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CFP: TCS special issue on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis
by vigano＠inf.ethz.ch 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Special Issue of Theoretical Computer Science on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis http://www.avispa-project.org/arspa *********************** *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** *********************** BACKGROUND AND SCOPE ==================== In connection with The Second Workshop on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis (ARSPA'05) which took place as a satellite event of ICALP'05, we are guest-editing a Special Issue of Theoretical Computer Science devoted to original papers on formal security protocol specification, analysis and verification. Contributions are welcomed on the following topics and related ones: - Automated analysis and verification of security protocols. - Languages, logics, and calculi for the design and specification of security protocols. - Verification methods: accuracy, efficiency. - Decidability and complexity of cryptographic verification problems. - Synthesis and composition of security protocols. - Integration of formal security specification, refinement and validation techniques in development methods and tools. SUBMISSION ========== Authors should submit their papers electronically, in portable document format (pdf) or postscript (ps), by sending an email with subject "TCS submission" to the address arspa -at- avispa-project.org with the file of the paper as an attachment, by November 13, 2005. The following information should be included in the body of the email, in plain text: - paper title - author names - coordinates of the corresponding author - abstract of the paper The cover page of the submission should also include this information. Authors are strongly encouraged to use Elsevier Science's document class 'elsart', or alternatively the standard document class 'article'. The Elsevier LaTeX package (including detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation) can be obtained from Elsevier's web site: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/latex (see also http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505625/descrip…). Submitted papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. The submitted papers will be subject to the standard journal refereeing process. We kindly ask the authors to send us an abstract of their submission by November 6, 2005. DEADLINES ========= Submission of abstract: November 6, 2005 Submission of paper: November 13, 2005 EDITORS ======= Pierpaolo Degano (Universita` di Pisa, Italy) Luca Vigano` (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) WEB-SITE ======== http://www.avispa-project.org/arspa

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SSI'2005 - 2nd Call for Papers!
by Carlos Becker Westphall 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Apologies if you received multiple copies ------------------------------------------------------------- SSI´2005 7th Intl Symposium on System and Information Security November 08-11, 2005 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS >>>>>>>>> Submission Deadline: August 7, 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 solicited 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 Firms, panels, special tracks, keynote speakers, technical speakers, tutorials, technical sections (Portuguese / Spanish and English Tracks) and workshops. It serves 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 audit . 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 DATES Submission deadline: August 7, 2005 Acceptance notification: September 11, 2005 Proceedings version due: September 16, 2005 Early registration: September 26, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------- OBSERVATION The publication of a full paper or poster in the SSI'2005 Proceedings 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 ! Accepted papers will be published as full papers or posters in a Symposium proceedings CD ROM with an ISBN number. Such a proceedings will be distributed at the beginning of the symposium. The manuscript typing must be single-spaced, left margin 3cm, bottom margin 2.37cm, and top and right margins 2cm. 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, a 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 - Scopus/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 - University of Sao Paulo State, Brazil David Chaum - SureVote, USA 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 - Univ. Vale dos Sinos, 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 - NBSO/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 - Catholic University Of Parana, Brazil Keith Martin - Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Luiz Mattos - University of Brasilia, Brazil Frank Meylan - Sao Paulo University, Brazil Edson Moreira - Sao Paulo University, Brazil YI MU - University of Wollongong, Australia Mirela Notare - Barddal University, Brazil Günther Pernul - University of Regensburg, Germany Paulo Motta - Fed. Univ. Rio Grande Norte, Brazil 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. 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 Carla Westphall - Federal Univ. Santa Catarina, 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 S. Motta Pires - Fed. Univ. Rio Grande Norte, Brazil PUBLICITY CHAIR Carlos Westphall - Federal Univ. Santa Catarina, Brazil TOOLS AND DEMOS CHAIR Jose Parente - Aeronautical Inst. Technology, Brazil GENERAL CHAIRMAN Clovis Fernandes - Aeronautical Inst. Technology, Brazil ------------------------------------------------------------- FURTHER INFORMATION For additional information, please send mail to Clovis Fernandes (dir(a)ssi.org.br). Updated conference announcement and information are accessible at the symposium home page at http://www.ssi.org.br Submission https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/ssi2005

