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[mycolleagues] Call for papers Euro-Par 2007 - Topic on Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
by Mitton Nathalie 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Please, find below a CFP for EURO-PAR 2007. This message is cross-posted to several lists. Apologies for any duplicate postings. ****************************** ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 26, 2007 Topic 14: Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing EURO-PAR 2007 August 28 - August 31, 2007 Rennes, France Web site: http://europar2007.irisa.fr/ ******************************************************************** TOPIC 14 - DESCRIPTION The tremendous advances in wireless networks, mobile computing, sensor networks along with the rapid growth of small, portable and powerful computing devices offers opportunities for pervasive computing and communications. This topic will deal with cutting-edge research in various aspects related to the theory or practice of mobile computing or wireless and mobile networking, including architectures, algorithms, networks, protocols, modeling and performance, applications, services, and data management. The aim is to bring together computer scientists and engineers from academics and industry working in these exciting and emerging area of pervasive computing and communications to share their ideas and results with their peers. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: * Architectures, infrastructures & protocols to cope with pervasive computing & mobile communication * Mobile ad hoc, sensor/actuators networks & RFIDs technologies * Security, privacy, and fault-tolerance of mobile/wireless systems * Hybrids systems, integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks, mesh networks * Positioning, tracking, location-aware services and applications * Context aware computing, applications and services for mobile users * Ressource management, interference management, mobility management and data management * Modeling, measurment, metrology and simulation aspects of mobile networks and ubiquitous computing * Experiences in the implementation of parallel computing algorithms in mobile/sensor nodes * Grid support for mobile and ubiquitous computing * Fundamental aspects of mobile computing and wireless networking ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPIC 14 - PROGRAM COMMITTEE ** Global Chair Prof. Nuno Preguica CITI / DI-FCT Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal http://asc.di.fct.unl.pt/~nmp ** Local Chair Prof. Dr. Eric Fleury CITI / INRIA ARES INSA de Lyon, France http://perso.citi.insa-lyon.fr/efleury/ ** Vice Chair Holger Karl Uni Paderborn Germany ** Vice Chair Gerd Kortuem Computing Department - Infolab21 Lancaster University Lancaster, UK ============================================================================ ======================== ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Euro-Par 2007 The 13th International Euro-Par Conference European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing August 28-31, 2007 IRISA, Rennes, France http://europar2007.irisa.fr europar2007(a)irisa.fr SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 26, 2007 In conjunction with the First CoreGRID European Network of Excellence Symposium ******************************************************************** Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. Euro-Par focuses on all aspects of hardware, software, algorithms and applications in this field. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum within which to promote the development of parallel and distributed computing both as an industrial technique and an academic discipline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice. The conference is organized along to the following topics: Topic 1. Support tools and environments Topic 2. Performance prediction and evaluation Topic 3. Scheduling and load-balancing Topic 4. Compilers for High performance Topic 5. Parallel and distributed databases Topic 6. Grid and cluster computing Topic 7. Peer to peer computing: algorithms, applications, protocols Topic 8. Distributed systems and algorithms Topic 9. Parallel and distributed programming Topic 10. Parallel numerical algorithms Topic 11. Distributed and high performance multimedia Topic 12. Theory and algorithms for parallel computation Topic 13. High performance networks Topic 14. Mobile and ubiquitous computing Full details on the topics, including topic description and chairs, are available on the Euro-Par 2007 website. The conference will feature tutorials and invited talks. Co-located workshops are also planned. In addition, this year, for the first time, Euro-Par will be held in conjunction with the First European network of Excellence CoreGRID Symposium, thus acknowledging the increasing importance of Grid computing in the Euro-Par community. Venue ---------- The city of Rennes is located on the Western part of France, at the heart of the Brittany Region. Brittany enjoys a very rich cultural heritage. Of world-wide reputation is the Mont Saint-Michel and the corsair city of Saint-Malo, both located 1-hour drive north from Rennes. Rennes is very well connected with Paris with the high-speed TGV, Rennes also runs an international airport located close to the city centre with direct connections to most French cities, and optimized flight connection with most European cities through Paris. IRISA (Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires) is joint research laboratory, between INRIA