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

IFIP TC Forum
by Augusto Casaca 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Dear TC6 members, I am pleased to attach the minutes of the TC Forum held in Bilbao and attended by almost all IFIP TC chairs. These minutes are important for TC6 members so that you can be aware of what is being discussed among the TC chairs. As soon as I receive the minutes of the Technical Assembly and of the Council I will forward them to you too. Please remember that our next TC6 meeting will take place in Budapest, Hungary on May 18th and 19th. Our host Sarolta Dibuz will send you an invitation soon. Best regards Augusto Casaca

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TC6 calendar of events
by Augusto Casaca 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Dear TC6 members, I attach two files to this mail, the first one with the events sponsored by TC6 in 2002 and a second one with the 6 year plan. In this last file you will notice that we are sponsoring 26 events in 2003, but the table is still scarcely filled for 2004 and empty for the remaining years. I will start working on filling the calendar from 2004 on until our next TC6 meeting. As I told in a previous meeting I am sceptical about keeping the six year plan. In present conditions I feel that a four year plan is already very good and is enough for planning. We can discuss it in Budapest. Best regards Augusto

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LCN2003
by Dr. Alan George 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

------------------------------------------------------------------- Please distribute to interested people. Sorry for any duplicates. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers LCN 2003 The 28th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) Bonn/Königswinter, Germany October 20-24, 2003 URL: http://www.ieeelcn.org The IEEE LCN conference serves as the premier conference on leading edge and practical computer networking. This approach stimulates a highly interactive environment and enables an effective interchange of results and ideas among local network researchers, developers, and users. During the 27 years of this conference, major advancements have been achieved in local computer networks driven by application demands associated of the global Internet, the Web, etc. This year we are targeting the realm of embedded networks, wireless networks, high-speed networks, ubiquitous computing, and security as well as management aspects surrounding them. Papers covering these areas are explicitly sought and will be given preference. We encourage you to submit original papers describing research results or practical solutions. Paper topics include but are not limited to: - Personal-Area Networks - Sensor Networks - Wearable Networks - High-Speed Networks - Wireless Networks - Network Management - Mobility Management - Network Security - Location-Dependent Services - Network Reliability - Local-Area Networks - Network to the Home - Home Networks - Quality-of-Service/Congestion Control - Small-Office Networks - Adaptive Applications - Embedded Networks - Performance Evaluation/Measurements - Storage-Area Networks - Network Traffic Characterizations - Optical Networks - Overlay Networks Authors are invited to submit full or short papers for presentation at the conference. Full papers (no more than 10 camera-ready pages) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference. Short papers are an opportunity to present preliminary or interim results and are limited to 2 camera-ready pages in length. A best paper will be selected based on the quality of research and results, as well as on the quality of presentation by the primary author. Several student travel scholarships may be available courtesy of the LCN corporate supporters. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. The corresponding author must be clearly identified. Important Dates --------------- Paper submission deadline: April 27, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 27, 2003 Camera-ready paper due: July 25, 2003 Author registration deadline: July 25, 2003 Paper submission: Papers must be submitted electronically. Manuscript submission instructions will be posted at the LCN web page at http://www.ieeelcn.org. In case of questions, please contact the program chairs: Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller University of Federal Armed Forces Munich Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 D-85579 Neubiberg, Germany E-mail: stiller(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch Prof. Dr. Alan D. George University of Florida, ECE Department 216 Larsen Hall, POB 116200 Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A 32611 E-mail: george(a)hcs.ufl.edu Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chair: T. Strayer, BBN Finance Chair: F. Hübner, AT&T Labs Local Arrangements Chair: P. Martini, Univ. of Bonn Workshop Chair: K. Christensen, Univ. of South Florida Webmaster: G. Kessler, Champlain College Overseas Advisors: S. Jha, Univ. of New South Wales (Asia/Pacific) H. Hassanein, Queens Univ. (North America) Standing Committee: J. Bumblis, Purdue Univ. G. Kessler, Champlain College M. McKee, Univ. of Minnesota, Rochester E. Nolley, Strategic Growth H. Salwen, Audeon Networks -------------------------------------------------------------------

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CfP - Networked Group Communications NGC'03 / Internet Charging and QoS Technology ICQT'03
by Burkhard Stiller 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