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Quality of Protection Workshop. Call For Participation
by Progetto QOP Massacci 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Appologies if you received multiple copies of this message. ----------------------------------------------------------------- First Workshop on Quality of protection (QoP 2005) Security Measurements and Metrics 15 September 2005. Milano, Italy. Affiliated with ESORICS'05 and METRICS'05 http://dit.unitn.it/~qop/index.htm Call For Participation Early Bird Registration Deadline: Aug 31, 2005 TECHNICAL PROGRAM ================= Thursday , September 15th 09:00 - 10:15 Invited Talk Stefano De Panfilis - R&D Head of Engineering SpA - Software Quality and Metrics: an Industrial Experience 10:15 - 10:30 Security Metrics Andrea Atzeni, Antonio Lioy - Why to adopt a security metric? A little survey (short presentation) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:30 Measuring Reliability vs Security Andy Ozment - Software Security Growth Modeling: Examining Vulnerabilities with Reliability Growth Models Swapna Gokhale, Robert Mullen - A Discrete Lognormal Model for Software Defects affecting QoP Alata Eric, Dacier Marc, Deswarte Yves, Kaaniche Mohamed, Kortchinsky Kostya, Nicomette Vincent, Pham Van-Hau, Pouget Fabien - Collection and analysis of attack data based on honeypots deployed on the Internet (short presentation) Davide Balzarotti, Mattia Monga, Sabrina Sicari - Assessing the risk of using vulnerable components (short presentation) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:30 Metrics for Anonymity and Confidentiality Dogan Kesdogan and Lexi Pimenidis - The Lower Bound of Attacks on Anonymity Systems -- A Unicity Distance Approach Reine Lundin, Stefan Lindskog, Anna Brunstrom, Simone Fischer-Hübner - Using Guesswork as a Measure for Confidentiality of Selectively Encrypted Messages Dogan Kesdogan, Lexi Pimenidis, Tobias Kölsch. - Intersection Attacks on Web-Mixes: Bringing the Theory into Praxis (short presentation) Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Pierangela Samarati, Marco Viviani - Measuring Inference Exposure in Outsourced Encrypted Databases (short presentation) 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 - 18:00 Quantitative Security Models Simon Foley, Stefano Bistaelli, Barry O'Sullivan, John Herbert and Garret Swart - Multilevel Security and Quality of Protection Judith E. Y. Rossebø, Mass Soldal Lund, Knut Eilif Husa and Atle Refsdal - A Conceptual Model for Service Availability Miles McQueen, Wayne Boyer, Mark Flynn and George Beitel. - Time-to-compromise Model for Cyber Risk Reduction Estimation Valentina Casola, Antonino Mazzeo, Nicola Mazzocca and Massimiliano Rak - A SLA evaluation methodology in Service Oriented Architectures (short presentation) Günter Karjoth, Birgit Pfitzmann, Matthias Schunter and Michael Waidner - Service-oriented Assurance - Comprehensive Security by Explicit Assurances (short presentation) Iliano Cervesato - Towards a Notion of Quantitative Security Analysis STEERING COMMITTEE ================== - Imrich Chlamtac - UTDallas (US) & CreateNet (IT) - Gerhard Eschelbeck - QUALYS (US) - Dieter Gollmann - TU Hamburg-Harburg (DE) - Helmut Kurth - ATSEC (DE) - Bev Littlewood - City University, London (UK) - Fabio Massacci - Univ. di Trento (IT) - Ketil Stølen - SINTEF (NO) & Univ. of Oslo (NO) - Lorenzo Strigini - City University, London (UK) - Jeannette Wing - CMU (USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ================== Alessandro Acquisti - Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Matt Bishop - University of California (USA) Imrich Chlamtac - UTDallas (US) & CreateNet (IT) Yves Deswarte - LAAS-CNRS (FR) Paolo Donzelli - University of Maryland (USA) Gerhard Eschelbeck - QUALYS (USA) Dieter Gollmann - TU Hamburg-Harburg (DE) Erland Jonsson - Chalmers University of Technology (SW) Audun Jøsang - University of Queensland, (AUS) Svein Johan Knapskog - The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NOR) Helmut Kurth - ATSEC (DE) Bev Littlewood - City University, London (UK) Fabio Martinelli - Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IT) Fabio Massacci - Univ. di Trento (IT) Roy Maxion - Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Flemming Nielson - Technical University of Denmark (DE) Mario Piattini - University of Castilla-La Mancha (SP) Ketil Stølen - SINTEF (NO) & Univ. of Oslo (NO) Lorenzo Strigini - City University, London (UK) Edgar Weippl - Vienna University of Technology (AUT) Jeannette Wing- CMU (USA) Marvin Zelkowitz - University of Maryland (USA) REGISTRATION ============ REGISTRATION FORM - http://esorics05.dti.unimi.it/regworkshops.php TRAVEL DIRECTION - http://esorics05.dti.unimi.it/travel.php HOTELS - at http://esorics05.dti.unimi.it/hotel.php

