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[Researchers] Globecom 2007 Ad Hoc and Sensor Netw. Symposium
by Profa Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

IEEE Globecom 2007 Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium - CALL FOR PAPERS 26-30 November 2007 Washington, DC, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Date: March 15th, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-Chairs Prof. Azzedine Boukerche, Email: boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca Prof. Hussein Mouftah, Email: mouftah(a)site.uottawa.ca Prof. Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Email: hshwchen(a)ieee.org Scope Multi-hop wireless Ad Hoc and sensor networks are self-organizing systems formed by co-operating nodes within communication range of each other that form temporary networks. Ad hoc wireless networks allow anywhere, anytime network connectivity with complete lack of control, ownership, and regulatory influence. The last few years have witnessed a wealth of research ideas on ad hoc and sensor networks that are moving rapidly into commercialization and standardization. Such networks can be randomly and rapidly deployed and reconfigured and easily tailored to specific applications including entertainment, civilian, military, etc. Moreover, an ad hoc architecture is highly robust to node failure and can provide a high-level of fault tolerance due to nodal redundancy and its distributed nature. Furthermore, energy efficiency can be achieved through multi-hop routing communication. Bandwidth reuse can also benefit from dividing the single long range hop to multiple short hops with each hop having a shorter range. Several challenges face are standing in the way to achieving ubiquitous deployment of ad hoc and sensor networks. These include variable topology, device heterogeneity, limited power supply and the lack of effective energy-efficient design, lack of QoS and application support, etc. This symposium aims at providing a forum for sharing ideas among researchers and practitioners working on state-of-the-art solutions to the challenges above. We are seeking papers that describe original and unpublished contributions addressing various aspects of ad hoc and sensor networks. You are invited to submit original technical papers covering but not limited to the following topics. Please visit the mail IEEE Globecom 2007 Webpage for submission details and on-line submissions at http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2007/. Topics of Interest . Algorithms and modeling for mobile user localization and target tracking . Analytical, mobility and validation models for ad hoc networks . Applications and evolutions of Ad hoc and sensor networks . Architectures of wireless communication and mobile computing . Co-existence issues of hybrid networks . Cross-layer design and interactions . Cryptography and security issues in ad hoc and sensor networks . Data management, data aggregation, data dissemination, and query processing . Distributed algorithms for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks . Frequency and channel allocation algorithms . IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth based medium access control . MAC protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks . Mobile service and QoS management . Performance evaluation and modeling of mobile and ad hoc networks . Pervasive and wearable computing . Physical layer design of ad hoc networks . Power control protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks . Pricing modeling and solutions . QoS provisioning in medium access control and routing . Resource management algorithms in mobile, wireless and ad-hoc networks . RF channel capacity modeling and analysis . Service discovery in Ad hoc networks . Simulation and measurement based evaluation of ad hoc and sensor . Survivability and reliability evaluation and modeling . Synchronization and scheduling in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks systems . Topology control and management . Ubiquitous, pervasive and mobile access . Wireless ad hoc and sensor devices . Wireless PANs, LANs based Ad hoc networks Technical Program Committee, whose complete list can be found at Homepage: http://paradise.site.uottawa.ca/~Globecom07-SensorNet -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. _______________________________________________ Researchers mailing list Researchers(a)mailman.ufsc.br http://mailman.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/researchers

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DSS07 Call for Papers
by Seguti Gutierrez-Nolasco 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

