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!
Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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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
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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
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- August 2nd, 2004: Submission deadline (hard)
- September 29, 2004: Acceptance notification
- October 18, 2004: Final version due
VENUE
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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
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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
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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
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)
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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Due to many requests SUBMISSION DEADLINE is EXTENDED to : JUNE 7, 2004
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We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.
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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
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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.)
[Sincere apologies for possible multiple copies of this message]
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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Ramon Puigjaner
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica
07122 PALMA (Spain)
Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003
e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es
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