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EWSN2005-CFP: 2nd European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks
by Ozgur Baris Akan 13 May '04

13 May '04

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************* * EWSN 2005 * * * * 2nd European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN) * * * * Istanbul, Turkey * * January 31 - February 2, 2005 * * * * http://www.ewsn.org * * * * Call For Papers * ********************************************************************* Scope of EWSN 2005: =================== Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) 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 WSNs require intensive technical research efforts especially on energy efficient scalable wireless ad hoc communication protocols due to their unusual application requirements and unique constraints. Additionally, WSNs are further evolving from simple data transportation networks to functionally rich distributed systems such that the tasks of event sensing and acting upon the phenomenon can be collectively realized in an autonomous manner by sensor and actuator nodes. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different backgrounds ranging from hardware to applications, to create a forum where cross-layer integration, novel solutions for specific problems, and the future development of WSN functionalities can be discussed. We encourage contributions describing innovative work on WSN. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Hardware for WSN: transceiver concepts, wakeup radio, antenna design, system integration, process and cost of manufacturing, battery technology, energy scavenging * Communication protocols: MAC and link layer problems, routing and transport protocols tailored for WSN, redundancy, data aggregation, and mobility support; gateways to fixed Internet; providing functionalities like localization and synchronization * Source coding techniques appropriate for WSN to support data fusion * Middleware for WSN: Configuration and installation support, lookup of available functionalities, group communication, distributed algorithms in WSN, harmonizing node-centric and data-centric addressing, integrating WSN in middleware architectures like .NET * Security: primitives for appropriate cryptographic protocols, secure system engineering * Applications of WSN: novel applications and their requirements such as medicine, environment control, etc.; experiences with real-world applications * What part will WSNs play in realizing the visions of ubiquitous computing & communication and Ambient Intelligence. * Prototypes, field studies, and testbeds: novel sensor node prototypes, measurements within sensor network testbeds * Modeling of WSN: models for WSN load/applications, mobility or channel models For further information, please contact the co-chairs via: info(a)ewsn2005.org Important Dates: ================ Submission deadline: September 3, 2004 Notification of acceptance: December 6, 2004 Camera-ready version: December 24, 2004 EWSN 2005 Conference: January 31 - February 2, 2005 Submission Details: =================== The workshop will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by another conference or journal. All submissions will be handled electronically via EDAS: http://edas.info Manuscripts must be formatted according to the IEEE single-space double-column standard conference format, except the font size, which must be 11 pt. The maximum length of the manuscript is 12 pages, including text, figures and references. All submissions must be in PDF or PostScript format. Use of LATEX for typesetting is strongly recommended. General Chair: ======================= Erdal Cayirci, Yeditepe University, TURKEY TPC Co-Chairs: ======================= Sebnem Baydere, Yeditepe University, TURKEY Paul Havinga, University of Twente, NETHERLAND Tutorial Co-Chairs: ======================= Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA Giacomo Morabito, University of Catania, ITALY Publicity Co-Chairs: ======================= Ozgur Baris Akan, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA

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CFP: 1st IEEE International Workshop on Networked Entertainment - @ GLOBECOM 04
by Giovanni Pau 13 May '04

