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HotWeek 2007 || Silicon Valley, July 1-6, 2007 || Deadline March 4th, 2007
by IARIA Invitation 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Call for Submissions: ICIMP 2007 & ICDT 2007 & ICGD&BC 2007, Silicon Valley, July 1-6, 2007 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 4th, 2007 Invitation: Please consider contributing to the conferences ICIMP 2007 , ICDT 2007, and ICGD&BC 2007 , a s well as to the associated workshops listed below. Date: July 1-6, 2007 - Silicon Valley, USA Please forward the following Call for Submissions to the appropriate groups. ======================================= CALL FOR PAPERS , TUTORIALS, PANELS - ICDT 2007, The Second International Conference on Digital Telecommunications http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICDT07.html - ICIMP 2007, The Second International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICIMP07.html - ICGD&BC 2007, The First International Conference on Global Defense and Business Continuity http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICGDBC07.html ______________________________________________________________ Place: San Jose, California Important deadlines: Full paper submission March 4, 2007 Author notification April 5, 2007 Registration and Camera ready April 20, 2007 ______________________________________________________________ Featuring the workshops: ICIMP 2007 Workshops: - SYVUL 2007: The First International Workshop on Systems Vulnerabilities - SYDIA 2007: The First International Workshop on Systems Diagnosis - CYBER-FRAUD 2007: The First International Workshop on Cyber-Fraud ICDT 2007 Workshops: - SARP 2007: The First International Workshop on Software Architecture Research and Practice - STREAM 2007: The First International Workshop on Data Stream Processing ICGD&BC 2007 Workshops: - TRACK 2007: The First International Workshop on Tracking Computing Technologies ______________________________________________________________ Conference Topics: ICIMP 2007 Tracks: TRASI: Internet traffic surveillance and interception IPERF: Internet Performance RTSEC: Security for Internet-based real-time systems DISAS: Disaster prevention and recovery EMERG: Networks and applications emergency services MONIT: End-to-end sampling, measurement, and monitoring REPORT: Experiences & lessons learnt in securing networks and applications USSAF: User safety, privacy, and protection over Interne ICDT 2007 Tracks: MULTE: Multimedia Telecommunications SIGNAL: Signal processing in telecommunications DATA: Data processing AUDIO: Audio transmission and reception systems VOICE: Voice over packet networks VIDEO: Video, conferencing, telephony IMAGE: Image producing, sending, and mining SPEECH: Speech producing and processing IPTV: IP/Mobile TV MULTI: Multicast/Broadcast Triple-Quadruple-play CONTENT: Production, distribution HXSIP: H-series towards SIP MEDMAN: Control and management of multimedia telecommunication ICGD&BC 2007 Tracks: BUSINESS: Business continuity RISK: Risk assessment DISASTER: Emergency services and disaster recovery TRUST: Privacy and trust in pervasive communications RIGHT: Digital rights management BIOTEC: Biometric techniques ======================================== Organizing Publicity Board

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CALL FOR PAPERS MILCOM 2007 (Abstracts Due on Mar. 09)
by Kejie Lu 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ** ** The deadline for submitting the abstracts has been extended to 09 March 2007 ** ** The link for submitting the unclassified papers is: https://wams.jspargo.com/milcom07/login.asp ** ================================================= CALL for PAPERS MILCOM 2007 October 29–31, 2007 Gaylord Palms Convention Center Orlando, Florida USA Conference Theme: Interoperability: Policy to Performance MILCOM 2007 is soliciting both unclassified and classified papers (up to DoD Secret) relevant to communications and information processing system technologies and capabilities that address the 21st century challenges of National Defense, Homeland Security, Disaster Response and Interoperability. Industry, academic, and government organizations from both the U.S. and countries around the globe are invited and encouraged to participate. Important Dates: Abstracts Due: 09 March 2007 Draft Papers Due: 20 April 2007 Author Notification: 25 May 2007 Final Camera Ready Papers Due: 6 July 2007 Suggested technical areas of general interest include but are not limited to: • Interoperability – Policies and Standards – DoD and Federal Agencies – State and Local Governments – Emergency Grid Communications – Coalition Partners – Disaster Response • Service Oriented Architectures • Advanced Communications Technologies • Network Management • Mobile and Wireless Technologies • Radio Systems and Technologies • Network Centric Systems and Technologies • Applications and Operational Concepts • Systems, Programs and Initiatives • Information Management and Dissemination • Digital Signal Processing • Coding • Modulation • Advanced Waveforms • Next Generation Networks and Systems • Internet Protocols • Link Layer and Cross-Layer Protocols • Network Architectures and Routing • Transport Protocols and Performance • Quality of Service Architectures • Design Modeling and Simulation • Digital Video Broadcasting and Standards • IF/RF Technologies and Techniques • Advanced SATCOM systems • Airborne Technologies • Standards Based Datalinks • Mobile Satellite Systems • Space Networks and Protocols • Wireless Communications • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks • Computer and Network Security Systems • Software Defined Radios and Cognitive Radios • Sensor Networks • Advanced Antenna Technologies • Laser Communications and Optical Networks • Tests and Measurements • Ultra Wideband • Multimedia Communications and Management Technical Program Committee Technical Program Chair Dr. Vitas Mikenas Harris Corporation 321-729-7748 mikenas.milcom2007(a)harris.com Unclassified Program Chair Dr. Sastri Kota Harris Corporation 408-990-8301 kota.milcom2007(a)harris.com Classified Program Chair Terry Casto Harris Corporation 321-984-5600 casto.milcom2007(a)harris.com Panels Program Chair Leo deCardenas Harris Corporation 321-727-6202 decardenas.milcom2007(a)harris.com Tutorial Program Chair Rich Folio Harris Corporation 321-729-3629 folio.milcom2007(a)harris.com Unclassified Technical Program Submission Process: The Web-based Abstract Management System (WAMS) (www.milcom.org) is used to submit abstracts, full papers, and final camera ready papers. During the abstract submission process, author and password information will need to be entered and a Paper ID# will be assigned. This Paper ID# and password will be used to upload papers. The abstract must NOT contain any ITAR-related, classified, or proprietary information. Abstracts will only be used to help define the sessions. The Unclassified Author’s Kit provides instructions to authors for preparation of the full and final manuscripts and the required forms. Full papers will be reviewed for acceptance only when all appropriate forms have been completed and received. Classified Technical Program Submission Process: All persons wishing to attend and/or participate in the Classified Technical Program must, at a minimum, possess a current Secret personnel security clearance and be a U.S. citizen. Non-U.S. originated papers will NOT be accepted for the Classified Technical Program. All abstracts for the Classified Technical Program must be unclassified. Please submit a title and a brief unclassified abstract (up to 2000 characters) of your intended paper via email to: casto.milcom2007(a)harris.com. Each submission requires author name, affiliation, citizenship, address, phone and fax numbers, email address, and the applicable area. For papers with more than one author, indicate the point of contact. Do NOT use WAMS to submit abstracts, full papers, or the final papers for the Classified Technical Program. All papers for the Classified Technical Program must be prepared following the instructions and formatting guidelines in the Classified Author’s Kit. Proposals for Tutorials and Panels: MILCOM 2007 solicits proposals for unclassified half-day tutorials, and unclassified and classified panels on state-of-the art communications, networking, and interoperability technologies. The tutorial proposals should include a brief outline of the tutorial, instructor biography, and relevant instructor experience. The Unclassified Tutorials Kit provides the applicable forms and the formatting guidelines for the tutorial material. Please forward your proposals to the MILCOM 2007 Tutorial Program Chair, Rich Folio, at folio.milcom2007(a)harris.com. Proposals for Panels: The proposals for panels should include a brief outline of the panel discussion topics, panel participants, and panel moderator along with their bios. A Panels Kit provides the information about the applicable forms and the guidelines for the preparation of the panel material. Please forward your proposals to the MILCOM 2007 Panels Program Chair, Leo deCardenas, at decardenas.milcom2007(a)harris.com. Tutorials and Panels Important Dates: Proposals Due: 16 March 2007 Notification: 20 April 2007 Material Due: 13 July 2007 For further details and information about MILCOM 2007 please visit www.milcom.org.