(Apologies if you receive multiple messages from us.) Please forward to interested colleagues. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Workshop on Distributed Sensor Systems (DSS'07) in conjunction with IEEE ICCCN 2007 Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA August 16, 2007 http://alamode.mines.edu/~qhan/dss07 Submission Deadline: March 22, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Networked small embedded devices with sensing capabilities will play a key role in the emerging pervasive computing environments. These devices include mote-class sensors as well as actuators, RFIDs, cameras, cellular phones, etc. This workshop encourages papers that address a variety of issues arising from this broad range of sensing-related systems and applications. The goal of this workshop is to provide a unique forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of distributed sensor systems are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment of sensor systems are particularly welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Sensor network architectures and protocols - Quality of Service and real-time support - Fault tolerance and dependability - Tradeoffs between system performance and cost - System availability, resilience, and robustness - Security and privacy - Middleware for sensor networks - System and network management - Quality of Service routing - Distributed coordination algorithms - Applications - Prototypes and measurements - Power management and energy-efficient designs - Network architecture and protocols - Operating systems support - Visualization tools **Paper Submission Guidelines** Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE camera ready format (double-column, 10 point font size). All submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a PDF file and submit it using EDAS (http://edas.info/). When login EDAS, please click the Submit Paper tab, and then select ICCCN 2007 and click the associated Submit Paper icon. In the tracks page, please select DSS 2007 to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published by either IEEE or Springer's LNCS. **Important Dates** Papers submission deadline..............March 22, 2007 Notification of acceptance/rejection....May 13, 2007 Camera-ready version due................June 1, 2007 **Workshop Program Co-chairs** Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA (qhan(a)mines.edu) Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA (liqun(a)cs.wm.edu) **Publicity Chair** Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco, University of California at Irvine, USA **Technical Program Committee** Norman Cohen, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Noria Foukia, University of Otago, New Zealand Tian He, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Wendi B. Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA En-Sun Jung, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea Ying Lu, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Junichi Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA Yong Wang, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Shutang Yang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA Lin Zhang, Tsinghua University, China Wensheng Zhang, Iowa State University, USA

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by Fifth Third Bank 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

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CFP:WISH-07 International Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Smart Home
by Linda Jiang Xie 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

------------------------------------------------------------------------ We apologize if you received multiple copies of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================= WISH-07 Call for Paper======================= The 2007 International Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Smart Home (WISH-07) http://www.chu.edu.tw/~wish07/ Niagara Falls, Canada, August 28-September 1, 2007 In Conjunction with The 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA-07) http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~ispa07/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- == Workshop Overview == Smart Home Environments (SHE) are emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm including ubiquitous, grid, and peer-to-peer computing to provide computing and communication services any time and anywhere. Our workshop is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of SHE including intelligent system, security services, business models, and novel applications associated with its utilization. The goal of this Workshop is to bring together the researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to all aspects of intelligent systems and smart home. We invite authors to submit papers on any aspect of intelligence systems / smart home research and practice. All papers will be peer reviewed, and those accepted for the workshop will be included in a proceedings volume published by Springer-Verlag. == Workshop Topics (include but are not limited to the following) == I. Intelligent Systems - Ubiquitous and Artificial Intelligent - Environment sensing / understanding - Information retrieval and enhancement - Intelligent data analysis and e-mail processing - Industrial applications of AI - Knowledge acquisition, engineering, discovery and representation - Machine learning and translation - Mobile / Wearable intelligence - Natural language processing - Neural networks and intelligent databases - Data mining and Semantic web - Computer-aided education - Entertainment - Metrics for evaluating intelligent systems - Frameworks for integrating AI and data mining II. Smart Home - Wireless sensor networks (WSN) / RFID application for SH - Smart Space (Home, Building, Office) applications and services - Smart Home network middleware and protocols - Context Awareness for Smart Home Services - Multimedia Security and Services in SH - Security Issues for SHE - Access control and Privacy Protection in SH - Forensics and Security Policy in SH - WSN / RFID Security in SH - Commercial and industrial system & application for SH == Important Dates == Paper Submission deadline March 31, 2007 Acceptance notification May 21, 2007 Camera-ready due June 01, 2007 Workshop date August 28th-September 1th, 2007 == Organization == * Steering Co-Chairs ------------------- Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Minyi Guo, University of Aizu, Japan * General Co-chairs -------------------- Ching-Hsien Hsu Chung Hua University, Taiwan chh(a)chu.edu.tw Jong Hyuk Park Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea parkjonghyuk(a)gmail.com * Program Co-chairs -------------------- Cho-Li Wang The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong clwang(a)cs.hku.hk Gang Pan Zhijiang University, China gpan(a)zju.edu.cn * International Advisory Committee -------------------------------- Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Edwin H-M. Sha, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA * Publicity Co-chairs ---------------------- Jong Wook Han, ETRI, Korea David Simplot-Ryl, University of Lille 1, France Jiang (Linda) Xie, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA * Program Committee --------------------- Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin, Ireland Akira Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan Alex Zhaoyu Liu, , University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Ali Shahrabi, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany Arjen Lenstra, EPFL, Switzerland Biplab Kumer Sarker, University of New Brunswick, Canada Byoung-Soo Koh, DigiCAPS Co., Ltd, Korea Carlo Blundo, Universita di Salerno, Italy Ce-Kuen Shieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Christophe Bidan, Supelec, France Deok-Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea Dingzhu Lu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Elhadi Shakshuki, the Acadia University, Canada George Roussos, University of London, UK Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Jin Wook Lee, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales, Australia Karen Henricksen-Robinson, Australia Mounir Mokhtari, INT/GET, France Peng Liu, Penn State University, USA Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Wollongong, Australia Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Stelvio Cimato, Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Vanessa Gratzer, Universite Paris II, France Victor Malyshkin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Vipin Chaudhary, Wayne State University , USA Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University, China Zili Shao, Hong Kong Polytech University, Hong Kong == Proceeding & Special Issue == The workshop proceedings will be published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Papers not exceed 12 pages with free layout style should be submitted through: http://www.chu.edu.tw/~wish07/. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, if the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference. Otherwise papers will be removed from the LNCS digital library. A selection of the best papers will be published in a special issue of Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) and International Journal of Smart Home (IJSH), respectively. == Contact == For further information regarding the WISH-07 and paper submission, please contact ASWAN '07 Cyber-chair (wish07(a)gmail.com) or Prof. Hsu (robertchh(a)gmail.com).

