Call for Participation
First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems
(INFOSCALE)
30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/
The final program can be found from:
http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/techprog.html
Two workshops in conjunction with INFOSCALE 2006:
1. International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Information Management
(P2PIM06): http://p2p-im.org/
2. Infoscale Work in Progress Workshop (I-WIPW):
http://www.i-wipw.org/
For the main conference, there will be 14 sessions spanning 2.5 days
(May 30 - June 1) and featuring 45 presentations.
In the afternoon of June 1, participants are invited to join a guided
local tour of the city free of charge.
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INFOSCALE 2006
First International Conference
on Scalable Information Systems
30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong
http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/
As the data volumes continue to increase and the ways of information
dispersion across the globe continue to diversify, new scalable methods
and structures are needed for efficiently processing those distributed
and autonomous data. Grid computing, P2P technology, distributed
information retrieval technology, and networking technology all must be
merged to address the scalability concern. This forum focuses on this
key merged domain and looks for new integrated solutions for this
diversifying world of information.
Conference Scope
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* Parallel Information Retrieval
* Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval
* Scalable Grid Information Systems
* P2P Systems
* Scalable Mobile/Sensor DB Systems
* Index Compression Methods
* Architectures for Scalability
* Networking for Scalable Information Systems
* Scalable Information System Applications (medicine, biology,
military, etc.)
* Evaluation Metrics for Scalability
* VLDB
* Data Mining
* Information Security
Publications
Original and previously unpublished technical papers are solicited for
presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. The
proceedings will be published by IEEE Press and available online through
IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be published in The International
Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications
(http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/).
General Chair
Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong
(jia(a)cs.cityu.edu.hk)
PC Chairs
Abdur Chowdhury, AOL (cabdur(a)aol.com)
Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong (fcmlau(a)cs.hku.hk)
Frank Zhigang Wang, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance
Computing Facilities (f.wang(a)cranfield.ac.uk)
Steering Committee Chairs
Imrich Chlamtac, CreateNet Research Consortium, Chair
Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, Co-chair
Publicity Chair
Jinli Cao, La Trobe University
Publications Chair
Scott Huang, City University of Hong Kong
Workshops Chair
Niki Pissinou, Florida International University, Chair
Tirthankar Ghosh, Vice Chair
Hao Zhu, Vice Chair
Local Arrangement Chair
Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong
******* M o b i M e d i a 2006 ****************
Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference
(formerly MSAN)
September 18-20, 2006 :: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy
http://www.mobimedia.org
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******** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ********************
-------------------------------------------------
Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006
Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006
******** IMPORTANT NEWS **************************
--------------------------------------------------
keynote speeches:
- Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society,
EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision
- Leonardo
Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia
Publication of accepted papers:
- Conference proceedings will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending)
- Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and
considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal.
Workshops/symposiums/special sessions:
- International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access for ubiquitous Networking (BWAN 2006)
- European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EuMob 2006)
- Special Session on 4G FORTHCOMING STANDARS AND MOBILE MULTIMEDIA SERVICES
SCOPE
--------------------------------------
The successful development of multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires
adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly.
Multimedia data characteristics, coding standards functionalities, as well as network protocols
performance and channel behavior are some of the key aspects that need to be carefully examined when
proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that are going to be enabled by the new standards
for mobile networking, such as packet telephony, video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing,
interactive gaming, conversational navigation services, digital television, infomobility, and
immersive communications in virtual environments. Some of these novel networking protocols and
technologies include IEEE 802.11 (infrastructured, mesh, and sensor networks), 802.15, 802.16, UWB,
DVB-H, Bluetooth, Mobile IP and its variants.
Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers
working in multimedia and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards.
Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the
integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications.
TECHNICAL PROGRAMS
--------------------------------------
The technical program features two key-note speeches: from Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and
Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision and from Leonardo
Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia.
The conference will also include invited panels, to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific
sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on
emerging topics are invited. Please submit proposals to Technical Program Chairs and Workshop Chairs.
