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FW: [IFIP] Evaluated in Paris
by Augusto Casaca 07 May '02

07 May '02

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: segunda-feira, 6 de Maio de 2002 15:50 To: all Subject: [IFIP] Evaluated in Paris To: GA, member societies, TC and WG Chairs Dear All, There are good news from Paris. These of you who have gone through the Bled Minutes [ http://www.ifip.or.at/minutes/c2002.htm ] might have observed that "IFIP as an organization in formal relations with UNESCO was subject to periodical evaluation of its contributions to UNESCO activities and that "such an evaluation is currently due and the IFIP-UNESCO Liaison Officer had prepared and submitted an analysis of the relations between the two organizations". The following note was received some minutes ago from UNESCO - Paris: "The Executive Board Committee on NGOs will consider, at its 164th session (May 2002) the establishment, modification or renewal of relations between UNESCO and a number of international non-governmental organizations, in accordance with the Directives concerning UNESCO's co-operation with non-governmental organizations. You will find attached a copy of the individual factsheet concerning your Organization and the Director-General's proposals to the Executive Board in this respect. These fact-sheets are also contained in Executive Board documents 164 EX/40 and 164 EX/ONG.2 which are accessible in all working languages on our website www.unesco.org <http://www.unesco.org>. Please be informed that the Executive Board Committee on NGOs will meet on 17 May 2002 from 10:00 am to 18:00 in Room XI (Fontenoy) at UNESCO Headquarters. Yours faithfully, Ahmed Sayyad Assistant Director-General for External Relations and Cooperation" ************************************ The individual UNESCO fact sheets of all evaluated organizations are part of document 164 EX/ONG.2 at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?database=extd&req=2&by=2&ord= 1&look=udc&tx_p=phrase+words&tx=164+EX%2FONG.2&ti_p=inc&ti=&dafr=&dato=&sess =&dc= UNESCO summarizes its evaluation of IFIP as follows: "During the period under consideration, IFIP has maintained excellent cooperation with the Communication and Information Sector and the Education Sector. With the latter, it was closely involved in activities linked to information technology, distance education and the application of the new information technologies, contributing to the production of several reference works including the UNESCO/IFIP Curriculum for Secondary Schools, translated into several languages. IFIP took part in meetings of the Communication and Information Sector on the new information technologies and is involved in the preparations for the World Information Summit (2003). With regard to its obligations as a partner admitted to formal relations, the Federation contributed to the sexennial report and replied to the Director-General's consultations on the C/4 and C/5 documents. Its collective cooperation was vigorous and highly appreciated. It took an active part in strengthening the mechanisms established by the 1995 Directives, in particular in its capacity as member of the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee, whose website it helped to create. Its interest in the impact of the new information technologies and the strengthening of cooperation with developing countries make it an essential partner in the implementation of the Organization's programmes in this field. Recommendation of the Director-General: Renewal of formal consultative relations." ************************************ Good wishes, The Delivery Co. -------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/

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FW: NETWORKING 2002 - late registration deadline MAY 10th
by Augusto Casaca 06 May '02

