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[mycolleagues] CfP: SASO 2007 - Deadline Approaching: January 31th, 2007
by Admin 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

Call for Papers SASO 2007 International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007 http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/ Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (approval pending) in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS (approval pending) and ISCE Research The complexity of current computer systems has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence or biology) to find new ways of designing and managing networks, systems and services. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising facets of a paradigm shift. Self-adaptive systems work in a top-down manner. They evaluate their own global behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that they are not accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when better functionality or performance is possible. Self-organizing systems work bottom-up. They are composed of a large number of components that interact locally according to simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from these local interactions, and it is difficult to deduce properties of the global system by studying only the local properties of its parts. This edition of SASO will focus on engineering, as opposed to speculative and conjectural visions. Contributions should present novel theoretical results, or practical experience with building systems, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems are particularly encouraged. Topics o Self-* properties: - self-organization - self-adaptiveness - self-management - self-monitoring - self-tuning - self-repair - self-configuration - etc. o Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems o Management and control of self-* systems o Robustness and dependability of self-* systems o Engineering and control of emergent properties in self-* systems o Biologically and socially inspired self-* systems Systems & Technologies o P2P applications o Mobile robots o Sensor networks o Mobile ad hoc networks o Grids o Embedded systems, ubiquitous computing o Autonomic computing, autonomic communications o Computer networks, telecommunication networks o Multi-agent systems o E-business systems and services o Complex adaptive systems Research Communities o Distributed artificial intelligence o Networking o Software engineering o Distributed systems o Integrated management o Robotics o Knowledge-based systems o Machine learning o Control theory o Mathematical optimization Organization General Co-Chairs: Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy Howard E. Shrobe, MIT, USA Program Committee Chairs: Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Mark Jelasity, University of Szeged, Hungary Finance Chair: Paul Robertson, MIT, USA Applications Track Chair: Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Industry Chair: Fabrice Saffre, BT, UK Tutorial Chair: David Hales, University of Bologna, Italy Panel Chair: Robert Laddaga, BBN Technologies, USA Publicity Chair: Hermann De Meer, University of Passau, Germany Sponsor Chair: Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Local Arrangements Chair: Thomas J. Green, MIT, USA Submission Instructions See conference website. All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press style guide. Important Dates Submission: January 31, 2007 Notification: March 19, 2007 Final paper: April 6, 2007 _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[mycolleagues] IEEE Network -- SI on Wireless Mesh Networks
by Admin 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] =============== Call for Papers =============== IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks: Applications, Architectures and Protocols ===================================================== Wireless mesh network (WMN) technologies have been actively researched and developed as key solutions to improve the performance and services of wireless personal area networks (WPANs), wireless local area networks (WLANs), and wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs) for a variety of applications, such as voice, data and video. Compared with mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and infrastructure-based mobile cellular networks, WMNs are (1) quasi-static in network topology and architecture, (2) not resource constrained at mesh routers and (3) easy and flexible to deploy. These technological advantages are especially appealing to the emerging market requirements on future wireless networks and services, such as flexible network architecture, easy deployment and self-configuration, low installation and maintenance costs, interoperable with the existing WPAN, WLAN and WMAN networks, support of multiple radios and access methods, hierarchical mobility management, ability to attain efficient frequency reuse, high system capacity, reliable multi-hop and multi-path communications. Potential applications of WMNs include broadband home networking, community and neighbourhood networking, enterprise networking, building automation, health and medical systems, public safety and security systems, intelligent transportation systems, emergency/disaster networking, metropolitan area broadband Internet access and so on. This wide range of applications have different technical requirements and challenges in the design and deployment of mesh networking architectures, algorithms and protocols. This special issue aims to systematically address a variety of technical challenges and advanced solutions in the design, implementation and deployment of mesh networking algorithms, equipments and applications. ====================== Scope of Contributions ====================== This special issue will present the state-of-the-art applications of WMN technologies and the corresponding technical advances in the design and deployment of feasible network architectures and protocols. We are soliciting original survey and research articles written