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Call for Papers - Workshop on Logic and Systems Biology
by James F. Lynch 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Logic and Systems Biology July 18, 2004, Turku, Finland Affiliated with LICS 2004 Deadline for abstracts: May 16, 2004 http://www.clarkson.edu/~jlynch/sysbio The workshop will be one day of lectures, with some invited speakers and some contributed presentations. We invite submissions on computational and logical aspects of dynamical systems in biology. Authors of accepted presentations will also be invited to submit full versions of their lectures to the new Springer journal Transactions on Computational Systems Biology. The following, taken from the journal's announcement, is a list of suggested, but not inclusive, topics of interest. It is equally appropriate for this workshop. Formal languages for modeling biological structures and processes Analysis and verification techniques and tools for biological behavior Simulation techniques and tools for biological systems Bio-inspired languages, computational models and computing Biological Databases and Query Languages for Cell Models Modeling Environments and Tools for biological systems Numerical techniques for the analysis of biological systems Formal assessment of experimental data quality and reliability Automated Deduction for Biological Systems Visualization techniques for complex models Computational and Logical Aspects of the Analysis of Biological systems Logics and tools for biological systems Inference, modelling, and engineering of complex biological networks Advances in methodology for modeling biological systems Parallel and distributed simulation of cellular systems Mathematical and Informational Models of Biological Systems Advances in methodology for modeling biological systems Advances in theory of biological systems Formal Molecular Biology and evolutionary Models Self-assembly in Biological Systems Systems biology in early evolution - the origins of biological networks SUBMISSION PROCEDURES: Those who wish to give a contributed presentation should submit an extended abstract (one to ten pages) or a full paper, if available, by May 16 to jlynch(a)clarkson.edu (please put "workshop submission" in the subject line and attach the submission as a postscript file). Authors of accepted abstracts or papers will be invited to submit a full version (subject to a page limit, details to be announced) for inclusion in Transactions on Computational Systems Biology. REGISTRATION: Registration and local arrangements will be handled through the LICS 2004 main conference (http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/als/lics/lics04/). There will be a small fee for attending the workshop, which will cover lunch, coffee, and proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES: Submission of abstracts: May 16, 2004 Notification of acceptance: June 17, 2004 Workshop: July 18, 2004 CONTACT INFORMATION: Organizers: Vincent Danos �quipe Preuves, Programmes, Syst�mes Charg� de Recherches au CNRS Universit� Paris VII Email: Vincent.Danos(a)pps.jussieu.fr James F. Lynch Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Clarkson University Email: jlynch(a)clarkson.edu

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MMNS 2004 Call For Paper
by Raouf Boutaba 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

Call for Papers 7th International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks & Services Host: IT@Intel Information Technology Research Intel Corporation San Diego, California, USA October 3-6, 2004 ==================================================================== The International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS) will hold its seventh annual meeting on October 3 through October 6, 2004, in San Diego, California. A single-track conference, MMNS will provide participants with an intimate setting for discussion and debate. MMNS has established itself as a premier conference for research and innovation in management of emerging multimedia technology and networking services. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from industry and academia researching and developing state-of-the-art management systems, while creating a public venue for results dissemination and intellectual collaboration. The demand for real-time services, integrated multimedia communications and mobile application services thrives in today's consumer and corporate market. The need to evolve management tools and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobility and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, data/voice convergence and the integration of computing and communication in all devices. Concepts such as autonomics, self-healing, self-organized and adaptive computing systems are bringing both the academic and industry research communities together to address the challenges of managing complexity and systems problems, where management is inevitably key. MMNS broadly solicits research in network and service management and new models, architectures and designs in technology and services to enable multimedia proliferation. This year, MMNS 2004 will continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, but also emphasize and solicit novel research in network autonomics and new architectures in wireless systems and multimedia services to facilitate security, quality of service and mobility. The MMNS program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the area of management of multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): . Network autonomics & autonomous systems . Adaptive computing systems . Wireless and mobile multimedia network management . Ad-hoc and Sensor networks . Distributed multimedia service management . End-to-end IP multimedia management . Converged communications (VoIP) service management . Active multimedia network management . Multimedia session management . Video, streaming, real-time video service management . Middleware, reflective systems support for management . Multimedia traffic management . Multimedia content protection . Large-scale monitoring and provisioning systems . Policy-based management . Network programmability for multimedia services . Trustworthy & survivable systems . Quality of service management . Resource, performance and fault management . Multi-point, multicast services management . Deployment of multimedia services . Traffic engineering and optimization . Network management models and architectures . Billing and security for multi-media services . Content distribution networking . RFID-based management systems . Cable multimedia network management . Optical multimedia network management For further information, please contact the co-chairs: John Vicente (john.vicente(a)intel.com) or David Hutchison (d.hutchison(a)lancaster.ac.uk) Important dates: Submission deadline: April 30, 2004 Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2004 Final version: July 30, 2004 MMNS04 Conference: October 3-6, 2004

