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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The First International Conference on
Communication Systems Software and Middleware
January 8 - 12, 2006
New Delhi, India
http://www.comsware.org
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Sponsored by: CreateNet, ICST, IBM, Nokia
Technical Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society (pending)
The convergence of the telecommunications,
information technologies and the Internet has
ushered in a revolution in the way people
communicate with each other. The key enabler for
this convergence has been the advancement of
software technology in various communication
sectors, as evident by the high levels of
activity in the industry, academia, and standards
bodies, coupled with the increasing dependence of
this convergence to sustain and improve growth
rates in many countries around the world.
This new international conference will provide a
forum to exchange ideas, techniques, and
applications, discuss best practices and
challenging issues, raise awareness and share
experiences among researchers, practitioners,
standard developers and policy makers in the
field of software techniques in
telecommunications. The conference will bring
leading researchers and practitioners in areas
ranging from communications
software and software engineering aspects of
communications software, to middleware and
networking protocols. The conference will be
organized to provide for a high degree of
collaboration, participation and discussions of
the various topics among multi-national
participants from the industrial, governmental
and academic sectors.
COMSWARE will include a regular paper track and
an industry track. The paper track will include a
highly selective technical program. The
conference solicits original, previously
unpublished research work, experimental efforts,
and practical experiences for the technical
program. COMSWARE will also feature panel
discussions from experts in academia and
industry, workshops and tutorials featuring the
state-of-the-art in
various telecommunication software-related areas.
There will be demos and exhibits that will expose
the delegates to exciting products and software
solutions from industry and academia. The top
papers accepted to the conference will be
published in a journal.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Communications Software
· Reconfigurable Software Stacks
· Software Engineering Aspects of Communications Software
· Context-Based and Implicit Computing
· Telecommunications Services and QoS
· Software for Billing and Pricing
· User Interfaces and Interaction Models
· Multi-Agent Systems
· Client-Server Applications
· Mobile and Intermittently Connected Applications
· Mobile Data Management
· Middleware Services and Agent Technologies
· Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks
· Middleware for P2P Systems
· Middleware for Future Communication Networks
· Information Infrastructure and Security
· Security and Privacy Issues of Pervasive Computing Systems
· Network Processors
· Network Operations and Management
· Policy and Workflow-based Network Operations
· Reliability Support Software
· Resource Management in Pervasive Computing Platforms
· Management Software for Optical Networks
· Network Monitoring Software
· Internet and IP based Services
· Dynamic Service Composition and Deployment
· Service Discovery Mechanisms
· Wireless/Mobile Service Management and Delivery
· Ad hoc Networking Protocols and Service Discovery
· Mobile / Wireless Computing Systems and Services
· Performance Evaluation Techniques
· Location Determination
· Positioning and Tracking Technologies Intelligent Environments
· Wearable Computers
· Smart Devices and Smart Spaces
· Enterprise Networking
· Access and Home Networks
· Personal Area Networks
· Integration of Wired and Wireless Networks
· Next Generation Networks and Services
Deadlines
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Paper Submission: May 2, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: September 5, 2005
Camera-ready due: September 26, 2005
Conference Organizing Committee
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General Chairs: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, USA
Bijendra Nath Jain, IIT, Delhi, India
Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA
Alfred Spector, IBM Research, USA
Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy
Rajeev Shorey, IBM Research, India
Prasant
Mohapatra, University of California, Davis, USA
Program Chairs: Sanjoy Paul, Lucent Technologies, USA
G. Venkatesh, SASKEN Technologies, India
Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK
Tutorial Chair: Archan Misra, IBM Research, USA
Workshop Chairs: Ashwin Gumaste, Fujitsu Research, USA
Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester, USA
Demos/Exhibit Chairs: Huzur Saran, IIT, Delhi, India
Jaijit Bhattacharya, Oracle, India
Publicity Chairs: Thyaga Nandagopal, Lucent Technologies, USA
Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea
Marco Conti, IIT, Pisa, Italy
Ben Lancini, LinLan, Brisbane, Australia
Prashant Pradhan, IBM Research, USA
Hemant Chaskar, Airtight Networks, India
Dear all,
thank you for the extremely good participation at the voting
for a new TC6 logo.