in a tutorial manner comprehensible to the non-specialists. Contributions from academic researchers, industrial engineers, equipment manufacturers and service providers are all very welcome and will go through an open call- for-papers and a rigorous peer review process. Specifically, topics of interest include: * Applications and usage scenarios, such as neighbourhood and community networking, campus and enterprise networking, emergency and instant networking, and wireless broadband Internet access services * Network design and planning, such as homogeneous and heterogeneous network architectures, tradeoff study of computation, storage and bandwidth requirements for real implementations, techniques to ensure network reliability, scalability and interoperability * Network management and operation, such as self-configuration, self- management, self-healing, low overhead control protocols for discovery, establishment and maintenance of mesh networks * Resource management algorithms and communication protocols, such as MAC protocols, routing protocols, end-to-end QoS support and system-wide admission control algorithms * Performance analysis and optimisation, such as network capacity, coverage, fairness, energy efficiency, frequency reuse and interference management * Standardization and internetworking of WPAN-, WLAN-, WMAN- and cellular-based wireless mesh networks * Mesh platforms, such as testbed experiments, design and deployment of mesh nodes and networks with multiple radios, channels and antennas ===================== Manuscript Submission ===================== The special issue will consider original research and survey articles prepared in accordance to the guidelines of the IEEE Network magazine (http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html) written in a tutorial manner comprehensible to the non-specialists. The manuscripts must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors, affiliations, contact information, a 250-word abstract and 3-5 keywords, via email to Dr. Yang Yang (YangYang(a)ieee.org) before the deadline. Please prepare your manuscript in single-column and double-spaced format with the font size larger than 10 points. =============== Important Dates =============== * Paper submission due date: April 15, 2007 * Notifications of acceptance: August 15, 2007 * Final version ready: October 1, 2007. * Publication of the special issue: First Quarter 2008 ============= Guest Editors ============= * Dr. Yang Yang, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London (UCL), London WC1E 6BT, UK. Email: y.yang(a)ee.ucl.ac.uk * Dr. Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research Pittsburgh CM2, 4720 Forbes Avenue, Suite 410, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Email: dina.papagiannaki(a)intel.com * Professor Song Ci, Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 200B Peter Kiewit Institute, Omaha, NE 68182, USA. Email: sci(a)engr.unl.edu * Professor Sherman Shen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo Ontario �N2L 3G1, Canada. Email: xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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Second CFP: IPSN 2007 Workshop Data Sharing and Interoperability on the World-wide Sensor Web (DSI'07)
by Ying Zhang 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

************************************************************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S IPSN 2007 Workshop Data Sharing and Interoperability on the World-wide Sensor Web (DSI'07) (http://research.microsoft.com/~sumann/DSI07) April 24, 2007, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (co-located with IPSN 2007, http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~lu/ipsn07.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Over the last five years, the research community supporting embedded sensing has benefited from the experiences of numerous real-world deployments. Actual scientific applications are on the rise, and a number of new environmental observatories are moving from planning to implementation (NEON, WATERS). In parallel, we have seen an expansion in the use smartphones and other consumer devices, supported by the cellular network and capable of capturing acoustics and images, creating a host of citizen-initiated sensing projects (e.g., videothevote.org). While many algorithms for networking and control of embedded sensing platforms anticipate within-deployment scaling of observational resources, the introduction of diverse environmental observatories and the variety of new urban applications suggests that interoperability, and for the purpose of this workshop the ``sharing" of data and models, represents another, equally important, kind of scaling. In this workshop, we focus directly on the implications of widely shared sensor data, models and algorithms, and the systems that might support this. Simply put, data is the raison d'etre of any sensing exercise. While few researchers in the field would argue the point, too much attention has been paid to the networking of distributed sensing and not enough emphasis has been placed on the tools to manage, share, analyze, and understand the data. Hosted in coordination with IPSN (emphasizing algorithms for communications, coding theory, and distributed estimation) and SPOTS (focusing on hardware and complete platforms), this workshop will examine the various uses of data associated with embedded sensing. Topics of interest (but not limited to): - Data interoperability - Data Semantics - Extracting information from data and sensor data fusion - Managing data uncertainty - Systems for data integrity - Modeling sensor data - Managing spatial and temporal data (e.g., indexing, caching, query processing, etc.) - Automated or semi-automated processing of ad-hoc sensor data - Architecture to connect multiple sensor deployments together - Data visualization - Mash-up applications (the ability to pull in data/tools from multiple places and render it at a client) and workflows Submissions: Authors are requested to submit original papers of no more