and CNRS among others, one of the largest lab in Computer Science in France. IRISA is also well-known for its strong involvement in high-performance computing, distributed systems and parallel machines and codes. Together with Grenoble, it was the location for the first parallel machines installed in France. Important Dates: ---------------- January 26, 2007: Full papers due May 4, 2007: Notification of acceptance May 26, 2007: Camera-ready full papers and author registration due Full papers: ----------- We invite authors to submit full papers (10 pages, Springer LNCS style), offering original contributions regarding the theory and practice of parallel and distributed computing. Full submission guidelines are available on the conference website. Only contributions not submitted elsewhere for publication will be considered. Authors must submit their papers to the specific topic they judge most appropriate. Authors may specify a secondary topic, if applicable. Details on topics, including descriptions and chairs, are available on the conference website. Paper submission will be performed electronically via the conference Web site in PDF format. Papers accepted for publication must also be supplied in source form (LaTeX or Word). All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. Call for additional Conference Workshop: ----------------------------------------------- Following last year's issue in Dresden, Euro-Par 2007 will feature a series of satellite workshops on Tuesday, August 18, afternoon, just between the CoreGRID Symposium and the conference's main sessions. Proposals for workshops covering a specific theme and lasting between half a day and a day are encouraged and solicited until April 2, 2006. Contact has been taken with Springer to publish a special workshop volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series - "Proceedings of the International Euro-Par Workshops 2007" after the conference. The principal coordinator of each workshop will appear as editor of the workshop volume. Please contact the Workshop Chair for additional details and proposals. Conference Co-Chairs: ------------------ Anne-Marie Kermarrec, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes, France Luc Bougé, IRISA/ENS Cachan, Rennes, France Thierry Priol, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes France _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[mycolleagues] Call for papers: STPSA 2007
by Dr. Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Security, Trust, and Privacy for Software Applications (STPSA 2007) in conjunction with COMPSAC 2007 Beijing, USA , July 24-27, 2007 http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/workshops/stpsa.html MOTIVATION Information security has become a major concern for both pervasive and non-pervasive software applications. Software systems must be engineered with reliable protection mechanisms with respect to security, privacy, and trust, while still delivering the expected value of the software to their customers. The traditional approaches to secure a system (e.g., IDS, firewalls) are no longer sufficient to address many security, trust, and privacy (STP) issues. These issues should be addressed by building more effective STP-aware software applications. The principal obstacle in developing STP-aware software is that current software specification, design, implementation, and testing practices do not include adequate methods and tools to achieve security, trust, and privacy goals. As most systems now are Internet-based, the number of attackers is increased dramatically and threat scenarios have changed. Traditional security measures do not fit well for the software of pervasive applications. Since location and contexts are key attributes of pervasive applications, the privacy issues need to be handled in a novel manner than traditional software applications. The devices in pervasive computing leave and join in ad hoc manner in the pervasive network. These create a need for new trust models for pervasive computing applications. In this workshop, we will also welcome papers on the challenges and requirements of security, privacy, and trust for pervasive software applications. This workshop will focus on techniques, experiences and lessons learned with respect to the state of art for the security, trust, and privacy aspects of both pervasive and non-pervasive software applications along with some open issues. SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Security, trust, and privacy specific software development practices Security, trust, and privacy requirements elicitation and specification Models and languages for STP-aware software specification and design Architecture for STP-aware software development STP challenges for pervasive software applications Testing security, trust, and privacy properties of both pervasive and non-pervasive software STP management and usability issues in software applications User interfaces for STP-aware pervasive and non pervasive software Software reengineering for security, trust, and privacy for both pervasive and non pervasive applications Tradeoffs among security, privacy, trust, and other criteria STP challenges in e-services, e.g. e-health, e-government, e-banking, e-commerce, e-marketing and other web-based and pervasive applications STP challenges in mobile software applications STP issues in sensor based software applications User interfaces for secure and privacy-aware pervasive computing applications STP-aware service discovery mechanisms for pervasive computing environments Models for ensuring security, trust, and privacy in pervasive software applications STP issues for handheld device software applications Teaching STP-aware software development Experience reports on developing STP-aware software IMPORTANT DATES February 23, 2007 deadline for paper submission March 30, 2007 notification of acceptance April 30, 2007 camera-ready due SUBMISSION Papers must be submitted electronically via the SPTPA 2007 Submission Page (will be available later). The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for the IEEE conference proceedings. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers can be submitted as regular papers (six pages), and the acceptance will depend on reviewer feedback. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of the 31st IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007) by the IEEE CS Press. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper or fast abstract must register as a full participant of the workshop to have the paper or fast abstract published in the proceedings. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Program Co-Chairs Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed Dept. of Math, Statistics, and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA Mohammad Zulkernine School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 Program Committee Umesh Bellur, IIT Bombay, India John Buford, Panasonic, USA Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan Philip Fong, University of Regina, Canada Vahid Garousi, University of Calgary, Canada Neelam Gupta, University of Arizona, USA Christian Hauser, University of Stuttgart, Germany Raquel L. Hill, Indiana University, USA Andreas Holzinger, University of Graz, Austria Patrick Hung, Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Tech., Canada Min-Shiang Hwang. National Chung Hsing Univ., Taiwan Anwar Haque, Bell Canada, Hamilton, Canada Tom Karygiannis, NIST, USA Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece Mujtaba Khambatti, Microsoft Corporation, USA Antonio Mana, University of Malaga, SPAIN Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Kiran Mudiam, Motorola Corporation, USA Jalal Al-Muhtadi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Nanjangud Narendra, IBM Corporation , India George Roussos, University of London, UK Sahra Sedigh-Ali, Univ. of Missouri at Rolla, USA Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky, USA Issa Traore, University of Victoria, Canada Miroslav Velev, Consultant, USA Guanhua Yan, Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA George Yee, NRC Canada Wang Yu, Auburn University, USA Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Stephen Weis, MIT, USA Wensheng Zhang. Iowa State University, USA GENERAL INQUIRIES For updated information, please contact the Program Co-Chairs: iq(a)mscs.mu.edu or mzulker(a)cs.queensu.ca _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[mycolleagues] Call for book proposals in Wireless COmmunication
by Yi Pan 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Dear Colleagues: Prof. Sherman Shen of University of Waterloo and I have been appointed by John Wiley to serve as Series Editors for the new Wiley Book Series on Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing. If you are interested in editing or authoring a book related to any area in Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing, please contact us. Right now, we are particularly interested in projects for authored books. Many thanks > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Yi Pan > Chair and Professor > Department of Computer Science > Georgia State University > 34 Peachtree Street, Suite 1450 > Atlanta, GA 30302-4110, USA > email: pan(a)cs.gsu.edu > Phone: (404) 651-0649 > Fax: (404) 463-9912 > http://www.cs.gsu.edu/pan > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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CFP - Special Session Data Dissemination and Communication Protocols in Sensor Networks
by Sajid Hussain 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

-------------------- Call for Papers -------------------- Special Session: Data Dissemination and Communication Protocols in Sensor Networks The Third IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'07), the University of Ulm, Germany, September 24-25, 2007. Website - http://www.uni-ulm.de/ie07/ (Special Sessions, Session #1) ------------- Description ------------- Sensor networks are used in various pervasive and ubiquitous applications. These networks usually consist of a large number of sensors that are deployed at remote and inaccessible places. As most of the sensors are wireless, energy-efficient data dissemination and communication protocols are needed; otherwise, batteries will rapidly drain and network connectivity and coverage will become unacceptable. On one hand, we want the sensor nodes to be active and monitor the environment. On the other hand, we want the sensor nodes to conserve their energy by sleeping significant amount of time. Further, depending on the application, robustness and responsiveness can be very critical. The objective of this special session is to provide an opportunity for academic researchers and industry practitioners to present and discuss experiences, emerging applications, and research results for data dissemination and communication protocols in sensor networks. --------- Topics --------- Topics include but not are limited to the following: - Energy-efficient data dissemination - Databases and query optimization - Routing protocols - Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols - Connectivity and coverage - Topology and Sleep Scheduling - Robustness - Security, privacy, and trust - Smart homes - Software design and architectures - Intelligent agent architectures - Machine learning and distributed data mining - Pervasive and ubiquitous systems and services - Industrial experience and emerging applications - Instructions for Manuscripts ------------ Submission ------------ Authors are requested to submit a PDF file for their manuscript following the submission guideline available at http://www.uni-ulm.de/ie07/. All manuscripts should be submitted through the conference submission system and choosing the area of the special session. The papers should also be emailed to the special session organizer for reference. 