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

TC6 budget for 2007
by Otto Spaniol 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Dear all, please find enclosed a budget planning and a financial estimate for IFIP TC6 in 2007. These numbers had to be given to IFIP before July 7 in order to include them in the general financial planning which will be discussed at IFIP General Assembly in Santiago de Chile. With respect to event proceeds and royalties I'm rather pessimistic: More and more event are co-organised by IFIP (in such cases IEEE becomes the main sponsor very often) and royalties from sold books will disappear very soon. The TC6 funded expenses (best paper awards, student travel grants, tutorials in developing countries) are very similar to the respective cost in recent years. You will see that we will end up in a deficit if all conferences really ask for their BPA's etc. Please check the calculation and inform me if some items have been forgotten or if some entries might be cancelled. The budget will have to be discussed and hopefully approved at our next meeting in Paris (Sept. 29+30, 2006). Best regards Otto

2 2

SECON 2006 Student Travel Grant-- Application Deadline August 1
by Wendi Heinzelman 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

_________________________________________________________________ IEEE SECON 2006 Student Travel Grant Opportunity Sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF) Application Deadline: August 1, 2006 Decision Notification Date: August 15, 2006 URL: http://www.ieee-secon.org/2006/travelgrants.html _________________________________________________________________ The IEEE SECON 2006 organizing committee is pleased to announce the availability of Student Travel Grants, sponsored by the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) and National Science Foundation (NSF). Applications are invited from qualified graduate students studying outside and in U.S. institutions. Around fifteen to twenty awards are expected. 1. From IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc-STG): About 4-5 Student and Discretionary Travel Grants are expected: * Who is eligible: ONLY Student Authors or Co-Authors from outside U.S. * Deadline for Grant Submission: August 1, 2006 * Decision Notification: August 15, 2006 * Grant Amount: Maximum of US $1,000 2. Sponsored by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF-STG): About 10-15 Student Travel Awards are expected: * Who is eligible: Only Bonafide Graduate Students, currently enrolled in a Graduate Program in the United States. Priority will be given to student authors or co-authors. Students from under-represented groups (including women and minorities) are strongly encouraged to apply. * Deadline for Grant Submission: August 1, 2006 * Decision Notification: August 15, 2006 * Grant Amount: Maximum of US $1,000 How to Apply: 1. Registration at EDAS: go to http://edas.info and click "Travel grants" and select one of SECON 2006. 2. Send an application to Prof. Wenye Wang at wwang(a)eos.ncsu.edu. An application should include a. A letter from the student The letter from the student should include: a brief summary of research interests and accomplishments to date; a description of areas reflected in the SECON 2006 program that would impact the student's research, and why the conference attendance is important to the student. b. An application form c. The student's vita d. Supporting letter from the student's graduate advisor The student's advisor's recommendation letter to the committee should include: degree program of the student; confirmation that the student is qualified applicant for either ComSoc-STG or NSF-STG; the suitability of the SECON 2006 program material to the student's research area; ways this particular student would benefit from attendance at the conference; and the strengths and potential contributions of the student. What Does NSF-STG Provide: For students who are more than two hours driving distance (non-local), the grant will cover the following expenses (up to a maximum of US $1000): * Economy airfare, on a US-based carrier, up to $450 * lodging for up to three nights (up to $160 per night) * per-diem ($46 per day for up to 3 days) For students who are less than two hours driving distance (local), the grant will cover the following expenses (up to a maximum of US $450): * lodging for up to two nights (up to $160 per night) * mileage reimbursement at standard established rates * per-diem ($46 per day for up to 3 days) What Are Allowable Expenses: All payments for travel awards covered by this grant must be reimbursement only after the conference is over. All expenses must have an original receipt. For the airfare, a US Flag Carrier must be used and the original ticket stub included with the request (e-tickets can obtain a receipt at check-in), otherwise the expense is unallowable and unreimbursable. In addition, expenses for alcoholic beverages are unallowable. For NSF-STG, a completed W-9 form is required (available at http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/netwis/W9-Form.doc).

