February 2006 - ifip-tc6 - lists.rwth-aachen.de

CfP for IFIP events
by Otto Spaniol 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Dear all, Eduard Dundler (IFIP secretariat) wrote: --------------------------------------- All registered Call-for-Papers of IFIP events are now listed on the IFIP web site. This page will be regularly updated. The CfPs are in ascending order of the closing date. For information the entries are retained for 1 month after close. Please follow this link: http://www.ifip.org/Cfp/Call-for-Papers.htm Best regards Eduard Dundler =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Head of IFIP Secretariat International Federation for Information Processing Hofstrasse3 , A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel.: +43 (0) 2236 73 616 Fax: +43 (0) 2236 73 616 9 e-mail: eduard.dundler(a)ifip.org URL: http://www.ifip.org =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Please note that this holds for *registered* events. Many TC6 events are not listed (since we never received an event request form). The same holds for event report forms and - even more - for the payment of the previously agreed financial contribution to IFIP. I don't have neither the energy nor the time nor the willingness to chase after all those missing things. Best regards Otto

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DCOSS '06 Call for Papers-- Feb. 8 abstract submission deadline (THIS WEEK)
by Wendi Heinzelman 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

========================================= IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems June 18 - 20, 2006 San Francisco, California, USA ========================================= WWW.DCOSS.ORG The 2006 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '06) will take place in San Francisco during June 18 - 20, 2006. DCOSS '06 will represent a merger of the DCOSS conference series and the IEEE International Workshops on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (WMAN). The first DCOSS conference, held at Marina del Rey on June 30-July 1, 2005, featured high quality research papers and interesting invited and contributed poster/presentation sessions. DCOSS '06 is intended to cover several aspects of distributed computing in sensor systems such as high level abstractions, computational models, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, analysis and applications. The conference will be co-located with several closely related workshops, and will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their contributions related to the above high-level aspects of distributed sensor systems. In addition to contributed papers, the meeting will also include keynote addresses by leading researchers, a panel discussion, and a poster/presentation session. SPONSORED BY IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) Held in co-operation with ACM SIGARCH ACM SIGBED European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) IFIP WG 10.3 MEETING INFORMATION The advance program will be available in April 2006. Check http://www.dcoss.org/ for updated information. IMPORTANT DATES (firm deadlines) February 08, 2006 Paper Abstract Submission Due February 15, 2006 Paper Submission Due March 15, 2006 Poster Abstract Submission Due April 01, 2006 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection April 16, 2006 Camera-Ready Paper Due ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ============================== CALL FOR PAPERS Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities. Such systems allow intelligent dense monitoring of physical environments, which makes them immensely useful for data collection and analysis. While much ongoing research has addressed networking, communication and low-level self-configuration issues in such systems, there are also significant challenges pertaining to systematic design, algorithm development and analysis, and abstract modeling in order to achieve efficient and robust realizations of large-scale distributed sensor systems. The large number of sensor devices involved, severe power, computational and memory limitations, resource heterogeneity, dense deployment and frequent failures pose novel challenges to design, algorithms, analysis and implementation. The focus of the conference is on distributed computing issues in large-scale networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications, and systematic design techniques and tools), but networking-related contributions that support high level abstractions are also welcome. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Computation and programming models - Energy models, minimization, awareness - Distributed algorithms for collaborative information processing - Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability, fault-tolerance - Abstractions for modular design - Languages, operating systems - Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration - Dynamic resource management - Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) - Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives - Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation - Design automation and application synthesis techniques - Case studies: lessons from real world deployments PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 12 single-spaced pages using 12-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures and tables. References may be included in addition to the 12 pages. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference or a journal. Submission procedures will be available via Web access at http://www.dcoss.org/ All manuscripts will be reviewed. Manuscripts must be received by February 15, 2006, by 5 p.m. U.S. Pacific Coast Time. This is a final deadline; to ensure fairness, no extensions will be given. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by April 1, 2006. Camera-ready papers will be due April 16, 2006. DCOSS '06 Proceedings will be distributed at the Conference. PROGRAM CHAIR Phil Gibbons Intel Research / Carnegie Mellon University USA PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS Algorithms: James Aspnes, Yale University, USA Applications: Ramesh Rao, UCSD/Calit2, USA Systems: Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC, USA POSTER/PRESENTATION SESSION The conference will include a poster session for researchers and practitioners to present novel on-going work-in-progress and to obtain feedback from conference attendees in an informal setting. Authors of accepted posters will have an opportunity to briefly present their work in this session. A 2-page extended abstract will also appear in the conference proceedings. Select invited presentations and posters from industry and academia will also be included in this session. Poster abstracts must be received by March 15, 2006. Submission details will be available at the DCOSS website. POSTER CHAIR Jim Reich Palo Alto Research Center USA BEST PAPER AWARDS Awards will be given for one best paper in each of the three conference technical tracks: algorithms, applications, and systems. ================================= DCOSS '06 ORGANIZATION ================================= GENERAL CHAIR Viktor K. Prasanna University of Southern California USA VICE GENERAL CHAIR Jie Wu Florida Atlantic University USA PROGRAM CHAIR Phil Gibbons Intel Research / Carnegie Mellon University USA WORKSHOPS CHAIR Sotiris Nikoletseas University of Patras and CTI Greece POSTER CHAIR Jim Reich Palo Alto Research Center USA PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Yang Yu Motorola Labs USA STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS CHAIR Loren Schweibert Wayne State University USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Wendi Heinzelman University of Rochester USA Amol Bakshi University of Southern California USA FINANCE CHAIR Germaine Gusthiot University of Geneva Switzerland PROGRAM COMMITTEE Algorithms: Costas Busch, RPI Bogdan Chlebus, CU Denver Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion U. Jennifer Hou, UIUC Dariusz Kowalski, U. Liverpool Rajeev Motwani, Stanford Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. Patras Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel-Aviv U. Pino Persiano, Salerno U. Andrea Richa, Arizona State U. Christian Scheideler, TU Munich Maria Jose Serna, UPC Barcelona Devavrat Shah, MIT Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich Yinyu Ye, Stanford Applications: Edgar Chavez, U. Michoacana, Mexico Alfredo Ferro, U. Catania Stefan Fischer, U. Luebeck Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State U. Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC Julia Liu, PARC Chenyang Lu, Washington U. in St. Louis C. Siva Ram Murthy, IIT Madras, India Andreas Savvides, Yale Vikram Srinivasan, NUS Ivan Stojmenovic, U. Ottawa Gaurav Sukhatme, USC Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State U. Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UC Irvine Systems: Mohamed Gouda, U. Texas Tian He, U. Minnesota Wendi Heinzelman, U. Rochester Phil Levis, Stanford Jie Liu, Microsoft Research Haiyun Luo, UIUC Radhika Nagpal, Harvard Suman Nath, Microsoft Research John Regehr, U. Utah Kurt Rothermel, Stuttgart Mani Srivastava, UCLA Jack Stankovic, U. Virginia Chieh-Yih Wan, Intel Stephen Wicker, Cornell Ying Zhang, PARC STEERING COMMITTEE Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Josep Diaz, UPC Barcelona, Spain Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley, USA Kris Pister, University of California, Berkeley, and Dust, Inc., USA Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland (CHAIR)