Things are very very narrow:
The numbers received thus far for the three logos are -
in ascending order (i.e. not ordered by upper, middle, or low):
6 votes
8 votes
9 votes
One delegate said that he doesn't like any one of the proposal.
Maybe those of you who didn't vote thus far could contribute to
the final decision til next Monday, March 22.
best regards
Otto
.... of the contest for the new TC6 logo was not so easy
to determine.
32 delegates have participated (the biggest number ever!)
without counting me.
Their voting: see annex.
8 for the upper
11 for the middle
11 for the lower
1 for another logo.
In view of that, I have made a tie-break competition at my institute
which ended up largely in favour of the middle proposal (the green one)
and here I would like to follow André´s argument who preferred
that one, too
since "TC6 is clearly seen there".
Thus I put my own voting for the middle one and the case was decided!
Please find enclosed the new logo in different versions and formats
and please use it for announcement of your events etc.
In the near future I'll order some new pins which should be
available for Networking 2005 and for later events.
Of course I'll do that only if the cost for - say -
1.000 pins will be less than one student travel or one
best paper award or something like that.
Best wishes and thank you very much for your participation
Otto
Please apologize multiple copies
Call for Papers
ACM DIN 2005
First International ACM* Workshop on Dynamic Interconnection of Networks
http://www.docomoeurolabs.de/mobicom-2005-din-ws.html <http://www.docomoeurolabs.de/mobicom-2005-din-ws.html> ,
(In Conjunction with ACM MOBICOM'2005)
September 2, 2005
Cologne, Germany
Scope: A salient feature of future mobile networks will be support for flexible, dynamic inter-connection of networks. New kinds of mobile networks, such as Personal Area Networks (PANs), Body Area Networks (BANs), inter-vehicle networks, and sensor networks, arise and have to interconnect among themselves and with existing infrastructure. Such networks will integrate heterogeneous technologies, and their topologies are dynamic. Currently, inter-working in IP networks consists essentially of inter-domain routing. In the future, the control plane interconnection of these networks needs to enable e.g. seamless mobility, routing, QoS, multi-homed networks, charging, and security. For instance, mobility handling is different for a mobile phone, a train network or a BAN. Hence it needs to be negotiated which specific protocols to use and in which way. The owners of future mobile networks often are non-experts and hence auto-configuration is a major issue. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers working on interconnection of mobile networks and related topics to exchange their ideas.
Topics of Interest:
Original papers are invited in the area of dynamic interconnection of networks. Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work. Topics of interest include:
- Internetworking architectural principles
- End-to-end control interconnection regarding e.g.
Mobility management, routing, QoS provisioning, security, charging
- Naming & addressing for inter-networking
- Moving networks, ad-hoc networking and interconnection technology
- Autoconfiguring networks
- Self-organized internetworking
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: April 30th, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: June 15th, 2005
Camera-Ready Papers: July 15th, 2005
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Christian Prehofer (DoCoMo Euro-Labs) lastname at docomolab-euro.com
Cornelia Kappler (Siemens, Germany) firstname.lastname at siemens.com
Technical PC Members:
Bengt Algren (SICS, Sweden)
Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge, UK)
A. Feldmann (TU München, Germany)
James Kempf (DoCoMo US Labs)
Holger Karl (U. Paderborn, Germany)
Pekka Nikander (Ericsson, Finland)
Jürgen Quittek (NEC Europe)
Joe Touch (USC/ISI USA)
Submission Guidelines:
5 pages in pdf format with font size not smaller than 10 points, and must fit properly on A4 paper with reasonable margins. A link for paper submission will be provided by April on the Workshop Webpage http://www.docomoeurolabs.de/mobicom-2005-din-ws.html <http://www.docomoeurolabs.de/mobicom-2005-din-ws.html> , which is also accessible from the MobiCom 2005 webpage http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2005/ <http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2005/>
*Sponsorship pending by ACM SIGMOBILE
Dear all
I like this one in principle but (on my laptop, at least) the colour
rendering is very strange.
