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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2006
October 29 -November 1, 2006, Tahiti.
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/CfPICSEA06.html
Submission: Go to http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICSEA06.html and click "Submit a paper"
Deadlines:
Submission deadline: June 1, 2006
Notification: July 1, 2006
Camera ready: July 15, 2006
The conference has the following tracks:
Track 1
Advances in fundamentals for software development
Track 2
Advanced mechanisms for software development
Track 3
Advanced design tools for developing software
Track 4
Advanced facilities for accessing software
Track 5
Software performance
Track 6
Software security, privacy, safeness
Track 7
Advances in software testing
Track 8
Specialized software advanced applications
Track 9
Open source software
Track 10
Agile software techniques
Track 11
Software deployment and maintenance
Track 12
Software economics, adoption, and education
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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications, ICSNC 2006
November 2 - November 4, 2006, Tahiti.
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/CfPICSNC06.html
Submission: Go to http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICSNC06.html and click "Submit a paper"
Deadlines:
Submission deadline: June 1, 2006
Notification: July 1, 2006
Camera ready: July 15, 2006
The conference has the following specialized topics (mini-conferences):
WINET 2006 Wireless networks
HSNET 2006 High speed networks
SENET 2006 Sensor networks
MHNET 2006 Mobile and Ad hoc networks
SESYS 2006 Security systems
MCSYS 2006 Multimedia communications systems
POSYS 2006 Policy-based systems
PESYS 2006 Pervasive education systems
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For more information: pdini(a)cisco.com
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ICSOC 2006: Call for Papers
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The 4th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing
December 4-7 2006, Chicago
Submission deadline: June 12
Detailed info: http://www.icsoc.org
Important dates:
Workshop proposal submission: May 30, 2006
Paper abstract submission: June 12, 11:59pm, PST
Full paper submission: June 19, 11:59pm, PST
Tutorial and panel submission: July 6, 2006
Notification of acceptance: September 12, 2006
Final manuscript due: September 25, 2006
Workshops: December 4, 2006
Main conference (includes tutorials): December 5-7, 2006
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ICSOC'06 seeks original papers in the field of service oriented
computing, from theoretical and foundational results to empirical
evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences, with the
emphasis on results that contribute to solve the many still open
research problems that are of significant impact to the field of
service oriented applications. Topics include but are not limited to
the following:
Business Service Modeling: Methods and tools for capturing business
goals and requirements, Decomposition into business services,
Business processes, Business policies, Modeling, analysis, and
simulation, Specification of functional and non-functional quality
requirements;
Service Assembly: Development and Discovery: Model-driven
development, Service composition architectures, Service registries,
Service discovery mechanisms, Semantic matching, Methods and tools
for service development, Governance, Verification and validation,
Deployment strategies;
Service Management: Instrumentation and service related data
aggregation, end-to-end Measurement, Analysis, Modeling and Capacity
planning, Definition of deployment topology, Infrastructure
configuration, Problem determination for SOAs, ITIL processes, Change
management in live systems.
SOA Runtime: Service Bus for mediation, transformation and routing,
Runtime registry, Integration of legacy applications, Information
services for data access and data integration, Scalability,
Topology and Optimization, Service oriented middleware, Policy based
configuration & Workload management
Quality of Service: Reliable Service-Oriented Computing, Security and
Privacy in Service-Oriented Computing, SLA and Policy specification,
QoS Negotiation, Autonomic management of service levels, Empirical
Studies and Benchmarking of QoS, Performance and Dependability
prediction in SOA;
Grid Services: Services and architecture for management of
infrastructural resources, Data and Compute intensive applications,
Execution and resource allocation services for job scheduling,
Protocols for coordination across multiple resource managers,
Business value based allocation, Innovative Strategies for Creation
and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations, Prototype
systems and Toolkits.