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[IEEE AOC 2007] deadline approaching: 3 days left!
by Luciana Pelusi 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS First IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on *** AUTONOMIC and OPPORTUNISTIC COMMUNICATIONS - AOC 2007 *** June 18, 2007 - Helsinki, Finland http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2007/ organized by *ANA and HAGGLE projects* funded by the FET-IST Programme in the area Situated and Autonomic Communications (SAC) **** *EXTENDED Deadline --- February 11, 2007* **** Fast Track on Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc ******************************************************************** We are faced with an era where the widespread use of small portable wireless devices and wireless technologies are building the pervasive vision. This pervaded world has generated new communication paradigms: autonomic and opportunistic communications. Communication among devices in a pervasive environment can happen if the devices can communicate autonomously, and manage their own evolution and configuration changes in the network, without explicit user or administrator action. In a pervasive world, even in the absence of any connectivity infrastructure mobile devices can communicate using the connection "opportunities" that arise due to mobility. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum between the autonomic and opportunistic communication communities to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of autonomic communications and computing are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment are particularly welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Architecture and models for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic and opportunistic networks * Adaptive security for self protection of networks * Economic, biological and social models used for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Mobility models for opportunistic networking * Novel management techniques for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Sensing, monitoring and measurements for self-managing networks * Advanced technologies for enabling autonomic and opportunistic communications * Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and measurements PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================= Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2007/. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. Extended versions of workshop selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Full papers due: *February 11, 2007 (Extended)* Notification: March 15, 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== WORKSHOP Chairs: Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece PUBLICITY Chair: Luciana Pelusi, IIT-CNR, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Edoardo Biagioni, University of Hawaii, USA Levente Buttyan, BUTE, Hungary Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson, France Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Murat Demirbas, SUNY Buffalo, USA Spyros Denazis, Hitachi Europe, France & University of Patras, Greece Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech., USA Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Vincent Lenders, ETH, Switzerland Cecilia Mascolo, UCL, UK Martin May, ETH, Switzerland Daniele Miorandi, Create-net, Italy Refik Molva, Eurécom, France Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University, Greece Joerg Ott, HUT, Finland Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Kaustubh Phanse, Uppsala University, Sweden George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Chunming Qiao, SUNY Buffalo, USA Kave Salamatian, EPFL, Switzerland Fabrizio Sestini, FET, European Commission Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA John Vicente, Intel, USA Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena-Reggio, Italy Ellen W. Zegura, Georgia Tech, USA

