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Suggestions for panel topic at Networking 2006
by Guy Leduc 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Dear all, As the next TC6 meeting will be organized in Coimbra on May 19-20th, jointly with the Networking conference (http://networking2006.dei.uc.pt/), I expect many of you will also attend the conference. We still have room for one one-hour panel at Networking on Thursday May 18th at 16:10. Please send your suggestions of topics to me as soon as possible (title and 5-line explanation), and also indicate if you propose to chair the panel or not. Best regards, Guy -- ________________________________________________________________________ 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/ Interested in an open source toolbox for network traffic engineering? Try TOTEM: http://totem.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/

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ALGOSENSORS 06: First Call for Papers
by Ioannis Chatzigiannakis 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

[Apologies for multiple postings] ALGOSENSORS 06: International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks July 15 2006, Venice, Italy To be held in conjunction with ICALP 2006 http://ru1.cti.gr/algosensors06/ SCOPE Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks have recently become a very active research subject due to their high potential of providing diverse services to numerous important applications, including remote monitoring and tracking in environmental applications and low maintenance ambient intelligence in everyday life. The effective and efficient realization of such large scale, complex ad-hoc networking environments requires intensive, coordinated technical research and development efforts, especially in power aware, scalable, robust wireless distributed protocols, due to the unusual application requirements and the severe resource constraints of the sensor devices. On the other hand, a solid foundational background seems necessary for sensor networks to achieve their full potential. It is a challenge for abstract modelling, algorithmic design and analysis to achieve provably efficient, scalable and fault-tolerant realizations of such huge, highly-dynamic, complex, non-conventional networks. Features including the extremely large number of sensor devices in the network, the severe power, computating and memory limitations, their dense, random deployment and frequent failures, pose new interesting abstract modeling, algorithmic design, analysis and implementation challenges. This Workshop aims to bring together research contributions related to diverse algorithmic aspects of wireless sensor networks. TOPICS Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including (but not limited to): * Models of sensor networks * Methods for ad hoc deployment/topology control * Energy management * Data propagation and routing * Localization * Tracking * Data aggregation/data compression * Obstacle avoidance * Power saving schemes * Communication protocols * Medium access control * Security and trust * Distributed computing issues PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece Jose Rolim, U. of Geneva, Switzerland PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Azzedine Boukerche, U. of Ottawa, Canada - Costas Busch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA - Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece - Andrea Clementi, U. of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy - Josep Diaz, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain - Tassos Dimitriou, Athens Information Technology, Greece - Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion U., Israel - Deborah Estrin, UCLA, USA - Alfredo Ferro, U. of Catania, Italy - Stefan Fischer, U. of Luebeck, Germany - Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS, U. Paris-Sud, France - Jorge Garcia-Vidal, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain - Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Chulalongkorn U., Thailand - Christos Kaklamanis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece - Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland - Jan van Leeuwen, U. of Utrecht, The Netherlands - Alberto Marchetti Spaccamela, U. of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy - Sotiris Nikoletseas (Co-Chair), U. of Patras and CTI, Greece - Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA - Pekka Orponen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland - Pino Persiano, U. of Salerno, Italy - Jose Rolim (Co-Chair), U. of Geneva, Switzerland - Christian Schindelhauer, U. of Paderborn, Germany - Paul Spirakis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece - Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers U., Sweden - Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Jiri Wiedermann, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic - Manos Varvarigos, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Chair, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece Athanasios Kinalis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece Giorgos Mylonas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece INVITED SPEAKERS: To be announced. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in a hardcopy Proceedings by the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series of Springer Verlag (approval pending). TCS JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE Selected high quality papers will be considered for publication in a Special Issue on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks of the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Journal. PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research in the topics related to the workshop. Papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages of text using at least 11 point size type, including references, figures, tables, etc. Additional material may be added at a clearly marked Appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee Members. Authors must submit their papers electronically via EDAS (http://edas.info/). All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the authors. Authors need to make sure that for each accepted paper at least one author will attend the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: - Submission Deadline: April 25, 2006 (firm!) - Author Notification: May 25, 2006 - Camera Ready Manuscript Due: June 5, 2006 SPONSORS - The Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (CTI), Greece - The TCSensor Lab of the University of Geneva, Switzerland - The EU-FET R&D Project "Algorithmic Principles for Building Efficient Overlay Computers (AEOLUS)"

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[IPSN 2006] Call for Participation and Technical Program Info
by ipsn2006＠cs.virginia.edu 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

