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The 3rd International Conference on
Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-06)
- Building Smart Worlds on Real and Cyber Spaces -
http://grid.hust.edu.cn/uic06/
Organized by Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech. (HUST)
Co-Sponsored by HUST, NSFC, 863, ChinaGrid, IFIP
In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society (Applying)
Wuhan and Three Gorges, China, September 3-6, 2006
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Following ubiquitous computers, networks, information,
services, etc., is a road towards a smart world (SW)
created on both real and cyber spaces. A SW is mainly
characterized by ubiquitous intelligence (UI) or
computational intelligence pervasive in the physical world,
filled with ubiquitous intelligent or smart things,
that are capable of computing, communicating, and behaving
smartly with some intelligence. One of the profound implications
of such ubiquitous smart things is that various kinds and
levels of intelligence will exist ubiquitously in
everyday objects, environments, systems and even ourselves,
and possibly be extended from man-made to natural things.
"Ubicomp" or "percomp" can be regarded as the computing of
all these intelligent/smart things/u-things, that are
essential elements and components of the SW.
A smart thing can be endowed with different levels of
intelligence, and may be context-aware, active, interactive,
reactive, proactive, assistive, adaptive, automated, sentient,
perceptual, cognitive, autonomic and/or thinking.
Intelligent/smart things is an emerging research field
covering many disciplines. A series of grand challenges exist
to move from the ubiquitous world with universal services of
any means/place/time to the SW of trustworthy services with the
right means/place/time. UIC-06 is a successor of the 2nd Int'l
Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart Worlds (UISW2005,
Japan, Dec. 2005) which succeeds the 1st Int'l Workshop on
Ubiquitous Smart Worlds (USW2005,Taipei, Mar. 2005). It offers
a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in
developing intelligent/smart objects, environments, and systems
as well as discuss various personal/social/physical issues
faced by UI and SWs.
Topics include but are not limited to the following:
1. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Objects
* Electronic Label, Card, E-Tag and RFID
* Embedded Chips, Sensor & Actuator
* MEMS, NEMS, Mote & Biometric Device
* Everyday Good, Artifact, Robot, etc.
* Smart Appliance and Wearable Device
* Material, Textile, Cloth, Furniture, etc.
* Emerging Intelligent/Smart Objects
* Embedded Software and Agents
2. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Environments
* Room, Home, Office, Laboratory, etc.
* Building, Library, School, Campus, etc.
* Shop, Clinic, Hospital and Health Care
* Street, Yard, Park, Ground, City, etc.
* Vehicle, Road, Traffic & Transportation
* Land, Pool, Space and Hyperspace
* Learning, Sport, Entertainment, etc.
* Novel Intelligent/Smart Applications
3. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Systems
* Sensor, Ad Hoc & Intelligent Networks
* Knowledge Representation and Ontology
* Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems
* OS, Middleware and Intelligent Association
* Intelligent Service Architecture, Grid & Mesh
* Massive Agents, Swarm/Amorphous Systems
* Proactive, Autonomic and Organic Systems
* Novel Intelligent/Smart Systems
4. Personal/Social/Physical Aspects
* Real/Cyber World Modeling and Semantics
* End-User Interface, Control & Programming
* Social/Natural/Physical Model of UI & SW
* User/Object Identity and Activity Recognition
* Security, Privacy, Trust and Legal/Policy Issues
* Emotional, Ethical and Psychological Factors
* Implication and Impact of UI and SW
* Relations between Real and Cyber Worlds
==IMPORTANT DATES==
Submission Deadline: March 10, 2006
Authors Notification: May 10, 2006
Final Manuscript Due: June 10, 2006
==ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION==
Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages
in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) at the UIC-06 web site:
http://grid.hust.edu.cn/uic06
==PAPER PUBLICATION==
Accepted papers will be published by IEEE CS Proceedings
to be indexed by SCI and EI. Distinguished papers, after
further revisions, will be published in special issues of
the international Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and
Intelligence (JUCI), and the International Journal of
Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC).