than 6 pages (standard IEEE proceedings two-column format), including figures, tables, and references in PDF that include contact information of all the authors. If you have any questions regarding the submission process, please send e-mail to either Mark Hansen (cocteau(a)stat.ucla.edu) or Suman Nath (sumann(a)microsoft.com). See http://research.microsoft.com/~sumann/DSI07/ for submission instructions. Important Dates: Papers due: Friday, February 23, 2007 Notification: Friday, March 30, 2007 Camera Ready: Friday, April 13, 2007 Workshop: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Organizing Committee: Mark Hansen, UCLA (PC Co-Chair) Suman Nath, Microsoft Research (PC Co-Chair) Program Committee: Karl Aberer, EPFL Matthew Arrott, UCSD Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland Max Egenhofer, University of Maine Mark Hansen, UCLA Suman Nath, Microsoft Research Mani Srivastava, UCLA Andreas Terzis, JHU John Wilbanks, Science Commons

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[WISTP2007] Deadline extended to February 1st
by Damien Sauveron 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Due to several requests, the deadline is extended to February 1st (firm deadline) ******************************************************************* We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please disseminate it to your colleagues that could be interested. ******************************************************************* Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practices 2007: Smart Cards, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Systems && A networking meeting to discuss proposals for the EU FP7 Heraklion, Crete, Greece May 9-11, 2007 Workshop URL: http://wistp2007.xlim.fr/ ******************************************************* WISTP2007 is: - Co-Sponsored by IFIP TC6 Communications Systems - Co-Sponsored by IFIP WG 8.8 Smart Cards - Co-Sponsored by IFIP WG 11.2 Small System Security - Co-Sponsored by The British Computer Society - In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Security and Privacy (TCSP) - In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society, Task Force on Information Assurance (TFIA) - In Cooperation with the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Technical Committee on Information Assurance & Intelligent Multimedia-Mobile Communications - In Cooperation with the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Technical Committee on Systems Safety and Security - In Cooperation with the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society - Supported by the IEEE France Section - Supported by the IEEE UKRI Section & by the IEEE UKRI Section - Computer Society Chapter - Supported by the IEEE Greece Section - Communications Society & Computer Society & VT&AESS Chapters - Supported by the EuroSys (European ACM SIGOPS Chapter) - Supported by the ASF (French ACM SIGOPS Chapter) - Supported by the Greek Computer Society - Supported by the ASTI - Supported by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) - Supported by the SEE - Supported by the GDR CNRS ASR - Supported by the VDE ITG ******************************************************* WISTP2007 Background and Goals: With the rapid technological development of information technologies, computer systems and especially embedded systems are becoming more mobile and ubiquitous, increasingly interfacing with the physical world. Ensuring the security of these complex and yet, resource constraint systems has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges. The aim of this first workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in related areas and to encourage interchange and cooperation between the research community and the industrial/consumer community. The workshop will consist of technical paper presentations, one special session for student papers and five invited talks. To contribute to the structuring of the community, a networking meeting to discuss EU FP7 projects proposals will take place just after the workshop. ******************************************************* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: A. Smart Cards and Trusted Devices Security * Biometrics, National ID cards * Embedded Systems Security and TPMs * Interplay of TPMs and Smart Cards * New Applications for Secure RFID Systems * RFID Systems Security * Smart Card Security * Smart Card Applications B. Ad Hoc and Mobile Networks Security * Ad Hoc Networks Security * Delay-Tolerant Network Security * Domestic Network Security * Mobile Codes Security * Mobile Devices Security * Security Issues in Mobile and Ubiquitous Networks * Security of GSM/GPRS/UMTS Systems * Sensor Networks Security * Vehicular Network Security * Wireless Communication Security (WiFi, WiMAX, WiMedia, others) C. Ubiquitous Computing Systems Security * Distributed Systems Security * Grid Computing Security * Intrusion Detection and Information Filtering * Peer-to-Peer Networks Security D. Security Protocols, Policies and Management for Mobility * Critical Infrastructure (e.g. for Medical or Military Applications) Security * Digital Rights Management (DRM) * Industrial and Multimedia Applications * Information Assurance * Localization Systems Security (Tracking of People and Goods) * New Applications of Secure Systems * Public Administration and Governmental Services * Security Models and Architecture * Security Policies (Human-Computer Interaction and Human Behavior Impact) * Security Protocols (for Identification and Authentication, Confidentiality and Privacy, and Integrity) * Security Measurements * Trust Management ******************************************************* Submission Details: Authors are invited to submit original papers (written in english) not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. All submissions will be subjected to thorough blind review by at least three reviewers (if the paper involved a Program Committee member, the paper will be reviewed at least by five reviewers). All submitted papers should be anonymous with no author(s) names, affiliations, acknowledgments, nor