[Apologies for multiple copies] ********************************************************** * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * 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/ * * * ********************************************************** Please join us at the Music City and enjoy the natural beauty of the Tennessee hillsides. Online registration for IPSN 2006 is available at http://ipsn2006.regmaster2.com/ The Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2006) April 19-21, Nashville, TN Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Welcome and Keynote Speaker Introduction 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM KEYNOTE TALK #1 Security in Sensor Networks: Industry Trends, Present and Future Research Directions Adrian Perrig (Carnegie Mellon University) 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM BREAK 10:20 AM - 12:00 N IPSN'06 Main Track - Sensor Selection and Placement - Chair: Stephen Wicker (Cornell University) Near-optimal Sensor Placements: Maximizing Information while Minimizing Communication Cost Andreas Krause (Carnegie Mellon University); Carlos Guestrin (Carnegie Mellon University); Anupam Gupta (Carnegie Mellon University); Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University) Utility-based Sensor Selection Fang Bian (Univeristy of Southern California); David Kempe (University of Southern California); Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California) Global Connectivity from Local Geometric Constraints for Sensor Networks with Various Wireless Footprints Raissa D'Souza (University of Calfornia); Dana Randall (Georgia Institute of Technology); Cristopher Moore (University of New Mexico); David Galvin (Institute for Advanced Study) Simultaneous Localization, Calibration, and Tracking in an ad Hoc Sensor Network Christopher Taylor (MIT); Ali Rahimi (MIT); Jonathan Bachrach (MIT); Howard Shrobe (MIT); Anthony Grue (MIT) Distributed Localization of Networked Cameras Stanislav Funiak (Carnegie Mellon University); Carlos Guestrin (Carnegie Mellon University); Mark Paskin (Stanford University); Rahul Sukthankar (Intel Research Pittsburgh) 12:00 N - 1:40 PM LUNCH 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM IPSN'06 Main Track - Mobile Agents and Routing - Chair: Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Data Gathering Tours in Sensor Networks Alexandra Meliou (University of California Berkeley); David Chu (University of California, Berkeley); Carlos Guestrin (Carnegie Mellon University); Joe Hellerstein (UC Berkeley); Wei Hong (Intel Research) Decentralized Compression and Predistribution via Randomized Gossiping Michael Rabbat (University of Wisconsin - Madison); Jarvis Haupt (University of Wisconsin, Madison); Aarti Singh (University of Wisconsin); Robert Nowak (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Active Learning for Adaptive Mobile Sensing Networks Aarti Singh (University of Wisconsin); Parmesh Ramanathan (University of Wisconsin at Madison); Robert Nowak (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Gossiping with Geographic Routing: Efficient Aggregation for Sensor Networks Alex Dimakis (University of California, Berkeley); Anand Sarwate (University of California, Berkeley); Martin Wainwright (University of California, Berkeley) Differential Games on Large Scale Sensor Networks Hui Cao (The Ohio State University); Emre Ertin (The Ohio State University); Vinodkrishnan Kulathumani (The Ohio State University); Mukundan Sridharan (Ohio State University); Anish Arora (The Ohio State University) 3:20 PM - 4:10 PM BREAK POSTERS - WORK IN PROGRESS - Chair: Phillip Gibbons (Intel Research) 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM IPSN'06 Main Track - Sensor Tasking and Data Retrieval - Chair: Phillip Gibbons (Intel Research) Active Wireless Sensing for Rapid Information Retrieval in Sensor Networks Thiagarajan Sivanadyan (University of Wisconsin - Madison); Akbar Sayeed (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Kinetically Stable Task Assignment for Networks of Microservers Zoe Abrams (Stanford University); Ho-Lin Chen (Stanford University); Leonidas Guibas (Stanford University); Jie Liu (Microsoft Research); Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research) Random Distributed Multiresolution Representations with Significance Querying Wei Wang (UC Berkeley); Kannan Ramchandran (University of California at Berkeley) Slip Surface Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks for Landslide Prediction Andreas Terzis (Johns Hopkins University); Kevin Moore (Colorado School of Mines); Rajah Anandarajah (Johns Hopkins University); Ijeng Wang (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.) 6:30 PM Conference Dinner Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Best Paper Awards and Keynote Speaker Introduction 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM KEYNOTE TALK #2 Beyond SensorWebs: Closing the Loop in Network Embedded Systems Shankar Sastry (U.C. Berkeley) 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM BREAK 10:20 AM - 12:00 N IPSN'06 Main Track - Wireless Sensor Networking - Chair: Carlos Guestrin (CMU) Coverage for Target Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks Wei Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Vikram Srinivasan (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Bang Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Chua Kee Chiang (NUS, Singapore, Singapore) Error Propagation in Dense Wireless Networks with Cooperation Anna Scaglione (Cornell University); Shrut Kirti (Cornell University); Birsen Sirkeci (Cornell University) Compressive Wireless Sensing Waheed Bajwa (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Jarvis Haupt (University of Wisconsin, Madison); Akbar Sayeed (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Robert Nowak (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Sweeps Over Wireless Sensor Networks Primoz Skraba (Stanford University); Qing Fang (Stanford University); An Nguyen (Stanford University); Leonidas Guibas (Stanford University) CAPTRA: Coordinated Packet Traceback