13 May '04

Our Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies. Regards Giovanni Pau, Marco Roccetti & S.S. Lee ==================== CALL FOR PAPERS ==================================== 1st IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment (NIME'04) http://nime04.csr.unibo.it/nime04 GLOBECOM 2004 - Satellite Workshop November 29th 2004 Dallas, TX, USA Submission Deadline June 25th 2004 ============================== The growing availability of digital contents and the simultaneous cost reductions in storage, processing, and networking is driving the growth of the entertainment technology. Many of the technologies pioneered in emerging entertainment applications have also found use in a large spectrum of more serious settings, ranging from telemedicine to in-home, in-car, in-flight multimedia distribution platforms. The success of the entertainment technology is confirmed by several facts. Take, for example, the two following cases: in 2003 the revenues generated by games have yet again surpassed those provided by the movie industry; the Apple iTunes online music service has hit a record share of almost 20% in the MP3 player market in the last semester of 2003. Further, while in the past entertainment technology traditionally offered predominantly passive experiences (e.g., video on demand), continual advances in network and computer technologies are providing tools for implementing greater interactivity and for enabling consumers to enjoy more exciting experiences, such as, for example, interactive digital TV, interactive theatre and orchestrated music and sound design. Simply put, today's entertainment technology is able to create "entertainment spaces" in which people experience a world where games, movies, songs, plus news, sport events and shows, are all made available for instant enjoyment with just one click. Another beneficial aspect of high- tech entertainment is that this phenomenon is pulling together an extremely diverse group of experts specializing in different technical areas, such as networking, computer graphics, games, animation, multimedia design, human-computer interaction, educational media and software engineering. Even though high-tech entertainment promotes interdisciplinary fusion, however, only the ubiquity of wireless/wired communication is considered suitable for accepting the challenge of building a "large interactive environment" for the delivery of the maximum entertainment value to millions of consumers worldwide. In this respect, there is a great hope that the wired and wireless Internet (along with its protocols, architectures, programming styles and technological solutions) may take over this complex scenario for fulfilling the consumer expectations. The first IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment provides an open forum for researchers, engineers and academia to exchange the latest technical information and research findings on Next-Generation Multimedia Networking concepts, technologies, systems, and applications for entertainment covering existing deployments, current developments and future evolution. Authors are solicited to submit complete unpublished papers in the following, but not limited to, topic areas: Networked Technologies for Entertainment - Architectures, Platforms and Protocols for Networked Games - Internetworking, Vertical Roaming and Session - Handoffs for Entertainment (Internet to WLAN, to 3G/BT/...) - Home LANs, Body and Personal Area Networks for Entertainment - Media and Device Adaptation - Music and Movie Distribution - Next Generation Wireless Technologies for Entertainment (IEEE802.11n, UWB and Beyond) - Opportunistic Multi-hopping and Opportunistic Networks for Entertainment - QoS and Security Support for Entertainment - Resource and Service Discovery Technologies (P2P, LDAP, …) - Technologies for Networked In-Home/Car/Flight/Train Entertainment - TV-Centric and Broadcast Networks for Entertainment Emerging Entertainment Applications - Agent-based Entertainment - Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality - Evolutionary Entertainment - Field Trials - Interactive Television and Theater - Massive Multiplayer Games - Mobile and Wireless Entertainment - Networked Entertainment - Networked Narrative and Digital Interactive Storytelling - Networked Video, Music and Sound Design - Pervasive Entertainment - Personalized and User-Adapted Television - Sport, News and Entertainment - Virtual Technology and Virtual Environments for Entertainment - Wearable Entertainment - Wireless and Mobile Gaming - Testbed and Performance Evaluations Guidelines for Paper Submission Original papers from the above mentioned topics or related areas will be considered. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process. The accepted papers will be published in the IEEE-sponsored workshop proceedings. Submission guidelines should be strictly followed. 1. Submit an electronic copy of the paper in a .pdf or .ps format through the EDAS paper submission site (hhtp://edas.info). 2. The body of the paper should not exceed 15 pages double spaced (4000 words, 12 point font) 3. A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which the correspondence should be sent. Important Dates June 25 2004………..Paper submission July 25, 2004……… Author Notification August 5, 2004… ..Camera-ready Copy Sponsoring Committee IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communications Technical Committee Co-Chairs Giovanni Pau (UCLA. USA, gpau(a)cs.ucla.edu) Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna, Italy, roccetti(a)cs.unibo.it) Scott S. Lee (Samsung, Korea, sslee(a)ieee.org) Advisory Committee (to be confirmed) Yucel Altunbasak (Georgia Tech, USA) Gary Chan (Univ. Science and Tech, HK) Jeff Derby (IBM, USA ) Alex Gelman, (Panasonic, USA) Nelson Fonseca (Universiy of Campinas, Brazil) Pascal Frossard (EPFS, Switzerland) Charlie Judice (Verizon, USA) Leonard Kleinrock (UCLA, USA) Stan Moyer (Telecordia, USA) Heather Yu (Panasonic, USA) Technical Committee (to be confirmed) Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Tech, USA) Alessandro Amoroso (University of Bologna, Italy) Marc Cavazza (University of Teesside, UK) Magda El Zarki (UC Irvine, USA) Enrica Filippi (STM, France) Borko Furht (FAU, USA) Marco Furini (University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy) Maria Teresa Gatti (STM, Italy) Mario Gerla (UCLA, USA) Rioychi Komiya (Multimedia University, Malaysia) Barcin Kozbe (Ericsson, USA) Newton Lee (Disney, USA) Keith Marzullo (UCSD, USA) Gianluca Mazzin (University of Ferrara, Italy) Ryohei Nakatsu (Kwansei University, Japan) Guy Pujolle (LIP 6, France) Mark Smith (HP LAB, USA) Fouad Tobagi (Stanford, USA) Mehmet Ulema (Manhattan College, USA) Lars Wolf (IBR, Germany) ============================== Giovanni Pau, PhD UCLA - Computer Science Department 3803A BH, Boelter Hall Los Angeles, 90095 CA Ph: (310) - 206-3212; Cell: (310) - 617-4728 Fax: (310)- 825-7578 http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~gpau

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2nd Call for Papers Net-Con'2004
by Ramon Puigjaner 12 May '04