06 May '02

-----Original Message----- From: info_net2002 [mailto:networking2002@cnuce.cnr.it] Sent: segunda-feira, 6 de Maio de 2002 13:13 To: networking2002(a)cnuce.cnr.it Subject: NETWORKING 2002 - late registration deadline MAY 10th CALL FOR PARTICIPATION NETWORKING 2002 The Second IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference http://www.cnuce.pi.cnr.it/Networking2002 May 19-24 2002, Pisa - Italy Networking is the biennial Conference on Networking of the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6). Networking 2002 is the second conference of this series --the first event was held in Paris, May 2000 Networking 2002 is organized into three tracks: i) Networking Technologies, Services and Protocols ii) Performance of Computer and Communication Networks iii) Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems. This year the conference received 314 submissions coming from 42 countries from all five continents: Africa (4), Asia (84), America (63), Europe (158) and Oceania (5). From the 314 submissions, we finally selected 82 full papers for the presentation in the conference technical sessions. In addition, we selected 31 short papers for presentation in the poster sessions. The technical program also includes a panel session, and three Invited Talks from worldwide leaders Imrich Chlamtac "Managing Optical Networks in the Optical Domain" Randy Katz "The Post-PC Era: It's All About Services" Gerald Maguire "Personal Computing and Communication". The panel session "Post 9-11 Networking Challenges" is organized by Andrew T. Campbell (Columbia University) Panelist: Randy Katz (University of California, Berkeley) Jonathan Liebenau (London School of Economics), Nicholas F. Maxemchuk (Columbia University), Karl Rauscher (Lucent, Founder Wireless Emergency Response Team). The panel discusses on how to cope with the communications systems' vulnerabilities revealed by the World Trade Center attack on September 11. The program of the conference is on five days and includes - two tutorial days, http://www.cnuce.pi.cnr.it/Networking2002/tutorial.html - the main conference, http://www.cnuce.pi.cnr.it/Networking2002/at-a-glance.html - one-day thematic workshops, http://www.cnuce.pi.cnr.it/Networking2002/workshops.html Advance program, registration information, and hotel information for NETWORKING 2002 are now available at http://www.cnuce.pi.cnr.it/Networking2002/info.html If you are unable to access the above web page, please send e-mail to: info_net2002 <networking2002(a)cnuce.cnr.it>. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: The deadline for late registration is MAY 10, 2002. HOTEL RESERVATION: Please book your hotel room as soon as possible. May is a high tourist season in Pisa. ----------------------------------------- NETWORKING 2002 The Second IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference May 19-24 2002, Pisa - Italy c/o CNUCE Institute - National Research Council CNR Research Area Via G. Moruzzi, 1 56124, Pisa, Italy fax.: +39 050 3138092/91 http://www.cnuce.pi.cnr.it/Networking2002

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TC6 calendar (second update)
by Augusto Casaca 03 May '02

03 May '02

Dear TC6 members, I attach a second update of our calendar of events. Please ignore the previous one sent a few minutes ago. Best regards Augusto Casaca

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TC6 Calendar
by Augusto Casaca 03 May '02

03 May '02

Dear TC6 members, I attach the updated TC6 calendar. Best regards Augusto Casaca

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Call for papers of ICT'2003
by conf 03 May '02