==Organizing Committees==
Honorary Chairs
Horio Shiratori, Tohoku University, Japan
Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
General Chairs
Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Program Committee Chairs
Victor Callaghan, University of Essex, UK
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
International Advisory Committee
Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan
Marios C. Angelides, Brunel University, UK
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan
Ali R. Hurson, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Haruhisa Ichikawa, NTT Network Innovation Lab., Japan
Moon Hae Kim, Konkuk University, Korea
Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy
Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, Canada
Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Jhing-Fa Wang, Nat. Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
Steering Committee Chairs
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Publicity Chairs
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Hani A. K. Hagras, University of Essex, UK
Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
International Liaison Chairs
Vipin Chaudhary, Wayne State University, USA
Ismail K. Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
Publication Chairs
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Thomas Noel, University Louis Pasteur, France
Jon (Jong-Hoon) Youn, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Award Chairs
Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA
Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Panel Chair
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Financial Chair
Xin Li, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Web Administration Chair
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Local Arrangement Chair
Xia Xie, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Program Committee
See UIC-06 web site: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/uic06/
Further questions, please contact with
UIC06 Secretariat: <uic06(a)hust.edu.cn> Or PC Chairs
Prof. Hai Jin <hjin(a)hust.edu.cn>
Prof. Laurence T. Yang <lyang(a)stfx.ca>
Prof. Victor Callaghan <vic(a)essex.ac.uk>
(Apologies if you receive this call multiple times.)
*** Paper registration is in 10 days! ***
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PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiHoc 2006
The Seventh ACM International Symposium on
Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2006/
May 22-25 2006
Florence, Italy
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ACM MobiHoc is the premier international meeting dedicated
to addressing challenges emerging from wireless ad hoc
networking and computing. This year's symposium will include
a highly selective technical program, as well as hands-on
research demonstrations, keynote, panel, and tutorials.
We invite paper, poster, and demonstration submissions on
mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless
mesh networks, and ad hoc computing systems, with the focus
being on issues at and above the MAC layer. Areas of
interest include, but are not limited to the following:
* Applications, operating system, and middleware support
* Transport, network, and MAC protocols
* Energy-efficient algorithms
* Quality of Service issues
* Location discovery techniques
* Network scaling and limits
* Cross layer design
* Network resilience, fault-tolerance, and reliability
* Trust, security and privacy
* Distributed sensing, actuation, control, and coordination
* Measurements and practical experience from experimental
systems and testbeds
* Modeling and performance evaluation
PAPERS: Papers must report new results substantiated by
experimentation, simulation, or analysis. All submissions
will be handled electronically and must be in PDF
format. Papers must not exceed 12 pages (US letter size, 8.5
x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The
font size must be at least 10 points. Accepted papers will
be published in the symposium proceedings. All submitted
papers would be judged based on their quality through
double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors
are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must NOT
appear in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers
must not be currently under review for any other
publication. Instructions on paper submission and formatting
are available on the symposium webpage. Please direct any
questions about the paper submission process to the Program
Co-Chairs Marco Conti (marco.conti(a)iit.cnr.it) and
Raghupathy Sivakumar (siva(a)ece.gatech.edu).
POSTERS: Posters presenting early work and preliminary
results are solicited. The poster session will provide an
excellent opportunity for initial feedback on early research
results. Poster descriptions of no more than 3 pages (US
letter size 8.5 x 11 inches) using font size 10 should be
submitted to the Poster Co-Chairs Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini
(chiasserini(a)polito.it) and Wendi B. Heinzelman
(wheinzel(a)ece.rochester.edu) before March 15, 2006. Please
include the words "Poster Abstract:" to precede the title on
the cover page. A selected subset of poster abstracts will
be published in ACM Mobile Computing and Communications
Review.
DEMOS: Technical demonstration of experimental ad hoc
networking and computing systems are solicited. One-page
demo descriptions, including a list of any required
supporting equipment, should be sent to the Demo Co-Chairs
Srdan Capkun (capkun(a)ucla.edu) and Xudong Wang
(wxudong(a)ieee.org) before March 15, 2006.
TUTORIALS: Proposals for tutorials are solicited. Evaluation
of proposals will be based on the expertise and experience
of the instructors, and on the relevance of the subject
matter. Potential instructors are requested to submit a
tutorial proposal of at most 5 pages, including a
biographical sketch, to the Tutorial Co-Chairs Doug Blough
(doug.blough(a)ece.gatech.edu) and Silvia Giordano
(silvia.giordano(a)supsi.ch) before January 15, 2006.
PANELS: Panels are solicited that examine innovative,
controversial, or otherwise provocative issues of interest.