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2nd CFP for RAID 2007
by jeffh＠uow.edu.au 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

================================================================ We apologise if you have received multiple copies of this CFP. Please circulate to colleagues who might be interested. ================================================================ ================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS RAID 2007 10th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection 2007 September 5-7, 2007 Crowne Plaza Hotel, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Hosted by: Information Security Institute, Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia http://www.isi.qut.edu.au/go/raid07 ================================================================ Topics: ------- This symposium, the 10th in an annual series, brings together leading researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to discuss issues and technologies related to intrusion detection and defense. The Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) International Symposium series is intended to further advances in intrusion defense by promoting the exchange of ideas in a broad range of topics. As in previous years, all topics related to intrusion detection, prevention and defense systems and technologies are within scope, including but not limited to the following: * Intrusion detection and prevention techniques * High-performance intrusion detection * Intrusion detection in special environments (e.g., mobile networks) * IDS cooperation and event correlation * Formal models and analysis * Attack response, countermeasures, and intrusion tolerance * Survivability and self-protection * Attacks against IDS and evasion * Insider threat detection and mitigation * Deception systems and honeypots * Malicious code detection and containment * Visualization techniques * Intrusion detection assessment and benchmarking * IDS interoperability standards and standardization * Vulnerability analysis and risk assessment * Legal and social issues Important dates: ---------------- Deadline for paper submission: March 31st, 2007 Deadline for panel submission: May 5th, 2007 Notification of acceptance or rejection: June 1st, 2007 Final paper camera ready copy: June 16th, 2007 Deadline for poster abstract submission: July 7th, 2007 Notification for poster acceptance: July 23rd, 2007 Submissions: ------------ RAID 2007 invites four types of submissions: 1. Full papers presenting mature research results: Papers accepted for presentation will be included in the RAID 2006 proceedings published by Springer Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html) series. Papers are limited to 20 pages when formatted according to the instructions provided by Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html), and must include an abstract and a list of keywords. 2. Short papers presenting original work that has not yet reached the maturity required for a full paper. These are limited to 10 pages using the same format required for full papers. Short papers can describe new research results or practical experience that demonstrates the limitations and capabilities of existing approaches to intrusion detection and network security. They will be reviewed by the program committee, and accepted papers will be included in the proceedings (in short form - not expanded to full papers - and with "Short paper" in the title) and presented orally during the symposium (in shorter speaking slots). 3. Posters describing work in progress: submissions must consist of a one-page abstract. 4. Panel proposals for presenting and discussing hot topics in the field of intrusion detection systems: The panel proposals should include both an outline of the format of the panel and a short rationale for the panel. Panels that include time for general discussion and questions-answers between the panelists and the audience are preferred. All submissions (papers, panel, and poster proposals) must be submitted electronically, details will be provided at a later date. Papers should list all authors and their affiliations; in case of multiple authors, the contact author must be indicated (RAID does not require anonymized submissions). For accepted papers, it is required that at least one of the authors attends the conference to present the paper. Further questions on the submission process may be sent to the program chair. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to a journal or to any other conference or workshop with proceedings. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, and plagiarism constitute dishonesty or fraud. RAID, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may, on the recommendation of the program chair, take action against authors who have committed them. Organizing Committee: --------------------- General Chair: George Mohay (Queensland University of Technology, Australia; g.mohay(a)qut.edu.au) Program Chair: Christopher Kruegel (Technical University Vienna, Austria; chris(a)seclab.tuwien.ac.at) Publication Chair: Andrew Clark (Queensland University of Technology, Australia; a.clark(a)qut.edu.au) Publicity Chair: Rei Safavi-Naini (University of Wollongong, Australia; rei(a)uow.edu.au) Sponsorship Chair: Ming-Yuh Huang (The Boeing Company, USA; ming-yuh.huang(a)boeing.com) Steering Committee: Chair: Marc Dacier (Eurecom, France) Herve Debar (France Telecom R&D, France) Deborah Frincke (Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA) Ming-Yuh Huang (The Boeing Company, USA) Erland Jonsson (Chalmers, Sweden) Wenke Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Ludovic Me (Supelec, France) Alfonso Valdes (SRI International, USA) Giovanni Vigna (UCSB, USA) Andreas Wespi (IBM Research, Switzerland) S. Felix Wu (UC Davis, USA) Diego Zamboni (IBM Research, Switzerland) Program Committee: Michael Behringer (Cisco Systems Inc., France) Sungdeok Cha (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) Andrew Clark (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Marc Dacier (Eurecom, France) Herve Debar (France Telecom R&D, France) Ulrich Flegel (University of Dortmund, Germany) Jonathon Giffin (Georgia Tech, USA) Thorsten Holz (University of Mannheim, Germany) Farnam Jahanian (University of Michigan and Arbor Networks, USA) Richard A. Kemmerer (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Kwok-Yan Lam (Tsinghua University, China) Wenke Lee (Georgia Tech, USA) Richard Lippmann (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA) Raffael Marty (ArcSight Inc., USA) Roy Maxion (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Ludovic Me (Supelec, France) George Mohay (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Aloysius Mok (University of Texas, Austin, USA) Benjamin Morin (Supelec, France) Rei Safavi-Naini (University of Wollongong, Australia) Robin Sommer (LBNL/ICSI, USA) Dawn Song (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Salvatore Stolfo (Columbia University, USA) Toshihiro Tabata (Okayama University, Japan) Vijay Varadharajan (Macquarie University, Australia) Giovanni Vigna (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Jianying Zhou (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Corporate Sponsors: ------------------- We solicit interested organizations to serve as sponsors for RAID 2007, particularly in sponsorship of student travel and other expenses for RAID. Please contact the Sponsorship Chair for information regarding corporate sponsorship of RAID 2007.