obvious references. Each paper should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords, following the template indicated by Springer at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The papers will be in .pdf format, at most 10 pages long excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 14 pages long in total, using at least 11-point fonts with reasonable margins. As the reader should not be required to read any appendices, the paper should be intelligible even without them. 20 papers will be accepted for presentation at the workshop (they will be included in the proceedings) and 12 additional papers will be selected to be presented as A1 poster at the workshop (they will NOT be included in the proceedings). If a submitted paper is mainly the result of the work of a student author, this paper could have the chance to be selected as "Best student paper" (even if the paper has been written with senior co-authors). To participate to this selection process, please add the word "STUDENT" in the affiliation field in the submission form. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the Conference and present the paper. For authors presenting multiple papers, one normal registration is valid for up to two papers. For electronic paper submission please use the following URL: https://wistp2007.xlim.fr/wistp2007/iChair/ ******************************************************* Awards: * Best student paper: 400€ + a CD-Rom version of the Handbook of Information Security * Best workshop paper: 400€ + a CD-Rom version of the Handbook of Information Security * Best innovative technology: Gift + a CD-Rom version of the Handbook of Information Security Authors of the best works in the Smart Card domain selected by the PC co-chairs of the international conference Cardis'2008 (François-Xavier Standaert, Gilles Grimaud) will be encouraged to submit extended and significantly revised versions at Cardis'2008. Some accepted papers written by French-speaking authors will be published in a journal of the SEE (in a french version). ******************************************************* Important Dates: - Intention of submission: ASAP. Send a mail to wistp2007sec(a)xlim.fr - Intention of attendance: ASAP. Send a mail to wistp2007sec(a)xlim.fr - Paper submission: February 1st, 2007 (23h59 UTC) - firm - - Notification: March 1st, 2007 - Author Registration: March 3rd, 2007 - Camera-ready papers: March 5th, 2007 ******************************************************* WISTP2007 Committees and Chairs: - Workshop Organization Chair: Damien Sauveron. XLIM, University of Limoges, France - Workshop Organizing Committee: Angelos Bilas. FORTH-ICS & University of Crete, Greece Konstantinos Markantonakis. ISG-SCC, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Damien Sauveron. XLIM, University of Limoges, France - Workshop co-chairs: Jean-Jacques Quisquater. DICE, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium Konstantinos Markantonakis. ISG-SCC, Royal Holloway University of London, UK - Workshop Program Committee: François Arnault. XLIM, University of Limoges, France Angelos Bilas. FORTH-ICS & University of Crete, Greece Christophe Bidan, SSIR, Supélec, France Pierre-François Bonnefoi. XLIM, University of Limoges, France Serge Chaumette. LaBRI, University Bordeaux 1, France Pierre Dusart. XLIM, University of Limoges, France Eduardo Fernández-Medina Patón. Alarcos Research Group, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Theodoulos Garefalakis, Department of Mathematics, University of Crete, Greece Dieter Gollmann. Security in Distributed Applications, Institutes of the TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Stefanos Gritzalis. Info-Sec-Lab, University of the Aegean, Greece Olivier Heen. Security Laboratory, Thomson R&D, France Sokratis Katsikas. Info-Sec-Lab, University of the Aegean, Greece Javier Lopez. Computer Science Department, University of Malaga, Spain Konstantinos Markantonakis. ISG-SCC, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Evangelos P. Markatos. FORTH-ICS & University of Crete, Greece Fabio Martinelli. Information Security Group, IIT-CNR, Italy Keith Mayes. ISG-SCC, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Jan de Meer. smartspacelab.eu, Brandenburg Technical University (BTU), Germany Pierre Paradinas. CEDRIC, CNAM, France Kenny Paterson. ISG, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Joachim Posegga, Security in Distributed Systems, University of Hamburg, Germany Jean-Jacques Quisquater. DICE, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium Pierangela Samarati. Department of Information Technologies, University of Milan, Italy Damien Sauveron. XLIM, University of Limoges, France Paulo Jorge Esteves Veríssimo, LASIGE, University of Lisboa, Portugal ******************************************************* Keynote Speakers: - Professor Fred Piper, ISG (Information Security Group), Royal Holloway University of London, UK - Professor Jean-Pierre Hubaux, LCA ( Laboratory for computer Communications and Applications), EPFL, Switzerland - Stephanie Manning, Chief Engineer, Research and Development, Vodafone Group Services Limited - TBA ******************************************************* Opportunities for students: To help the students looking for a PhD thesis or a postdoctoral position, we will propose them to add a colorized sticker on their badge. In the same way, we will propose to persons offering these positions to add a sticker with a different color. We hope this mechanism will help to support the exchanges between young and senior researchers. ******************************************************* Thanks to our main sponsors: Crisp Telecom Eurosmart Elopsys Limousin Expansion Nokia Vodafone WILEY ******************************************************* We hope you will be interested by this event. For further inquiries, please contact the secretariat at wistp2007sec(a)xlim.fr Best regards, -- Damien Sauveron

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ICST - Call for papers, Call for workshops - MOBIMEDIA 2007
