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IEEE WCNC 2007: Hotel Reservation Deadline!
by Meetings＠comsocconferences.org 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 27 JANUARY 2007 IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC 2007) 11 – 15 March 2007 /Hong Kong / http://www.ieee-wcnc.org Make sure you are a part of the first WCNC conference outside North America – held in Asia’s world city, Hong Kong, China, The WCNC is the one of the world’s foremost international technical conference for engineers and researchers at the forefront of development and deployment of wireless technologies. Highlights include: Tutorials, Technical Papers, Panels, Keynote Speakers, Poster Sessions and plenty of networking opportunities. Don’t forget to make your hotel reservations! ORGANIZATION General Chairs Technical Program Chair Khaled B. Letaief, Chih-Lin I Ross D. Murch For more WCNC 2007 details & updates, visit: http://www.ieee-wcnc.org To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list send a blank email message to WCNCcfp-remove(a)comsocconferences.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (WCNCcfp(a)comsocconferences.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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IEEE Mobile WiMAX - Register Today!
by meetings＠comsocconferences.org 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Register Today! www.ieee-mobilewimax.org WiMAX, the technology resulting from the work developed by IEEE 802.16 Wireless MAN working groups, has attracted a lot of attention throughout the world in the last few years. There is a great expectation that WiMAX will be the solution of choice to offer wireless broadband services both in fixed as well as in mobile scenarios. Due to this great interest that is perceived in every segment of the communications community (industry, government regulators and academia) the IEEE Communications Society has organized the very first IEEE Mobile WiMAX Symposium, as an extension of its successful IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference – WCNC. This first event is being co-located with CTIA WIRELESS and this partnership creates the expectation of attracting a significant level of participation from industry due to the timeliness and relevance of the topic. The two-day program consists of two parallel tracks of technical sessions, totaling 28 high-quality papers, and four plenary sessions, featuring highly reputable industrial leaders and researchers from all over the world. A wide range of interests are included in the program, including physical transmission technology, medium access control, mobile (WiMAX) networking technology, multimedia applications and networks and state-of-the-art services scenarios. We sincerely expect that by attending this symposium each participant will benefit from a complete experience on advances in mobile WiMAX. Early Registration Deadline: 28 February 2007 Visit www.ieee-mobilewimax.org for program information and on-line registration To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list send a blank email message to WCNCcfp-remove(a)comsocconferences.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (WCNCcfp(a)comsocconferences.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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WORLDCOMP'07 Congress (June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA): Paper submission deadline is extended to March 4, 2007 - conferences in computer science, computer eng., and applied computing
by Hamid R. Arabnia 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Extended Paper Submission Deadline: March 4, 2007 Call For Papers The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing WORLDCOMP'07 Date and Location: June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA Academic Sponsors: Research Labs at MIT, Harvard, Purdue, Univ. of Texas at Austin, ... Due to numerous requests, the extended deadline for submission of papers is now March 4, 2007. You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'07) is composed of the following research and technical tracks (all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: June 25-28, 2007, USA): o Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'07) o Grid Computing and Applications (GCA'07) o Computer Design (CDES'07) o Scientific Computing (CSC'07) o Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07) o Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'07) o Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'07) o Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07) o Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'07) o Wireless Networks (ICWN'07) o Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'07) o Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'07) o Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR'07) o Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA'07) o Internet Computing (ICOMP'07) o Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'07) o Security and Management (SAM'07) o Data Mining (DMIN'07) o Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'07) o e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'07) o Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'07) o Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'07) o Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'07) o Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'07) o Communications in Computing (CIC'7) (a link to each of the above can be found at http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws ) Submission of Papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by March 4, 2007 (hra(a)cs.uga.edu). E-mail submissions in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable (postal mail submissions are also fine.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.) The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, email address, and telephone number for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. Finally, the name of the conference/track that the paper is being submitted to must be stated on the first page. Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are independent of the conference program committee. The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of the program committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that the paper has been submitted to. The track chair will make the final decision. Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee. Members of Program and Organizing Committees: The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering; embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.) Many members of the program committee for individual conferences include renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of large research laboratories, IEEE Fellows, heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts. Each committee also includes two Student Members (in their final stages of their PhD programs) who are identified as such. Refer to the conference web sites for the list of members of program committee. Co-Sponsors (a partial list): Academic Co-Sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 include: - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory, MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts) - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory, Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas) - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana) - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa) - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia); Other Co-sponsors include: - HPCwire - GRIDtoday - STEM Education Society - HPCSoft, HPC Software Inc. - International Technology Institute - H2cM - Hodges' Health, UK Purpose / History: This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Many of the tracks of WORLDCOMP are considered to be premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective fields. We anticipate to have 2000 or more attendees from over 75 countries participating in the 2007 event. The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact. The model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication among researchers from all over the world in different fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Both inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be covered during the conferences. Important Dates: March 4, 2007: Submission of full/draft papers (about 5 to 8 pages) April 4, 2007: Notification of acceptance April 27, 2007: Camera-Ready papers and Registration due June 25-28, 2007: The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'07)

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CALL FOR PAPERS MILCOM 2007 (Abstracts Due on Mar. 09)
by Kejie Lu 22 Feb '07

22 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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CFP: FCS-ARSPA'07 (Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security and Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis)
by Luca Vigano 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

apologies for multiple copies ************************ **** **** **** FCS-ARSPA'07 **** **** **** ************************ A LICS'07 and ICALP'07 Affiliated Workshop on FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SECURITY and AUTOMATED REASONING FOR SECURITY PROTOCOL ANALYSIS Wroclaw, Poland, July 8-9, 2007 http://profs.sci.univr.it/~vigano/fcs-arspa07 *********************** *** FIRST *** *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** *********************** Submission deadline: April 15, 2007 BACKGROUND, AIM AND SCOPE ========================= Computer security is an established field of computer science of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in logic-based foundations for various methods in computer security, including the formal specification, analysis and design of security protocols and their applications, the formal definition of various aspects of security such as access control mechanisms, mobile code security and denial-of-service attacks, and the modeling of information flow and its application to confidentiality policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis. The workshop FCS-ARSPA'07 is the second edition of the fusion of two workshops: FCS and ARSPA, which joined forces in 2006 for FCS-ARSPA'06, which was affiliated to LICS'06, in the context of FLoC'06. The workshop FCS continues a tradition, initiated with the Workshops on Formal Methods and Security Protocols (FMSP) in 1998 and 1999, then with the Workshop on Formal Methods and Computer Security (FMCS) in 2000, and finally with the LICS satellite Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS) in 2002 through 2005, of bringing together formal methods and the security community. ARSPA is a series of workshops on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis, bringing together researchers and practitioners from both the security and the formal methods communities, from academia and industry, who are working on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. The first two ARSPA workshops were held as satellite events of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR'04) and of the 32nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP'05), respectively. The aim of the joint workshop FCS-ARSPA'07 is to provide a forum for continued activity in these areas, to bring computer security researchers in closer contact with the LICS and ICALP communities, and to give LICS and ICALP attendees an opportunity to talk to experts in computer security. We thus solicit submissions of papers both on mature work and on work in progress. We are interested both in new results in theories of computer security and also in more exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories, as well as in new results on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Automated reasoning techniques Access control and resource usage control Composition issues Authentication Formal specification Availability and denial of service Foundations of verification Covert channels Information flow analysis Confidentiality Language-based security Integrity and privacy Logic-based design for Intrusion detection Program transformation Malicious code Security models Mobile code Static analysis Mutual distrust Statistical methods Privacy Tools Security policies Trust management Security protocols All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. SUBMISSION ========== Submissions should be at most 15 pages (a4paper, 11pt), including references, in the Springer LNCS style available at the URL http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The cover page should include title, names of authors, co-ordinates of the corresponding author, an abstract, and a list of keywords. It is recommended that submissions adhere to the specified format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. Simultaneous submissions to a journal or another conference are accepted, unless the rules for the journal or the other conference exclude such a possibility. If the paper is accepted to both FCS-ARSPA'07 and the other venue, it is the responsibility of the authors to promptly notify FCS-ARSPA'07 chairs and to acknowledge copyright holders. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically, as portable document format (pdf) or postscript (ps); please, do not send files formatted for work processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or Wordperfect files). The only mechanism for paper submissions is via the electronic submission web-site (which will soon be available). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Papers due: April 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2007 Final paper versions due: June 10, 2007 Workshop: July 08-09, 2007 PUBLICATION =========== Informal proceedings will be made available in electronic format and they will be distributed to all participants of the workshop. A journal special issue associated to the workshop (but open also to non-participants, in all cases with fresh reviewing) is planned. INVITED TALKS ============= To be announced PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= * Alessandro Armando (Universita` di Genova, Italy) * Anindya Banerjee (Kansas State University, USA) * Massimo Bartoletti (Universita` di Pisa, Italy) * Michele Boreale (Universita` di Firenze, Italy) * Yannick Chevalier (IRIT Toulouse, France) * Veronique Cortier (LORIA Nancy, France) * Cas Cremers (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) * Pierpaolo Degano (Universita` di Pisa, Italy; co-chair) * Ralf Kuesters (ETH Zurich, Switzerland; co-chair) * Volkmar Lotz (SAP Labs France) * Cathy Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) * Sebastian Moedersheim (IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland) * David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) * Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham, U.K.) * Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University, Japan) * Luca Vigano` (Universita` di Verona, Italy; co-chair) * Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania, USA; co-chair) FCS Steering Committee: * Martin Abadi (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) * John Mitchell (Stanford University, USA) * Andrei Sabelfeld (Chalmers, Sweden; chair) * Andre Scedrov (University of Pennsylvania, USA) * Luca Vigano` (Universita` di Verona, Italy) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ====================== Information about registration, travel, and venue can be found on the LICS'07 web-site and on the ICALP'07 web-site. For further information send an email to the workshop co-chairs at the address specified on the workshop's web-site.

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IPSN Workshop DSI'07: Deadline extended
by DSI'07 Chairs 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] Paper submission deadline extended to March 2, 2007 ************************************************************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S IPSN 2007 Workshop Data Sharing and Interoperability on the World-wide Sensor Web (DSI'07) (http://research.microsoft.com/~sumann/DSI07) April 24, 2007, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (co-located with IPSN 2007, http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~lu/ipsn07.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Over the last five years, the research community supporting embedded sensing has benefited from the experiences of numerous real-world deployments. Actual scientific applications are on the rise, and a number of new environmental observatories are moving from planning to implementation (NEON, WATERS). In parallel, we have seen an expansion in the use smartphones and other consumer devices, supported by the cellular network and capable of capturing acoustics and images, creating a host of citizen-initiated sensing projects (e.g., videothevote.org). While many algorithms for networking and control of embedded sensing platforms anticipate within-deployment scaling of observational resources, the introduction of diverse environmental observatories and the variety of new urban applications suggests that interoperability, and for the purpose of this workshop the ``sharing" of data and models, represents another, equally important, kind of scaling. In this workshop, we focus directly on the implications of widely shared sensor data, models and algorithms, and the systems that might support this. Simply put, data is the raison d'etre of any sensing exercise. While few researchers in the field would argue the point, too much attention has been paid to the networking of distributed sensing and not enough emphasis has been placed on the tools to manage, share, analyze, and understand the data. Hosted in coordination with IPSN (emphasizing algorithms for communications, coding theory, and distributed estimation) and SPOTS (focusing on hardware and complete platforms), this workshop will examine the various uses of data associated with embedded sensing. Topics of interest (but not limited to): - Data interoperability - Data Semantics - Extracting information from data and sensor data fusion - Managing data uncertainty - Systems for data integrity - Modeling sensor data - Managing spatial and temporal data (e.g., indexing, caching, query processing, etc.) - Automated or semi-automated processing of ad-hoc sensor data - Architecture to connect multiple sensor deployments together - Data visualization - Mash-up applications (the ability to pull in data/tools from multiple places and render it at a client) and workflows Submissions: Authors are requested to submit original papers of no more than 6 pages (standard IEEE proceedings two-column format), including figures, tables, and references in PDF that include contact information of all the authors. If you have any questions regarding the submission process, please send e-mail to either Mark Hansen (cocteau(a)stat.ucla.edu) or Suman Nath (sumann(a)microsoft.com). See http://research.microsoft.com/~sumann/DSI07/ for submission instructions. Important Dates: Papers due: Friday, March 2, 2007 (Extended and Firm) Notification: Friday, March 30, 2007 Camera Ready: Friday, April 13, 2007 Workshop: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Organizing Committee: Mark Hansen, UCLA (PC Co-Chair) Suman Nath, Microsoft Research (PC Co-Chair) Program Committee: Karl Aberer, EPFL Matthew Arrott, UCSD Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland Max Egenhofer, University of Maine Mark Hansen, UCLA Suman Nath, Microsoft Research Mani Srivastava, UCLA Andreas Terzis, JHU John Wilbanks, Science Commons

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NETWORKING 2007: Call for Workshop Proposals.