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Call For Papers: Workshop on emerging services delivery platforms and software models for Next Generation Network Services
by Joshy Joseph 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Apologies, if you receive multiple copies of this request. Call For Papers: Workshop on emerging services delivery platforms and software models for Next Generation Network Services (http://www.softplatforms.org) This workshop will be held in conjunction with the FIRST International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and MiddlewaRE (COMSWARE 2006) at New Delhi, India (http://www.comsware.org/) from Jan 8-12 2006. The exact date of the workshop will be made available on the workshop's Web site http://www.softplatforms.org. Workshop Objectives: The next generation services networks deliver enhanced business capabilities such as data, video, messaging and business functions for wired and wireless consumers. These new sets of services enhance the business opportunities by integrating with core business services, including: supply chain management, customer management, and consumer applications. This workshop aims to discuss topics related to emerging next generation services and service delivery platforms to host/support such complex application environments. The workshop focuses on: * How next generation service delivery platforms deliver enhanced QoS management, operational efficiencies, flexible services composability, faster time-to-market, efficient trust models and flexible pricing models. * Technical and business factors influencing the services composability and network services delivery environments. The associated revenue and cost models for consumers, suppliers and application providers. * The influences of emerging distributed computing architecture styles (loosely-coupled, asynchronous, compos able, collaborative, decentralized and parallel services) related to service delivery models. * Emerging middleware platforms for network services, service composability, distributed architecture models and programming models. * New services models (communication services, presence-enabled services, content/media services and enterprise/legacy services) and value creation environments that represents new business opportunities for operators and providers. This workshop invites papers from research and business communities on the different aspects of service delivery platforms and emerging services models. The workshop will include papers that examine interesting practical problems, case studies, best practices, middleware platforms and innovative messaging architectures. Submission Guidelines: All papers are limited to 5 pages and must be in standard IEEE double-column format. All submissions must be sent by email to the workshops co-chairs with the e-mail addresses given above. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: September 23, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: October 28, 2005 Camera-Ready Papers: November 25, 2005 Contact and organization: For any questions regarding the workshop feel free to contact 1. Craig Fellenstein, IBM (cfellen(a)us.ibm.com) 2. Joshy Joseph, Microsoft (jojoseph(a)microsoft.com) Submission requirements: All papers are limited to 5 pages and must be in standard IEEE double-column format. All submissions must be sent by email to the workshops co-chairs.