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CFP: Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society
by Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd WORKSHOP ON PRIVACY IN THE ELECTRONIC SOCIETY Washington, DC, USA - October 28, 2004 Sponsored by ACM SIGSAC Held in association with 11th ACM CCS 2004 http://seclab.dti.unimi.it/wpes2004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Privacy issues have been the subject of public debates and the need for privacy-aware policies, regulations, and techniques has been widely recognized. Goal of this workshop is to discuss the problems of privacy in the global interconnected societies and possible solutions to it. The 2004 Workshop is the third in what we hope will be a yearly forum for papers on all the different aspects of privacy in today's electronic society. The first two workshops in the series were held in Washington, in conjunction with the 9th ACM CCS conference and with the 10th ACM CCS conference, respectively. The success of the first two editions of the workshop and the increased interest of the community in privacy issues, is the main reason for repeating the event. The workshop seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of electronic privacy, as well as experimental studies of fielded systems. We encourage submissions from other communities such as law and business that present these communities' perspectives on technological issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - anonymity, pseudonymity, unlinkability - business model with privacy requirements - data protection from correlation and leakage attacks - electronic communication privacy - information dissemination control - privacy-aware access control - privacy in the digital business - privacy enhancing technologies - privacy policies and human rights - privacy and anonymity in Web transactions - privacy threats - privacy and confidentiality management - privacy in the electronic records - privacy in health care and public administration - public records and personal privacy - privacy and virtual identity - personally identifiable information - privacy policy enforcement - privacy and data mining - relationships between privacy and security - user profiling - wireless privacy PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be at most 15 pages excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices (using 11-point font and reasonable margins on letter-size paper), and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Papers should have a cover page with the title, authors, abstract and contact information. Authors are invited to submit their contributions electronically through the web site http://seclab.dti.unimi.it/wpes2004/submissions.html. Submission must be in the form of a ps (Postscript), or pdf (Adobe) file. Do NOT submit files formatted for word processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or WordPerfect files). Papers must be received by the deadline of June 11, 2004 in order to be considered. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by August 2, 2004. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published by the ACM in a conference proceedings. GENERAL CHAIR Vijay Atluri Rutgers University, USA email: atluri(a)andromeda.rutgers.edu PROGRAM CHAIRS Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati Paul Syverson University of Milan Naval Research Laboratory email: samarati(a)dti.unimi.it url: www.syverson.org IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission due: June 11, 2004 Acceptance notification: August 2, 2004 Final papers due: August 30, 2004 PROGRAM COMMITTEE JC Cannon, Microsoft, USA Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy George Danezis, University of Cambridge, UK Roger Dingledine, The Free Haven Project, USA Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA Philippe Golle, Stanford University, USA Mike Gurski, Information & Privacy Commission/Ontario, Canada Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA Andreas Pfitzmann, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Andrew Patrick, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada Marc Rennhard, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy Matthias Schunter, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Tomas Sander, Hewlet Packard, USA Marianne Winslett, U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

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VIP Forum Invitation CAITA-2004, WestLafayette, IN, USA
by purdue＠vreme.yubc.net 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