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ICST - WiOpt'07: Call For Participation
by info＠icstconferences.org 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

5th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks April 16-20, 2007, Limassol, Cyprus www.wiopt.org Last day to reserve hotel room at Workshop's low prices: March 16, 2007. Scope of the Symposium: The design of wireless networks offers challenges not present in fixed networks: both the offered traffic and the network capacity depend on the mobility of the nodes. The designs should not only be functioning correctly, they are also expected to optimize the performance with respect to many criteria, such as energy efficiency, quality of service, and capacity utilization. This symposium intends to bring together researchers and practitioners working on optimization of wireless network design and operations. It welcomes different perspectives, including performance analysis, protocol design, wireless communication, and optimization theory. Conference Program: Visit the conference website www.wiopt.org for the conference program as well as travel information. Keynote Speaker: Prof. R. Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Adjunct Workshops: Five one-day workshops will accompany the main WiOpt Symposium. Please check the conference website for more details: * WiNMee/WiTNeMo 2007 : International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements * RAWNET 2007 : Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks * SPASWIN 2007: Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks * CONCOM 2007 : Control over Communication Channels * WNC3 2007 : Wireless Networks: Communication, Cooperation and Competition Technical Sponsorship: IEEE-CSS, IEEE-ITS, IFIP, EURASIP, INRIA, IFANY -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=vgqqzsxdex and enter your email address.

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CFP: IEEE Workshop on Networking Technologies for Software Defined Radio Networks
by Vijay Raghunathan 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

============================================================================= Second IEEE Workshop on Networking Technologies for Software Defined Radio (SDR) Networks (Held in Conjunction with IEEE SECON 2007) June 18, 2007, San Diego, California, USA http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~wenyuan/sdr07/index.htm Wireless systems have historically operated in relatively static frequency bands allocated to a single type of service. This compartmentalization of spectrum offered few incentives for common designs across frequency bands and limited opportunities for dynamic spectrum sharing. More recently, there has been a push to make more spectrum available, and in response there has been significant research towards developing new classes of cognitive radios and their associated protocols. Cognitive radios (CRs), or more generally software defined radios (SDRs), can tune their communication stack to take advantage of spectrum opportunities, adapt to a wide variety of radio interference conditions, and employ protocols that allow for collaboration between previously incompatible technologies. Dynamic physical layer adaptation is achieved by scanning available spectrum, selection from a wide range of operating frequencies, rapid adjustment of modulation waveforms and adaptive power co! ntrol. A suitably designed cognitive radio with a software-defined physical layer would be capable of collaborating with neighboring radios to ameliorate interference using higher-layer protocols. These higher layer coordination protocols could range from etiquette mechanisms to fully collaborative multi-hop forwarding. The potential impact of cognitive radios upon both commercial and military wireless communications is great as they cou allow for improved spectrum utilization and improved interoperability between wireless data standards. The workshop builds upon the success of the First IEEE Workshop on Networking Technologies for Software Defined Radio (SDR) Networks. Although the potential for CR/SDR platforms is great, there remains a need for developing, testing, and prototyping the protocols that will allow the CR platforms to achieve their promise. The purpose of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of cutting-edge research in cognitive radio and software defined radio technologies. The focus of this workshop is to explore the underlying networking and communication protocols needed to facilitate the interconnection of CR/SDR platforms. Since CR/SDR research is taking place across multiple communities, ranging from academic to government to industry, from physical layer to networking to hardware researchers, we intend for this workshop to serve as a forum for cross-pollination and collaboration that will accelerate the deployment and eventual success of CR/SDR platforms. PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submissions must be full papers in PDF format. Papers should be sent by email to SDRWorkshop07(a)winlab.rutgers.edu. Papers must not exceed 8 single-spaced, two-column pages using at least 11 point size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages. IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript Submission Due: March 19, 2007, 5pm EDT Acceptance Notification: April 18, 2007 Camera-Ready Paper Due: May 5, 2007 WORKSHOP CHAIR Wade Trappe, WINLAB, Rutgers University trappe(a)winlab.rutgers.edu WORKSHOP ADVISORY BOARD Thomas Hou, Virginia Tech University Jeffrey H. Reed, Virginia Tech University Narayan Mandayam, WINLAB, Rutgers University (Preliminary) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Joseph Evans, University of Kansas Xin Liu, University of California at Davis Jung-Min Park, Virginia Tech University Masahiro Kuroda, National Institute for Communications Technology (Japan) Haitao Zheng, University of California, Santa Barbara K.J.R. Liu, University of Maryland Wenyuan Xu, WINLAB, Rutgers University Yanyong Zhang, WINLAB, Rutgers University (Others to be determined) =============================================================================