------------------------------------------------------------------- Please distribute to interested people. Apologies for any duplicates. Please note the approaching submission deadline by April 1, 2003. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Networked Group Communications (NGC'03) Organized by UniBwM and COST 264 in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM co-located with the Third International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technology (ICQT'03) Group Communications and Charges - Technology and Business Models September 16-19, 2003 University of Federal Armed Forces Munich (UniBw Munich), Germany URL: http://www.ngc2003.org/ Scope ----- Communications by technical means forms the major interconnection for distributed electronic applications, ranging from business processes to entertainment. While networked group communications in particular raise technology and protocol challenges, charging for Internet services inter-relates and enriches those techniques with economic models. Both workshops target the identification of solutions, investigations of their feasibility, and a consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms to enable a fast, guaranteed, and efficient provisioning of networked group communications in the Internet. Authors are invited to submit work on issues related to networked group communication (NGC'03) and Internet charging and QoS technologies (ICQT'03) according to the major list of topics: NGC'03 ------ - Multicast applications and services - Multi-player games - Novel group communication architectures - Group and session management techniques - QoS and traffic control for groups - Peer-to-peer systems and applications - Distributed multi-peer-to-peer algorithms - Content distribution systems - Wireless group communications - Security for group communications - Heterogeneous group communications - Multicast deployment mechanisms ICQT'03 ------- - Economic models for the Internet - Internet pricing, tariffing, and billing - Internet charging technology - Monitoring, measurements, and accounting - ISP cost and business models - Charging for peer-to-peer applications and games - Charging and QoS for multicast - Charging for QoS services - Pricing mobile and wireless services - Application service provider models - Security mechanisms for charging - Management of Service Level Agreements Papers and Submissions ---------------------- Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 10 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Submissions should already follow the author guidelines as specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of at most five keywords. The author responsible for correspondence should be identified clearly, including the author's name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory, please check the URL http://www.ngc2003.org/ for further submission instructions or contact ngc03(a)informatik.unibw-muenchen.de for additional information. The conference proceedings are being published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. They will be available during the event. Authors are obliged to follow the LNCS's guidelines in preparing their manuscript. Author guidelines with respect to the final camera ready paper formats are to be followed without exception, including the 10 page limit, and may be obtained at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Important Dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 8, 2003 Camera ready version: July 1, 2003 Workshop dates: September 16-19, 2003 General Information ------------------- The final program will accommodate September 17 and 18, 2003 the single-track NGC'03 workshop preceded by half-day tutorials on September 16 (afternoon) and on September 19, 2003 the single-track ICQT'03 workshop. The registration fee for this event will include the attendance of both workshops. For more information on these two co-located events NGC'03/ICQT'03 