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Call for Participation AD HOC NOW 2005
by Pedro M. Ruiz 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

We apologize if you receive the CFP more than once. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - AD HOC NOW 2005 4th International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless Cancun, October 6-8, 2005 http://fismat.umich.mx/adhocnow/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Early registration deadline: August, 31st Hotel deadline to avail of rooms being held for AD HOC NOW 2005: Sept 24th ABOUT THE CONFERENCE -------------------- AD HOC NOW is the fourth of a series of high-quality conferences devoted to ad hoc, wireless and mobile networks. The AD HOC NOW committee invites you to in this new edition, which will be held in Cancun, in October 6th-8th. The program for this year consist of 27 top-quality papers, and two invited speaker with a well-deserved recognition in the area: * Prof. Jorge Urrutia, Univ. Nacional (UNAM), Mexico. * Prof. J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz. ACCEPTED PAPERS --------------- Playing CSMA/CA Game to Deter Backoff Attacks in Ad Hoc Wireless LANs Jerzy Konorski Message Stability and Reliable Broadcasts in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Kulpreet Singh, Andronikos Nedos, Gregor Gaertner and Siobhan Clarke Equilibria for Broadcast Range Assignment Games in Ad-Hoc Networks Pilu Crescenzi, Miriam Di Ianni, Alessandro Lazzoni, Paolo Penna, Gianluca Rossi and Paola Vocca Performance Analysis of the Hierarchical Layer Graph for Wireless Networks Stefan Ruehrup, Christian Schindelhauer and Klaus Volbert Cache Placement in Sensor Networks Under Update Constraint Bin Tang, Samir Das, and Himanshu Gupta Enhancing The Security Of On-demand Routing in Ad Hoc Networks Zhenjiang Li and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves MIMOMAN: A MIMO Mac protocol for Ad hoc Networks Joon-Sang Park and Mario Gerla Increasing the Resource-Efficiency of the CSMA/CA Protocol in Directional Ad Hoc Networks Matthias Gruenewald, Feng Xu and Ulrich Rueckert Location Tracking in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks using Particle Filters Rui Huang and Gergely Zaruba Selective Route Request Scheme for On-Demand Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks Seung Jae Lee A Key Management Scheme for Commodity Sensor Networks Yong Ho Kim, Mu Hyun Kim, and Dong Hoon Lee Design of a hard real-time guarantee scheme for dual ad hoc mode IEEE 802.11 WLANs Junghoon Lee, Mikyung Kang and Yongmoon Jin DPUMA: A Highly Efficient Multicast Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Ravindra Vaishampayan, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves and Katia Obraczka Efficient Mechanisms for Secure Inter-node and Aggregation Processing in Sensor Networks Tassos Dimitriou Probability Distributions for Channel Utilisation Christian Schindelhauer and Kerstin VoB Approximation Algorithms for Minimum Bandwith Multicast Trees in Wireless Mesh Networks Pedro M. Ruiz and Antonio F. Gomez-Skarmeta Stressing is better than relaxing for negative cost cycle detection in networks K. Subramani Enhanced power-aware Routing for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Il-Hee Shin, Chae-Woo Lee Randomized AB-Face-AB Routing Algorithms in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Thomas Fevens, Alaa Eddien Abdallah, and Badr Naciri Bennani A Gathering Point Detection Scheme for Directed Diffusion in Wireless Sensor Networks Jeongho Son, Jinsuk Pak and Kijun Han Cluster-Based Framework in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks Peng Fan, James Haran, Peter Nelson and John Dillenburg Biology Inspired Distributed Consensus in Massively-Deployed Sensor Networks K.H.Jones, K.N.Lodding, S.Olariu, L.W.Wilson and C.Xin A Multiple Path Characterization of Ad-Hoc Network Capacity Peter Giese and Ioanis Nikolaidis Reed-Solomon and Hermitian Code-based Scheduling Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Carlos H. Rentel and Thomas Kunz Efficient broadcasting in Self-Organizing Multi-hop Wireless Networks Nathalie Mitton and Eric Fleury An Intelligent Sensor Network for Oceanographic Data Acquisition. Chris Roadknight, Antonio Gonzalez, Laura. Parrot, Steve Boult and Ian Marshall A service discovery protocol with maximally area disjoint paths in mobile ad hoc networks Shihong Zou, Le Tian, Shiduan Cheng and Yu Lin REGISTRATION ------------ You can proceed to: http://fismat.umich.mx/adhocnow/?f=registration After you complete your registration to ADHOCNOW! 2005, you'll be able to download a postcript document which must be filled in with your credit card data and faxed to the number shown in order to secure your reservation to the Oasis Hotel. The conference will be held at the Oasis Cancun Hotel. The hotel rate for this conference is within an All-inclusive program, which entitles you to all meals (buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner), unlimited drinks, recreational activities, non-motorized water sports, gym facilities, evening shows, disco, all taxes and tips. Rates are as follows: Single US$86.00 Double US$140.00 Triple US$170.00 FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATON ------------------------- For questions regarding obtaining visas, accomodation, etc, please contact Edgar Chavez (mailto:elchavez@fismat.umich.mx).