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Call For Papers of NPC2007
by npc2007 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

Apologies for multiple copies received. Please, distribute it to interested colleagues and students. Lots of thanks for your help! Best regards, NPC 2007 Secretariat CALL FOR PAPERS The goal of IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2007) is to establish an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present their excellent ideas and experiences in all system fields of network and parallel computing. NPC 2007 will be held in Dalian, China. You can find more information from the conference homepage (http://www.dlmu.edu.cn/npc2007/). PAPER Submission Guidelines Papers are solicited reporting original results and experience. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 15 pages, including tables and figures, with PDF, PostScript, or MS Word format, and the work must not be published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Detailed submission instructions will be posted on the conference web site. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. It is planned that the conference proceedings of NPC 2007 will be published in English by LNCS (approval pending), which is indexed by SCI and extended versions of some selected papers are to be published in a special issue of international journals (International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES)). For more information, please contact the program co-chair Dr. Keqiu Li (Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, China) by email at keqiu(a)dlmu.edu.cn or npc2007(a)dlmu.edu.cn.. IMPORTANT Dates Submission deadline: March 31, 2007 Author notification: May 26, 2007 Camera-ready version due: June 16, 2007 Conference: September 18-21, 2007 TOPICS of Interest include the following tracks, but are not limited to: Track I: Network applications Peer-to-peer computing Cluster and Grid computing Wireless computing Ubiquitous computing Internet Computing Optical networks Multimedia services and applications Track II: Network technologies Communication technology Web technology Network storage Network reliability, security, and dependability Network algorithms Scheduling and load balancing Track III: Network and parallel architectures Shared and distributed memory Nontraditional processor technologies Network and interconnect architecture Parallel I/O and storage systems System design issues for low power and energy efficiency Performance modeling and evaluation Multicore design issues OS support in hardware Track IV: Parallel and distributed software Parallel programming models, languages and compilers Runtime systems Operating systems Resource management Middleware Data mining Programming environments and tools BEST Paper Award The NPC 2007 program committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award and two winners for the Excellent Paper Award (all regular papers are eligible), one winner for the Best Student Paper Award and two winners for the Excellent Student Paper Award (only the regular papers whose first author is a full-time student are eligible). The winner of each award will be presented at the conference with an award certificate, a cheque of US $200 and an invitation to submit an extended version of the award-winning paper for the consideration of publishing in an international journal. ORGANIZING Committees Honorary Chair Zuwen Wang, President, Dalian Maritime University (DLMU), China General Co-Chairs Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California, Irvine, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee Chair Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing Corporation, USA Program Co-Chairs Chris Jesshope, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Keqiu Li, DLMU, China (keqiu(a)dlmu.edu.cn) Program Vice-Chairs Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University, USA Skevos Evripidou, the University of Cyprus, Cyprus Susumu Horiguchi, Tohoku University, Japan Publication Co-Chairs Minyi Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan Mingyu Lu, DLMU, China Publicity Co-Chairs Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Alex Shafarenko, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Yang Xiang, Central Queensland University, Australia Organization Co-Chairs Zhan Yang, DLMU, China Weishi Zhang, DLMU, China Bo Jiang, DLMU, China Finance Chair Ruixue Xu, DLMU, China Registration Chair Zhenjun Du, DLMU, China Industry Sponsorship Co-Chairs Bo Jiang, DLMU, China Local Arrangement Chair Guanyu Li, DLMU, China Internet Chairs Zhihuai Li, DLMU, China Jianping Jiang, DLMU, China Conference Secretariat (npc2007(a)dlmu.edu.cn) Zhiying Cao, DLMU, China Hong Ye, DLMU, China Program Committee Members Ajith Abraham, Chun-Ang University, Korea Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Shoukat Ali, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan Ramon Beivide, University of Cantabria, Spain Jacir L. Bordim, University of Brasilia, Brazil Luc Bouge, IRISA/ENS Cachan, France Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Wentong Cai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Ralph Castain, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Rong Chen, DLMU, China Xueqi Cheng, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Zhongxian Chi, Dalian University of Technology, China Jong-Deok Choi, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Alain Darte, LIP, France Xavier Defago, JAIST, Japan Chen Ding, University of Rochester, USA Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, China Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College, UK Christine Eisenbeis, INRIA, France Jianping Fan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Renato J. Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA Bjoern Franke, University of Edinburgh, UK Kei Hiraki, University of Tokyo, Japan Wen Gao, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Cecile Germain, University of Paris Sud, France Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chuang Hua University, Taiwan Zhiyi Huang, The University of Otago, New Zealand Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State University, USA Cruz Izu, Adelaide University, Austraia Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State Univeristy, USA Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Paul H. J. Kelly, Imperial College, UK Jin Suk Kim, University of Seoul, Korea Mario Koppen, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany Viktor Korneev, R&D Institute "Kvant", Russia Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Ricky Kwok, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Deok-Gyu Lee, Soonchunhyang University, Korea Myungho Lee, Myongji University, Korea Deying Li, Renmin University of China, China Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Xingsi Li, Dalian University of Technology, China Xiuqi Li, Florida Atlantic University, USA Fangai Liu, Shan Dong Normal University, China Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Weijiang Liu, DLMU, China Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China Geyong Min ,University of Bradford, UK Soo-Mook Moon, Seoul National University, Korea John Morris, Auckland University, New Zealand John Morrison, University College Cork, Ireland Yoichi Muraoka, Waseda University, Japan Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan Jun Ni, The University of Iowa, USA Lionel Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Jong Hyuk Park, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea Andy Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Depei Qian, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Wenyu Qu, University of Tokyo, Japan Felix Rauch, NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia Wolfgang Rehm, TU Chemnitz, Germany Arnold Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Ulrich Rude, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo University College, Norway Stanislav G. Sedukhin, University of Aizu, Japan Selvakennedy Selvadurai, University of Sydney, Australia Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Xiaowei Shen, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Sven-bodo Sholz, Hertfordshire University, UK Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto University, Japan Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, France Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Guozhen Tan, Dalian University of Technology, China David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Guoku Teng, DLMU, China Mitchell D. Theys, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Xinmin Tian, Intel Corporation, USA Theo Ungerer, University fo Augsberg, Germany Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Xiangyang Wang, Liaoning Normal University, China Xicheng Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China Xingwei Wang, Northeastern University, China Xingyuan Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China Ian Watson, Manchester University, UK Paul Werstein, The University of Otago, New Zealand Weng-Fai Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Di Wu, Dalian University of Technology, China Nong Xiao, National University of Defense Technology, China Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA Lixin Zhang, IBM Austin Research Laboratory, USA Zixiang Zhao, DLMU, China Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China Si Qing Zheng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Bing Bing Zhou, University of Sydney, Australia Hai Zhuge, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia ABOUT Dalian Dalian, a well-known city with a longstanding history and civilization, lies in the Northeast of China. Dalian, named as “Northern Hong Kong of China”, has a world-class reputation for its seafood, shopping, and sightseeing. September is the best season for tourism and enjoying seafood in one year. Dalian is also well connected to major cities in the world via air.

