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ICST - Call for papers - QSHINE 2007
by info＠icstconferences.org 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Call for Papers for QShine 2007 ------------ *********************************************************************************************************************** Q S H I N E 2 0 0 7 The Fourth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness http://www.qshine.org/ Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 14-17, 2007 Technically Co-Sponsored by ACM SIGMM, SIGMOBILE and SIGSIM Sponsored by Create-Net and ICST Papers of particular merit will be selected for consideration of fast track publication in ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications *********************************************************************************************************************** Overview The Fourth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine 2007) will focus on the research challenges associated the design and implementation of large-scale wired and wireless networks and distributed systems. Following the tradition of the previous QShine meetings, QShine 2007 will feature prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. ******* Scope The QShine program committee solicits original papers describing both experimental and theoretical results that address a wide spectrum of fundamental issues associated with the design and implementation of large scale heterogeneous networks and distributed systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Quality of Service provisioning Design, implementation or architectures related to QoS-enabled networks and distributed systems Scheduling, resource management, queue management, and admission control Game-theoretic aspects in wired/peer-to-peer/overlay/wireless networks and distributed systems Incentive engineering in wired/peer-to-peer/overlay/wireless networks and distributed systems QoS routing in wired/peer-to-peer/overlay/wireless networks and distributed systems Traffic analysis, traffic engineering, and traffic shaping in heterogeneous environments Middleware for wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and wireless networks and distributed systems QoS-aware service composition in distributed systems Security protocols and algorithms in wired, overlay and wireless networks Pricing, billing, and resource allocation in wired, overlay and wireless networks QoS adaptation, modeling and measurements Performance optimization in peer-to-peer and overlay networks Scalability of large-scale overlay and wireless networks Resilience of overlay and wireless protocols Cross-layer protocol design in wireless networks Energy-aware protocols and algorithms in wireless networks Cross-layer performance optimization for energy, network lifetime, and capacity Topology control for QoS support in wireless networks QoS in WLAN, WPAN, WMAN and WiMAX (IEEE 802.11/15/16/20) QoS support across heterogeneous wired and wireless subnetworks MAC protocols with QoS support QoS and survivability in mobile environments Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be selected for consideration of fast track publication in ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (approved) or Elsevier Computer Networks (pending approval). ******* Keynote Speaker Dr. Victor Bahl, Microsoft (http://research.microsoft.com/~bahl) ******* Paper Submission QShine 2007 invites manuscripts that present original materials not previously published in, or currently under review by, another conference or journal. Submissions should be either full-length papers of up to 7 pages or short papers of up to 4 pages (including all figures and references) formatted according to http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html with font sizes of 10 or larger. Full-length papers should report on completed work and will be considered for oral presentations. Short papers should report on work in progress or discuss open problems, and will be considered for poster presentations. A separate abstract of no longer than 200 words should be submitted as well. Submissions will be judged by their originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. All papers should be electronically submitted in Adobe PDF format. Please follow the submission instructions at http://www.qshine.org/submission.html to submit your paper. ******* Important Dates Paper submission deadline: March 16, 2007, 11:59pm PST Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2007 Camera-ready papers due: May 31, 2007 Conference: August 14-17, 2007 ******* Organizing Committee General Chair Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada General Vice-Chair Sastri Kota, Harris Corporation, USA Steering Committee Imrich Chlamtac, (Co-Chair) CreateNet, Italy Michael Fang, (Co-Chair) University of Florida, USA Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, (Co-Chair) University of Waterloo, Canada, Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University, USA Ariel Orda, Technion, Israel TPC Co-Chairs Guoliang Xue Arizona State University, USA Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Poster Chair Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, Canada Publicity Chair Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA Local Arrangement Chair Lin Cai, University of Victoria, Canada Workshop Chair Giovanni Giambene, Universita' degli Studi di Siena, Italy Sponsorship Chair Panos Nasiopoulos, University of British Columbia, Canada Publications Chair Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST, USA Conference Coordination and Registration Kitti H. 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DSS07 Call for Papers
by Seguti Gutierrez-Nolasco 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

