Dearr all,
our meeting 2004/2 attendance is shrinking; just 14 delegates are left
(if they all show up).
Please communicate to me your view on the IFIP/IEEE case.
Answers received thus far may be classified in two parts:
- The Americans are in favour of IEEE
(the copyright issue seems to be of no impoortance for them,
at least nbody has said a single word about that aspect)
- The Americans are more on the IFIP side.
They say e.g. "Do you think that there should be only
one organisation world-wide? There is need for more".
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Tissue Engineering & Stem Cell Research 2005
12th and 13th January 2005
Marriot Kensington Hotel, London
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**** CONFERENCE BROCHURE AVAILABLE NOW - REQUEST YOURS TODAY ****
Visiongain Conferences are please to announce their next conference within
the pharmaceutical sector; 'Tissue Engineering & Stem Cell Research 2005'.
Stem cell therapy offers an opportunity to treat many degenerative diseases
caused by the premature death or malfunction of specific cell types and the
body's failure to replace or restore them. This conference will cover the
main disease areas where progress in stem cell research is taking place
along with a huge emphasis on regional regulatory issues.
THEMES WILL INCLUDE:
**Identify new routes to enter the market
**Discover key market segments and profit from emerging trends in stem cell
therapies
**An update on stem cell therapies: CASE STUDIES on treating- spinal cord
injuries, kidney disease,
gastrointestinal cancers, neurological diseases, myocardial and tooth
regeneration
**Analyse manufacturing practices and learn how to overcome the challenges
in tissue engineering
**Become up-to-date on regulatory issues: a global and US perspective
**Business Development: commercialisation for drug discovery and cell
therapy
KEY SPEAKERS
**Dr. Jane Lebkowski, Senior Vice President, Regenerative Medicine, Geron
**Julie Gruber Allickson, Technical Director - Laboratory Operations,
Cryo-Cell International
**Dr. Stephen Minger, Scientific Director/ Director of the Stem Cell Biology
Laboratory, CereStem Ltd/ KCL
**Dr. Christopher Bravery, Senior Scientist/Team Leader, Intercytex Limited
**Larry Soler, Vice President of Government Relations, Juvenile Diabetes
Research Foundation International
**Dr. Sara Patel, Head of NeuroImaging Group, ReNeuron
**Dr. Karl Willert, Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University Medical Center
**Dr Phil Bates, Lecturer in Medical Law, Centre for Medical Law and Ethics,
Kings College London
**Dr Chris Potten, Chairman, Epistem
**David Hill, Scientific Director, Lawson Health Research Institute
**Dr. Lior Gepstein, Head Cardiovascular Research Laboratory,
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
**Professor Paul Sharpe, Head of Craniofacial Development, Odontis Ltd /
King's College London
**Professor Jon Dobson,Professor of Biophysics & Biomedical Engineering ,
Keele University
**Professor Alicia El Haj, Institute of Science & Technology in Medicine,
Keele University
**Dr. Richard France, Project Manager, RegenTec Ltd
**Professor Harry Moore, Director/ Centre for Stem Cell Biology, Axordia/
University of Sheffield
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND
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**Senior Vice President, Regenerative Medicine
**Research Director for Assisted Reproduction and Embryonic Stem Cells
**Vice President, Technology
**Vice President, Therapeutic Development Operations
**Director, Experimental Medicine
**Vice President of Government Relations
**Vice President Clinical Affairs, & Director
**Vice President, Product Development
**Business Development Manager
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Day One Wednesday 12th January 2005
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09:00 Registration and coffee
09:30 Opening remarks from the chair
AN UPDATE ON STEM CELL THERAPIES
09:40 CASE STUDY: Advances in Stem Cell Programs- Treating
Spinal Cord Injuries
How to penetrate the emerging field of regenerative medicine
Oligodendrocyte progenitors- can they restore normal neural
function?