1 0

SECON 2006 Final Call for Poster/Demo Submissions-- Deadline extended until July 16
by Wendi Heinzelman 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

(Apologies if you receive this call multiple times.) *********************************************************************** CALL FOR POSTERS and DEMOS *** NEW DEADLINE: July 16, 2006, 5 pm EDT*** IEEE SECON 2006 The Third IEEE International Conference on Sensors, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks http://www.ieee-secon.org/2006/ Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (www.comsoc.org) Technically Co-Sponsored by AFCEA (www.afcea.org) September 25-28, 2006 Reston, Virginia, USA (Near Washington DC's Dulles airport) ************************************************************************ To provide a forum for discussion and personal interaction between presenter and participants, IEEE SECON 2006 will include poster and demonstration sessions: works in progress, industry demonstrations of new applications and techniques, practical implementations, military, industrial and commercial developments, research testbeds and demonstrations, recent research/implementation results, upcoming research challenges, future directions, and novel approaches in the fields of sensor, mesh and ad hoc communications and networks. One of the key goals of this conference is to foster collaboration between industry, government agencies and academia. Hence, participation of researchers/developers from industry or governement agencies and posters/demonstrations reporting joint work are especially encouraged. Topics considered for posters and demo are, but 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 Submissions should be in the form of a proposal describing the main contributions of the poster/demo and the merits of the proposed ideas. If available, preliminary results can also be included. Proposals will be evaluated mainly based on their potential to stimulate interesting discussions, exchange of ideas and promote collaborations. A prize will be awarded to the best demo by a jury composed of academic and/or venture capital participants. Submissions should not be more than three pages (preferably IEEE conference format, 2-column) in length. Demonstration submissions should include the space requirements and/or any other equipment-specific requirements. The documents must contain the authors' names, affiliations, and contact information and the designated corresponding author. Accepted authors of posters/demos will have a space in the poster/demo session room to display their posters or exhibit their demos and describe their work in discussions with interested attendees. IEEE Communications Society policy states that all accepted SECON 2006 posters/demos must have at least one registration at the regular rate. For authors co-authoring multiple posters/demos, one regular registration is valid for up to three presentations. Submission will be accepted until Sunday July 16 2006, 5 pm EDT for demos and for posters. Please send the submission material to the poster/demo chairs in pdf format, and make sure to include the first author name and either POSTER or DEMO in the name of the pdf file: Stefano Basagni Cedric Westphal Northeastern University Nokia basagni(a)ece.neu.edu cedric.westphal(a)nokia.com Notification of Poster/Demo decisions: August 7, 2006. Accepted Poster/Demo Presenters MUST register by August 31, 2006. ************************************************************************

1 0

WG6.8 + 6.10 + 6.2, Netw. 2008
by Otto Spaniol 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Dear all, as agreed upon in Coimbra I have made the following actions: - inviting Pedro Cuenca (Spain) + Jozef Woniak (Poland) to submit proposals for 6.8 and to present the ideas at the occasion of the next meeting in Paris - inviting Josep Sole Pareta (Spain) + Ioannis Tomkos (Poland) to submit proposals for 6.10 and to present the ideas at the occasion of the next meeting in Paris. Thanks a lot to Ramon Puigjaner and to Jan Slavik who established the first contacts. Josep and Ioannis have already agreed to come to Paris. For 6.8 we had a suggestion for a third candidate (Mario Gerla or somebody else from the US scene); Guy Pujolle promised to establsih a contact. No response received yet. Guy Pujolle has started the nomination phase for a new chairman of 6.2 (as you knw, Guy has become the TC6 delegate of France as successor of Samir Tohme). Another topic is Networking 2008 (as you know, Networking 2007 will be held in Atlanta). We had initially suggested to have Networking 2008 in London. In the last meeting, however, it was decided to leave that decision open. Condidates should be invited to present their concepts in September in Paris. Guy Pujolle promised to ask Erol Gelenbe (London) about that. No response received thus far. I took the responsibility to contact Francis Lee (Singapore) who had submitted a bid for 2007 not knowing that the decision for Atlanta was already made long ago. Thus I wrote a message to Francis Lee. He reacted prompty saying that he is still very interested but that he has to discuss that in more detail with the organisation committee. Best regards Otto

2 1

Strategy deadline earlier!
by Otto Spaniol 09 Jul '06

09 Jul '06

Dear all, until now (approx. four hours since sending my corresonding message) only one -but very detailed and constructive - answer has been obtained concerning the IFIP strategy document. We need an earlier deadine since Basie von Solms leaves for Europe already on June 6 and needs the comments by June 5. Thus either you send your comments directly to him or send it to me *** until June 1 ***. (June 4 + 5 are holidays in catholic countries). Best regards Otto