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Call for Participation - BroadNets 2005
by Dawn 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

*** We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IEEE Second Annual International Conference on Broadband Networks (IEEE BroadNets 2005) October 3 - 7, 2005 Radisson Hotel Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.broadnets.org/ <http://www.broadnets.org/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE BroadNets 2005 is an international conference focusing on broadband networking and covers the entire gamut of next generation networks with high bandwidth available for both wireless and wireline networks. The conference consists of the following three symposia: ** Broadband Optical Networking Symposium: It covers WDM technologies, Ethernet and MPLS integration into the optical layer, Next-Generation SONET/SDH, as well as SAN extensions over DWDM/SONET/SDH. ** Broadband Wireless Networking Symposium: It covers mobility, routing for multihop, multimedia QoS and traffic management, cross-layer optimization, MAC and emerging physical layer technologies (UWB, MIMO) for high-speed wireless networking. ** Broadband Applications/Services Symposium: It covers middleware and service architectures for broadband applications, pervasive computing and ubiquitous communications, and universal broadband access for information services. BroadNets 2005 thus offers a unique forum for researchers from academia, government and industry to share ideas and disseminate new results in these important areas. The technical program as well registration information is available on the conference website at http://www.broadnets.org/

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[IPSN 2006] IPSN'06 CFP
by ipsn2006＠cs.virginia.edu 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Call for Papers The Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'06) April 19-21, 2006 - Nashville, TN, USA http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~ipsn06/ The Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2006) will continue the success of the previous four symposia to bring together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent work in sensor network research and applications. IPSN draws upon many disciplines including signal and image processing, information and coding theory, networking and protocols, distributed algorithms, wireless communications, machine learning, embedded systems design, and data bases and information management. Due to their success, the 2006 IPSN will continue to feature: * Special track on Platform Tools and Design Methods for Network Embedded Sensors (SPOTS) will present demonstrable advances in components, tools, platforms as well as applications for networked sensor systems. * Works-in-Progress (WIP) Session. The aim of the shorter, less formal WIP Abstract submission is to facilitate collaborations and to encourage new people to get into the field. Topics covered in technical sessions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Distributed & collaborative signal processing * Network protocols for sensor networks * Coding, compression & Information theory * Distributed query processing * Detection, classification, estimation, tracking * Sensor tasking and control * Networked sensing and control * In-network processing and aggregation * Distributed control & actuation * Distributed inference & fusion * Fault tolerance * Network coverage, connectivity & longevity * Data storage in sensor networks * Location and time service * Energy and resource management * Programming models and languages * Real-time scheduling * Security * Applications & demonstrations of sensor networks IMPORTANT DATES: [IPSN Papers] Abstract Registration: November 4, 2005 Full Manuscript Due: November 11, 2005 Acceptance Notification: January 27, 2006 Camera-ready copy: February 17, 2006 [SPOTS Special Track Papers] Abstract Registration: November 11, 2005 Full Manuscript Due: November 15, 2005 Acceptance Notification: January 27, 2006 Camera-ready copy: February 17, 2006 [Research Demos] Abstract due date: February 3, 2006 Notification: March 3, 2006 Two-Page Web Abstracts: March 27, 2006 [Work-in-Progress (WIP)] Abstract due date: February 24, 2006 Notification: March 10, 2006 Two-Page Web Abstracts: March 27, 2006 SUBMISSION GUIDELINE: All papers will be submitted electronically, in Portable Document Format (PDF) format. Instructions for submission are available at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/IPSN06/. Submissions must meet the following criteria: * A paper must be original material that has not been previously published nor is currently under review by another conference or journal. * Submitted papers should be no longer than 8 pages in IEEE two-column format for conferences. Each paper will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. ORGANIZATION: [IPSN'06 Steering Committee] Feng Zhao, (Chair) Microsoft Research John Cozzens, National Science Foundation Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles Leo Guibas, Stanford University P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Sri Kumar, DARPA Jose' Moura, (IEEE SPS Representative) CMU Janos Sztipanovits, (ACM SIGBED Rep.) Vanderbilt University [IPSN'06 Organization Committee] General Chair: John A. Stankovic, University of Virginia Program Co-chairs: Phillip Gibbons, Intel Research & Stephen Wicker, Cornell Univ. SPOTS Program Chair: Joe Paradiso, MIT Demos Chair: Andreas Savvides, Yale University Poster Session Chair: Anna Scaglione, Cornell University Finance Chair: Tarek F. Abdelzaher, UIUC Local Arrangement Chair: Xenofon Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt Univ. Local Arrangement Chair: Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt Univ. Industrial Relations Chair: D. Ganesan,Univ. of Massachusetts Publicity Chair: Tian He, University of Minnesota Publications Chair: R. Han, University of Colorado [IPSN'06 Technical Program Committee] Jonathan Agre, Fujitsu Labs of America Richard Baraniuk, Rice University Baltasar Beferull-Lozano, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) Mark Coates, McGill University Hugh Durrant-Whyte, University of Sydney Deepak Ganesan, UCLA Michael Gastpar, University of California, Berkeley Phillip Gibbons, Intel Research Ramesh Govindan, USC Carlos Guestrin, Carnegie Mellon University Richard Han, University of Colorado Prakash Ishwar, University of California at Berkeley Nihar Jindal, University of Minnesota Brad Karp, University College London Phil Levis, Stanford University Jie Liu, Microsoft Research Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan Chenyang Lu, Washington University in St. Louis Sam Madden, MIT Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California Randy Moses, The Ohio State University Arye Nehorai, Univ. Illinois at Chicago Radha Poovendran, University of Washington Curt Schurgers, University of California, San Diego Sergio Servetto, Cornell University Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles Eva Tardos, Cornell University Lang Tong, Cornell University Matt Welsh, Harvard Kung Yao, UCLA -------------------------------------------- IPSN'06 Publicity Chair Tian He Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Minnesota --------------------------------------------