- results in animal models: significant functional improvements
Progress in phase I clinical trials: focus on treatment for acute
spinal cord injury
Technologies in this field- licenses and intellectual property
Dr. Jane Lebkowski, Senior Vice President, Regenerative Medicine
Geron
10:20 CASE STUDY: Metanephroi Transplantation- Treating
Kidney Disease
How to develop normal renal structures by transplanting kidney
precursors
Transplanting between species without rejection- how to ensure
minimal immunosupression, leading to success
Conclusions: implanted metanephroi have intrinsic ability to
continue developing and organising into functional tissue
structures
Advantages over renal transplant or dialysis:
- better clinical outcome than intermittent dialysis, as filtration
is continuous and active
- unlimited supply of organs available by this procedure
Dr. Christopher Bravery, Senior Scientist/Team Leader
Intercytex Limited
11:00 Morning Coffee
11:20 CASE STUDY: in vitro and in vivo Model Systems- Treating
Gastrointestinal Cancers
in vivo models: using the in situ tumour model ADENOQUANT
to directly compare tumour and normal tissue responses and
assess therapeutic index
Transgenic and xenograft models: how to determine the
importance of gene pathways and treatment response in
GI tissue
in vitro screening assay: PRIMEQUANT to realistically predict
the in vivo response and allow accurate comparisons of normal
and matched tumour tissue biology
How to use assays to assess stem cell regulatory effects to
hyper- and hypoplasia therapies, wound healing agents and
mucositis therapies
Professor Chris Potten, Chairman
Epistem
12:00 CASE STUDY: Development of islets from precursor cells
in vitro and in vivo
Generation of insulin-producing cells from embryonic stem cells
or hematopoeitic stem cells
Trans-differentiation capabilities of other pancreatic cell types
to islets
Barriers to clinical application
Mechanisms of regeneration of islets in vivo
David Hill, Scientific Director
Lawson Health Research Institute
12:40 Lunch
14:00 Can Human Brain Cell Transplantation treat Neurological
Diseases?
Assess advantages and disadvantages of immortalised stem
cell lines
c-Myc gene cell lines: transplant strategies
Graft effects in animal models of neurodegenerative diseasefunctional
and structural integration
How to use stem cells as a platform technology for drug
discovery
- identifying small molecules or proteins to mature a brain stem
cell into a differentiated cell
- stem cells for screening potential lead compounds for toxicity
Dr. Sara Patel, Head of NeuroImaging Group
ReNeuron
14:40 Myocardial Regeneration Strategies using Human
Embryonic Stem Cells
Heart cells from human embryonic stem cells- progress to date
- derivation, in vitro differentiation and implications for basic
research & clinical applications
How to use it- development and testing of new drugs, genetic
studies, engineering tissues, organ transplantation, study
purposes
Myocardial regeneration strategies- replacing the dysfunctional
myocardium with new contractile tissue
Regulations in Israel- looking to the future in research
Dr. Lior Gepstein, Head Cardiovascular Research Laboratory
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
15:20 Afternoon Tea
15:40 CASE STUDY: Regenerative Dentistry- How to Grow a
Tooth
How to understand and genetically control the key processes
forming teeth in the embryo
Interactions between epithelial and mesenchymal cells
- how to culture cells to form primordia
Results from mice populations- tooth rudiments formed from in
vitro cultures of non-dental stem cell populations
Can rudiments be transferred to adults? - formation of
complete teeth and associated bones
Professor Paul Sharpe, Head of Craniofacial Development
Odontis Ltd / King's College London
MANUFACTURING PRACTICES: CHALLENGES IN TISSUE ENGINEERING
16:20 Implications of GTP/GMP for Cord Blood Processing
Moving from Clean Lab to an ISO class 7 Cleanroom
Environment
How the FDA's proposed GTP affects cell processing
Future Direction: cord blood processing - regulatory impacts
Julie Gruber Allickson, Technical Director - Laboratory Operations
Cryo-Cell International
17:00 Questions and Discussion
17:10 Chairman Summation
17:20 Close of Conference
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Day Two Thursday 13th January 2005
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09:00 Registration and coffee
09:30 Opening remarks from the chair
An Overview of the Industry
The panel session at the end of Day Two will offer you the chance
to hear from Ray Scraggs, Head Consultant at visiongain on the
most detailed and accurate market information available on Tissue
Engineering and Stem Cell Research.
