10:11 To: All Subject: [IFIP] Time for change:IFIP.org premiere Our last web site design served IFIP faithfully for two years and attracted many visitors. In January '03 we decided to give it a deserved rest and to conceive something new. Our Designers Bureau was put to work and after several drafts we proudly unveil "The International Web sITe" > http://www.ifip.org The Delivery Co. Creators of Dreamboats and Web sites since 1995 -------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/

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CFP HSN 2003: Workshop on High-Speed Networking in conjunction with INFOCOM'03
by Georg Carle 07 Feb '03

07 Feb '03

Dear Colleagues, our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies! The deadline for this year's IEEE TCGN Workshop on High-Speed Networking (HSN 2003), to be held in conjunction with INFOCOM on March 30, San Francisco, is approaching fast. HSN 2003 provides a forum for presenting and discussing recent work in high-speed networking in a timely manner. Deadline for submitting one page abstracts: February 17, 2003 For more information about the workshop, please visit: http://www.comsoc.org/tcgn/conference/hsn2003 Yours sincerely, Georg Carle and Andrea Fumagalli ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Dr. Georg Carle Chair for Computer Networks and Internet Wilhelm-Schickard-Institute for Computer Science University of Tuebingen Tel. +49-7071-29-70505 Sand 13 Fax +49-7071-29-5091 D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany carle(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de at Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS: Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31 Tel.:+49-30 3463 7149 D-10589 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49-30 3463 8149 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrea Fumagalli, PhD Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department Head, OpNeAR: Optical Networking Advanced Research Lab Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas P.O. Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75083-0688 Voice: (972) 883-6853 Fax: (972) 883-2710 E-mail: andreaf(a)utdallas.edu http://www.utdallas.edu/~andreaf http://opnear.utdallas.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Contributions Workshop on High-Speed Networking 2003 in conjunction with INFOCOM 2003 30 March 2003 - San Francisco Sponsored by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking Purpose and Format The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing very recent work in high-speed networking and to raise relevant issues to the general networking community in a timely manner. It will take place from 8:30 AM until 5:00 PM with lunch provided. There will be an open business meeting of the Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking following the workshop at 5:00 PM. The workshop will consist of a keynote speech, followed by a number of short informal presentations grouped into topical sessions, followed by a panel session. All issues relating to high bandwidth networking are relevant, including link layer protocols for optical and wireless networks, large fast switch and router design, transport and higher layer protocols, host and network interface architecture, operating systems, emerging services and applications, testbeds and deployment, network control and management, economic and regulatory issues, security and privacy, and other societal impacts. We are particularly interested in issues related to networks that can be scaled to a high (number of users) x (throughput per user) product. Sessions Presentations are planned to be grouped into the following sessions: o IP and Optical Networks o Wireless and Satellite o Switching, Routing, and Network Processors o A User Prospective: Gigabit Applications, End-to-end Services, Cost and Pricing Submission Guidelines Authors are encouraged to submit a one page abstract by February 17, 2003. It must be in plain text and sent by email to the program chairs at andreaf(a)utdallas.edu and carle(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de . Please include the text "HSN 2003 Submission" in the Subject: field. All submissions will be quickly acknowledged (otherwise contact the program chair to confirm receipt). Notification of the selected abstracts will be made by February 26, 2003. Submission of electronic versions of the presentation foils are due March 14, 2003, to be included in the on-line proceedings prior to the workshop. Additionally, it is encouraged to provide by March 14, 2003 extended versions of the abstract, following the IEEE INFOCOM formatting rules. The templates for submitting the extended version of the abstract are available at: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/confpub/infocom03/authors/layout.htm Dates One Page Abstract Due: February 17, 2003 Notification of Acceptance: February 26, 2003 Slides and extended Abstracts due: March 14, 2003 Workshop Date: March 30, 2003 Registration Registration for the workshop will be handled as part of INFOCOM 2003 registration; information is available on the web at http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2003. Web site The HSN 2003 CFP and additional information on the workshop are available on the web at http://www.comsoc.org/tcgn/conference/hsn2003 . Abstracts and presentations will appear in the online proceedings of the workshop, under URL http://www.comsoc.org/tcgn/conference/hsn2003 . Workshop Co-chairs: Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany Technical Program Committee Members (Preliminary) Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland José Brustoloni, University of Pittsburgh Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany Joe Evans, University of Kansas - Lawrence. Yuguang Michael Fang, University of Florida - Gainesville Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas Bryan Lyles Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California - Davis Chunming Qiao, State University of New York - Buffalo Dick Skillen, SE Communications Patricia Sagmeister, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland James Sterbenz, BBN Technologies Joe Touch, USC/ISI, USA Jonathan Turner, Washington University - St. Louis Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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FW: [IFIP] TC Visions - TC 6/Augusto Casaca
by Augusto Casaca 07 Feb '03

