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Invitation to IPSI-2004 VENICE and IPSI-2004 PRAGUE, vip/ba
by IPSI-2004 05 Jun '04

05 Jun '04

Dear Potential Speaker: This is an invitation for you to attend two IPSI BgD multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary conferences, one in Venice, and one in Prague, as follows: IPSI-2004 VENICE Venice, Italy (arrival: 10.11.2004. departure: 14.11.2004.) Deadlines: 15 June 2004 (abstract) + 1 August 2004 (full paper). IPSI-2004 PRAGUE Prague, Czeck Republic (arrival: 11.12.2004. departure: 14.12.2004.). Deadlines: 15 July 2004 (abstract) + 1 September 2004 (full papers) If you like to obtain more information on both conferences, please reply to this email. All IPSI BgD conferences are non-profit! They bring together the elite of the world science (so far, 7 times a Nobel Laureate was talking at the opening ceremony), and they take place in the leading hotels of the world. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet, Computer Science and Engineering, Management and Business Administration, Education, e-Medicine, Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, Environment Protection, and e-Economy. Sincerely Yours, Prof. V. Milutinovic, Chairman PS - If you plan to submit an abstract/paper, let us know immediately. If you are not able to attend now, but you like to be informed about the future IPSI BgD conferences, please let us know. If you do not like to receive future invitations, let us know, as well!

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WONS 2005 Conference - Preliminary Announcement and CFP
by Raffaele Bruno 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================ Call for Papers for the Second International Conference on WIRELESS ON DEMAND NETWORKS AND SERVICES (WONS 2005) in St. Moritz, Switzerland January 19-21, 2005 Wireless networks, be it Wi-Fi access, mobile ad hoc as well as sensor networks, aim at providing ubiquitous connectivity and network centric services to the masses and to massively networked systems. An important attribute of such networks is that they can be deployed "on demand" with minimal planning and management effort as well as with little dependency on existing network infrastructures. Concepts like ambient intelligence and disappearing computers that are part of a global and fully self-organized Internet hint at the scope of this vision, but also at the formidable challenges that come with it. For this conference we request submissions of high quality research papers on "wireless on demand networks" that provide novel insights on protocol and network design, modelling and performance evaluation, pricing and profitability models, QoS models, practical implementations, service level aspects and Internet integration of wireless networks. Topics related to wireless ad hoc networks and sensor networks comprise, but are not limited to: o Architecture and Design o Analysis through simulation and experimental evaluation o Internet integration o Social and economic aspects o Pervasive / ubiquitous computing o Localization and mobility management o Security o Energy-efficient protocols and power management o Applications and Service Support o Data dissemination and peer2peer systems PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================ Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. For paper submission, a web page with detailed information will be activated in few days. All papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by LNCS. IMPORTANT DEADLINES =================== - August 2nd, 2004: Submission deadline (hard) - September 29, 2004: Acceptance notification - October 18, 2004: Final version due VENUE ===== The meeting will take place in the famous winter resort of St. Moritz, in Switzerland. This place is synonymous with quality and elegance. The magnificent landscape of the Swiss alps and the fascinating culture of the Engadine valley provide an inspiring background for this conference. COMMITTEE ========= GENERAL CHAIR: Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Science - SUPSI, Switzerland PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS: Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Christian Tschudin, University of Basel, Switzerland LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIRS: Bernardo Zumthor, University of Applied Science - SUPSI, Switzerland Alessandro Puiatti, University of Applied Science - SUPSI, Switzerland PUBLICITY CHAIRS: Raffaele Bruno, IIT- CNR, Italy Johnson Kuruvila, University of Ottawa, Canada SPONSORSHIPS CHAIR: Ivan Defilippis, University of Applied Science - SUPSI, Switzerland STEERING COMMITTEE Members: Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Enrico Gregori, CNR of Pisa, Italy Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., KTH, Sweden Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece -- Raffaele Bruno, Ph.D., Researcher Pervasive Computing & Networking Lab. (PerLab) IIT Institute - Italian National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39 050 315 3078 (direct) Fax.: +39 050 315 2593 (institute) Email: raffaele.bruno(a)iit.cnr.it