(It looks rather spotty rather than being uniform.)
Regards
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: ifip-tc6-bounces(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE
[mailto:ifip-tc6-bounces@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE] On Behalf Of Louis Pouzin
Sent: 21 March 2005 11:43
To: ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Subject: [ifip-tc6] TC6-logo-4.bmp (a suggestion)
Dear friends,
Just another variant with the same components.
I like the white separator between ifip and tc6, and the green.
It comes out nicely in black & white
Best regards
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Dear friends,
Just another variant with the same components.
I like the white separator between ifip and tc6, and the green.
It comes out nicely in black & white
Best regards
Dear potential Speaker:
On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to extend a cordial invitation for you to attend one of the upcoming IPSI BgD multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary conferences.
The first one will take place in Loreto Aprutino, Italy:
IPSI-2005 ITALY
Hotel Castello Chiola (arrival: 27 July 05 / departure: 1 August 05)
New deadlines: 31 March 05 (abstract) / 30 April 05 (full paper)
The second one will take place in Amsterdam, Holland:
IPSI-2005 HOLLAND
Hotel Okura (arrival: 1 September 05 / departure: 4 September 05)
deadlines: 1 April 05 (abstract) / 1 June 05 (full paper)
The third one will take place in Sveti Stefan, Montenegro:
IPSI-2005 MONTENEGRO
Hotel Sveti Stefan (arrival: 1 October 05 / departure: 8 October 05)
Deadlines: 1 May 05 (abstract) / 1 July 05 (full paper)
All IPSI BgD conferences are non-profit. They bring together the elite of the world science; so far, we have had seven Nobel Laureates speaking at the opening ceremonies. The conferences always take place in some of the most attractive places of the world. All those who come to IPSI conferences once, always love to come back (because of the unique professional quality and the extremely creative atmosphere); lists of past participants are on the web, as well as details of future conferences.
These conferences are in line with the newest recommendations of the US National Science Foundation and of the EU research sponsoring agencies, to stress multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research (M+I+T++ research). The speakers and activities at the conferences truly support this type of scientific interaction.
One of the main topics of this conference is "E-education and E-business with Special Emphasis on Semantic Web and Web Datamining"
Other topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Internet
* Computer Science and Engineering
* Mobile Communications/Computing for Science and Business
* Management and Business Administration
* Education
* e-Medicine
* e-Oriented Bio Engineering/Science and Molecular Engineering/Science
* Environmental Protection
* e-Economy
* e-Law
* Technology Based Art and Art to Inspire Technology Developments
* Internet Psychology
If you would like more information on either conference, please reply to this e-mail message.
If you plan to submit an abstract and paper, please let us know immediately for planning purposes. Note that you can submit your paper also to the IPSI Transactions journal.
Sincerely Yours,
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IPSI BgD Conferences
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Dear all,
IFIP has a new logo. TC6 should have also a new one based on the
official IFIP logo.
I asked a designer student to present some proposals. She came with
three ideas (see attachment).
Please tell me your preference (until the end of this week).
I would like to produce pins - like we did for Portugal -
such that they would be ready for Networking 2005.
Best regards
Otto
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Name:
I vote for:
O the upper one (with the small white intersection
between IFIP and TC6)
O the middle one (green colour)
O the lower one (blue colour)
O I don't like any proposal; please present other ideas
Dear all,
here is something less serious for the weekend:
a. An instruction about how to insult a computer scientist:
<http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essay.criticize.html>
b. A very nice complaint letter (see attachment)
Have fun.
Best regards
Otto