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Call for Papers: ELMAR-2005
by Mislav Grgic 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

47th International Symposium ELMAR-2005 focused on Multimedia Systems and Applications 08-10 June 2005 Zadar, Croatia http://www.vcl.fer.hr/elmar/2005/ Submission deadline: February 11, 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS The 47th International Symposium ELMAR-2005 focused on Multimedia Communications and Services will be held in the beautiful old town Zadar on the Croatian Adriatic coast. While the scientific program is expected to create stimulating professional interaction, the crystal clear Adriatic Sea, warm June atmosphere and wealth of historic monuments promise a pleasant and memorable stay. The aim of the symposium is to promote the interface of researchers involved in the development, design and application of methods and techniques within the framework of multimedia systems and technologies, multimedia applications, image and video processing, digital video broadcasting (DVB), navigation systems, marine electronics, etc. The scientific program includes keynote lectures by eminent international experts and contributed papers. Papers accepted by two independent reviewers will be published in symposium proceedings available at the symposium and abstracted in the INSPEC and IEEExplore database (IEEE Conference Publication Program). ELMAR-2005 symposium is sponsored by the Croatian Society Electronics in Marine (ELMAR), technically co-sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Region 8 and IEEE Croatia Section, and in coopearation with EURASIP (European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing). TOPICS MULTIMEDIA * Multimedia Systems and Technologies * Multimedia Applications * Image and Video Processing * Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) * Mobile Technologies and Services * Wireless Communications * Speech and Audio Processing * Face Recognition and Analysis * Electronic Media ELECTRONICS IN MARINE * Navigation Systems * Ship Electronic Systems * Power Electronics and Automation * Radiocommunications * Antennas and Propagation * Sound and Vibration * Remote Sensing / Monitoring * Meteorology * Sea Ecology SUBMISSION "Instructions for Authors" are available on: http://www.vcl.fer.hr/elmar/2005/ Authors are invited to submit their papers in electronic form by February 11, 2005. Please send the electronically version in PDF format by e-mail to: elmar(a)fer.hr PLENARY TALKS Prof. Fernando Pereira, PORTUGAL: MPEG-21 standard: defining an open multimedia framework Prof. Luis Torres, SPAIN: Face recognition: The problems, the challenges and the proposals SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission of full papers: February 11, 2005 Notification of acceptance mailed out by: March 11, 2005 Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers: March 25, 2005 Preliminary program available on the web-site by: April 01, 2005 Registration deadline: April 22, 2005 Mini-exhibition facilities will be available for companies wishing to display their products, services, hardware & software and literature relating to the symposium topics. The companies wishing to participate in the exhibition are kindly requested to contact Asst.Prof. Mislav Grgic by e-mail: elmar(a)fer.hr ORGANIZING SPONSOR Croatian Society Electronics in Marine - ELMAR TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS IEEE Signal Processing Society IEEE Region 8 IEEE Croatia Section IN COOPERATION WITH EURASIP GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Ive Mustac Tankerska plovidba, Zadar, Croatia Branka Zovko-Cihlar University of Zagreb, Croatia PROGRAM CHAIR Mislav Grgic University of Zagreb, Croatia INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Juraj Bartolic, Croatia David Broughton, United Kingdom Pavel Cukrov, Croatia Zarko Cucej, Slovenia Marek Domanski, Poland Kalman Fazekas, Hungary Janusz Filipiak, Poland Renato Filjar, Croatia Borko Furht, USA Joze Furlan, Slovenia Mislav Grgic, Croatia Sonja Grgic, Croatia B. Hofmann-Wellenhof, Austria Tomislav Kos, Croatia Andy Kucar, Canada Boris Kviz, Croatia Rastislav Lukac, Canada Gabor Matay, Hungary Borivoj Modlic, Croatia Pavol Podhradsky, Slovak Republic K. R. Rao, USA Marian S. Stachowicz, USA Christel Stakkestad, Sweden Rajko Svecko, Slovenia Csaba Szabo, Hungary Jan Turan, Slovakia Frantisek Vejrazka, Czech Republic Nick Ward, United Kingdom Krzysztof Wayda, Poland Branka Zovko-Cihlar, Croatia CONTACT INFORMATION Asst.Prof. Mislav Grgic ELMAR-2005 FER, Unska 3 / XII HR-10000 Zagreb CROATIA Telephone: + 385 1 6129 851 Fax: + 385 1 6129 717 E-mail: elmar(a)fer.hr Please visit ELMAR-2005 web-site: http://www.vcl.fer.hr/elmar/2005/