please visit http://www.ngc2003.org/ or http://www.ftw.at/icqt/ or contact by e-mail ngc03(a)informatik.unibw-muenchen.de or icqt03(a)ftw.at. Location and Date ----------------- The location of the UniBw Munich is in the heart of the information technology area of Southern Munich, where, amongst others, Siemens Corporate Technology as well as EADS are located. A number of hotels are located in the neighborhood (2-3 km) to the university campus. Downtown Munich can be reached from there in 20 min by fast train (S-Bahn) or underground (U-Bahn). The Airport of Munich can be reached by S-Bahn in about one hour. Furthermore, by rental car the German and Bavarian Alps can be accessed in about 90 min drive, providing views to the most spectacular scenery of mountains and beautiful countryside. Finally, the two co-located workshops take place just in the week before Munich's world-known "Oktoberfest - Wies'n" in downtown Munich. Committees ---------- General Chair Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Steering Committee NGC'03 Christophe Diot, Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, U.S.A. Serge Fdida, Laboratoire LIP6, Paris, France Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University, U.K. Luigi Rizzo, ICSI Center for Internet Research, Berkeley, U.S.A. NGC'03 Program Co-Chairs Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen and Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany NGC'03 Program Committee Kevin Almeroth UC Santa Barbara Mostafa Ammar Georgia Institute of Technology Daniel Bauer IBM Research Zurich Elizabeth Belding-Royer University of California, Santa Barbara Samrat Bhattacharjee University of Maryland Ernst Biersack Institut Eurecom Bob Briscoe BT exact Technologies John Byers Boston University Georg Carle University of Tuebingen, Fraunhofer FOKUS Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge Walid Dabbous INRIA Jordi Domingo-Pascual Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Derek Eager University of Saskatchewan Wolfgang Effelsberg University of Mannheim Hiroshi Esaki University of Tokyo Serge Fdida Laboratoire LIP6-CNRS J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves University of California, Santa Cruz Mark Handley ICSI Center for Internet Research Markus Hoffmann Lucent Technologies David Hutchison Lancaster University Roger Kermode Motorola Jim Kurose University of Massachusetts Guy Leduc Universite de Liege Brian Levine University of Massachusetts Laurent Mathy Lancaster University Oeznur Oezkasap Koc University Istanbul Sanjoy Paul Lucent Technologies Christos Papadopoulos University of Southern California Peter Parnes Lulea University of Technology Colin Perkins Information Sciences Institute Luigi Rizzo ICSI Center for Internet Research Dan Rubenstein Columbia University Clay Shields Georgetown University Ralf Steinmetz University of Darmstadt Burkhard Stiller UniBw Munich and ETH Zurich Giorgio Ventre Universita di Napoli Federico II Lorenzo Vicisano Cisco Systems Martina Zitterbart University of Karlsruhe ICQT'03 Program Co-Chairs Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Reichl, FTW Vienna, Austria ICQT'03 Program Committee Ragnar Andreassen Telenor Sandford Bessler FTW Vienna Torsten Braun University of Bern Costas Courcoubetis Athens University of Economics and Business Chris Edwards Lancaster University Richard Gibbens Cambridge University Martin Karsten University of Waterloo Claudia Linnhoff-Popien LMU Muenchen Simon Leinen SWITCH Zurich Robin Mason University of Southampton Andrew Odlyzko University of Minnesota Huw Oliver UK Maximilian Ott Semandex Networks Kihong Park Purdue University Guido Petit Alcatel Belgium Douglas Reeves North Carolina State University Peter Reichl FTW Vienna Bjoern Rupp Arthur D. Little Vasilios Siris ICS Forth David Songhurst BT exact Technologies Otto Spaniol RWTH Aachen -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Forte 2003 Deadline Extension !!!
by Hartmut König 16 Mar '03