by Giovanni Pau 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Apologies for multiple postings. ====== CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ====== The IFIP Networking 2007 conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia from May 14 -18, 2007. Networking 2007 invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with conference on May 18th 2007. We solicit proposals for half and full day workshops related to the conference topics. Proposals for workshops should stress how they intend to provide more insight into the proposed topics with respect to the main conference. The scope definition of the proposal should encompass only some of the topics of the main conference. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the workshop chair with the title, a description of the topic, and the names of key organizers such as program chair(s), by January 26, 2007. Prior contact with the workshop chair is encouraged. The organizer(s) of approved workshops will be responsible for advertising their workshop, and for the reviewing process for their workshop's papers, and for the collection of camera-ready copies of accepted papers. The workshop proposal should follow the workshop proposal form that can be found in the conference web site http://www.ifip- networking.org/ follow the link to workshops. (the file is also attached to this CFW) IMPORTANT DATES: Workshop submission Deadline: January 31st 2007 Workshop Acceptance February 4th 2007. the workshops Co-Chairs Georgios Kormentzas - gkorm(a)aegean.gr Giovanni Pau - gpau(a)cs.ucla.edu ============================== "All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships." (George Bernard Shaw) ============================== Giovanni Pau, PhD Research Scientist UCLA - Computer Science Department 3803A BH, Boelter Hall Los Angeles, 90095 CA Ph: (310) - 206-3212 Cell: (310) - 617-4728 Fax: (310)- 825-7578 http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~gpau

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CfP: EUNICE 2007
by Aiko Pras 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Call for Papers 13th EUNICE Open European Summer School and IFIP TC6.6 Workshop on Dependable and Adaptable Networks and Services July 18 – 20, 2007 University of Twente, the Netherlands http://www.ctit.utwente.nl/eunice2007 Purpose ------- The EUNICE network (http://www.eunice-forum.org/) has been created to foster the mobility of students, faculty members and research scientists working in the field of information and communication technologies and to promote educational and research cooperation between its member institutions. The main goal of the EUNICE Summer School is to give researchers and particularly Ph.D. students the opportunity to present their work at an international level. In addition to the research paper presentations, a number of tutorials or invited talks, presented by experts in the field, will be given. Call for Contributions ---------------------- One of the main challenges in the next decade will be to make the Internet and the services that are provided on top of it more dependable and adaptable. Research on these themes is needed for fixed, wireless and ad-hoc networking, ubiquitous communication and computing, sensor networks, and context-awareness. While individual mobile applications with context-aware and personalize features emerged, at the same time many challenges for network and service architectures were imposed concerning integration, interoperability, management, provisioning, reliability and security. On the one hand research has to build up a sound understanding of these applications and their supporting service and network architectures. On the other hand, the service and network infrastructure needs to be able to provide the necessary quality of service for the envisioned applications. Although the EUNICE summer school is open to researchers from any institution, we particularly invite PhD students from EUNICE member institutes and from European Network of Excellence projects in this field, such as EMANICS and Euro-NGI to contribute with original submissions. The topics of interest include: - Middleware for mobile and pervasive computing - Context awareness and personalized services - Service discovery, mediation and composition - Security, trust, access control and authorization in ubiquitous computing - Adaptive applications and architectures - Service oriented architectures, web services and semantic web - Service technologies and platforms - Service design and creation methodologies - Self-organizing networks and service infrastructures - Management models and architectures - Network and service provisioning, reliability and quality assurance - Management technologies and platforms - Wireless and mobile computing - Peer to peer networks and applications' - Ad-hoc and personal networks - Business integration and service architectures - Business-software alignment and traceability Types of Contribution and Submission Guidelines ----------------------------------------------- Regular Contributions: Authors are invited to submit original papers, which will be reviewed for presentation and publication in the proceedings of the Summer School. Submission details, including an author kit, are available at: http://www.ctit.utwente.nl/eunice2007. Tutorials: Each EUNICE member institution is cordially invited to present tutorials (approx. 75 minutes) at the Summer School. Prospective tutorial speakers are kindly asked to submit proposals covering one or more of the technical areas indicated above. The tutorial proposals should include a brief outline, a short resume, and the speaker's full postal address, phone and fax numbers, homepage and e-mail-address. Important Dates (tentative) - Submission Deadline: March 18, 2007 - Notification of Acceptance: April 27, 2007 - Camera-Ready Paper due: May 7, 2007 - Early Registration Deadline: May 15, 2007 Venue ----- The conference takes place on the campus of the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, room WA 3 (Waaier Building). Organizing Committee -------------------- Aiko Pras, University of Twente, the Netherlands Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, the Netherlands email: eunice2007(a)utwente.nl www: http://www.ctit.utwente.nl/eunice2007