03-15-2007 - Paper Submission Deadline 05-15-2007 - Notification of acceptance/rejection 06-15-2007 - Camera ready papers due 07-15-2007 - Deadline for early bird registration --------- Contact --------- For more information please contact: Peter Graham, pgraham(a)cs.umanitoba.ca, University of Manitoba, Canada; Sajid Hussain, sajid.hussain(a)acadiau.ca, Acadia University, Canada

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[mycolleagues] CFP: JSAC Special Issue on "Game Theory in Communication Systems"
by Jianwei Huang 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Sorry for cross-posting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) Special issue on "Game Theory in Communication Systems" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Game theory is a formal framework with a set of mathematical tools to study the complex interactions among interdependent rational players. For more than half a century, game theory has led to revolutionary changes in economics, and has found important applications in politics, sociology, psychology, and transportation. Recently, there has been a surge in research activities that employ game theory to model and analyze a wide range of problems in modern communication systems. This is mainly due to (1) the emergence of the Internet as a global platform for computation and communication, which has sparked the development of large-scale, distributed and heterogeneous communication systems; (2) the deregulation of the telecommunication industry and the dramatic improvement in computation power, which make it possible for various network entities to make independent and selfish operational decisions; and (3) the need for robust designs against uncertainties modeled as games between the user and a malicious nature. Game theory can help us better understand various complicated communication systems and design more efficient, scalable and robust communication protocols and resource allocation algorithms. The aim of this issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions that address the major opportunities and challenges of applying game theory to understanding and designing modern communication systems, with emphasis on both new analytical techniques and novel application scenarios. We seek original completed and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Game theoretical analysis/design of communication networks - Wireless resource allocation - DSL spectrum management - Network pricing - Peer-to-peer and overlay networks - Medium access control, routing, and congestion control - Information theoretical analysis - Cognitive radio networks - Security and privacy * Minimax robustness in communication systems - Minimax/maximin formulations - Worst-case robust designs - Saddle-point optimizations - H-infinity designs * Emerging game-theoretical models in communication systems - S-modular and potential games - Stackelberg and Wardrop equilibria - Coalition games and Nash bargaining models - Multi-stage and repeated games - Incentive compatible mechanism design (e.g., auction) * General game-theoretic methodologies and techniques - Efficiency loss compared with optimization model (i.e ., price of anarchy) - Games of imperfect or asymmetric information - Effects of bounded rationality - Learning mechanisms in games - Computation of Nash, correlated, and market equilibria - Preference elicitation and winner determination in combinatorial auctions Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors (http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html). All papers should be submitted in the PDF format (less than 1Mbyte in file size after compression) to EDAS (tentative submission plan, might change later), according to the following timetable: Manuscript Submission: August 1, 2007 Acceptance Notification: January 10, 2008 Final Manuscript Due: April 1, 2008 Publication: 4th quarter 2008 Guest Editors: * Jianwei Huang, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University * Daniel P. Palomar, Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology * Narayan B. Mandayam, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, WINLAB, Rutgers University * Stephen B. Wicker, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cornell University * Jean Walrand, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley * Tamer Basar, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, CSL, UIUC ------- Jianwei Huang Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Electrical Engineering Princeton University http://www.princeton.edu/~jianweih/ jianweih(a)princeton.edu _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2007)
by Krzysztof Zielinski 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