Dear potential VIP Speaker: We are pleased to invite you, as a VIP Forum speaker, to the CAITA-2004 conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA (arrival: Thursday July 8, 2004. and departure Sunday July 11, 2004.). All relevant information and the detailed invitation letter can be found on the web (http://www.internetconferences.net). This is a broadband conference, aimed at bringing together the scientific/technical elite. Keynote: Dr. Dag von Lubitz, Laureate of the Smithsonian Award. Important deadlines: Abstract - March 20 (the deadline is short, but 100 words is easy). Full paper - April 10. We invite participants (mostly from USA, Canada, Mexico, EU, Israel, and Far East) from the following three groups: (1) Well known University professors with a high citation index, (2) VIPs from leading industry, and (3) Talented PhD students from leading universities of the world. So far, at our conferences, in seven cases, Nobel Laureates gave the opening keynote. All those who visited our conferences in the past loved them and like to come back - see the web for the lists of participants of our past conferences. The stress of the conferences is on an active social program to induce creativity thru synergistic interaction, in a special setting. Also, each submitted paper goes to minimum 12 reviewers (mostly to those referenced in the submitted paper). If you plan to submit an abstract/paper, please reply to this e-mail at your earliest convenience, because the conference has a size limitation. Sincerely yours, Prof. Dr. Mileta Tomovic, General Chairman of CAITA-2004 Prof. Dr. Veljko Milutinovic, Program Chair of CAITA-2004 P.S. IPSI Belgrade organizes scientific conferences all over the World, aimed at bringing together the elite of the world research. More details on the Web (www.internetconferences.net). So far, 7 times Nobel Laureates were talking at the opening ceremonies. Those who come once, without exception, like to return. They like the atmosphere (we invest a lot into the social interaction) and especially they like the fact that the review included lots of useful comments (in addition to the professional internal review, we do three types of external review: IPSI, peer, and Google - via Google we find the major references of their research, and we ask them to help with an excellent review). We accept about 50% of the submitted papers, unless we do the conference in a small hotel, in which case the acceptance rate is smaller. Typically we do our conferences in the best hotels of the World (see the Web for "The Best Small Hotels of the World"). If you like that we inform you about our conferences (6 emails per year, for 12 conferences), please let us know. We will be informing you ONLY if you explicitly tell us that you like that to happen. Please, reply to purdue(a)vreme.yubc.net if you have questions or to confirm your desire to be a member of our VIP CLUB!

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K B Nair
by Otto Spaniol 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Dear all, we received the sad message that Mr. K B Nair (MNCC Malaysia) passed away yesterday night. Many of us knew him quite well. He attended the TC6 meeting in Trivandrum and he prepared a series of SEACOMM conferences where TC6 was significantly involved. Meeting 94/2 was held in Kuala Lumpur in conjunction with SEACOMM'94. One of my "dreams" is that we will be able re-intensify the relations between TC6 and MNCC Malaysia. Best regards Otto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is with great sadness and regret that I have to inform you of the demise of Mr. K. B. Nair yesterday night (14 March 2004), after a long illness. He and a group of pioneers were responsible for the formation of MCS, followed by MNCC. As you may know, he also was a pioneer in regional and international ICT cooperation and fellowship. His remains are now at 31, Jalan 14/56, 46100 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan (Tel: 03-79563179) and will be cremated at the Petaling Jaya Crematorium at Kampong Tunku at 4.00pm (15 March 2004) today. Warmest regards, Lim Chen Yam MNCC