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CFP SensorWare
by Boon Sain Yeo 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

(My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) *********************************************************** 1st International Workshop on Software for Sensor Networks (SensorWare) - CFP *********************************************************** Welcome to the 1st International Workshop on Software for Sensor Networks (SensorWare) to be held on the 8 January 2006. The workshop is held in conjunction with COMSWARE 2006 in the beautiful and historical city of New Delhi. Advances in technology have made deployment of miniature sensors a realistic proposition. These sensors are low-power, inexpensive, smart devices with multiple on-board sensors, and are connected through wireless links, so as to form a collaborative sensor network to perform a specific task. As a result, it opens up a new paradigm of ubiquitous computing and enables a range of applications that are previously unrealizable or too costly to be realized. However, given the limitation of on-board hardware, one of the key areas towards achieving superior performance is through the software implementation. The workshop is intended for the presentation and discussion of novel algorithms and software implementation for sensor networks. This workshop, intends to bring together engineering experts and academicians to discuss the current status, technical challenges, standards, fundamental issues, and future services and applications in the form of panels and technical presentation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Operating System Efficient algorithms Protocol design Performance analysis Performance related issues Sensor applications Deployment issues and scenarios Middleware Sensor security Sensor network design and modeling Workshop co-chairs: Nirmala Shenoy (ns(a)rit.edu), RIT, USA Boon Sain Yeo (boonyeo(a)ieee.org), Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore TPC Members: Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany, Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada, Daeyoung Kim, ICU, Korea Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan, Wei-Peng Chen, Fujitsu Labs of America, USA Jason Redi, BBN Technologies, USA Biao Chen, Syracuse University, USA Hairong Qi, University of Tennessee, USA Xiaojun Cao, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Xin Wang, University of Buffalo, USA James Minseok Kwon, RIT, USA Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Fei Hu, RIT, USA Robin Chellappa, Deakin Univeristy, Australia Technical Papers has to be submitted to the co-chairs at boonyeo(a)ieee.org. Papers should be written in English and should preferably follow the instructions in template.pdf. Preferred maximum paper length is 6 printed pages (10-point font) including figures. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: 1 October 2005 Notification Acceptance/Rejection: 1 November 2005 Final Camera-Ready Paper Submission: 1 December 2005 Please visit the workshop website at http://www.sensorware.org for more info. We look forward to seeing you at SensorWare. Many thanks Best regards, Boon and Nirmala Workshop co-chairs

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ICIW 2006
by Mario Freire 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