16 Mar '03

Please excuse if you received that Call for Papers several times. ===================================================================== Attention !!! The FORTE deadline will be extended for one week. The submission window will be closed March 24, 2003 12 a.m. (MET) sharp. Kind regards Hartmut Koenig, Monika Heiner, and Adam Wolisz ===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS FORTE 2003 Application of Formal Description Techniques in Internet and Communication Domains IFIP TC 6 / WG 6.1 The 23rd IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems September 29th - October 2nd, 2003 Berlin, Germany http://www.forte2003.de.vu ======================================================================== Scope and Objectives FORTE denotes a series of international working conferences on formal description techniques (FDTs) applied to computer networks and distributed systems. The conference series started in 1981 under the name PSTV. In 1988 a second series under the name FORTE was set up. Both series were united to FORTE/PSTV in 1996. Two years ago the conference changed the name to its current form. FORTE provides a forum for researchers and users to review, discuss, and learn about new approaches, concepts,and experiences in the field of formal description techniques and their application. The 23rd FORTE conference will be held in Berlin. It is organized by the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus (BTU Cottbus) and the Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin). FORTE 2003 is especially dedicated to the application of formal description techniques to practice, especially in the Internet domain. The conference will consist of tutorial sessions on the first day, followed by presentations of reviewed and invited papers, tool demonstrations, and panel and working sessions. Topics of interest FORTE'03 will provide a forum for researchers and users to review, discuss, and learn about new approaches, concepts and experiences in the application of formal methods such as finite state machines, process algebras, Petri nets and logics and formal description techniques including SDL, UML, LOTOS, MSC, ASN.1, and others. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to - Use of formal methods: FDT based design of communication protocols and distributed systems especially for Internet applications, Formal verification, Performance modeling and analysis, Automatically derived implementations, Test of distributed systems and communication protocols including interoperability tests, performance tests, robustness tests, and test generation procedures, Tool support - Theoretical aspects of formal methods: New approaches and theories, Extensions of FDTs, Semantic foundations, Real-time and probability aspects - Practical experience with formal methods: Reports and case studies of the deployment of formal methods and FDTs to the development and validation of distributed systems and communication protocols, in particular in Internet and communication domains. We strongly encourage the submission of papers with practical applications especially in the areas of multimedia applications, wireless and mobile communication protocols, client/server applications, secure systems/environments, e-business and mobile commerce, and other Internet applications. Submission policy Several types of contributions are solicited: - Full papers - research or practice results (not more than 16 pages) - Tutorial proposals - Work in progress papers (not more than 5 pages) - Tool demonstration proposals Only original papers, i.e. not submitted nor published elsewhere, should be submitted. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format using the following address: http://www.forte2003.de.vu/paper All accepted full papers will be published in Lecture Notes of Computer Science series of Springer. Work in progress papers will be published in a separate volume at the conference. To facilitate the production of the final proceedings we strongly recommend submissions to follow the Springer style available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/ authors.html. Best Paper Award There will be a best paper award of 500 Euros offered by IFIP TC6 for the author(s)of the best paper selected during the reviewing process. Important Dates - March 17th, 2003: Submission deadline for regular papers and tutorials EXTENDED to March, 24th, 2003 !!!! - May 22nd, 2003: Notification of acceptance - June 23rd, 2003: Camera-ready version - May 19th, 2003 Submission deadline for work-in-progress papers Conference Chairs - Hartmut Koenig, BTU Cottbus - Monika Heiner, BTU Cottbus - Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin Technical Program Committee - T. Bolognesi, IEI Pisa, Italy - E. Borcoci, University of Bucarest, Romania - H. Bowman, University of Kent, UK - A. Cavalli, INT Evry, France - P. Dembinski, IPI Warsaw, Poland - R. Gotzhein, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany - R. Groz, INRIA Rhones-Alpes, France - U. Herzog, University of Erlangen-Nueremberg, Germany - T. Higashino, Osaka University, Japan - D. Hogrefe, University of Göttingen, Germany - G. J. Holzmann, Bell Labs, USA - C. Jard, IRISA, France - M. Kim, ICU Taejon, Korea - F. Khendek, Concordia University Montreal, Canada - P. Kritzinger, University of Cape Town, South Africa - H. Krumm, University of Dortmund, Germany - D. Lee, Bell Labs, China - M. Luukainen, University of Helsinki, Finland - B. Müller-Clostermann, University of Essen, Germany - M. Nunez, University of Madrid, Spain - D. A. Peled, University of Warwick, UK - A. Petrenko, CRIM Montreal, Canada - K. Suzuki, Advanced Coomuication Coop., Japan - Ü. Uyar, City University of New York, USA - M. Y. Vardi, Rice University Houston, USA - J. Wu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Chian - N. Yevtushenko, Tomsk State University, Russia Steering Committee - G. v. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada - E. Brinksma, University of Twente, The Netherlands - S, Budkowski, INT Evry, France - G. Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium - E. Najm, ENST, France - R. Tenney, University of Massachusetts, USA - K. Turner, University of Stirling, UK Publicity Chair for - Asia: K. Suzuki, Advanced Communication Coop., Japan - North America: Ü. Uyar, City University of New York, USA - South America: W. Lopes de Souza, University of Sa~o Carlos, Brazil Organization Committee - Katrin Willhöft, BTU Cottbus - Christian Noack, BTU Cottbus - Irene Ostertag, TU Berlin - Ronny Richter, BTU Cottbus Further Information - FORTE Web site: http://www.forte2003.de.vu - IFIP Web site: http://www.ifip.or.at/ - For questions: forte2003-org(a)informatik.tu-cottbus.de -- ________________________________________________________________________ Hartmut König Tel: +49 355 69 22 36 koenig(a)informatik.tu-cottbus.de Fax: +49 355 69 21 27 BTU Cottbus LS Rechnernetze und Kommunikationssysteme PF 10 13 44, D-03013 Cottbus, Germany http://www-rnks.informatik.tu-cottbus.de ________________________________________________________________________

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IT and Sports
by Otto Spaniol 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