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RE: [ifip-tc6] ACM new international proceedings series
by Radford, Peter 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Augusto, Otto, Guy (and everybody else!) I have had an exchange of e-mails with Roger Johnson (including forwarding Guy's reference to the ACM's new series). It looks as if it is taking much longer than predicted to sign a contract. (What a surprise...!) Some of what Roger told me is commercially confidential at the moment but I will do my best to get a distributable update before the May TC6 meeting. On the Kluwer / Springer / LNCS situation, I believe I can say that there were two responses from the existing organisations because they were not allowed (for legal reasons) to submit a "joint" bid. The legal restrictions may disappear soon. There are some important meetings to be held in the next few weeks and nothing will become settled until these have been held. I hope things will become clearer before the TC6 meeting Regards Peter Peter Radford UK Representative to IFIP TC6 T: +44 20 7446 1281 M: Peter.Radford(a)LogicaCMG.com <mailto:Peter.Radford@LogicaCMG.com> -----Original Message----- From: Augusto Casaca [mailto:augusto.casaca@inesc.pt] Sent: 12 March 2004 19:02 To: Otto Spaniol; Radford, Peter; ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: RE: [ifip-tc6] ACM new international proceedings series Dear Otto, Let me give my opinion on the publishing of TC6 conference proceedings. As you know this was a point in which we have worked hard during the last years. We reached a situation in 2003, in which a large number of our conferences were publishing in the LNCS of Springer and a few ones were publishing in Kluwer. This seemed to be an acceptable situation because, as far as I know, the publication in the LNCS of Springer resolved most of our concerns and our conference organisers were happy too. We knew that we had to take a decision in 2004 having in view the choice of a new publisher by IFIP. However, we have been told by the editor of the LNCS that the continuation of TC6 publication in LNCS would be welcome regardless of the new choice of IFIP. I do not know at all what were the conditions offered in the different bids of the publishers to IFIP. However, I think, and this was my knowledge after the last GA in 2003, that the bid from LNCS would be a different one from the new Kluwer/Springer. This needs to be confirmed, but if this is the case, it means that we still have two possibilities for publication: new Kluwer/Springer or LNCS. Of course we need to analyse the new possibilities that are opened to us with the new Kluwer/Springer and the ACM series of proceedings referred by Guy. However, to change again of publisher in our conferences, I feel that we must have clear advantages in the new offers. In order to be able to take a decision in our next meeting it would be good if we could have the exact conditions offered by the new IFIP publisher, to know which were the conditions offered by the other proposals and to know if publishing in LNCS is still an option. I hope also that Guy can report on the ACM proceedings series. Have a nice weekend Best regards Augusto -----Original Message----- From: ifip-tc6-bounces(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE [mailto:ifip-tc6-bounces@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE]On Behalf Of Otto Spaniol Sent: quarta-feira, 10 de Março de 2004 17:07 To: Radford, Peter; ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: RE: [ifip-tc6] ACM new international proceedings series Hello peter, yes, please communicate this to Roger Johnson. We might even invite him to attend our meeting (as in Tozeur). But the minimum success would be that we get information about publication in a very early stage. Best regards Otto >Gentlemen (I was about to type "Guys" and thought better of it!) > >Would you have any objections to my raising this with Roger Johnson? >(Either simply forwarding the dialogue so far or just asking him what is >happening?) >I think it would aid our discussions if we had an update as to what is >expected to happen with "new Springer". > >Regards > >Peter > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Guy Leduc [mailto:Guy.Leduc@ulg.ac.be] >Sent: 10 March 2004 15:54 >To: Otto Spaniol >Cc: ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de >Subject: Re: [ifip-tc6] ACM new international proceedings series > > >Dear Otto, > >It would be interesting to have (again) an agenda item on >'publications' at the next TC6 meeting. This is a crucial issue. >Especially because I don't see clearly where IFIP is going in this >business. > >If I remember correctly, July 1st 2004 opens a new IFIP publication >era/contract with so-called new Springer (KAP, Springer). But what >does it mean in practical terms? I hope we'll get some official >document stating the official IFIP publication policy in due time >before our meeting. If you have it, please circulate it. > >Anyway, this new ACM international proceedings series is certainly >worth considering, and I'm ready to present/discuss it in Athens. > >Best regards, >Guy > > >At 5:09 PM +0100 2/20/04, Otto Spaniol wrote: >>Dear Guy, >>> >> >ACM has started a new international proceedings series. >> >See http://www.acm.org/pubs/icp_series.html >>> >>>IMHO this is a very nice