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SECON 2005 Call for Demos
by Marco Zuniga 27 May '05

27 May '05

CALL FOR DEMOS The Second IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks : SECON 2005 http://ingr.cse.ucsc.edu/secon05/ September 26-29, 2005 Santa Clara, California, USA Technical demonstrations showing original research, practical implementations, industrial and commercial developments, and new applications for ad hoc and sensor networks are solicited. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * New architectures, protocols and access control to support communication, localization, time synchronization, routing and data dissemination in heterogeneous, large-scale distributed, ad hoc 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 and ad hoc sensor networks, practical implementations, and real-work experiences * Theories and models on fundamental information and communication aspects of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks * Mechanisms for authenticated, secure communication and data dissemination in sensor and ad hoc networks * Integration of sensors into engineered systems, including novel techniques for sensor renewable power sources, mechanisms for on-sensor self-calibration and self-testing and efficient schemes to maximize accuracy and minimize false alarms * Chip-based systems incorporating multiple sensors, computation, actuation, and wireless interfaces * Software platforms, middleware and tools for ad hoc and sensor network applications development, deployment and management Please consult the demo co-chairs at <secon05-demo-chairs(a)isi.edu> if you are uncertain whether your demo falls within the scope of the conference. DEMO SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Please send a one-page description of your demo to <secon05-demo-chairs(a)isi.edu> in plain text or PDF format by the dates listed below. (Plain text is preferred unless there are graphics.) Demos are independent of the technical paper review and acceptance process. IMPORTANT DATES One-page demo descriptions: June 15, 2005 Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2005 Conference dates: September 26-29, 2005 SECON 2005 DEMO CHAIRS: Bhaskar Krisnamachari, Fabio Silva (USC/ISI)

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Positions available:Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre
by Nones, Elisabetta 26 May '05

26 May '05

********** APOLOGIZE FOR MULTIPLE POSTING ************** ******************************************************** The new interdisciplinary centre of excellence Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology has been established in the Trento region (Italy). The main objectives and activities of the centre are: Overall objectives 1. To advance the state of knowledge of biological information processing, the aetiology of disease, and potentially new therapies through the creation of a new research centre that will bring together scientists from multiple disciplines to focus on conducting leading research into advanced computational modeling of biological systems. 2. To conduct novel research into defining new computational and communication paradigms that are 'biomimetic' in nature, i.e., based on new principles learned from the research into biological information processing. 3. To exploit the research. This is expected to take the form of the development of new computational tools for enabling the predictive modeling of biological systems and processes for basic and applied research. These tools will help improving health-care, environment monitoring and protection, quality of food as well as developing better therapies and treatments by the pharmaceutical industries. 4. To disseminate and communicate the results of this research for the benefit of the scientific community globally, including publications, open conferences and workshops, and provide freely available, the tools developed in the course of the research for (non-commercial) science. Activities: Calculi for Biology, and 'Biomimetic' computation We attack an open and challenging problem: the definition of a set of basic and general primitives for modeling biological systems directly inspired by biological processes. Hence, the main objective of this theme is to define a calculus for biology and develop a prototype to be applied in the theme of case studies. We also plan to include quantitative information in the definition of the calculus. It is our belief that biological phenomena can serve as valuable source of inspiration for new primitives of process calculi and new computational paradigms. Process calculi, by their own nature, take input and output, and hence communication, as the very basic form of action/reaction between concurrent systems. Concurrency theory-and particularly process algebras-are emerging as a highly promising tool to provide formal foundations to systems biology. This field is evolving rapidly Case studies The main goal of this theme is to validate and tune the work of the previous theme by exploiting the results in software developing tools and helping biologists to do science. Furthermore, the preliminary analysis of real problems will inform the design of suitable primitives. Also, we will build upon the effort of the theme on calculi for the definition of analysis, verification and simulation techniques to acquire new knowledge on the biological realm. A different case study could inform how the languages and techniques devised here could be transposed into the ICT field to improve software quality and to manage complexity. Storing dynamical evolution of biological systems The main goal of this theme is to set-up the mining and access to distributed databases storing information (programs) on the dynamic behaviour of biological systems. Coordination with servers providing the run-time support for non-homogeneous data should also be provided. The knowledge and technology acquired in the first two research themes will be used to populate databases. Detailed information on recruitment can be found at the page http://www.unitn.it/events/microsoft/index_eng.htm following the link recruitment. The selection procedure will take place in the period 'end of May - mid June'. More information on the centre will be available within few days on the web site. Best regards, Corrado Priami