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
--------------------------------------
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more than five pages including figures
and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site.
Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending).
Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special
issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal.
STUDENT AWARD AND GRANTS
--------------------------------------
A student prize of 1000Euros will be awarded to the best paper authored by a full time student as first author.
Travel grants will be provided to students attending the conference. Additional information can be found at
the conference website.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------------
General Co-Chairs:
Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, ITA
Ebroul Izquierdo, University of London, UK
Steering Committee Chair:
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, ITA
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, TUR
Pascal Frossard, EPFL, SUI
Publications Chair:
Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA
Workshops Chair:
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Radha Poovendran, University of WA, USA
Panels Chair:
Daniele D. Giusto, University of Cagliari, ITA
Local Chair:
Giaime Ginesu, University of Cagliari, ITA
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical University, TUR
Ali Bilgin, The University of Arizona, USA
Web masters:
Maria Teresa Carta, University of Cagliari, ITA
Tatiana Onali, University of Cagliari, ITA
Conference Management:
Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------------
Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University
Tricha Anjali, Illinois Tech., USA
John Apostolopoulos, HP Labs, USA
Mauro Barni, University Siena, ITA
Gary Chan, HK University
Raouf Boutaba, University Waterloo, CAN
Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Trista P. Chen, Intel Corporation, USA
Reha Civanlar, Koc University, TUR
Ed Delp, Purdue University, USA
U.B Desai, IIT Bombay
Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, GRE
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Minoru Etoh, Docomo Labs
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, FIN
Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA
Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK
Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, GER
Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University, NED
Juan-Carlos de Martin, Politecnico Torino, ITA
Giacomo Morabito, University Catania, ITA
Jaudelice De Oliveira, Drexel University, USA
A. Pakstas, London Metrop. University, GBR
Fernando Pereira, IST, POR
Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, FRA
Ramon Puigjaner, University Balears, SPA
Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRA
Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, GER
Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech, USA
Eckehard Steinbach, TUM, GER
Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, GER
M. Tekalp, Koc University, TUR
Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, TUR
Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc, USA
Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA
Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, USA
Jiang Xie, University North Carolina, USA
Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA
Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley, USA
Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine, USA
Qian Zhang, HK University, HK
******* M o b i M e d i a 2006 ****************
Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference
(formerly MSAN)
September 18-20, 2006 :: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy
http://www.mobimedia.org
-------------------------------------------------
******** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ********************
-------------------------------------------------
Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006
Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006
******** IMPORTANT NEWS **************************
--------------------------------------------------
keynote speeches:
- Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society,
EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision
- Leonardo
Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia
Publication of accepted papers:
- Conference proceedings will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending)
- Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and
considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal.
Workshops/symposiums/special sessions:
- International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access for ubiquitous Networking (BWAN 2006)
- European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EuMob 2006)
- Special Session on 4G FORTHCOMING STANDARS AND MOBILE MULTIMEDIA SERVICES
SCOPE
--------------------------------------
The successful development of multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires
adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly.
Multimedia data characteristics, coding standards functionalities, as well as network protocols
performance and channel behavior are some of the key aspects that need to be carefully examined when
proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that are going to be enabled by the new standards
for mobile networking, such as packet telephony, video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing,
interactive gaming, conversational navigation services, digital television, infomobility, and
immersive communications in virtual environments. Some of these novel networking protocols and
technologies include IEEE 802.11 (infrastructured, mesh, and sensor networks), 802.15, 802.16, UWB,
DVB-H, Bluetooth, Mobile IP and its variants.
Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers
working in multimedia and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards.
Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the
integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications.
TECHNICAL PROGRAMS
--------------------------------------
The technical program features two key-note speeches: from Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and
Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision and from Leonardo
Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia.
The conference will also include invited panels, to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific
sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on
emerging topics are invited. Please submit proposals to Technical Program Chairs and Workshop Chairs.
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
--------------------------------------
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more than five pages including figures
and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site.
Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending).
Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special
issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal.