publication channel, much more attractive >>>for conferences than the more costly and less visible IFIP's "new >>>Springer" (KAP, Springer) channel possibly coupled with an IFIP >>>Digital Library. >>> >>IAB (In aller Bescheidenheit = IMHO = In my humble opinion?) this is an >>interesting point. >>Would you "defend it" at our next meeting in Athens? >>Please remind me that we make an agenda point out of it. >> >>Best regards >>Otto > > >-- > >________________________________________________________________________ >Prof. Guy Leduc Tel : +32 4 366 26 98 >Université de Liège Secr : +32 4 366 26 91 >Réseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89 >Research Unit in Networking (RUN) Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be >EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM > http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/People/GuyLeduc/ > > >_______________________________________________ >ifip-tc6 mailing list >ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE >http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6 > >This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended >recipient(s) only. 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Call for Papers - 7th IEEE/ACM MSWiM'2004 - 04-06/10/2004 Venice, Italy
by Prof Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Our apologies if you have received multiple copies -------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 7th IEEE/ACM* MSWiM 2004 The Seventh International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems October 4-6, 2004 Venice, Italy http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2004/ * IEEE and ACM Pending Upon Approval MSWiM is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobile and wireless systems. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile computing and wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Performance evaluation and modeling of mobile and wireless networks * Simulation and analysis of wireless protocols and mobile computing systems * Integrated simulation and measurement based evaluation of mobile and wireless systems * Survivability and reliability evaluation and modeling * RF channel capacity modeling and analysis * Design methodologies for wireless systems * QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile networks * Modeling and analysis of wireless Internet access * Traffic measurements and models for audio, video, multimedia, and WWW services * New simulation languages and tools for wireless systems * Database management systems and mobile computing * Wireless data dissemination * Pervasive computing and ad hoc networking * Wireless PANs, LANs * Sensor networks PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Paper length should not exceed 20 pages. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. Instructions for paper submission will be posted at: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2004/ Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings. A Journal Special Issue will be planned which will contain selected papers from MSWiM. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: June 10th, 2004 Notification: July 20th, 2004 Camera Ready due: August 10th, 2004 Organizing Committee General Chair Simonetta Balsamo Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy Email: balsamo(a)dsi.unive.it Program Co-Chairs Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: chiasserini(a)polito.it Lorenzo Donatiello Universita' di Bologna, Italy Email: donat(a)cs.unibo.it Publicity Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi Universita' di Bologna, Italy Email: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Email: karatza(a)csd.auth.gr Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare Barddal University, Florianopolis, Brazil Email: mirela(a)barddal.br Webmaster and System Chair Luciano Bononi Universita' di Bologna, Italy Email: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it Program Committee Rassul Ayani, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden Anand Balachandran, Intel Research, Seattle, USA Luciano Bononi, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Lorenzo Casaccia, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy Teresa A. Dahlberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Juan Carlos De Martin, IEIIT-CNR, Italy Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria Vincenzo Grassi, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA Fredrik Gunnarsson, Ericsson Research, Sweden Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Francesco Lo Presti, Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Pavan Nugehalli, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Vikram Srinivasan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Dirk Staehle, University of Wurzburg, Germany Mineo Takai, University of California at Los Angeles, USA David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wurzburg, Germany Geoff Voelker, University of California at San Diego, USA Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, AU Steering Committee Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Advisory Board Committee Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Lorenzo Donatiello, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan William C.Y. Lee, AirTouch Inc. .