07 Feb '03

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: sexta-feira, 7 de Fevereiro de 2003 08:52 To: All Subject: [IFIP] TC Visions - TC 6/Augusto Casaca Dear All, This time our guest for Project "Visions from the IT Engine Room" is Augusto Casaca, Chairman of IFIP TC 6 on Communication Systems. Augusto is a professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal and leader of the Research Group on Network Architecture at INESC. He has worked on Digital Systems Design and Computer Architecture and was involved in international research projects on networking and standardization activities. He loves music and sport. "After playing basketball for about 15 years" says Augusto, "I convinced myself that my height was not the most appropriate to have a huge success in that sport and I moved into tennis and golf". With this introduction may we invite you to click here -> http://www.ifip.or.at/secretariat/tcvisions.htm and follow the link under Augusto's photo. We strongly recommend this interview to all communication gurus and to everyone who wishes to know more about IFIP TC 6 whose 30th Anniversary [ref. http://www.ifip.or.at/secretariat/tc6.pdf ] was selected as the IFIP 2002 Event of the Year. Enjoy, The Delivery Co. Fun zone - joke lovers only! And here is a nice one for a chuckle and to wish you a great weekend :-) On a rural road a policeman pulled a farmer over and said, "Sir, do you realize your wife fell out of the car several miles back?" To which the farmer replied, "Thank God, I thought I had gone deaf!" -------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/

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DCSC grants
by Augusto Casaca 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Dear TC6 members, Please take attention to the message on DCSC grants which was sent in a separate mail. The deadline for application is on February 15th. Best regards Augusto

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FW: Reminder: IFIP-UNESCO grant scheme
by Augusto Casaca 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quinta-feira, 6 de Fevereiro de 2003 14:56 To: GA&MS&WG Subject: Reminder: IFIP-UNESCO grant scheme Importance: High To: IFIP National GA representatives and TC Chairs cc. Full Member Societies, WG chairs Dear All, Please be reminded that the deadline for submitting requests under this scheme is 15 February. For your convenience, the procedure and details are posted at http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/msg00213.html I should also like to inform you that in future DCSC grants would be considered once a year, during the IFIP March Council meetings, following a procedure similar to the current one. A Call would be issued in early January. DCSC in consultation with the IFIP TC Chairs would review all submitted applications and would report the results to Council. The approved grants would be announced after Council. Best regards, Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/

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CfP: FATES 2003
by Ulrich Andreas 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

First Call for Papers: 3rd Int'l Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software (FATES 2003, http://www.crim.ca/fates/) In affiliation with the 18th IEEE Int'l Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2003) Montreal, Canada, October 6th, 2003 Objective and Scope The aim of the workshop is to be a forum for researchers, developers, and testers to discuss latest ideas about the use of formal methods in software testing. The topics of interest include: * Different techniques in testing: combined verification and testing approaches, analysis techniques that support testing, black-box testing, integration testing, etc. * Different aspects of testing: test derivation, test selection, test implementation and execution, test result analysis, test stop criteria, etc. * Different types of testing: functional, interoperability, performance, security, robustness, etc. * Different formal models: automata, logical, process algebra, algebraic data types, etc. * Different modeling languages: UML, SDL, MSC, LOTOS, Z, VDM, TTCN-3, etc. * Different application areas: communication systems, control systems, embedded software, Web-based systems, etc. Important dates * Submission deadline: July 9, 2003 * Notification of Acceptance: August 22, 2003 * Camera ready copies: September 14, 2003 * Workshop: October 6, 2003 Program Committee Co-Chairs * Alexandre Petrenko, Computer Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM), Canada; e-mail: petrenko(a)crim.ca, phone: +1 (514) 840 1290 * Andreas Ulrich, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany; e-mail: andreas.ulrich(a)siemens.com, phone: +49 (89) 636 47018 Further information http://www.crim.ca/fates/

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Calendar and List of delegates
by Augusto Casaca 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

Dear TC6 members, For your information I send you the updated Calendar of events and List of delegates. Best regards Augusto

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TC6 report for IFIP Council
by Augusto Casaca 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

Dear all, Please find the TC6 report for the IFIP Council meeting in attach to this mail. Best regards Augusto Casaca