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SECON 2006 Call for Papers
by Wendi Heinzelman 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

========================================================================== 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 ========================================================================== 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 Tutorial/Panel proposals due: May 1, 2006, by 5pm EDT Demo proposals due: June 1, 2006, by 5pm EDT Poster proposals due: June 30, 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: Ian Chakeres, Boeing, ian.chakeres(a)gmail.com Lily Yang, Intel, lily.l.yang(a)intel.com 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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Re: [ifip-tc6] Call For Papers April 11- 13 Bangalore, India, www.wocn2006.org
by y2iraqi 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

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Call For Papers April 11- 13 Bangalore, India, www.wocn2006.org
by y2iraqi 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

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A special request
by Kiril Boyanov 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

Dear Friends, I fully support the suggestion - special consultant or any other suitable proposal. I have already sent my opinion to Otto. Best regards Kiril

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WRS06 1st call for paper
by wrs06＠redstar.cs.pdx.edu 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WRS06 The Sixth International Workshop on Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~antoy/wrs06/ The Seattle Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Seattle, Washington, August 11, 2006 Scope The workshop intends to promote and stimulate international research and collaboration in the area of evaluation strategies. It encourages the presentation of new directions,developments and results as well as surveys and tutorials on existing knowledge in this area. Reduction strategies study which subexpression(s) of an expression should be selected for evaluation and which rule(s) should be applied. These choices affect fundamental properties of a computation such as laziness, strictness, completeness and need to name a few. For this reason some programming languages, e.g., Elan, Maude, *OBJ* and Stratego, allow the explicit definition of the evaluation strategy, whereas other languages,e.g., Clean, Curry, and Haskell, allow its modification. Strategies pose challenging theoretical problems and play an important role in practical tools such as theorem provers, model checkers and programming languages. In implementations of languages, strategies bridge the gap between operational principles, e.g., graph and term rewriting,narrowing and lambda-calculus, and semantics, e.g., normalization, computation of values and head-normalization. The previous editions of the workshop were: WRS 2001 (Utrecht, The Netherlands),WRS 2002 (Copenhagen, Denmark), WRS 2003 (Valencia, Spain), WRS 2004 (Aachen, Germany), and WRS 2005 (Nara, Japan). See also the WRS permanent page at http://www.dsic.upv.es/~wrs/ Important Dates Abstract Submission: May 8, 2006 Paper Submission: May 15, 2006 Author Notification: June 12, 2006 Camera-Ready: July 10, 2006 Conference: Aug 11, 2006 Program Committee Sergio Antoy, (chair) Portland State University Santiago Escobar, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Bernhard Gramlich, Technische Universitat Wien Ralf Laemmel, Microsoft Corp. Salvador Lucas, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Narciso Marti-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Mizuhito Ogawa, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Jaco van de Pol, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica Manfred Schmidt-Schauss, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Topics Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: o theoretical foundations for the definition and semantic description of reduction strategies o strategies in different frameworks such as term rewriting, graph rewriting, infinitary rewriting, lambda calculi, higher order rewriting, conditional rewriting, rewriting with built-ins, narrowing, constraint solving, etc. o application of strategies to equational, functional, functional-logic programming languages o properties of reduction strategies and corresponding computations, e.g., completeness, computability, decidability, complexity, optimality, normalization, cofinality, fairness, perpetuality, context-freedom, need, laziness, eagerness, strictness o interrelations, combinations and applications of reduction under different strategies, e.g., evaluation mechanisms in programming languages, equivalence conditions for fundamental properties like termination and confluence, applications in modularity analysis, connections between strategies of different frameworks,etc. o program analysis and other semantics-based optimization techniques dealing with reduction strategies o rewrite systems, tools, implementations with flexible or programmable strategies as an essential concept or ingredient o specification of reduction strategies in real languages strategies suitable to software engineering problems and applications tutorials and systems related to evaluation strategies Submissions Submissions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. The page limit for regular papers is 13 pages in Springer Verlag LNCS style. Surveys and tutorials maybe longer. Use the WRS06 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference system, to submit abstracts, papers and to update a previous submission. Publication Informal proceedings of accepted contributions will be available on-line. A hard copy will be distributed at the workshop to registered participants. Authors of selected contributions will be invited to submit a revised version, after the workshop, for inclusion in a collection. We anticipate the publication of formal proceedings in the Elsevier ENTCS series. Contact Sergio Antoy, antoy(a)cs.pdx.edu.

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CFP: MOBIQUITOUS 2006
by Prasun Sinha 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

MOBIQUITOUS 2006 Sponsored by Create-Net and ICST The Third Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Service http://www.mobiquitous.org July 17 - 21, 2006 San Jose, California, USA In Cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE Pending Sponsorship: IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer Society 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) * 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 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: Four workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference. Please see the web site for more information. 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 May 1, 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 Univ.,arkady.zaslavsky(a)csse.monash.edu.au Workshop Chair Kin Leung, Imperial College, kin.leung(a)imperial.ac.uk Demo Chair Sencun Zhu, Penn State, szhu(a)cse.psu.edu Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST, karen(a)icst.org Local Arrangements Chair Ulas Kozat, DoCoMo Labs, kozat(a)docomolabs-usa.com Publicity Chair Prasun Sinha, Ohio State University, prasun(a)cse.ohio-state.edu Web Chair Patrick Traynor, Penn State, traynor(a)cse.psu.edu Conference Coordinator Anna Rieger, ICST, anna.rieger(a)icst.org Steering Committee Chair Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, imrich.chlamtac(a)create-net.it Important Dates Paper submission: February 20, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 21, 2006 Camera-ready version due: May 22, 2006

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