by info＠icstconferences.org 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= 3rd International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (M O B I M E D I A 2 0 0 7) Supported by ACM, EURASIP, ICST, Create-Net Nafpaktos, Greece, August 27 - 29, 2007 http://www.mobimedia.org SCOPE The successful development of multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly. Multimedia semantic characteristics, Human Interpretation of audiovisual information, extraction and usage of semantic information, coding standards and its interaction with networking, mobility and security protocols are research issues that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that will be enabled by the new standards for mobile networking, such as triple services for mobile networks, digital television, video streaming, interactive gaming, navigation services, context aware services, and immersive communications in virtual environments. The efficient delivery of multimedia applications and services over emerging diverse and heterogeneous wireless networks is a challenging research objective. The research effort for the 3G/4G vision of interworking among heterogeneous technologies to achieve multimedia session continuity, retain multimedia QoS characteristics etc., amplifies the need to evaluate the conditions and restrictions under which delivery of such services can be accomplished. Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers from industry and academia, working in multimedia coding, and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Multimedia semantic characteristics in wireless, mobile and ubiquitous environments * Multimedia QoS in wireless networks * Extraction and usage of semantic information * Performance evaluation of multimedia services * Multimedia Retrieval in wireless and mobile environments * Mechanisms supporting triple-play services in emerging wireless networks * Scalable Coding of multimedia in wireless and mobile networks * Cross-Layer techniques for multimedia communications over wireless networks * Joint source-channel coding * Multimedia services over ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks * Rate Control and Adaptation for wireless multimedia * P2P multimedia streaming in wireless and mobile networks * Transport protocols for multimedia in emerging wireless networks * Mobile Content Delivery Networks CALL FOR WORKSHOPS: Proposals for half-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include the workshop name, its scope and a list of topic of interests. Proposals should be submitted to Markus Kampmann (markus.kampmann(a)ericsson.com). IMPORTANT DATES: - Workshop proposals: February 10, 2007 - Special session proposals: March 15, 2007 - Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2007 - Notification of acceptance: June 8, 2007 - Submission of camera-ready papers: July 2, 2007 Students award and grants: Five student prizes will be awarded to the best papers authored by full time students as first author. General Co-Chairs Tasos Dagiuklas Dept. of Telecommunication Syst. & Networks TEI of Mesolonghi, Nafpaktos, Greece Email: ntan(a)teimes.gr Nicolas Sklavos Dept. of Telecommunication Syst. & Networks TEI of Mesolonghi, Nafpaktos, Greece Email: NSklavos(a)ieee.org Technical Co-Chairs Magda El-Zarki Dept. of Information and Computer Science University of California at Davis Irvine, CA, USA Email: elzarki(a)uci.edu Rahim Tafazolli Center for Communication System Research University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey, UK Email: R.Tafazolli(a)surrey.ac.uk PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA * John Apostolopoulos, HP, USA * Pedro A. Amado Assuncao, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal * Luigi Atzori, University Of Cagliari, Italy * Pietro Camarda, Politecnico di Bari, Italy * Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan * Trista Chen, Intel Corporation, USA * Reha Civanlar, Koc University, Turkey * Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland * Magda El-Zarki, University of California, USA * Sergio Faria, Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal * Frank Fitzek, Aalborg University, Denmark * Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland * Mohammad Ghanbari, University of Essex, UK * Christine Guillemot, IRISA, France * Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK * Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany * Ebroul Izquoerdo, Queens Mary College, UK * Wolfgang Klas, University of Wien, Austria * Odysseas Koufopavlou, University of Patras, Greece * Stavros Kotsopoulos, University of Patras, Greece * Inald L. Lagendjik, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Maja Matijasevic, FER, Croatia * James Modestino, University of Miami, USA * Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland * Thrasos Pappas, Northwestern University, USA * Francisco Pereira, IST, Portugal * Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway * Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland * Wan-Chi Siu, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong * Thanos Skodras, Hellenic Open University, Greece * Ralf Steinmetz, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany * Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, Germany * Rahim Tafazolli, CCSR, UK * Murat Telkap, Koc University, Turkey * Micaela van der Schaar, UCLA, USA * Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA * Jian Zhang, University of New South Wales, Australia Paper submission and publication: Mobimedia 2007 invites manuscripts that present original materials not previously published in, or currently under review by, another conference or journal. Submissions should be 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. 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. Papers will be submitted by electronic submission through COCUS system: http://cocus.create-net.it. All papers should be electronically submitted in Adobe PDF format. -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=vgqqzsxdex and enter your email address.