09:40 Advances in Tissue Regeneration: Human ES Cells,
Growth Factors and Biotherapeutic Molecules
The sources of stem cell and ES cells- learn about the benefits
of stem cell technology
Cell nuclear replacement: the fight against type 1 diabetes and
Parkinson's disease
Exploiting novel growth factors: promoting the proliferation and
lineage-specific propagation of stem cell populations
Dr. Stephen Minger, Scientific Director/ Director of the Stem Cell Biology
Laboratory
CereStem Ltd/ King's College London
10:20 Magnecell's Mechanical Conditioning Bioreactor
Systems: How to Activate Ion Channels
Update on ex-vivo bone engineering results
- speed of matrix mineralisation; regulation of genes involved
in bone growth
Patent technologies for tissue engineering: mechanisms for
ex-vivo simulation of the in-vivo stress environment
Applications of system: drug screening, in-vitro testing and
stem cell research
Future areas for growth: ex-vivo magnetic activation of in-vivo
cellular processes
Professor Jon Dobson,
Professor of Biophysics & Biomedical Engineering/ Co-Founder
and Technical Advisor
Keele University/ Magnecell Limited
11:00 Morning Coffee
11:20 Biodegradable scaffolds - Delivery systems for Cell
Therapies
Osteochondral and corneal repair using cell therapies and
tissue engineering approaches
Delivery vehicles and biodegradable scaffolds for cell therapies
Scaffold design and in vitro and in vivo tissue engineering
strategies
Stem Cell targeting
Professor Alicia El Haj, Institute of Science & Technology in Medicine
Keele University
12:00 Self Assembling and Injectable Materials for
Regenerative Medicine
Injectable biodegradable scaffolds for cell and growth factor
delivery
Crosslinking strategies for scaffold self assembly
Controlling macroporosity within the scaffold environment
Dr. Richard France, Project Manager
RegenTec Ltd
12:40 Lunch
14:00 Stem Cell Maintenance: Results from Isolating the Wnts
Protein
Potential of isolating Wnt proteins- can stem cells be used
for bone marrow transplants?
Wnt signaling: a common theme in animal development
How do Wnt proteins cause hematopoietic stem cells to divide?
Analysis: pathways triggering stem cell growth
Dr. Karl Willert, Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University Medical Center
REGULATORY ISSUES
14:40 Global Perspective: Legal Framework for Stem Cell
Research
Global situation: US Federal ban on all bar 60 stem cell lineseffects
on federally-funded research and privately funded
research
What is the legal framework for research in the UK?
Lack of a co-ordinated global policy: effects on research
Better results from stem cells derived from bone marrow
and the placenta than embryonic stem cells
Dr Phil Bates, Lecturer in Medical Law
Centre for Medical Law and Ethics
Kings College London
15:20 Afternoon Tea
15:40 Regulation in the US: Expanding the Current Federal
Policy on Stem Cell Research
The "Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2004"
Problems with the existing policy and proposed changes
to overcome them
Is adult stem cell research a feasible alternative?