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Call for Papers of NPC2007
by npc2007 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

Apologies for multiple copies received. Please, distribute it to interested colleagues and students. Lots of thanks for your help! Best regards, NPC 2007 Secretariat CALL FOR PAPERS The goal of IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2007) is to establish an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present their excellent ideas and experiences in all system fields of network and parallel computing. NPC 2007 will be held in Dalian, China. You can find more information from the conference homepage (http://www.dlmu.edu.cn/npc2007/). PAPER Submission Guidelines Papers are solicited reporting original results and experience. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 15 pages, including tables and figures, with PDF, PostScript, or MS Word format, and the work must not be published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Detailed submission instructions will be posted on the conference web site. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. It is planned that the conference proceedings of NPC 2007 will be published in English by LNCS (approval pending), which is indexed by SCI and extended versions of some selected papers are to be published in a special issue of international journals (International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES)). For more information, please contact the program co-chair Dr. Keqiu Li (Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, China) by email at keqiu(a)dlmu.edu.cn or npc2007(a)dlmu.edu.cn.. IMPORTANT Dates Submission deadline: March 31, 2007 Author notification: May 26, 2007 Camera-ready version due: June 16, 2007 Conference: September 18-21, 2007 TOPICS of Interest include the following tracks, but are not limited to: Track I: Network applications Peer-to-peer computing Cluster and Grid computing Wireless computing Ubiquitous computing Internet Computing Optical networks Multimedia services and applications Track II: Network technologies Communication technology Web technology Network storage Network reliability, security, and dependability Network algorithms Scheduling and load balancing Track III: Network and parallel architectures Shared and distributed memory Nontraditional processor technologies Network and interconnect architecture Parallel I/O and storage systems System design issues for low power and energy efficiency Performance modeling and evaluation Multicore design issues OS support in hardware Track IV: Parallel and distributed software Parallel programming models, languages and compilers Runtime systems Operating systems Resource management Middleware Data mining Programming environments and tools BEST Paper Award The NPC 2007 program committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award and two winners for the Excellent Paper Award (all regular papers are eligible), one winner for the Best Student Paper Award and two winners for the Excellent Student Paper Award (only the regular papers whose first author is a full-time student are eligible). The winner of each award will be presented at the conference with an award certificate, a cheque of US $200 and an invitation to submit an extended version of the award-winning paper for the consideration of publishing in an international journal. ORGANIZING Committees Honorary Chair Zuwen Wang, President, Dalian Maritime University (DLMU), China General Co-Chairs Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California, Irvine, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee Chair Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing Corporation, USA Program Co-Chairs Chris Jesshope, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Keqiu Li, DLMU, China (keqiu(a)dlmu.edu.cn) Program Vice-Chairs Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University, USA Skevos Evripidou, the University of Cyprus, Cyprus Susumu Horiguchi, Tohoku University, Japan Publication Co-Chairs Minyi Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan Mingyu Lu, DLMU, China Publicity Co-Chairs Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Alex Shafarenko, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Yang Xiang, Central Queensland University, Australia Organization Co-Chairs Zhan Yang, DLMU, China Weishi Zhang, DLMU, China Bo Jiang, DLMU, China Finance Chair Ruixue Xu, DLMU, China Registration Chair Zhenjun Du, DLMU, China Industry Sponsorship Co-Chairs Bo Jiang, DLMU, China Local Arrangement Chair Guanyu Li, DLMU, China Internet Chairs Zhihuai Li, DLMU, China Jianping Jiang, DLMU, China Conference Secretariat (npc2007(a)dlmu.edu.cn) Zhiying Cao, DLMU, China Hong Ye, DLMU, China Program Committee Members Ajith Abraham, Chun-Ang University, Korea Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Shoukat Ali, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan Ramon Beivide, University of Cantabria, Spain Jacir L. Bordim, University of Brasilia, Brazil Luc Bouge, IRISA/ENS Cachan, France Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Wentong Cai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Ralph Castain, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Rong Chen, DLMU, China Xueqi Cheng, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Zhongxian Chi, Dalian University of Technology, China Jong-Deok Choi, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Alain Darte, LIP, France Xavier Defago, JAIST, Japan Chen Ding, University of Rochester, USA Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, China Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College, UK Christine Eisenbeis, INRIA, France Jianping Fan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Renato J. Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA Bjoern Franke, University of Edinburgh, UK Kei Hiraki, University of Tokyo, Japan Wen Gao, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Cecile Germain, University of Paris Sud, France Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chuang Hua University, Taiwan Zhiyi Huang, The University of Otago, New Zealand Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State University, USA Cruz Izu, Adelaide University, Austraia Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State Univeristy, USA Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Paul H. J. Kelly, Imperial College, UK Jin Suk Kim, University of Seoul, Korea Mario Koppen, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany Viktor Korneev, R&D Institute "Kvant", Russia Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Ricky Kwok, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Deok-Gyu Lee, Soonchunhyang University, Korea Myungho Lee, Myongji University, Korea Deying Li, Renmin University of China, China Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Xingsi Li, Dalian University of Technology, China Xiuqi Li, Florida Atlantic University, USA Fangai Liu, Shan Dong Normal University, China Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Weijiang Liu, DLMU, China Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China Geyong Min ,University of Bradford, UK Soo-Mook Moon, Seoul National University, Korea John Morris, Auckland University, New Zealand John Morrison, University College Cork, Ireland Yoichi Muraoka, Waseda University, Japan Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan Jun Ni, The University of Iowa, USA Lionel Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Jong Hyuk Park, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea Andy Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Depei Qian, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Wenyu Qu, University of Tokyo, Japan Felix Rauch, NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia Wolfgang Rehm, TU Chemnitz, Germany Arnold Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Ulrich Rude, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo University College, Norway Stanislav G. Sedukhin, University of Aizu, Japan Selvakennedy Selvadurai, University of Sydney, Australia Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Xiaowei Shen, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Sven-bodo Sholz, Hertfordshire University, UK Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto University, Japan Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, France Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Guozhen Tan, Dalian University of Technology, China David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Guoku Teng, DLMU, China Mitchell D. Theys, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Xinmin Tian, Intel Corporation, USA Theo Ungerer, University fo Augsberg, Germany Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Xiangyang Wang, Liaoning Normal University, China Xicheng Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China Xingwei Wang, Northeastern University, China Xingyuan Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China Ian Watson, Manchester University, UK Paul Werstein, The University of Otago, New Zealand Weng-Fai Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Di Wu, Dalian University of Technology, China Nong Xiao, National University of Defense Technology, China Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA Lixin Zhang, IBM Austin Research Laboratory, USA Zixiang Zhao, DLMU, China Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China Si Qing Zheng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Bing Bing Zhou, University of Sydney, Australia Hai Zhuge, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia ABOUT Dalian Dalian, a well-known city with a longstanding history and civilization, lies in the Northeast of China. Dalian, named as “Northern Hong Kong of China”, has a world-class reputation for its seafood, shopping, and sightseeing. September is the best season for tourism and enjoying seafood in one year. Dalian is also well connected to major cities in the world via air.