03 May '02

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP ==================================================================== Call For Papers International Conference on Telecommunications ICT'2003 February 24-28, 2003 Tahiti, Papeete French Polynesia http://conf.uha.fr/ICT2003.html GENERAL INFORMATION ICT was firstly initiated by King's College, London (UK) and is receiving the support of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) and Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE). Based on the initial success of Dubai in 1994, ICT has been held yearly in Bali (1995), Istanbul (1996), Melbourne (1997), Chalkidiki (1998), Taejon (1999), Acapulco (2000), Bucharest (2001) and Beijing (2002). Many scientists, students, professionals and technical staffs, representing a large variety of organizations such as universities, research institutes, telecommunication operators and industry have attained each previous ICT events. The 10th edition of ICT will be held in Tahiti, Papeete, French Polynesia. ICT 2003 will offer tutorials, plenary sessions, poster sessions, panels and exhibition opportunities. ICT 2003 will cover a variety of challenging telecommunication topics ranging from background fields like signals, traffic, coding, communication basics up to large communication systems and networks, fixed, mobile and integrated, etc. Applications, services, system and network management issues will also receive significant attention. TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST The topics include, but are not limited to: A Information Theory and Coding Theory A.1 Communication Theory A.2 Information Security A.3 Multimedia Information A.4 Network Reliability A.5 Signal Processing A.6 Modulation B Optical Communications B.1 Designing and Management of Optical Networks B.2 Optical Fiber Technology B.3 Optical Switching and Optical Interconnection B.4 Optical Photonic Technologies B.5 Optoelectronic Components B.6 Transmission System and Optical Networking C Networking Theory and Technologies C.1 Broadband Communications and Networks C.2 Computer Communications and Networks C.3 Internet and Intranet C.4 Mobile IP, VoIP C.5 Network Security C.6 Next Generation Network Architectures C.7 Programmable, Active Networks and Mobile Agents C.8 Protocol, Standards and Communication Architectures C.9 Switching and Routing C.10 System and Network Performance and QoS C.11 Traffic Engineering (MPLS, DiffServ, IntServ, ) D Telecommunication/Network Management and Services D.1 Broadband Access Network and Service D.2 IP Service and Multimedia Service D.3 Mobile Data Service D.4 Network Planning and Optimization D.5 Telecommunication Network Interconnection Issues D.6 Telecommunication Pricing and Billing D.7 Telecommunication Regulation and Deregulation D.8 Traffic Management, Traffic Control, Real-Time Traffic and Quality of Service D.9 3G and 4G Mobile Communication Service. E Wireless Communications E.1 Antennas, Propagation and Transmission Technologies E.2 Broadband Wireless E.3 Evolution from 2G to 2.5G, 3G and Beyond E.4 Microwave Devices, Circuits and Systems E.5 Personal Communications E.6 Satellite and Space Communications E.7 Terrestrial Radio Systems E.8 Mobility (IEEE 802.11 engineering, smarts devices) E.9 Wireless Multimedia, Networks and Systems E.10 Wireless IP and Wireless ATM E.11 Cellular and Ad-Hoc Networks G Metro/Access Networks G1 Future Proofing Access Topologies and Architectures G2 xDSL, HFC, Gbit/s Ethernet, FTTH G3 DWDM in Metro. Access G4 New Broadband Access Technologies G5 Interface and its Development G6 Residential Zone and its Future G7 Co-operation between Metro Transport and Access G8 Wireless Access (WPAN, WLAN, WLL) G.9 Standardization (IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16) F Communication Softwares F.1 Intelligent Network Theory, Technologies and System F.2 Object and Component Technologies in Telecommunication Software F.3 Network Management Theory F.4 Network Operations and Management F.5 Telecommunication Protocol Engineering F.6 Telecommunication Software Tools H Others H.1 EMC in Communications H.2 Standardization (IEEE 802.17, Policies models,) H.3 Wireless over Optical H.4 Multicast H.5. Mobility Management H.6 Security H.7 Others These topics can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Participants are kindly invited to submit original papers addressing the topics in the area of telecommunications and networking for presentation and publication in the conference proceedings. While the submission version may vary in length, the final version must be of maximum six pages long, should be printed on ISO A4 white papers, written in English in two-column format in times or a similar font, 10 points with 2.5 cm margins on all four sides. Subject of reasonable additional printing fees per page, longer papers will be accepted for publication. Reception of the papers will be acknowledged by electronic or postal mail. ICT 2003 Program Committee members and their teams will carefully review each paper. The deadline for submission is September 10, 2002. Each submission must be accompanied by a letter that includes the following information: full title of the paper, technical area, author(s) details (name, postal and email addresses, telephone and fax number) and contact author. Two hard copies must be sent to the following address: Pascal LORENZ University of Haute Alsace IUT 34 rue du Grillenbreit 68008 Colmar, France Phone: 33 (0)603658042 - Fax: 33 (0)389202359 E-mail: lorenz(a)ieee.org A selection of outstanding papers is considered for a special issue of an International Journal. Check our Web page at http://conf.uha.fr/ICT2003.html for the latest information concerning the conference. TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS Tutorials and workshops provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals for half of full day tutorials are due by September 10, 2002. EXHIBITION PROPOSAL Companies are invited to exhibit their software and hardware products. We provide a large promotion opportunity and a variety of ways for achieving it. PANELS PROPOSAL ICT 2003 organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Alan Marshall, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK Alessandro Barbagli, European Commission- DG Information Society, Belgium Antonella Molinaro, University of Messina, Italy Dae Young KIM, Chungnam National University, Korea Dssouli Rachida, Concordia University, Canada Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG Information Society, Belgium Farokh Marvasti, King's College London, UK George S. Tombras, University of Athens, Greece Guy Omidyar, Institute for Communications Research, Singapore Guy Pujolle, LIP6, France Hamid Aghvami, King's College, London, UK Hyun-Kook Kahng, Korea University, Korea Luis M Correia, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Maciej Stasiak, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Martin Haardt, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada Nikolai Nefedov, Nokia Research Center, Finland Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Petre Dini, Cisco Co., USA Said Soulhi, Ericsson Research Canada Tal Lavian, Nortel Networks Labs. USA Toshio Ihara, Communications Research Laboratory, Toyko, Japan Tulin Atmaca, Institute National des Telecomunications, France Wang Wenbo, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Wojciech Kabacinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Zoubir Mammeri, IRIT, France Yoshitaka Takasaki, Tokyo University, Japan IMPORTANT DATES Submission due: September 10, 2002 Notification of acceptance: October 10, 2002 Deadline for full-length camera-ready manuscript: November 10, 2002

