April 2004 - ifip-tc6 - lists.rwth-aachen.de

Invitation to Italy (and Sweden) vip/ba
by IPSI conference 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

Dear Potential Speaker of the IPSI-2004 Pescara: I am happy to invite you to be a speaker at the VIP Scientific Forum of the International IPSI-2004 PESCARA Conference in Italy (IPSI = Internet, Processing, Systems for e-education/e-business, and Interdisciplinaries), to be held in the hotel Castello Chiola from July 28 till August 2, 2004. Detailed program and all relevant information are given at the web: www.internetconferences.net. Castello Chiola is a century IX castle on the top of a hill, with a sea view; best Italian beaches around Pescara are only about 10km away. This is our former L'Aquila conference relocated to a place which is much more attractive and convenient. Opening keynote: Professor Michael Flynn, from Stanford University. Deadlines: Abstract (100 words) = April 30, 2004 Full Papers = May 10, 2004 Paper Acceptance Notification = May 20, 2004 Hotel Payment = May 30, 2004 Fee Payment = June 10, 2004 If you are not able to accept this invitation, our next meeting is in Sweden (Stockholm Grand Hotel) and your are invited (for details see www.internetconferences.net, and let us know if you are interested, by sending email to stockholm(a)internetconferences.net). The IPSI-2004 PESCARA conference is limited to about 100 attendees (physical capacity of hotel Castello Chiola congress center), and only plenary sessions will be organized. So far, many more researchers expressed an interest to come, which means that a number of submissions will have to be rejected. Still, new submissions are more than welcome. In addition to other programs, a special VIP Scientific Forum is also organized. Talks of the VIP Scientific Forum are open to all participants (other fori include the High Tech Forum and Talented Students Forum). Please submit your title/abstract (which means that you have committed to participate if your paper is accepted), as soon as convenient for you,because we will be accepting papers until the limit is reached. The major goal of this forum is to establish a podium for a fruitful exchange of the newest scientific ideas, and that is why your participation is extremely important to all of us. Only elite researchers and professionals are invited. If you like to accept this invitation, please send email (with title, 100-word abstract, and affiliation) to pescara(a)internetconferences.net Conditions of this invitation are as follows: 1. Duration of your slot is 30 minutes (20 to 25 minutes for your talk, and the rest for discussions). 2. You are financially responsible: (a) For the air ticket to arrive to Italy, and for the local transportation to arrive to the conference site (Hotel Castello Chiola). (b) For the hotel/breakfast cost. If you like to stay in the Castello Chiola hotel, the minimum stay is 5 days, from July 28 noon till August 2 noon, and the prepayment for all 5 days has to be done, as indicated above, before May 30, 2004 (only 30 rooms are available for sale, so you have to hurry up). The prices are as follows: one person in a single room = e600, two persons in a double room = e800, three persons in a triple room, E15 extra per day. four persons in a quad room, E30 extra per day. If you like to stay in an outside hotel (in which case you can save considerably on your budget), you are entitled to a E100 insurance (both by participants and their accompanying persons), payable directly to the hotel Chiola. Please, remember that hotel Chiola has only 30 rooms for sale, and most attendees will have to stay in Pescara (25km or 30min by public busses) or better in the nearby Silvi Marina (15km or 15min by public busses, operating from 6am till 11pm). Busses are to be taken to the center of Loreto Aprutino, and the hotel is five minutes walking uphill (to the top of the hill). Of course, rent-a-car is the most convenient solution (there is a parking on the top of the hill). (c) For the conference fee (e400). 3. The conference fee covers a professional reviewing process, the conference program, a book of abstracts, a CD with full papers, a welcome dinner on the arrival day, coffee/tea breaks, and access to all professional and social activities of the IPSI-2004 PESCARA. The fee is e300 for past participants of IPSI conferences who agree to review 12 papers per year. 4. For paper layout format, you are free to select any format that meets your needs and esthetical criteria. Your paper will be reviewed, with the major intention to provide you with a feedback that can help improve the quality. 5. Full papers are limited to maximum 1MB and minimum 4 pages. 6. The scope of the conference is relatively wide: Informatics, Internet, Computer Science and Engineering, Interdisciplinary Research, MBA, Internet aspects of Medicine, Education, Management, Law, etc. Of course, traditional Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Engineering Physics, or BioEngineering and Environment Protection, too. 7. Late payments, both for the hotel Castello Chiola and the fee, extra 10 percent, and on the spot, extra 20 percent. Sincerely yours, Prof. Dr. V. Milutinovic, Chairman If you are not able to attend IPSI BgD conferences, you may like to submit a paper for one of the IPSI BgD journals. Please, check the web (www.internetjournals.net) and write to us at the email address given on the web. Thank you! PS - Please tell us if you cannot come to this conference, but you plan to come to a future scientific non-profit conference organized by IPSI BgD. If you would like not to receive information about our conferences, please let us know.