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[CFP] WILLOPAN 2006
by schoi＠snu.ac.kr 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Dear all, Hope that you will be interested in contributing to this workshop. Aplogize if you received this CFP multiple times. Regards, Sunghyun Choi --- Call for Papers WILLOPAN 2006 The First International Workshop on Wireless Personal and Local Area Networks http://www.willopan.org/ In Conjunction with COMSWARE 2006 January 8th, 2006 New Delhi, India Wireless local area networks (LANs) and personal area networks (PANs) are becoming more and more popular today. Applications for such networks include wireless extensions of wired networks (such as 802.11 family of networks), cable replacement and short-range communications (such as Bluetooth and UWB), packet radio networks, sensor networks (such as 802.15.4 ZigBee), and other wireless networks with fixed or variable topology. Performance of such networks is the major factor that determines their feasibility for the given set of application requirements. Performance has many different aspects, from physical and data link layers, and all of these are intimately related to topology, energy efficiency, management, user mobility, and security issues. The key goals of this improvement include Quality of Service (QoS) support mechanisms, efficient channel access mechanisms, and energy saving mechanisms, etc. The effort to improve the MAC layer is linked with many technical challenges including compatibility with legacy networks, complexity in implementation, and practical values in real market, etc. The need to address QoS support, MAC enhancement, and energy saving and provide timely, solid technical contributions in the MAC layer of these networks establishes the motivation behind this workshop. Original papers are invited on emerging architectures and technologies in the design of wireless local area networks (WLANs) and wireless personal area networks (WPANs) with emphasis on the use of such networks in diverse areas of applications such as supporting ubiquitous mobile Internet access, and the design of ad-hoc/mesh networks, and sensor networks. The workshop solicits high quality and previously unpublished work in the field. The main scope of the workshop is the MAC layer and above. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Design and improvements of MAC protocols - Performance evaluation of different MAC protocols - Mobility and handoff - Scheduling and link adaptation - UWB wireless networks and related issues - Spectral and power management issues - Cross-layer approaches - Network measurement and management - Range estimation and location management (e.g., using UWB) Workshop Co-Chairs: Sai Shankar N Qualcomm Inc, USA nsaishankar(a)qualcomm.com Sunghyun Choi Seoul National University, KOREA schoi(a)snu.kr Submission Guidelines: All papers are limited to 6 pages and must be in standard IEEE double-column format. The submission details will be provided at the workshop home page at http://www.willopan.org. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: September 7, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: October 7, 2005 Camera-Ready Papers: November 7, 2005 Technical Program Committee (TBC) Santosh P Abraham Qualcomm, USA Suman Banerjee University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Milind Buddhikot Lucent Bell Labs, USA Chun Ting Chou Philips Research, USA Javier del Prado Philips Research, USA Xingang Guo Intel Corp., USA Jennifer Hou University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Kyunghun Jang Samsung Institute of Advanced Technology, KOREA Srinivas Kandala Airgo Networks, Inc., USA Byoung-Jo Kim AT&T Labs ? Research, USA Taekyoung Kwon Seoul National University, KOREA Tae-Jin Lee Sungkyunkwan University, KOREA Stefan Mangold Swisscom Innovations, SWITZERLAND Qiang Ni Hamilton Institute, IRELAND Anand R. Prasad Docomo Euro Labs, GERMANY Daji Qiao Iowa State University, USA Chandramouli R Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Sumit Roy University of Washington, USA Puneet Sharma HP Labs, USA Ilenia Tinnirello University of Palermo, ITALY Li-Chun Wang National Chiao-Tung University, TAIWAN