(Our apologizes if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) Call for Papers International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW'06) February 23-25, 2006, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICIW06.html GENERAL INFORMATION The ICIW 2006 (International Conference on Internet and Web Services) inaugurates a series of co-located events that covers the complementary aspects related to designing and deploying of applications based on IP&Web techniques and mechanisms. The main conference focuses on several tracks concerning Web technologies, design and development of Web-based applications, and interactions of these applications with other types of systems. Management aspects related to these applications and challenges on specialized domains are aided at too. Evaluation techniques and standard position on different aspects are part of the expected agenda. The call for submissions covers both theoretical and experimental topics. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas. Industrial presentations are not subject to these constraints. Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged. The ICIW will have the following specialized events : ICIWA 2006: Internet and Web-based Applications and Services ENSYS 2006: Entertainment Systems P2PSA 2006: P2P Systems and Applications WEBSA 2006: Web Service-based Systems and Applications ONLINE 2006: Online Communications, Collaborative Systems and Social Networks TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST (but not limited to) ICIWA 2006: IP-Web Based Applications and Services Web technologies, frameworks, languages, mechanisms Web applications design and development Interaction with/from Web-based applications Web-based applications. features Management of Web-based applications Evaluation of Web applications Specialized Web applications Aggregating multimedia documents E-business, appliances, and services IP Grid Management and Grid Services IP-based convergent solutions and next generation networks Standards, case studies and special groups on web-based applications ENSYS 2006: Entertainment Systems Developing entertainment systems and applications Platforms for entertainment systems Speech technology & its usability for entertainment systems Networking requirements for entertainment systems Traffic generated by entertainment applications QoS/SLA on entertainment systems Reliability and high availability of entertainment systems Identify aspects in entertainment systems Real-time access to entertainment systems Customized access entertainment systems Navigation and entertainment systems Integration and interoperability aspects in entertainment systems Entertainment systems and applications Networking and system support for entertainment systems Wireless and mobile technologies for entertainment Wireless multimedia for entertainment Systems for music and movie distribution Games on mobile and resource-constrained devices Mobile video entertainment systems Car/flight/train entertainment systems Ubiquitous entertainment systems Interactive television Technologies for sport and entertainment WiFi wireless home entertainment systems Wearable technologies for entertainment P2PSA 2006: P2P Systems and Applications P2P architectures, techniques, paradigms P2P programming and data handling P2P security features Data and compute intensive applications P2P networks and protocols P2P management P2P Trust and reputation management Fault tolerance in P2P, quality of availability, accounting in P2P Self-adaptiveness in P2P overlay networks Self-configurable P2P systems Case studies, benchmarking Copyright and intellectual property, Electronic marketplace, Digital asset management and trading systems Platforms, environments, testbeds WEBSA 2006: Web Services and Applications Web services foundation, architectures, frameworks, languages Web services architecture and business continuity Special Web services mechanisms Semantic Web, Ontology, and Web services Web service applications Data Management aspects in Web Services Autonomic e-Business integration and collaboration Web service based Grid computing and P2P computing Web services based applications for e-Commerce Multimedia applications using Web Services Automatic computing for Web services Web services challenges on trust, security, performance, scalability Enterprise Web services Web services discovery, announcing, monitoring and management Platforms, technologies, mechanisms and case studies Grid architectures, middleware and toolkits ONLINE 2006: Online Communications, Social networks Theory, frameworks, mechanisms, and tools for online communication Methodologies and languages for on-line communications Web services and XML use for online communications Tools for assessing online work, distributed workload Shared business processes Collaborative groups and systems Theory and formalisms of group interactions Group synergy in cooperative networks Online gambling, gaming, children groups Identity features, risks, jurisdiction for online communications Specifics emergency and e-coaching on online communications B2B and B2E cooperation Privacy, identify, security on online communications Individual anonymity, group trust, and confidentiality on online groups Conflict, delegation, group selection Community costs in collaborative groups Building online social networks with popularity contexts, persuasion, etc. Technology support for collaborative systems Techniques, mechanisms, and platforms for remote cooperation INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS The ICW 2006 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Important dates: Submission deadline: September 30th, 2005 Notification: October 28th, 2005 Camera ready: November 15th, 2005 Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system. The files should be sent via http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitGuadaICIW06.html Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found via anonymous FTP site at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formattin… Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance. Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference.s CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to petre(a)iaria.org. Tutorials Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to petre(a)iaria.org Panel proposals: The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. For more information, petre(a)iaria.org ICIW ADVISORY COMMITTEE Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada-Reno, USA Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA Rafael Dueire Lins, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria Karim El Guemhioui, Universit du Qubec en Outaouais , Canada Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France Varol Yaakov, University of Nevada . Reno, USA