STUDENT AWARD AND GRANTS
--------------------------------------
A student prize of 1000Euros will be awarded to the best paper authored by a full time student as first author.
Travel grants will be provided to students attending the conference. Additional information can be found at
the conference website.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------------
General Co-Chairs:
Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, ITA
Ebroul Izquierdo, University of London, UK
Steering Committee Chair:
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, ITA
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, TUR
Pascal Frossard, EPFL, SUI
Publications Chair:
Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA
Workshops Chair:
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Radha Poovendran, University of WA, USA
Panels Chair:
Daniele D. Giusto, University of Cagliari, ITA
Local Chair:
Giaime Ginesu, University of Cagliari, ITA
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical University, TUR
Ali Bilgin, The University of Arizona, USA
Web masters:
Maria Teresa Carta, University of Cagliari, ITA
Tatiana Onali, University of Cagliari, ITA
Conference Management:
Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------------
Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University
Tricha Anjali, Illinois Tech., USA
John Apostolopoulos, HP Labs, USA
Mauro Barni, University Siena, ITA
Gary Chan, HK University
Raouf Boutaba, University Waterloo, CAN
Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Trista P. Chen, Intel Corporation, USA
Reha Civanlar, Koc University, TUR
Ed Delp, Purdue University, USA
U.B Desai, IIT Bombay
Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, GRE
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Minoru Etoh, Docomo Labs
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, FIN
Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA
Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK
Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, GER
Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University, NED
Juan-Carlos de Martin, Politecnico Torino, ITA
Giacomo Morabito, University Catania, ITA
Jaudelice De Oliveira, Drexel University, USA
A. Pakstas, London Metrop. University, GBR
Fernando Pereira, IST, POR
Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, FRA
Ramon Puigjaner, University Balears, SPA
Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRA
Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, GER
Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech, USA
Eckehard Steinbach, TUM, GER
Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, GER
M. Tekalp, Koc University, TUR
Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, TUR
Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc, USA
Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA
Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, USA
Jiang Xie, University North Carolina, USA
Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA
Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley, USA
Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine, USA
Qian Zhang, HK University, HK
******* M o b i M e d i a 2006 ****************
Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference
(formerly MSAN)
September 18-20, 2006 :: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy
http://www.mobimedia.org
-------------------------------------------------
******** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ********************
-------------------------------------------------
Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006
Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006
******** IMPORTANT NEWS **************************
--------------------------------------------------
keynote speeches:
- Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society,
EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision
- Leonardo
Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia
Publication of accepted papers:
- Conference proceedings will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending)
- Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and
considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal.
Workshops/symposiums/special sessions:
- International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access for ubiquitous Networking (BWAN 2006)
- European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EuMob 2006)
- Special Session on 4G FORTHCOMING STANDARS AND MOBILE MULTIMEDIA SERVICES
SCOPE
--------------------------------------
The successful development of multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires
adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly.
Multimedia data characteristics, coding standards functionalities, as well as network protocols
performance and channel behavior are some of the key aspects that need to be carefully examined when
proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that are going to be enabled by the new standards
for mobile networking, such as packet telephony, video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing,
interactive gaming, conversational navigation services, digital television, infomobility, and
immersive communications in virtual environments. Some of these novel networking protocols and
technologies include IEEE 802.11 (infrastructured, mesh, and sensor networks), 802.15, 802.16, UWB,
DVB-H, Bluetooth, Mobile IP and its variants.
Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers
working in multimedia and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards.
Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the
integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications.
TECHNICAL PROGRAMS
--------------------------------------
The technical program features two key-note speeches: from Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and
Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision and from Leonardo
Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia.
The conference will also include invited panels, to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific
sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on
emerging topics are invited. Please submit proposals to Technical Program Chairs and Workshop Chairs.
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
--------------------------------------
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more than five pages including figures
and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site.
Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending).
Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special
issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal.
STUDENT AWARD AND GRANTS
--------------------------------------
A student prize of 1000Euros will be awarded to the best paper authored by a full time student as first author.