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Call For Papers of NPC2007
by npc2007 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

Apologies for multiple copies received. Please, distribute it to interested colleagues and students. Lots of thanks for your help! Best regards, NPC 2007 Secretariat CALL FOR PAPERS The goal of IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2007) is to establish an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present their excellent ideas and experiences in all system fields of network and parallel computing. NPC 2007 will be held in Dalian, China. You can find more information from the conference homepage (http://www.dlmu.edu.cn/npc2007/). PAPER Submission Guidelines Papers are solicited reporting original results and experience. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 15 pages, including tables and figures, with PDF, PostScript, or MS Word format, and the work must not be published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Detailed submission instructions will be posted on the conference web site. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. It is planned that the conference proceedings of NPC 2007 will be published in English by LNCS (approval pending), which is indexed by SCI and extended versions of some selected papers are to be published in a special issue of international journals (International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES)). For more information, please contact the program co-chair Dr. Keqiu Li (Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, China) by email at keqiu(a)dlmu.edu.cn or npc2007(a)dlmu.edu.cn.. IMPORTANT Dates Submission deadline: March 31, 2007 Author notification: May 26, 2007 Camera-ready version due: June 16, 2007 Conference: September 18-21, 2007 TOPICS of Interest include the following tracks, but are not limited to: Track I: Network applications Peer-to-peer computing Cluster and Grid computing Wireless computing Ubiquitous computing Internet Computing Optical networks Multimedia services and applications Track II: Network technologies Communication technology Web technology Network storage Network reliability, security, and dependability Network algorithms Scheduling and load balancing Track III: Network and parallel architectures Shared and distributed memory Nontraditional processor technologies Network and interconnect architecture Parallel I/O and storage systems System design issues for low power and energy efficiency Performance modeling and evaluation Multicore design issues OS support in hardware Track IV: Parallel and distributed software Parallel programming models, languages and compilers Runtime systems Operating systems Resource management Middleware Data mining Programming environments and tools BEST Paper Award The NPC 2007 program committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award and two winners for the Excellent Paper Award (all regular papers are eligible), one winner for the Best Student Paper Award and two winners for the Excellent Student Paper Award (only the regular papers whose first author is a full-time student are eligible). The winner of each award will be presented at the conference with an award certificate, a cheque of US $200 and an invitation to submit an extended version of the award-winning paper for the consideration of publishing in an international journal. ORGANIZING Committees Honorary Chair Zuwen Wang, President, Dalian Maritime University (DLMU), China General Co-Chairs Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California, Irvine, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee Chair Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing Corporation, USA Program Co-Chairs Chris Jesshope, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Keqiu Li, DLMU, China (keqiu(a)dlmu.edu.cn) Program Vice-Chairs Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University, USA Skevos Evripidou, the University of Cyprus, Cyprus Susumu Horiguchi, Tohoku University, Japan Publication Co-Chairs Minyi Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan Mingyu Lu, DLMU, China Publicity Co-Chairs Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Alex Shafarenko, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Yang Xiang, Central Queensland University, Australia Organization Co-Chairs Zhan Yang, DLMU, China Weishi Zhang, DLMU, China Bo Jiang, DLMU, China Finance Chair Ruixue Xu, DLMU, China Registration Chair Zhenjun Du, DLMU, China Industry Sponsorship Co-Chairs Bo Jiang, DLMU, China Local Arrangement Chair Guanyu Li, DLMU, China Internet Chairs Zhihuai Li, DLMU, China Jianping Jiang, DLMU, China Conference Secretariat (npc2007(a)dlmu.edu.cn) Zhiying Cao, DLMU, China Hong Ye, DLMU, China Program Committee Members Ajith Abraham, Chun-Ang University, Korea Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Shoukat Ali, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan Ramon Beivide, University of Cantabria, Spain Jacir L. Bordim, University of Brasilia, Brazil Luc Bouge, IRISA/ENS Cachan, France Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Wentong Cai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Ralph Castain, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Rong Chen, DLMU, China Xueqi Cheng, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Zhongxian Chi, Dalian University of Technology, China Jong-Deok Choi, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Alain Darte, LIP, France Xavier Defago, JAIST, Japan Chen Ding, University of Rochester, USA Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, China Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College, UK Christine Eisenbeis, INRIA, France Jianping Fan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Renato J. Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA Bjoern Franke, University of Edinburgh, UK Kei Hiraki, University of Tokyo, Japan Wen Gao, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Cecile Germain, University of Paris Sud, France Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chuang Hua University, Taiwan Zhiyi Huang, The University of Otago, New Zealand Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State University, USA Cruz Izu, Adelaide University, Austraia Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State Univeristy, USA Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Paul H. J. Kelly, Imperial College, UK Jin Suk Kim, University of Seoul, Korea Mario Koppen, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany Viktor Korneev, R&D Institute "Kvant", Russia Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Ricky Kwok, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Deok-Gyu Lee, Soonchunhyang University, Korea Myungho Lee, Myongji University, Korea Deying Li, Renmin University of China, China Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Xingsi Li, Dalian University of Technology, China Xiuqi Li, Florida Atlantic University, USA Fangai Liu, Shan Dong Normal University, China Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Weijiang Liu, DLMU, China Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China Geyong Min ,University of Bradford, UK Soo-Mook Moon, Seoul National University, Korea John Morris, Auckland University, New Zealand John Morrison, University College Cork, Ireland Yoichi Muraoka, Waseda University, Japan Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan Jun Ni, The University of Iowa, USA Lionel Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Jong Hyuk Park, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea Andy Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Depei Qian, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Wenyu Qu, University of Tokyo, Japan Felix Rauch, NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia Wolfgang Rehm, TU Chemnitz, Germany Arnold Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Ulrich Rude, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo University College, Norway Stanislav G. Sedukhin, University of Aizu, Japan Selvakennedy Selvadurai, University of Sydney, Australia Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Xiaowei Shen, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Sven-bodo Sholz, Hertfordshire University, UK Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto University, Japan Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, France Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Guozhen Tan, Dalian University of Technology, China David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Guoku Teng, DLMU, China Mitchell D. Theys, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Xinmin Tian, Intel Corporation, USA Theo Ungerer, University fo Augsberg, Germany Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Xiangyang Wang, Liaoning Normal University, China Xicheng Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China Xingwei Wang, Northeastern University, China Xingyuan Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China Ian Watson, Manchester University, UK Paul Werstein, The University of Otago, New Zealand Weng-Fai Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Di Wu, Dalian University of Technology, China Nong Xiao, National University of Defense Technology, China Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA Lixin Zhang, IBM Austin Research Laboratory, USA Zixiang Zhao, DLMU, China Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China Si Qing Zheng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Bing Bing Zhou, University of Sydney, Australia Hai Zhuge, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia ABOUT Dalian Dalian, a well-known city with a longstanding history and civilization, lies in the Northeast of China. Dalian, named as “Northern Hong Kong of China”, has a world-class reputation for its seafood, shopping, and sightseeing. September is the best season for tourism and enjoying seafood in one year. Dalian is also well connected to major cities in the world via air.