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SENSYS'04 Call for Demo
by Philippe Bonnet 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

CALL FOR DEMOS The Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2004) http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/sensys04/ November 3-5, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Sponsored by: ACM (SIGCOMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGARCH, SIGMETRICS, SIGOPS) and NSF Technical demonstrations showing innovative and original research are solicited. In general this conference is interested in demonstrations of technology that address important research issues or demonstrate realistic applications in embedded, networked systems. Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: * Network protocols for sensor networks * Operating system and middleware for sensor networks * Applications of distributed sensor networks * Sensor network testbed measurements and benchmarks * Distributed database processing in sensor networks * Distributed algorithms for sensor networks * Novel sensor node hardware and software platforms * Sensor network planning and deployment * Energy management in sensor networks * Adaptive topology management * In-network processing and aggregation * Data storage in sensor networks * Distributed and collaborative signal processing * Distributed actuation, control, and coordination * Localization in time and space * Distributed calibration in sensor networks * Simulation and optimization tools * Security and robustness in sensor networks * Fundamental limits and tradeoffs * Algorithms for self-configuration, maintenance, stabilization * Programming and validation methodology * Social and business impacts of sensor networks * Novel network architectures Please consult the demo co-chairs at sensys04-demo-chairs(a)enl.usc.edu if you are uncertain whether your demo falls within the scope of the conference. DEMO SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Please send a one-page description of your demo to sensys04-demo-chairs(a)enl.usc.edu in plain text or PDF format by the dates listed below. Be as specific as possible in describing what you will show. (Plain text is preferred unless there are graphics.) IMPORTANT DATES One-page demo descriptions: July 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2004 Camera-ready abstract: August 15, 2004 Conference dates: November 3-5, 2004 SenSys 2004 DEMO CHAIRS: Akos Ledeczi (Vanderbilt), Mark Yarvis (Intel)

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Athens group photo
by Lyman Chapin 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

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JUNE 7: EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR OPNETEC 2004
by Elisa Razzoli 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

The IFIP Optical Networks & Technologies Conference - OpNeTec 2004 - organized in Pisa, Italy on October 18-20,2004 and the co-located 2004 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Optical Communication Theory and Techniques (October 17-18,2004) represent the ideal forum for interaction on most recent research results on optical networks and advanced photonic technologies. Keynote and invited presentations by leading experts from Japan, Europe and U.S. Proceedings published by Kluwer. Plan to participate by submitting your contribution to the technical programs! NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: JUNE 7, 2004 Notification of acceptance: July 16, 2004 For more details, please consult the conference site http://www.opnetec.it and http://www.pisa.cnit.it/workshop2004/ Look forward to seeing you in Pisa! Giancarlo Prati, General Chairman of OpNeTec 2004 Enrico Forestieri, Chairman of TIWDC 2004

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CFPforSANPA04: DEADLINE EXTENDED to JUNE 7, 2004: 2nd International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications
by Ozgur Baris Akan 31 May '04