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IEEE Network: CFP Special Issue on Multimedia over Broadband Wireless Networks
by Marco Conti 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on: Multimedia over Broadband Wireless Networks http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/cfpnetwork2006.htm **** Submission Deadline --- June 10, 2005 **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today, the wireless Internet provides access primarily to Web-based content and services. However, the emergence and adoption of broadband wireless access standards, such as IEEE 802.16, 802.16a and 802.11a/g, offers new possibilities for wireless delivery of rich multimedia content and services, like video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing, interactive games, conversational navigation services, and future immersive communications in virtual environments. Advances in technology are enabling a world of converged wireless and mobile communications, where users access a variety of media formats using a single device. Some of these novel networking protocols and technologies include IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, UWB, Mobile IP and its variants, IP paging, wireless IP QoS and SIP. Similarly, newer multimedia standards such as H.264/MPEG-4 AVC provide significant improvements in compression, and specifications such as 3GPP Version 6 provide the ability to adapt the multimedia delivery for wireless networks with varying transmission characteristics and mobile devices with different capabilities. The goal of this special issue is to present a concise reference of state-of-the-art efforts in delivering multimedia over emerging packet-based broadband wireless networks. Specifically, the special issue is intended to present tutorials, survey and original research articles (in a tutorial manner readable by non-specialists) on emerging architectures, protocols and services for delivering multimedia over single-hop or mesh broadband wireless networks. It also focuses on the protocols needed to integrate the application layer requirements, such as QoS, security, etc., with the base functionality offered by the standardized 802.16/11 and other WLAN and WMAN interfaces. Of particular interest is the inter-play between newer techniques of multimedia encoding and streaming and the network-layer features to exploit these techniques. Following are the topics of interest for which we solicit contributions for this special issue: * IP-based multimedia delivery and services over WLANs and WMANs * QoS for real-time voice and video in broadband wireless networks * Media multicasting and broadcasting problems and solutions for wireless links * Caching and content management in WLANs, WMANs and 3G Networks * VoIP over wireless networks * Multimedia over single-hop and mesh-based wireless networks * Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks * Multimedia services for ambient intelligent and pervasive environments * Broadband multimedia prototypes and system experiences * Broadcast and point-to-point multimedia in indoor & outdoor environments, e.g. homes, convention centers, sports arenas Manuscript Submission ===================== Papers should be submitted in PDF format at http://colibri.iit.cnr.it. For any questions or clarification, please contact any of the guest editors. With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html Important Dates =============== * Submission Deadline: June 10, 2005 * Reviews Completed: September 30, 2005 * Final Manuscripts Due: November 30, 2005 * Publication of Special Issue: 1st Quarter, 2006 Guest Editors ============= John Apostolopoulos HP Labs 1501 Page Mill Road, MS 1181 Palo Alto, CA, 94306, USA japos(a)hpl.hp.com Marco Conti IIT-CNR Via G. Moruzzi,1 56124 Pisa Italy marco.conti(a)iit.cnr.it Archan Misra IBM Research 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10533, USA. archan(a)us.ibm.com

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IV Workshop in MPLS/GMPLS
by Ramon Puigjaner 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

========================================================================= 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 ========================================================================= (Apologies if you have received this more than once) Dear colleagues, Please find herewith enclosed the CFP for "IV Workshop in MPLS/GMPLS networks", to be held in Girona (Spain) 21-22 April 2005. We look forward to receiving your submission. Best Regards, ******************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Continuing the tradition of this series of workshop, the 4th Workshop MPLS/GMPLS will provide an international technical forum for experts to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in the areas listed below. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: - MPLS architecture - QoS routing and traffic engineering - Protection, Restoration and Reliability - Network survivability - MPLS/GMPLS Testbed - Inter-operability - IP/MPLS/ASON - Performance evaluation and models - MPLS and aggregate traffic scheduling - Generalized MPLS standards and protocols - QoS routing with multi-wavelength provisioning Authors are invited to submit complete papers for presentation and publication in the workshop proceeding. Papers submissions will undergo a stringent review process implemented by the Technical Program Committee. Detailed submission instructions will be available on the workshop Web site: http://bcds.udg.es/gmpls/ws4/ IMPORTANT DATES: Full paper: February 20th, 2005 Notification: March 18th, 2005 Camera Ready: April 10th, 2005 NOTES: All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the authors. All accepted papers will be published in the respective workshop proceedings. Authors need to make sure that for each accepted paper at least one author will attend the workshop. There is no registration fee. Please feel free to forward this information to all interested parties and let us know if we can be of further assistance. Thank you very much. For further information, please contact the local Program Chair (Teo Jové, teodor.jove(a)udg.es), the General Chair (Jose L. Marzo, joseluis.marzo(a)udg.es) or consult the workshop webpage http://bcds.udg.es/gmpls/ws4/

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MobiCom 2005 Call for Workshop Proposals
by Wendi Heinzelman 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