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General Chairs:
Ian Foster (The University of Chicago)
Carlo Ghezzi (Politechnico di Milano)
Program Chairs:
Asit Dan (IBM)
Winfried Lamersdorf (Hamburg University)
Industrial Track Chairs:
Robert Johnson (IBM)
Jeff Mischkinsky (Oracle)
Workshop Coordination:
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (Telcordia)
Norbert Ritter (Hamburg University)
Tutorial Chairs:
Frank Leymann (Univ. of Stuttgart)
Heiko Ludwig (IBM)
Local Arrangements Chair:
Julie Wulf (Univa Corporation)
Financial Chair:
Vincenzo D'andrea (Univ. of Trento)
Registration Chair:
Martin Swany (Univ. of Delaware)
Publicity Chair:
Matei Ripeanu (Univ. of British Columbia)
Publication Chair:
Boualem Benatallah (UNSW)
Area Coorfinators:
Service Modeling:
Wolfgang Emmerich (UC London)
Mathias Weske (University of Potsdam)
Service Assembly:
Barbara Pernici (Politecnico di Milano)
Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University)
Service Management:
Luciano Baresi (Politecnico di Milano)
Hiro Kishimoto (Fujitsu)
SOA Runtime:
Douglas Schmidt (Vanderbilt University)
Steve Vinoski (Iona)
Quality of Service:
Priya Narasimhan (CMU)
Jim Pruyne (HP)
Grid Services:
Dennis Gannon (Indiana University)
Paul Watson (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Steering Committee:
Fabio Casati (Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA)
Paco Curbera (IBM Research, USA)
Mike Papazoglou (Tilburg University, The Nederland)
Paolo Traverso (ITC-IRST, Italy)
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A LICS'06 (and FLoC'06) Affiliated Workshop on
FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SECURITY
and
AUTOMATED REASONING FOR SECURITY PROTOCOL ANALYSIS
Seattle, Washington, August 15-16, 2006
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~vigano/fcs-arspa06
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*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
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Submission deadline: May 17, 2006
BACKGROUND, AIM AND SCOPE
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Computer security is an established field of computer science of both
theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, there has been
increasing interest in logic-based foundations for various methods in
computer security, including the formal specification, analysis and
design of security protocols and their applications, the formal
definition of various aspects of security such as access control
mechanisms, mobile code security and denial-of-service attacks, and the
modeling of information flow and its application to confidentiality
policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis.
The workshop FCS-ARSPA'06 is the fusion of two workshops. The workshop
FCS continues a tradition, initiated with the Workshops on Formal
Methods and Security Protocols (FMSP) in 1998 and 1999, then with the
Workshop on Formal Methods and Computer Security (FMCS) in 2000, and
finally with the LICS satellite Workshop on Foundations of Computer
Security (FCS) in 2002 through 2005, of bringing together formal methods
and the security community.
The ARSPA workshop is the third in a series of workshops on Automated
Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis, bringing together researchers
and practitioners from both the security and the formal methods
communities, from academia and industry, who are working on developing
and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal
specification and analysis of security protocols. The first two ARSPA
workshops were held as satellite events of IJCAR'04 and of ICALP'05,
respectively.
The aim of the joint workshop FCS-ARSPA'06 is to provide a forum for
continued activity in these areas, to bring computer security
researchers in closer contact with the LICS community, and to give LICS
attendees an opportunity to talk to experts in computer security. We
thus solicit submissions of papers both on mature work and on work in
progress.
We are interested both in new results in theories of computer security
and also in more exploratory presentations that examine open questions
and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories, as well as in
new results on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques
and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security
protocols.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Automated reasoning techniques Access control and resource usage control
Composition issues Authentication
Formal specification Availability and denial of service
Foundations of verification Covert channels
Information flow analysis Confidentiality
Language-based security Integrity and privacy
Logic-based design for Intrusion detection
Program transformation Malicious code
Security models Mobile code
Static analysis Mutual distrust
Statistical methods Privacy
Tools Security policies
Trust management Security protocols
All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers must
guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop.
SUBMISSION
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Submissions should be at most 15 pages (a4paper, 11pt), including
references, in the Springer LNCS style available at the URL
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
The cover page should include title, names of authors, co-ordinates of
the corresponding author, an abstract, and a list of keywords.
It is recommended that submissions adhere to the specified format and
length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected
immediately.
Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication
in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed
in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit.
Simultaneous submissions to a journal or another conference are
accepted, unless the rules for the journal or the other conference
exclude such a possibility. If the paper is accepted to both
FCS-ARSPA'06 and the other venue, it is the responsibility of the
authors to promptly notify FCS-ARSPA'06 chairs and to acknowledge
copyright holders.
Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically, as portable
document format (pdf) or postscript (ps); please, do not send files
formatted for work processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or
Wordperfect files).
The only mechanism for paper submissions is via the electronic
submission web-site.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Papers due: May 17, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 16, 2006
Final paper versions due: July 14, 2006
Workshop: August 15-16, 2006
PUBLICATION
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Informal proceedings will be made available in electronic format and
they will be distributed to all participants of the workshop.
Moreover, workshop participants will be invited to submit full versions
of their papers to a special issue of Information and Computation, which
will be open also to non-participants, in all cases with fresh
reviewing.