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FW: [IFIP] Memorable events in 2003
by Augusto Casaca 02 May '02

02 May '02

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quinta-feira, 2 de Maio de 2002 13:08 To: all Subject: [IFIP] Memorable events in 2003 Dear All, 1. John V. Atanasoff's 100th Anniversary The Bulgarian GA representative to IFIP wrote to the Executive Director to say that on 4 October 2003 Bulgaria will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Atanasoff, the inventor of the electronic digital computer. For his historic achievement Atanasoff is distinguished with the most prestigious Bulgarian and US awards for Technology. A string of activities is planned in Sofia and the Initiative Committee, chaired by Acad. Blagovest Sendov, Deputy Chair of the Bulgarian Parliament and IFIP Past President, will provide guidance for the planning of these events to be held under the patronage of the President of Bulgaria. Atanasoff was an American citizen of Bulgarian origin. A memorial will be inaugurated, a street in Sofia will be named after him and the village to which his roots are traced will be named after him. A three-day conference is planned with addresses from representatives of Bulgarian and foreign organizations and sessions dedicated to the history and development of computers. Prof. Boyanov writes that "IFIP's assistance and participation in the celebration, as a leading international organization in the field of the information technologies, is of great importance" to the Initiative Committee. John Atanasoff was an invited speaker at the IFIP co-sponsored International Conference "Children in the Information Age" 1995, Varna, Bulgaria. You can check a biography at http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Atanasoff.html and also http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/ for a collection of materials related to the history of computing as collected and written by J.A.N. Lee, formerly WG 9.7 "History of Computing" Chair and currently IEEE CS rep. to IFIP. 2. John von Neumann's 100th Anniversary 2003 marks another great Anniversary - 100 years from the birth of another John -- John von Neumann -- a "brilliant mathematician, synthesizer, and promoter of the stored program concept, whose logical design of the IAS became the prototype of most of its successors - the von Neumann Architecture." For detailed information please refer to http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/VonNeumann.html The Hungarian full member society to IFIP proudly carries the name of John von Neumann and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) honors him through the presentation of an annual award in his name, the IEEE John von Neumann Medal, which is presented "for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology." The John von Neumann Computer Society will organize a series of initiatives to commemorate the 100th anniversary since the birth of its Patron from 15 to 17 October 2003 in Budapest. An International conference is planned and an IT STAR regular meeting is scheduled. In Hungary's annual report to GA 2001 [ http://www.ifip.or.at/minutes/ga2001/hungary.htm ], the Hungarian GA representative, Dr. B. Domolki, writes "An important issue to be raised towards IFIP is to secure the participation of IFIP in the international celebration of the John von Neumann centenary in 2003. 3. WITFOR The IFIP World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) is planned for 27-29 August 2003 in Vilnius, Lithuania and will be organized by the Lithuanian Government and the Lithuanian Computer Society. Late week, a meeting of the IFIP Program Committee took place in Vilnius and PC members P. Bollerslev, D. Khakhar, R. Roode and L. Strous met with the Lithuanian Prime Minister, Algirdas Brazauskas who, as patron, will formally open the WITFOR conference and address IFIP's General Assembly on 30 August 2003. IFIP is assured that the Lithuanian Government will assist in all ways for a successful conference. Greetings, The Delivery Co. -------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/

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CFP for Special Issue Computer Networks (Elsevier) on Wireless Sensor Networks
by Erdal CAYIRCI 01 May '02