Panel proposals should not exceed 2 pages, including
biographical sketches of the panelists. Potential panel
organizers should contact the General Chair Sergio Palazzo
(sergio.palazzo(a)diit.unict.it) before Dec. 15, 2005.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper registration: December 2, 2005 (5 PM US EST)
Paper submission: December 9, 2005 (5 PM US EST)
Notification of acceptance: March 27, 2006
Camera-ready version due: April 10, 2006
For more information contact the General Chair Sergio
Palazzo (sergio.palazzo(a)diit.unict.it) or consult the
MobiHoc 2006 webpage at
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2006/.
We apologize in advance for the multiple copies of this CFP.
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PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
MED HOC NET 2006
The Fifth Annual
MEDITERRANEAN AD HOC NETWORKING
Workshop
http://www.medhoc.diit.unict.it/2006/
June 14-17 2006
Lipari, Italy
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Ad hoc networks have attracted the attention of the research
community in the last several years. Now that some of the
fundamental issues and challenges of ad hoc networking have
been clearly assessed, the focus is partially shifting to
new issues, which include application scenarios (road
safety, disaster recovery, sensors and actuators, etc.),
autonomous Organization and operation, optimization and
control, service creation and support, middleware. Moreover,
wireless MESH networking is emerging as an "ad hoc spin-off"
aimed at extending and integrating the multi-hop paradigm
with more traditional networking, which poses new and
exciting technical challenges.
Med-Hoc-Net 2006 is the major annual international workshop
aiming to serve as a platform for researchers and
visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry from
all over the world. Sharing ideas, views, results, and
experiences in the field of wireless multi-hop networking is
what Med-Hoc-Net 2006 intends to be about. Anything from
theoretical and experimental achievements, to innovative ad
hoc systems, prototyping efforts, and case studies is of
interest to the Med-Hoc-Net community.
The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2006 cover a variety of
topics related to ad hoc and MESH networks, including but
not limited to:
- Novel multi-hop wireless network architectures
- Routing algorithms and protocols
- MAC protocols, scheduling, power control and radio
resource sharing
- Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks
- Middleware for ad hoc networks
- Application driven architectures and protocols
- Sensor network applications and protocols
- Vehicular networks
- Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access
networks
- Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes
- Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee,
IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.20, etc.)
- Self organization and network reconfiguration
- Optimization models and algorithms
- Resource and service discovery
- Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc
networks
- Use of advanced antenna technologies (MIMO, beam forming,
etc.)
- QoS support
- Security and privacy
The members of program committee will referee all papers,
and accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be published in
the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal.
Manuscripts must be formatted according to the IEEE
double-column standard format, with the exception of the
font size, which must be 11pt. Authors should use only
standard fonts, i.e., Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and
Helvetica, or their equivalent. The maximum length of the
manuscript is 8 pages, including figure, tables and
references.
Papers should be submitted in pdf or ps format through EDAS
system (http://edas.info) according to the timetable below.
IMPORTANT DATES
Full Paper Electronic Submission: Friday February 24, 2006
Tutorial proposal submission: Sunday April 23, 2006
Notification of acceptance/rejection: Tuesday May 2, 2006
Camera ready submission of full papers: Friday May 22, 2006
Tutorial date: June 14, 2006
Conference dates: June 15-17, 2006
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Dr. Ozgur B. Akan
Assistant 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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- Prasun Sinha
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MobiQuitous 2006
The Third Annual International Conference on
Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services
http://www.mobiquitous.org
July 17 -- 21, 2006
San Jose, California, USA
(ACM/IEEE sponsorship pending)
The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising
new paradigm with the goal to provide computing and communication services all
the time, everywhere, transparently and invisibly to the user, using devices
embedded in the surrounding physical environment. In this context, the
communication devices, the objects with which they interact, or both may be
mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in wireless
network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting
cognitive environments, and discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing
applications and services. The Third Annual International Conference on Mobile
and Ubiquitous Systems: networking and services (Mobiquitous-06) will cover
all these aspects, providing a forum where practitioners and researchers coming
from the many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions design and deployment will
be able to interact exchanging the cross-layer experiences needed to build the
overall ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include applications,
service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, data management and
services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing.
PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research,
not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited.