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SenSys 2003 - CFP
by erdal＠itu 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS The First ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems SenSys 2003 http://www.cens.ucla.edu/sensys03/ November 5-7, 2003, Los Angeles, California, USA Sponsored by: ACM (Sigcomm, Sigmobile, Sigarch, Sigmetrics, Sigops), and NSF SenSys 2003 introduces a high caliber forum for research on systems issues in the emerging area of embedded, networked sensors. These distributed systems of numerous smart sensors and actuators connecting computational capabilities to the physical world have the potential to revolutionize a wide array of application areas by providing an unprecedented density and fidelity of instrumentation. They also present a host of novel systems challenges because of resource constraints, uncertainty, irregularity, and scale. SenSys design issues cut across multiple fields, including wireless communication, networking, operating systems, architecture, low-power circuits, distributed algorithms, data processing, scheduling, sensors, energy harvesting, and signal processing, so a holistic approach is required. SenSys seeks to provide a cross-disciplinary venue for researchers addressing the rich space of networked sensor system design issues to interact and exchange recent results. It is the first of a planned series of annual meetings with a single-track technical program and a hands-on research exhibition. This inaugural 2003 conference shall take place in Los Angeles, CA. PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research are solicited. In general this conference is interested in papers that address system issues in embedded networked systems. Specific topics of interest include the following: * Network protocols for sensor networks * Operating system and middleware for sensor networks * Distributed database processing in sensor networks * Distributed algorithms for sensor networks * Novel sensor node hardware and software platforms * Sensor network planning and deployment * Energy management in sensor networks * Adaptive topology management * In-network processing and aggregation * Data storage in sensor networks * Distributed and collaborative signal processing * Distributed Actuation, Control, and Coordination * Localization in time and space * Distributed calibration in sensor networks * Simulation and optimization tools * Applications of distributed sensor networks * Security and Robustness in sensor networks * Sensor network testbed measurements and benchmarks Please consult the program chairs at sensys03-pcchairs(a)cens.ucla.edu if you are uncertain whether your paper is in the scope of the conference. PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF or PostScript file format. Papers must not exceed 15 pages (US "Letter" size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references in single-column, single-space format. The font size must be at least 10 points. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. We will adopt a double-blind process for paper review, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names and their affiliations must not be revealed or mentioned anywhere in the paper or in the postscript or PDF file. Submitted papers should be original, unpublished work and not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected. To submit a paper, please refer to the paper submission link at the conference website, http://www.cens.ucla.edu/sensys03. Questions about the submission process should be directed to the Program Co-Chairs at <sensys03-pcchairs(a)cens.ucla.edu>. Selected papers from the conference will be forwarded for fast-track publication as journal papers in ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking and ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET). RESEARCH EXHIBITS and POSTERS There will be a research exhibition and poster session. Details will be provided in the final Call for Papers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Registration & Abstract: April 1, 2003 Paper Submission Deadline: April 8, 2003 Notification of Acceptance: June 27, 2003 Camera Ready Copy: August 1, 2003 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs: Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Tech.) Deborah Estrin (UCLA) Program Co-Chairs: David Culler (UC Berkeley) Mani Srivastava (UCLA) Demos & Exhibits Co-chairs: John Heidemann (USC/ISI) Fabio Silva (USC/ISI) Publicity Co-chairs: Erdal Cayirci (ITU) Lynette Millett (NRC) Student Posters Co-chairs: Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC) Sylvia Ratnasamy (Intel) Finance Chair: David Jaquez (UCLA) Local Arrangements Chair: Bernie Dempsey (UCLA) Registration Chair: Suresh Singh (Portland State) Sponsorship Chair: Rajesh Gupta (UCSD) Student Travel Awards: R. Sivakumar (Georgia Tech.) Submission Process Chair: Dirk Grunwald (U. Colorado) PROGRAM COMMITTEE A. Arora (Ohio State U.) H. Bakakrishnan (MIT) P. Bonnet (U. Copenhagen) L. Clare (JPL) C. Enz (EPFL) R. Govindan (USC) J. Hellerstein (UC Berkeley) L. Krishnamurthy (Intel) R. Martin (Rutgers) M. Martonosi (Princeton) A. Perrig (CMU) S. Servetto (Conell) M. Smith (HP) J. Stankovic (U. Virginia) G. Sukhatme (USC) M. Vetterli (EPFL) F. Zhao (PARC) STEERING COMMITTEE Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Tech., Co-chair), Victor Bahl (Microsoft, Sigmobile Representative), Deborah Estrin (UCLA, Co-chair), Craig Partridge (BBN, Sigcomm Representative), and Taieb Znati (NSF) Please visit the SenSys 2003 Home Page at http://www.cens.ucla.edu/sensys03/, or send email to sensys03(a)cens.ucla.edu for more information about the conference.