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Post-doc position available at ULg
by Guy Leduc 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Dear all, We have a post-doc position available at the University of Liège (ULg) in the Research Unit in Networking (RUN). Topic: Traffic Engineering Project: TOTEM, see http://totem.info.ucl.ac.be/ Expected duration: approximately one year Funding for the post-doc is available from Sept. 1st, 2005 till Oct. 31st, 2006. Gross salary: +/- 3000 EUR per month (if 4 years of experience) More information available on request. If interested, send me your CV. Please circulate this to researchers who may be interested. Best regards, Guy Leduc -- ________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Guy Leduc Phone : +32 4 366 26 98 Université de Liège Secr : +32 4 366 26 91 Réseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89 Research Unit in Networking (RUN) Email: Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/People/GuyLeduc/ CoNEXT 2005 - The E-NEXT NoE conference - http://www.co-next.net/

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SSI'2005 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline: August 19, 2005
by Carlos Becker Westphall 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Apologies if you received multiple copies ------------------------------------------------------------- SSI´2005 7th Intl Symposium on System and Information Security November 08-11, 2005 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS >>>>>>>>> EXTENDED Deadline: August 19, 2005 <<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>> http://www.ssi.org.br <<<<<<<<< Sponsored by Aeronautical Institute of Technology - ITA Computer Science Department - IEC Sao Jose dos Campos - SP Brazil ------------------------------------------------------------- Presentation Original and unpublished full papers on all aspects of theory and applications of system and information security are requested to the SSI´2005 - 7th Intl Symposium on System and Information Security. SSI'2005 is the premier symposium on this subject in Brazil and Latin America, having an EXPO of Security Companies, panels, special tracks, keynote speakers, technical speakers, tutorials, technical sections (Portuguese / Spanish and English Tracks) and workshops. It works as a forum for people from academia, industry, governmental agencies and research labs to present recent researches and industry results and trends. ------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: . AI methods in system security . Authentication, access control and auditing . Computer Forensics . Cryptografy and Digital certificates . Database security . Dependability . Digital Rights Management . Firewalls and other security tools . Formal methods in system security . Internet/Web security . Intrusion detection and prevention . Management of enterprise security . Mobile Code and Agent Security . Network security . New Paradigms on Security . Operating systems security . Public Key Infrastructure - PKI . Risk/vulnerability analysis, assessment and management . Security and trust management . Security in e-commerce applications . Security in electronic voting systems . Security of distributed systems . Security of emerging technologies . Security Policies . Secure programming Security in P2P and Grid computing . Threats and information Warfare . User privacy and anonymity . Viruses and other malicious code . Wireless and ubiquitous computing security ------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submission deadline: August 19, 2005 Acceptance notification: September 18, 2005 Early registration: September 26, 2005 Proceedings version due: October 02, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE The publication of a full paper or poster in the SSI'2005 will be conditioned to early registration. ------------------------------------------------------------- INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Authors should submit their full papers in English using instructions on the JEMS electronic submission Web site at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/ssi2005 on Track SSI2005 - Full Paper! Accepted papers will be published as full papers or posters in a Symposium CD ROM with an ISBN number. Such material will be distributed at the beginning of the symposium. The manuscript typing must