California's Proposition 71- update on progress
Slowing down research- JDRF perspective
Larry Soler, Vice President of Government Relations
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
16:20 Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Commercialisation for
Drug Discovery and Cell Therapy
Cell lines and quality assurance
the challenge of generating GMP ES cell lines
Regulating proliferation and plurioptency
Markers of differentiation
Production platforms
Professor Harry Moore, Director/ Centre for Stem Cell Biology
Axordia/ University of Sheffield
17:00 Discussion: Attendees Perspective
Presentation and discussion by Dr. Ray Scraggs of the previous
days questionnaire results. An insight will be given into the
market revenues, growth areas, new developments and new
entrants to the Tissue Engineering and Stem Cell Research
industry. This will involve some freeform discussion giving you
the opportunity to engage in knowledge-sharing with fellow
professionals
Moderator: Dr. Ray Scraggs, Head Consultant
visiongain Consultancy
17:20 Question and Discussion
17:30 Chairman Summation
17:30 Close of Conference
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Dear friends,
All of you have received the message of Klaus Brunnstein, President of
IFIP. In this message I appear when he is talking about WCC.
You should know that he has asked me to chair the TPC of this event.
Personally I do not know if the effort of well organising such a
“dinosaur”, like the last one in Toulouse, is compensated by its results
both in scientific and personal exchanges aspects. However, my personal
involvement in Latin America actions obliges me to carefully consider
the proposal.
After talking with Otto Spaniol, our chairman, my position is to accept
the proposal only if I have a strong support of TC6 both by the
organisation of some events in the next WCC and by the personal
involvement of TC6 members in the TPC. Otherwise I will be obliged to
withdraw the proposal.
As this last time the electronic discussions are one of our main duties,
I would like to know your position, before or during our next meeting in
order to give me the inputs to take the correct decision.
I wish to thank you in advance your help in clarifying my ideas.
Best regards
Ramon
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Ramon Puigjaner
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica
07122 PALMA (Spain)
Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003
e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es
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4th Mediterranean Workshop on Ad-Hoc Networks
MED-HOC-NET 2005
Ile de Porquerolles, June 21-24, 2005
First Call for papers
The fourth Med-Hoc-Net 2005 is a major annual international workshop in
the Mediterrnean
region. It brings together researchers, technologists and visionaries
from academia, research
labs, and industry, engineers and students to exchange, discuss and
share their experiences,
new ideas and research about theoretical and practical aspects of ad-hoc
networking.
Med-Hoc-Net 2005 will include presentations of theoretical and
experimental achievements, innovative ad-hoc systems, prototyping
efforts, case studies, and advancements in technology directly
affecting ad-hoc networking and communications infrastructures.
The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2005 cover a variety of topics
including but not limited to:
- Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes,
- Performance evaluation of ad-hoc network protocols through simulations,
analysis, and measurements,
- Metrology, Ad-Hoc network measurement Tools,
- MAC protocols, scheduling, and radio resource sharing in ad hoc
networks,
- Power management and control,
- Topology control,
- Self-organization and network reconfiguration,
- Unicast and multicast routing algorithms and protocols,
- Energy-efficient communications in ad-hoc networks,
- Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks,
- Resource discovery and management,
- Protocols for QoS support in ad-hoc networks,
- Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc networks,
- Multimedia location services,
- Security in ad-hoc networks,
- Fault tolerance and error recovery
- Algorithmic challenges in ad-hoc networks,
- Large scale ad-hoc networks ,
- Interconnection between ad hoc and wired networks,
- Sensor networks: applications and protocols.
After Sardinia (Italy), Mahdia (Tunisia) and Bodrum (Turkey), this
year the workshop will take place in another beautiful spot on the
Mediterranean Sea: Ile de Porquerolles (France).