================================================================= Call for Papers (deadline extended till January 28) International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2007) Toronto, Canada, June 29, 2007 In conjunction with the IEEE 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2007) The deadline for submitting papers to the International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2007) has been extended to 1/28/2007. The Workshop provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in specialized ad-hoc networks and systems. Specialized solutions, exploiting features of their specific application classes or individual applications, facilitate overcoming obstacles faced by the general solutions for ad hoc networks and systems. For further information please visit the SAHNS web pages at: http://www.cs.wmich.edu/~alfuqaha/SAHNS/ or contact Leszek T. Lilien, Workshop Chair (llilien(a)cs.wmich.edu). Please accept our apologies if this is a duplicate message. Prof. Krzysztof Zieliñski International Publicity Co-Chair, SAHNS 2007 AGH University of Science and Technology Krakow, Poland ====================================================================

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ICST - BodyNets 2007 - Submission Deadline Extended: February 5, 2007
by info＠icstconferences.org 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Due to numerous requests, we have extended the submission deadline to February 5, Monday 2007 at 24:00 GMT. CALL FOR PAPERS *************** B O D Y N E T S 2 0 0 7 **************** 2nd International Conference on Body Area Networks 11-13 June, 2007, Florence (Italy) http://www.bodynets.org Jointly sponsored by: - Create-Net - ICST - AICT "Networks and Telecommunication systems" Group In-technical cooperation with: - ACM SIGCHI - The European Association for Signal and Image Processing (EURASIP) ------------------------------------------------------------- ******************* IMPORTANT DEADLINES ********************* ------------------------------------------------------------- Full papers due (to be received by): February 5, 2007 Notification of acceptance: March 12, 2007 Submission of camera-ready papers: April 11, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE ------------------------------------------------------------- With recent advances in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), their practical applications in general sensing and monitoring are rapidly broadening. Although originally conceived for wide area environment or process monitoring, WSNs are increasingly being used in human computer interaction, brain computer interaction, gaming, and interactive digital arts, as well as in healthcare and patient monitoring. Despite the recent technological developments in sensing, embedded electronics, and sensor networking, several challenging issues need to be addressed. In particular, technological scaling, wireless communication and networking, sensor data processing and presentation are key aspects that need to be investigated in an integrated fashion for enabling visionary applications in the above areas of WSN. PAPER SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of this conference is to bring researchers in WSN to address the following technical and application issues: * Body Area Networks and Human Computer Interaction · Interactive Virtual Reality and Gaming · Entertainment * Body Area Networks and Brain Computer Interaction · Invasive BCI · Non-invasive BCI * Wireless Communication and Networking Protocols: · In-body networks · Near-body networks * Applications · WSN based Interactive Digital Art · Ambient intelligence · Smart Spaces, Personalization · Healthcare and patient monitoring * Server side information processing: · Data querying · Event detection, classification,tracking * Middleware * Quality of service, security and fault tolerance issues * Enabling technologies: · Novel sensors and materials · Transceivers · Microcontrollers · Hardware platform * In Network information processing: · Data aggregation and fusion algorithms * Tools and test beds * Performance evaluation * Internetworking with heterogeneous networks Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages, or short papers of up to 2 pages, in ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS (http://cocus.create-net.it). The proceedings will be an ACM Publication and the papers will be listed on the ACM digital library. Please refer to the website for more detailed information. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------ Romano Fantacci (General Chair), University of Florence , Italy David Tacconi (Vice-Chair), Create-Net, Italy Guang-Zhong Yang (TPC chair), Imperial College of London, UK Hsiao-Hwa Chen (TPC chair), NSYSU, Taiwan Prithwish Basu (TPC chair), BBN Technologies, USA Francesco Chiti (Local Arrangement Chair), University of Florence , Italy Jie Li (Publicity Chair), University of Tsukuba, Japan Yang Yang (Publicity Chair), University College of London, UK Sinem Coleri Ergen (Publicity Chair), Pirelli/Telecom Italia WSN Lab,Berkeley, US Giada Mennuti (Sponsorships Chair), University of Florence , Italy Thomas Watteyne (Web Chair), INRIA / France Telecom, France Karen Decker (Financial Chair), ICST, US Zita Rozsa (Conference Coordinator), ICST, Europe STEERING COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------------- Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Univ. Trento, Italy -------------------------------------------------- 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/cmc/unsubscribe.php?p=vgqqzsxdex and enter your email address.