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Conference on Information Theoretic Security, Madrid - May 2007
by Cristina Alcaraz Tello 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** C A L L F O R P A P E R S International Conference on Information Theoretic Security (ICITS) Madrid, Spain, May 25-29, 2007 http://www.escet.urjc.es/~matemati/maribel/ICITS/ITS07.htm **Note: Eurocrypt is May 20-24, 2007 in Barcelona, Spain. BACKGROUND: For the last years we have plenty of conferences and workshops on specialized topics in cryptography. Examples are CHES, FSE, PKC and TCC. The modern unclassified research on cryptography started with Shannon's work on cryptography using information theory. Since then we have seen several research topics studied requiring information theoretical security, also called unconditional security. Examples are anonymity, authenticity, reliable and private networks, secure multi-party computation, traitor tracing, etc. Moreover, we have also seen that coding as well as other aspects of information theory have been used in the design of cryptographic schemes. Seeing the multitude of topics in cryptography requiring information theoretical security or using information theory, it is time to have a regular conference on this topic. This was first realized by Prof. Imai (University of Tokyo, Japan). He organized the 2005 IEEE Information Theory Workshop on Theory and Practice in Information-Theoretic Security (ITW 2005, Japan) October 16-19, 2005. The goal is to continue this event on a regular basis. PROCEEDINGS: Post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Informal pre-proceedings will be available at the conference. TOPICS OF INTEREST: The topics of interest are on work on any aspect of information theoretical security, this means security based on information theory. This includes, but is not limited to the following topics: o Analysis of Security o Private and Reliable Networks o Anonymity o Public Key Cryptosystems using Codes o Authentication Codes o Quantum Cryptography o Conventional Cryptography using Codes o Quantum Information Theory o Fingerprinting o Randomness o Ideal Ciphers o Secret Sharing o Information Hiding o Secure Multiparty Computation o Key Distribution o Traitor Tracing o Oblivious Transfer NOTES: Papers on coding theory without any relationship with cryptography will be rejected. It is not the goal of this conference to become a second one on "Coding and Cryptography." Papers using computational complexity assumptions, except when using: information theoretic results or quantum arguments, will not be accepted. VENUE: Madrid is a city with a long history and very good airport connections. Its climate end of May is pleasantly warm. Madrid has good connections to the rest of the world and the rest of Spain, in particular Barcelona. More information on how to reach the venue by airplane or train will be provided later. Madrid is very close to Toledo, a small historical city worth visiting. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: The paper must start with a title, an abstract and keywords, but should be anonymous. It should be followed by a succinct statement appropriate for a non-specialist reader specifying the subject addressed, its background, the main achievements, and their significance to information theoretic security. Technical details directed to the specialist should then follow. Self citations to unpublished work should be avoided to maintain the anonymity. A limit of 12 singlespaced pages of 11pt type (not counting the bibliography and clearly marked appendices) is placed on all submissions. The total paper must not exceed 20 pages. Since referees are not required to read the appendices, the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Abstracts that have been or will be submitted in parallel to other conferences or workshops that have proceedings are not eligible for submission. One of the authors is expected to present the paper. The submission receipt deadline is February 23, 2007. Instructions on how to submit electronically will be posted soon on the event webpage and http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/Y.Desmedt/ICITS IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline: February 23, 2007 Authors Informed: April 9, 2007 Preproceedings versions due: April 27, 2007 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Carlo Blundo (University of Salerno, Italy) Gilles Brassard (University of Montreal, Canada) Ronald Cramer (CWI, The Netherlands) Yvo Desmedt, Chair (University College London, UK) Matthias Fitzi (Aarhus University, Denmark) Hideki Imai (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) Kaoru Kurosawa (Ibaraki University, Japan) Keith Martin (Royal Holloway, UK) Rei Safavi-Naini (University of Wollongong, Australia) Doug Stinson (University of Waterloo, Canada) Stefan Wolf (ETH, Switzerland) Moti Yung (RSA & Columbia University, USA) Yuliang Zheng (University of North Carolina, USA) GENERAL AND LOCAL CHAIRS: General Chair: Javier Lopez Local Co-Chairs: Julio Cesar Hernandez, and Maria Isabel Gonzalez Vasco STEERING COMMITTEE: Carlo Blundo (University of Salerno, Italy) Gilles Brassard (University of Montreal, Canada) Ronald Cramer (CWI, The Netherlands) Yvo Desmedt, Chair (University College London, UK) Hideki Imai (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) Kaoru Kurosawa (Ibaraki University, Japan) Ueli Maurer (ETH, Switzerland) Rei Safavi-Naini (University of Wollongong, Australia) Doug Stinson (University of Waterloo, Canada) Moti Yung (RSA & Columbia University, USA) Yuliang Zheng (University of North Carolina, USA)