Lichun Bao (University of California, Irvine); Denh Sy (University of California, Irvine) 12:00 N - 1:40 PM LUNCH 1:40 PM - 3:00 PM IPSN'06 Main Track - Sensing and Estimation Methodologies - Chair: Robert Nowak (University of Wisconsin, Madison) On the Interdependence of Sensing and Estimation Complexity in Sensor Networks Yaron Rachlin (Carnegie Mellon University); Rohit Negi (Carnegie Mellon University); Pradeep Khosla (Carnegie Mellon University) A Space-Time Diffusion Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Least-Squares Estimation Lin Xiao (California Institute of Technology); Stephen Boyd (Stanford University); Sanjay Lall (Stanford University) Universal Distributed Sensing via Random Projections Marco Duarte (Rice University); Michael Wakin (Rice University); Dror Baron (Rice University); Richard Baraniuk (Rice University) Sensor Networks & Inverse Scattering Kaviyesh Doshi (University of California, Santa Barbara); Shiv Chandrasekaran (University of California, Santa Barbara) 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM POSTERS - MAIN TRACK - Chair: Anna Scaglione (Cornell University) Analytic Modeling of Detection Latency in Mobile Sensor Networks Tai-Lin Chin (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Parmesh Ramanathan (University of Wisconsin at Madison); Kewal Saluja (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Effect of Analog-to-Digital Converter in Distributed Sampling for Sensor Networks Sinem Ergen (University of California , Berkeley) SmartGossip: an improved randomized broadcast protocol for sensor networks Ananth Kini (Drexel University, Dept. of ECE, India); Vilas Veeraraghavan (Drexel University, India); Nikhil Singhal (Derxel University, Dept. of ECE); Steven Weber (Drexel University) Sleep Scheduling and Lifetime Maximization in Sensor Networks: Fundamental Limits and Optimal Solutions Ramanan Subramanian (Georgia Institute of Technology); Faramarz Fekri (Georgia Institute of Technology) Structuring Contention-based Channel Access in Wireless Sensor Networks Shane Eisenman (Columbia University); Andrew Campbell (Columbia University) eSENSE: Energy Efficient Stochastic Sensing Framework for Wireless Sensor Platforms Haiyang Liu (University of Minnesota); Abhishek Chandra (University of Minnesota); Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota) An Architecture for Wavelet Analysis and Processing in Sensor Networks Raymond Wagner (Rice University); Richard Baraniuk (Rice University); Shu Du (Rice University); David B. Johnson (Rice University); Albert Cohen (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie) Sensory Grammars for Understanding Motion Behaviors in Sensor Networks Dimitrios Lymberopoulos (Yale University); Abhijit Ogale (University Of Maryland, College Park); Yiannis Aloimonos (University Of Maryland, College Park); Andreas Savvides (Yale University) Sensing the Channel: Sensor Networks with Shared Sensing and Communications Satish Vedantam (University of Southern California); Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California); Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University) Design and Testing of Robust Acoustic Arrays for Localization and Enhancement of Several Bird Sources Chiao-En Chen (UCLA); Andreas Ali (UCLA); Hanbiao Wang (UCLA); Shadnaz Asgari (UCLA); Hyunggon Park (UCLA); Ralph Hudson (UCLA); Kung Yao (UCLA); Charles Taylor (UCLA) CRBcast: A Collaborative Rateless Scheme for Reliable and Energy-Efficient Broadcasting in Wireless Sensor Networks Nazanin Rahnavard (Georgia Institute of Technology); Faramarz Fekri (Georgia Institute of Technology) Energy-Driven Detection Scheme with Guaranteed Accuracy Lige Yu (University of Maryland, College Park); Lin Yuan (University of Maryland); Gang Qu (University of Maryland); Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland) Secure Code Distribution in Dynamically Programmable Wireless Sensor Networks Jing Deng (University of Colorado); Richard Han (University of Colorado); Shivakant Mishra (University of Colorado) A Linear Programming approach to NLOS error mitigation in Sensor Networks Swaroop Venkatesh (Virginia Tech); Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech) Energy-Efficient Data Representation and Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on a Distributed Wavelet Compression Algorithm Alexandre Ciancio (University of Southern California); Sundeep Pattem (University of Southern California); Antonio Ortega (University of Southern California); Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California) A Comparative Analysis of Multi-hop Localization Sensitivity to Ranging Irregularities Kamin Whitehouse (UC Berkeley); David Culler (UC Berkeley) Securing the Deluge Network Programming System Prabal Dutta (University of California at Berkeley); Jonathan Hui (University of California at Berkeley); David Chu (University of California, Berkeley); David Culler (University of California at Berkeley) 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM POSTERS - SPOTS TRACK - Chair: Anna Scaglione (Cornell University) Channel Allocation Srategies for Wireless Sensors Statically Deployed in Multipath Environments Jake Galbreath (University of Vermont); Jeff Frolik (University of Vermont) Ultra-Low Power Storage for Sensor Networks Gaurav Mathur (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Peter Desnoyers (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts,Amherst) The uPart Experience: Building a Wireless Sensor Network Michael Beigl (University of Karlsruhe); Albert Krohn (University of Karlsruhe); Christian Decker (TecO, University of Karlsruhe); Tobias Zimmer (TecO, University of Karlsruhe); Till Riedel (TecO, University of Karlsruhe); Manabu Isomura (TecO, University of Karlsruhe) TinyNode: A Comprehensive Platform for WSN deployments Henri Dubois-Ferriere (EPFL); Roger Meier (Shockfish SA); Laurent Fabre (EPFL); Pierre Metrailler (Shockfish SA) Tapper: A Lightweight Scripting Engine for Highly Constrained Wireless Sensor Nodes Qiang Xie (University of California, Irvine); Chulsung Park (University of California, Irvine); Pai Chou (University of