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2nd Call for Papers Net-Con'2004
by Ramon Puigjaner 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

*** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this *** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS Net-Con2004 Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility IFIP TC6 Conference, sponsored by WG6.2 (Network and Internetwork Architectures), WG6.6 (Management of Networks and Distributed Systems), WG6.7 (Smart Networks) and WG6.8 (Mobile and Wireless Communications) Palma de Mallorca, Spain November 1 5, 2004 GENERAL CHAIR R. Puigjaner (Universitat Illes Balears, Spain) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS D. Gaïti (University of Troyes, FR) S. Galmés (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) STEERING COMMITTEE A. Casaca (INESC, PT) A.A. Lazar (Columbia University, US) Al-Naamany (Sultan Qaboos University, OM) O. Martikainen (Micsom, SF) G. Pujolle (LIP6, FR) J. Slavik (Testcom, CZ) O. Spaniol (RWT Aachen, DE) TUTORIAL CHAIR J.-L. Ferrer (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) FINANCIAL CHAIR B. Serra (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) PROGRAM COMMITTEE A. Al-Naamany (Sultan Qabous University, OM) F. Arve Aagesen (Norwegian University, NO) G. Bianchi (Universita di Palermo, IT) A. Benzekri (Université Paul Sabatier, FR) C. Blondia (Univestiy of Antwerpen, BE) R. Boutaba (University of Waterloo, CA) A. Casaca (INESC, PT) O. Cherkaoui (UQAM, CA) P. A. Cuenca (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, ES) W. Dabbous (INRIA, FR) F. Davoli (Univesita di Genova, IT) J. Domingo (Universitat Politècnica Catalunya, ES) O. Duarte (Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, BR) A. El Sherbini (National Telecommunication Inst. EG) J. Escobar (Centauritech, PA) L. Fratta (Politecnico de Milano, IT) G. Haring (Wien Univeristät, AT) D-Y. Hu (Inst. of Network Technology, CN) L. Huguet (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) V. B. Iversen (Technical University of Denmark, DK) F. Kamoun (Université La Manouba, TU) U. Korner (Lund University, SE) G. Leduc (Université de Liège, BE) G. Omidyar (Institute for Communications Research, SG) G. Pacifici (IBM - US) H. Perros (North Carolina State University, US) G. Pujolle (LIP6, FR) F.J. Quiles (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, ES) R. Reda (Siemens AG, AT) T. Saito (Toyota, JP) B. Serra (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) J. Slavik (Testcom, CZ) O. Spaniol (RWT Aachen, DE) Y. Stavrakakis (Universtiy of Athens, GR Y. Takahashi (Kyoto University, JP)) F. Tobagi (Stanford University, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE L. Carrasco (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) I. Furió (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) M. Payeras (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) The intention of the conference is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and findings in a wide range of areas related to network control and network engineering with a focus on QoS, security and mobility control. Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the following: QoS Policy-based management architecture Programmable network and Active networks Intelligent agent QoS Control and QoS Engineering Traffic measurements and monitoring, Traffic engineering in converging networks Traffic modeling and simulation Quality of Service provisioning, Network planning and optimization Process, methodologies, and tools for network control Policy models for system management, Provisioning of policies Policy frameworks for active networks, mobile systems, e-commerce Integrating policies into existing systems and environments Business rules and organizational control Extensions and refinements to policy standards Distributed game control Case studies of applying policy-based technologies Security Security control and Security engineering AAA Configurable security policies Cryptography protocols Policy models for security Distributed trusted infrastructure Water marking for flow control Mobility Mobility control and mobility engineering Policy models for mobility Pervasive/ubiquitous/wearable mobile systems Security and privacy issues for mobile and wireless systems Mobility and QoS management Control schemes in ad-hoc networks Personal area networks QoS and security IEEE 802.11 engineering Smart devices Smart cards, security and mobility Submission Submissions should be original and limited to 20 double spaced 12 point pages in length. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF to the following address: URL: http://netcon04.uib.es <http://netcon04.uib.es/> The proceedings of the conference will be published by Kluwer. Important deadlines May 15, 2004 Papers due (extended deadline) May 15, 2004 Tutorial proposals due June 15, 2004 Authors notified of acceptance July 15, 2004 Final papers due Further information For more information please contact us at netcon04(a)uib.es