Dear all, as you may know from the discussions at our previous meetings there is a new IFIP initiative on "IT and sports" (see annex). TC6 has cinsidered that topic as being of interest - and I have promised to coordinate those activities (one one hand for TC6 and on the other hand for IFIP with respect to Europe; there are some other IFIP volunteers, Erol Gelenbe e.g. would play a corresponding role for North America). My first actions have been contacts to the German Sports University in Cologne (I happen to be a member of their steering committee) in order to find out whether a workshop or a working conference could be held there together with IFIP. This turned out to be interesting for them. Indeed there are already conferences on such topics - without IFIP for the moment being - and the sports university would be very interested to get a better visibility by the help of IFIP. The conference is intended to take place in the second half of September 2004 in Cologne. Now I will have a next meeting with some experts of the "IT and sports" topic on March 27 and in order to prepare myself I would have the following questions to you: - Would you be interesting to support the initaitive (as a member of the PC, as a reviewer, as a possibe participant,..)? - Which topics would be interesting for you? Communication topics, but a mentioning of other topics would also be very helpful. - Or (the other way round) do you believe that TC6 should *not* make an effort in the announced direction? If you believe so: what are your reasons for that? (You will see from the annex that in IFIP General assembly the topics was not unanimously discussed but at the recent council meeting in Bilbao according to Plamen nedkov it was welcomed very much that IFIP proceeds in this direction). I would appreciate very much if you can give me a feedback (at least a short supporting message or a short note that you disagree) until the end of next week, i.e. until March 21. My message is also intended as a try for a revival of the Email discussion within TC6 which has been practically nonexisting since several months with the exception of the forwarding of some boring Call for papers ;-) Best regards and have a nice weekend Otto

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Se-CFPnSys2003
by erdal＠itu 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '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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FW: [ifip-tc6] CfP: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2003)
by Augusto Casaca 10 Mar '03

10 Mar '03

-----Original Message----- From: ifip-tc6-bounces(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE [mailto:ifip-tc6-bounces@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE]On Behalf Of Klaus Herrmann Sent: terça-feira, 4 de Março de 2003 10:34 To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: [ifip-tc6] CfP: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2003) Apologies if you receive this more than once. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for papers 4th International IFIP Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2003) 19-21 November 2003, Paris, France to be held in conjunction with FMOODS'03 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Applications Systems http://fedconf.enst.fr/ A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and a call for workshops will be issued separately. Objectives and Scope ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ubiquitous explosion of the Internet and the fast proliferation of distributed computing involving all kinds of computing devices create a unique challenge. Innovative solutions are required for the development, implementation and operation of distributed applications in complex IT environments full of diversity and heterogeneity. Following the evolution of the field, DAIS'03 will focus on models, technologies and platforms for reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed applications. DAIS'03 will provide a forum for researchers, application and platform service vendors and users, to review, discuss and learn about new approaches, concepts and experiences in the fields of distributed computing. DAIS'03 will include talks by invited speakers, full technical paper sessions, and work-in-progress presentations. Tutorial proposals are also encouraged. Conference themes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In keeping with the focus on models, technologies and platforms for reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed applications, and in addition to its traditional themes, DAIS especially encourages original unpublished papers addressing the following topics: - new/extended software architectures and frameworks for reconfiguration and adaptation including component-based approaches (e.g. CORBA Components, EJB, .NET), - modelling, specifying, monitoring and management of context-aware and adaptive applications, - support for reconfiguration, self-organisation and autonomic behaviour in new/existing distributed platforms (e.g. CORBA, J2EE, .NET, WebServices), - integration of multi-agent distributed decision-making, - application environments that exploit characteristics of specific technologies (e.g. grid computing, mobile and wireless), - issues in enterprise-wide and large-scale application reconfiguration, - semantic interoperability and semantic web services. Submissions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DAIS'2003 seeks submissions for: - Full technical papers in no more than 12 pages (approximately 6000 words); - Work-in-progress papers, describing on-going work and interim results, in no more than 5 pages. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. They will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted full papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and a call for workshops will be issued separately. Submission method: Electronic submission in PDF format using the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submission dates: - Deadline for full paper submissions: June 2, 2003 - Deadline for work-in-progress papers: June 15, 2003 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2003 - Final versions: September 1st, 2003 - Conference dates : 17th to 21st November 2003 Conference Organisers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ General chair: Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA) Publicity Chair: Kurt Geihs (TU Berlin) Tutorial chair: Sylvie Vignes (ENST) PC Chairs: Isabelle Demeure (ENST), Daniel Hagimont (INRIA) Program Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ M.Ahamed, Georgia Tech, USA N.Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece S.Baker, IONA, Ireland Y.Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium V.Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland R.Campbell, UIUC, USA N.Davies Lancaster University UK and University of Arizona, USA F.Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway K.Geihs, TU Berlin, Germany P.Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan, USA. J.Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia E.Jul, DIKU, Denmark H.Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany F.Kordon, LIP6, France S.Krakowiak, University of Grenoble, France H.Krumm, University of Dortmund, Germany L.Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland W.Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany D.Lea, SUNY Oswego, USA P.Linington, University of Kent, UK C.Linnhoff-Popien, University of Munich, Germany P.Merle, INRIA, France G.Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France E.Najm, ENST, France L.Pautet, ENST, France K.Raymond, DSTC, Australia A.Schill, TU Dresden, Germany S.Shrivastava, University of Newcastle, UK J-J.Vandewalle, GemPlus, France -- + Klaus Herrmann + Technische Universität Berlin + Tel.: +49-030-314-25102 + Fax.: +49-030-314-24573 + www.ivs.tu-berlin.de _______________________________________________ ifip-tc6 mailing list ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6

