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

RE: Bad news from UPC
by Augusto Casaca 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Dear Jose, I was very shocked by the news. Olga was a very good friend and an exceptional professional with whom I had the pleasure of working. Please give to her family my personal condolences and also from the IFIP TC6 community. Augusto Casaca -----Original Message----- From: owner-itc(a)www.i-teletraffic.org [mailto:owner-itc@www.i-teletraffic.org]On Behalf Of Jose M. Barcelo Sent: quinta-feira, 12 de Junho de 2003 11:22 To: itc(a)i-teletraffic.org Subject: Bad news from UPC Dear colleagues, We are very sad to inform you that Professor Olga Casals from Computer Architecture Department at Technical University of Catalonia passed away on June the 11th due to an unexpected bad illness. Yours sincerely, their UPC colleagues. -- ======================================================================== 0 0 0 Dr. Jose M. Barcelo Ordinas | Dept. d'Arquitectura de Computadors 0 0 0 e-mail: joseb(a)ac.upc.es | UPC-Campus Nord. Modul C6, E-105 0 0 0 phone: +34 +93 401 6798 | Jordi Girona, 1-3 U P C fax: +34 +93 401 7055 | 08034 Barcelona - SPAIN WWW: http://www.ac.upc.es/homes/joseb ========================================================================

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FW: DAIS 2003: Deadline extended to June 22nd!
by Augusto Casaca 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '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, 16 de Junho de 2003 10:59 To: itc(a)i-teletraffic.org Subject: DAIS 2003: Deadline extended to June 22nd! Apologies if you receive this more than once. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Call for paper Fourth 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. 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: extended to June 22, 2003 - Deadline for work-in-progress papers: June 22, 2003 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2003 - Final versions: September 1st, 2003 - Conference dates : 17th to 21st November 2003 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 A. Beugnard, ENST Brittany, France 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 D.Schmidt, University of California, Irvine, USA S.Shrivastava, University of Newcastle, UK J-J.Vandewalle, GemPlus, France

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Advanced School on Mobile Computing
by Alessandro Buriani 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

object: call for application in "Advanced School on Mobile Computing", Pisa, Italy. September 1-27 2003. 27th June 2003 is the deadline for application to the Course. We kindly ask you to diffuse this call in your institution and/or to inform those who might be interested. Selected participants will be enrolled and hosted in Pisa at no cost. You'll find in attachment a brief description and the information needed for application. For a detailed description please visit our web site at http://www.mobilecomputing.sns.it/ for any further assistance please contact us: s.borgioli(a)list.it Thank you for your kind collaboration. "Advanced School on Mobile Computing" Scuola Normale Superiore P.zza dei Cavalieri 7 Pisa Italy

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DAIS 2003: Deadline extended to June 22nd!
by dncr 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

Apologies if you receive this more than once. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for paper Fourth 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. 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: extended to June 22, 2003 - Deadline for work-in-progress papers: June 22, 2003 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2003 - Final versions: September 1st, 2003 - Conference dates : 17th to 21st November 2003 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 A. Beugnard, ENST Brittany, France 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 D.Schmidt, University of California, Irvine, USA S.Shrivastava, University of Newcastle, UK J-J.Vandewalle, GemPlus, France

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IEEE DS-RT'2003 - Special Session Call for Papers - Collaborative Virtual Environments
by Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 14 Jun '03

14 Jun '03

========================================================================== Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. Special Session Call for Papers Due Date; June 20th, 2003. Special Session: Haptic Audio Visual Collaborative Virtual Environments http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~elsaddik/abedweb/ds_rt_have2003 In Conjunction with the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2003). October 23-25, Delft, The Netherlands http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds-rt2003/ In conjunction with 15th European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2003) October 26-29, 2003, Delft, The Netherlands Hosted by the Delft University of Technology SPECIAL SESSION This special session will be dedicated to the design, development and use of Haptic Audio Visual collaborative virtual environments. The papers of the special session will be included in the Proceedings of The Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications published by IEEE-CS press. RESEARCH TOPICS We invite submissions on the full range of CVE-related topics, including, but not limited to: - the design and development of collaborative virtual environment systems and architectures - applications of Collaborative Virtual Environments - Haptic-based input/output methods - user-environment interactions issues in the design of cross-cultural collaborative virtual environments - experiences and evaluations of virtual collaborative environments and their applications ******DEADLINES FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS******* Submission deadlines for Papers is June 20 2003 per e-mail to: elsaddik(a)site.uottawa.ca Notification of acceptance: July 2, 2003 Final Version: July 14, 2003 SUBMISSION Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in electronic form, PDF, postscript or Microsoft Word 6.0 (or higher) only. Please submit papers to Abdulmotaleb EL Saddik (elsaddik(a)site.uottawa.ca). Each submission, electronic or paper, must be accompanied by the following information: - a short abstract - a complete list of authors and their affiliations - a contact person for correspondence - postal and e-mail addresses. ======================================================================