California, Irivne) Tinker: A Tool for Designing Data-Centric Sensor Networks Jeremy Elson (Microsoft Research); Andrew Parker (University of California, Los Angeles) 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM DEMONSTRATIONS - Chair: Andreas Savvides (Yale University) 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM IPSN Business Meeting - Chair: Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research) SPOTS 2006 Presentation Program - Friday, April 21, 2006 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Welcome, Best Paper and Demo Awards and Keynote Speaker Introduction - Joseph Paradiso (MIT) 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM KEYNOTE TALK #3 Probing the Mystery of the Highest Energy Cosmic Particles with a Large Distributed Observatory Angela Olinto (University of Chicago) 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM BREAK 10:20 AM - 11:00 AM SPOTS'06 Session 1 - Sensor Network Platforms - Chair: Ralph Kling (Intel Research) A 15x15mm, 1uA, Reliable Sensor-Net Module: Enabling Application-Specific Nodes Shunzo Yamashita (Hitachi, CRL); Shimura Takanori (Hitachi, Ltd.); Kiyoshi Aiki (Hitachi Ltd.); Koji Ara (Hitachi Ltd.); Yuji Ogata (Hitachi, Ltd.); Isao Simokawa (Hitachi,Ltd.); Takeshi Tanaka (Hitachi, Ltd.); Kazuyuki Shimada (Hitachi, Ltd.); Hiroyuki Kuriyama (Hitachi, Ltd.) Miniaturizion Platform for Wireless Sensor Nodes Based on 3D-Packaging Technologies Michael Niedermayer (Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration); Rolf Thomasius (Technische Universität Berlin); Schrank Kai (Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration); Polityko David (Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration); Guttowski Stephan (Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration); Werner John (Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration); Herbert Reichl (Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration) 11:00 AM - 12:00 N SPOTS'06 Session 2 - Sensor Network Testbeds - Chair: Jim Reich (PARC) Kansei: A Testbed for Sensing at Scale Emre Ertin (The Ohio State University); Anish Arora (The Ohio State University); Rajiv Ramnath (The Ohio State University); Mikhail Nesterenko (Kent State University) Trio: Enabling Sustainable and Scalable Outdoor Wireless Sensor Network Deployments Prabal Dutta (University of California at Berkeley); Jonathan Hui (University of California at Berkeley); Jaein Jeong (University of California, Berkeley); Sukun Kim (University of California at Berkeley); Cory Sharp (UC Berkeley); Jay Taneja (UC Berkeley); Gilman Tolle (University of California, Berkeley); Kamin Whitehouse (UC Berkeley); David Culler (University of California at Berkeley) Marionette: a Tool Suite for Debugging and Scripting of Wireless Sensor Networks Kamin Whitehouse (UC Berkeley); Gilman Tolle (University of California, Berkeley); Jay Taneja (UC Berkeley); Cory Sharp (UC Berkeley); Sukun Kim (University of California at Berkeley); Jaein Jeong (University of California, Berkeley); Jonathan Hui (University of California at Berkeley); Prabal Dutta (University of California at Berkeley); David Culler (University of California at Berkeley) 12:00 N - 1:40 PM LUNCH 1:40 PM - 2:40 PM SPOTS'06 Session 3 - Software, Development Suites, & Algorithms - Chair: Andreas Savvides (Yale University) A Spreadsheet Approach to Programming and Managing Sensor Networks Alec Woo (Arched Rock Corp.); Siddharth Seth (IIT Kharagpur); Tim Olson (Microsoft Research); Jie Liu (Microsoft Research); Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research) Sdlib: A Sensor Network Data and Communications Library for Rapid and Robust Application Development David Chu (UC Berkeley); Kaisen Lin (UC Berkeley); Alexandre Linares (UC Berkeley); Giang Nguyen (UC Berkeley); Joe Hellerstein (UC Berkeley) Node Density Independent Localization Branislav Kusy (Vanderbilt University); Miklos Maroti (Vanderbilt University); Gyorgy Balogh (Vanderbilt University); Peter Volgyesi (Vanderbilt University); Janos Sallai (Vanderbilt University); Andras Nadas (Vanderbilt University); Akos Ledeczi (Vanderbilt University); Lambert Meertens (Kestrel Institute) 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM BREAK 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM SPOTS'06 Session 4 - New Sensors and Architectures - Chair: Kazuo Yano (Hitachi Research) The Low Power Energy Aware Processing (LEAP) System Dustin McIntire (UCLA); Kei Ho Hing (UCLA); Bernie Yip (UCLA); Amarjeet Singh (UCLA); Winston Wu (UCLA); William Kaiser (UCLA) Event-Based Imagers for Sensor Networks: Evaluation and Modeling Thiago Teixeira (Yale University); Eugenio Culurciello (Yale University); Evan Park (Yale University); Andrew Barton-Sweeney (ENALAB, Yale University); Dimitrios Lymberopoulos (Yale University); Andreas Savvides (Yale University) Towards Radar-Enabled Sensor Networks Prabal Dutta (University of California at Berkeley); Anish Arora (The Ohio State University); Steve Bibyk (The Ohio State University) 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM SPOTS'06 Session 5 - Applications - Chair: Wayne Wolf (Princeton University) Structural Damage Detection and Localization using NetSHM Krishna Chintalapudi (University of Southern California); Jeongyeup Paek (University of Southern California); Omprakash Gnawali (University of Southern California); Tat Fu (University of Southern California); Karthik Dantu (University of Southern California); John Caffrey (University of Southern California); Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California); Erik Johnson (University of Southern California) A Sensor Network for Social Dynamics Mathew Laibowitz (MIT Media Laboratory); Jonathan Gips (MIT); Ryan Aylward (MIT); Alex Pentland (MIT Media Lab); Joseph Paradiso (MIT) Wireless Adhoc Sensor and Actuator Networks on the Farm Peter Corke (CSIRO); Pavan Sikka (CSIRO); Philip Valencia (CSIRO ICT Centre); Christopher Crossman (CSIRO ICT Centre); Greg Bishop-Hurley (CSIRO Livestock Industires); Dave Swain (CSIRO Livestock Industires) 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM - Wrap-up and Discussion