4 4

IEEE WCNC 2007 – Call for Papers
by ComSocConferences＠comsoc.org 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2007) 11 – 15 March 2007 / Hong Kong / http://www.ieee-wcnc.org CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE DATE OF 20 SEPTEMBER 2006 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) is one of the world's foremost international technical conferences for engineers and researchers at the forefront of development and deployment of wireless technologies. In 2007, for the first time ever, WCNC will be held outside North America in Asia's world city, Hong Kong. IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submissions: 20 September 2006 Notification of acceptance: 8 December 2006 Camera ready submission: 5 January 2007 CALL FOR PROPOSALS The WCNC 2007 organizing committee invites you to submit proposals for tutorials, technical papers and Technology/Business Applications Panels. Deadline: 20 September 2006 ORGANIZATION General Chairs Technical Program Chair Khaled B. Letaief, Chih-Lin I Ross D. Murch For more WCNC 2007 details & updates, visit: http://www.ieee-wcnc.org

1 0

Call For Participation: FCS-ARSPA'06 (Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security and Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis)
by Luca Vigano 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

FCS-ARSPA'06 Joint Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security and Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis co-located with LICS'06 as part of FLoC'06 Seattle, August 15 - 16, 2006 http://www.easychair.org/FLoC-06/FCS-ARSPA.html ****************************** *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** ****************************** Overview 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 successful 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 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. INVITED SPEAKERS ================ - Andy Gordon (Microsoft Research) Provable Implementations of Security Protocols (Lics invited talk) - Martin Abadi (University of California at Santa Cruz) Access Control in a Core Calculus of Dependency ACCEPTED PAPERS =============== - Veronique Cortier, Graham Steel On the Decidability of a Class of XOR-based Key-management APIs - Mathieu Jaume, Charles Morisset Towards a formal specification of access control - Amit Walvekar, Manasi Kelkar, Melanie Smith, and Rose Gamble Determining Conflicts in Interdomain Mappings for Access Control - Massimo Benerecetti, Nicola Cuomo, and Adriano Peron Timed HLPSL for specification and verification of time sensitive protocols - Matthias Anlauff, Dusko Pavlovic, Richard Waldinger, and Stephen Westfold Proving Authentication Properties in the Protocol Derivation Assistant - Long Nguyen, Bill Roscoe Efficient group authentication protocols based on human interaction - Alan Jeffrey, Ruy Ley-Wild Dynamic Model Checking of C Cryptographic Protocol Implementations - Jonathan Millen, Joshua Guttman, John Ramsdell, Justin Sheehy, and Brian Sniffen Call by Contract for Cryptographic Protocols - DongGook Park, Colin Boyd, Byoungcheon Lee, and Hwankoo Kim Responsibility and Credit: New Members of the Authentication Family? - Romain Janvier, Yassine Lakhnech, and Laurent Mazare' Relating the Symbolic and Computational Models of Security Protocols Using Hashes - Philippe Balbiani, Yannick Chevalier, and mounira kourjieh Reasoning about Actions and Obligations - Prateek Gupta, Vitaly Shmatikov Key confirmation and adaptive corruptions in the protocol security logic - Johannes Borgstroem, Simon Kramer, and Uwe Nestmann Calculus of Cryptographic Communication - Aybek Mukhamedov, Mark Ryan On Asynchronous Multi-party Contract-Signing - Chamseddine Talhi, Nadia Tawbi, and Mourad Debbabi Execution Monitoring Enforcement Under Memory-Limitation Constraints - A. Prasad Sistla, Min Zhou Analysis of Dynamic Policies Further information about registration and accomodation can be found on the workshop's webpage http://www.easychair.org/FLoC-06/FCS-ARSPA.html We hope to see you all in Seattle! Pierpaolo Degano, Ralf Kuesters, Luca Vigano`, Steve Zdancewic (FCS-ARSPA'06 co-chairs)

1 0

Date of meeting 2006/2 in paris
by Otto Spaniol 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Dear all, since some of you ask about the meeting dates... here they come: Special TC-6 meeting 2006/2 on Developing Country Problems; TC-6; 25 August 2006; Santiago de Chile, Chile; TC-6 meeting 2006/2; 29 + 30 September, 2006, Paris (France). See also the invitation for Autonomic Networking. Best regards Otto ------------------ Message received from Guy Pujolle: Dear TC6 member, We would like to invite you to participate in the Autonomic Networking Conference, 27-29 September 2006, Paris, France. We are expecting a very great event with top-level keynote speakers and an outstanding program. Please visit http://www.autonomic-net.org for more info. The IFIP TC6 meeting will be held on the 29 and 30 of September. Best regards, Guy.