INVITED TALKS
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To be announced
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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* Alessandro Armando (Universita` di Genova, Italy)
* Jorge R. Cuellar (SIEMENS AG, Munich, Germany)
* Anupam Datta (Stanford University, USA)
* Pierpaolo Degano (Universita` di Pisa, Italy; co-chair)
* Pablo Giambiagi (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
* Virgil Gligor (University of Maryland, USA)
* Roberto Gorrieri (Universita` di Bologna, Italy)
* Carl A. Gunter (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
* Joshua Guttman (Mitre, USA)
* Ralf Kuesters (Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Germany; co-chair)
* Ninghui Li (Purdue University, USA)
* Sjouke Mauw (University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Peter Ryan (University of Newcastle, UK)
* Luca Vigano` (ETH Zurich, Switzerland; co-chair)
* Laurent Vigneron (INRIA-LORRAINE, Nancy, France)
* Bogdan Warinschi (INRIA-LORRAINE, Nancy, France)
* Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania, USA; co-chair)
FCS Steering Committee:
* Martin Abadi (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
* Joshua Guttman (MITRE, USA)
* John Mitchell (Stanford University, USA)
* Andrei Sabelfeld (Chalmers, Sweden; chair)
* Andre Scedrov (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Information about registration, travel, and venue can be found at the
LICS'06 and FLoC'06 web-sites.
For further information send an email to the workshop co-chairs at
fcs-arspa06 -at- lists.inf.ethz.ch
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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications,
ICSNC 2006
November 2 - November 4, 2006, Tahiti.
Call for Papers:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences/CfPICSNC06.html
Submission:
Go to http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICSNC06.html
and click "Submit a paper"
Deadlines:
Submission deadline: June 1, 2006
Notification: July 1, 2006
Camera ready: July 15, 2006
The Second International Conference on Systems and Networks
Communications continues a series of events covering a broad spectrum of
systems and networks related topics. The conference covers fundamentals
on wireless, high speed, sensor and mobile and ad hoc networks,
security, policy based systems, and education systems. Topics are
targeting design, implementation, testing, use cases, tools, and lessons
learnt for such networks and systems.
The conference has the following specialized topics (mini-conferences) :
WINET 2006 Wireless networks
HSNET 2006 High speed networks
SENET 2006 Sensor networks
MHNET 2006 Mobile and Ad hoc networks
SESYS 2006 Security systems
MCSYS 2006 Multimedia communications systems
POSYS 2006 Policy-based systems
PESYS 2006 Pervasive education systems
We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results,
position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such
as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia,
survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the
above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running
experiments and applications. Authors are invited to submit complete
unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference
or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas. Industrial
presentations are not subject to these constraints. Tutorials on
specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.
http://www.iaria.org/conferences/CfPICSEA06.html
The ICSNC 2006 Proceedings are published by the
IEEE Computer Society Press,
and are indexed by SCI and EI via IEEE.
Regular papers
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All
papers submitted via the EDAS system will receive an ID that will be
e-mailed to the contact author.
Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format),
not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The
formatting instructions can be found via anonymous FTP site at:
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formattin…
Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be
provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an
author needs to follow to submit the final version. .
Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations
The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and
positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a
10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the
slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published
in the conference's CD collection, together with the regular papers.
Please send your presentations to petre(a)iaria.org.
Tutorials
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals
can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to
petre(a)iaria.org.
Panel proposals:
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize
dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and
paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and
manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines.
Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating
their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the
panel, as well as short biographies. For more information,
petre(a)iaria.org.
Workshop proposals
We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of
this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre(a)iaria.org.
Looking forward for your submissions,
Thanks,
On behalf of the ICSNC Advisory Committee
Petre Dini, pdini(a)cisco.com
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Posters & Demo CFP.
Cormac J. Sreenan and Wei Ye
SenSys'06 Publicity Co-Chairs
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ACM SenSys 2006: Call for Posters and Demos
The 4th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS and
SIGBED; with support from NSF.
Boulder, Colorado, USA
November 1-3, 2006
http://sensys.acm.org/2006/
CALL FOR POSTERS
The poster session will provide a forum for researchers to showcase
their work and obtain feedback on ongoing research from knowledgeable
conference attendees. Areas of interest are the same as those listed in
the technical call for papers. While the poster need not describe
completed work, it should report on research for which at least
preliminary results are available. We especially encourage submissions
by students (that is, for which a student is the first author on the
poster).
POSTER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Poster proposals must be submitted as a single PDF file with no more
than 3 pages. The first two pages should contain an abstract describing
the research content of the poster, along with title, authors,
institutional affiliations and contact information. The third page
should contain a thumbnail draft of the poster's contents. Please
submit your poster proposal as a PDF e-mail attachment to
sensys06-poster-chairs(a)isi.edu
with the subject line reading "Sensys Poster Submission" before the
deadline. Any questions for the Poster Co-chairs Henry Tirri (Nokia),
Robert Szewczyk (Moteiv) may also be directed to this address.
IMPORTANT DATES
Three-page poster proposal: 11:59pm (EST), July 24, 2006
Notification of acceptance: August 7, 2006
Camera-ready abstract: August 22, 2006
Conference dates: November 1-3, 2006
BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT POSTERS
Two-page poster abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings.