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CfP MASCOTS2003
by Hartmut König 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

******************************************************************************** Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ******************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS MASCOTS2003 The 11th IEEE/ACM* International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems October 2003, Orlando http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/mascots2003 Venue: Orlando Airport Marriott 7499 Augusta National Drive Orlando, FL 32822 * IEEE/ACM- Approval Pending ******************************************************************************** The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: [-] Computer Architecture Modeling and Simulation [-] Parallel and Distributed Systems [-] Real-Time and Multimedia Systems [-] Internetworking Protocol and Performance [-] Wireless and Mobile Networking and Computing [-] Broadband and Telecommunication Networks and Software [-] Network Traffic Studies [-] Web-Based Systems [-] Application areas such as databases [-] Analysis Techniques and Formal Methods [-] Benchmarking and Measurement Techniques [-] Capacity Planning [-] Performance Analysis and Validation Techniques [-] Workload Characterization and Generation [-] Discrete Event Simulation methodology and Tools [-] Middleware Performance (Object Oriented, Parallel Simulation etc.) Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance which have not been published elsewhere. The proceedings will be published by IEEE. ******************************************************************************** TOOLS TRACK Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing tools suitable for on-line demonstration. The tools papers will undergo a regular review process and will be published in the conference proceedings in a dedicated tools section. Separate sessions are planned where these tools will be demonstrated on-line. Projection systems capable for projecting from laptop screens and videotapes will be available. The authors are required to bring any additional equipment necessary for demonstration.Questions regarding tools track should be directed to the tools co-chairs. ******************************************************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION Papers must not exceed 20 double-spaced pages with a minimum of 10-point font and must include an abstract, keywords, authors contact information (providing both postal and email addresses). Papers must be unpublished original work and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors of both regular and tool papers are strongly encouraged to submit their papers in electronic form (PDF or PostScript). Those unable to use electronic means should mail five (5) complete copies of the paper to either Prof. Gabriele Kotsis by May 9th, 2003. [-] For Web-based paper registration and submission please check: http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/mascots2003 ******************************************************************************** CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Proposals for half-day workshops are solicited on timely topics related to the above areas. The workshop proposal must include a description of topics presented and biographies of potential presenters. Send workshop proposals directly to the workshops chair. ******************************************************************************** CALL FOR TUTORIALS Proposals for tutorials, running for 2 to 3 hours, are solicited on timely topics related to the above areas. The tutorial proposal must include description and length of the tutorial, breakdown of topics, and biographies of the presenters. Send tutorial proposals directly to the tutorials chair. ******************************************************************************** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Erol Gelenbe University of Central Florida erol(a)cs.ucf.edu Program Chair Gabriele Kotsis Telecooperation Department Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenberger Strasse 69 A-4040 Linz, Austria Phone: +43 732 2468 9238 Fax: +43 732 2468 9829 gabriele.kotsis(a)jku.ac.at Workshop Chair Ramon Puigjaner Univerity of the Baleares (Spain) putxi(a)uib.es Tools Chair Jane Hillston University of Edinburgh Scotland, UK jeh(a)inf.ed.ac.uk Tutorials Chair Mariacarla Calzarossa University of Pavia Italy mcc(a)unipv.it Finance Chair David Finkel Computer Science Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Road Worcester, MA 01609, USA Phone: (508) 831-5416 Fax: (508) 831-5776 dfinkel(a)wpi.edu Publicity Co-Chairs Khaled Hussain and Ricardo Lent University of Central Florida {khaled,rlent}(a)cs.ucf.edu Local Arrangements Chair Amy Wedel Division of Continuing Education University of Central Florida 407-882-0241 awedel(a)mail.ucf.edu Program Committee Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnatti, USA Khalid Al-Begain, Bradford University, UK Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida, USA Monique Becker, INT, France Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Azzeddine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Gregor Bochman, University of Ottawa, Canada Sajal K. Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA Samir Das, University of Cincinnatti, USA Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria David Finkel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Jean Michel Fourneau, University of Versailles, France Ratan Guha, University of Central Florida, USA Guenter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria Peter Harrison, Imperial College, UK Hossam Hossanein, Queens University, Canada Sungbum Hong, University of North Texas, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Darrell Long, UC Santa Cruz, USA Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Raymond Marie, IRISA, France Dan Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA Daniel A. Menasce, George Mason University, USA David Nicol, Dartmouth College, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Nihal Pekergin, University of Versailles St-Quentin, France Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain William H. Sanders, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Mirela Sechi M. A. Notare, Barddal University, SC, Brazil S V Raghavan, IIT Madras, India Gerardo Rubino, IRISA, France J. Bosco M. Sobral, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, USA Carl Tropper, McGill University, Canada Salvatore Tucci, University of Rome II, Italy Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada Zhiguang Xu, University of Central Florida, USA Jason Lin Yi-Bing, National Chiao-Tung Univ. Taiwan Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Western Australia ********************************************************************************