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[mycolleagues] CFP: HPDC workshop on services-oriented computing performance
by Kenneth Chiu 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Dear colleagues: Please consider submitting to this workshop. Our scope is intended to be broad, so anything in the area of performance and services would be welcome. ---------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing Performance: Aspects, Issues, and Approaches http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~kchiu/socp07/ Monterey Bay, California June 26, 2007 In conjunction with HPDC 2007 http://www.isi.edu/hpdc2007/ Service-oriented computing (SOC) is an emerging paradigm that is changing the way systems are designed, architected, deployed, and used. SOC decomposes computation into a set of loosely-coupled, abstract services, and emphasizes document-centric interactions through the exchange of messages. Services can be composed, nested, and orchestrated into a variety of control patterns and workflows. SOC has seen adoption in areas such scientific computing, Grid computing, and business computing, and can facilitate wide-scale application integration within and across organizational boundaries. SOC's loosely-coupled, document-centricity, and high degrees of encapsulation and self-description challenge performance in a number of aspects. New techniques of performance analysis, modeling, and prediction can address some of these challenges, but further research is still needed. Different programming paradigms, design methodologies, or programming language principles also may reduce or eliminate some of the abstraction, encapsulation, and composition costs of SOC. Multicore chips and cluster-wide parallelism also offer interesting avenues for improving and investigating SOC performance. Advanced processing techniques or encodings for languages such as XML also may play a role. We invite innovative papers on any aspect of performance and SOC from all communities, such as the WWW community, the programming languages community, and the Grid community. We welcome different types of papers, including experimental, works-in-progress, and position papers. By bringing together different communities, perspectives, and approaches, this workshop will seek to focus and clarify the state-of-the-art, leading to cross-fertilization. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Distributed, multicore, and parallel processing and protocols (execution models, architectures, properties, performance evaluation) * Alternative XML representations and encodings, such as "binary" XML * Code generation, incremental, lazy, and streaming techniques for improving the performance of SOC at all levels of the services stack * Programming language and compiler techniques such type-based optimizations, static analysis, and transformations * Hardware acceleration techniques for SOC such as reconfigurable computing and hybrid computing * Reducing encapsulation, abstraction, orchestration, and composition costs of SOC * Performance analysis, modeling, and prediction as it relates to SOC * Security and performance Paper Submission ---------------- Papers of up to 8 pages should be submitted electronically at https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/hpdc/, and should use IEEE 8 1/2 x 11 CS format. Appropriate style files can be found in ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip. Proceedings will be published by the IEEE CS Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. A journal special issue is also being planned, and details will be announced shortly. Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submission: February 28, 2007 Paper Submission: March 7, 2007 Author notification: March 19, 2007 Final Manuscripts: April 13th, 2007 Organizers ---------- Kenneth Chiu (kchiu(a)cs.binghamton.edu), SUNY Binghamton Shigeru Chiba (chiba(a)is.titech.ac.jp), Tokyo Institute of Technology Dennis Gannon (gannon(a)cs.indiana.edu), Indiana University Lionel Villard (villard(a)us.ibm.com), IBM Research Program Committee ----------------- To be announced. _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[mycolleagues] CFP: WRAITS 2007 - 1st Workshop on Recent Advances on Intrusion-Tolerant Systems
by Miguel P. Correia 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Our apologies for possible duplicates of this message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st Workshop on Recent Advances on Intrusion-Tolerant Systems WRAITS 2007 in conjunction with EuroSys 2007 Lisbon, Portugal March 23, 2007 http://wraits07.di.fc.ul.pt/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OVERVIEW The First Workshop on Recent Advances on Intrusion-Tolerant Systems aims to bring together researchers in the related areas of Intrusion Tolerance, Distributed Trust, Survivability, Byzantine Fault Tolerance, and Resilience. These areas have the purpose of enhancing the Dependability and Security of computer systems by tolerating both malicious faults (attacks, intrusions) and accidental faults. The workshop will be specially interested in “intrusion-tolerant systems”: how to build them? How to evaluate and test their dependability and security? What systems need to be intrusion-tolerant? The workshop will provide a forum for researchers in these areas to present recent results, discuss open problems that still need research, the steps that need to be taken for intrusion-tolerant systems to be deployed in practice, and the target application domains for intrusion tolerance. Authors are invited to submit position papers to the workshop, that will be held in conjunction with the European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2007), March 21-23, 2007. Position papers can present ongoing work and novel/speculative results, but experimental results or other forms of validation are encouraged. TOPICS Topics of interest related to intrusion tolerance include, but are not limited to: * innovative system architectures * wide-area intrusion-tolerant systems * secure control and embedded systems * security of critical infrastructures * practical applications for intrusion tolerance * state machine replication * Byzantine quorum systems * proactive recovery * Byzantine fault-tolerant algorithms * diversity and failure independence * determinism and interoperability issues * confidentiality and replication * dependability and security evaluation * performance evaluation * risk assessment * distributed trust * survivable systems * cross-organization systems SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Position papers must be no longer than 5 pages including figures, tables and references, and must conform the standard