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[IPSN 2006] Call For Participation and Technical Program Info
by ipsn2006＠cs.virginia.edu 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

[Apologies for multiple copies] ********************************************************** * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * 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/ * * * ********************************************************** Please join us at the Music City and enjoy the natural beauty of the Tennessee hillsides. Online registration for IPSN 2006 is available at http://ipsn2006.regmaster2.com/ The Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2006) April 19-21, Nashville, TN Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Welcome and Keynote Speaker Introduction 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM KEYNOTE TALK #1 Security in Sensor Networks: Industry Trends, Present and Future Research Directions Adrian Perrig (Carnegie Mellon University) 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM BREAK 10:20 AM - 12:00 N IPSN'06 Main Track - Sensor Selection and Placement - Chair: Stephen Wicker (Cornell) Near-optimal Sensor Placements: Maximizing Information while Minimizing Communication Cost Utility-based Sensor Selection Global connectivity from local geometric constraints for sensor networks with various wireless footprints Simultaneous Localization, Calibration, and Tracking in an ad Hoc Sensor Network Distributed localization of networked cameras 12:00 N - 1:40 PM LUNCH 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM IPSN'06 Main Track - Mobile Agents and Routing - Chair: Deepak Ganesan (UCLA) Data Gathering Tours in Sensor Networks Decentralized Compression and Predistribution via Randomized Gossiping Active Learning for Adaptive Mobile Sensing Networks Gossiping with Geographic Routing: Efficient Aggregation for Sensor Networks Differential Games on Large Scale Sensor Networks 3:20 PM - 4:10 PM BREAK POSTERS - WORK IN PROGRESS - Chair: Phillip Gibbons (Intel Research) 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM IPSN'06 Main Track - Sensor Tasking and Data Retrieval - Chair: Phillip Gibbons (Intel Research) Active Wireless Sensing for Rapid Information Retrieval in Sensor Networks Kinetically Stable Task Assignment for Networks of Microservers Random Distributed Multiresolution Representations with Significance Querying Slip Surface Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks for Landslide Prediction 6:30 PM Conference Dinner Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Best Paper Awards and Keynote Speaker Introduction 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM KEYNOTE TALK #2 Beyond SensorWebs: Closing the Loop in Network Embedded Systems Shankar Sastry (U.C. Berkeley) 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM BREAK 10:20 AM - 12:00 N IPSN'06 Main Track - Wireless Sensor Networking - Chair: Carlos Guestrin (CMU) Coverage for Target Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks Error Propagation in Dense Wireless Networks with Cooperation Compressive Wireless Sensing Sweeps Over Wireless Sensor Networks CAPTRA: Coordinated Packet Traceback 12:00 N - 1:40 PM LUNCH 1:40 PM - 3:00 PM IPSN'06 Main Track - Sensing and Estimation Methodologies - Chair: Rob Nowak (Wisconsin) On the Interdependence of Sensing and Estimation Complexity in Sensor Networks A Space-Time Diffusion Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Least-Squares Estimation Universal Distributed Sensing via Random Projections Sensor Networks & Inverse Scattering 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM POSTERS - MAIN TRACK - Chair: Anna Scaglione (Cornell) Analytic Modeling of Detection Latency in Mobile Sensor Networks Effect of Analog-to-Digital Converter in Distributed Sampling for Sensor Networks SmartGossip: an improved randomized broadcast protocol for sensor networks Sleep Scheduling and Lifetime Maximization in Sensor Networks: Fundamental Limits and Optimal Solutions Structuring Contention-based Channel Access in Wireless Sensor Networks eSENSE: Energy Efficient Stochastic Sensing Framework for Wireless Sensor Platforms An Architecture for Wavelet Analysis and Processing in Sensor Networks Sensory Grammars for Understanding Motion Behaviors in Sensor Networks Sensing the Channel: Sensor Networks with Shared Sensing and Communications Design and Testing of Robust Acoustic Arrays for Localization and Enhancement of Several Bird Sources CRBcast: A Collaborative Rateless Scheme for Reliable and Energy-Efficient Broadcasting in Wireless Sensor Networks Energy-Driven Detection Scheme with Guaranteed Accuracy Secure Code Distribution in Dynamically Programmable Wireless Sensor Networks A Linear Programming approach to NLOS error mitigation in Sensor Networks Energy-Efficient Data Representation and Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on a Distributed Wavelet Compression Algorithm A Comparative Analysis of Multi-hop Localization Sensitivity to Ranging Irregularities Securing the Deluge Network Programming System 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM POSTERS - SPOTS TRACK - Chair: Anna Scaglione (Cornell) Channel Allocation Strategies for Wireless Sensors Statically Deployed in Multipath Environments Tapper: A Lightweight Scripting Engine for Highly Constrained Wireless Sensor Nodes Tinker: A Tool for Designing Data-Centric Sensor Networks TinyNode: A Comprehensive Platform for WSN deployments The uPart Experience: Building a Wireless Sensor Network Ultra-Low Power Storage for Sensor Networks 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM DEMONSTRATIONS - Chair: Andreas Savvides (Yale University) 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM IPSN Business Meeting - Chair: Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research) SPOTS 2006 Presentation Program - Friday, April 21, 2006 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Welcome, Best Paper and Demo Awards and Keynote Speaker Introduction - J. Paradiso (MIT) 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM KEYNOTE TALK #3 Probing the Mystery of the Highest Energy Cosmic Particles with a Large Distributed Observatory Angela Olinto (University of Chicago) 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM BREAK 10:20 AM - 11:00 AM SPOTS'06 Session 1 - Sensor Network Platforms - Chair: Ralph Kling (Intel Research) A 15x15mm, 1uA, Reliable Sensor-Net Module: Enabling Application-Specific Nodes Miniaturization Platform for Wireless Sensor Nodes Based on 3D-Packaging Technologies 11:00 AM - 12:00 N SPOTS'06 Session 2 - Sensor Network Testbeds - Chair: Jim Reich (PARC) Kansei: A Testbed for Sensing at Scale Trio: Enabling Sustainable and Scalable Outdoor Wireless Sensor Network Deployments Marionette: a Tool Suite for Debugging and Scripting of Wireless Sensor Networks 12:00 N - 1:40 PM LUNCH 1:40 PM - 2:40 PM SPOTS'06 Session 3 - Software, Development Suites, & Algorithms - Chair: Andreas Savvides (Yale University) A Spreadsheet Approach to Programming and Managing Sensor Networks Sdlib: A Sensor Network Data and Communications Library for Rapid and Robust Application Development Node Density Independent Localization 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM BREAK 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM SPOTS'06 Session 4 - New Sensors and Architectures - Chair: Kazuo Yano (Hitachi Research) The Low Power Energy Aware Processing (LEAP) System Event-Based Imagers for Sensor Networks: Evaluation and Modeling Towards Radar-Enabled Sensor Networks 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM SPOTS'06 Session 5 - Applications - Chair: Wayne Wolf (Princeton University) Structural Damage Detection and Localization using NetSHM A Sensor Network for Social Dynamics Wireless Adhoc Sensor and Actuator Networks on the Farm 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM - Wrap-up and Discussion