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Calendar of events
by Augusto Casaca 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

Dear TC6 members, I send you the updated TC6 calendar of events. Best regards Augusto

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Very Sad News (fwd)
by Ioannis Stavrakakis 12 Jun '03

12 Jun '03

From: Jorge Garcia <jorge(a)ac.upc.es> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:10:59 +0200 (MET DST) Dear colleagues, We are very sad to inform you that Professor Olga Casals from Computer Architecture Department at Technical University of Catalonia passed away on June the 11th due to an unexpected bad illness. Yours sincerely, their UPC colleagues. -- =========================================================================== 0 0 0 Jorge Garcia Vidal | Dept. d'Arquitectura de Computadors 0 0 0 e-mail: jorge(a)ac.upc.es | UPC-Campus Nord. Modul D6. Office 102 0 0 0 phone: +34 93 401 6978 | c/ Jordi Girona, 1-3 U P C fax: +34 93 401 7055 | 08034 Barcelona - SPAIN www: http://people.ac.upc.es/jorge/ ===========================================================================

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FW: Please post SIGCOMM call for participation to the TC6 list; thanks!
by Augusto Casaca 11 Jun '03

11 Jun '03

-----Original Message----- From: James P.G. Sterbenz [ssh] [mailto:jpgs@bbn.com] Sent: terça-feira, 10 de Junho de 2003 13:43 To: Augusto Casaca Cc: Harry Rudin; James Sterbenz Subject: Please post SIGCOMM call for participation to the TC6 list; thanks! Call for Participation Call for student travel award applications ACM SIGCOMM 2003 -- A Data Communication Festival 25 - 29 August 2003 Karlsruhe, Germany www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003 We invite participation in SIGCOMM 2003, which broadens the traditional scope of the conference in a number of ways. The conference technical program contains significantly more papers, with the goal of diversifying the topic set and balancing theory and practice. Additionally, a wide range of viewpoints is represented in the position paper session, and a poster session will showcase work-in-progress with particular emphasis on student research. A set of workshops and tutorials are interleaved with the technical conference to encourage participation by all attendees. Five workshops are held for the first time, covering networking research (MoMeTools & NREDS), future architectures (FDNA), network-I/O convergence (NICELI), and a QoS retrospective (RIPQoS). The highly successful education workshop (NetEd) returns for a second year. Tutorials given by renowned experts cover network security and self-similar traffic. DEADLINES Student travel award application 13 June 2003 Hotel registration 24 June 2003 Early registration 26 July 2003 Note the *early* hotel registration deadline: 24 June - 12 July depending on the hotel FESTIVAL PROGRAM: SIGCOMM Conference technical program (26, 28-29 Aug) 2003 SIGCOMM Award keynote address: Dave Cheriton Full paper sessions: Routing Denial-of-service Position papers Overlays Traffic engineering Measurement Forwarding Queue management Peer-to-peer Poster session Social event in Heidelberg with tour of Castle Workshops (25, 27 Aug) MoMeTools Models, Methods & Tools for Reproducible Network Research NetEd Networking Education: How to Educate the Educators NREDS Network Research: Explorations of Dimensions and Scope FDNA Future Directions in Network Architecture NICELI Network-I/O Convergence: Experience, Lessons, Implications RIPQoS Revisiting IP QoS: Why do we care, what have we learned Tutorials (25, 27 Aug) Network Security Protocols: Today and Tomorrow R. Perlman & C. Kaufmann 10 Years of Self-Similar Traffic Research J. Doyle & W. Willinger FOR MORE INFORMATION: General Conference Chairs: Anja Feldmann <anja(a)in.tum.de> (TU Munich) Martina Zitterbart <zit(a)tm.uka.de> (University of Karlsruhe) Conference Coordinator: Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan <chris(a)cs.utexas.edu> (University of Texas) Program Chairs: Jon Crowcroft <jon.crowcroft(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> (University of Cambridge) David Wetherall <djw(a)cs.washington.edu> (University of Washington) Publicity Chair: James P.G. Sterbenz <jpgs(a)acm.org> (BBN Technologies) Tutorial Chair: Burkhard Stiller <stiller(a)informatik.unibw-muenchen.de> (UniBw, Munich) Workshop Chair: Craig Partridge <craig(a)bbn.com> (BBN Technologies) Student Travel Grant Chair: Dan Rubinstein <danr(a)cs.columbia.edu> Poster Chair: Karen Sollins: <sollins(a)lcs.mit.edu> (MIT) Treasurer: Thomas Fuhrmann <fuhrmann(a)tm.uka.de> (University of Karlsruhe) Local Organization: Steffen Blödt <bloedt(a)tm.uka.de> (University of Karlsruhe) Marcus Schöller <marcus.schoeller(a)tm.uka.de> (University of Karlsruhe) Robin Sommer <sommer(a)in.tum.de> (Tech. Univ. of Munich) Alexander Lüdtke <alex(a)net.in.tum.de> (Tech. Univ. of Munich) We gratefully acknowledge the support of Intel Research, Microsoft Research Cambridge, NEC Heidelberg, NSF, and HP Labs.