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1st International Workshop on Quality of Protection - QoP 2005
by qop-submission 26 May '05

26 May '05

===================================================================== Call for Paper for the 1st International Workshop on QUALITY of PROTECTION - QoP 2005 Security Measurements and Metrics http://dit.unitn.it/~qop/ Milano, Italy, Thu. 15 September 2005. Affiliated with 10th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2005) in Milano (12-14 Sep). http://esorics05.dti.unimi.it and the 11th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS 2005) in Como (19-22 Sep) http://www.swmetrics.org/metrics2005 ======================================================================= WORKSHOP OVERVIEW Information Security in Industry has matured in the last few decades. Standards such as ISO17799, the Common Criteria, a number of industrial certification and risk analysis methodologies have raised the bar on what is considered a good security solution from a business perspective. Yet, if we compare Information Security with Networking or Empirical Software Engineering we find a major difference. Networking research has introduced concepts such as Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements. Conferences and Journals are frequently devoted to performance evaluation, QoS and SLAs. Empirical Software Engineering has made similar advances. Notions such as software metrics and measurements are well established. Processes to measure the quality and reliability of software exist and are appreciated in industry. Security looks different. Even a fairly sophisticated standard such as ISO17799 has an intrinsically qualitative nature. Notions such as Security Metrics, Quality of Protection (QoP) or Protection Level Agreement (PLA) have surfaced in the literature but still have a qualitative flavour. The "QoP field" in WS-Security is just a data field to specify a cryptographic algorithm. Indeed, neither ISO17799 nor ISO15408 (the Common Criteria) addresses QoP sufficiently. ISO17799 is a management standard, not directly concerned with the actual quality of protection achieved; ISO15408 is instead a product assessment standard and yet does not answer the question of how a user of a product assessed by it can achieve a high QoP within his/her operational environment. Both standards cover just one aspect of an effective QoP and even the combination of both would not address the aspect sufficiently. "Best practice" standards, such as the baseline protection standard published by many government agencies, also belong to the category of standards that are useful, but not sufficient, for achieving a good QoP. Security is different also in another respect. A very large proportion of recorded security incidents has a non-IT cause. Hence, while the networking and software communities may concentrate on technical features (networks and software), security requires a much wider notion of "system", including users, work processes, organisational structures in addition to the IT infrastructure. The QoP Workshop intends to discuss how security research can progress towards a notion of Quality of Protection in Security comparable to the notion of Quality of Service in Networking, Software Reliability, or Software Measurements and Metrics in Empirical Software Engineering. SUBMISSION TOPICS: Original submissions are solicited from industry and academic experts to presents their work, plans and views related to Quality of Protection. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Industrial Experience * Security Risk Analysis * Security Quality Assurance * Measurement-based decision making and risk management * Empirical assessment of security architectures and solutions * Mining data from attacks and vulnerabilities repositories * Security metrics * Measurement theory and formal theories of security metrics * Security measurement and monitoring, * Experimental verification and validation of models, * Simulation and statistical analysis, stochastic modeling * Reliability analysis INVITED SPEAKERS - Stefano De Panfilis - Engineering SpA (IT) - TBA IMPORTANT DATES: - Fri 10 June - Paper submissions - Fri 8 July - Notification of acceptance - Mon 12 Sep - Wed 14 Sep ESORICS - Thu 15 Sep - QoP Workshop - Mon 19 Sep - Thu 22 Sep IEEE METRICS in Como PAPER SUBMISSION: Original RESEARCH PAPERS are solicited in any of the above mentioned topics. Research papers should be limited to 12 pages in the standard Springer Verlag format, describing significant research results based on sound theory or experimental assessment. We also solicit INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE REPORTS, limited to 6 pages, about the use of security measurements and metrics in industrial environments. Industry papers should have at least one author from industry or government, and will be considered for their industrial relevance. PUBLICATION: Authors of accepted papers will be expected to give full presentations at the workshop. Revised versions of the papers presented at the workshop will be published by Kluwer/Springer in the Applied Security Series. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alessandro Acquisti - Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Matt Bishop - U. California Davis (USA) Imrich Chlamtac - CreateNet (IT) Yves Deswarte - LAAS-CNRS (FR) Paolo Donzelli - University of Maryland (USA) Gerhard Eschelbeck - QUALYS (USA) Dieter Gollmann - TU Hamburg-Harburg (DE) --- Co-chair Erland Jonsson - Chalmers University of Technology (SW) Svein Johan Knapskog - The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NOR) Helmut Kurth - ATSEC (DE) Bev Littlewood - City University, London (UK) Fabio Massacci - Univ. di Trento (IT) --- Co-Chair Flemming Nielson - Technical University of Denmark (DE) Mario Piattini - Polytechnical University of Madrid (SP) Ketil Stшlen - SINTEF (NO) & Univ. of Oslo (NO) Lorenzo Strigini - City University, London (UK) Edgar Weippl - Vienna University of Technology (AU) Jeannette Wing - Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Marvin Zelkowitz - University of Maryland (USA)