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Performance 2005: conference hotel reservations
by Sara Alouf 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

[Many appologies if you receive duplicates of this message] To all participants of Performance 2005 conference October 3-7, 2005 Juan-les-Pins,France, http://www-sop.inria.fr/maestro/performance2005/ The deadline for booking a room at a negotiated rate at the conference hotel "Ambassadeur" in Juan-les-Pins has been extended to **August 26, 2005**. If you wish to book a room at this hotel then please go to http://www-sop.inria.fr/maestro/performance2005/venue.html fill the on-line form, and fax it to the hotel. Best regards, Sara Alouf, Performance 2005 Publicity Chair

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CFP - SensorWare 06
by Boon Sain Yeo 01 Aug '05

01 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, 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 September 2005 Notification Acceptance/Rejection: 1 October 2005 Final Camera-Ready Paper Submission: 1 November 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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MobiCom 2005 discounted registration deadline August 5
by Wendi Heinzelman 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

The deadline for early discounted registration to attend MobiCom 2005, the Eleventh Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, is August 5, 2005. Registration after this date is still available but at the non-discounted rate. Registration is available at http://www.regmaster.com/mobicom2005.html. ******************************************************************* Call for Participation 11th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking August 28 - September 2, 2005 Cologne, Germany http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2005/ ******************************************************************* ACM MobiCom is a highly-selective international conference on mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. It serves as the premier forum for presenting and discussing research results on networks, systems, algorithms, and applications supporting the symbiosis of mobile computing and wireless networking. Each year, the conference attracts about 500 researchers, practitioners, students, and executives. MobiCom 2005 will be held in beautiful Cologne, Germany. Technical Program. The program consists of a single track with 23 papers. The authors present cutting-edge results on various topics, such as new architectures, content-based and geometric routing, self-management, cross-layer optimization. The papers cover ad hoc networks, mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, WLANs, and cellular networks. A list of accepted papers can be found at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2005/program.html. Tutorials. Four tutorials will be offered: (a) Wireless sensor and actuator networks, (b) 802.11 WLAN MAC and smart antennas: issues and directions, (c) Security in sensor and ad hoc networks: perspectives and status, and (d) Wide area wireless networks: 3G and beyond. The conference will also feature two invited talks by leaders in our field: (a) "Secure, Natural Communications," by Jeffrey M. Jaffe, President, Bell Labs Research and Advanced Technologies, and (b) "Communicating Vehicles - Communicating Roadways: New Approaches to Driver Information and Road Safety," by Ralf Guido Herrtwich, Director Vehicle IT and Services Research, DaimlerChrysler AG. Cologne is very popular, especially in August due to World Youth Day 2005 taking place there. Because Pope Benedict XVI organizes this event, he will be in town just the week before MobiCom. Thus, we ask you to make your hotel and flight reservations as early as possible. For more travel info please visit http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2005/travel.html.

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