1 0

Call For Papers: UbiSafe-07; Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007
by naixue 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Dear All, I would be most grateful if you would share this announcement with those who may have interest in submitting paper(s) or participating in UbiSafe-07. Kind regards, /Daniel ---------------- Daniel N. Xiong, Publicity Chair, UbiSafe-07 Japan Advanced Inst. of Science & Technology Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1211, JAPAN ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Ubisafe Computing (UbiSafe-07) Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007 http://www.ubisafe.org/2007/ or http://www.cs.okstate.edu/ubisafe07 In conjunction with AINA-07: http://www.aina-conference.org/2007/ IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Paper Submission: November 30, 2006 Author Notification: January 22, 2007 Camera-Ready Papers: February 17, 2007 SYMPOSIUM INFORMATION: Computers are now available anytime, anywhere, by different means, and distributed unobtrusively throughout the everyday environments in which physical objects/artifacts embedded with invisible computers are sensible and networked locally and globally. Such "any" computers open tremendous opportunities to provide numerous novel services/applications in both real world and cyber spaces, and exist ubiquitously in our daily life, working, learning, traveling, entertainment, medicine, etc. Although it is yet unclear what exactly the real-cyber integrated worlds would be, there is no doubt that they must be safe. UbiSafe emphasizes the SAFE aspects for ubiquitous, pervasive, AmI, mobile, universal, embedded, wearable, augmented, invisible, hidden, context-aware, sentient, proactive, autonomic, or whatever it is called, computing. UbiSafe computing is focused on theories and technologies for ubiquitous artifacts to function safely for different purposes; for ubiquitous systems to work safely in various situations; and for ubiquitous environments to behave safely with all people. A series of challenges exist to let people benefit from ubiquitous services, and simultaneously guarantee their safety in making ubiquitous safe artifacts, systems, and environments. The UbiSafe-07 Symposium provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address all safety related profound challenges including technical, social, legal and ethical issues, and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experience on all aspects of UbiSafe computing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * Fundamentals - UbiSafe concepts, definitions, basic elements, models, frameworks and methodologies, human-centric paradigms, multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary/trans-disciplinary approaches, semantics, ontologies, UbiSafe requirements and formal specifications and validations, information assurance, etc. * Technologies - Security and privacy protection, reliability and fault tolerance, risk analysis, uncertainty and exception handling, socially intelligent agents, intuitive/natural user interface, interaction design, context-awareness, intelligent computing, service-oriented computing, hardware, software, middleware, etc. * Systems - Embedded systems, wearable systems, augmented systems, context-based systems, communication systems, safety-critical systems, survivable systems, persistent systems, autonomous/autonomic systems, proactive systems, network infrastructure, sensor networks, etc. * Applications - Smart objects, smart environments, information appliance and artifacts, everyday gadgets, robots, safety care, healthcare, medical care and services, working, learning, traveling, entertainment, case studies, etc. * Measures and Assessments - UbiSafe attributes and measures for safety, trust, faith, amenity, easiness, comfort, satisfaction and worryness, UbiSafe levels and relations, UbiSafe quality, assessment criteria and authority, subjective and objective assessment standards, evaluation methodologies, testing, measuring and monitoring tools, etc. * Human Factors and Social Issues - Human and social aspects of UbiSafe, UbiSafe sources and factors, social rules, regulations and laws, human factors, human behavior analysis, modeling of human feelings, traditional and cultural issues, ethical issues, etc. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Submit full papers not exceeding 20 pages in PDF format (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can download the IEEE CS Proceedings Author Guidelines from the following web site ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/. UbiSafe-07 submission web site is at http://ehpclab.stfx.ca/~ubisafe07/. PAPER PUBLICATION: Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines on preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are required to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in the Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing (JoATC), and the Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI). A set of high quality papers of the conference, after further revisions, also will be published in an edited book published by IDEA Publishing Group, USA. GENERAL INFORMATION: ADVISORY CHAIRS: Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan GENERAL CHAIRS: Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Vipin Chaudhary, Wayne State University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan PROGRAM CHAIRS: Qiangfu Zhao, The University of Aizu, Japan Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Xiaolin (Andy) Li, Oklahoma State University, USA PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS: Evi Syukur, Monash University, Australia Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK Zhiwen Yu, Nagoya University, Japan PUBLICITY CHAIRS: Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Daniel N. Xiong, JAIST, Japan Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Emmanuelle Anceaume, IRISA, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS: TBD For further information please email to: ubisafe07(a)googlegroups.com