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CFPforSANPA04: 2nd International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications
by Ozgur Baris Akan 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SANPA 2004 Second International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications August 22, 2004 Boston, Massachusetts, USA in Conjunction with MobiQuitous 2004 Submission Deadline: MAY 31, 2004 http://www.sanpa.org Call For Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) are fast emerging as a new sensing paradigm based on the collaborative effort of large number of sensors deployed close to or inside the phenomenon to be observed, and have the potential of providing diverse services to numerous applications. The realization of WSANs require intensive technical research efforts especially in power aware scalable wireless ad hoc communications protocols due to their unusual application requirements and unique constraints such as the following: - WSANs are generally composed of large number of sensor nodes that have limited computational and storage capacity. - In many applications, sensor nodes can be randomly scattered in unreachable regions. - The sensed phenomenon must be acted on by the actor nodes in field in a timely and accurate manner. - The lifetime of a sensor network is generally limited to the battery lifetime of sensor nodes. SANPA 2004 is intended to provide a forum for researchers to present their contributions as technical papers related to communication protocols for WSANs, data management, access, aggregation and fusion techniques, and sensor network applications. SANPA 2004 will continue and build upon the success of SNPA 2003 (held in conjunction with ICC 2003). The papers solicited in SANPA 2004 cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Communication protocols for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks at all layers - Novel sensor/actor network applications and services - Self organizing and scalable sensor/actor network architectures - Software platforms and tools for sensor/actor network application development - Energy efficient medium access control, error control, and traffic management protocols - Energy efficient system services such as localization and time synchronization - Robust distributed algorithms for collaborative processing - Mechanisms, protocols and algorithms for authenticated, secure communication - Application specific network and system services, including data-centric routing, attribute based addressing and location management - Data querying and dissemination - Data compression, association, aggregation and fusion Submission Instructions: The papers should confirm with the MobiQuitous paper format (www.mobiquitous.org) and can be up to 11 pages long. Authors should submit a PDF version of their paper to sanpa(a)ece.gatech.edu. For more information about the workshop, see http://www.sanpa.org/. Papers of particular merit will be published in the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier Science). Important Dates: Manuscript Due: May 31, 2004 Acceptance Notification: July 9, 2004 Final Manuscript Due: July 23, 2004 Workshop Date: August 22, 2004 Organization Committee: Program Co-Chairs: Erdal Cayirci (erdal(a)ece.gatech.edu) Department of Computer Engineering Istanbul Technical University Istanbul, Turkey Raghupathy Sivakumar (siva(a)ece.gatech.edu) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 Publicity Chair: Ozgur Baris Akan (akan(a)ece.gatech.edu) Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey

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Bioinformatics - Industry Impact and Outlook
by Lorraine Lescure 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