12 May '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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Computational Methods in Systems Biology - Final Call for Participation.
by Sergi 10 May '04

10 May '04

*************************************************** CMSB04 FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ( Apologies for multiple postings -- Please forward to all who may be interested) Second International Workshop on Computational Methods in Systems Biology 2004 May 26 - 28, 2004 Hotel Meridien Montparnasse, Paris, France Organized by : Genoscope, Evry – Genopole, Evry – CNRS – University of Paris – BioPathways Consortium Conference website: http://www.biopathways.org/CMSB04/ ********** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS *********** Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego, USA Rene Thomas, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Alfonso Valencia, CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain ******* CONFERENCE PROGRAM ******** The CMSB (Computational Methods in Systems Biology) conference series was established in 2003 to help catalyze the convergence between modellers (computer scientists from fields such as language design, concurrency theory or program verification, as well as physicists and mathematicians) and biologists interested in a systems-level understanding of cellular processes. Among the conference topics: - Formal models for regulatory, signalling or metabolic networks - Formal methods for the analysis of biomolecular systems - Qualitative or quantitative analyses of biomolecular systems - Theoretical comparisons between different formal models of cellular processes - Applications of formal techniques to the reverse-engineering of biological networks - Detailed case-studies on how a biological question was successfully addressed using formal models - Definition and study of theoretical properties of biologically-inspired formal languages **In addition to long and short presentations of peer-reviewed work, the workshop will be an opportunity for in-depth discussions on the general issue of the use of formal languages to describe and analyze cellular processes.** A preliminary program is now available on the website at : http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/biopathways/CMSB04/program.php ************* VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION ************* The workshop will take place in the heart of Montparnasse, on the left bank of Paris, at the end of May... Conference attendees are responsible for booking their own accommodation. A block of rooms has been reserved at the conference venue (Hotel Meridien) at a discounted price. A selection of alternative hotels is available on the conference website. ************** REGISTRATION **************** Online registration is open at http://www.biopathways.org/CMSB04 until May 18th. ****** CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ****** Monique Meugnier and Catherine Sarlande Genoscope CMSB04 Conference Organisation email: cmsb04(a)genoscope.cns.fr ************************************************** -- http://www.biopathways.org/CMSB04/

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IEEE PerCom2005 Call for Workshops - final call
by Marco Conti 10 May '04

10 May '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** OUR SINCERE APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS CFP *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS PROPOSALS Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications PerCom 2005 (http//www.percom.org) Hawaii, March 8-11, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **** Workshop Proposals Deadline --- May 15, 2004 **** Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society and The University of Texas at Arlington Co-sponsored by the IEEE TCCC and the IEEE TCPP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE PerCom 2005 will be the third annual conference on the emerging area of pervasive computing and communications aimed at providing an exciting platform and paradigm for all the time, everywhere services. The PerCom2005 Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference. The workshops will be held prior to, or after, the main conference. The purpose of these workshops is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than at the conference itself. Workshops Proposals are solicited in all areas and topics pertaining to pervasive computing and communications research and applications. ------------------------------- Proposal Submission Guidelines: ------------------------------- Each workshop proposal must include: 1. The name of the workshop. 2. The names, addresses, and a short bio (up to 200 words) of the organizers (up to three). 3. A brief description (up to 1 page) of the technical issues that the workshop will address, and the reasons why the workshop is of interest this time. 4. The names of potential participants, such as program committee members 5. If appropriate, a description of past versions of the workshop, including: number of submitted and accepted papers, and number of attendees. 6. A description of the publicity plans. 7. A call for papers 8. The workshop URL Workshop proposals should be submitted, no later than May 15 2004, by e-mail (pdf or text format) with "PerCom2005 Workshop Proposal" in the subject, to both PerCom 2005 Workshop Chairs: Marco Conti Istituto Informatica e Telematica (IIT) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa - Italy marco.conti(a)iit.cnr.it and Ali R Hurson Computer Science and Engineering Dept. The Pennsylvania State University 111 IST Building, University Park, PA 16802 hurson(a)cse.psu.edu ---------------- IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Proposals submission deadline: May 15, 2004 Acceptance notification: June 1, 2004 Papers due by September 15, 2004 Paper selections due by November 15, 2004 Final papers due to IEEE: December 18, 2004

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20th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
by Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati 10 May '04