The conference is interested in contributions addressing all the areas
associated with mobile and ubiquitous architectures, infrastructure, data
and services. Technical papers clearly identifying how the specific contributions
fit to an overall working solution are particularly of interest. Topics include,
but are not limited to, the following feature topics:
* Ubiquitous architectures and systems
* Wearable computing and personal area networks
* Wireless technologies for mobile and ubiquitous (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi)
* Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems
* Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless networks
* Service discovery mechanisms, knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms
* Wireless/mobile service management and delivery
* Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems
* Peer-to-peer computing and networking
* Emerging industrial/business/scientific scenarios
* Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile)
* Adaptive and customizable user interfaces
* Smart spaces
* Ad hoc and sensor networks
* Location-based services and tracking
* Context and location aware application
* Multimedia encoding and transcoding
* Middleware services
* Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems
* Hardware and software platforms for ubiquitous systems, and testbeds
* Context modeling, services and frameworks
* Toolkits, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing
* Rapid prototyping of ubiquitous applications
* Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing
* Mobile and ubiquitous data management
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically (see
the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF
version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 8 pages double column (US
Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size
must be at least 10 points. The deadline for registering the title and the abstract
of the paper with our electronic submission system is February 13, 2006. The deadline
for submitting the actual paper is February 20, 2006. All deadlines are 11:59PM PST.
PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international
technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the
ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal.
WORKSHOPS: Proposals for one-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference
are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include the workshop
name, its scope and a list of topic of interests. Proposals should be submitted to
both the Workshop Chair by December 16, 2005.
DEMOS: Proposals for research and industrial demos are solicited. A maximum of 3
pages should be submitted which include a description of the demo and needed equipment.
Proposals should be submitted to the Demo Chair by March 1, 2006.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper registration and submission: February 13 and 20, 2006
Notification of acceptance: April 21, 2006
General Co-Chairs
Hamid Ahmadi, IBM, hahmadi(a)us.ibm.com
Tom La Porta, Penn State, tlp(a)cse.psu.edu
Program Co-Chairs
Ravi Jain, Google, ravi.jain(a)acm.org
Asim Smailagic, CMU, asim(a)cs.cmu.edu
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, arkady.zaslavsky(a)csse.monash.edu.au
Workshop Chair
Kin Leung, Imperial College, kin.leung(a)imperial.ac.uk
Finance Chair
Karen Decker, ICST, karen(a)icst.org
Local Arrangements Chair
Ulas Kozat, DoCoMo Labs, kozat(a)docomolabs-usa.com
Web Chair
Patrick Traynor, Penn State, traynor(a)cse.psu.edu
Steering Committee Chair
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, imrich.chlamtac(a)create-net.it
Publicity Chair
Prasun Sinha, Ohio State University, prasun(a)cse.ohio-state.edu
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NETWORKING 2006
IFIP International Conference on Networking
May 15-19, 2006
Coimbra, Portugal
www.IFIP-Networking.org
New paper submission deadline: November 27th, 2005
Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2006
Edmundo Monteiro
General Chair
Call For Papers
and
Call For Session Proposals
The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
WORLDCOMP'06
(composed of 28 Joint Conferences)
June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, USA
Dear Colleagues:
You are invited to submit a draft paper (see instructions below)
and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop.
All accepted papers will be published in the respective
conference proceedings (included in major science citation
indexes). The names of technical session/workshop
organizers/chairs will appear on the cover of the proceedings as
Associate Editors.
The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'06) is composed of the following
28 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: June 26-29, 2006, USA).
o The 2006 International Conference on Parallel & Distributed
Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Scientific Computing
(CSC'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Grid Computing &
Applications (GCA'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Security & Management
(SAM'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(ICAI'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models,
Technologies & Applications (MLMTA'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Software Engineering
Research & Practice (SERP'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Programming Languages &
Compilers (PLC'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Internet Computing
(ICOMP'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Semantic Web & Web Services
(SWWS'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Real-Time Computing
Systems & Applications (RTCOMP'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Embedded Systems &
Applications (ESA'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Pervasive Systems &
Computing (PSC'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Graphics & Virtual
Reality (CGVR'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation &
Visualization Methods (MSV'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Games Development
(CGD'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Frontiers in Education:
Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Foundations of Computer
Science (FCS'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on e-Business, Enterprise
Information Systems, e-Government, & Outsourcing (EEE'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Information & Knowledge
Engineering (IKE'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Bioinformatics &
Biological Sciences (BBS'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Computing in Nanotechnology
(CNAN'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
Systems & Algorithms (ERSA'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Communications in Computing
(CIC'6)
(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org - currently
under construction.)