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[mycolleagues] CEAS 2007 Call for Papers
by Kang Li 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

THE FOURTH CONFERENCE ON EMAIL AND ANTI-SPAM (CEAS 2007) Thursday August 2nd and Friday August 3rd, 2007 Mountain View, California <http://www.ceas.cc> Preliminary CALL FOR PAPERS ** Submission Deadline: Mar 23, 2007 ** The Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) invites the submission of papers for its fourth meeting. Papers are invited on all aspects of electronic communication including email, instant messaging, text messaging, and voice over internet protocol (VoIP). Topics of interest include novel applications of electronic messaging, abatement of abuses of electronic messaging, spam, spit (spam over internet telephony), spim (spam over instant messenger), phishing, identity theft via messaging, viruses, and spyware. Paper submissions can be either research papers, industry reports, or law and policy papers. Submissions from practitioners and vendors are encouraged. Papers will be selected by peer review for presentation at CEAS 2007. Papers will be reviewed based on their contribution to the literature. SUGGESTED TOPICS: * Message filtering, blocking, authentication - Machine learning - Natural language processing - Challenge-response - Payment schemes - Disposable addresses - Messaging protocols - Digital signatures * Evaluation - corpus and benchmark creation - measures and methodologies - tests of specific methods or products * Analysis - Economics of spam, spit, spim, phishing, etc. - abuse tactics and patterns - legitimate use patterns - historical data * Message organization and search - Advanced calendaring and scheduling - automatic foldering - categorization - summarization - search * Systems and network issues - performance & scalability - reliability & security - archival & retrieval * User issues - user interfaces - usability studies - messaging in support of user activities * Social issues - deducing social phenomena - costs and benefits of messaging use and abuse - other social impacts * Industry - Cooperation for stopping abuse - Messaging and abuse reporting standards - Interoperability * Legal issues - spam, spit, spim and phishing, etc. - identity theft - privacy - freedom of speech - digital rights management KEY DATES: * Paper submission deadline: Mar 23, 2007 * Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2007 * Final camera-ready version of papers: June 11, 2007 * Conference: August 2nd and 3rd, 2007 REQUIREMENTS: Papers may be of one of two types: short papers (two pages plus bibliography) or full papers (eight pages plus bibliography). Work may not have been previously published in, or under consideration for publication in any other conference or journal. Work that has been summarily reported on-line, or in technical reports or workshops, may be the basis of a CEAS submission provided that presentation and publication by CEAS would be unencumbered by prior copyright assignment. Submissions must use the CEAS electronic system (to be announced). The style for submissions and final papers is a two-column, 8.5 by 11 inch format. See http://www.ceas.cc/2007/format.htm for details. Papers will be reviewed by a committee of experts from academic and industrial research centers. Accepted papers will be made freely available on the web, and will be published on CD-ROM. Authors will retain copyright of their work. CONTACT: * The conference chair and co-chairs can be reached at information(a)ceas.cc GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIR: * Calton Pu Georgia Institute of Technology http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~calton/ PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: * Kang Li University of Georgia http://www.cs.uga.edu/~kangli/ * Richard Segal IBM Research http://www.research.ibm.com/people/r/rsegal INDUSTRY CO-CHAIR: * Paul Judge Secure Computing http://www.securecomputing.com/corp_executives.cfm?Person=67 _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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DIMVA 2007: Final Call for Papers
by Robin Sommer 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Dear Colleagues, this is the final Call for Papers for DIMVA 2007, the Fourth GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions & Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment; which will be held in Lucerne, Switzerland, on July 12-13, 2007. Paper submission is now open at http://www.dimva.org/dimva2007. We invite submissions of regular papers and short papers. The deadline for both types of submissions is February 9, 2007. Please feel free to distribute this announcement. We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. Best Regards, The DIMVA 2007 Organizing Committee --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS DIMVA 2007 Fourth GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions & Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment Organized by the GI Special Interest Group SIDAR In Cooperation with IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Information Assurance Lucerne, Switzerland July 12 - 13, 2007 http://www.dimva.org/dimva2007 mailto:info@dimva.