ACM conference format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). The paper should begin with a title, author names and affiliations, and an abstract. Papers must be in PDF or Postscript format and be submitted online (see http://wraits07.di.fc.ul.pt/). More information about the workshop can be obtained by email to the same address. At least one author of an accepted paper must register at the conference and present the paper at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline.................February 8th, 2007 (no extensions) Author notification.................February 26th, 2007 Final version.......................March 12th, 2007 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Miguel Correia, University of Lisboa Nuno Ferreira Neves, University of Lisboa PROGRAM COMMITTEE Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue Univ., US David Powell, LAAS, France Felix Freiling, Univ. Mannheim, Germany HariGovind Ramasamy, IBM Zurich, Switzerland Joni Fraga, Federal Univ. Santa Catariana, Brazil Klaus Kursawe, Philips Research Labs, Germany Lau Cheuk Lung, Pontifícia Univ. Católica Paraná, Brazil Lorenzo Alvisi, Univ. Texas-Austin, US Paulo Veríssimo, Univ. Lisboa, Portugal Piotr Zielinski, Cambridge Univ., UK Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie-Mellon Univ., US Roberto Baldoni, Univ. Roma, Italy Rodrigo Rodrigues, Technical Univ. Lisboa, Portugal More information: http://wraits07.di.fc.ul.pt/ wraits07 AT di.fc.ul.pt _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[mycolleagues] Call for Paper :: UBICC Journal
by Usman Tariq 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

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EUC2007 CALL FOR PAPERS
by Yanlin Peng 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

================================================================== EUC2007 CALL FOR PAPERS The 2007 IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2007) Taipei, Taiwan, December 17-20, 2007 http://csie.ntu.edu.tw/~euc07 Proceedings published by Springer's Lecture Note (LNCS) =================================================================== Embedded and ubiquitous computing is an exciting new paradigm that provides computing and communication services all the time and everywhere. Its systems are now affecting every aspect of our life to the point that they are hidden inside various appliances. This emergence is a natural outcome of research and technological advances in embedded systems, pervasive computing and communications, wireless networks, mobile computing, distributed computing and agent technologies, etc. The EUC 2007 conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address all resulting profound challenges including technical, safety, social, legal, political, and economic issues, and to present and discuss their ideas, results, work in progress and experience on all aspects of embedded and ubiquitous computing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Embedded Computing Track: -Embedded System Software & -Optimization -Embedded System Architectures -Hardware/Software Co-design & Design -Automation -Real-time & Operating Systems -Application-specific Processors and Devices -Power-aware Computing -Sensor Networks -System/Network-on-Chip -Reconfigurable Computing -Applications -Others and emerging new topics Ubiquitous Computing Track: -Pervasive Computing & Communications -Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing -Internet Computing and Applications -Multimedia and Data Management -Human-computer Interaction -Network Protocols -Wireless Communication & Networks -Mobile Computing -Agents and Distributed Computing -Security and Fault Tolerance -Applications [SUBMISSION GUIDELINES] Submissions should include abstract, 5-10 keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 15 pages, including tables and figures, with PDF format. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order that the accepted papers can be put into digital library and indexed by SCI. The final version of an accepted paper will be restricted to be around 10 pages with Springer's Lecture Note format. [IMPORTANT DATES] Workshop Proposal: 15 March 2007 Paper submission due: 17 May 2007 Acceptance notification: 6 August 2007 Camera-ready due: 4 September 2007 Author registration: 4 September 2007 Conference: 17-20 December 2007 [PUBLICATIONS] The accepted papers have to be presented orally at the conference and will be published in proceedings of the EUC 2007 conference by Springer's Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS). The selected best papers will be published in special issues of journals. [CONFERENCE COMMITTEES] HONORARY CHAIR Si-Chen Lee, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan GENERAL CHAIR Edwin Sha, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA PROGRAM CHAIR Tei-Wei Kuo, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan STEERING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Minyi Guo, Univ. of Aizu, Japan, Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada Jane Liu, Nat??l Taiwan Univ. & Academia Sinica, Taiwan LOCAL ORGANIZATION CO-CHAIRS Chia-Lin Yang, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan Chih-Wen Hsueh, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan REGISTRATION and FINANCE CO-CHAIRS Tai-Yi Huang, Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan Shih-Hao Hung, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan Shi-Wu Lo, Nat'l Chung-Cheng Univ., Taiwan WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Mieso Denko, Univ. of Guelph, Canada Chi-Sheng Shih, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan PANEL CHAIR Ted Chang, Quanta Computer Inc., Taiwan PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Morris Chang, Iowa State Univ., USA Zhen Liu, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Japan Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash Univ., Australia PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS Zili Shao, Hong Kong Polytech Univ., Hong Kong Chi-Sheng Shih, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS Real-Time/Embedded Operating Systems Li-Pin Chang, Nat'l Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan Power-Aware Computing X. Sharon Hu, Univ. of Notre Dame, USA Embedded System Software & Optimization Jinsoo Kim, KAIST, Korea Embedded System Architectures Dongsheng Wang, Tsinghua Univ., China Embedded and Reconfigurable Hardware Hiroyuki Tomiyama, Nagoya Univ., Japan HW/SW Co-design and Design Automation Samarjit Chakraborty, Nat'l Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Sensor Networks Yu-Chee Tseng, Nat'l Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan Mobile Computing Nicolas Navet, INRIA Lorraine, France Agent and Distributed Computing I-Ling Yen, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA Middleware & P2P Cho-Li Wang, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Wireless Networks Mohan Kumar, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA, Network Protocol Ai-Chung Pang, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan Multimedia, Human-Computer Interface and Data Management Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist Univ., Hong Kong Security & Fault Tolerance Jiman Hong, Kwangwoon Univ., Korea _________________________________________________________________ Invite your Hotmail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://sp…