GENERAL CHAIR AND COORDINATOR:
H. R. Arabnia, PhD
The University of Georgia
Department of Computer Science
415 Graduate Studies Research Center
Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA
Tel: (706) 542-3480
Fax: (706) 542-2966
E-mail: hra(a)cs.uga.edu
PURPOSE / HISTORY:
This set of joint conferences is the largest annual
gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. Each of the 28 joint
conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for
presentation of advances in their respective fields.
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 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.
PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:
Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
presentations (from different authors). The session
chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
selecting, ... The names of session chairs will appear
as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
on the cover of the books.
Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
the topic of the session, the name of the conference the
session is submitted for consideration, and a short
description on how the session will be advertised (in
most cases, session proposers solicit papers from
colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
session proposer). Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
(address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred.
We would like to receive the proposals by December 29, 2005.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft
paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10
to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions
in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
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, E-mail address, telephone number, &
Fax number for each author. The first page should also
include the name of the author who will be presenting
the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being
submitted to must be mentioned on the first page.
Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
clarity, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by
two researchers in the topical area. The Camera-Ready
papers will be reviewed by one person.
MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & 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.)
The Program Committee for individual conferences is
currently being formed. Those interested in joining
the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
(hra(a)cs.uga.edu) the following information:
Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography
together with research interests and the name of the
conference offering to help with.
LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:
The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other
near-by hotels). The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel
with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
shuttle service to and from the airport. This hotel has
many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls,
spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River
water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
bars, ... Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a
day & most are suitable for families & children. The
negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
reasonable. The hotel is within walking distance from
most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
shows, ...).
IMPORTANT DATES:
Dec. 29, 2005: Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions.
Feb. 20, 2006: Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
March 20, 2006: Notification of acceptance
April 20, 2006: Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
June 26-29, 2006: The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
(WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences)
TOPICAL SCOPE FOR EACH CONFERENCE:
To receive the complete list of topics for each of the
28 conferences, send an email to hra(a)cs.uga.edu or
wait for the conferences' URL's to be constructed.
FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS:
If you do not wish to receive future announcements about this
event, please send an email to hra(a)cs.uga.edu.
(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP)
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Call for Papers
Second IEEE Workshop on Dependability and Security in
Sensor Networks and Systems
(DSSNS'2006)
http://www.dssns.org
In conjunction with
2nd NASA/IEEE Systems and Software Week
30th NASA/IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW'2006)
Columbia, Maryland, USA ~ April 24-28, 2006
Recently, there has been a growing interest in the potential use
of networked sensors in applications such as smart environments,
disaster management, combat field reconnaissance, and security
surveillance. While the initial view of the community was that
networked sensors will play a complementary role that enhances
the quality of these applications, recent research results have
encouraged practitioners to envision an increased reliance on sensor
networks and systems (SN&S) in such critical and sensitive
applications. Therefore to realize their potential, necessary
dependability and security (D&S) measures have to be
incorporated in the design and during the operation of SN&S.
Dependability is usually specified using attributes like reliability,
survivability, safety, maintainability, and availability in presence
of failure, while security is specified by attributes like integrity,
authenticity, confidentiality, and availability in presence of
attacks. D&S services accomplish tasks for attack and
failure prevention, detection and response. The scope of D&S
services may span the deployed sensors to command nodes
and likely beyond. It also involves D&S support at, and
cross-cutting, the protocol stack layers from physical to
application.
Achieving dependability and security in SN&S will require
non-conventional mechanisms due to many factors including:
(1) sensors are significantly constrained in the amount of
available resources such as energy, storage and computation;
(2) sensors are expected to be deployed in very large numbers
in normal as well as harsh/hostile environments; (3) sensor
networks suffer from structural weakness and limited physical
protection, and (4) localization of impact is complicated due
to the un-tethered nature of SN&S and of the potential
attackers. In addition, D&S requirements may vary according
to mission defined over a multi-dimensional context, such
as field of deployment (e.g., hostile versus friendly), type of
application (e.g., monitoring, tracking, data collection), mode
of operation (e.g., normal, exception, post-event recovery),
and time.
This workshop will foster a forum for discussing and presenting
recent research results on dependability and security in SN&S.
Topics of interest include, although not limited to, the following:
- Fault and intrusion-tolerant architectures, middleware and operational
models
- Robust routing, storage, and processing of sensed data
- D&S architectures, protocols and tools
- Vulnerabilities, attacks and countermeasures
- Monitoring and evaluation techniques
- Robust clustering techniques
- Self-awareness and context-awareness
- Resilient virtual infrastructures
- Autonomic and adaptive D&S support.