Authors of accepted poster proposals will have a chance to present
the poster to interested attendees during a special poster session at
SenSys. Well-crafted posters will tell the story well by themselves,
but authors of posters are expected to be available to describe and
discuss the work in the poster during the session.
The poster dimensions are 30" by 40", with poster contents mounted on
rectangular poster board that we will provide. You may choose a
layout consisting of individual sheets of paper, or a monolithic
large piece of poster paper (which can be printed at document
companies).
Henry Tirri, Nokia
Robert Szewczyk, Moteiv
SenSys 2006 Poster Chairs
CALL FOR DEMOS
Demonstrations showing innovative research and applications are
solicited. SenSys'06 is very interested in demonstrations of technology,
platforms, and applications of wireless sensor networks. Two-page
abstracts of accepted demos will be published in the SenSys conference
proceedings. Submissions from both industries and universities are
encouraged. Large-scale, outdoor demos can also be accommodated at the
conference facility. For the first time, SenSys 2006 will present a best
demo award.
DEMO SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Please send a two-page description of your demo to
sensys06-demo-chairs(a)isi.edu
in PDF format by the dates listed below. An additional one page appendix
can be included in the initial submission but will be removed in
published proceedings. Be as specific as possible in describing what you
will show.
IMPORTANT DATES
Two-page demo descriptions: 11:59pm (EST), July 24, 2006
Notification of acceptance: August 7, 2006
Camera-ready abstract: August 22, 2006
Conference dates: November 1-3, 2006
Chieh-Yih Wan, Intel Labs
Jie Liu, Microsoft Research
SenSys 2006 Demo Chairs
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2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SECURITY AND TRUST MANAGEMENT (STM'06)
Hamburg,Germany - September 20, 2006 (in conjunction with ESORICS 2006)
http://www.hec.unil.ch/STM06/
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STM (Security and Trust Management) is a recently established working
group of ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and
Mathematics). STM 2006 is the second workshop in this series, and has
the following aims:
- to investigate the foundations and applications of security and trust
in ICT
- to study the deep interplay between trust management and common
security issues such as confidentiality, integrity and availability
- to identify and promote new areas of research connected with security
management, e.g. dynamic and mobile coalition management (e.g., P2P,
MANETs, Web/GRID services)
- to identify and promote new areas of research connected with trust
management, e.g. reputation, recommendation, collaboration etc
- to provide a platform for presenting and discussing emerging ideas
and trends
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- semantics and computational models for security and trust
- security and trust management architectures, mechanisms and policies
- networked systems security
- privacy and anonymity
- Identity management
- ICT for securing digital as well as physical assets
- cryptography
The primary focus is on high-quality original unpublished research, case
studies, and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions
discussing the application and deployment of security technologies in
practice.
Paper submissions. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers
that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a
journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must have authors'
affiliation and contact information on the first page. Papers are limited
to 12 pages in ENTCS style format (using the generic template).
Excessively long papers will be returned without review. Accepted papers
will be published in a post-workshop ENTCS volume. To submit a paper,
please visit http://www.easychair.org/STM06/ . For more information
contact stm06(a)dti.unimi.it
Papers must be received by the deadline of May 15, 2006.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission due: May 15, 2006
Acceptance notification: June 26, 2006
Final Papers due: August 20, 2006
GENERAL CHAIRS
Solange Ghernaouti Hélie
Univ. Lausanne, CH
email: sgh(a)unil.ch
Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche
Univ. Fribourg, CH
email: uun(a)unifr.ch
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Sandro Etalle
University of Twente, NL
email: sandro.etalle(a)utwente.nl
Pierangela Samarati
Universita' di Milano - Italy
email: samarati(a)dti.unimi.it
PUBLICATION CHAIR
Sara Foresti
Universita' di Milano - Italy
email: foresti(a)dti.unimi.it
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Claudio A. Ardagna
Universita' di Milano - Italy
email: ardagna(a)dti.unimi.it
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Viajy Atluri, Rutgers Univ., USA
Joris Claessens, Microsoft EMIC, DE
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Univ. Milano, IT
Theo Dimitrakos, British Telecom, UK
Mara Isabel González Vasco, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, SP
Stefanos Gritzalis, Univ. of Aegean, GR
Peter Herrmann, NTNU, NO
Valerie Issarny, INRIA, FR
Guenter Karjoth, IBM Research, CH
Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, IT
Javier Lopez, Univ. Malaga, SP
Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, IT
Sjouke Mauw, Technical Univ. Eindhoven, NL
Daniel Olmedilla, L3S, GR
Babak Sadighi, SICS, SE
Luca Vigano', ETH Zurich, CH
Will Winsborough, Univ. Texas at S. Antonio, USA
Ting Yu, North Carolina State Univ., USA
Alec Yasinsac, Florida State Univ., USA
This call for papers and additional information about the conference
can be found at http://www.hec.unil.ch/STM06
Dear all,
In preparation of our TC6 meeting in Coimbra, here is the report on the
IFIP TC6 digital library
prepared by the TC6 committee on our potential digital library ---- as
set up in Wroclaw.
