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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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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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
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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)
Dear friends,
Can you broadcast the information concerning LANC05 through your
distributions lists?
Thank you in advance.
Best regards
Ramon
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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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Please excuse if you received that Call for Participation several times.
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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/
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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.
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
Please excuse if you received that Call for Participation several times.
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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/
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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.
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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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FYI.
--raouf
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[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.
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
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
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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.
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-----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