Steering Committee: Farouk Kamoun (ENSI, Tunisia)
Mario Gerla (UCLA, USA)
Guy Pujolle (LIP6, France)
Khaldoun Al Agha (LRI, France)
Giovanni Pau (UCLA, USA)
Conference Chairs: Khaldoun Al Agha (LRI, University of Paris XI) and Guy
Pujolle (LIP6, University of Paris VI)
Program Chair: Isabelle Guérin Lassous (INRIA, France)
Proceedings chair : Erwan ERMEL (LIP6/France)
Organization Chair :Davor MALES (LIP6, France)
Webmaster : GAWDESKI Ignacy (LRI, France)
Program Committee:
Ian F. AKYILDIZ (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Khaldoun AL AGHA (LRI, France)
Christian BECKER (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Brahim BENSAOU (Hong Kong University of science and technology, Hong Kong)
Andrew T. CAMPBELL (Columbia University, USA)
E. CAYIRCI (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Andrea CLEMENTI (University Roma II, Italy)
Marco CONTI (CNR, Italy)
Silvia GIORDANO (University of Applied Science, Switzerland)
Stephen HAILES (University College London, United Kingdom)
Farouk KAMOUN (ENSI, Tunisia)
P. R. KUMAR (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Pascale MINET (INRIA, France)
Sotiris NIKOLETSEAS (CTI/Univ. of Patras, Greece)
Giovanni PAU (UCLA, USA)
Guy PUJOLLE (LIP6, France)
Laurent REYNAUD (FT R&D, France)
Christian PREHOFER (DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany)
David SYMPLOT-RYL (University of Lille, France)
Isabela SIQUEIRA (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Stavros TOUMPIS ( Vienna Telecommunications Research Center, Austria)
Christian TSCHUDIN (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Guillaume VIVIER (Motorola, France)
Stefan WEBER (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Vincent W.S. WONG (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Hiroyuki YOMO (Aalborg University, Danemark)
Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in
the conference themes
and related topics. Papers should not be longer than 12 pages. All
submitted papers will be
reviewed and evaluated on the basis of relevance, originality, technical
quality and clarity.
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. The
official workshop oral
and written language is English.
Paper Submission Deadlines
Full Paper Electronic Submission : 11 March 2005
Notification of acceptance/Rejection : 15 April 2005
Camera ready submission of full papers: 13 May 2005
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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ANNALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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Special issue on
Transport Protocols for the New Generation Networks
See www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~cpham/ADT-TCP
New networking technologies with optical-based transmission as a
foundation for achieving tremendous throughput in the order of tens of
Gbit/s are changing the face of the wired Internet with new large scale
high-performance infrastructures such as computational grids. In the
wireless domain, mobility and ubiquitous access to the Internet is
driving the emergence of new value-added applications and exhibiting new
user needs. Self-organizing wireless networks such as ad-hoc networks
may eventually become the natural way of connecting end-users to the
network. In this all-digital, all-connected world, transport protocols
have the very difficult task of providing reliable, fair and efficient
communications to millions of (groups of) users with very different
needs and profiles, across different underlying technologies.
High-speed networks, often referred to as long fat networks, raise the
problem of fair and efficient congestion control mechanisms. Wireless
environments with mobility and ad-hoc features bring new concerns. Fast
heterogeneous networks face all these difficulties. This special issue
is devoted to these problems. We solicit two categories of
contributions: (1) survey papers presenting state-of-the-art studies,
and (2) papers presenting an original and unpublished work or experiment
on, but not limited to, the following topics:
* TCP variants or new transport protocols for high-speed networks
* TCP optimisations and tuning
methodologies, results from real experiments
* New congestion control mechanisms for high-speed networks
* Transport protocols for heterogeneous networks
* Experiments and prototype implementations and lessons learnt
* Multipeer and multicast transport protocols
* Transport protocols in wireless/mobile/ad-hoc environments
* Transport protocols for (near) real-time traffic
* Performance modelling of TCP on high-speed or wireless networks
* Fairness issues in new transport protocols
* Transport protocols in all-optical networking
* Very high-speed transport protocols for computational grids
Paper Submission
We invite you to submit a paper that should have a length of 25000-35000
characters. The preferred language for the contribution is english.
Instructions for formatting your paper according to the journal's rule
can be found here in english or in french. A PDF version of your paper
should be submitted electronically to one of the guest editors (see
below). Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is
absolutely not possible. All submitted papers must not have been
previously published and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere
while they are under consideration.