> Bioinformatics 2004 > - Industry Impact and Outlook - > 26th & 27th May 2004, Marriott Kensington, London > > Effective use of bioinformatic systems can drastically > reduce drug discovery and development timescales > * By using information technology and software tools > to analyse gene sequences, genotypes that correspond > to certain medical conditions may be identified. > * Informatics can then lead to the discovery of potential > molecular targets and subsequently the development > and design of drugs far more rapidly than previously possible. > Bioinformatics 2004 will provide a unique overview of > the technologies available and in development: > > ***Latest Confirmed Speaker: Dr Stephen Dobson, Pharmacogenomics Informatics Scientist, Pfizer*** > > Key themes will include: > * In depth analysis and strategies to improve information-flow > * Tactics for knowledge management and evolution of innovative informatic solutions > * Finding the best ways to handle e-clinical data and upcoming opportunities in this market > * Data analysis and integration: pointers on data mining, in silico research and use of informatic tools > * Case studies of informatic systems: learn from leaders in the industry > * Current market and outlook: genomics, proteomics and pharmacogenomics > > Industry Leading speakers confirmed at this event: > * Dr. Mark Swindells, Chief Scientific Officer, Inpharmatica > * Dr. Charlie Hodgman, Chair of Bioinformatics, Uni. Nottingham & Midlands Centre for Integrative Biology & Former Senior Informatics Leader, GSK > * Dr Luca Casareto, Director Bioinformatic Solutions, Invitrogen Bioinformatics (Informax) > * Robin Clark, Managing Consultant, IBM Business Consulting Services > * Dr. Krister Kristianson, Director of Clinical Research, Merck > * Hani Kamel, Quality and Security Advisor, Novo Nordisk > * Dr. Richard Scott, Director of Technology Development, De Novo Pharmaceuticals > * Kevin Wandryk, VP Marketing & Business Development, Silicon Genetics > * Dr. Ulrich Meier, Industry Marketing Manager Life Sciences, Sun Microsystems > * Dr. Kal Ramnarayan, Vice President and CSO, Cengent Therapeutics > * Thure Etzold, Senior VP Bioinformatics, LION Bioscience > * David Lovell, Reader in Medical Statistics, University of Surrey & Former Associate Director, European Head of Statistical Support to Clinical Pharmacology, Pfizer > > Who Should attend? (by job title) > * Global Head, Informatics & Knowledge Management > * Director of Medical Informatics > * Director of Discovery Research Informatics > * Head of Advanced Computing > * Head of Global IT Management > * Head/ Director of Bioinformatics > * Head of Datamining and Visualisation > * Senior Informatics Leader > * Head of Life Science Informatics > * Senior Scientist, Genomic Collaborations > * European Applications Specialist > * Director, Discovery Bioinformatics > * European Manager, Statistics & Information Science > * Director, IT Discovery Pharmaceuticals > * Director, Global Information Solutions > * Head of Informatics > > Please find below the conference agenda. 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Decision makers from all aspects of the Bioinformatics industry will be in attendance, what better way to elevate your product? We are continually recognised for providing innovative and effective means to support your marketing requirements through sponsorship and exhibitions at our leading events. > Options include: > * Full Conference Sponsorship > * Exhibition Stand/Booth > * Promotional Inserts > * Delegate Bag Sponsor > * Cocktail Reception Sponsor > Whatever your budget, whatever your requirements we can find you a way to place your brand at Bioinformatics 2004. > > > > ***Agenda*** > > > Pre-Conference Interactive Workshop > Successful Licensing and Business Development > Tuesday 25th May 2004 > > Workshop Leaders: Mrs. Sharon Finch and Prof. Bill Dawson, Medius Associates > > Topics Under discussion: > * Logistics and planning the due diligence process > * Scientific and regulatory due diligence > * Intellectual property rights, legal and corporate due diligence > * Commercial and financial issues > * Logistics- planning and negotiation > * Preparation > * Understanding the third party > * Team roles and negotiation styles > * Negotiation tactics > > > DAY 1 Wednesday 26th May 2004 > > Conference Chairman > David Lovell > Reader in Medical Statistic > University of Surrey > > 9:00 Registration and coffee > > 9:30 Opening remarks from the Chair > > STRATEGIC PLANNING > > 9:40 How to Transform Data into Commercially Valuable > Information > *> Overcoming challenges faced by the pharmaceutical industry > *> Key organisational strategies: meeting the needs of the > pharmaceutical vs biotech > *> What is the optimal structure for informatics in R&D? > *> How to use informatic services to facilitate drug discovery and > development > *> A guide to transforming sequence data into validated drug targets > Dr. Mark Swindells > Chief Scientific Officer > Inpharmatica > > 10:20 Aiding Business Strategy: An Information-Flow Model > *> Model: structured map of pharmaceutical information, depicting > issues faced > *> Strategies for reducing costs through portfolio management and > interconnectivity > *> Proposals for using information mechanisms for increased > efficiency > *> Model for biotech: > - where a novel technology might impact upon and improve the > R&D process > - where can service/ information providers position themselves for > maximum benefit > *> Key thinking for business development > Dr. Charlie Hodgman > Chair of Bioinformatics > Uni. Nottingham and Directorship of the Midlands Centre > for Integrative Biology > > 11:00 Morning Coffee > > 11:20 Pointers for Choosing the Best Partnership for You > *> Licensing out products following pre-clinical development > *> How to identifying the correct product to license in > *> Gaining or giving access to technologies, which will be the best for > you? > *> Recommendations on which route to take: comparison of different > agreements > Panel Discussion and Questions > > KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT > > 12:00 Procedures in