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Call for Papers - QShine 2004 - 18-20/10/2004 Dallas, Texas, USA
by Prof Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers QShine 2004 - First International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks 18-20/10/2004 Dallas, Texas, USA http://qshine.org/ Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE COMSOC TCCC, IEEE Dallas Chapter, and ACM. (*Approval pending on ACM) Scope Recent technological developments in broadband high-speed networks, peer-to-peer networks, wireless and mobile networks, and grid computing have led to newer challenging problems, such as providing QoS support to the emerging high-speed internet and multimedia applications across both wired and wireless networks. This conference will focus on all aspects of QoS support for heterogeneous wired and wireless networks. Papers addressing cross-layer design on QoS support for both wired and wireless networks are strongly encouraged. It will serve as a forum for researchers from both academia and industry for presenting recent research results in QoS issues for both wired and wireless networks. The conference features prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. Please join us in Dallas for QShine 2004! Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to: QoS in wireless local area networks QoS in sensor networks and wireless ad-hoc networks QoS support and mobility management in wireless Internet QoS in wireless and mobile multimedia QoS provisioning in mobile IP and IPv6 Scheduling policies for wireless networks QoS in current and emerging cellular and satellite networks Differentiated service in wireless multimedia networks QoS in broadband high-speed networks QoS in optical networks QoS support for Internet applications QoS across heterogeneous link technologies Middleware support for QoS provision Policy-based QoS differentiation Interactive broadband television, gaming, and video distribution Variable and adaptive QoS QoS modeling and measurement QoS routing, resource management, and admission control QoS pricing and billing QoS architectures, protocols, and systems QoS in web systems and storage systems QoS specification, metrics, and analysis QoS in peer-to-peer networks, grid and application-layer overlay networks Security aspects of QoS systems Publication Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in ACM / Kluwer Wireless Networks (WINET). Submission Guidelines Papers should not exceed 20 pages, must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions should be sent electronically in Postscript or Adobe PDF format. Electronic submission instructions will be available at submission instructions. Important Dates Submission Deadline: May 28th, 2004 Notification of Acceptance: July 26th, 2004 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: August 20th, 2004 Conference Dates: October 18-20, 2004 Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs Jorge Cobb (Univ. of Texas at Dallas) and Shigang Chen (Univ. of Florida) Sudhir AggarwalFlorida State University Giuseppe BianchiUniversity of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Gregor V. BochmanUniversity of Ottawa, Canada Luciano BononiUniversity of Bologna, Italy Andrew CampellColumbia Guohong CaoPenn State University Xiuzhen ChengGeorge Washington University Sunghun ChoiNational Seoul University S. K. DasUT Arlington Ehab ElmallahUniversity of Alberta, Canada Alois FerschaUniversity of Linz, Austria Mohsen GuizaniWestern Michigan University Zhu HanUniversity of Maryland at College Park Hossam HassaneinQueens Univ CA Jennifer HouUIUC Bo LiHKUST Hong Kong Baochun LiUniversity of Toronto Wei LiUniversity of Toledo Yibei LingTelcordia Jiangchuan LiuChinese University of Hong Kong Mingyan LiuUniversity Michigan at Ann Arbor Songwu LuUCLA King-Shan LuiHong Kong Univ Jelena MisicUniversity of Manitoba, Canada Klara NahrstedtUUIC Sotiris NikoletseasComputer Technology Institute, Greece M. NotareBarddal Univ. Brazil Stephan OlariuOld Dominion University Mohamed Ould-Khaoua University of Glasgow, UK Kihong ParkPurdue Chunming QiaoSUNY at Buffalo Sherman ShenUniversity of Waterloo, Canada Violet SyrotiukArizona State University Terry ToddMcMaster Univ., Canada Dapeng WuUniversity of Florida Hongyi WuUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette Jie WuFlorida Atlantic University Geoffrey XieNaval Post Graduate School Qian ZhangMicrosoft Research Asia Albert ZomayaUniversity of Sydney, Australia Organizing Committee General Chair: Azzedine Boukerche - Canada Research Chair in Mobile Computing and Networking, University of Ottawa, Canada Vice Chair: Michael Fang - University of Florida, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs Jorge Cobb - University of Texas at Dallas, USA Shigang Chen - University of Florida, USA Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac - University of Texas at Dallas, USA Publicity Co-Chairs: Mirela Sechi M. Annoni Notare - Barddal University, Brazil Thomas Hou - Virginia Tech, USA Local Chair & Finance ChairHua Zhu University of Texas at Dallas, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------