Please include a cover page which lists the following:
* name,
* affiliation,
* address and e-mail address of each author
* name of the contact author
* a maximum of 5 keywords
Important Dates
May 1st, 2005: Full paper due
July 15th, 2005: Notification of acceptance
September 15th, 2005: Final version due
Expected date of publication: spring 2006.
Guest Editors
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Associate Prof. Congduc PHAM
University Lyon 1, LIP/INRIA RESO
46 allée d'Italie
69364 Lyon Cedex 7
FRANCE
Congduc.Pham(a)ens-lyon.fr
and
Prof. Guy LEDUC
University of Liège
Research Unit in Networking (RUN)
EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM
Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be
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Prof. Guy Leduc Phone : +32 4 366 26 98
Université de Liège Secr : +32 4 366 26 91
Réseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89
Research Unit in Networking (RUN) Email: Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be
EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM
http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/People/GuyLeduc/
[Apologies for multiple postings]
Last Call for Papers
5th IEEE International Workshop on
Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
(IEEE WMAN 05)
April 4-8, 2005, Denver, Colorado, USA
(Omni Interlocken Resort)
To be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2005
Supported by the IEEE Computer Society
http://ru1.cti.gr/wman05/
SCOPE:
The field of wireless and mobile computing is an important research
challenging area, that emerges from the integration among personal
computing distributed computing, cellular technology and the Web. This is
possible due to the continuously increasing interaction between
communication and computing, which is changing the information access from
the current reactive ``anytime anywhere'' into the incoming proactive
``all the time everywhere'' approach. Nowadays, there is a large variety
of networks spanning from the well-known cellular networks to
non-infrastructured wireless networks such as mobile ad hoc networks and
sensor networks.
This scenario raises a number of interesting, and difficult, algorithmic
issues in diverse areas such as location management, resource allocation,
ubiquitous information, network connectivity, reliability and security,
and energy consumption.
This workshop is intended to cover contributions in both the design and
analysis of discrete algorithms and the system modelling in the context of
mobile, wireless, ad-hoc, and sensor networks. In particular, it aims at
bringing together the practitioners and theoreticians of the field. We are
seeking for papers that are original, unpublished and not currently under
review. The objective of this workshop is to bring together leading
technologists and researchers in these ``critical areas'' of research in
order to have a forum for discussing fundamental challenges, identifying
future perspectives, and exchanging ideas about ongoing research.
Authors are solicited to submit original unpublished manuscripts for this
workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings (by IEEE CS
Press) of the IPDPS workshops.
TOPICS:
The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited, to:
* frequency and channel assignment algorithms
* cryptography and security
* distributed algorithms
* pricing modeling and solutions
* algorithms for satellite communications
* mechanisms design and cooperation enforcement
* algorithms and modeling on satellite and radio networks
* algorithms for resource management in mobile, wireless and ad-hoc networks
* data management on mobile and wireless computing
* algorithms for single-hop and multiple-hop packet radio networks
* routing, and communication primitives in ad hoc and sensor networks
* synchronization and scheduling issues in mobile and ad hoc networks
* energy saving protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks
* complexity analysis of algorithms for mobile environments
* caching and prefetching for information access in wireless networks
* algorithms and modeling for tracking and locating mobile users
IMPORTANT DATES:
Extended submission deadline: ** November 24, 2004, 5pm EST **
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: January 6th, 2005
Camera-Ready Paper Due: January 25, 2005
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PUBLICATION:
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished
research and recent developments in the topics related to the WMAN
workshop. The length of the papers should be a maximum of 10 double-column
single-spaced pages including figures and references on 8.5 by 11 inch
paper using at least 10 point font (based upon IEEE Proceedings Style).
Please remember that the final versions will be restricted to 8 pages.
Authors must submit their papers electronically via EDAS
(http://edas.info/)
Note that once the paper gets accepted, it is MANDATORY that at least one
author should attend the workshop and present the paper.