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ACM-IFIP conference??
by Otto Spaniol 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

Dear all, I got a Call for Papers of an "ACM/IFIP EuroPar" conference (see below). Main topic is "Mobile Computing, wireless, mobile communication systems". It appears that this is just one topic (number 15) out of a huge number (19 in total) of areas. EuroPar has many parallel sessions, thus the structure is maybe not liked by us but... The CfP doesn't seem to contain a hint in which way IFIP is involved (apart from the conference name). To my opinion, the topic is strongly related to WG 6.8. sctivities. Theremore my question (in particular to Augusto Casaca and to Jan Slavik): - Are we involved in that event? - If not (yet): How to become involved? I feel that such an activity would be very good for TC6. Moreover: Which committee apart from TC6 might be involved? Best regards Otto The CfP follows. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers (Submission Deadline: February 9, 2003) Euro-Par 2003 - Topic 15 Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Klagenfurt, Austria August 26-29, 2003 http://europar-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/ * Description The development of small and powerful computing devices and, simultaneously, of wireless, mobile communication systems offers a great variety of new applications, summarized under the name of Mobile Computing. The phenomenal growth of those mobile computing devices, together with current trends in embedded systems and software, real-time interaction and omnipresent wireless networking fertilises the formation of a Ubiquitous Computing landscape, in which digital environments are aware of the presence of users, sensitive, adaptive and responsive to the users needs, habits and emotions and ubiquitously accessible for the user via natural interaction. This topic solicits papers dealing with the following mobile and ubiquitous computing elements: mobility, ubiquity, awareness, intelligence, and natural interaction. Mobility addresses solutions that help to make time, geographic, media and service boundaries less and less important. Ubiquity refers to a situation in which we are surrounded by a multitude of interconnected embedded systems, which are (mostly) invisible and moved into the background of our surrounding (workplace, building, home, outdoor). Awareness refers to the ability of the system to recognise and localise objects as well as people and their intentions. Intelligence refers to the fact that the digital surrounding is able to adapt itself to the people that live in it, learn from their behaviour, and possibly recognise as well as show emotion. Natural interaction finally refers to advanced modalities like natural speech- and gesture recognition, as well as speech- synthesis, which will allow a much more human-like communication with the digital environment than is possible today. The aim of the topic is to bring together, at Euro-Par 2003, computer scientists an engineers in the areas of wireless networking, mobile computing, and ubiquitous computing in order to present and share their ideas about the design and analysis of ubiquitous computing environments and the challenges imposed by the applications of mobile and ubiquitous computing. * Focus Mobile/wireless computing infrastructure Communication in mobile networks Mobility and QoS management Ad-hoc and personal area networks Media access techniques and terminals Ubiquitous/pervasive computing software architectures Ubiquitous access and context computing Smart devices and smart spaces Intelligent environments Sensors and actuators Positioning/tracking/authentication systems and technologies Mobile/ubiquitous/wearable computing scenarios Location-dependent/personalized wireless applications User interfaces and interaction models * Chairs Global Chair Prof. Max Mühlhäuser FG Telekooperation TU Darmstadt, Germany Email: max(a)informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Vice Chairs Prof. Azzedine Boukerche Department of Computer Sciences University of North Texas, USA Email: boukerche(a)cs.unt.edu Karin Anna Hummel Institute for Computer Science and Business Informatics University of Vienna, Austria Email: karin.hummel(a)univie.ac.at Local Chair Prof. Alois Ferscha Institute for Practical Computer Science, Software Group Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Email: ferscha(a)soft.uni-linz.ac.at * Euro-Par Mission and Details Euro-Par is well established as the premier annual European conference on all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. The conference normally attracts more than 300 participants coming from universities, research centres and industry. Euro-Par 2003 will represent major themes in the categories of hardware, software, algorithms and applications. In common with previous years, Euro-Par 2003 will be organized as a number of parallel sessions on 19 topics for which papers are solicited. * Submission Details All accepted papers will be available at the conference in the proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. * Submission Key Dates Online submission site open: January 10, 2003 Final date for submission: February 9, 2003 Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2003 Camera ready version: May 25, 2003

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