31 May '04

********************************************************************** Due to many requests SUBMISSION DEADLINE is EXTENDED to : JUNE 7, 2004 ********************************************************************** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SANPA 2004 Second International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications August 22, 2004 Boston, Massachusetts, USA in Conjunction with MobiQuitous 2004 *EXTENDED* Submission Deadline: JUNE 7, 2004 http://www.sanpa.org Call For Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) are fast emerging as a new sensing paradigm based on the collaborative effort of large number of sensors deployed close to or inside the phenomenon to be observed, and have the potential of providing diverse services to numerous applications. The realization of WSANs require intensive technical research efforts especially in power aware scalable wireless ad hoc communications protocols due to their unusual application requirements and unique constraints such as the following: - WSANs are generally composed of large number of sensor nodes that have limited computational and storage capacity. - In many applications, sensor nodes can be randomly scattered in unreachable regions. - The sensed phenomenon must be acted on by the actor nodes in field in a timely and accurate manner. - The lifetime of a sensor network is generally limited to the battery lifetime of sensor nodes. SANPA 2004 is intended to provide a forum for researchers to present their contributions as technical papers related to communication protocols for WSANs, data management, access, aggregation and fusion techniques, and sensor network applications. SANPA 2004 will continue and build upon the success of SNPA 2003 (held in conjunction with ICC 2003). The papers solicited in SANPA 2004 cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Communication protocols for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks at all layers - Novel sensor/actor network applications and services - Self organizing and scalable sensor/actor network architectures - Software platforms and tools for sensor/actor network application development - Energy efficient medium access control, error control, and traffic management protocols - Energy efficient system services such as localization and time synchronization - Robust distributed algorithms for collaborative processing - Mechanisms, protocols and algorithms for authenticated, secure communication - Application specific network and system services, including data-centric routing, attribute based addressing and location management - Data querying and dissemination - Data compression, association, aggregation and fusion Submission Instructions: The papers should confirm with the MobiQuitous paper format (www.mobiquitous.org) and can be up to 11 pages long. Authors should submit a PDF version of their paper to sanpa(a)ece.gatech.edu. For more information about the workshop, see http://www.sanpa.org/. Papers of particular merit will be published in the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier Science). Important Dates: Manuscript Due: *EXTENDED* June 7, 2004 Acceptance Notification: July 9, 2004 Final Manuscript Due: July 23, 2004 Workshop Date: August 22, 2004 Organization Committee: Program Co-Chairs: Erdal Cayirci (erdal(a)ece.gatech.edu) Department of Computer Engineering Istanbul Technical University Istanbul, Turkey Raghupathy Sivakumar (siva(a)ece.gatech.edu) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 Publicity Chair: Ozgur Baris Akan (akan(a)ece.gatech.edu) Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey Technical Program Committee: Ahmed Helmy (University of Southern California) Andreas Willig (University of Potsdam) Bhaskar Khrisnamachari (University of Southern California) Chiara Petrioli (University of Roma) Eylem Ekici (Ohio State University) Holger Karl (Technical University of Berlin) Jaudelice C. de Oliveira (Drexel University) Kay Roemer (ETH Zurich) Paul Havinga (University of Twente) Philippe Bonet (Univ. of Copenhagen) Prasun Sinha (Ohio State University) Sebnem Baydere (Yeditepe University) Sergio Palazzo (University of Catania) Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University) Vedat Coskun (Naval Academy) Wei Ye (USC/ISI) Wendi Heinzelman (Univ. of Rochester) Wenye Wang (North Carolina State University) Xudong Wang (Kiyon Inc.)

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CFP: BroadWIM
by Marco Conti 31 May '04