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ICST - Valuetools 2007 - 2nd Call for Papers
by info＠icstconferences.org 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS VALUETOOLS 2007 http://www.valuetools.org/ 2nd. Int. Conf. on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools Nantes, France, October 23-25, 2007 Workshops: October 22 and 26 Sponsored by Create-net, ICST, INRIA, University of Rennes 1, France Telecom In technical cooperation with ACM SIGMETRICS and SIGSIM _________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: March 30, 2007 Author notification: June 20, 2007 Final version due: July 20, 2007 _________________________________________________________ SCOPE AND TOPICS In recent years, a range of performance evaluation methodologies and tools has been developed within disparate research communities for the purposes of evaluation, design, and model reduction. The aim of the Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools conference is to build bridges between these communities, bringing theory and practice together in order to: - compare and debate the complete range of performance evaluation methodologies and their implementation into tools; - promote interdisciplinary flow of technical information among industry systems designers and researchers. The keynote talk will be given by Bruce Hajek, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Performance evaluation techniques will draw from the following: - Network calculus - Advanced simulation tools - Simulation of rare events - Parallel/distributed simulations - Variance reduction techniques - Large deviations - Hybrid system simulation - Stochastic processes - Stochastic geometry - Long-range dependence - Self-similarity - Point processes - Traffic models and measurements -Discrete event systems - Petri nets - Max-plus algebra - Supervisory control and optimization -Queueing theory - Analytical models - Approximation methods - (In)sensitivity - Dynamic fluid models - Diffusion models - Dam processes - Perturbation approaches - Control of queues Envisaged applications are drawn from, but are not restricted to, the following areas: - Networking - Distributed Systems - Computer Systems - Manufacturing Systems - Communication Systems - Call Centers - Reliability / Performability - Road Traffic and Transportation Systems - Optimization (including game theory and convex optimization) - Graph Theory (including random graphs) - Interdisciplinary Methodologies (economic, biological and social models) in the above areas WORKSHOPS Valuetools 2007 features four co-located workshops: - GameComm, http://www.game-comm.org/ Game theory in Communication networks Workshop date: October 22, Submission deadline: May 5 - NSTools, http://www.nstools.org/ First International Workshop on Network Simulation Tools Workshop date: October 22, Submission deadline: April 30 - Inter-Perf, http://www.inter-perf.org/ Workshop on interdisciplinary systems approach in performance evaluation and design of computer & communication systems Workshop date: October 26, Submission deadline: April 30 - SMCtools, http://www.smctools.org/ International Workshop on Tools for solving Structured Markov Chains Workshop date: October 26, Submission deadline: May 10 PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit original papers of up to 10 pages in ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS (http://cocus.create-net.it). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in ACM conference proceedings format, which are limited to 10 two-column pages in a font no smaller than 10-points. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the submission page http://www.valuetools.org/submission.shtml for detailed submission requirements and procedures. PUBLICATION All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the VALUETOOLS 2007 Conference Proceedings. All accepted papers will be made available in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI and ISI Index. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of Performance Evaluation and others considered for fast track publication in Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDS). _________________________________________________________ General Chair: Peter Glynn (Stanford University, US) Vice Chair: Bruno Tuffin (IRISA- INRIA, France) Keynote Speaker: Bruce Hajek (UIUC, US) Steering Committee Co-Chairs: I. Chlamtac (CREATE-NET, Italy) E. Altman (INRIA, France) Steering Committee: L. Lenzini (Univ. Pisa, Italy) D. Miorandi (CREATE-NET, Italy) S. Meyn (University of Illinois, US) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Christos Cassandras (Boston Univ., US) Alexandre Proutière (France Telecom R&D, France) Kishor Trivedi (Duke University, US) Workshops Chair: T. Jimenez (Univ. Avignon.,France.) Finance Chair: K. Decker (ICST, US) Conference coordinator: Z. Rosza (ICST, US) Sponsors Chair: G. Rubino (IRISA-INRIA, France) Publicity Chair: A. Zimmermann (TU Berlin, Germany) Publication Chair: S. Alouf (INRIA, France) Local Organization Committee: E. Lebret (IRISA-INRIA, France) B. Tuffin (IRISA- INRIA, France) L. Truffet (Ecole d. Mines de Nantes) Technical Program Committee: J. Aguilar (Univ. de Los Andes, Venez.) M. Akian (INRIA, France) S. Alouf (INRIA, France) M. Baykal-Gursoy (Rutgers Univ., USA) S. Balsamo (Univ. Ca' Foscari Venezia) M. Calzarossa (University of Pavia, Italy) X. Cao (Hong Kong U. Science Techn.) Wai Ki Ching (Univ. of Hong Kong) Y. Dallery (École Centrale Paris, France) P. Dube (IBM, USA) R. El Azouzi (Univ. of Avignon, France) S. Foss (Heriot-Watt University, UK) B. Fourestie (France Telecom, France) B. Gaujal (INRIA, France) W. Gong (Univ. of Massachusetts, USA) H. Kameda (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) A. Alam Kherani (IIT Delhi, India) D. Kofman (ENST, France) I. Kontoyiannis (Brown University, USA) A. Kumar (IISC Bangalore, India) P. L'Ecuyer (Univ. of Montreal, Canada) J. Mairesse (CNRS, France) E. Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy) J. Misic (Univ. of Manitoba, Canada) S. Molnar (BUTE, Hungary) E. Morozov (Petrozavodsk U., Russia) P. Mosterman (Mathworks, USA) E. Moulines (ENST, France) H. Okamura (Hiroshima Univ., Japan) Ch. Panayiotou (Univ. of Cyprus) I. Papamichail (Techn. Univ. Crete) V. Ramaswami (AT&T, USA) R. Righter (UC Berkeley, USA) M. Sereno (Unversity of Torino, Italy) L. Shi (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, USA) G. Stea (University of Pisa, Italy) V. Manuel Sune Socias (UPC, Spain) R. Szechtman (Naval Postgr. Sch., USA) T. Takine (University of Osaka, Japan) C. Touati (University of Tsukuba, Japan) B. Tuffin (IRISA/INRIA, France) Y. Wardi (Georgia Inst. of Techn., USA) B. Zwart (Eindhoven Univ. Techn., NL) -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=vgqqzsxdex and enter your email address.