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ICST - CFP: WICON 2007 - The Third Annual International Wireless Internet Conference
by info＠icstconferences.org 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** ***** WICON 2007 ***** The Third Annual International Wireless Internet Conference October 22-24, 2007 Austin, Texas, USA http://www.wicon.org In cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE, technically sponsored by EURASIP. Accepted papers will be published in ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be made available in ACM Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI and ISI Index. ********************************************************************** Wireless Internet is quickly becoming a reality thanks to fast evolution of various wireless access technologies. Convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks, enabled by interworking and wireless mesh networking technologies, further brings wireless Internet into various application scenarios. On the other hand, new wireless Internet architectures, services, and solutions are still desired in order to achieve the ultimate goal of wireless Internet access anytime anywhere. The Wireless Internet Conference (WICON) will continue to provide a premier international forum to discuss novel research results related to the emerging Wireless Internet. The focus of WICON 2007 will be on advanced wireless access technologies, wireless mesh networks, interworking of heterogeneous networks, next generation wireless Internet, and industrial practice methodology. Given the existence of many other conferences on mobile ad hoc networks and sensor networks, papers that are oriented to these networks are discouraged unless they directly focus on the conference theme of the Wireless Internet. WICON 2007 is soliciting both academic research and industry practice papers. Industry practice papers must have at least one author from industry and should describe interesting technical aspects of industrial applications, prototypes, experiences, and standards; performance and design details are encouraged, whereas papers focused on marketing or product information will not be accepted. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Wireless access technologies: ============================= * Wireless LANs, WiMedia, WiMAX, Bluetooth * 3G and 4G cellular networks Wireless multi-hop mesh networks: ================================= * New mesh network architecture * WiFi, UWB, Bluetooth wireless mesh networks * Scalable MAC and routing protocols * Multi-radio and multi-channel mesh networks * QoS, security, and mobility management Convergence of various wireless technologies: ============================================= * Roaming, Interworking, and UMA * Cognitive radios and programmable radios for wireless Internet * Adaptive transport layer protocols Testbed and measurements: ========================= * Protocol design, implementation, and testbed setup of wireless Internet * Measurement of wireless Internet and performance analysis Next generation wireless Internet: ================================== * Novel wireless Internet architecture * New services and applications * New algorithms for scalable, reliable, and high speed wireless Internet SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: ======================== Papers will be submitted by electronic submission through COCUS system: http://cocus.create-net.it. The page limit is 10 pages in IEEE double column format with fonts not smaller than 10 points. IMPORTANT DATES: ================ Submission deadline : May 30, 2007 Notification of acceptance : July 22, 2007 Camera-ready version : September 1, 2007 There will be a best paper award sponsored by WNCG at UT-Austin. Selected papers will be published on a special issue of ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET). WORKSHOPS: =========== Proposals for workshops should be submitted to the Workshop Chair directly at yry(a)cs.yale.edu. Evaluation of workshop proposals will be based on the expertise and experience of the instructors, and on the relevance of the subject matter. PANELS: ======= Proposals for panel discussions that focus on the next generation wireless Internet are encouraged. Potential panel organizers should submit a panel proposal to the Panel Chair directly at sujata.banerjee(a)hp.com. Posters/Demos: ============== The conference will include a poster/demo session that highlights experiments and testbeds that demonstrate the successful implementation of recent or on-going research work. Please contact Poster/Demo Chair directly at shakkott(a)ece.utexas.edu Organization Committee: ======================= General Co-Chairs: ------------------ Lili Qiu University of Texas-Austin, USA Andras Valko Ericsson Research, Hungary Technical Program Co-Chairs: ---------------------------- Xudong Wang Kiyon, Inc, USA Karoly Farkas ETH Zurich, Switzerland Steering