******************************************************************* Call for Workshops 11th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2005) August 28 - September 2, 2005 Cologne, Germany http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2005/ ******************************************************************* The ACM Mobicom 2005 conference will host a day of workshops on technical areas related to mobile and wireless networking. SIGMOBILE invites workshop proposals from interested communities. New workshops in emerging areas that can engage participants in greater interaction are welcome. General information: The purpose of the workshop proposal is to describe the research topics covered by the workshop and how the workshop will be organized. ACM Mobicom will provide basic support for the workshop in the form of registration, publicity, a meeting room, and help in arranging meal service for the workshop at the ACM Mobicom conference. To encourage flexibility, the details of the format of the workshop, the form of submissions and presentations, and the likes is left to the workshop organizers. Because workshops are meant to foster discussions on emerging topics of interest among the broader SIGMOBILE community, workshops are encouraged to be inclusive rather than exclusive in their solicitation of material. In addition, targeting more interactive forums such as presentations of short papers rather than traditional presentations of full-length papers can be more conducive to successful workshops. Detailed guidelines: Proposals for workshops should be sent to the ACM Mobicom workshop co-chairs Suman Banerjee (suman(a)cs.wisc.edu) or Martina Zitterbart (zit(a)tm.uka.de) by January 31, 2005, 5pm EST and should contain: * A description of the workshop's technical area, its scope, its history (if any), and why it is important in mobile and wireless networking. * A description of the workshop program (e.g., paper presentations, poster presentations, panel sessions) and expected attendance. The workshop program should fill one day and SIGMOBILE encourages programs that require only one meeting room (for simplified logistics). You should indicate if you have any other requirements, e.g., hall for poster presentations. * The names of key workshop volunteers, e.g., the workshop chair, program chair and possible program committee members. * A draft call for papers or participation. * A completed preliminary TMRF which is available from ACM at: http://www.acm.org/sig_volunteer_info/conference_manual/prelimpage.htm. * Opportunities for sponsorship from corporate donors. ---------------------------------------------------------- Wendi B. Heinzelman Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Rochester P.O. Box 270126, Hopeman Building, Room 307 Rochester, NY 14627-0126 Phone: 585-275-4053 Fax: 585-273-4919 http://www.ece.rochester.edu/~wheinzel ----------------------------------------------------------

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DCOSS '05 Paper Submission Deadline Extended to January 17, 2005
by Wendi Heinzelman 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

*************************************************************************** **** **** Paper submission deadline extended to January 17, 2005 **** *************************************************************************** ========================================= IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems June 30 - July 1, 2005 Marina del Rey, California, USA ========================================= WWW.DCOSS.ORG The 2005 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '05) will take place in Marina del Rey during June 30 - July 1, 2005. DCOSS is motivated by the successful ALGOSENSORS '04 (Algorithmic aspects of wireless sensor networks) workshop, which was colocated with ICALP and LICS in Finland on 16 July, 2004. While the scope of ALGOSENSORS was focused on algorithms for wireless sensor networks, DCOSS '05 is intended to cover several aspects of distributed computing in sensor systems such as high level abstractions, computational models, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, analysis and applications. The conference will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their contributions related to the above high-level aspects of distributed sensor systems. In addition to contributed papers, the meeting will also include keynote addresses by leading researchers, a panel discussion, and a poster/presentation session. Located in Marina del Rey, a beach side community that is the home of the world's largest man-made harbor, the meeting venue can be easily reached from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Most of the world famous attractions of the greater Los Angeles area - including the Santa Monica mountains, the Getty Center, Hollywood, Venice Beach, Disneyland, and Universal Studios can be easily reached from the Marina. SPONSORED BY IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) Held in co-operation with ACM SIGARCH ACM SIGBED European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) IFIP WG 10.3 MEETING INFORMATION The advance program will be available in April 2005. Check http://www.dcoss.org/ for updated information. IMPORTANT DATES January 10, 2005 (extended to January 17, 2005-- HARD deadline) Conference Submission Due March 15, 2005 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection April 15, 2005 Camera-Ready Paper Due ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ============================== CALL FOR PAPERS Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities. Such systems allow intelligent dense monitoring of physical environments, which makes them immensely useful for data collection and analysis. While much ongoing research has addressed networking, communication and low-level self-configuration issues in such systems, there are also significant challenges pertaining to systematic design, algorithm development and analysis, and abstract modeling in order to achieve efficient and robust realizations of large-scale distributed sensor systems. The large number of sensor devices involved, severe power, computational and memory limitations, resource heterogeneity, dense deployment and frequent failures pose novel challenges to design, algorithms, analysis and implementation. The focus of the conference is on distributed computing issues in large-scale networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications, and systematic design techniques and tools), but networking-related contributions that support high level abstractions are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Computation and programming models - Energy models, minimization, awareness - Distributed algorithms for collaborative information processing - Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability, fault-tolerance - Abstractions for modular design - Languages, operating systems - Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration - Dynamic resource management - Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) - Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives - Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation - Design automation and application synthesis techniques - Case studies: lessons from real world deployments Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 14 single-spaced pages using 12-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures and tables. References may be included in addition to the 14 pages. Authors need to make sure that the electronically submitted files are formatted for 8.5x11 inch paper. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference or a journal. Submission procedures are available via Web access at http://www.dcoss.org/ All manuscripts will be reviewed. Manuscripts must be received by January 17, 2005, by 5 p.m. U.S. Pacific Coast Time. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by March 15, 2005. Camera-ready papers will be due April 15, 2005. DCOSS '05 Proceedings will be distributed at the Conference. PROGRAM CHAIR Viktor K. Prasanna University of Southern California USA PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS Algorithms: Paul Spirakis, CTI and University of Patras, Greece Applications: Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA Systems: Matt Welsh, Harvard University, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Virginia, USA Micah Adler, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, USA Prathima Agrawal, Auburn University, USA James Aspnes, Yale University, USA N. Balakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, India Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Richard Brooks, Clemson University, USA John Byers, Boston University, USA Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University, USA David Culler, University of California, Berkeley, USA Kevin A. Delin, NASA/JPL, USA Josep Diaz, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Jeremy Elson, Microsoft Research, USA Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Deepak Ganesan, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, USA Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA Ashish Goel, Stanford University, USA Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA Jennifer Hou, University of Illionois, Urbana Champaign, USA R. Kannan, Louisiana State University, USA Elias Koutsoupias, University of Athens, Greece Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University, USA Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA Badri Nath, Rutgers University, USA Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA David Peleg, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel S. Phoha, Pennsylvania State University, USA Cristina Pinotti, University of Trento, Italy Kris Pister, University of California, Berkeley, and Dust, Inc., USA S. V. N. Rao, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA Satish Rao, University of California, Berkeley, USA Jim Reich, Palo Alto Research Center, USA Shivakumar Sastry, University of Akron, USA Christian Scheideler, Johns Hopkins University, USA John A. Stankovic, University of Virginia, USA Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham, National Science Foundation, USA Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Jay Warrior, Agilent Labs, USA Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research, USA POSTER/PRESENTATION SESSION The conference will also include a special plenary session with select presentations and posters from industry and academia. The focus of this session will be on practical applications of sensor systems and experience with real deployments. This will include a short overview talk, followed by audience interactions with the speakers in a "walk-up-and-talk" setting. Participation in this session is primarily by invitation, but interested parties are encouraged to contact the poster/presentation chair. ================================= DCOSS '05 ORGANIZATION ================================= GENERAL CHAIR Jose Rolim University of Geneva Switzerland VICE GENERAL CHAIR Sotiris Nikoletseas University of Patras and CTI Greece PROGRAM CHAIR Viktor K. Prasanna University of Southern California USA POSTER/PRESENTATION CHAIR Bhaskar Krishnamachari University of Southern California USA PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Pierre Leone EIG Switzerland STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS CHAIR Loren Schwiebert Wayne State University USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Wendi Heinzelman University of Rochester USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Erdal Cayirci Yeditepe University and Istanbul Technical University Turkey Sanjay Jha Univeristy of New South Wales Australia FINANCE CHAIR Germaine Gusthiot University of Geneva Switzerland STEERING COMMITTEE Josep Diaz, UPC Barcelona, Spain Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley, USA Kris Pister, University of California, Berkeley, and Dust, Inc., USA Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland (CHAIR) ---------------------------------------------------------- Wendi B. Heinzelman Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Rochester P.O. Box 270126, Hopeman Building, Room 307 Rochester, NY 14627-0126 Phone: 585-275-4053 Fax: 585-273-4919 http://www.ece.rochester.edu/~wheinzel ----------------------------------------------------------