(Apologies if you receive multiple messages from us.) Please forward to interested colleagues. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Workshop on Distributed Sensor Systems (DSS'07) in conjunction with IEEE ICCCN 2007 Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA August 16, 2007 http://alamode.mines.edu/~qhan/dss07 Submission Deadline: March 22, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Networked small embedded devices with sensing capabilities will play a key role in the emerging pervasive computing environments. These devices include mote-class sensors as well as actuators, RFIDs, cameras, cellular phones, etc. This workshop encourages papers that address a variety of issues arising from this broad range of sensing-related systems and applications. The goal of this workshop is to provide a unique forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of distributed sensor systems are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment of sensor systems are particularly welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Sensor network architectures and protocols - Quality of Service and real-time support - Fault tolerance and dependability - Tradeoffs between system performance and cost - System availability, resilience, and robustness - Security and privacy - Middleware for sensor networks - System and network management - Quality of Service routing - Distributed coordination algorithms - Applications - Prototypes and measurements - Power management and energy-efficient designs - Network architecture and protocols - Operating systems support - Visualization tools **Paper Submission Guidelines** Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE camera ready format (double-column, 10 point font size). All submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a PDF file and submit it using EDAS (http://edas.info/). When login EDAS, please click the Submit Paper tab, and then select ICCCN 2007 and click the associated Submit Paper icon. In the tracks page, please select DSS 2007 to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published by either IEEE or Springer's LNCS. **Important Dates** Papers submission deadline..............March 22, 2007 Notification of acceptance/rejection....May 13, 2007 Camera-ready version due................June 1, 2007 **Workshop Program Co-chairs** Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA (qhan(a)mines.edu) Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA (liqun(a)cs.wm.edu) **Publicity Chair** Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco, University of California at Irvine, USA **Technical Program Committee** Wendi B. Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA En-Sun Jung, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea Ying Lu, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Junichi Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA Yong Wang, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Shutang Yang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA

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2nd CFP: DEXA workshop - KUPA'07
by KUPA'07 Conference Account 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

KUPA'07 - Call for Papers First International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Discovery for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications Regensburg, Germany, 3-7 September 2007 Website - http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~kupa07 KUPA'07 is the First International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Discovery for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications, which is organized in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'07) in Regensburg, Germany, on 3-7 September 2007. Description ----------- Due to recent advancements in communication technology, computing, and storage resources, ubiquitous and pervasive applications are becoming increasingly popular. However, the large scale integration and examination of heterogeneous and independent data and knowledge sources has created new issues and challenges for knowledge management and acquisition. The objective of this workshop is to bring together academics and industry professionals to discuss recent progress and challenges in knowledge management and discovery for ubiquitous, pervasive, distributed, and heterogeneous environments. Topics ------ Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Knowledge management and discovery for ubiquitous, pervasive, distributed, and/or heterogeneous environments * Data mining in sensor networks, mobile and embedded systems * Mining temporal and spatial data * Data stream mining * Sequential pattern mining * Link analysis and community discovery * Visual data mining * Mining from data warehouses * Machine learning techniques for distributed environments and applications * Agent-based architectures for knowledge management and discovery * Knowledge integration and data fusion * Security, privacy, and trust issues * Applications in communication, internet, industry automation, medicine, multimedia, etc. Important Dates --------------- Abstract due March 5, 2007 Full paper due March 12, 2007 Authors notification April 30, 2007 Camera-ready copy May 22, 2007 Author registration May 22, 2007 Paper Submission ---------------- Authors are invited to submit original papers that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, including web publication. Papers should be submitted in PDF. Submissions must conform to IEEE Computer Society format (two columns, letter size 8.5"x11") and should not exceed 5 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). Check the DEXA website (http://www.dexa.org/guidelines) for more details on formatting guidelines. All submissions will be refereed by at least 2 reviewers, and will be handled electronically through the EDAS system (http://www.edas.info). Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Workshop Organizers ------------------- HONORARY GENERAL CHAIRS: T. Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada PROGRAM CHAIRS (CONTACT: kupa07 [AT] cs.umanitoba.ca): Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada Christel Kemke, University of Manitoba, Canada Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEE (PARTIAL LIST): Darcy Benoit, Acadia University, Canada Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Nauman Chaudhry, University of New Orleans, USA Hakan Duman, Essex University, UK Jocelyne Fayn, INSERM ERM107, Lyon, France Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK Imran Khan, University of Manitoba, Canada Frederique Laforest, LIRIS Lab., Lyon, France Michael Marschollek, Technical University, Germany Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster, UK Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Haipeng Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Andreas Wichert, Universidade Technica de Lisboa, Portugal Yuni Xia, Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. Indianapolis, USA Zhiwen Yu, Nagoya University, Japan Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