Committee Chair: ------------------------- Imrich Chlamtac Create-Net, Italy Panel Chair: ------------ Sujata Banerjee HP Labs, USA Publicity Chair: ---------------- Linda Xie UNC-Charlotte, USA Workshop Chair: --------------- Richard Yang Yale University Local Arrangement Chair: ------------------------ Sriram Vishwanath University of Texas-Austin, USA Publication Chair: ------------------ Xin Liu University of California-Davis, USA Poster/Demo Chair: ------------------ Sanjay Shakkottai University of Texas-Austin, USA Conference Chair: ----------------- Kitti H. Kovacs ICST For more information about the conference, see http://www.wicon.org/ -------------------------------------------------- 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: Special Issue on "Bio-Inspired Computing and Communication in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks " Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal
by Ozgur B. Akan 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

[We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers AD HOC NETWORKS JOURNAL (ELSEVIER) Special Issue on BIO-INSPIRED COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS Submission deadline: February 28, 2007 _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ A wide spectrum of applications and services is currently being developed and designed to be built on top of various heterogeneous and significantly challenging network architectures such as wireless mesh, mobile ad hoc and wireless sensor/actor networks. These heterogeneous wireless communication architectures are mainly characterized by heterogeneous and resource-constrained nodes, restricted communication channels,highly dynamic environments,lack of any fixed infrastructure, and large scale network deployments that strongly vary in their density.These features and challenges,in turn, mandate intelligent, adaptive, autonomic,coordinated,self-organizing, and efficient processing and communication approaches to handle the complexity of these ambitious wireless systems. The turn to nature has brought us many unforeseen great concepts. Natural biological systems intrinsically possess and exploit similar features by providing elegant and extremely efficient solutions for the challenges and tasks faced in their natural operation. It is of extreme importance to bridge the communication technologies with biological sciences and capture the analogy between these two distinct disciplines. To this end, solution strategies inspired by the biological systems have been recently proposed to address the challenges of many computing and communication systems. This special issue is dedicated to capture the state-of-the-art and the recent advances in the area of biologically-inspired computing and communication in heterogeneous wireless architectures such as wireless mesh networks, mobile ad hoc networks, and wireless sensor and actor networks. Papers describing mathematical models,algorithms, protocols, tools, evaluation methods, and experimental studies of computing and communication architectures that are inspired by and derived from biological systems are solicited for this special issue. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Bio-inspired mathematical models, methods and tools * Biological and bio-inspired computing, data processing algorithms * Joint bio-inspired data processing and communication * Embryonics-based fault-tolerant computing and communication * Bio-inspired network and communication algorithms and protocols * Novel applications and services inspired by biological systems * Experimental studies of bio-inspired computing and communications * Bio-inspired topology control and network reconfiguration methods * Bio-inspired localization, synchronization, mobility approaches * Evolution and self-healing of network architectures and protocols * Immune and self-healing network defense and information security * Bio-inspired nano-scale and molecular computing and communication * Bio-inspired distributed control and sensing of networked wearable and implantable medical devices Submission Instructions and Important Dates: ____________________________________________ Prospective authors:Please submit the PDF of your paper, biographies and photos of the co-authors to http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc and choose Special Issue: Bio-Inspired Computing as the Article Type. Papers must be formatted in single-column format, double-spaced, and use at least 11pt fonts. Papers must not exceed 25 pages including references.For details on the journal and special issue,please refer to http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc . Submission Deadline: February 28, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: August 30, 2007 Camera-Ready Papers Due: November 30, 2007 Online Publication Date: April 2008 Journal Publication Date: August 2008 Guest Editors: ____________________________________________ Ozgur B. Akan (akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr) Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Falko Dressler (dressler(a)informatik.uni-erlangen.de) University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Kenji Leibnitz (leibnitz(a)ist.osaka-u.ac.jp) Osaka University, Japan Taieb Znati (znati(a)cs.pitt.edu) University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA -- Dr. Ozgur B. Akan Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey 06531 Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 1261 E-mail: akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan

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