01 May '02

Dear Colleague, Enclosed below and attached please find the Call for Papers for the Special Issue Computer Networks (Elsevier) on Wireless Sensor networks. We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please feel free to distribute it. Best regards, Erdal Cayirci GaTech Ramesh Govindan ICSI Taieb Znati NSF Mani Srivastava UCLA ==================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue Computer Networks (Elsevier) on "Wireless Sensor Networks" Recent advances in digital electronics, embedded systems and wireless communications are leading the way to a new class of distributed wireless sensor networks. These networks have a wide range of potential applications, including security and surveillance, control, actuation and maintenance of complex systems, and fine-grain monitoring of indoor and outdoor environments. Sensor networks differ from conventional network systems in many aspects. They usually involve a large number of spatially distributed, energy-constrained, self-configuring and self-aware nodes. Furthermore, they tend to be autonomous and require a high degree of cooperation and adaptation to perform the desired coordinated tasks and networking functionalities. As such, they bring about new challenges and design considerations, which go much beyond conventional network systems. This special issue of Computer Networks is intended to foster the dissemination of high quality research in communication protocols, data management and access techniques, and applications of wireless sensor networks. We hope that the resulting issue will significantly advance our understanding of this nascent area of research. Only technical papers describing previously unpublished, original, state-of-art research, and not currently under review by another conference or journal, will be considered. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics related to wireless sensor networks including, but not limited to: - Novel applications of sensor networks for surveillance, fine-grain instrumentation, and actuation - New sensor network communication architectures - Software platforms and tools for sensor network application development - Energy-efficient media access, error control, and traffic management - Energy-efficient systems services such as localization and time synchronization - Scalable, and energy-efficient, data-dissemination schemes - Robust distributed algorithms for collaborative processing - Mechanisms for authenticated, secure communication - Modeling and performance evaluation of large-scale sensor network algorithms - Application specific network and systems services, including data-centric routing, attribute-based addressing, and location management Authors should follow the Computer Networks (Elsevier) manuscript format described at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/compnw. Prospective authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript according to the following timetable to: sensornet(a)cs.itu.edu.tr Manuscript Due: October 15, 2002 Acceptance Notification: January 14, 2003 Final Manuscript Due: March 11, 2003 Publication Date: August 2003 Erdal Cayirci BWN Lab. Sch. of Elec.&Comp. Eng. Georgia Inst. of Tech. Atlanta, GA 30332 erdal(a)ece.gatech.edu Ramesh Govindan International Comp. Sci. Inst. Berkeley, CA 94704-1198 ramesh(a)ICSI.Berkeley.EDU Taieb Znati Div. of Adv. Net. Inf. & Res. The Nat. Science Foundation Arlington, VA 22230 tznati(a)nsf.gov Mani Srivastava Elec. Eng. Department UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594 mbs(a)ee.ucla.edu