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Final CFP: WEA 2004
by Ioannis Chatzigiannakis 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

[Apologies for multiple copies] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS WEA 2005 4th International Workshop on Efficient and Experimental Algorithms Santorini Island, Greece May 10 to 13, 2005 http://ru1.cti.gr/wea05/ The WEA Workshops are intended to be an international forum for researchers in the area of design, analysis, and experimental evaluation and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of computational optimization and its applications. The three preceding Workshops in this series were held in Riga (2001), Monte Verita (2003, http://www.idsia.ch/wea2003/) and Rio de Janeiro (2004, http://wea2004.inf.puc-rio.br/). The WEA 2005 Workshop is sponsored by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the EU IST/FET R&D Projects FLAGS ("Foundational Aspects of Global Computing Systems") and DELIS ("Dynamically Evolving Large-scale Information Systems") and the Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (RACTI). TOPICS Original research contributions are solicited covering a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Algorithm Engineering - Algorithmic Mechanism Design - Analysis of Algorithms - Approximation Techniques - Branch and Bound Algorithms - Combinatorial Structures and Graphs - Combinatorial and Irregular Problems - Communication Networks - Computational Learning Theory - Computational Optimization - Computer Systems - Cryptography and Security - Data Structures - Distributed Algorithms - Evaluation of Algorithms for Realistic Environments - Graph Drawing - Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization - Implementation, Testing, Evaluation and Fine-tuning of Algorithms - Information Retrieval - Integer Programming - Logistics and Operations Management - Machine Learning and Data Mining - Mathematical Programming - Metaheuristic Methodologies - Network Analysis - Novel Applications of Algorithms in Other Disciplines - On-line Problems - Parallel Algorithms and Computing - Railway Optimization using Algorithmic Methods - Randomized Techniques - Robotics - Semidefinite Programming - Simulation - Software Repositories and Platforms for using Algorithms - Telecommunications and Networking - World Wide Web Algorithms GENERAL and PC CHAIR Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Edoardo Amaldi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Evripidis Bampis, University d'Evry, France - David A. Bader, University of New Mexico, USA - Cynthia Barnhart, MIT, USA - Azzedine Boukerche, SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada - Gerth Brodal, University of Aarhus, Denmark - Rainer Burkard, Graz University of Technology, Austria - Giuseppe Di Battista, Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy - Rudolf Fleischer, Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R.C. - Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud, France - Mark Goldberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA - Juraj Hromkovic, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Giuseppe Italiano, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy - Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece - Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Ludek Kucera, Charles University, Czech Republic - Shay Kutten, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel - Catherine McGeoch, Amherst College, USA - Simone Martins, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil - Bernard Moret, University of New Mexico, USA - Ian Munro, University of Waterloo, Canada - Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece (Chair) - Andrea Pietracaprina, University of Padova, Italy - Tomasz Radzik, King's College London, UK - Rajeev Raman, University of Leicester, UK - Mauricio Resende, AT&T Labs Research, USA - Maria Serna, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain - Paul Spirakis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece - Eric Taillard, EIVD, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland - Dorothea Wagner, University Karlsruhe, Germany - Stefan Voss, University of Hamburg, Germany - Christos Zaroliagis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece INVITED SPEAKERS: - Christos Papadimitriou, University of California at Berkeley, USA - Celso Ribeiro, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil - David A. Bader, University of New Mexico, USA STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRS - Klaus Jansen, University of Kiel, Germany - Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland PROCEEDINGS AND JEA SPECIAL ISSUE The Proceedings of WEA 2005 will be published in the Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), by Springer Verlag. Selected papers from WEA 2005 will be considered for a Special Issue of the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA, http://www.jea.acm.org/). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the Workshop. Simultaneous submission to conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Papers should not exceed twelve (12) SINGLE-spaced pages of text, using at least 11 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, including references, figures, tables, etc. It is highly recommended to use the Springer LNCS LATEX style format (www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Additional material may be added at a clearly marked Appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee Members. Authors must submit their papers electronically via EDAS (http://edas.info/) All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the authors. Authors need to make sure that for each accepted paper at least one author will attend the Workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: - Submission Deadline: January 17, 2005, 11pm GMT - Author Notification: February 28, 2005 - Final Manuscript Due: March 14, 2005 LOCAL AND HOTEL INFORMATION Useful hotel and local information can be found at the following site: http://wea2005.conferences.gr ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: - Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, CTI, Greece (Co-Chair) - Rozina Efstathiadou, CTI, Greece, (Co-chair) - Athanassios Kinalis, CTI and U. of Patras, Greece, Webmaster - Lena Gourdoupi, CTI, Greece, Registration and Hotel - TBA, Proceedings and Systems