- Formal representation and verification of D&S properties
- Network inference support for D&S
- Quality of service provisioning
- Models, metrics, and measurements for D&S
- Privacy-aware D&S services
- Testbeds, simulation and visualization
- Agent-based D&S management
- SN&S support for D&S in larger information grids
- SN&S application development environments
Submission Guidelines
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Papers should contain original material and not be previously
published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.
The manuscript should not exceed 20 single-column
double-space pages in PDF format, font size 11 or larger.
The first page should include title, authors' contact information,
abstract and five keywords.
Please e-mail (subject: DSSNS 2006) the paper as an attachment
in PDF format to:
submission(a)dssns.org
The e-mail should include title, authors, and the corresponding author's
contact information.
Important Dates
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Submission deadline: November 15, 2005
Decision notification: December 20, 2005
Final manuscript due: January 20, 2006
The accepted papers will appear in a proceedings published by IEEE.
The best paper will be recognized and selected papers will be invited to
a Special Issue of the Journal of Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks.
Workshop Co-Chairs
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Mohamed Eltoweissy
Virginia Tech, USA
E-mail: toweissy(a)vt.edu
Mohamed Younis
University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
E-mail: younis(a)csee.umbc.edu
Publicity Co-Chairs
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Denis Gracanin
Virginia Tech, USA
E-mail: gracanin(a)vt.edu
Moustafa Youssef
University of Maryland at College Park, USA
E-mail: moustafa(a)cs.umd.edu
Program Committee
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Farooq Anjum, Telcordia & U. of Penn, USA
David Carman, Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Lab, USA
Ing-Ray Chen, Virginia Tech, USA
M. Nazih Elderini, Alexandria U., Egypt
Deborah Frincke, Pacific Northwest National Lab and U. of Idaho, USA
Ahmed Helmy, University of Southern California, USA
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason U., USA
Shivakant Mishra, U. of Colorado, USA
Peng Ning, North Carolina State U., USA
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue U., USA
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion U., USA
David Simplot-Ryl, U. Lille, INRIA Futurs, France
Mani B. Srivastava, U. of California Los Angeles, USA
John A. Stankovic, U. of Virginia, USA
Ivan Stojmenovic, U. of Ottawa, Canada
Gene Tsudik, U. of California-Irvine, USA
Cliff Wang, Army Research Office, USA
Stephen D. Wolthusen, Fraunhofer-IGD, Germany
Albert Zomaya, U. of Sydney, Australia
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5th International Workshop on
Advanced Internet Charging and QoS Technologies
ICQT'06
in conjunction with SIGMETRICS/Performance 2006
http://icqt.irisa.fr/
June 27, 2006
St Malo, France
Scope
Internet communications and their commercial use has shown
a large demand on charging support. While differentiated
services, grid-based services, and QoS-guaranteed services
enable a huge variety of prosperous business models, the
need for viable models and pricing schemes is urgent. The
esulting combination of technical and economic perspectives
drives many relevant research topics for application
developers, business architects, network providers, service
providers, and customers. Especially the identification of
novel service charging solutions, the investigation and
evaluation of their technical feasibility, and the
consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms for
enabling a fast, guaranteed, and efficient charging of
services is of fundamental importance for the future
evolution of the Internet, and as such the central focus of
the international ICQT workshop series.
ICQT'06 is the fifth event in this series, following the
highly successful workshops ICQT'01 in Vienna (Austria),
ICQT'02 in Zurich (Switzerland), ICQT'03 in Munich (Germany),
and ICQT'04 in Barcelona (Spain).
The focus of this year's workshop is on the close relation
between economics and technologies in support of charging,
pricing for Quality-of-Service (QoS), and business modeling.
Therefore, authors are invited to submit work on issues
related to, but not limited by, the following list of topics:
* Network economics and economic models for the Internet
* Internet pricing, tariffing, and billing
* Application service provider models
* Charging technologies for next generation networks
* Monitoring, measuring, and accounting
* ISP cost and business models
* Service charging models, e.g., grids and web services
* Charging for QoS, services, and content
* Interdomain pricing approaches
* Pricing mobile and wireless services
* Management of Service Level Agreements
* Security mechanisms for charging
Papers and Submissions
Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no
more than 12 single-spaced pages, each of which will be
subject to a full review process. Submissions should already
follow the author guidelines as specified below and must
include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract,
and a list of at most five keywords. The corresponding
author should be identified clearly, including name,
position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and
e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based submission of
papers is mandatory, please check the URL
http://www.ftw.at/icqt for further submission instructions
or contact icqt06(a)ftw.at for additional information.