We are looking forward to an interesting discussion in Coimbra.
Best regards,
Harry
(PS With thanks to Guy Leduc for this report format!)
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Report from the IFIP TC6 committee on an IFIP Digital Library
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_Committee members_:
Arun Iyengar
Guy Leduc
Elie Najm
Harry Rudin, chair
The *main problem *is that we are hamstrung (have a roadblock) through
the five-year contract
which IFIP signed with Springer. Since we have chosen alternative
publication routes
for some of our past conferences, one suggestion is that we make an
experiment with one of
our conferences and evaluate the result. With this goal in mind, I have
informally
contacted Google. They seem to be interested, would be willing to
display the
IFIP logo in association with the papers for such a conference, but do
not want to
run into problems with the rights assigned to Springer.
In the long term, what we would like to have is an IFIP digital library,
similar to what
the ACM or IEEE have which could also be accessed via Google Scholar and
through each conference's own Web site.
An open question is whether the author or IFIP should retain rights to
the papers.
A draft copyright form, *assigning copyright* to IFIP is attached, only
as a basis for discussion.
In Coimbra, we should decide
*1* - Do we want to try an *experimen*t or just wait until the next four
years have passed?
*2* - If we decide for an experiment, should we try to do this *via Google*?
3 - To whom should *copyright* be assigned for the individual papers ---
to IFIP or should the rights be held by the individual authors?
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CALL FOR PAPERS
JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/
Special Issue on Peer-to-Peer Technologies in Network and Service Management
One of the most interesting and promising technologies of the last five
years is the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology. This technology allows users
to voluntarily share computer resources such as storage space,
processing power, and bandwidth. An important characteristic of P2P
systems is that there is little or no central control, and each system
can act as a client as well as a server. Initially, P2P systems were
used for file-sharing purposes; examples of such systems are Kazaa and
Bittorrent. Nowadays, P2P technologies are also used for many other
kinds of applications, including VoIP (Skype), video distribution
(GhostShare), and decentralized auctions (PeerMart).
From a management perspective, P2P systems pose completely different
challenges than traditional client-server systems. P2P systems include
hardly any centralized management components and most distributed
management functions are performed in an automatic way; examples of such
functions include resource discovery, security, and NAT traversal. From
a management perspective, P2P technologies are also interesting to
manage traditional client-server application. Compared to traditional
manager-agent technologies, the promise of P2P technologies is better
scalability, improved reliability, and lower operational costs.
This special issue of Journal of Network and Systems Management will
focus on the management of P2P systems and the use of P2P technologies
for managing traditional systems. Submissions may span a broad range of
topics, including:
• P2P-based management architectures and protocols
• Distributed control and management in P2P systems
• Accounting and payment in P2P environments
• Security and trust management for P2P systems
• (identification, authentication, reputation, auditing)
• Performance, scalability, and reliability of P2P systems
• (bandwidth, CPU load, memory usage)
• Detection and analysis of P2P traffic
• Impact of data retention legislation for P2P systems
• Case studies and measurements
Authors are invited to submit high quality and unpublished papers that
are not under review in any other conference or journal. Submissions
should be in single-column PDF format through the JEMS system
(https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/jnsm).
Paper preparation instructions can be found in any copy of the Journal,
or by visiting the JNSM Web site at http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/.
Guest editors:
Aiko Pras, University of Twente
<a.pras(a)utwente.nl>
Jürgen Schönwälder, International University Bremen
<j.schoenwaelder(a)iu-bremen.de>
Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich
<stiller(a)ifi.unizh.ch>
Schedule:
Manuscript due: September 30, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2006
Final Manuscript due: March 1, 2007
Publication Date: September 2007
Call For Papers - Deadline: May 15, 2006
WORLDCOMP'06
The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, USA
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp06/ws
This is a Call For Papers for publication in the Final Edition of conference
proceedings; if accepted, papers would be published in the proceedings AFTER
the conferences. This announcement is ONLY for those who missed the
opportunity to submit their papers in response to earlier announcements
(authors who have already been notified that their papers have been
accepted/not-accepted should ignore this announcement.)
You are invited to submit a draft paper (see instructions below.) All
accepted papers submitted in response to this Call For Papers will be
published in the respective proceedings/books after the conferences.