Driving Data Workflow Integration for > Effective Information Management > *> How to alleviate the bottlenecks in the life science pipeline > - better investment in tools and applications > *> Can better integration techniques ease the burden of delivering > faster processes? > *> Large bioinformatic systems versus integrated discrete solutions > *> Informax bioinformatics solutions for workflow optimisation and > pipeline integration > Dr Luca Casareto > Director > Bioinformatic Solutions > Invitrogen Bioinformatics (Informax) > > 12:40 Lunch > > DATA ANALYSIS AND INTEGRATION > > 14:00 In silico Research: Bridging the gap between Drug Discovery and Development > *> How to use in silico tools for rational chemical design > *> Advantages of in silico drug discovery > *> Potential enhancement of the overall R&D productivity> > *> Challenges of in silico biology technology for tomorrow > *> The future of simulation - Systems Biology? > Dr. Richard Scott > Director of Technology Development > De Novo Pharmaceuticals > > 14:40 Informatics Software Market: Breaking Constraints and > Handling Competition > *> Area sectors: specialising in software packages for visualising, > interpreting and analysing data > *> How to overcome constraints of this niche market > - limited number of customers > - diverse informatic needs of clients > *> How to handle direct competition > - free or publicly available software and tools > - direct competition from academic institutions > - small startups v large companies > Kevin Wandryk > VP Marketing & Business Development > Silicon Genetics > > 15:20 Afternoon Tea > > HANDLING E-CLINICAL DATA > > 15:40 Strategies for Reducing the Time and Cost of Running Trials, > whilst increasing the Quality of Data > *> Difficulties faced in drug development > *> Turning challenges to opportunities > *> How to simplify and automate trial processes, for example: > - by transforming trial management > - taking EDC to the next level > - implementing an efficient archival strategy > *> A holistic approach to clinical data > Robin Clark > Managing Consultant > IBM Business Consulting Services > > 16:20 Questions and Discussion > > 16:40 Close of Day One > > DAY 2 Thursday 27th May 2004 > > Conference Chairman > David Lovell > Reader in Medical Statistic > University of Surrey > > 9:00 Registration and Coffee > > 9:30 Opening remarks from the chair > > 9:40 Electronic Medical Records or e-source: how to cut your > monitoring cost in half by no more SDV, no more data entry > no missed data > *> EMR's - a challenge to the conduct of clinical trials > *> How to deal with its rapid entry into the hospital and medical > records > *> Increased complications in the access to the source: security and > privacy of the hospital system > *> How to use opportunities in the market > Dr. Krister Kristianson > Director of Clinical Research > Merck > > 10:20 Data Standards and the FDA: Overcoming the Challenges > Associated with E-Clinical Trials > *> Evaluating FDA acceptance of new technologies in clinical trials > *> Implementation of e-signatures > *> Reconciliation with HL7 standards > *> Using clinical data interchange standards for the development of > e-clinical trials > Charles Jaffe > Director of Medical Informatics > AstraZeneca > > 11:00 Morning Coffee > > 11:20 Key Tactics to Enhance Global Data Security > *> Meeting universal requirements: what regulatory problems could > arise? > *> Overcoming the scientific problems that can arise from poor > security > *> Recommendations for enabling global security to fit unobtrusively > into the clinical environment > *> Proposals to ensure clinical data security over the web > Hani Kamel > Quality and Security Advisor > Novo Nordisk > > PRACTICAL BIOINFORMATICS: IN THE INDUSTRY > > 12:00 CASE STUDY: Grid Computing and its Impact on Your > Network > *> Grid computing solutions- tackles complex computer intensive > tasks quickly and cost-effectively > *> Three basic deployment types: cluster grids, enterprise grids, and > global grids > *> What benefits do grids delivery that traditional computing models > are not able to? > *> Sun's bio-grid strategy > *> Sun infrastructure solutions: transforming technology into business > results > *> Deploying grid computing for a competitive advantage > Dr. Ulrich Meier > Industry Marketing Manager > Life Sciences > Sun Microsystems > > 12:40 Lunch > > 14:00 CASE STUDY: Accelerating Your Drug Discovery with Genes > to Leads > *> How can genes to leads deliver selective hits in as little as 60 > days? > *> Key differentiators from alternative drug discovery approaches > *> Features and benefits of proprietary technology > *> Success in discovering potent small-molecule leads for anthrax > infection and PTP1B> > *> Genes to Leads success summary > Dr. Kal Ramnarayan > Vice President and CSO > Cengent Therapeutics > > 14:40 CASE STUDY: SRS Gateway for Oracle, Reducing the > Challenges for the Life Science Industry > *> SRS and the oracle database > *> What are the benefits of combining the power of two industry-leading > platforms > *> Experience of SRS collaborations, the SRS evolution > *> The drive for drug discovery, a working progress > Thure Etzold > Senior VP Bioinformatics > LION Bioscience > > 15:20 Afternoon Tea > > PROTEOMICS > > 15:40 Managing Collection, Analysis and Interpretation of Data > from Functional Proteomics > *> Data from functional proteomics: how to effectively and efficiently > manage it > *> Statistical input into the design, analysis and interpretation of > functional proteomic studies > *> Achieving synergy between bioinformatics and statistics > *> Linking analysis of pharmacogenomic data into drug discovery and > development > David Lovell > Reader in Medical Statistics > University of Surrey > > 16:20 Pharmacogenomics in drug development > * Impact of pharmacogenomics on the cost of drug development and clinical trials > * Potential value of pharmacogenomics in clinical trials > * Incorporating pharmacogenomics into clinical trials: is it possible? 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Correction
by Otto Spaniol 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