Travel grants will be provided to students attending the conference. Additional information can be found at
the conference website.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------------
General Co-Chairs:
Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, ITA
Ebroul Izquierdo, University of London, UK
Steering Committee Chair:
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, ITA
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, TUR
Pascal Frossard, EPFL, SUI
Publications Chair:
Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA
Workshops Chair:
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Radha Poovendran, University of WA, USA
Panels Chair:
Daniele D. Giusto, University of Cagliari, ITA
Local Chair:
Giaime Ginesu, University of Cagliari, ITA
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical University, TUR
Ali Bilgin, The University of Arizona, USA
Web masters:
Maria Teresa Carta, University of Cagliari, ITA
Tatiana Onali, University of Cagliari, ITA
Conference Management:
Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------------
Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University
Tricha Anjali, Illinois Tech., USA
John Apostolopoulos, HP Labs, USA
Mauro Barni, University Siena, ITA
Gary Chan, HK University
Raouf Boutaba, University Waterloo, CAN
Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Trista P. Chen, Intel Corporation, USA
Reha Civanlar, Koc University, TUR
Ed Delp, Purdue University, USA
U.B Desai, IIT Bombay
Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, GRE
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Minoru Etoh, Docomo Labs
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, FIN
Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA
Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK
Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, GER
Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University, NED
Juan-Carlos de Martin, Politecnico Torino, ITA
Giacomo Morabito, University Catania, ITA
Jaudelice De Oliveira, Drexel University, USA
A. Pakstas, London Metrop. University, GBR
Fernando Pereira, IST, POR
Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, FRA
Ramon Puigjaner, University Balears, SPA
Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRA
Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, GER
Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech, USA
Eckehard Steinbach, TUM, GER
Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, GER
M. Tekalp, Koc University, TUR
Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, TUR
Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc, USA
Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA
Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, USA
Jiang Xie, University North Carolina, USA
Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA
Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley, USA
Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine, USA
Qian Zhang, HK University, HK
Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, GRE
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Minoru Etoh, Docomo Labs
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, FIN
Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA
Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK
Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, GER
Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University, NED
Juan-Carlos de Martin, Politecnico Torino, ITA
Giacomo Morabito, University Catania, ITA
Jaudelice De Oliveira, Drexel University, USA
A. Pakstas, London Metrop. University, GBR
Fernando Pereira, IST, POR
Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, FRA
Ramon Puigjaner, University Balears, SPA
Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRA
Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, GER
Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech, USA
Eckehard Steinbach, TUM, GER
Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, GER
M. Tekalp, Koc University, TUR
Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, TUR
Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc, USA
Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA
Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, USA
Jiang Xie, University North Carolina, USA
Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA
Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley, USA
Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine, USA
Qian Zhang, HK University, HK
Dear all,
I appologize for any multiple copies.
The deadline for submitting papers to IFIP Communication and Multimedia
Security 2006 in Crete is just 2 weeks ahead. Find the Call for Papers
below.
Forwardiung the CfP to colleaugues working in the field is of course
highly appreciated.
Best regards,
Herbert Leitold
A-SIT, Zentrum für Sichere Informationstechnologie - Austria
Inffeldgasse 16a, A-8010 Graz, Österreich
Tel.: +43 (316) 873-5521 Fax.: +43 (316) 873-5598
Herbert.Leitold(a)a-sit.at
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CALL FOR PAPERS
10th Joint IFIP TC6 and TC11 Open Conference on
Communications and Multimedia Security CMS'2006
19-21 October 2006, Heraklion, Greece
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[ We apologise for multiple copies of this message! ]
CMS2006 is the 10th Conference in the Communications and Multimedia
Security series. The series is a joint effort of IFIP Technical
Committees TC6 (Communication Systems) and TC11 (Security and Protection
in Information Processing Systems). The conference provides a forum for
engineers and scientists in information security. State-of-the-art issues
as well as practical experiences and new trends in the areas will be the
topics of interest again, as proven by preceding conferences. This year
the conference will address in particular network and information security
issues.