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Fwd: IFIP I3E'2005 Call-For-Papers
by Volker Tschammer 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

>Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:09:22 +0100 (CET) >From: i3e2005(a)kti.ae.poznan.pl >Reply-To: i3e2005(a)kti.ae.poznan.pl >To: tschammer(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de >Subject: IFIP I3E'2005 Call-For-Papers >X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at kti.ae.poznan.pl > > > >We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > CALL FOR PAPERS: I3E'2005 > > IFIP International Conference on eBusiness, eCommerce and eGovernment > October 26-28, 2005 > Poznan POLAND > http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/i3e > >IMPORTANT DEADLINES: > > Papers due: April 30, 2005 > Acceptance: June 30, 2005 > Final papers due: July 31, 2005 > Panel Proposals: June 30, 2005 > >THEME: eBusiness, eCommerce and eGovernment > >The I3E 2005 conference is the fifth IFIP conference on e-Commerce, >e-Business, and e-Government sponsored by the three committees TC6, TC8, >and TC11. It provides a forum for users, engineers, and scientists in >academia, industry, and government to present their latest findings in >e-commerce, e-business, or e-government applications and the underlying >technology to support those applications. The conference will be organized >in three parallel tracks: research track, industrial and administration >track, and European projects track. Areas of particular interest include, >but are not limited to: > >eCOMMERCE >- Digital goods and products >- e-Negotiations, auctioning and contracting >- B2B, B2C, and C2C models >- Agent-mediated e-Commerce >- e-Marketplaces, e-Hubs, and portals >- Pervasive technologies for eCommerce >- Dynamic pricing models >- P2P-computing for e-Commerce >- e-Payment systems >- e-Commerce content management >- Consumer protection in eCommerce >- User behavior modeling > >eBUSINESS >- Innovative business models >- Enterprise application integration >- Business process re-engineering >- Virtual enterprises and virtual markets >- Supply, demand, and value chains >- Virtual organizations and coalitions >- Customer relationship management >- e-Collaboration and e-Services >- Inter-organizational systems >- Future work environments for eBusiness >- Business process integration >- e-Work >- Inter-workflow >- Mobile business > >eGOVERNMENT >- G2G, G2B, and G2C models >- Mobile public services >- Digital cities and regions >- Multimedia and multilinguism >- e-Democracy and e-Governance >- Digital culture >- e-Inclusion to information society >- Trust and security >- e-Health and e-Education >- Legal societal and cultural issues >- Public e-Services for citizens and enterprises >- Public-private partnerships >- One-stop government - service integration >- International dimension of e-Gov. > >PAPER SUBMISSION: > >For the research track, submissions should describe original, research >work not submitted or published elsewhere. For industrial track, >submissions should describe innovative products or good practices in the >areas of conference interests. For European projects track, submissions >should describe Networks of Excellences, clusters of projects, and >projects themselves, in particular, their aims, goals and achievements. >Paper submission and review will be done electronically. Information for >prospective authors, including paper format and instructions will be >available at the conference web page. > >PANELS: > >Panel proposals related to I3E'2005 theme are solicited. Panel proposals >should be submitted directly to the General Chair (cellary(a)kti.ae.poznan.pl). > >PUBLICATIONS: > >The proceedings of the conference will be published either by Springer in >Lecture Notes of Computer Science or Kluwer, the official publishers of >IFIP. The papers should be no longer than 15 pages. Identify the author >responsible for correspondence, including the authors name, mailing >address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. One of the authors >of each paper must register and present the paper at the conference. > > >ORGANIZING COMMITTEES: > >General Chair: > Wojciech Cellary, Poznan U. of Economics, Poland > >Program Co-Chairs > Motohisa Funabashi, Hitachi Ltd.,Japan > Adam Grzech, Technical U. of Wroclaw, Poland > >Liaison Chairs: > Europe: R. Suomi, TuKKK, Finland > North America: J. Urban, Arizona State U., USA > South America: M. J. Mendes, Unicamp, Brazil > Asia-Pacific: Y. Zhang, Victoria U., Australia > >Local Arrangements Chair > J. Rykowski, Poznan U. of Economics, Poland > >Program Committee > will be available at the conference website > >Steering Committee > S. Elliot, Australia > A. Groenlund, Sweden > D. Khakhar, Sweden > K. Rannenberg, Germany > S. Teufel, Switzerland > V. Tschammer, Germany