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The annual DIMVA conference serves as a premier forum for advancing the state of the art in intrusion detection, malware detection, and vulnerability assessment. Each year DIMVA brings together international experts from academia, industry and government to present and discuss novel research in these areas. DIMVA is organized by the special interest group "Security - Intrusion Detection and Response" of the German Informatics Society (GI). The conference proceedings will appear in Springer's "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) series. DIMVA solicits submission of high-quality, original scientific work. This year we invite two types of paper submissions: - Full papers, presenting novel and mature research results. Full papers are limited to 20 pages, prepared according to the instructions provided below. They will be reviewed by the program committee, and papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the proceedings. - Short papers (extended abstracts), presenting original, still ongoing work that has not yet reached the maturity required for a full paper. Short papers are limited to 10 pages, prepared according to the instructions provided below. They will also be reviewed by the program committee, and papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the proceedings (containing "Extended Abstract" in the title). DIMVA's scope includes, but is not restricted to the following areas: - Intrusion Detection * Approaches * Implementations * Prevention and response * Result correlation * Evaluation * Potentials and limitations * Operational experiences * Evasion and other attacks * Legal and social aspects - Malware * Techniques * Detection * Prevention * Evaluation * Trends and upcoming risks * Forensics and recovery - Vulnerability Assessment * Vulnerabilities * Vulnerability detection * Vulnerability prevention DIMVA particularly encourages papers that discuss the integration of intrusion, malware, and vulnerability detection in large-scale operational communication networks. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Chair: Bernhard Hämmerli, HTA Luzern info(a)dimva.org Program Chair: Robin Sommer, LBNL/ICSI pc-chair(a)dimva.org Sponsor Chair: Dirk Schadt sponsor-chair(a)dimva.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Roland Büschkes, RWE (DE) Weidong Cui, Microsoft Research (US) Marc Dacier, Eurécom (FR) Hervé Debar, France Télécom (FR) Sven Dietrich, Carnegie Mellon University (US) Toralv Dirro, McAfee (DE) Holger Dreger, Siemens CERT (DE) Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech (US) Ulrich Flegel, University of Dortmund (DE) Felix C. Freiling, University of Mannheim (DE) Dirk Häger, BSI (DE) Bernhard Hämmerli, HTA Lucerne (CH) Marc Heuse, n.runs (DE) Ming-Yuh Huang, Boeing (US) Erland Jonsson, Chalmers University (SE) Klaus Julisch, IBM Research (US) Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University (US) Hartmut König, BTU Cottbus (DE) Christian Kreibich, ICSI (US) Christopher Kruegel, TU Vienna (AT) Pavel Laskov, Fraunhofer FIRST (DE) Wenke Lee, Georgia Tech (US) Jun Li, Tsinghua University (CN) Javier Lopez, University of Malaga (ES) John McHugh, Dalhousie University (CA) Michael Meier, University of Dortmund (DE) R. Sekar, Stony Brook University (US) Roberto Setola, Univ. CAMPUS Bio-Medico Rome (IT) Doug Tygar, UC Berkeley (US) Giovanni Vigna, UC Santa Barbara (US) Stephen Wolthusen, University of London (GB) S. Felix Wu, UC Davis (US) IMPORTANT DATES --------------- February 9, 2007 Deadline for submission of full and short papers. April 9, 2007 Notification of acceptance or rejection. April 27, 2007 Final camera-ready copies due. July 12-13, 2007 DIMVA conference. PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format via the conference Web site. Submissions must be formatted according to the instructions provided by Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submitted papers must be in English and must not substantially overlap work that has been published before, or that is simultaneously in submission to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Simultaneous submission, submission of previously published work, and plagiarism constitute dishonesty or fraud. DIMVA prohibits these practices and may take appropriate action against authors who have committed them. Authors of accepted papers must ensure that their papers will be presented at the conference. Presentations must also be held in English. Details about the electronic submission procedure will be provided on the conference Web site by the end of December 2006. Authors of accepted papers must follow the Springer guidelines for the preparation of camera-ready copies. Details of the process will be provided to the authors in time. SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES ------------------------- We solicit interested organizations to serve as sponsors for DIMVA 2007; please contact the sponsor chair for information regarding corporate sponsorship at sponsor-chair(a)dimva.org. STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ Chairs: Ulrich Flegel, University of Dortmund Michael Meier, University of Dortmund Members: Roland Büschkes, RWE Marc Heuse, n.runs Klaus Julisch, IBM Research Christopher Kruegel, TU Vienna Pavel Laskov, Fraunhofer FIRST

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Call for Papers, International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2007), Toronto, Canada, June 29, 2007
by Mamata Jenamani 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Call for Papers (deadline extended till January 28) International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2007), Toronto, Canada, June 29, 2007 In conjunction with the IEEE 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2007) Dear Colleagues, The deadline for submitting papers to the International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2007) has been extended to 1/28/2007. The Workshop, held in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2007, provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in specialized ad-hoc networks and systems. Specialized solutions, exploiting salient features of their specific application classes or individual applications, facilitate overcoming obstacles faced by the general solutions for ad hoc networks and systems. or further information please visit the SAHNS web pages at: http://www.cs.wmich.edu/~alfuqaha/SAHNS/ or contact the Workshop Chair at: <mailto:llilien@cs.wmich.edu?subject=SAHNS%202007%20Inquiry> (Leszek T. Lilien <mailto:llilien@cs.wmich.edu>). Mamata Jenamani Co-Chair, International Publicity Committee, SAHNS 2007 --------------------------------- Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers

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