We solicit papers describing original ideas and research results on
topics that include, but are not limited to:
Applied cryptography
Biometrics
Computer emergency / security incident response
Multimedia systems security
Critical Information Infrastructure Protection
Privacy protection
Digital watermarking
Identification and authentication
Identity management
Information security management
Intrusion detection
Mobile communication security
Network and Information Security
Risk Management
Web Services Security
Wireless Network Security
Instruction for authors:
The proceedings will be published by Springer. Submissions must be written
in English, formatted in the conference style (limited to 10 pages, see the
conference web for a style template). The paper must be anonymous, with no
author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. Authors
are requested to submit original papers only. Papers that have previously
been published and papers that are currently being considered for
publication
by another journal or conference are not eligible.
Each paper must include a short abstract and a list of keywords indicating
subject classification. Its introduction should summarize the contributions
of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader.
All submitted papers will be refereed by members of the Program Committee
for correctness, originality, relevance to the conference, and quality of
presentation. Acceptance of a paper means an obligation for at least one of
the authors to attend the conference and present the paper.
To submit a paper, visit the conference web site.
Important dates:
Paper submission: 5 May 2006
Acceptance notification: 26 June 2006
Camera-ready papers due: 20 July 2006
Conference: 19-21 October 2006
Conference Web site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/cms06
Dear IFIP member, could you advertize, the Autonomic-Networking conference to be held in Paris, September 25-29, 2006
Deadline for submission is April 24.
All information is on the web site: www.Autonomic-Net.org
You can submit to one of the four conferences:
SMARTNET (Tools for the Autonomic Networking)
INTELLCOMM (Autonomic Management and Services)
IWAN (International Working Conference on Active and Programmable Networks)
WAC (International Workshop on Autonomic Communication)
[Apologies for multiple postings]
ALGOSENSORS 06 LATEST NEWS:
- Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Christos Papadimitriou (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Prof. P.R. Kumar (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
- It has now been confirmed that Proceedings will be published by Springer
Verlag/Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
- Selected high quality papers will be considered for publication in a
Special Issue on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks of the
Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Journal.
------------- Final CFP follows --------
ALGOSENSORS 06:
International Workshop on
Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks
July 15 2006, Venice, Italy
To be held in conjunction with ICALP 2006
http://ru1.cti.gr/algosensors06/
SCOPE
Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks have recently become a very active
research subject due to their high potential of providing diverse services
to numerous important applications, including remote monitoring and
tracking in environmental applications and low maintenance ambient
intelligence in everyday life. The effective and efficient realization of
such large scale, complex ad-hoc networking environments requires
intensive, coordinated technical research and development efforts,
especially in power aware, scalable, robust wireless distributed
protocols, due to the unusual application requirements and the severe
resource constraints of the sensor devices.
On the other hand, a solid foundational background seems necessary for
sensor networks to achieve their full potential. It is a challenge for
abstract modelling, algorithmic design and analysis to achieve provably
efficient, scalable and fault-tolerant realizations of such huge,
highly-dynamic, complex, non-conventional networks. Features including the
extremely large number of sensor devices in the network, the severe power,
computating and memory limitations, their dense, random deployment and
frequent failures, pose new interesting abstract modeling, algorithmic
design, analysis and implementation challenges.
This Workshop aims to bring together research contributions related to
diverse algorithmic aspects of wireless sensor networks.