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2nd CFP: Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNets'07)
by Cormac J. Sreenan 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the EmNets CFP. *********************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNets 2007) Cork, Ireland 25-26 June 2007 www.cs.ucc.ie/emnets2007 *********************************************************** The Fourth Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNets 2007) brings together wireless sensor network researchers from academic and industrial backgrounds to present groundbreaking results that will shed light on present and future research challenges. The workshop emphasises results from experiments or deployments that quantify the challenges in the wireless sensor systems of today as well as early results from new ideas that introduce promising approaches that will define the challenges in the wireless sensor systems of tomorrow. We especially welcome papers reporting on results that refute common assumptions, deployment experiences, novel and original approaches, and, more generally, papers that will help inform and guide research. The EmNets Program Committee discourages submissions that are short versions of papers that will be submitted to other conferences in the near future, since its goal is to engage the research community in a discussion of future challenges and issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Validation/refutation of prior results Application experiences: measurements, successes and failures Future applications: requirements and challenges Hardware platforms, tradeoffs, and trends Data and network storage Delay-tolerant networking Management, debugging, and troubleshooting Network and software reliability Network and system architectures Software bug detection and tools Energy sources, scavenging, and low-power operation Human-Computer interfaces for sensornets Benchmarks and evaluation suites All papers will be subject to peer review. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and papers will be archived on IEEE-Xplore. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline: March 9, 2007 (5 pages) Notification: April 30, 2007 Camera Ready Due: May 21, 2007 Workshop: June 25-6, 2007 ORGANIZATION: General Chair: Cormac J. Sreenan, University College Cork cjs(a)cs.ucc.ie Program Co-Chairs: Philip Levis, Stanford University pal(a)cs.stanford.edu Joe Paradiso, MIT joep(a)media.mit.edu Technical Program Committee: Jan Beutel, ETH Zurich Kieren Delaney, Cork Institute of Technology Terry Dishongh, Intel Corporation Henri Dubois-Ferriere, EPFL Deborah Estrin, UCLA David Gay, Intel Research Berkeley Michel Goraczo, Microsoft Research Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University Mike Masquelier, Motorola G.Q. Maguire Jr., KTH Sweden Paddy Nixon, University College Dublin Robert Poor, Adozu, Inc. Frank Schmidt, EnOcean John Regehr, University of Utah Frank Schmidt, EnOcean Randy Smith, Sun Microsystems Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia Robert Szewczyk, Moteiv Inc. Henry Tirri, Nokia Peter van der Stok, Philips, Eindhoven University of Technology Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College London Kazuo Yano, Hitachi Emnets sponsors include: Nokia, Philips, CIT's TEC Centre, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork ------------------------------------------------------------------

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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 05 Feb '07

05 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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CFP (dead line march 31) and Call for workshop (dead line February 9th) - MASS 2007 - Pisa, Italy - October 2007
by Nathalie Mitton 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