1 0

Call For Papers: UbiSafe-07; Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007
by naixue 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Dear All, I would be most grateful if you would share this announcement with those who may have interest in submitting paper(s) or participating in UbiSafe-07. Kind regards, /Daniel ---------------- Daniel N. Xiong, Publicity Chair, UbiSafe-07 Japan Advanced Inst. of Science & Technology Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1211, JAPAN ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Ubisafe Computing (UbiSafe-07) Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007 http://www.ubisafe.org/2007/ or http://www.cs.okstate.edu/ubisafe07 In conjunction with AINA-07: http://www.aina-conference.org/2007/ IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Paper Submission: November 30, 2006 Author Notification: January 22, 2007 Camera-Ready Papers: February 17, 2007 SYMPOSIUM INFORMATION: Computers are now available anytime, anywhere, by different means, and distributed unobtrusively throughout the everyday environments in which physical objects/artifacts embedded with invisible computers are sensible and networked locally and globally. Such "any" computers open tremendous opportunities to provide numerous novel services/applications in both real world and cyber spaces, and exist ubiquitously in our daily life, working, learning, traveling, entertainment, medicine, etc. Although it is yet unclear what exactly the real-cyber integrated worlds would be, there is no doubt that they must be safe. UbiSafe emphasizes the SAFE aspects for ubiquitous, pervasive, AmI, mobile, universal, embedded, wearable, augmented, invisible, hidden, context-aware, sentient, proactive, autonomic, or whatever it is called, computing. UbiSafe computing is focused on theories and technologies for ubiquitous artifacts to function safely for different purposes; for ubiquitous systems to work safely in various situations; and for ubiquitous environments to behave safely with all people. A series of challenges exist to let people benefit from ubiquitous services, and simultaneously guarantee their safety in making ubiquitous safe artifacts, systems, and environments. The UbiSafe-07 Symposium provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address all safety related profound challenges including technical, social, legal and ethical issues, and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experience on all aspects of UbiSafe computing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * Fundamentals - UbiSafe concepts, definitions, basic elements, models, frameworks and methodologies, human-centric paradigms, multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary/trans-disciplinary approaches, semantics, ontologies, UbiSafe requirements and formal specifications and validations, information assurance, etc. * Technologies - Security and privacy protection, reliability and fault tolerance, risk analysis, uncertainty and exception handling, socially intelligent agents, intuitive/natural user interface, interaction design, context-awareness, intelligent computing, service-oriented computing, hardware, software, middleware, etc. * Systems - Embedded systems, wearable systems, augmented systems, context-based systems, communication systems, safety-critical systems, survivable systems, persistent systems, autonomous/autonomic systems, proactive systems, network infrastructure, sensor networks, etc. * Applications - Smart objects, smart environments, information appliance and artifacts, everyday gadgets, robots, safety care, healthcare, medical care and services, working, learning, traveling, entertainment, case studies, etc. * Measures and Assessments - UbiSafe attributes and measures for safety, trust, faith, amenity, easiness, comfort, satisfaction and worryness, UbiSafe levels and relations, UbiSafe quality, assessment criteria and authority, subjective and objective assessment standards, evaluation methodologies, testing, measuring and monitoring tools, etc. * Human Factors and Social Issues - Human and social aspects of UbiSafe, UbiSafe sources and factors, social rules, regulations and laws, human factors, human behavior analysis, modeling of human feelings, traditional and cultural issues, ethical issues, etc. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Submit full papers not exceeding 20 pages in PDF format (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can download the IEEE CS Proceedings Author Guidelines from the following web site ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/. UbiSafe-07 submission web site is at http://ehpclab.stfx.ca/~ubisafe07/. PAPER PUBLICATION: Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines on preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are required to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in the Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing (JoATC), and the Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI). A set of high quality papers of the conference, after further revisions, also will be published in an edited book published by IDEA Publishing Group, USA. GENERAL INFORMATION: ADVISORY CHAIRS: Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan GENERAL CHAIRS: Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Vipin Chaudhary, Wayne State University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan PROGRAM CHAIRS: Qiangfu Zhao, The University of Aizu, Japan Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Xiaolin (Andy) Li, Oklahoma State University, USA PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS: Evi Syukur, Monash University, Australia Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK Zhiwen Yu, Nagoya University, Japan PUBLICITY CHAIRS: Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Daniel N. Xiong, JAIST, Japan Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Emmanuelle Anceaume, IRISA, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS: TBD For further information please email to: ubisafe07(a)googlegroups.com

1 0