Dear all, I made a misprint in the address of the successor of Plamen nedkov. The correct address of Eduard Dundler is: eduard.dundler(a)ifip.or.at Best regards Otto

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PDMC'04: Call for Papers
by Martin Leucker 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

[[ -- Apologies for multiple copies of this message -- ]] ============================================================================= Call for Papers 3rd International Workshop on PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED METHODS IN VERIFICATION (PDMC 2004) September 4, 2004, London, U.K. Workshop affiliated to CONCUR'04, 31 August - 3 September 2004. http://www.fi.muni.cz/~brim/PDMC04 ============================================================================= OBJECTIVES: The growing importance of automated formal verification in industry is driving a growing interest in those aspects which have a direct impact on its applicability to real world problems. One of the main technical challenges is in devising tools that allow to handle large state spaces. Over the last years numerous approaches have been developed. Recently, an increasing interest is in parallelizing and distributing of verification techniques. The aim of the PDMC workshop series is to cover all aspects of parallel and distributed methods and techniques for formal verification. Theoretical results, algorithms and case studies are equally welcome. After two successful meetings in 2002 and 2003 with primary focus on parallelization of model checking, the scope of the workshop have been extended to cover all approaches where parallel and distributed techniques can make the automated verification more effective and/or extend its applicability. This extension is also reflected in the new name of the workshop. The PDMC workshop aims to provide a working forum for presenting, sharing, and discussing recent achievements in the field of parallel and distributed verification. The workshop will consist of invited talks and a selection from submitted papers. SCOPE AND TOPICS: Papers describing recent work on all aspects of parallel and distributed verification are solicited as contributions to PDMC. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * parallel and distributed model checking * parallel and distributed equivalence checking * parallel and distributed satisfiability checking * slicing and distributing the state space * distributed theorem proving * distributed constraints solving * parallel methods in probabilistic model checking * file systems for distributed transitions systems * parallel methods in performance evaluation * tools and case studies * industrial applications SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: There are two categories of submissions: regular papers and presentations. * Manuscripts of regular papers are limited to a maximum of 10 pages (excluding bibliography and technical appendices) in postscript or PDF format (ENTCS style strongly recommended). * Presentation reports on relevant results submitted to other forums or already published or on not yet finished work in progress. Presentations will appear in the workshop preliminary proceedings, but will not be considered for the final workshop proceedings. The space limit for presentations is 10 pages (excluding bibliography and technical appendices) in postscript or PDF format (ENTCS style strongly recommended). Submissions should be made electronically using PDMC'04 Submission Page. PROCEEDINGS: The preliminary workshop proceedings will be available as a Research Report of Imperial College London. The final proceedings appear as a volume of Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. After the workshop, selected authors will be invited to submit full versions of their papers (regular papers or presentation results not submitted for journal publication) to a special issue of IEEE Transaction of Parallel and Distributed Systems (under negotiation). IMPORTANT DATES: * May 29, 2004: Submission deadline for regular papers. * July 5, 2004: Notification of acceptance. * July 10, 2004: Deadline for presentations. * July 31, 2004: Camera ready copy for proceedings. INVITED SPEAKER: Boi B. Faltings (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Howard Barringer (Manchester Univ., UK) * Lubos Brim (Masaryk Univ., CZ) - Co-chair * Gianpiero Cabodi (Torino, IT) * Wan Fokkink (CWI Amsterdam, NL) * Hubert Garavel (INRIA, FR) * Hanne Gottliebsen (Queen Mary Univ. of London, UK) * Orna Grumberg (Haifa, Israel) * Boudewijn R. Haverkort (Univ. of Twente, NL) * Michael Jones (Brigham Young Univ., USA) * Marta Kwiatkowska (Univ. of Birmingham, UK) * Martin Lange (LMU Muenchen, DE) * Reinhard Letz (TU Muenchen, DE) * Martin Leucker (Uppsala Univ., SE) - Co-chair * Sharad Malik (Princeton Univ., USA) * Eric Mercer (Brigham Young Univ., USA) * Michel Rueher (Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis, FR) * Pascal Van Hentenryck (Brown University, USA) * Willem Visser (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Lubos Brim & Martin Leucker workshop organizers

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Successor of Plamen Nedkov
by Otto Spaniol 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

Dear all, the successor of Plamen Nedkov is: Erhard Dundler erhard.dundler(a)ifip.or.at A short CV is enclosed. Best regards Otto