This message is cross-posted to several lists. Apologies for any duplicate postings. IEEE MASS 2007 ( <http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mass2007/> http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mass2007/) The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems ---------------- IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- MASS Conference: Manuscript Submission Due: March 31, 2007 Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: August 10, 2007 Workshop proposals: Proposals submission deadline: February 9, 2007 Acceptance/Reject notification: February 21, 2007 Papers due by: April 30, 2005 Paper selections due by: July 15, 2007 Final papers due to IEEE: August 10, 2007 ---- Call For Papers and call for workshop Wireless multi-hop communication is envisioned in multiple scenarios where network nodes communicate via other network nodes: conferences, hospitals, battlefields, rescue operations, environment control, cars-to-cars, and monitoring scenarios. Wireless mesh networks have been applied as alternatives for providing Internet access in remote business and residential areas. Wireless sensor networks are being deployed for several industrial control processes and for monitoring environment. This conference aims to address multi-hop ad-hoc and sensor networks systems, covering topics ranging from technology issues up to the applications aspects. Original manuscripts that focus on the analytical modeling, protocol/algorithm design, and/or experimental studies of the following topics of interest are sought: * physical layer impact on higher level protocols * MAC protocols for ad-hoc and sensor networks (802.11, 802.15.4, UWB) Provisioning of wireless QoS in terms of bandwidth and delay assurance * Routing protocols (unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast) and routing metrics * Data transport in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks * Power-aware and energy-efficient design * Topology construction and coverage maintenance * Cross layer design and optimization * Incentives and game theoretic approaches in wireless ad-hoc networks * Localization and synchronization in wireless sensor networks * Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination in wireless sensor * Reliability, security, and trustworthiness issues in ad hoc and sensor networks * Operating system and middleware support * Measurements and practical experience from experimental systems and test-beds * Modeling, analysis and performance evaluation * Mesh networking * Delay tolerant networks and opportunistic networking * Handoff and mobility management and seamless internetworking * Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution wireless ad hoc networks * Reliability, security, and trustworthiness issues in ad hoc and sensor networks Paper submission All submissions must be full papers in .pdf or .ps (PostScript) format. Papers must be uploaded to EDAS by March 31, 2007, and must not exceed 10 single-spaced, two-column pages using at least 11 point size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages. Detailed submission instructions will be published in due time on the conference website <http://www.cse.fau.edu/mass2006/> http://www.ieee-mass.org together with format files. Workshops Proposals for full day workshops are solicited. Selections will be made considering the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers and the relevance of the topic to the central theme of the conference. Proposals of at most 4 pages, including a 1-page biographical sketch, should be submitted to the Workshops Chair by March 31, 2007 Demos Technical demonstration of experimental ad hoc networking and computing systems are solicited. To Instructions for submitting a demo proposal will be published in due time on the conference website. Important dates Manuscript Submission Due: March 31, 2007 Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: August 10, 2007 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- IEEE MASS 2007 will be the fourth annual conference on the rapidly expanding area of multi-hop wireless computing and sensor networking, and will provide an exciting platform for discussing research vision of a digitally networked wireless environment. The MASS Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference. The workshops will be held prior to, or after, the main conference. The purpose of these workshops is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and more specific research areas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than at the conference itself. Please visit <http://www.cse.fau.edu/mass2006/workshops.html> http://www.cse.fau.edu/mass2006/workshops.html to view information on workshops held last year at MASS 2006. Workshops Proposals are solicited in all areas and topics pertaining to ad-hoc wireless and sensor networking research and applications, including, but not limited to, theoretical performance bounds for ad-hoc networks, sensor and wireless network and application security/privacy, mesh networks, middleware platforms and applications of specific techniques (e.g., control theory or biological networks) to wireless networks. We expect all selected workshops to adhere to a common paper submission and reviewing schedule outlined below. All papers included in the MASS 2007 workshops will appear in the MASS 2007 Proceedings published by IEEE. ------------------------------- Proposal Submission Guidelines: ------------------------------- Each workshop proposal must include: 1. The name of the workshop. 2. The names, addresses, and a short bio (up to 200 words) of the organizers (maximum up to three). 3. A brief description (up to 1 page) of the technical issues that the workshop will address, and the reasons why the workshop is of interest this time. 4. The names of potential participants, such as program committee members, 5. Planned format of the workshop, such as number of refereed papers, keynotes, panels etc. 6. If appropriate, a description of past versions of the workshop, including: number of submitted and accepted papers, number of attendees. 7. A description of the publicity plan. 8. A call for papers 9. The workshop website address Workshop proposals should be submitted, no later than February 9, 2007, by e-mail (in PDF format) with "MASS 2007 Workshop Proposal" in the subject, to BOTH MASS 2007 Workshop Co-chairs: Luciano Bononi Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy Mura Anteo Zamboni 7, 40127, Bologna, Italy E-mail: <mailto:bononi@cs.unibo.it> bononi(a)cs.unibo.it and Archan Misra IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre 19 Skyline Drive, Room 2N-B18 Hawthorne, NY 10532 Email: archan(a)us.ibm.com ---------------- IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Proposals submission deadline: February 9, 2007 Acceptance/Reject notification: February 21, 2007 Papers due by: April 30, 2005 Paper selections due by: July 15, 2007 Final papers due to IEEE: August 10, 2007 --