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Call for Papers - 8th IEEE DS-RT'2004, 21-23/10/2004, Budapest, Hungary
by Prof Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 14 Mar '04

14 Mar '04

Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers DS-RT 2004 Eighth IEEE* International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, October 21-23, 2004, Budapest, Hungary. http://www.cs.unibo.it/DS-RT2004/ In conjunction with 16th European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2004) October 17-20, 2004, Budapest, Hungary. *IEEE Approval Pending Scope In its eighth year, the 2004 International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2004) will take place at Park Hotel Flamenco, Budapest, Hungary, just after the European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2004). This is an excellent opportunity to participate in two conferences covering a wide range of simulation research. Symposium Objectives DS-RT 2004 serves as a forum for simulationists from academia, industry and research labs, for presenting recent research results in Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. DS-RT 2004 targets the growing overlap between large distributed simulations and real time applications, such as collaborative virtual environments. The conference features prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. DS-RT 2004 will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, and panel discussions. The proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS press. Call for Papers DS-RT is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to distributed simulation and real time applications. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. Demonstration of new tools/applications is very desirable. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: o- Collaborative Virtual Environments, e.g. interactive Virtual Reality, human communication through immersive environments, shared object manipulation; o- Multi-sensory collaborative systems, e.g. collaborative future workspaces, psychological issues of collaborative VR; o- Interactive Simulation in Entertainment and Games; o- Applications of Distributed Simulation, e.g., Real Time, large distributed simulation systems; o- Agent Based Distributed Simulation, e.g., multi-agent based simulation, parallel and distibuted simulation of multi-agent systems; o- Algorithms and Studies relating to existing protocols, e.g., HLA, DIS, event synchronization, network time protocols; o- Data Distribution Management, Interest Management, Multi-resolution modeling and Dead-Reckoning Mechanisms; o- Current Critical Design Issues, e.g.: causality, simultaneous events, zero look-ahead, compensation for slower than real time; o- Methodology for Distributed and Parallel Simulation; o- Approaches to interoperation of COTS simulation modeling packages; o- Interface Definition, Communication, Management, Security; o- Performance of Distributed Simulation, e.g., benchmark, theoretical, empirical, and HLA/RTI studies; o- Visual Interactive Simulation, e.g., generic animation, visual interactive modeling, interactive computer based learning; o- Animating Language Tools, Visualization Tools for Computational Processes under Simulation; o- Modeling and Simulation Environments for Real Time Concurrent Systems; o- Influence of Network-Centric Systems, e.g., Java, and DCOM; o- Network support for distributed simulation and real-time systems e.g., QoS requirements, multicast for distributed/real-time simulation; o- Applications of Web-Based Simulation, e.g. Modeling Global Internet; o- Integration of Distributed Simulation and HLA with Web Technologies; o- Large Scale Distributed Simulation on the Grid. Important dates Submission Deadline: May 15, 2004 (hard copy or electronic paper submission) Notification of Acceptance: June 26, 2004 Camera Ready version due: August 7, 2004 Symposium presentation: October 21-23, 2004 in Budapest, Hungary IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY Submission Guidelines Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages (single-spaced) or 18 pages (double-spaced). Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in electronic form, postscript pdf, or Microsoft Word 6.0 (or higher) only. Please submit papers to http://sentosa.sas.ntu.edu.sg:8000/~dsrt2004/ by May 15, 2004. Questions from authors may be directed to: Linda Wilson (Linda.Wilson(a)dartmouth.edu), David Roberts (D.J.Roberts(a)salford.ac.uk), or Stephen Turner (ASSJTurner(a)ntu.edu.sg). Hardcopy papers also may be submitted, in which case four copies are required. Each submission, electronic or paper, must be accompanied by the following information: a short abstract a complete list of authors and their affiliations a contact person for correspondence postal and e-mail addresses. Please contact the above if you wish to do so. Organizing Committee General Chair Stephen J. Turner School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Email: ASSJTurner(a)ntu.edu.sg Phone: +65-6790-4054. Fax : +65-6792-6559 Program Co-Chairs Linda F. Wilson Thayer School of Engineering 8000 Cummings Hall Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755-8000, USA Email: Linda.Wilson(a)dartmouth.edu Phone: +1-603-646-3694 Fax: +1-603-646-3856 David J. Roberts Centre for Virtual Environments, Business House, University Road, University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK Email: D.J.Roberts(a)salford.ac.uk Phone: +44-161-295-2926 Fax: +44-161-295-2925 Publicity Co-Chairs Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: György Lipovszki, Budapest, Hungary Alexander Verbraeck, TU Delft,The Netherlands Webmaster and System Chair Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy For local information on the beautiful city of Budapest see:http://www.budapestinfo.hu/en/index.html

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Call for Papers - 8th IEEE DS-RT'2004, 21-23/10/2004, Budapest, Hungary
by Prof Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 14 Mar '04