TOPICS
Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including (but not
limited to):
* Models of sensor networks
* Methods for ad hoc deployment/topology control
* Energy management
* Data propagation and routing
* Localization
* Tracking
* Data aggregation/data compression
* Obstacle avoidance
* Power saving schemes
* Communication protocols
* Medium access control
* Security and trust
* Distributed computing issues
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Prof. Christos Papadimitriou, University of California at Berkeley, USA
- Prof. P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Jose Rolim, U. of Geneva, Switzerland
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Azzedine Boukerche, U. of Ottawa, Canada
- Costas Busch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
- Andrea Clementi, U. of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
- Josep Diaz, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain
- Tassos Dimitriou, Athens Information Technology, Greece
- Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion U., Israel
- Deborah Estrin, UCLA, USA
- Alfredo Ferro, U. of Catania, Italy
- Stefan Fischer, U. of Luebeck, Germany
- Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS, U. Paris-Sud, France
- Jorge Garcia-Vidal, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain
- Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Chulalongkorn U., Thailand
- Christos Kaklamanis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
- Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
- Jan van Leeuwen, U. of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Alberto Marchetti Spaccamela, U. of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
- Sotiris Nikoletseas (Co-Chair), U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
- Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
- Pekka Orponen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Pino Persiano, U. of Salerno, Italy
- Jose Rolim (Co-Chair), U. of Geneva, Switzerland
- Christian Schindelhauer, U. of Paderborn, Germany
- Paul Spirakis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
- Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers U., Sweden
- Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Jiri Wiedermann, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
- Manos Varvarigos, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Chair, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Athanasios Kinalis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Giorgos Mylonas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published in a hardcopy Proceedings Volume by the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series of Springer Verlag. The
Volume will be pubished as a Post-Proceedings: authors will have the
opportunity to take advantage of the discussion at the event and
revise/finalize their papers before submitting camera ready versions.
TCS JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
Selected high quality papers will be considered for publication in a
Special Issue on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks of the
Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Journal.
PAPER SUBMISSION:
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished
research in the topics related to the workshop. Papers should not exceed
twelve (12) pages of text using at least 11 point size type, including
references, figures, tables, etc. Additional material may be added at a
clearly marked Appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program
Committee Members.
Authors must submit their papers electronically via EDAS
(http://edas.info/).
All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the
authors.
Authors need to make sure that for each accepted paper at least one author
will attend the workshop.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission Deadline: April 25, 2006 (firm!)
- Author Notification: May 25, 2006
- Camera Ready Manuscript Due: July 27, 2006
SPONSORS
- The Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (CTI), Greece
(www.cti.gr)
- The TCSensor Lab of the University of Geneva, Switzerland
(http://tcs.unige.ch/)
- Athens Information Technology (http://www.ait.gr/)
- INTRACOM DEFENSE ELECTRONICS (www.intracom.com)
- The EU-FET R&D Project "Algorithmic Principles for Building
Efficient Overlay Computers (AEOLUS)"
(http://www.ceid.upatras.gr/aeolus/)
- Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS,
www.springe.com/lncs)
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Dear TC6 members,
Complementing yesterday´s message I send you more detailed and better
structured travel guidelines to Coimbra. These guidelines were kindly
provided by our colleagues from Coimbra. In attach you can find two files,
one with the detailed travel directions and the other one with the train
timetable.
Best regards
Augusto Casaca
Dear colleagues,
Complementing my last message which was concerned with the hotel booking for our TC6 meeting in Coimbra let me give you also some preliminary travel directions to Coimbra.
You can fly either to Lisboa or Porto airport. Porto is 100 km away from Coimbra and Lisboa 200 kms. You need to take a train to go either from Porto or Lisboa to Coimbra.
The best connection between both airports and the respective train stations is by taxi. In Porto I was informed that the taxi should cost about 20 €.. In Lisboa the maximum fare should be in the same order of magnitude or, even less. Probably in May you might have available a brand new metro connecting the Porto airport to the train station, but not in Lisboa.
There are several train stations in Lisboa and Porto. You should go to the Campanhã train station in Porto and to the Oriente train station in Lisboa. These are the most suitable ones to go to Coimbra, although other alternatives are possible. In Coimbra the train arrives in Coimbra-B. From there you can either take a local train (included in the ticket price) to Coimbra city center or follow directly to your hotel.
I give you a link to the Portuguese train company so that you can check the best connections available. I am afraid that the timetable of May is not yet fixed, but you might have a close idea of the possibilities by looking at the available timetables there:
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Later on I might send you more detailed travel directions if required.
Best regards
Augusto Casaca