be single-spaced, left margin 3cm, bottom margin 2.37cm, and 2cm top and right margins. The paper length of the submission should not exceed 10 pages (A4), including figures and references. All papers must be in 10-point Times New Roman type font, single-spaced, without page numbering and in PostScript (.ps) or preferably in Portable Document Format (.pdf). The paper must start with a title, an abstract and keywords (according to the Topics above), but should be anonymous. Author names and affiliations, as well as laboratories and project participations, or any kind of information that provides a clue for identifying authors, as for example references, should be avoided. Author information will be filled out in a form during the electronic submission of the paper. Thus, the paper to be submitted must just contain the paper title, an abstract and the main text, which include sections and references. The main text must be distributed over TWO COLUMNS, with a 1cm space between them. ------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Anzaloni - Aeronautical Inst.Technology, Brazil Paulo Barreto - Sao Paulo University, Brazil Jose Brustoloni - University of Pittsburgh, USA Luiz Buzato - State University of Campinas, Brazil Joao Camargo Jr. - Sao Paulo University, Brazil Adriano Cansian - State University of Sao Paulo, Brazil David Chaum - SureVote, USA Ricardo Dahab - State University of Campinas, Brazil Luiz Dias - Univesity of Vale do Paraiba, Brazil Antonio Faleiros - Aeronautical Inst. Technology, Brazil Clovis Fernandes - Aeronautical Inst. Technology, Brazil Joni Fraga - Federal Univ. Santa Catarina, Brazil Luciano Gaspary - Universidade Vale dos Sinos, Brazil Paulo Geus - State University of Campinas, Brazil Joao Gondim - University of Brasilia, Brazil Jeroen van de Graaf - Federal Univ. Minas Gerais, Brazil Adilson Guelfi - Sao Paulo University, Brazil Peter Gutmann - University of Auckland, New Zealand Celso Hirata - Aeronautical Inst. Technology, Brazil Cristine Hoepers - CERT.br/CGI.br, Brazil Osvaldo Imamura - Aerospace Technical Center, Brazil Sergio Kofuji - Sao Paulo University, Brazil Kaoru Kurosawa - Ibaraki University, Japan Tak-ming Law - Inst. Vocational Education, Hong Kong/China Lau Lung -Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil Keith Martin - Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Luiz Mattos - University of Brasilia, Brazil Carlos Maziero - Pontifical Catholic Univ. Parana, Brazil Frank Meylan - Sao Paulo University, Brazil Edson Moreira - Sao Paulo University, Brazil Paulo Motta - Fed. Univ. Rio Grande Norte, Brazil YI MU - University of Wollongong, Australia Mirela Notare - Barddal University, Brazil Günther Pernul - University of Regensburg, Germany Carlos De Rolt - State Univ. of Santa Catarina, Brazil Kouichi Sakurai - Kyushu University, Japan Palash Sarkar- Indian Statistical Institute, India Fabio Silva - Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Joao Sobral - Federal Univ. of Santa Catarina, Brazil Nei Soma - Aeronautical Inst. Technology, Brazil Willy Susilo - University of Wollongong, Australia Tsuyoshi Takagi - Future University-Hakodate, Japan Pedro Vazquez - State University of Campinas, Brazil Wietse Venema - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Luca Vigano` - ETH Zurich, Switzerland Taisy Weber - Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Carlos Westphall - Federal Univ. Santa Catarina, Brazil Chuan-kun Wu - Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Edgar Yano - Aeronautical Inst. Technology, Brazil Moti Yung - Columbia University, USA Angelo Zanini - University of Sao Judas Tadeu, Brazil PROGRAM CHAIR Paulo Motta - Fed. Univ. Rio Grande Norte, Brazil TUTORIAL CHAIR Cristine Hoepers - CERT.br/CGI.br, Brazil TOOLS AND DEMOS CHAIR José Maria Parente de Oliveira - ITA, Brazil Dissertations and Theses Chair Antonio Montes - CenPRA, Brazil PUBLICITY CHAIR Carlos Westphall - Federal Univ. Santa Catarina, Brazil GENERAL CHAIRMAN Clovis Fernandes - Aeronautical Inst. Technology, Brazil ------------------------------------------------------------- FURTHER INFORMATION For additional information, please e-mail Clovis Fernandes (dir(a)ssi.org.br). Updated conference announcement and information are available at the symposium home page at http://www.ssi.org.br Submission https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/ssi2005