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ISM2007 second call for papers
by Zhiwen Yu 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this) ********************* ISM2007 Call For Papers ************************* IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2007) December 10-12, 2007 Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C. http://ism2007.ncu.edu.tw/ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2007) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing. The technical program of ISM2007 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include but are not limited to: . Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications . Multimedia networking and QoS . Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming . Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV . Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems . Architecture specification languages . Software development using multimedia techniques . Multimedia signal processing including audio, video, image processing, and coding . Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing, editing, and browsing . Visualization and Virtual Reality . Multimedia and multimodal user interfaces and interaction models . Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval . Multimedia Collaboration . Rich media enabled E-commerce . Computational intelligence including neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms . Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis . Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems . Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption . Mobile Multimedia Systems and Services Submissions: The written and spoken language of ISM2007 is English. Authors should submit an 8-page technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines available on the ISM2007 web page (http://cse.stfx.ca/~ism07/). Only electronic submission will be accepted. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). The paper should have a cover page, which includes a 200-word abstract, a list of keywords, and author's phone number and e-mail address. The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A number of the papers presented at the conference will be selected for possible publications in journals. ISM2007 will also include a few workshops and special tracks dedicated to focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special tracks of emerging areas are invited. Full length papers from Workshops and Focused Tracks will be presented at ISM2007, and included in the Proceedings. Please visit the conference website for detailed guidelines on submitting workshop and special track proposals. Submissions of proposals on panels and demonstrations are also encouraged. A short demo article (up to 3 pages) and panel summary articles may also be included in the conference proceedings. Guidelines for submitting panel and demo proposals are available on the conference website. Important Dates: April 1, 2007 Submission of workshop proposals due April 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals due May 18, 2007 Submission of papers and proposals on panels & special tracks due June 1, 2007 Notification of acceptance of special track proposals due August 1, 2007 Submission of demonstration proposals due August 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance of papers due September 21, 2007 Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due Conference Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs: Dick Bulterman, CWI, The Netherlands Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Program Co-Chairs: Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Frances Xavier University, Canada Program Vice Co-Chairs: Audio Processing Track: Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Image and Video Processing Track: Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, Germany Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Modeling, Language, Interface and Tools for Multimedia Systems Track: Jiro Katto, Waseda University, Japan Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Multimedia Applications Track: Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Clark N. Taylor, Brigham Young University, USA Multimedia Database and Information Retrieval Track: Masahito Hirakawa, Shimane University, Japan V.S. Subrahmanian University of Maryland, College Park, USA Multimedia Networking and QoS Track: Linda Xie, University of North Carolina, USA Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Multimedia Security Track: Jong Hyuk Park, Hanwha S&C, Korea James B. D. Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Visualization, CG, Virtual Reality Track: Xiangjian He, University of Technology at Sydney, Australia Aljoscha Smolic, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany Mobile Multimedia Systems and Services Track: Sabin Tabirca, National University of Ireland at Cork, Ireland Eckehard Steinbach, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Special Tracks: K.P. (Suba) Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Tech., USA Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China Workshops Co-Chairs: Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, P.R. China Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA Industrial Program Chair: Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Best Paper Award Committee Co-Chairs: Max Muhlhauser, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Alexei Sourin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Demo Co-Chairs: Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Mary Comer, Purdue University, USA Panel Co-Chairs: Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland Publicity Co-Chairs: Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan Alex Zhaoyu Liu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan Daniel C Doolan, National University of Ireland at Cork, Ireland Publication Co-Chairs: George Wang, Cal. State University, USA Yan Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, P.R. China Finance Co-Chairs: Phillip C.Y. Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA Rong-Ming Chen, National University of Tainan, Taiwan Web Co-Chairs: Shih-Nung Chen, Asia University, Taiwan Addison Sue, National Central University, Taiwan Tony Li Xu, St. Frances Xavier University, Canada Local Arrangement Chair: Anthony Y.H. Liao, Asia University, Taiwan Registration Chair: Han-Wen Hsiao, Asia University, Taiwan --------------------------- Dr. Zhiwen YU Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan Mobile: (+81)090-9891-1552 Email: yu(a)ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp http://www.ulan.jp/~zhiwen/ ---------------------------

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IEEE SECON 2007: Call for posters and demos
by Vijay Raghunathan 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

(Apologies if you receive this call multiple times.) *********************************************************************** CALL FOR POSTERS and DEMOS *Deadline: 3/29/2007, 5 pm EDT* IEEE SECON 2007 The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Sensors, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks Merged with IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN) http://www.ieee-secon.org/2007/ Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (www.comsoc.org) NOKIA and France Telecom June 18-21, 2007 San Diego, California, USA ************************************************************************ To provide a forum for discussion and personal interaction between presenter and participants, IEEE SECON 2007 will include poster and demonstration sessions: works in progress, industry demonstrations of new applications and techniques, practical implementations, military, industrial and commercial developments, research testbeds and demonstrations, recent research/implementation results, upcoming research challenges, future directions, and novel approaches in the fields of sensor, mesh and ad hoc communications and networks. One of the key goals of this conference is to foster collaboration between industry, government agencies and academia. Hence, participation of researchers/developers from industry or governement agencies and posters/demonstrations reporting joint work are especially encouraged. Topics considered for posters and demo include but are not limited to: * New architectures and protocols to support communication, localization, time synchronization, routing, data dissemination, and other distributed services in heterogeneous, large-scale distributed, mesh networks and sensor networks * Novel algorithms and theories for management, supervisory control, and monitoring of distributed ad hoc networks, and techniques for the interpretation and use of sensor data in decision-making processes * Modeling and performance evaluation of large-scale distributed ad hoc and sensor networks, practical implementations and deployments, and real-world experiences * Theories and models on fundamental information and communication aspects of wireless mesh and sensor networks * Mechanisms for authenticated, secure communication and data dissemination in sensor and mesh networks * Algorithms and protocols to support quality of service in mesh and sensor networks, including admission control, resource allocation and fairness, and capacity planning * Integration of sensors into engineered systems, including novel techniques for on-sensor renewable power sources, mechanisms for on-sensor self-calibration and self-testing, and efficient schemes to maximize accuracy and minimize false alarms * Hardware platforms incorporating multiple sensors, computation, actuation, and wireless interfaces * Software platforms, middleware, and tools for mesh and sensor network applications development, deployment, and management Submissions should be in the form of an abstract describing the main contributions of the poster/demo. If available, preliminary results can also be included. Abstracts will be evaluated mainly based on their potential to stimulate interesting discussions, exchange of ideas and promote collaborations. Accepted abstracts will be published in IEEE Xplore. Up to three best posters will be given the opportunity to be presented at the main conference. There will also be a best demo award and a best poster award judged by a panel of academic and/or venture capital participants. Submissions should not be more than three pages (preferably IEEE conference format, 2-column) in length. Demonstration submissions should include the space requirements and/or any other equipment-specific requirements. The documents must contain the authors' names, affiliations, and contact information and the designated corresponding author. Accepted authors of posters/demos will have a space in the poster/demo session room to display their posters or exhibit their demos and describe their work in discussions with interested attendees. IEEE Communications Society policy states that all accepted SECON 2007 posters/demos must have at least one registration at the regular rate. For authors co-authoring multiple posters/demos, one regular registration is valid for up to three presentations. Submission will be accepted until 3/29/2007, 5 pm EDT for demos and for posters. Please send the submission material to the poster/demo chairs in pdf format, and make sure to include the first author name and either POSTER or DEMO in the name of the pdf file: Mingyan Liu Jie Liu University of Michigan Microsoft Research mingyan(a)eecs.umich.edu Jie.Liu(a)microsoft.com IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission due on: 3/29/2007 Acceptance notification: 4/27/2007 Final abstract due on: 7/5/2007 (two weeks after the conference) ************************************************************************

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