The accepted papers will be published in the same printed abstract volume
and CD-ROM proceedings as other workshops of the IPDPS 2005 conference by
the IEEE Computer Society Press and IEEE online library.
General Chair:
Cristina M. Pinotti
Dept. of Computer Sciences and Telecommunications
University of Trento
ITALY
E-mail: pinotti(a)science.unitn.it
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Azzedine Boukerche
SITE University of Ottawa
Canada
E-mail: boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca
Sotiris Nikoletseas
Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics,
University of Patras, and Computer Technology Institute,
Greece
E-mail: nikole(a)cti.gr
Publicity Chair:
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis
Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics,
University of Patras, and Computer Technology Institute,
Greece
E-mail: ichatz(a)cti.gr
Steering Committee
Sajal K. Das,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Mohan Kumar,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Program Committee:
Azzedine Boukerche (Co-Chair), University of Ottawa, Canada
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece
Andrea Clementi, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy
Josep Diaz, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Khalil EL-Khatib, National Research Council of Canada, Canada
Magnus Halldorsson, University of Iceland, Iceland
Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA
Klaus Jansen, University of Kiel, Germany
Elias Koutsoupias, University of Athens, Greece
Mirek Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA
Robert Leese, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Alessandro Mei, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Sotiris Nikoletseas (Co-Chair), University of Patras and CTI, Greece
Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK
David Peleg, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Roberto De Prisco, University of Salerno, Italy
Cauligi Raghavendra, University of Southern California, USA
Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Peter Sanders, Max Planck Institute for CS, Germany
Mirela Sechi Moretti A.N., Barddal University, Brazil
Alex Shvartsman, MIT, USA
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
Peter Triantafilloy, University of Patras, Greece
Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Otto
Looks good!
May I make a few minor comments (which you are free to reject if they are
not to your liking)?
- Make "Surplus (or deficit)" "Estimated Surplus (or deficit)" [see note 1
below].
- Use the Roundup function on the break even number calculation.
- Put the contingency on all of the expenses not just the variable income
[see note 1 below].
- It might be worthwhile having two participant numbers: one for the full
fee paying participants (or equivalent) and one for all participants - use
the first in the income and the second in the costs. This may be
complicating things too much and I'd be interested in feedback as to whether
those numbers differ significantly.
Regards
Peter
Note 1 "Prediction is always hard, especially when it concerns the future" -
Niels Bohr
-----Original Message-----
From: Otto Spaniol [mailto:spaniol@informatik.rwth-aachen.de]
Sent: 29 September 2004 08:05
To: ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Subject: [ifip-tc6] (New) Accounting Information
Dear all,
the event request forms provided by IFIP are awful. This feeling is shared
by everyone. Nobody is able to give half way correct information about the
conference budget. This is a lot of unneccessary burden for TC and WG
chairs.
I promised to simplify that scheme and the first result is found in the
attachments.
There is:
- an empty sheet (don't care about the #DIV!0 in the before last line;
it will disappear when you fill the form)
- and a virtual example.
You may and should play around with the forms and tell me whether you
find them easy enough to use.
WG chairpersons should give it to prospective conference organisors.
Some comments are in order:
1. The document has been kept as simple as possible (fool-proof, hopefully).
You have to fill in only the figures in frames (light blue colours).
The other figures (in light yellow) will then automatically be
calculated.
2. A very crude approximation of registration fee is used:
Only for full paying participants, no early bird registration, no
special rate for members of diverse societies, no student fee etc.
It would be impossible to have those concrete figures well before the
event.
Thus if you estimate for example that the total registration fee
by students might be identical to, say, 10 full paying participants
then you should increase the number of expected full paying
participants accordingly. Similar for the variable expenses
per participant.
3. "Contingencies" are meant to be a reserve just to be on the safe side.