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ICGD&BC 2007 || International Conference on Global Defense and Business Continuity || Silicon Valley, July 1-6, 2007
by Call for Papers 04 Feb '07

04 Feb '07

Invitation, Please consider to contribute and distribute to the appropriate groups the following CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Conference on Global Defense and Business Continuity ICGD&BC 2007 Site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICGDBC07.html Submission: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/SubmitICGDBC07.html Date: July 1-6, 2007 Place: Silicon Valley, CA, USA Important deadlines: Submission deadline February 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance March 10, 2007 Registration/camera ready March 31, 2007 also featuring the workshop: - TRACK 2007: The First International Workshop on Tracking Computing Technologies http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/TRACK.html ICGD&BC Tracks (details in the Call for Papers on site) 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 ================================ ICGD&BC Chair Reda Reda, Siemens, Germany/Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be removed from this announcement list, please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject field.

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ICPS'07 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services
by Yusuf Ozturk 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Esteemed colleagues, Please accept our sincere apology if you receive multiple copies of this mail. Due to numerous requests the deadline for paper submission is extended until February 18, 2007. Please note the new deadlines in the CFP. CALL for PAPERS ICPS07: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services July 15-20 2007, Istanbul, Turkey (www.icpsconference.org) SCOPE Pervasive services are emerging as the next paradigm for distributed and mobile computing, in which services built out of pervasive infrastructure and information, and are seamlessly available anywhere, anytime, and in any format. This exciting new paradigm is the result of recent research and technological advances in wireless & sensor networks, distributed systems, Grid computing, mobile & agent computing and autonomic computing & services. The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS'2007), to be held in The Marmara Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey, provides a forum for researchers, engineers, application & service developers and users to present their latest advances in the field of pervasive services. Use cases and usage models for these pervasive services are of particular interest to the conference. TOPICS Original contributions are solicited in all pervasive computing & services research and applications. Contributions for industry and application sessions are also solicited. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Pervasive and autonomous computing and architectures * Mobile Computing * Wearable Computing * Smart Devices and Networks * Wireless & Sensor Networks * Middleware support for pervasive and mobile computing * Pervasive computing and Management * Speech processing / advanced computer vision * User interfaces and interaction model * Positioning and Tracking Technologies * Programmable and active networks * Service dissemination and discovery protocols * Environments & algorithms for pervasive application development * Runtime support for intelligent, adaptive agents * Security services for applications in pervasive environments * Programming paradigms for pervasive computing applications * Pervasive computing applications requirements * Performance measurement and Benchmarking PAPER SUBMISSION ICPS2007 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Please follow the guidelines on conference web site to submit extended abstracts (10 pages maximum in IEEE double-column and PS or PDF format). Questions concerning hardcopy submissions or any other issues may be directed to the Program Co-Chairs. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. TUTORIALS and WORKSHOPS Tutorial and workshop proposals are solicited. Further information can be obtained by contacting the Tutorials Chair or the Workshop Chair. PROCEEDINGS The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and distributed at the conference. Selected papers of best quality will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC) in 2007. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: February 18, 2007 * Notification of acceptance: March 26, 2007 * Final Manuscript due: April 30, 2007 * Workshop proposals due: January 14, 2007 * Tutorial proposals due: January 14, 2007 COMMITTEES ----------- General Co-Chairs Fusun Ozguner, Ohio State University, USA Buyurman Baykal, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Program Co-Chairs Ali Akoglu, University of Arizona, USA Ozgur Ercetin, Sabanci University, Turkey Steering Committee Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Mazin Yousif, Intel Corporation, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Jean-Marc Pierson, INSA Lyon, France Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Program Committee Alex Delis, Univ. of Athens, Greece Antonio Liotta, University of Essex, UK Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Augusto Celentano, University Ca'Foscari, Italy Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece Claudia Roncancio, IMAG, France Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, England Gianluca Moro, Universiy of Bologna, Italy Gunter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria Hakan Erdogan, Sabanci University, Turkey Hasan Cam , Arizona State University Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Hongbing Wang, Southeast University, China Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA Jaafar Gaber, UTBM, France Jalal Almhana, University Moncton, Canada Julie Mc Cann, Imperial College, UK Karin Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria Karl Aberer, Ecoles Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, SWI Larry Kerschberg,George Mason University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Marian Scuturici, INSA Lyon, France Martin S. Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa Mine Kalkan, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Nazife Baykal, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Omer Rana, University of Cardiff, UK Osman Balci, Virginia Tech, U.S.A Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Pinar Yolum Birbil Bogaziçi University, Turkey Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", IT Selim Balcisoy Sabanci University, Turkey Simon Dobson, UCD, Dublin Sonia Bergamaschi, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, IT Sylvain Lecomte, University of Valenciennes, France Torsten Eymann ,Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth Ufuk Caglayan, Bogazici University, Turkey Xiaohui Gu, IBM, USA Publicity Co-Chairs Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France Haluk Topcuoglu, Marmara University, Turkey Yusuf Ozturk, San Diego State University, USA Jong Hyuk Park, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea Publications Chair Kelly Sutton, University of Arizona Tutorials Chair Kun Yang, University of Essex, UK Workshop Chair Christos Douligeris, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece Local Arrangements Chair Alptekin Temizel, Middle East Technical University, Turkey -----------------------

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Reminder: CFP Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security
by Emmanuele Zambon 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