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Call for Papers: IEEE JSAC MRNM
by Fan Zhao 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

PLEASE ACCEPT OUR APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications MOBILE ROUTERS AND NETWORK MOBILITY http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/mobile_routers.html Network mobility support is concerned with managing the mobility of an entire network that is changing its point of attachment to the Internet and thus its reachability in the Internet topology. If network mobility is not explicitly supported by some mechanisms, existing sessions break and connectivity to the global Internet is lost. A mobile network is composed of Mobile Router(s) (MR) and Mobile Network Nodes (MNN) that can be fixed or mobile. There has been rapid development in network mobility support, i.e., providing Internet connectivity to the networks that move using mobile routers since the inception of Mobile IPv4 in 1996. Seamless Internet access in public transportation such as in trains and busses can be possible if mobile routers are used. Cars with low-power sensors seamlessly connected to the Internet constitute yet another example of networks which move. To date, some airline companies announced Internet connectivity support during commercial flights and this trend is expected to accelerate and cover most if not all flights. This issue is focused on modeling, analysis, and simulation of network mobility support protocols. We solicit papers presenting original and unpublished work including, but not limited to the following topics: * Modeling and Analysis of Network Mobility o Modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile router o Protocols for route optimization o Mobility issues inside a mobile network o Mobile IPv6 extensions for route optimization o Nested mobile networks o Multihomed mobile networks o Operational issues to deploy mobile networks o Auto-configuration for mobile networks o Mobile router support on cellular phone platforms * Services in the Networks that Move o Service advertisement and discovery protocols in networks that move o Specifications nad models of services for network mobility o Encryption and authentication in service access for network mobility * Security Issues in Network Mobility o Security analysis of present network mobility support protocols o Applications of AAA and EAP to network mobility o Interaction with security-enhanced modules in other layers (vertically) or other middle boxes (horizontally) Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors. Authors MUST submit their draft manuscripts through the EDAS peer review website, together with a short abstract (approximately 150 words) in the EDAS website form. Please note potential authors should create their own accounts through the EDAS peer review website before submitting manuscript(s). EDAS will accept manuscripts in PDF format only. There will be one round of reviewers and acceptance will be limited to those papers requiring only moderate revisions. The following timetable applies: Manuscript Submission: JUNE 1, 2005 Acceptance Notification: December 1, 2005 Final Manuscript Due: March 1, 2006 Publication: 3rd Quarter 2006 Guest Editorial Board: Behcet Sarikaya Computer Science Dept Univ of Northern British Columbia Prince George, BC Canada V2N 4Z9 sarikaya(a)unbc.ca S. Felix Wu Dept of Computer Science Univ of California at Davis Davis, CA 95616 USA wu(a)cs.ucdavis.edu Gopal Dommety Cisco Systems, Inc 170 West Tasman Dr San Jose, CA 95134-1706 USA gdommety(a)cisco.com Claude Castelluccia INRIA Rhône-Alpes ZIRST 655 Ave de l'Europe Montbonnot 38334 Saint Ismier cedex France claude.castelluccia(a)inria.fr Thierry Ernst Jun Murai Lab Keio Univ K-square Town Campus 1488-8 Ogura, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 212-0054 Japan ernst(a)sfc.wide.ad.jp Charles E. Perkins Communication Systems Lab Nokia Research Center 313 Fairchild Dr Mountain View, CA 94943 USA charliep(a)iprg.nokia.com