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ICST - Call for papers - QSHINE 2007
by info＠icstconferences.org 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Call for Papers for QShine 2007 ------------ *********************************************************************************************************************** Q S H I N E 2 0 0 7 The Fourth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness http://www.qshine.org/ Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 14-17, 2007 Technically Co-Sponsored by ACM SIGMM, SIGMOBILE and SIGSIM Sponsored by Create-Net and ICST Papers of particular merit will be selected for consideration of fast track publication in ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications *********************************************************************************************************************** Overview The Fourth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine 2007) will focus on the research challenges associated the design and implementation of large-scale wired and wireless networks and distributed systems. Following the tradition of the previous QShine meetings, QShine 2007 will feature prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. ******* Scope The QShine program committee solicits original papers describing both experimental and theoretical results that address a wide spectrum of fundamental issues associated with the design and implementation of large scale heterogeneous networks and distributed systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Quality of Service provisioning Design, implementation or architectures related to QoS-enabled networks and distributed systems Scheduling, resource management, queue management, and admission control Game-theoretic aspects in wired/peer-to-peer/overlay/wireless networks and distributed systems Incentive engineering in wired/peer-to-peer/overlay/wireless networks and distributed systems QoS routing in wired/peer-to-peer/overlay/wireless networks and distributed systems Traffic analysis, traffic engineering, and traffic shaping in heterogeneous environments Middleware for wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and wireless networks and distributed systems QoS-aware service composition in distributed systems Security protocols and algorithms in wired, overlay and wireless networks Pricing, billing, and resource allocation in wired, overlay and wireless networks QoS adaptation, modeling and measurements Performance optimization in peer-to-peer and overlay networks Scalability of large-scale overlay and wireless networks Resilience of overlay and wireless protocols Cross-layer protocol design in wireless networks Energy-aware protocols and algorithms in wireless networks Cross-layer performance optimization for energy, network lifetime, and capacity Topology control for QoS support in wireless networks QoS in WLAN, WPAN, WMAN and WiMAX (IEEE 802.11/15/16/20) QoS support across heterogeneous wired and wireless subnetworks MAC protocols with QoS support QoS and survivability in mobile environments Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be selected for consideration of fast track publication in ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (approved) or Elsevier Computer Networks (pending approval). ******* Keynote Speaker Dr. Victor Bahl, Microsoft (http://research.microsoft.com/~bahl) ******* Paper Submission QShine 2007 invites manuscripts that present original materials not previously published in, or currently under review by, another conference or journal. Submissions should be either full-length papers of up to 7 pages or short papers of up to 4 pages (including all figures and references) formatted according to http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html with font sizes of 10 or larger. Full-length papers should report on completed work and will be considered for oral presentations. Short papers should report on work in progress or discuss open problems, and will be considered for poster presentations. A separate abstract of no longer than 200 words should be submitted as well. Submissions will be judged by their originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. All papers should be electronically submitted in Adobe PDF format. Please follow the submission instructions at http://www.qshine.org/submission.html to submit your paper. ******* Important Dates Paper submission deadline: March 16, 2007, 11:59pm PST Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2007 Camera-ready papers due: May 31, 2007 Conference: August 14-17, 2007 ******* Organizing Committee General Chair Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada General Vice-Chair Sastri Kota, Harris Corporation, USA Steering Committee Imrich Chlamtac, (Co-Chair) CreateNet, Italy Michael Fang, (Co-Chair) University of Florida, USA Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, (Co-Chair) University of Waterloo, Canada, Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University, USA Ariel Orda, Technion, Israel TPC Co-Chairs Guoliang Xue Arizona State University, USA Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Poster Chair Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, Canada Publicity Chair Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA Local Arrangement Chair Lin Cai, University of Victoria, Canada Workshop Chair Giovanni Giambene, Universita' degli Studi di Siena, Italy Sponsorship Chair Panos Nasiopoulos, University of British Columbia, Canada Publications Chair Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST, USA Conference Coordination and Registration Kitti H. 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DSS07 Call for Papers
by Seguti Gutierrez-Nolasco 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