14 Mar '04

Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers DS-RT 2004 Eighth IEEE* International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, October 21-23, 2004, Budapest, Hungary. http://www.cs.unibo.it/DS-RT2004/ In conjunction with 16th European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2004) October 17-20, 2004, Budapest, Hungary. *IEEE Approval Pending Scope In its eighth year, the 2004 International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2004) will take place at Park Hotel Flamenco, Budapest, Hungary, just after the European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2004). This is an excellent opportunity to participate in two conferences covering a wide range of simulation research. Symposium Objectives DS-RT 2004 serves as a forum for simulationists from academia, industry and research labs, for presenting recent research results in Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. DS-RT 2004 targets the growing overlap between large distributed simulations and real time applications, such as collaborative virtual environments. The conference features prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. DS-RT 2004 will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, and panel discussions. The proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS press. Call for Papers DS-RT is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to distributed simulation and real time applications. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. Demonstration of new tools/applications is very desirable. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: o- Collaborative Virtual Environments, e.g. interactive Virtual Reality, human communication through immersive environments, shared object manipulation; o- Multi-sensory collaborative systems, e.g. collaborative future workspaces, psychological issues of collaborative VR; o- Interactive Simulation in Entertainment and Games; o- Applications of Distributed Simulation, e.g., Real Time, large distributed simulation systems; o- Agent Based Distributed Simulation, e.g., multi-agent based simulation, parallel and distibuted simulation of multi-agent systems; o- Algorithms and Studies relating to existing protocols, e.g., HLA, DIS, event synchronization, network time protocols; o- Data Distribution Management, Interest Management, Multi-resolution modeling and Dead-Reckoning Mechanisms; o- Current Critical Design Issues, e.g.: causality, simultaneous events, zero look-ahead, compensation for slower than real time; o- Methodology for Distributed and Parallel Simulation; o- Approaches to interoperation of COTS simulation modeling packages; o- Interface Definition, Communication, Management, Security; o- Performance of Distributed Simulation, e.g., benchmark, theoretical, empirical, and HLA/RTI studies; o- Visual Interactive Simulation, e.g., generic animation, visual interactive modeling, interactive computer based learning; o- Animating Language Tools, Visualization Tools for Computational Processes under Simulation; o- Modeling and Simulation Environments for Real Time Concurrent Systems; o- Influence of Network-Centric Systems, e.g., Java, and DCOM; o- Network support for distributed simulation and real-time systems e.g., QoS requirements, multicast for distributed/real-time simulation; o- Applications of Web-Based Simulation, e.g. Modeling Global Internet; o- Integration of Distributed Simulation and HLA with Web Technologies; o- Large Scale Distributed Simulation on the Grid. Important dates Submission Deadline: May 15, 2004 (hard copy or electronic paper submission) Notification of Acceptance: June 26, 2004 Camera Ready version due: August 7, 2004 Symposium presentation: October 21-23, 2004 in Budapest, Hungary IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY Submission Guidelines Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages (single-spaced) or 18 pages (double-spaced). Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in electronic form, postscript pdf, or Microsoft Word 6.0 (or higher) only. Please submit papers to http://sentosa.sas.ntu.edu.sg:8000/~dsrt2004/ by May 15, 2004. Questions from authors may be directed to: Linda Wilson (Linda.Wilson(a)dartmouth.edu), David Roberts (D.J.Roberts(a)salford.ac.uk), or Stephen Turner (ASSJTurner(a)ntu.edu.sg). Hardcopy papers also may be submitted, in which case four copies are required. Each submission, electronic or paper, must be accompanied by the following information: a short abstract a complete list of authors and their affiliations a contact person for correspondence postal and e-mail addresses. Please contact the above if you wish to do so. Organizing Committee General Chair Stephen J. Turner School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Email: ASSJTurner(a)ntu.edu.sg Phone: +65-6790-4054. Fax : +65-6792-6559 Program Co-Chairs Linda F. Wilson Thayer School of Engineering 8000 Cummings Hall Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755-8000, USA Email: Linda.Wilson(a)dartmouth.edu Phone: +1-603-646-3694 Fax: +1-603-646-3856 David J. Roberts Centre for Virtual Environments, Business House, University Road, University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK Email: D.J.Roberts(a)salford.ac.uk Phone: +44-161-295-2926 Fax: +44-161-295-2925 Publicity Co-Chairs Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: György Lipovszki, Budapest, Hungary Alexander Verbraeck, TU Delft,The Netherlands Webmaster and System Chair Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy For local information on the beautiful city of Budapest see:http://www.budapestinfo.hu/en/index.html

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