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WARNING
by Radford, Peter 10 Jun '03

10 Jun '03

Please note the message below. If you have received the original message, I suggest you delete it without opening it. I also suggest that the originator checks his system. Regards Peter Peter Radford UK Representative to IFIP Technical Committee 6 T: +44(0)20 7446 1281 E: Peter.Radford(a)LogicaCMG.com -----Original Message----- From: alert(a)notification.messagelabs.com [mailto:alert@notification.messagelabs.com] Sent: 10 June 2003 07:21 Subject: WARNING. Someone tried to send you a potential virus or unauthorised code The MessageLabs SkyScan Anti-Virus service discovered a possible virus or unauthorised code (such as a joke program or trojan) in an email sent to you. The email has now been quarantined and was not delivered. Please read the whole of this email carefully. It explains what has happened to your email, which suspected virus has been caught, and what to do if you need help. To help identify the quarantined email: The message recipients were Peter.Radford(a)logicacmg.com The message senders were ifip-tc6-bounces(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE maculan(a)cos.ufrj.br and they have been notified that they have sent a potential virus. The message title was [ifip-tc6] [Fwd: CFP: HiPC 2001] The message date was Mon, 09 Jun 2003 12:59:35 -0300 (EST) The virus or unauthorised code identified in the email is Skeptic searching for 60 viruses >>> Possible MalWare 'W32/Klez-mm.dam' variant found in '355678T_1X_EM7_MT__message.txt'. Heuristics score: 420 >>> Possible MalWare 'HTML/Worm' variant found in '355678T_1X_EM7_MT__message.txt'. Heuristics score: 220 Skeptic ended Some viruses forge the sender address. For more information please visit the link to the virus FAQ's at the bottom of this page. The message was diverted into the virus holding pen on mail server server-16.tower-1.messagelabs.com (pen id 355678_1055226071) and will be held for 30 days before being destroyed Please contact your IT Helpdesk or Support Department for further assistance. You may like to read the virus FAQ's at: http://www.messagelabs.com/page.asp?id=628 which will answer most virus related questions. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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RE: IFIP Publisher
by Roger Johnson 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

Dear Augusto Can I thank you and all in TC 6 who have contributed for their thoughts. It is a very complicated picture to try to unravel. I am glad that Leon and Basie are also participating. No doubt we will be undating you all in due course as the picture clarifies. Good wishes Roger -----Original Message----- From: Augusto Casaca [mailto:augusto.casaca@inesc.pt] Sent: 09 June 2003 16:41 To: Roger Johnson Cc: TC6; Leon Strous; Basie von Solms Subject: IFIP Publisher Dear Roger, In our last meeting in Budapest we had been working on the refinement of the IFIP conditions for the new bid. We sent our contributions to Leon Strous, who included them in the final document, which has already reached you last week. Your mail from May 21st with the news that IFIP and Springer are in the same company now, reached us after the TC6 meeting. This is definitely new information which needs to be considered. I circulated the mail within TC6. I have got a few comments and suggestions from TC6 members on your mail. I decided that instead of trying to reach by e-mail a consensual message to send to you, as the time urges, I will forward in separate mails the most relevant messages that I have received from TC6 members. I really hope that they can help us in reaching the best decision. Please notice that all of them insist that electronic publication is also mandatory. Best regards Augusto

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