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Final Call for papers -- MASS 2004
by Marco Conti 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS-2004) (SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO: APRIL 22) October 25-27, 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~cdmc/mass Sponsored by IEEE TC on Distributed Processing and IEEE TC on Simulation Researches on wireless networks and mobile computing research has until recently concentrated on single-hop networks (network nodes communicating directly to a fixed infrastructure), such as cellular or satellite systems. Ad-hoc and sensor networks cover multi-hop scenarios (network nodes communicating via other network nodes) such as conference, hospital, battlefield, rescue, and monitoring scenarios. This conference covers the area of ad-hoc and sensor systems, from physical issues up to applications aspects. Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - MAC protocols for ad-hoc and sensor networks (801.11, Bluetooth, etc) - Routing protocols (unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast, etc) - Power-aware and energy-efficient design - QoS, security, and fault-tolerant issues - Location and mobility management - Topology construction and coverage maintenance - Distributed Algorithms (self-configuration, scheduling, synchronization, etc) - Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination - Operating system and middleware support - Complexity analysis of algorithms - Analytical, mobility, and validation models - Applications of ad-hoc and sensor networks Paper submission All submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a PDF of their full papers. Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced and two-column pages using at least 11 point size type on 8.5 * 11 inches pages. Electronic submission instructions will be published on the website http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~cdmc/mass together with style files. Tutorials Proposals for half and full days tutorials are solicited. The selection criteria include the expertise and experience of the instructors and relevance to the central themes of the conference. Proposals of at most 4 pages, including 1-page biographical sketch, should be submitted to the Tutorial Chair, Stephan Olariu (olariu(a)cs.odu.edu), by April 30, 2004. Important dates Manuscript Submission due: April 15, 2004 (extended to April 17, 2004) Acceptance Notification due: July 20, 2004 Final Manuscript Due: August 30, 2004 GENERAL CHAIR Dharma P. Agrawal University of Cincinnati PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Mario Gerla University of California, Los Angles Jie Wu Florida Atlantic University PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS Marco Conti (MAC layer and lower layers) CNR-IIT, Italy Prasant Mohapatra (Network layer) University of California, Davis Ivan Stojmonvic (Algorithms and topology) University of Ottawa, Canada Yu-Chee Tseng (Applications) National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan TUTORIAL CHAIR Stephan Olariu Old Dominion University PUBLICITY CHAIRS Jean-Pierre Hubaux EPFL, Switzerland Kia Makki / Chi Zhou Florida International University Tom La Porta Pennsylvania State University LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Mihaela Cardei Florida Atlantic University FINANCE CHAIR Anup Kumar University of Louisville PUBLICATION CHAIR Xiuzhen Cheng George Washington University REGISTRATION CHAIR Hong-Yi Wu University of Louisiana INDUSTRY LIAISON Bob O'Dea Motorola IEEE TC CHAIRS Chita Das (Distributed Processing) Anup Kumar (Simulation)

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Call for Papers Net-Con'2004
by Ramon Puigjaner 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

*** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this *** CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS Net-Con2004 Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility IFIP TC6 Conference, sponsored by WG6.2 (Network and Internetwork Architectures), WG6.6 (Management of Networks and Distributed Systems), WG6.7 (Smart Networks) and WG6.8 (Mobile and Wireless Communications) Palma de Mallorca, Spain November 1 5, 2004 GENERAL CHAIR R. Puigjaner (Universitat Illes Balears, Spain) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS D. Gaïti (University of Troyes, FR) S. Galmés (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) STEERING COMMITTEE A. Casaca (INESC, PT) A.A. Lazar (Columbia University, US) Al-Naamany (Sultan Qaboos University, OM) O. Martikainen (Micsom, SF) G. Pujolle (LIP6, FR) J. Slavik (Testcom, CZ) O. Spaniol (RWT Aachen, DE) TUTORIAL CHAIR J.-L. Ferrer (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) FINANCIAL CHAIR B. Serra (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) PROGRAM COMMITTEE A. Al-Naamany (Sultan Qabous University, OM) F. Arve Aagesen (Norwegian University, NO) G. Bianchi (Universita di Palermo, IT) A. Benzekri (Université Paul Sabatier, FR) C. Blondia (Univestiy of Antwerpen, BE) R. Boutaba (University of Waterloo, CA) A. Casaca (INESC, PT) O. Cherkaoui (UQAM, CA) W. Dabbous (INRIA, FR) F. Davoli (Univesita di Genova, IT) J. Domingo (Universitat Politècnica Catalunya, ES) O. Duarte (Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, BR) A. El Sherbini (National Telecommunication Inst. EG) J. Escobar (Centauritech, PA) L. Fratta (Politecnico de Milano, IT) G. Haring (Wien Univeristät, AT) D-Y. Hu (Inst. of Network Technology, CN) L. Huguet (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) V. B. Iversen (Technical University of Denmark, DK) F. Kamoun (Université La Manouba, TU) U. Korner (Lund University, SE) G. Leduc (Université de Liège, BE) G. Omidyar (Institute for Communications Research, SG) G. Pacifici (IBM - US) H. Perros (North Carolina State University, US) G. Pujolle (LIP6, FR) F.J. Quiles (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, ES) T. Saito (Toyota, JP) B. Serra (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) J. Slavik (Testcom, CZ) O. Spaniol (RWT Aachen, DE) Y. Stavrakakis (Universtiy of Athens, GR Y. Takahashi (Kyoto University, JP)) F. Tobagi (Stanford University, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE L. Carrasco (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) I. Furió (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) M. Payeras (Universitat Illes Balears, ES) The intention of the conference is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and findings in a wide range of areas related to network control and network engineering with a focus on QoS, security and mobility control. Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the following: QoS Policy-based management architecture Programmable network and Active networks Intelligent agent QoS Control and QoS Engineering Traffic measurements and monitoring, Traffic engineering in converging networks Traffic modeling and simulation Quality of Service provisioning, Network planning and optimization Process, methodologies, and tools for network control Policy models for system management, Provisioning of policies Policy frameworks for active networks, mobile systems, e-commerce Integrating policies into existing systems and environments Business rules and organizational control Extensions and refinements to policy standards Distributed game control Case studies of applying policy-based technologies Security Security control and Security engineering AAA Configurable security policies Cryptography protocols Policy models for security Distributed trusted infrastructure Water marking for flow control Mobility Mobility control and mobility engineering Policy models for mobility Pervasive/ubiquitous/wearable mobile systems Security and privacy issues for mobile and wireless systems Mobility and QoS management Control schemes in ad-hoc networks Personal area networks QoS and security IEEE 802.11 engineering Smart devices Smart cards, security and mobility Submission Submissions should be original and limited to 20 double spaced 12 point pages in length. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF to the following address: URL: http://netcon04.uib.es <http://netcon04.uib.es/> The proceedings of the conference will be published by Kluwer. Important deadlines April 30, 2004 Papers due May 15, 2004 Tutorial proposals due June 15, 2004 Authors notified of acceptance July 15, 2004 Final papers due Further information For more information please visit the web site at: http://netcon04.uib.es <http://netcon04.uib.es/> or contact us netcon04(a)uib.es