SPONSORS/CO-SPONSORS:
WORLDCOMP'06 is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials,
and workshops); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates:
June 26-29, 2006. See http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp06/ws
for the complete list of joint-conferences.
The Academic Co-sponsors of WORLDCOMP'06 include:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Media Lab
(http://www.media.mit.edu/); Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) of
University of Texas at Austin (http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/); Institute for
Informatics Problems of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
(The IIP of Russian Academy of Sciences is co-sponsoring the ILINTEC Workshop
and MLMTA Conference only); and The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC is
co-sponsoring the CIC Conference only).
Organizers and Co-sponsors at-large include: A number of university
faculty members and their staff; World Academy of Science; and Computer
Science Research, Education, and Applications Press.
Media Co-Sponsors include: HPC wire; GRID today; H2CM Hodges' Health; and a
number of others (complete list will soon be posted on the web).
Other Co-Sponsors include: One Laptop Per Child Association
(OLPC; http://www.laptop.org/); and International Technology Institute
(http://www.itiworld.org/). In addition to the above, several publishers
of computer science and computer engineering books and journals, chapters
and/or task forces of computer science associations/organizations from 12
countries, and developers of high-performance machines and systems have
provided significant help in organizing the conferences.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
We have received a large number of requests for permission to submit papers
to be considered as RRR, SRP, or PST papers (see below for categories of
accepted papers.)
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers (no more than 7 pages,
single spaced and font size of 10 to 12 - all reasonable typesetting
formats are acceptable) to: hra(a)cs.uga.edu
Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for
publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of
the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author.
The first page should also include the name of the conference the paper is
being submitted to (the list of conferences is appended to this message.)
Accepted papers will be published in the final edition of the respective
proceedings/books.
All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in the
topical area.
IMPORTANT DATES:
May 15, 2006 (or sooner): Submissions Due
May 24, 2006: Notification of acceptance
June 4, 2006: Camera-Ready papers and Registration
June 26-29, 2006: WORLDCOMP'06
PAPER CATEGORIES:
The Accepted Paper Categories are (in response to this Call For Papers):
RRR papers (Regular Research Reports) will be a maximum of 7 IEEE style
pages in camera-ready form. RRR papers will be presented in Discussion
Sessions. (Scheduled times for Discussion Sessions will be emailed to
you in June.)
SRP papers (Short Research Papers): Same as RRR papers (above) except SRP
papers will be a maximum of 4 IEEE style pages in camera-ready form (will
be published in the proceedings).
PST papers (Poster Papers): Same as RRR papers (above) except PST papers
will be a maximum of 2 IEEE style pages in camera-ready form.
For a more detailed description about RRR, SRP, and PST papers,
refer to: www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp06/ws/paper_categories
LIST OF CONFERENCES:
o The 2006 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Grid Computing and
Applications (GCA'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models,
Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Software Engineering Research
and Practice (SERP'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Programming Languages and
Compilers (PLC'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services
(SWWS'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Real-Time Computing Systems and
Applications (RTCOMP'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Embedded Systems and
Applications (ESA'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Pervasive Systems and Computing
(PSC'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual
Reality (CGVR'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
Visualization Methods (MSV'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science
(FCS'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise
Information Systems, e-Government, and Outsourcing (EEE'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Engineering (IKE'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology (BIOCOMP'06)
o The 2006 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'6)
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Dear all,
In preparation of our TC6 meeting in Coimbra,
here is the report on the IFIP TC6 journal
prepared by the TC6 committee on
"publication/QualityOfConference/LinkWithSpringer"
set up in Wroclaw.
We are looking forward to an interesting discussion in Coimbra.
Best regards,
Guy
_______________________________________________________________________________
IFIP TC6 committee on publication/QualityOfConference/LinkWithSpringer
Committee members:
R. Boutaba
G. Leduc, chair
G. Pujolle
H. Rudin
Topics to be addressed by the committee:
- IFIP TC6 Journal
- Quality of Conferences
- Link with Springer
Only the first issue (the IFIP TC6 Journal) is
addressed here, although some obvious link with
Springer is also implicitly there. We did not
discuss the "Quality of Conferences" issue, but
noticed anyway that this topic seems to have
moved to another TC6 committee chaired by Arun
Iyengar.
Table of contents
- Open-access
- Electronic-only versus electronic+paper
- Copyrights
- Quality
- Reliable archives
- Web site
- Business model
- The journal
1. Open access
The journal should be open access (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access)
2. Electronic-only versus electronic+paper
Electronic-only is enough. Anyway, if needed an
open-access electronic journal can be published
simultaneously as a hardcopy, either by an
official publisher or not.
3. Copyrights
Copyrights are retained by the author, i.e. not
even transfered to IFIP. This is the main asset
of open access: authors keep control on their
work. Authors are likely to appreciate this
feature very much. 'No copyrights to IFIP' also
means 'no problem with SSBM (Springer Science &
Business Media)'.