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LANC05
by Ramon Puigjaner 20 May '05

20 May '05

Dear friends, Can you broadcast the information concerning LANC05 through your distributions lists? Thank you in advance. Best regards Ramon ========================================================================= Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica 07122 PALMA (Spain) Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003 e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es =========================================================================

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DAIS2005 final call for participation
by Lea Kutvonen 19 May '05

19 May '05

Please excuse if you received that Call for Participation several times. ======================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION DAIS 2005 The 5th IFIP Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems To be held in conjunction with FMOODS 2005 Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems Athens, Greece June 15-17, 2005 http://www.di.uoa.gr/dais-fmoods-2005/ ======================================================================== Dear colleague, enclosed please find the Call for Participation for the 5th IFIP Conference DAIS 2005 held in Athens, the capitol of Greece, June 15th - 17th, 2005. DAIS 2005 is organized by the University of Athens. It is co-located with the IFIP Conference FMOODS 2005 (Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems). Lower-prise registration deadline is May 30, 2005. You can find more information on the conference programme, registration, and hotels at the DAIS web site http://www.di.uoa.gr/dais-fmoods-2005/ DAIS 2005 features are: * 3 Invited talks by Gordon Blair (Univ. of Lancaster), Rocco de Nicola (Univ. of Florenz), and Andreas Reuter (European Media Laboratory Heidelberg), * 2 and a half-day single track of peer-reviewed papers on context and location awareness, configuration and adaptability, interoperability issues, grid, performance evaluation, and methodological aspects, * Proceedings and free access to FMOODS 2005, * Social event in the Acropolis area. We are looking forward to meeting you at DAIS 2005, Nancy Alonistioti and Lea Kutvonen.

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Re: [ifip-tc6] Once more: TC6 calendar
by Otto Spaniol 17 May '05

17 May '05

Dear all, > >Meeting; TC-6 meeting 2005/2; TC-6; >October 29+30, 2005; Wroclaw (Poland) > >Is this still correct? > We had two options but since a number of delegates had considerable difficulties with the Friday option, it has been approved that the next meeting will be on Saturday, Oct. 29 + Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005 in Wroclav, Poland. The conference on E-Commerce will be held during Wednesday, 26 til Friday, 28 October in Poznan. Woclav can be reached by train from Poznan in 2 hours. Best regards Otto

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Call for Participation DAIS05 / Early registration deadline approaching
by Hartmut König 13 May '05

13 May '05

Please excuse if you received that Call for Participation several times. ======================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION DAIS 2005 The 5th IFIP Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems To be held in conjunction with FMOODS 2005 Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems Athens, Greece June 15-17, 2005 http://www.di.uoa.gr/dais-fmoods-2005/ ======================================================================== Dear colleague, enclosed please find the Call for Participation for the 5th IFIP Conference DAIS 2005 held in Athens, the capitol of Greece, June 15th - 17th, 2005. DAIS 2005 is organized by the University of Athens. It is co-located with the IFIP Conference FMOODS 2005 (Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems). Advanced registration deadline is May 16, 2005. You can find more information on the conference programme, registration, and hotels at the DAIS web site http://www.di.uoa.gr/dais-fmoods-2005/ DAIS 2005 features are: * 3 Invited talks by Gordon Blair (Univ. of Lancaster), Rocco de Nicola (Univ. of Florenz), and Andreas Reuter (European Media Laboratory Heidelberg), * 2 and a half-day single track of peer-reviewed papers on context and location awareness, configuration and adaptability, interoperability issues, grid, performance evaluation, and methodological aspects, * Proceedings and free access to FMOODS 2005, * Social event in the Acropolis area. We are looking forward to meeting you at DAIS 2005, Nancy Alonistioti and Lea Kutvonen. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Hartmut König Tel: +49 355 69 22 36 koenig(a)informatik.tu-cottbus.de Fax: +49 355 69 21 27 BTU Cottbus LS Rechnernetze und Kommunikationssysteme PF 10 13 44, D-03013 Cottbus, Germany http://www-rnks.informatik.tu-cottbus.de ________________________________________________________________________