31 May '04

[Sincere apologies for possible multiple copies of this message] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- First International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Multimedia: Algorithms, Architectures and Applications (BroadWIM) co-located with BroadNets 2004 (http://www.broadnets.org) Friday, October 29, 2004 San Jose, California, USA http://www.broadwim.org CALL FOR PAPERS The emergence and adoption of broadband wireless access standards, such as 802.16, 802.16a and 802.11a, offers exciting new possibilities for delivering rich multimedia content over the "last mile". The workshop is intended to present and discuss new architectures for delivering such rich media over single-hop or mesh broadband wireless architectures. It also focuses on the algorithms and 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 WWAN interfaces. Of particular interest are practical case studies, demonstrations or pilots of innovative techniques for delivering a variety of multimedia content over such broadband local or metropolitan wireless networks. Preliminary results on interesting ideas and techniques are more welcome than detailed analysis of existing schemes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * System Prototypes and Experiences with Broadband Multimedia Delivery * IP-based Multimedia Services over WLANs and WMANs * Signaling for Converged Multimedia Applications * QoS for Real-time Voice and Video in Broadband Wireless Networks * Encoding Alternatives for Multi-media Streams * Video/Audio Distribution Architectures in Broadband WLANs and WMANs * Multicasting and Broadcasting Problems and Solutions * Caching and Content Management in WLANs and WMANs * Algorithms for Controlling Delay and Jitter in Broadband Channels * Integration of Broadband Wireless and WPANs/WBANs * Wireless Broadband Multimedia over Sensor Networks * Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks * Multimedia services for Ambient Intelligent and Pervasive Environments PAPERS SUBMISSION Papers should be written in English and should not exceed approximately 5000 words, including figures and references. (Each figure counts as 250 words). For the initial submissions, the papers should be in double-spaced, single-column format with a separate abstract of at most 250 words. Papers should be submitted in PDF format through the Colibri' system (http://cnd1.iit.cnr.it/broadwim04). All papers will be peer reviewed. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of a reputed journal. Submission Deadline: June 15, 2004. Acceptance Notification: July 11, 2004 Final paper submission: August 10, 2004 Workshop date: October 29, 2004 WHORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Workshop Chairs: --------------- Marco Conti Istituto Informatica e Telematica (IIT) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Italy and Archan Misra IBM T.J. Watson Research USA Technical Program Committee --------------------------------------- Arup Acharya, IBM Research, USA Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara , USA John Apostopolous, HP Labs, USA Giuseppe Bianchi, Univ. of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Tech, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul Natl. Univ, Korea Jon Crowcroft, Univ. of Cambridge, UK Sujit Dey, UC San Diego, USA Magda El-Zarki, UC Irvine, USA Aura Ganz, Univ. of Massachusetts, USA Javier Gomez, Natl. Univ. of Mexico, Mexico Martin Mauve, Univ. of Düsseldorf, Germany Giacomo Morabito, Univ. of Catania, Italy Hiroyuki Morikawa, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Michael Paterakis, Technical Univ. of Crete, Greece Sanjoy Paul, Lucent Bell Labs, USA Keith Ross, Brooklyn Poly, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, Univ. of Athens, Greece Vijay Subramanian, Motorola Research, USA Fouad Tobagi, Stanford University, USA Ooi Wei Tsang, Natl. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Thierry Turletti, INRIA, France Roger Zimmerman, Univ. of Southern California, USA -- ============================================== Marco Conti Pervasive Computing & Networking Lab. (PerLab) Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 56124 Pisa,Italy tel.: + 39 050 315 3062 (direct) mobile: +39 348 3966807 fax.: +39 050 3152593

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Thanks + Viennese Owl
by Günter Haring 30 May '04

30 May '04

Dear Ioannis, once more I would like to thank you for the excellent organisation of the TC6 meeting. In the case that you have not yet finished the Viennese owl puzzle you will find in the attachment a hint how it should look like. Best greetings from Vienna Günter

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Calendar + Delegate List
by Otto Spaniol 27 May '04

27 May '04

Dear all, please find enclosed - the new TC6 calendar of events - the updated delegate list. WG chairpersons: Please check "your" events and send me some modifications (if necessary). There is a very "surprising" new element in the list, namely an IFIP TC6 Workshop on "Broadband Satellite Communication Systems and the Challenge of Mobility" to be held in conjunction with the World Computer Congress in Toulouse (August 23-26, 2004). I learned about this event when I received a Kluwer editors agreement (editors are Thierry Gayraud, Michel Mazzella, Fernando Pedro Lopes Boavida Fernandes, Edmundo Heitor da Silva Monteiro, and Gilberto da Matos Orvalho; I don't know them and probably they have not been visible in TC6 before). The agreement had already the signature of Jean-Claude Laprie (WCC chair) and of Klaus Brunnstein (IFIP president). Please forgive me that I didn't want to provoke a scandal (since the procedure is indeed inacceptable) but that I signed the agreement. I believe that it will be a good activity but of course we should have been informed before - in particular since TC6 is quite reluctant to participate in WCC's. At least WG's 6.1, 6.2 and 6.8 should have been asked whether they would like to contribute. I asked IFIP secretariat about that but they couldn't give me more information until now. Please feel free to comment on that story. Best regards Otto

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Tutorials
by Ramon Puigjaner 25 May '04

25 May '04

Dear friends, The Conferencia Latinoamericana de Estudios en Inforamtica CLEI2004 will be held in Arequipa (Peru) between September 27 and October 1. Those of you interested in giving a tutorial and, eventually, an invited talk, please let me know in order to inform the organisers about the possible choice. This year IFIP TC6 is just funding the travel of one tutorialist. I need for each tutorial: - the title - objectives and outline - duration - short CV of the tutorialist The stay expenses will be covered by the local organisers. Best regards Ramon ========================================================================= Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica 07122 PALMA (Spain) Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003 e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es =========================================================================

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