The conference proceedings are planned to be published
as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag,
Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) Series and will be available during the
event. In preparing their manuscript, authors are obliged
to follow the LNCS guidelines
(see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)
strictly and without exception, including the 12 page limit.
Important Dates
* Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2006.
* Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2006.
* Camera ready version: April 25, 2006.
* Workshop date: June 27, 2006.
General Information
The workshop will be organized on the second day of the
two ACM Sigmetrics and IFIP Performance conferences,
especially as a full day on June 27, 2006.
The registration for this event is handled within the
framework of the ACM Sigmetrics/IFIP Performance 2006
conference, see http://www.cs.wm.edu/sigm06/ for further
details. For more information please visit ICQT series'
web page or contact icqt06(a)ftw.at.
Committees
General Chair
* Bruno Tuffin, INRIA Rennes, France
Program Co-Chairs
* Peter Reichl,
Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria
* Burkhard Stiller,
University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Program Committee
* Rui Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal
* Eitan Altman, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
* Joern Altmann, International University Bruchsal, Germany
* Ragnar Andreassen, Telenor, Norway
* Dominique Barth, University of Versailles, France
* Nicola Blefari Melazzi, University of Rome, Italy
* Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Switzerland
* Costas Courcoubetis,
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
* Chris Edwards, University of Lancaster, U.K.
* Errin Fulp, Wake Forest University, U.S.A.
* Richard Gibbens, University of Cambridge, U.K.
* Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo, Canada
* Peter Key, Microsoft, U.K.
* Patrick Maille, ENST Bretagne, France
* Robin Mason, University of Southampton, U.K.
* Lee McKnight, Syracuse University, U.S.A.
* Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
* Huw Oliver, Ericsson, Ireland
* Kihong Park, Purdue University, U.S.A.
* Guido Petit, Alcatel, Belgium
* Douglas Reeves, North Carolina State University, U.S.A.
* Guenther Schaefer, TU Ilmenau, Germany
* Vasilis Siris, ICS FORTH, Greece
* George Stamoulis, AUEB Athens, Greece
* Yoshiaki Tanaka, Waseda University, Japan
Organization Committee
* Bruno Tuffin, INRIA Rennes
* Elisabeth Lebret, INRIA Rennes
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CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE SECON 2006
Third Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on
Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
Reston, VA, USA
September 25-29, 2006
Paper submissions due (via EDAS):
April 1, 2006 (Abstract/title registration)
April 7, 2006 (Full paper)
http://www.ieee-secon.org/2006/index.html
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The third annual IEEE SECON conference will provide a unique forum to
exchange ideas, techniques, and applications, discuss best practices,
raise awareness, and share experiences among researchers,
practitioners, standard developers and policy makers in the field of
sensor, ad hoc, and mesh networks and systems. IEEE SECON grew out of
IEEE INFOCOM (http://www.ieee-infocom.org) in 2004, in order to create
an event that focused on the important and exciting topics of Sensor,
Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks.
The conference will be organized to provide for collegiality and
continuity in the discussions of the various topics among participants
from the industrial, governmental and academic sectors.
Original technical papers that address the communications, networking,
applications, systems and algorithmic aspects of mesh and sensor
networks, as well as those that describe practical deployment and
implementation experiences are solicited for presentation at the
conference and publication in the conference proceedings. Papers
presenting novel contributions in such disciplines as communications,
networking protocols and architectures, algorithms, embedded systems,
middleware and information management, and novel applications are
solicited.
PAPERS:
Full papers - describing original, previously unpublished research
work, experimental efforts, practical experiences, and industrial and
commercial developments in sensor, ad hoc, and mesh communications and
networks - are solicited. Papers with a deep focus on a specific
discipline or stimulated by the synergistic interaction of diverse
disciplines are encouraged. Papers describing practical application
of technology to real-world problems are similarly encouraged. Papers
submitted should not be concurrently under review at another
conference, journal or similar venue.
Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* New architectures and protocols to support communication,
localization, time synchronization, routing, data dissemination, and
other distributed services in heterogeneous, large-scale distributed,
mesh networks and sensor networks
* Novel algorithms and theories for management, supervisory control,
and monitoring of distributed ad hoc networks, and techniques for the
interpretation and use of sensor data in decision-making processes
* Modeling and performance evaluation of large-scale distributed ad
hoc and sensor networks, practical implementations and deployments,
and real-world experiences
* Theories and models on fundamental information and communication
aspects of wireless mesh and sensor networks
* Mechanisms for authenticated, secure communication and data
dissemination in sensor and mesh networks
* Algorithms and protocols to support quality of service in mesh and
sensor networks, including admission control, resource allocation and
fairness, and capacity planning
* Integration of sensors into engineered systems, including novel
techniques for on-sensor renewable power sources, mechanisms for
on-sensor self-calibration and self-testing, and efficient schemes to
maximize accuracy and minimize false alarms
* Hardware platforms incorporating multiple sensors, computation,
actuation, and wireless interfaces
* Software platforms, middleware, and tools for mesh and sensor
network applications development, deployment, and management
TUTORIALS AND PANELS:
Proposals for tutorials and panels on current topics in the field of
ad hoc and sensor networking and applications are solicited. Panels
related to the commercial application and development of sensors and
mesh networks are especially encouraged.
DEMOS AND EXPO:
Demonstrations that showcase practical implementations, industrial and
commercial developments, and new applications for mesh and sensor
networks are solicited.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
All paper submissions will be handled electronically through the EDAS
system. Details regarding the paper format and the submission process
will be announced shortly at
http://www.ieee-secon.org/2006/index.html.
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and
will appear on IEEE Xplore. IEEE Communications Society policy states
that all accepted SECON 2006 papers must have at least one
registration at the regular rate. For authors co-authoring multiple
papers, one regular registration is valid for up to three papers.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper registration: April 1, 2006, by 5pm EDT
Full Paper Submission: April 7, 2006, by 5pm EDT
Decision Notification: June 15, 2006, by 5pm EDT
Camera-ready paper due: July 7, 2006, by 5pm EDT
Demo proposals due: June 1, 2006, by 5pm EDT
Poster proposals due: June 30, 2006, by 5pm EDT
Tutorial/Panel proposals due: May 1, 2006, by 5pm EDT
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITEE
GENERAL CHAIR:
Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, krishna(a)umbc.edu
TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Mark Yarvis, Intel Corporation, mark.d.yarvis(a)intel.com
Michele Zorzi, Universita' degli Studi di Padova, zorzi(a)dei.unipd.it
POSTERS/DEMOS CO-CHAIRS:
Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, basagni(a)ece.neu.edu
Cedric Westphal, Nokia, Cedric.Westphal(a)nokia.com
PANELS CO-CHAIRS:
TBA
TUTORIALS CHAIR:
Tom Hou, Virginia Tech, thou(a)vt.edu
PUBLICITY CHAIR:
Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, wheinzel(a)ece.rochester.edu
EXHIBITS/SPONSORSHIPS CHAIR:
Vishal Anand, SUNY Brockport, vanand(a)brockport.edu
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR:
Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virgina Tech, toweissy(a)vt.edu
STANDING COMMITTEE:
Fred Bauer (fred(a)fredbauer.com), PacketHop (CHAIR)
Harvey Freeman, Booz Allen Hamilton
Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs
Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
TBA
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Call for Workshop Proposals for MobiQuitous 2006
Building on the success of the last two years, the 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (MobiQuitous 2006) will be held on July 17 - 21, 2006 in San Jose, California. This is an exciting forum for researchers and practitioners working in the areas of mobile and ubiquitous systems, services, and applications. Areas addressed by the conference include applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, mobile computing and networking, agents, knowledge management and databases. In conjunction with the main conference, four one-day workshops will be held on July 17 and 21. Please visit www.mobiquitous.org for details.
WHAT TO SUBMIT: We solicit proposals for the one-day workshops on new and emerging topics in mobile and ubiquitous computing and systems, infrastructure, and services. An ideal proposal would focus on a specific theme, be of current interest, and be able to attract a number of high quality submissions. The workshop proposal should be a maximum of 2 pages long and should clearly identify the theme, the scope, and specific topic areas of interest. The proposal should also suggest potential program chairs and program committee members.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINE: Please send workshop proposals by December 16, 2005 to both the General Co-Chair, Tom LaPorta (tlp(a)cse.psu.edu) and the Workshop Chair, Kin Leung (kin.leung(a)imperial.ac.uk). We look forward to your workshop proposals.