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Joint events with ACM, IEEE and others
by Otto Spaniol 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Dear all, as you know we organise more and more events together with ACM, IEEE and others. In addition to the publication and the copyright problems (book prices, royalties,..) we will probably in another type of difficulties. This problem just arised with MIDDLEWARE'04 (for which we have paid 3.000 EURO for student travel grant etc.). MIDDLEWARE'04 has been organised together with ACM. In the event request form, the conference promised a sponsorship fee of 3.750 EURO for IFIP and was reminded for that sum by IFIP secretariat. The conference organisors said that the event made a loss which was covered by ACM. Now if they would pay the sponsorship fee to IFIP then ACM would have to pay even more, and this would be unacceptable. Then a lengthy communication with ACM was established and - believe it or not - ACM was generous enough to pay the fee to IFIP but they refused to make similar arrangements for the future. We have to say that at this moment in time we already have at least for MIDDLEWARE'05 a similar ERF which "guarantees" to IFIP 4.500 EURO. The message from ACM to IFIP's secretariat reads as follows: -------- Thank you for your fax. I will have the service fee wired to your bank account. For future events with ACM or the ACM SIGs only Patricia M. Ryan, ACM COO has the authority to execute joint sponsorship agreements such as this. Conference Chairs are not authorized to sign these agreements on behalf of ACM. I will forward you a formal letter indicating that for your files. Please let me know if there are any other outstanding sponsorship agreements between ACM and IFIP at this time. -------- This is probably what we call in Germany (and maybe in other countries, too) a "Pyrrhic victory", i.e. like the victory of Pyrrhus in Apulum over the Romans in 279 B.C. (which was indeed rather a defeat than a victory). We will have a lot of strategic things to discuss in Wroclaw. Best regards Otto

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CFP: IEEE HWN-RMQ'06 EXTENDED DEADLINE: AUG 22, 2005
by Youssef Iraqi 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP, but please forward to anyone you believe may be interested -- thanks!] CALL FOR PAPERS (Submission deadline extended to August 22, 2005) ================================================================== First IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Resource Management and QoS (HWN-RMQ06) http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2006/conf_program/hwn-rmq_workshop/index.htm In conjunction with IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC06) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 7-10 January 2006 ================================================================== Scope The fourth generation (4G) of wireless communications is expected to integrate a potentially large number of different heterogeneous wireless technologies in what could be considered a huge step forward towards universal wireless access and omnipresent computing through seamless mobility. Even though 4G standard is currently not defined, there are many current outlooks that delineate the vision of the new wireless technologies. Based on the emergent trends of mobile communication, 4G will have larger bandwidth, higher data rates, smoother and quicker handoff and will focus on guaranteeing faultless service and seamless handoff across a multitude of wireless networks. The key concept is integrating the 4G capabilities with all of the existing mobile technologies. Special maneuvers will be necessary amongst different access systems in terms of horizontal (intra-system) and vertical (inter-system) handoff as well as seamless mobility, Quality of Service (QoS), dependability and security. In this workshop, we solicit high quality papers from leading researchers that present state-of-the-art research in heterogeneous wireless networks dealing with resource management techniques and QoS provisioning. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Interworking with 2.5G, 3G, and other wireless networks - QoS provisioning for heterogeneous wireless networks - End-to-End QoS Architectures - Location, Mobility and Handoff Management - Seamless vertical handoff techniques between different wireless networks - Network selection criteria - Resource management/allocation - Bandwidth adaptation - Power control and management - Load, admission, and flow control - Architecture design alternatives for heterogeneous wireless networks - Performance analysis and experimentation of heterogeneous wireless networks - Pricing and billing issues - Security techniques and methods for heterogeneous wireless networks - Heterogeneous wireless networks applications and measurements - Simulation study of heterogeneous wireless networks - Scalability of heterogeneous wireless networks - Implementation and testbed experiments - Standardization activities for heterogeneous wireless networks - Heterogeneous multi-hop wireless networks Important Dates - Paper submission: 22 August 2005 (new date) - Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2005 - Final Paper submission: 14 October 2005 Paper Submissions Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-page technical paper manuscript. Please see author information page for submission guidelines at CCNC06 website (http://www.ieee-ccnc.org). Papers should be submitted in a .pdf format through EDAS at http://edas.info/Paper.cgi?c=4602. Submissions should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, fax and telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate. Workshop Co-Chairs: - Name Nidal Nasser Mieso Denko - E-mail nasser(a)cis.uoguelph.ca denko(a)cis.uoguelph.ca - URL http://www.cis.uoguelph.ca/~nasser http://www.cis.uoguelph.ca/~denko - Affiliation University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada Publicity Chair: Youssef Iraqi University of Waterloo, Canada iraqi(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca http://bcr2.uwaterloo.ca/~iraqi/ Technical Program Committee (In progress) - Khalid Al-Begain University of Glamorgan UK - Hakim Badis University of Paris-Sud XI France - Tarek Bejaoui University of Paris-Sud XI France - Jiannong Cao Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong - Soumaya Cherkaoui University of Sherbrooke Canada - Yuh-Shyan Chen National Chung Cheng University Taiwan - Javier Gozalvez University Miguel Hernandez Spain - Christian Hartmann Technische Universitat Munchen Germany - Youssef Iraqi University of Waterloo Canada - Anup Kumar University of Louisville USA - Wei Li The University of Toledo USA - Jelena Misic University of Manitoba Canada - Mohamed Ould-Khaoua University of Glasgow UK - Burkhard Stiller University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Switzerland - Abd-Elhamid M. Taha Queen's University Canada - Ljiljana Trajkovic Simon Fraser University Canada - Duc A. Tran University of Dayton USA - Shahrokh Valaee University of Toronto Canada - Quanhong Wang Queen's University Canada - Kui Wu University of Victoria Canada - Jingyuan Zhang The University of Alabama USA - Weihua Zhuang University of Waterloo Canada