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Meeting dates
by Otto Spaniol 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Dear all, since several of you have asked in the past about the dates and the locations of the next meetings I append the corresponding part of the meeting minutes 2005/2 (the delegates' questions were another proof for the observation that nobody reads any minutes ;-) ). The locations in 2007 and 2008 are still for further discussion. However, a connection of the first meeting per year with the NetworkingXX conference is strongly recommended. The meeting in Coimbra should be started Friday around noon and it should end Saturday evening. Best regards Otto -------------------------------------------------------------------- Future TC6 meetings 2006/1 To be held in Coimbra, Portugal, Friday 19th and Saturday 20th May. 2006/2 - Please note the change of location and date for meeting 2006/2 This was originally agreed to be held in Santiago, Chile, in association with the WCC. For a variety of reasons, it has been agreed that it would be better to hold the full Autumn TC6 meeting in Paris on Friday 29th and Saturday 30th September. There will be a special (one day) TC6 meeting in Santiago de Chile concerning developing country questions; probably on Friday, 25th August 2006. 2007/1 To be held in Atlanta, United States, dates to be confirmed. 2007/2 To be held in South Africa, location and dates to be confirmed. 2008/1 To be held in the United Kingdom in May, location and precise dates to be confirmed.

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Deadline for Workshop proposals for IEEE MASS fast approaching
by Pedro M. Ruiz 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Call for Workshops The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS-2006) October 9 - 12, 2006 Vancouver, Canada http://www.ieee-mass.org Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, IEEE TC on Distributed Processing and TC on Simulation SUBMISSION (by March 31st) --------------------------- Proposals for full day workshops are solicited. The selection criteria include the expertise and experience of the workshop coordinators and relevance to the central themes of the conference. Proposals of at most 4 pages, including 1-page biographical sketch, should be submitted to the Workshops Chair, Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer (ebel**ding(a)cs.ucsb.edu), by March 31, 2006.