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CFPforSANPA04: 2nd International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications
by Ozgur Baris Akan 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SANPA 2004 Second International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications August 22, 2004 Boston, Massachusetts, USA in Conjunction with Mobiquitous 2004 Submission Deadline: MAY 31, 2004 http://www.sanpa.org Call For Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) are fast emerging as a new sensing paradigm based on the collaborative effort of large number of sensors deployed close to or inside the phenomenon to be observed, and have the potential of providing diverse services to numerous applications. The realization of WSANs require intensive technical research efforts especially in power aware scalable wireless ad hoc communications protocols due to their unusual application requirements and unique constraints such as the following: - WSANs are generally composed of large number of sensor nodes that have limited computational and storage capacity. - In many applications, sensor nodes can be randomly scattered in unreachable regions. - The sensed phenomenon must be acted on by the actor nodes in field in a timely and accurate manner. - The lifetime of a sensor network is generally limited to the battery lifetime of sensor nodes. SANPA 2004 is intended to provide a forum for researchers to present their contributions as technical papers related to communication protocols for WSANs, data management, access, aggregation and fusion techniques, and sensor network applications. SANPA 2004 will continue and build upon the success of SNPA 2003 (held in conjunction with ICC 2003). The papers solicited in SANPA 2004 cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Communication protocols for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks at all layers - Novel sensor/actor network applications and services - Self organizing and scalable sensor/actor network architectures - Software platforms and tools for sensor/actor network application development - Energy efficient medium access control, error control, and traffic management protocols - Energy efficient system services such as localization and time synchronization - Robust distributed algorithms for collaborative processing - Mechanisms, protocols and algorithms for authenticated, secure communication - Application specific network and system services, including data-centric routing, attribute based addressing and location management - Data querying and dissemination - Data compression, association, aggregation and fusion Submission Instructions: The papers should confirm with the Mobiquitous paper format (www.mobiquitous.org) and can be up to 11 pages long. Authors should submit a PDF version of their paper to sanpa(a)ece.gatech.edu. For more information about the workshop, see http://www.sanpa.org/. Important Dates: Manuscript Due: May 31, 2004 Acceptance Notification: July 9, 2004 Final Manuscript Due: July 23, 2004 Workshop Date: August 22, 2004 Organization Committee: Program Co-Chairs: Erdal Cayirci (erdal(a)ece.gatech.edu) Department of Computer Engineering Istanbul Technical University Istanbul, Turkey Raghupathy Sivakumar (siva(a)ece.gatech.edu) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 Publicity Chair: Ozgur Baris Akan (akan(a)ece.gatech.edu) Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey

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