10 May '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:04:07 -0400 From: ACSAC announce-admin <announce-admin(a)acsac.org> To: announce(a)lists.acsac.org Subject: Participate in 20th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference ========================================================================= Annual Computer Security Applications Conference December 6-10, 2004 ACSAC 20 Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort Tucson, Arizona USA http://www.acsac.org ========================================================================= Help celebrate Annual Computer Security Applications Conference ACSAC's 20th year by planning to participate now. The 20th ACSAC Conference Committee is looking for technical papers, proposals for case studies, tutorials, workshops, panels, forums, and works in progress. Here's your chance to make a great conference even better! See www.acsac.org for more details. ACSAC is an internationally recognized conference that has successfully provided a forum for experts in information system security to exchange practical ideas about solving real problems. Important Dates 1 June 2004: Due date for papers, panels, tutorials, case studies, workshop 15 August 2004: Papers, panels, forums acceptance notification 1 October 2004: Advance Program available and opening of registration 1 October 2004: Works in Progress submissions due 5-10 December 2004: The conference Awards will be given for Outstanding Paper and Best Student Paper!! Student Conferenceships will also be offered. For qualifications and criteria, send email to: student_chair(a)acsac.org or check our web site One to two days of workshops will be held on topics of current interest on December 8-9, 2004. To propose a workshop, submit a description of the workshop topic and how the workshop will be run to the Workshop Chair at Workshop_chair(a)acsac.org. Email your ideas or questions to: program_chair(a)acsac.org - for papers and works in progress panels_chair(a)acsac.org - for panel and forum ideas case_studies(a)acsac.org - for participation in the case studies track tutorials(a)acsac.org - for tutorial issues For more information and detailed instructions see www.acsac.org If you have any questions, ideas or suggestions don't hesitate to contact us at program_chair(a)acsac.org. Sincerely, Conference Chair, Daniel Faigin, The Aerospace Corporation Program Chair, Daniel Thomsen, Tresys Technology Program Co-Chair, Christoph Schuba, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Program Co-Chair (Europe), Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan Program Committee Members Dirk Balfanz, Palo Alto Research Center Germano Caronni, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan Thomas E. Daniels, Iowa State University Andre Dos Santos, The Georgia Institute of Technology Jeremy Epstein, webMethods, Inc. Steven J. Greenwald, Independent Consultant Jody Heaney, The MITRE Corporation Wesley H. Higaki, Symantec Willem Jonker, Philips Research Twente University, Enschede Carl Landwehr, National Science Foundation Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University LouAnna Notargiacomo, The MITRE Corporation Charlie Payne, Adventium Labs Steve Rome, Booz Allen Hamilton Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan Christoph Schuba, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Daniel Thomsen, Tresys Technology Diego Zamboni, IBM Research Panel/Forum Chair, Jody Heaney, The MITRE Corporation Case Studies Chair, Steve Rome, Booz Allen Hamilton Workshop Chair, Harvey Rubinovitz, The MITRE Corporation Tutorial Chair, Daniel Faigin, The Aerospace Corporation Student Awards Chair, Andre dos Santos, The Georgia Institute of Technology

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CFP AICCSA-05: Only 15 days left
by hella kaffel ben ayed 08 May '04

08 May '04

Dear Colleagues Apologies for any cross-postings ------------------------------- AICCSA-05 CALL FOR PAPERS ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-05) http://engr.smu.edu/cse/AICCSA-05/ Cairo, Egypt, January 3-6, 2005 The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent advances in the field of computer systems and their applications. Papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial, or descriptive in nature. In addition to usual research papers, AICCSA 2005 encourages papers that deliver any combination of the following contributions: a survey of the state of the art; an evaluation of an existing technology; a report on a successful technology transfer initiative; a discussion of future technological trends. Papers selected for presentation will appear in the Conference Proceedings, which are published by the IEEE Computer Society. Conference tracks are (1) Algorithms and Theory (2) Database and Data Mining (3) Networking and Wireless Technology (4) Security and Information Assurance (5) Software and Applications Submission Deadline: May 18, 2004 Notification: August 10, 2004 For more details, please consult http://engr.smu.edu/cse/AICCSA-05/. Hella Kaffel Ben ayed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science of Tunis University of Tunis El Manar Senior Researcher CRISTAL Labortory National School of Computer Sciences University of Manouba Tunisia

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Call-for-Papers for IPOM 2004
by Geng-Sheng Kuo 06 May '04

06 May '04

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CFPforSANPA04: 2nd International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications
by Ozgur Baris Akan 05 May '04

05 May '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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Meeting 2004/1 attendance
by Otto Spaniol 04 May '04

04 May '04

Dear all, until now a percect number of delegates have confirmed their attendance, namely 28 (see annex). Comment: A number is called perfect if the sum of its integer factors (excluding itself, of course) is equal to the number. 28 is one of the few perfect numbers since 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14. Other perfect numbers are 6 and 496. There are not very many of them and I don't really know whether there is another one. However, it is unknown (as far as I know) whether the the total number of them is finite or infinite. There are still some answers missing (from Australia, France, India,... and a few others). A nonperfect number of attendees would be even better and maybe the largest attendance in TC6 history. Thus I wait for some positive answers. Best regards Otto

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