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FW: [CAnet - news] Dutch academics declare research free-for-all
by Raouf Boutaba 12 May '05

12 May '05

FYI. --raouf ------------------------------------------- [Some excerpts from original article -- BSA] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/11/open_access_research/ Dutch academics declare research free-for-all Scientists from all major Dutch universities officially launched a website on Tuesday where all their research material can be accessed for free. Interested parties can get hold of a total of 47,000 digital documents from 16 institutions the Digital Academic Repositories. No other nation in the world offers such easy access to its complete academic research output in digital form, the researchers claim. Obviously, commercial publishers are not amused. DAREnet was already launched about a year ago, but for demonstration purposes only. The €2m DARE programme - a joint initiative by all the Dutch universities, the National Library of the Netherlands, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) - harvests all digital available material from local repositories, making it fully searchable. Aside from bibliographical information, the content can be full text, or even audio and video files. The initiative is clearly not welcomed by commercial scientific publishers such as Elsevier Science. Increasingly, universities complain about the high cost of scientific journals and many argue that the research results should be distributed freely or at significantly less cost to library subscribers.

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Access to Event Request Form
by Otto Spaniol 12 May '05

12 May '05

Dear all, to those of you who organise events (or want to help an organisor with the corresponding form): There is a trial to produce a new form which should be much clearer and much easier to use than the old one. A first sample of it which is based on my proposal made in Bangkok has been sent by Eduard Dundler from IFIP secretariat to Niko Schlamberger who is responsible for the renewal. Niko couldn't finalize it until now. Thus the old form is still valid. It is obtainable via: http://www.ifip.or.at/events/ifip_event_form.rtf or via: www.ifip.or.at >>> Events (left side) >>> Event Approval Guidelines >>> Event Form (including Statement of Understanding). If the delegates agree we might informally use the modified version for our purposes. Once again: No payment will be made by IFIP secretariat for events which have not submitted an ERF and which, therefore, are not in the IFIP database. There are 19 (!) such events for the moment being for TC6. We'll discuss them all in Toronto. Best regards Otto Best regards Otto

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RE: News from IFIP
by Raouf Boutaba 11 May '05

11 May '05

Dear Eduard: Please find below a 200 Words description of the NOMS conference to include in the "News from IFIP" June issue. Thanks Raouf Boutaba, Chair IFIP WG6.6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- The 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2006) will be held 3-7 April 2006 in the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Center, Vancouver, Canada. NOMS serves as the primary technical forum for the exchange of information on integrated systems and services among the research, standards, development, systems integration, service provider, and user communities with interests in communication networks, host systems, enterprise applications, service-oriented architectures, and delivery of management services. The scope of NOMS 2006 encompasses provisioning, operation, and maintenance for end-to-end communications and services as well as dependability, resilience, quality-of-service, mobility management, and services billing. The conference provides a peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, application sessions, tutorials, posters, and panels as well as vendor exhibits. Acceptance of technical papers is quite competitive, with an acceptance rate of 20% to 25%. For further information check the web site noted above or contact one of the TPC Co-chairs Joe Hellerstein, IBM, U.S.A. or Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland. The conference URL is http://www.noms2006.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Eduard Dundler [mailto:eduard.dundler@IFIP.or.at] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:11 AM To: ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: News from IFIP Dear IFIP members, We are sending out another News from IFIP in early June and we would be happy to have contributions of "news items" (up to 200 words) for inclusion by the end of May. Best regards Eduard Dundler

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