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Call for Papers: Mobile Distributed Information Systems on HICSS37
by mdis＠ipsi.fraunhofer.de 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

CfP: HICSS-37 Minitrack on Mobile Distributed Information Systems [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] ===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS HICSS-37 Minitrack on MOBILE DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS Part of the Software Technology Track at the Thirty-seventh Annual HAWAI'I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES on the Big Island of Hawaii January 5 - 8, 2004 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts due: March 31, 2003 Full Papers due: June 1, 2003 Website: http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/mobile/hicss ===================================================================== In today's mobile society, access to relevant information and to context- specific services "anytime, anywhere" is becoming increasingly important. Mobile users are often particularly interested in information about and services in their immediate vicinity, thus Mobile Distributed Information Systems must address location-dependent distribution of and access to services and information from mobile devices. In addition to location, other environmental aspects, such as the user's current situation, topology and available bandwidth of wireless networks, battery power and characteristics of mobile devices, are also relevant for determining information and service requirements. For mobile applications, a dynamic re-configurable architecture is thus required to support flexible reaction to changing contexts and seamless operation in foreign environments, with little or no need for manual reconfiguration. With mobile devices becoming more and more popular and powerful, communication and cooperation between mobile users in an ad-hoc manner are strongly desired. Consequently, the long-established distinction between clients and servers is blurred, which calls for an extension of the architectural paradigm towards peers or alternating roles. This Minitrack will address current topics in the field of Mobile Distributed Information Systems, such as: - Location and Situation Aware Information Services: Modeling, Architectures and Applications - Network Support for Mobile Access to Services and Information - Mobile Ad-hoc Networking and Computing - Provision, Distribution and Management of Services for Mobile Environments - Directory Services, Service Discovery and Service Brokers - Middleware for Mobile Distributed Information Systems - Distributed Databases and Data Management for Mobile Applications - Peer-to-Peer Computing and Cooperation: Scenarios, Platforms and Applications - Self-/Zero-/Auto-Configuration, Dynamic Configuration for Mobile Users - Mobile Multimedia Systems, QoS for Mobile Information Access - Management of Groups of Mobile Users - Mobile Devices: GUIs, Usability and Adaptability - Location Tracking Technologies - Security, Privacy and Billing Issues for Mobile Information and Service Access - Applications and Case Studies of Mobile Distributed Information Systems MINITRACK CHAIRS Andreas Meissner Zhou Wang Lars Wolf Fraunhofer IPSI Fraunhofer IPSI TU Braunschweig Dolivostrasse 15 Dolivostrasse 15 Mühlenpfordtstraße 23 64293 Darmstadt 64293 Darmstadt 38106 Braunschweig Germany Germany Germany {Andreas.Meissner, Zhou.Wang}(a)ipsi.fhg.de wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de The Minitrack Website is http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/mobile/hicss Please email general inquiries to