We propose to replace the "copyrights transfer
form" by a "Code of ethics". This will solve the
problem of verbatim republication in absence of
copyrights transfer. We would ask the author to
sign it instead of a copyright transfer form. We
would also require the author to use the URI of
the paper (i.e. the link to the journal DL)
instead of putting the paper on his/her personal
web page (after all the journal DL would be
freely accessible to anyone).
If an IFIP conference paper (for which IFIP may
still hold the copyrights in some cases) is
extended and published in the TC6 journal, the
traditional problem of reuse of copyrighted
material applies. This problem will disappear
when most IFIP TC6 conferences will be published
in the IFIP DL (and not any more by SSBM).
[Question] How can we use the IFIP name and logo
for the journal without having to apply to the
usual IFIP bylaws (principally the copyrights
transfer).
4. Quality
Authors of best papers from our best conferences
(Middleware, WWW, Networking, ...) will be
invited to submit extended paper versions to the
journal. We need a strong editorial board.
We should first provide and agree on a list of
(broad) topics and at least one expert per topic
to be part of the editorial board. An expert can
be associated with several topics. We need to fix
a ratio between the number of editorial board
members and the number of "submitted+invited"
papers: suppose we get 40 papers to review per
year (at the beginning at least), 20 editorial
board members are enough. This would lead to 2
papers per year per editorial board member. Note
that the editorial board is not a list of
reviewers, but a list of people responsible for
handling the review process, including the
selection of reviewers.
The rule should be: only renowned and reliable
people should be in the editorial board. This
list will set the tone of the journal. No focus
on one sub-community in particular (e.g. the
performance community). Fair representation of
American, Asian and European members. The purpose
of this journal is not to set up an "IFIP mafia"
against other mafias such as SIGCOMM or INFOCOM.
If we are considered as another mafia, we will
surely fail. We should be open-minded.
For the open call, the papers should be submitted
to the Editor in Chief who will dispatch the
submitted papers fairly to the editorial board
members.
[Variant] The IEEE Surveys and Tutorials uses an
on-demand reviewing procedure by the editorial
board. Members are invited to check the list of
submitted papers and give reviewing preferences.
We could also implement that.
Authors will receive immediate acknowledgment of
submission and will be contacted within at most
two weeks by the responsible editor who will
handle their paper.
Short reviewing delays (3 months).
We can define a maximum number of very best
papers per conference (depending on the quality
level of the conference) that are invited to
submit an extended version to the IFIP TC6
journal. Order of magnitude: 2% of the submitted
papers. For a big conference like Networking,
this would mean 9 papers.
[Question] Is there a problem with IEEE/IFIP conferences?
5. Reliable archives
Example of the open access 'Logical Methods in
Computer Science' Journal
(http://www.lmcs-online.org/index.php): Disk
archive and a hardcopy of the contents is
maintained by the Department of Theoretical
Computer Science at the Technical University of
Braunschweig, Germany, and also by a large number
of mirror sites around the world. Something
similar should be in place for the TC6 journal.
6. Web site
We have three ways:
A. Experienced centre
We delegate this responsibility to a experienced
centre, which is already managing one or several
(preferably open access) journals. The cost, if
reasonable, can be covered by IFIP TC6 for
example. A possible example is the GET in France
which already publishes "Annals of
Telecommunications" and has some resources to do
so. There are other possibilities.
B. Google-like solution
Same as A, with Google handling the process. If
the author retains the copyrights (i.e. does not
transfer the copyrights to IFIP (and SSBM)),
Google should not raise any copyrights issue
here. Probably no cost for TC6 either. I don't
know if Google would accept to handle the
typesetting which is resource consuming.
Though less appealing than Google, there are
other possibilities, such as ISTE (International
Society for Technology in Education,
http://www.iste.org/).
C. One of us is responsible for it with some
support from his institution or IFIP (?)
Free, open source software is available for those
wishing to start up new journals
For example the Open Journal Systems (OJS)
http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ developed by the Public
Knowledge Project
http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/index.html. While OJS is
designed for academic publishing, it can be used
by anyone.
System Requirements for OJS:
To run OJS 2.x, your web server will need:
- PHP 4.2.x or later (including PHP 5.x) with MySQL or PostgreSQL support
- A database server: MySQL 3.23 or later OR PostgreSQL 7.1 or later
- UNIX-like OS recommended (such as Linux,
FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.). OJS 2.0.2 and
above supports Windows servers.
Another open source software to run a conference or journal:
- OpenConf: http://www.zakongroup.com/technology/openconf.shtml
7. Business model
Depending on the solutions, the costs may differ.