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Transport offer wrt meeting 2005/2
by Otto Spaniol 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Dear all, TC6 meeting 2005/2 will be held Oct. 29+30, 2005 in Wroclaw immediately after the conference I3E (Oct 26-28 in Poznan). The conference chairman of I3E offers a transport by university car from Poznan to Wroclaw on Friday, Oct. 28. It hope that this will make the participation at the conference + the meeting more attractive. Please check whether you can get a so-called "fork flight" (maybe this is not at all the correct notation but you will know what I mean) by which you have a flight to Poznan and the return flight from Wroclaw for the same price as a flight to and from Wroclaw. At least from Germany this is possible. Best regards Otto

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Panel members for I3E?
by Otto Spaniol 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Dear all, I have been invited to organize a panel session at the occasion of the conference I3E in Poznan which precedes our meeting 2005/2 in Wroclav. The tentative programme of the conference is available via <http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/conferences/i3e/program.html> but the sequence of panels (the other panel is organised by Volker Tschammer) is inverted there. "My panel" should be on Thursday, 27 Oct. This information comes from an email received from Wojtek Cellary: ----- I would like kindly invite you to organize a panel discussion at the i3e'2005 in Poznan, on Thursday October 27. Please propose a subject related with i3e scope and panelists. May be a good idea would be to invite TC members to become panelists. I expect panelists to register at the conference. The second panel will be organized by Volker Tschammer. The tentative title of his panel is: "Pan-European eGovernment Aspects". ----- My question: Who intends to attend I3E? Who is willing to be a member of a panel discussion? Of course, we would have to define asap a topic which is reasonably different from Volker's topic. Best wishes Otto

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INTELLCOMM + MATA
by Otto Spaniol 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Dear all, please find enclosed the programmes for INTELLCOMM'05 and for MATA'o5 (both to be held in October 2005 in Montréal, Canada). Best regards Otto

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