They are - according to IFIP - 10 percent of the variable cost
per participant and could, of course, be already taken into
account there. Nevertheless, since these costs are automatically
calculated
we can leave it in the document.
4. "Break even number of participants" should be clear but since I have
been asked several times about this:
This is the minimum number of full paying participants which will
be needed if the conference should not make a deficit (and if
all other parameters are valid).
You will see that it is wonderfully easy to play around and to determine
registration fees, fixed expenses,.. which are meaningful and which
may end up with a reasonable surplus.
It might be that the break even number will turn out to be negative!
In that
case you will have a serious problem with your budget: either the
registration fee is too low or ....
5. I didn't nclude information about loan and grants (since IFIP says that
in such a case "a more detailed budget information is needed). If you
want I can add a few lines for that purpose (and also for different
categories of registration but my first purpose was to keep
the document as simple as possible).
6. Conferences (and the sponsorship fee to IFIP) are calculated in full
days;
thus if the conference lasts 2,5 days then the fee to IFIP will be
calculated
on a 3-day basis.
Now:
Please check the new forms and give me your comments within the next two
weeks
(improvements, modifications, what is missing, what should be deleted,...).
I would then formally approve the new sheets in Bangkok and tell IFIP
secretariat that we will not any more use the old bullshit versions.
Best regards (and have fun with the new sheet)
Otto
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>Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:54:54 +0100
>From: gevers(a)csam.ucl.ac.be
>Subject: Great news: IEEE has all but lifted its embargo
>
>Dear colleague,
>
>In these times of rather depressing news, I am
>pleased to announce some great news indeed.
>
>Faced with the prospect of losing thousands of
>members because of the continued embargo it was
>applying against some of its members, the IEEE
>President has announced that it was lifting just
>about all sanctions it had applied on its own
>initiative, such as access to Senior Member and
>Fellow grade, access to IEEE webpages, etc. The
>only remaining sanctions are those that are
>almost certainly within the confines of the US
>trade embargo laws.
>
>You will find details about the decision and
>some comments on the Petition News webpage
>(http://www.csam.ucl.ac.be/~gevers/Petition_News.html)
>
>or on the IEEE webpage
>(http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/mainsite/menuitem.818c0c39e85ef176fb2275875…)
>
>This decision, announced by IEEE on October 11,
>was taken to coincide with the start of the
>campaign for renewal of IEEE membership. (Note:
>I have been too busy in the last few weeks to
>organize this announcement earlier).
>
>It is great to see that our campaign has reached
>its goal, and that our fellow members (if there
>are still any) in Cuba, Iran and Sudan, are no
>longer discriminated against. It is of course
>sad to see that the IEEE leadership has lifted
>these sanctions only because thousands of
>members had expressed their outrage, with many
>of them threatening not to renew their
>membership.
>
>Thank you for the great response to our petition initiative.
>
>Yours sincerely,
>
>Michel Gevers
>Coordinator of the petition.
>
>
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Peter Radford wrote:
>
>I have a suspicion that you've mis-typed something on the IFIP/IEEE case
>
>'Answers received thus far may be classified in two parts:
>- The Americans are in favour of IEEE
> (the copyright issue seems to be of no impoortance for them,
> at least nbody has said a single word about that aspect)
>- The Americans are more on the IFIP side.
^^^^^^^^^^
Non-Americans
> They say e.g. "Do you think that there should be only
> one organisation world-wide? There is need for more".
Of course this was a "Freudian" mis-type'. Thanks for detecting it.
Thanks to those of you who contributed to the discussion already.
If others want (and agree) that their arguments will be included
in the meeting documents then please send them to me today!
Next week there is limited chance since our copy machine risks to
explode.
Best regards
Otto
Dear all,
Klaus Brunnstein has sent an open email to TC6 (see annex)
with the following issues:
a. Publications
b. IFIP World Computer Congress.
Please read the document carefully.
Best regards
Otto