The following costs are foreseen:
- typesetting costs (perhaps the highest of all costs involved)
- managing the web site (storage of papers, interface and reviewing process)
- ensuring the reliability of the archives
- possibly handling printed copies (perhaps only for reliable archiving)
This is not a big deal for just a journal, but it
may become substantial if this grows to a full DL.
Perhaps an institution could handle it (e.g. The
MIT manages the 'Logical Methods in Computer
Science' Journal).
If Google (or ISTE) manages it, they get revenues
from advertisements (or use our journal as an
advertisement for other things).
If a university manages it, we don't know.
We need some continuity guarantee also. The
journal should not depend on the presence of an
individual (e.g. a professor) at a given
institution. People move.
[Question] Could we estimate the typesetting
costs? Guy Pujolle will ask 'Annals of Telecom'
to have estimates of the needed resources/costs
for this journal which publishes more or less the
same number of papers as our TC6 journal would.
Note that IEEE charges $60 for the typesetting of
a page (and the total cost for an extra page is
at least $200).
8. The journal
Name of the journal: IFIP Journal on Networking? [Is it broad enough?]
[Variant]: IFIP Journal on Communications Systems
[May be too broad, we don't really address the
physical layer in TC6]
Acronym: JONET? JoN?
Logo [Otto, any suggestion?]
ISSN Number needed.
Structure of the board (inspired by other Open Access journals):
- Steering committee
It will be responsible for maintaining the
philosophy of the journal in the long run and to
decide any changes in the direction of the
journal. For example, the steering committee
should appoint the editor-in-chief (EiC), then
the associate EiC in consultation with EiC. The
steering committee has also to approve appointed
area editors and updates to the scope of the
journal. The steering committee can be composed
of the founders of the journal. The EiC and other
members below should be renewed periodically.
Maybe the steering committee should also be
renewed, e.g. (re)elected by TC6 on a regular
basis.
- One Editor-in-Chief (EiC)
- One Associate Editor-in-Chief
He can handle special issues for example. He will
definitely have to handle all those papers for
which the editor in chief has a conflict of
interest. The associate editor in chief should
also take over in case the editor in chief is
unavailable.
- Editorial Board
Small group of 20 people max. In case of conflict
of interest, the EiC may act as editorial board
member.
- Liaison board
If the need arises, we can have liaisons to the following bodies:
Liaison to IFIP TC6, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE Computer Society
Liaison to conferences such as Networking, etc
Liaison to some non open-access journal (e.g. IEEE, ACM, COMNET, ...)
Liaison to W3C consortium
Liaison to DBLP, http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/
Liaison to Google
Liaison to University libraries
Liaison to the directory of open access journals (http://www.doaj.org/)
Liaison to CoRR: see http://arxiv.org/corr/home
Journal of the Computing Research Repository (CoRR)
Liaison to the public knowledge project
http://pkp.sfu.ca/harvester/
...
- Web Master
- Periodicity, Call for papers and Invitations to submit
We will start with a quaterly-published Journal,
which will carry full versions of the best papers
presented in the TC6 sponsored conferences.
Assuming about 10 papers per issue, we believe
that we will have a good supply of good papers.
In the second year of its operation, we will
start accepting papers from the open literature
that will permit us to build it up to a monthly
publication. The final goal is to alternate
issues, one with papers from TC6 conferences, and
one from the open call.
Several good quality IFIP TC6 conferences take
place every year. The total number of submitted
papers is about 2000. The number of presented
papers in a conference that will be invited for
publication in the new Journal will be
proportional to the number of submitted papers to
the conference. In this way, more papers from
prestigious conferences (such as the Networking
series that typically attracts 450 submissions)
will be published in the Journal than from a
lesser conference, which typically does not
attract many papers. Assuming that we accept 1
paper for every 50 submitted papers, we will have
about 40 papers per year. (These ratios can be
changed depending on our discussions).
The acceptance procedure will be as follows. Once
the selection of the papers has been concluded,
we will invite a number of authors to submit full
papers. The papers will be sent to referees along
with the original reviews done for the
conference. The refereeing process should take at
most 3 months.
Papers from the open call will follow the normal reviewing process.
We need criteria to evaluate the quality of a
conference (our second mandate, not really
addressed at this stage). Perhaps some impact
factor criterion. Anyway, if we apply the
principle above, namely inviting the top 2% of
every TC6 conference (where 2% is applied to the
number of submitted papers), this may be fair
with respect to all TC6 WGs and events. By
invitation we mean 'invitation to submit an
extended version which will be carefully
reviewed'. Workshops are not considered here.
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Prof. Guy Leduc Phone : +32 4 366 26 98
Université de Liège Secr : +32 4 366 26 91
Réseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89
Research Unit in Networking (RUN) Email: Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be
EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM
http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/People/GuyLeduc/