(Apologies if you receive multiple messages from us.) Please forward to interested colleagues. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Workshop on Distributed Sensor Systems (DSS'07) in conjunction with IEEE ICCCN 2007 Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA August 16, 2007 http://alamode.mines.edu/~qhan/dss07 Submission Deadline: March 22, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Networked small embedded devices with sensing capabilities will play a key role in the emerging pervasive computing environments. These devices include mote-class sensors as well as actuators, RFIDs, cameras, cellular phones, etc. This workshop encourages papers that address a variety of issues arising from this broad range of sensing-related systems and applications. The goal of this workshop is to provide a unique forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of distributed sensor systems are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment of sensor systems are particularly welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Sensor network architectures and protocols - Quality of Service and real-time support - Fault tolerance and dependability - Tradeoffs between system performance and cost - System availability, resilience, and robustness - Security and privacy - Middleware for sensor networks - System and network management - Quality of Service routing - Distributed coordination algorithms - Applications - Prototypes and measurements - Power management and energy-efficient designs - Network architecture and protocols - Operating systems support - Visualization tools **Paper Submission Guidelines** Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE camera ready format (double-column, 10 point font size). All submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a PDF file and submit it using EDAS (http://edas.info/). When login EDAS, please click the Submit Paper tab, and then select ICCCN 2007 and click the associated Submit Paper icon. In the tracks page, please select DSS 2007 to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published by either IEEE or Springer's LNCS. **Important Dates** Papers submission deadline..............March 22, 2007 Notification of acceptance/rejection....May 13, 2007 Camera-ready version due................June 1, 2007 **Workshop Program Co-chairs** Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA (qhan(a)mines.edu) Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA (liqun(a)cs.wm.edu) **Publicity Chair** Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco, University of California at Irvine, USA **Technical Program Committee** Wendi B. Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA En-Sun Jung, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea Ying Lu, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Junichi Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA Yong Wang, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Shutang Yang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA

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2nd CFP: DEXA workshop - KUPA'07
by KUPA'07 Conference Account 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

KUPA'07 - Call for Papers First International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Discovery for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications Regensburg, Germany, 3-7 September 2007 Website - http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~kupa07 KUPA'07 is the First International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Discovery for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications, which is organized in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'07) in Regensburg, Germany, on 3-7 September 2007. Description ----------- Due to recent advancements in communication technology, computing, and storage resources, ubiquitous and pervasive applications are becoming increasingly popular. However, the large scale integration and examination of heterogeneous and independent data and knowledge sources has created new issues and challenges for knowledge management and acquisition. The objective of this workshop is to bring together academics and industry professionals to discuss recent progress and challenges in knowledge management and discovery for ubiquitous, pervasive, distributed, and heterogeneous environments. Topics ------ Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Knowledge management and discovery for ubiquitous, pervasive, distributed, and/or heterogeneous environments * Data mining in sensor networks, mobile and embedded systems * Mining temporal and spatial data * Data stream mining * Sequential pattern mining * Link analysis and community discovery * Visual data mining * Mining from data warehouses * Machine learning techniques for distributed environments and applications * Agent-based architectures for knowledge management and discovery * Knowledge integration and data fusion * Security, privacy, and trust issues * Applications in communication, internet, industry automation, medicine, multimedia, etc. Important Dates --------------- Abstract due March 5, 2007 Full paper due March 12, 2007 Authors notification April 30, 2007 Camera-ready copy May 22, 2007 Author registration May 22, 2007 Paper Submission ---------------- Authors are invited to submit original papers that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, including web publication. Papers should be submitted in PDF. Submissions must conform to IEEE Computer Society format (two columns, letter size 8.5"x11") and should not exceed 5 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). Check the DEXA website (http://www.dexa.org/guidelines) for more details on formatting guidelines. All submissions will be refereed by at least 2 reviewers, and will be handled electronically through the EDAS system (http://www.edas.info). Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Workshop Organizers ------------------- HONORARY GENERAL CHAIRS: T. Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada PROGRAM CHAIRS (CONTACT: kupa07 [AT] cs.umanitoba.ca): Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada Christel Kemke, University of Manitoba, Canada Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEE (PARTIAL LIST): Darcy Benoit, Acadia University, Canada Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Nauman Chaudhry, University of New Orleans, USA Hakan Duman, Essex University, UK Jocelyne Fayn, INSERM ERM107, Lyon, France Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK Imran Khan, University of Manitoba, Canada Frederique Laforest, LIRIS Lab., Lyon, France Michael Marschollek, Technical University, Germany Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster, UK Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Haipeng Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Andreas Wichert, Universidade Technica de Lisboa, Portugal Yuni Xia, Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. Indianapolis, USA Zhiwen Yu, Nagoya University, Japan Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

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