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IPDPS 2006 Breaking News
by Ioannis Chatzigiannakis 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

---------- IPDPS 2006 BREAKING NEWS ---------- - ADVANCE REGISTRATION ENDS MARCH 26TH - SPECIAL IPDPS HOTEL RATES AVAILABLE THROUGH APRIL 10TH - OPEN INVITATION FOR COMMERCIAL PARTICIPATION - ADVANCE PROGRAM POSTED ON WEB - TRAVEL TIPS POSTED & DESTINATION PROGRAM TO FOLLOW -----See details below----- *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** 20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium Tuesday, 25 April Β Saturday, 29 April 2006 Rodos Palace Resort Hotel & Convention Center Rhodes Island, Greece www.ipdps.org Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing In cooperation with ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing Hosted by Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (CTI, Greece) IPDPS serves as a forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in the fields of parallel processing and distributed computing. The five-day program will follow the usual format of contributed papers, invited speakers, panels, and commercial participation mid week, framed by workshops held on the first and last days; this year in Greece that will be Tuesday and Saturday. Visit this Web site for regular updates, including the advance program, registration, and accommodations. Send general email inquiries to info(a)ipdps.org. *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** ================================== - ADVANCE REGISTRATION ENDS MARCH 26TH http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=86312 Advance discount on registration fees expires 12:00 PM Midnight-MST-USA (GMT-07:00), 26 March 2006. Online registration will be available to end of conference. ================================== - SPECIAL IPDPS HOTEL RATES AVAILABLE THROUGH APRIL 10TH http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2006/2006_hotel.html Registration for all hotel accommodations should be done through Keramidas Travel. Go to above link for details. ================================== - OPEN INVITATION FOR COMMERCIAL PARTICIPATION http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2006/2006_commercial.html Reminder: IPDPS 2006 has several options for commercial participation. Interested companies and organizations should contact one of the Commercial Co-chairs for more information. ================================== - ADVANCE PROGRAM POSTED ON WEB http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2006/2006_advance_program.html *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** ΓPDPS 2006 TECHNICAL SESSIONS OF CONTRIBUTED PAPERS >From 531 submissions - an IPDPS record - 125 papers were selected for presentation in 32 sessions to be held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The keynote speakers for those days are listed below along with the Thursday evening symposium banquet speaker. These three days are book-ended by the 19 workshops to be held on Tuesday and Saturday as detailed below. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Β Manish Gupta IBM T.J. Watson Research Center "Massively Parallel Systems: Ready or Not, Here They Come" Β Yves Robert LIP Laboratory - CNRS/ENS Lyon "Static Scheduling for Large-Scale Platforms: Can One Hope for Efficiency?" Β Horst D. Simon Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory "Progress in Supercomputing: The Top Three Breakthroughs of the Last 20 Years and the Top Three Challenges for the Next 20 Years" BANQUET SPEAKER Β Bill Dally Stanford University Challenges and Opportunities for Parallel Computing IPDPS 2006 WORKSHOPS Workshops at IPDPS are held on the first and last day of the symposium. Each workshop has its own requirements and schedule for submissions and all are linked from the IPDPS Web site. The proceedings of each workshop are published as part of the full symposium proceedings and will be available on-site in Greece. The 19 workshops are listed below. To link to an individual workshop site, visit: http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2006/2006_workshops.html TUESDAY, 25 ARPIL WORKSHOPS 1 HCW Heterogeneous Computing Workshop 2 WPDRTS Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems 3 RAW Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop 4 HIPS Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models & Supportive Environments 5 JAVAPDC Java for Parallel and Distributed Computing Workshop 6 NIDISC Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing 7 HiCOMB Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology 8 APDCM Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing Models 9 CAC Communication Architecture for Clusters 10 NSFNGS NSF Next Generation Software Program 11 HPPAC High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing SATURDAY, 29 APRIL WORKSHOPS 12 PDSEC Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing 13 PMEO Performance Modelling, Evaluation, and Optimisation of Parallel and Distributed Systems 14 HPGC High Performance Grid Computing 15 DPDNS Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems 16 SSN International Workshop on Security in Systems and Networks 17 SMTPS Workshop on System Management Tools for Large-Scale Parallel Systems 18 HOTP2P International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems 19 POHLL Workshop on Performance Optimization for High-Level Languages and Libraries *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** - TRAVEL TIPS POSTED & DESTINATION PROGRAM TO FOLLOW http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2006/2006_travel.html PLEASE RETURN TO THIS SITE AFTER MARCH 17TH FOR DETAILS ON LOCAL EXCURSIONS AND TOURS Send email to akeramida.keramidas(a)galileo.gr or call +30 2610 273 330 or fax +30 2610 221225.

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IFIP Conference I3E Turku, Finland 11.-13.10.2006 call for papers
by Reima.Suomi＠tukkk.fi 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

CALL FOR PAPERS Please find included the call for papers to the sixth International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government (I3E 2006) to take place in Turku, Finland 11.-13.10.2006. The conference will be organized in two parallel tracks: research track and industrial and administration track. For the research track, submissions should describe original research work not submitted or published elsewhere. For the industrial and administration track, submissions should describe innovative products or good practices in the areas of conference interests. The deadline for submissions is 30.4.2006. The submission system is already open. For closer details, take look at the conference www-site http://www.tukkk.fi/i3e/ Please feel free to circulate this call for papers further to potential contributors. Welcome all to Turku next autumn! <<I3E 2006 call for papers.pdf>> Reima Suomi ____________________ Reima Suomi I3E 2006 Conference Chair Professor of Information Systems Science Turku School of Economics and Business Administration Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 FIN-20520 TURKU Finland Telephone +358 2 481 4409 Fax +358 2 481 4451 Mobile +358 50 410 2282 reima.suomi(a)tukkk.fi www.tukkk.fi/~rsuomi