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EUC2007 CALL FOR PAPERS
by Yanlin Peng 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

================================================================== EUC2007 CALL FOR PAPERS The 2007 IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2007) Taipei, Taiwan, December 17-20, 2007 http://csie.ntu.edu.tw/~euc07 Proceedings published by Springer's Lecture Note (LNCS) =================================================================== Embedded and ubiquitous computing is an exciting new paradigm that provides computing and communication services all the time and everywhere. Its systems are now affecting every aspect of our life to the point that they are hidden inside various appliances. This emergence is a natural outcome of research and technological advances in embedded systems, pervasive computing and communications, wireless networks, mobile computing, distributed computing and agent technologies, etc. The EUC 2007 conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address all resulting profound challenges including technical, safety, social, legal, political, and economic issues, and to present and discuss their ideas, results, work in progress and experience on all aspects of embedded and ubiquitous computing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Embedded Computing Track: -Embedded System Software & -Optimization -Embedded System Architectures -Hardware/Software Co-design & Design -Automation -Real-time & Operating Systems -Application-specific Processors and Devices -Power-aware Computing -Sensor Networks -System/Network-on-Chip -Reconfigurable Computing -Applications -Others and emerging new topics Ubiquitous Computing Track: -Pervasive Computing & Communications -Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing -Internet Computing and Applications -Multimedia and Data Management -Human-computer Interaction -Network Protocols -Wireless Communication & Networks -Mobile Computing -Agents and Distributed Computing -Security and Fault Tolerance -Applications [SUBMISSION GUIDELINES] Submissions should include abstract, 5-10 keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 15 pages, including tables and figures, with PDF format. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order that the accepted papers can be put into digital library and indexed by SCI. The final version of an accepted paper will be restricted to be around 10 pages with Springer's Lecture Note format. [IMPORTANT DATES] Workshop Proposal: 15 March 2007 Paper submission due: 17 May 2007 Acceptance notification: 6 August 2007 Camera-ready due: 4 September 2007 Author registration: 4 September 2007 Conference: 17-20 December 2007 [PUBLICATIONS] The accepted papers have to be presented orally at the conference and will be published in proceedings of the EUC 2007 conference by Springer's Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS). The selected best papers will be published in special issues of journals. [CONFERENCE COMMITTEES] HONORARY CHAIR Si-Chen Lee, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan GENERAL CHAIR Edwin Sha, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA PROGRAM CHAIR Tei-Wei Kuo, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan STEERING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Minyi Guo, Univ. of Aizu, Japan, Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada Jane Liu, Nat??l Taiwan Univ. & Academia Sinica, Taiwan LOCAL ORGANIZATION CO-CHAIRS Chia-Lin Yang, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan Chih-Wen Hsueh, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan REGISTRATION and FINANCE CO-CHAIRS Tai-Yi Huang, Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan Shih-Hao Hung, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan Shi-Wu Lo, Nat'l Chung-Cheng Univ., Taiwan WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Mieso Denko, Univ. of Guelph, Canada Chi-Sheng Shih, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan PANEL CHAIR Ted Chang, Quanta Computer Inc., Taiwan PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Morris Chang, Iowa State Univ., USA Zhen Liu, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Japan Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash Univ., Australia PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS Zili Shao, Hong Kong Polytech Univ., Hong Kong Chi-Sheng Shih, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS Real-Time/Embedded Operating Systems Li-Pin Chang, Nat'l Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan Power-Aware Computing X. Sharon Hu, Univ. of Notre Dame, USA Embedded System Software & Optimization Jinsoo Kim, KAIST, Korea Embedded System Architectures Dongsheng Wang, Tsinghua Univ., China Embedded and Reconfigurable Hardware Hiroyuki Tomiyama, Nagoya Univ., Japan HW/SW Co-design and Design Automation Samarjit Chakraborty, Nat'l Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Sensor Networks Yu-Chee Tseng, Nat'l Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan Mobile Computing Nicolas Navet, INRIA Lorraine, France Agent and Distributed Computing I-Ling Yen, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA Middleware & P2P Cho-Li Wang, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Wireless Networks Mohan Kumar, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA, Network Protocol Ai-Chung Pang, Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan Multimedia, Human-Computer Interface and Data Management Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist Univ., Hong Kong Security & Fault Tolerance Jiman Hong, Kwangwoon Univ., Korea _________________________________________________________________ FREE online classifieds from Windows Live Expo buy and sell with people you know http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwex0010000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://ex…

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