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Call for Papers-- IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
by Wendi Heinzelman 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ========================================= IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems June 30 - July 1, 2005 Marina del Rey, California, USA ========================================= ********** Paper submission deadline: January 10, 2005 ********** WWW.DCOSS.ORG The 2005 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '05) will take place in Marina del Rey during June 30 - July 1, 2005. DCOSS is motivated by the successful ALGOSENSORS '04 (Algorithmic aspects of wireless sensor networks) workshop, which was co-located with ICALP and LICS in Finland on 16 July, 2004. While the scope of ALGOSENSORS was focused on algorithms for wireless sensor networks, DCOSS '05 is intended to cover several aspects of distributed computing in sensor systems such as high level abstractions, computational models, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, analysis and applications. The conference will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their contributions related to the above high-level aspects of distributed sensor systems. In addition to contributed papers, the meeting will also include keynote addresses by leading researchers, a panel discussion, and a poster/presentation session. Located in Marina del Rey, a beach side community that is the home of the world's largest man-made harbor, the meeting venue can be easily reached from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Most of the world famous attractions of the greater Los Angeles area - including the Santa Monica mountains, the Getty Center, Hollywood, Venice Beach, Disneyland, and Universal Studios can be easily reached from the Marina. SPONSORED BY IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) Held in co-operation with ACM SIGARCH ACM SIGBED European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) IFIP WG 10.3 MEETING INFORMATION The advance program will be available in April 2005. Check http://www.dcoss.org/ for updated information. IMPORTANT DATES January 10, 2005 Conference Submission Due March 15, 2005 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection April 15, 2005 Camera-Ready Paper Due ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ============================== CALL FOR PAPERS Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities. Such systems allow intelligent dense monitoring of physical environments, which makes them immensely useful for data collection and analysis. While much ongoing research has addressed networking, communication and low-level self-configuration issues in such systems, there are also significant challenges pertaining to systematic design, algorithm development and analysis, and abstract modeling in order to achieve efficient and robust realizations of large-scale distributed sensor systems. The large number of sensor devices involved, severe power, computational and memory limitations, resource heterogeneity, dense deployment and frequent failures pose novel challenges to design, algorithms, analysis and implementation. The focus of the conference is on distributed computing issues in large-scale networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications, and systematic design techniques and tools), but networking-related contributions that support high level abstractions are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Computation and programming models - Energy models, minimization, awareness - Distributed algorithms for collaborative information processing - Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability, fault-tolerance - Abstractions for modular design - Languages, operating systems - Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration - Dynamic resource management - Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) - Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives - Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation - Design automation and application synthesis techniques - Case studies: lessons from real world deployments Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 14 single-spaced pages using 12-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures and tables. References may be included in addition to the 14 pages. Authors need to make sure that the electronically submitted files are formatted for 8.5x11 inch paper. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference or a journal. Submission procedures are available via Web access at http://www.dcoss.org/ All manuscripts will be reviewed. Manuscripts must be received by January 10, 2005, by 5 p.m. U.S. Pacific Coast Time. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by March 15, 2005. Camera-ready papers will be due April 15, 2005. DCOSS '05 Proceedings will be distributed at the Conference. PROGRAM CHAIR Viktor K. Prasanna University of Southern California USA PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS Algorithms: Paul Spirakis, CTI and University of Patras, Greece Applications: Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA Systems: Matt Welsh, Harvard University, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Virginia, USA Micah Adler, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Prathima Agrawal, Auburn University, USA James Aspnes, Yale University, USA N. Balakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, India Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Richard Brooks, Clemson University, USA John Byers, Boston University, USA Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University, USA David Culler, University of California, Berkeley, USA Kevin A. Delin, NASA/JPL, USA Josep Diaz, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Jeremy Elson, Microsoft Research, USA Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Deepak Ganesan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA Ashish Goel, Stanford University, USA Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA Jennifer Hou, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA R. Kannan, Louisiana State University, USA Elias Koutsoupias, University of Athens, Greece Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University, USA Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA Badri Nath, Rutgers University, USA Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA David Peleg, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel S. Phoha, Pennsylvania State University, USA Cristina Pinotti, University of Trento, Italy Kris Pister, University of California, Berkeley, and Dust, Inc., USA S. V. N. Rao, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA Satish Rao, University of California, Berkeley, USA Jim Reich, Palo Alto Research Center, USA Shivakumar Sastry, University of Akron, USA Christian Scheideler, Johns Hopkins University, USA John A. Stankovic, University of Virginia, USA Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham, National Science Foundation, USA Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Jay Warrior, Agilent Labs, USA Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research, USA POSTER/PRESENTATION SESSION The conference will also include a special plenary session with select presentations and posters from industry and academia. The focus of this session will be on practical applications of sensor systems and experience with real deployments. This will include a short overview talk, followed by audience interactions with the speakers in a "walk-up-and-talk" setting. Participation in this session is primarily by invitation, but interested parties are encouraged to contact the poster/presentation chair. ================================= DCOSS '05 ORGANIZATION ================================= GENERAL CHAIR Jose Rolim