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MobiHoc 2006 Call for Posters
by Wendi Heinzelman 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

************************************************************ CALL FOR POSTERS MobiHoc 2006 The 7th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing May 22-26, 2006, Florence, Italy http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2006/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ************************************************************ CALL FOR POSTERS Posters presenting early work and preliminary results are solicited. The poster session will provide an excellent opportunity for initial feedback on early research results. Poster descriptions of no more than 3 pages (US letter size 8.5 x 11 inches) using font size 10 should be submitted by email to the Poster Co-Chairs Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini <chiasserini(a)tlc.polito.it> and Wendi Heinzelman <wheinzel(a)ece.rochester.edu> before April 3, 2006. Please submit your proposal in PDF format and include the words "Poster Abstract:" to precede the title on the cover page and in the subject line of the email submission. A selected subset of poster abstracts will be published in ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review. IMPORTANT DATES Poster Submission Deadline: April 3, 2006 Acceptance Notifications: April 14, 2006

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Call for papers : 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS'06)
by ISWCS 2006 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

CFP : 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2006 ) Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2006 6 - 8 September 2006, Valencia (Spain) www.iswcs.org/iswcs2006 Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Wireless Communications are at the centre of a new and passionate era for telecommunications characterised by the convergence of systems and technologies, a transition towards all-IP networks, and the development of technologies with a user-centred focus. In this context, the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) is positioning itself as a recognised and dynamic forum for researchers and technologists to present and discuss original ideas and contributions in all fields related to mobile wireless communication systems. The 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems intends to bring together leading wireless communication researchers and technologists willing to identify and discuss the most recent advances, the future technical challenges and business opportunities arising in the path towards the realisation of ambient wireless communication networks. Together with the technical sessions, the symposium will feature panel discussions and keynote presentations from leading wireless communication experts from industry, academia regulatory and standardisation bodies. To realise its objectives, the organising and technical committees of the symposium are seeking original contributions in the areas of, but not limited to: - IMT-2000 systems - Beyond 3G and 4G systems - Innovative concepts for future mobile and wireless communication systems - Fixed and nomadic wireless access - Relaying and user cooperation - Spectrum sharing and coexistence - Radio resource management and allocation - Wireless access techniques - Cross-layer design and optimisation - experimental systems and field trials - Heterogeneous wireless networking - Convergence of networks - End-to-End QoS provision - Wireless network architectures and deployments - Ultra-wideband communications - Wireless LAN and PAN - Wireless and Mobile IP - Wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks - Digital audio and video broadcasting - Novel wireless switching and routing techniques - Mobility management - Traffic control and engineering - Modelling, analysis and simulation of mobile and wireless systems - Innovative services and applications - Service and middleware platforms - Location based services and positioning - Security and privacy - Software radio and re-configurability - Satellite communications and High Altitude Platforms - Coding, modulation and equalization - Wireless propagation and channel modelling - MIMO techniques and smart adaptive antennas - Space-time coding and diversity - Signal processing for wireless systems SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts (full papers will not be accepted) of about 1500 words (two pages in the standard IEEE conference format) together with a short summary (approx. 150 words). Authors are requested to indicate their paper's technical area when submitting their contribution. Proposals for Tutorial are also being solicited and should be sent, together with a one page summary and the presenter's biography, to the Tutorial Chair. Detailed submission guidelines and manuscript templates will be published on the conference's website. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: March 31, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 2, 2006 Tutorials proposals deadline: June 9, 2006 Final paper due: July 1, 2006 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE General Chair: Narcís Cardona Technical University of Valencia, Spain Technical Program Chair: Luis Correia IST/IT - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal General Co-Chairs: Boon Sain Yeo (1) and Javier Gozalvez (2) 1. Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore 2. University Miguel Hernández, Spain Technical Program co-Chair: Alberto González Technical University of Valencia, Spain Panel/Speaker Chair: Jorge Pereira European Commission, Belgium Tutorial Chair: Oriol Sallent Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Special Sessions and Invited Papers Chair: Roberto Verdone University of Bologna, Italia Publication Chair: James Irvine University of Strathclyde, UK Publicity Chair: Óscar Lázaro Innovalia Association, Spain Local Organizing Chair: David Argilés Technical University of Valencia, Spain STEERING COMMITTEE Narcís Cardona, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Boon Sain Yeo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Luis Correia, IST/IT - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy Javier Gozálvez, University Miguel Hernández, Spain Alberto González,Technical University of Valencia, Spain James Irvine,University of Strathclyde, UK Oscar Lazaro,Innovalia Association, Spain The 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems will take place in Valencia (Spain) from the 6th to the 8th of September 2006. Valencia is a beautiful and warm Mediterranean city worldwide recognised for its history and quality of life, and the acclaimed Calatrava's City of Arts and Sciences. Valencia is also hosting the 32nd America's Cup, the most prestigious international sailing competition and the oldest sports trophy in the world. For more information and a detailed conference's social program, please visit the symposium's web site: www.iswcs.org/iswcs2006 Interested researchers are also encouraged to register in the conference's mailing list to receive updates on the Symposium. Last updated: 20 March 2006

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