IFIPTM 2007 Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security July 30th -- August 2nd, 2007 Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada CALL FOR PAPERS http://pstnet.unb.ca/itrust-pst2007 Submission Deadline: February 16th , 2007 In 2007, the iTrust and PST conferences will join together to provide a truly global platform for the reporting of research, development, policy and practice in the interdependent areas of Privacy, Security, and Trust. The iTrust international Conference looks at trust from multidisciplinary perspectives: economic, legal, psychology, philosophy, sociology as well as information technology, is built on the work of the iTrust working group (http://www.itrust.uoc.gr), and has had four highly successful conferences in Europe to date. The PST conference has quickly established itself as a leader in multidisciplinary research on a wide range of topics related to Privacy, Security and Trust, looked at from research and practice, through academe, business, and government. The two conferences come together as the first annual meeting and conference of the newly formed IFIP Working Group on Trust Management (IFIP WG11.11), a major step forward in Trust Management work globally. The program of the conference will feature research papers, industrial and government presentations. We are also keen to hear from parties interested in hosting workshops, both theoretical and practical, under the auspices of the conference - contact the Program Chairs for more details. It is expected that the conference will contain tracks on Trust Management, Privacy and Policy, Security, Public Safety and National Security, and Mobile and Emerging Technologies. In addition, iTrust-PST 2007 will feature a "Business Day" designed to bridge the gap between the research and technology being undertaken at universities and research organizations, and the practical needs of industry. We are soliciting Business Day presentations including industry presentations, workshops and panels describing innovative applications, case studies and best practices with a goal of fostering collaboration between the research community and the private sector. Finally, iTrust-PST 2007 will feature an opportunity for interested parties to demonstrate their research and development projects. For more information, please contact the Program Chairs. For the detailed list of topics of interest for iTrust-PST 2007 see http://pstnet.unb.ca/itrust-pst2007 High-quality papers in that at the time of submission are not under review or have not already been published or accepted for publication elsewhere are solicited. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, to be published by Springer under the auspices of the IFIP WG 11.11 on Trust Management. Submissions must be in English. Authors should ensure that papers do not exceed 16 pages and are formatted according to the LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/IFIPTM07/ Important Dates: Papers: * Submission Deadline: February 16 th , 2007 * Notification of Acceptance: April 14 th, 2007 * Final Manuscript Due: May 4 th, 2007 * Conference: July 30th to August 2nd, 2007 Workshop, Tutorial Proposals: * Submission Deadline: February 16th, 2007 * Notification of Acceptance: March 14 th, 2007 * Final Workshop Papers Due: June 20 th, 2007 * Workshops: July 30th, 2007 Conference Organization General Chairs: John McHugh, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada William Winsborough, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Program Chairs: Sandro Etalle, University of Twente, NL, sandro.etalle(a)utwente.nl Stephen Marsh, Institute for IT, NRC Canada, steve.marsh(a)nrc.gc.ca Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Stephane Lo Presti, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Stephane.Lo-Presti(a)rhul.ac.uk Publicity Chair: Emmanuele Zambon, University of Twente, the Netherlands Main Contact: Greg Sprague, NRC Canada, Institute for IT, greg.sprague(a)nrc.gc.ca, +1 506 444 0492 Program Committee (still incomplete) Scott Buffet, NRC, Canada Liz Chang, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Theo Dimitrakos, British Telecom, UK Rino Falcone, CNR, Italy Javier Garcia-Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada Jim Greer, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Milena Head, McMaster University, Canada Peter Herrmann, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University Christian Jensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Audun Josang, QUT, Australia Dawn Jutla, Saint Mary's University, Canada Yuecel Karabulut, SAP, Canada Larry Korba, NRC, Canada Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Fabio Massacci, University of Trento, Italy Ali Miri, University of Ottawa, Canada Yuko Murayama, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Mogens Nielsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark Christos Nikolaou, University of Crete, Greece Sylvia Osborn, University of Western Ontario, Canada Stefan Poslad, University of London Queen Mary, UK Babak Sadighi, SICS, Sweden Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy Ravi Sandhu, George Mason University Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland Simon Shiu, Hewlett Packard, UK Sean Smith, Dartmouth College, USA Ketil Stoelen, SINTEF & University of Oslo, Norway Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK David Townswend, University of New Brunswick, Canada

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Apologies, etc
by Radford, Peter 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Guy, Otto and everyone else! I need to apologise for the lack of minutes from the Paris meeting. I have not forgotten them and my conscience IS troubling me. Unfortunately there have been a number of personal and domestic crises (that may be too strong a word but I can't think of a better one) and the minutes have taken been pushed down the priority list. I am now going to be away from my office for a couple of weeks. That could mean that I will be out of contact until 5th February or it could mean that I actually have time to write the minutes! At the moment, I do not know but I will try to get the minutes done as soon as possible. Apologies once again and I hope it's not too late to wish everybody a happy new year Regards Peter Peter Radford UK Representative to TC6 E: Peter.Radford(a)LogicaCMG.com <mailto:Peter.Radford@LogicaCMG.com> T: +44 (0) 7770 395506 (M) T: +44 (0) 20 7446 4248 (O) T: +44 (0) 1245 262328 (H) This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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