University of Geneva Switzerland VICE GENERAL CHAIR Sotiris Nikoletseas University of Patras and CTI Greece PROGRAM CHAIR Viktor K. Prasanna University of Southern California USA POSTER/PRESENTATION CHAIR Bhaskar Krishnamachari University of Southern California USA PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Pierre Leone EIG Switzerland STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS CHAIR Loren Schwiebert Wayne State University USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Wendi Heinzelman University of Rochester USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Erdal Cayirci Yeditepe University and Istanbul Technical University Turkey Sanjay Jha University of New South Wales Australia FINANCE CHAIR Germaine Gusthiot University of Geneva Switzerland STEERING COMMITTEE Josep Diaz, UPC Barcelona, Spain Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley, USA Kris Pister, University of California, Berkeley, and Dust, Inc., USA Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland (CHAIR) ---------------------------------------------------------- Wendi B. Heinzelman Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Rochester P.O. Box 270126, Hopeman Building, Room 307 Rochester, NY 14627-0126 Phone: 585-275-4053 Fax: 585-273-4919 http://www.ece.rochester.edu/~wheinzel ----------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Paper IWQoS 2005
by IWQoS 2005 Organisation Committee 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Dear Madam, Dear Sir, We are pleased to inform you that the Thirteenth International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2005) will be held in the University of Pasau, Germany, on June 21-23, 2005 Call for papers IWQoS has emerged as the prime annual event on Quality-of-Service (QoS)-related research and technologies. Building on the successes of previous workshops, the objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in this area to discuss recent and innovative results, and identify future directions and challenges. IWQoS has a long standing tradition of being highly interactive while maintaining highest standards of competitiveness and excellence. This characteristic will be re-emphasized by intercepting the regular paper sessions with stimulating discussion events about controversial and cutting edge topics. The program will include the following highlights: Key Note by Industrial Speaker A Panel on "Self-Organization and QoS" by David Hutchison, Lancaster Univ, U.K. A Position Paper Session on "The Impact of QoS: Where Industry meets Academia" by Francois Le Faucheur, Cicso Systems France and Georgios Karagiannis, Twente Univ., The Netherlands. A Works in Progress Session focusing on emerging research Key Note and Invited Paper by Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, U.S.A. <http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/lehrstuehle/demeer/iwqos/cfexhib.html>Industrial Exhibition and Demonstration of Tools and Methods related to Quality of Communication by Jan de Meer, Institute for High-performance Microelectronics GmbH, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany The panel and the short paper sessions will be highly interactive and leave much time and space for the audience to get involved. The position and short papers will go through the general reviewing process but the papers must specifically be submitted to fit the track. Short versions of regular technical papers will not be accepted here. It is rather encouraged to submit work that is either stimulating with a long term vision or that points to immediate relevance with need for controversial debate to address the foremost experts at the venue. Technical Program Quality of Service principles can be applied to a large number of domains. Our goal is to broaden the areas that QoS research can be pulled from by recognizing the multi-disciplinary aspect to much of the research. In addition to the traditional areas, the call for papers does solicit, but is not limited to, papers in such areas as: QoS in mobile/wireless environments, Sensor networks, 4G (IP for 3G) QoS in overlays and peer-to-peer networks QoS in GRID environments SLA: end-to-end QoS, QoS in large scale, heterogeneous environments QoS-aware software components: QoS for Web Services QoS and self-organizing systems New frontiers of QoS QoS measurement versus control QoS adaptation versus resource reservation Hidden QoS issues, have we just learned to ignore QoS problems? QoS in context aware systems (also related to mobility) User perception/user interfaces for QoS QoS and distributed systems QoS and middleware Fault tolerance and QoS QoS in ad hoc networks Economics and QoS Security, trust and QoS QoS in the home and everywhere QoS and new media QoS and haptics , virtual environments QoS in buisiness processes, workflows IWQoS aims to allow rapid dissemination of research results and to provide fast turnaround. The deadline for papers is therefore as close to the conference as the publishers allow. The workshop is a single-track forum spanning two and a half days. It values both theoretical contributions and practical experience. Web Site: <http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/iwqos>http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/iwqos Best Student Paper Award Award will be given at the conference to the best student paper, whose first author is a current student. Paper Submission IWQoS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results, and that have not been previously published or currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. Submissions should be full-length papers that are no longer than 20 double-spaced single-column pages with font sizes of 11 or larger, including all figures and references, and must include an abstract of 100 -- 150 words. All papers must be submitted in either Postscript or the Adobe PDF format, and no other formats are accepted by the paper submission web site. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must present the paper at IWQoS 2004. The paper submission can be done <http://www.net.fmi.uni-passau.de/crp>here. Short Position Papers for Industry Session and Works in Progress We solicit submissions of short papers for the two sessions outlined above. The short papers are limited to three single-spaced pages. Accepted papers will be presented in a 15-minute time period, and will be included in the conference proceedings. Important Dates: Paper abstract deadline: February 16th , 2005, 11:59pm CET Full paper submission deadline: February 22th , 2005, 11:59pm CET Short paper submission deadline: March 7th, 2005, 11:59pm CET Notification of acceptance: March 24th , 2005 Camera-ready papers due: April 8, 2005 Hotel reservation cut-off date: May 19th , 2005 Early registration deadline: April 8th, 2005 Workshop dates: June 21-23 , 2005 Workshop reception and welcome party: June 20th, 2005 Organizational Objectives Among strong industrial and academic support the 13th IWQoS is supported by the three organizing institutions: University of Passau, Germany HP Laboratories Palo Alto, California USA IHP Institute on Microelectronics GmbH, Brandenburg Germany The University of Passau will host the all conference activities; it provides excellent conference support for up to 1,000 participants. Features of university support include: Support desk in the conference area with professional team to handle technical and logistical issues. Lecture room with 180 seats, video projector, internet access WLAN connection Reserved lunch area on the Inn river banks Exhibition space Program Chairs: Hermann De Meer University of Passau Passau, Germany mail: <mailto:demeer@fmi.uni-passau.de>demeer(a)fmi.uni-passau.de Nina Bhatti Hewlett Packard Laboratories Palo Alto, California USA email: <mailto:nina.bhatti@hp.com>nina.bhatti(a)hp.com

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