hicss(a)ipsi.fraunhofer.de MINITRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Heribert Baldus, Philips Research, Germany Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia Univ, USA Maria F. Costabile, Univ Bari, Italy Carsten Griwodz, Univ Oslo, Norway Junzhong Gu, East China Normal Univ, China Pål Halvorsen, Univ Oslo, Norway Haiming Huang, Broadstorm, USA David Hutchison, Lancaster Univ, UK Jae-Yong Lee, R&D Center of Serome Technology Inc., Korea Bruce McDonald, Northeastern Univ, USA Andreas Meissner, FhG IPSI, Germany Jochen Schiller, Freie Univ Berlin, Germany Jens Schmitt, Tech Univ Darmstadt, Germany Wolfgang Schönfeld, FhG IPSI, Germany Jochen Seitz, Tech Univ Ilmenau, Germany Zhou Wang, FhG IPSI, Germany Lars Wolf, Tech Univ Braunschweig, Germany IMPORTANT DEADLINES March 31, 2003 Abstracts submitted for guidance and indication of appropriate content. June 1, 2003 Full papers submitted. August 31, 2003 Acceptance notification sent to authors. October 1, 2003 Accepted manuscripts sent electronically to the publisher of the conference proceedings. Authors must be registered for the conference by this date. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION 1. Abstracts may be submitted by email to hicss(a)ipsi.fraunhofer.de as PDF, Postscript, or RTF documents. Abstracts may also be sent in ASCII format and are expected to be 300-500 words. 2. Full papers should consist of 22-26 double-spaced pages, including diagrams. Papers may be theoretical, conceptual or descriptive in nature. (NOTE: Final papers will be 10 pages, double-column, single-spaced.) Full papers should be submitted electronically. Please see the Minitrack Website (http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/mobile/hicss) for the detailed paper submission instructions. 3. Do not submit the manuscript to individual Minitrack Chairs - use the above alias instead. Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. 4. Each paper must have a title page to include title of the paper, full name of all authors, and complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s), and e-mail address(es). TRACKS AT HICSS-37 - Collaboration Systems; Co-Chair: Jay Nunamaker; E-mail: nunamaker(a)cmi.arizona.edu; Co-Chair: Robert O. Briggs; E-mail: bob(a)GroupSystems.com - Complex Systems; Chair: Robert Thomas; E-mail: rjt1(a)cornell.edu - Decision Tech. for Management; Chair: Dan Dolk; E-mail: drdolk(a)nps.navy.mil - Digital Documents; Chair: Michael Shepherd; E-mail: shepherd(a)cs.cal.ca - Emerging Technologies; Chair: Ralph H. Sprague; E-mail: sprague(a)hawaii.edu - Information Technology in Health Care; Chair: William Chismar; E-mail: chismar(a)cba.hawaii.edu; - Internet & the Digital Economy; Co-Chair: David King; E-mail: dave(a)comshare.com Co-Chair: Alan Dennis; E-mail: ardennis(a)indiana.edu - Organizational Systems & Tech.; Chair: Hugh Watson; Email: hwatson(a)terry.uga.edu - Software Technology; Chair: Gul Agha; E-mail: agha(a)cs.uiuc.edu HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings (IEEE). Submissions must not have been previously published. For the latest information visit the HICSS web site at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair Email: sprague(a)hawaii.edu Eileen Dennis, Track Administrator Email: eidennis(a)indiana.edu Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator Email: hicss(a)hawaii.edu 2004 HICSS-37 CONFERENCE VENUE Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island of Hawaii 425 Waikoloa Beach Drive Waikoloa, Hawaii 96738 Tel: 1-808-886-1234 Fax: 1-808-886-2900 www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com

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