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CFP First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications
by Erdal CAYIRCI 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Dear Colleague, Enclosed below please find a Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers for the First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (to be held in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2002) at Atlanta on September 28, 2002. For complete information about the workshop, please visit the websites at: http://wsna02.cs.uga.edu http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/mobicom/2002/ for MobiCom 2002 We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. Very truly yours, Prof. C. S. Raghavendra University of Southern California Prof. Krishna Sivalingam Washington State University Workshop Co-Chairs ========================================================================== ACM MobiCom 2002 Workshop WSNA 2002 First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2002 September 28, 2002 Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE (pending) URLs: http://wsna02.cs.uga.edu http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/mobicom/2002/ for MobiCom 2002 Submission Deadline: June 1, 2002 For more information, please contact the Workshop Co-Chairs: Prof. Raghavendra (raghu(a)usc.edu) and Prof. Sivalingam (krishna(a)wsu.edu) ========================================================================= SCOPE Tremendous technological advances have been made in the development of low-cost sensor devices equipped with wireless network interfaces. The design of large-scale sensor networks interconnecting several hundred to a few thousand sensor nodes has attracted recent research attention. The sensors monitor various types of information such as temperature, pressure, chemicals, etc. and/or transmit voice and video data. Such sensor networks may be used for applications spanning several domains including military, medical, industrial, and home networks. Some of the key challenges deal with scalability of network protocols to large number of nodes, design of simple and efficient protocols for different network operations, design of power-conserving protocols, design of security mechanisms and protocols, design of data handling techniques including data querying, data mining, data fusion and data dissemination, and development of exciting new applications that exploit the potential of wireless sensor networks. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and technologists to present their contributions as technical papers related to wireless sensor networks. The issues and challenges for the development of wireless sensor networks not only encompass a broad spectrum of research topics but also involves a way to envision the evolution of a new breed of multi-disciplinary wireless network applications. TOPICS Papers are solicited in all research and applied areas related to wireless sensor networks, which include but are not limited to: * Self-Organizing Network Architectures * Routing and medium access control protocols * Power-aware protocol design * Low-power sensor design * Applications of sensor networks * Mechanisms, protocols and algorithms for Network Security * Data Compression and Data Fusion * Localization techniques * Data Querying and Data Dissemination * Collaborative Signal Processing * Quality-of-Service * Operating system issues SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a PostScript or Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their paper. No other format will be accepted. Instructions for submission are available at http://wsna02.cs.uga.edu. Papers must meet the following restrictions: - The paper must be original material that has not been previously published nor is currently under review by another conference or journal. - Papers should be no longer than *12 pages* (two column is acceptable), in font no smaller than 10 points. (Note that ACCEPTED papers, when formatted for the proceedings, may not exceed *10 pages* in font no smaller than 9 points). - The paper should fit properly on US Letter-sized paper (8.5x11 inches) - PostScript version 2 or later, or Portable Document Format (PDF) - Use only Computer Modern or standard Adobe printer fonts (i.e., Courier, Times, Roman, or Helvetica) - Other fonts may be used, but must be included in the PostScript/PDF file - The paper must be formatted for b/w printers and not color printers. All contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be available as part of the proceedings, at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES * Submissions due: June 1, 2002 * Notification of acceptance: July 26, 2002 * Final manuscript due: August 15, 2002 * Workshop date: September 28, 2002 Note: Papers submitted to Mobicom 2002, may be submitted to this workshop, AFTER Mobicom 2002 paper acceptance decisions are finalized (expected end of June 2002). ORGANIZATION PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- Prof. C. S. Raghavendra, Professor Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2562. Telephone: 213-740-9133 Email: raghu(a)usc.edu Prof. Krishna Sivalingam, Associate Professor School of Electrical Engg. & Computer Science 102 EME Building Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2752. Phone: 509 335 3220 Email: krishna(a)wsu.edu www.eecs.wsu.edu/~krishna TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------- * Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research) * Azzedine Boukerche (University of North Texas) * Erdal Cayirci (Georgia Institute of Technology) * Surendar Chandra (University of Georgia) * David Culler (UC Berkeley) * Deborah Estrin (UCLA) * John Heidemann (ISI) * Bhaskar Krishnamachari (Cornell) * Sri Kumar (DARPA) * Anthony LaMarca (Intel) * Daniel Mosse (University of Pittsburgh) * Stephen Olariu (Old Dominion University) * Hilarie Orman * Parmesh Ramanathan (University of Wisconsin, Madison) * Jim Reich (Xerox PARC) * Chris Rose (Rutgers University) * Sumit Roy (University of Washington) * Suresh Singh (Portland State University) * Mani Srivastava (UCLA) * Yu-Chee Tseng (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan) * Terry Todd (McMaster University) * Michele Zorzi (Universita` di Ferrara) PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS -------------------- * Erdal Cayirci (Georgia Institute of Technology) * Surendar Chandra (University of Georgia) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR ----------------------- * Surendar Chandra (University of Georgia)

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FW: [IFIP] The Day of President Tanaka
by Augusto Casaca 26 Apr '02

26 Apr '02

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quinta-feira, 25 de Abril de 2002 11:59 To: all Subject: [IFIP] The Day of President Tanaka Dear All, Project: The Day of the President Dr. Richard Tanaka (USA) is another brightly shining star in IFIP's presidential galaxy. He continues to this day to "turn around" companies which IT giants, such as Microsoft, are eager to acquire. You can NOW expose yourselves to Dr. Tanaka's recollections about his term as IFIP President (1974-1977) if you click >>> http://www.ifip.or.at/secretariat/presidentday.htm and then under Richard's photograph. The photo is conscientiously chosen to appear "old enough to represent how I looked during my IFIP Presidency, and new enough to be somewhat realistic." In this exclusive interview, among many interesting episodes, Dick recalls of TC 6 meetings in South Africa and Brazil where first-time-ever demonstrations were made based on the Arpanet (then primarily used by universities and the U.S. defense establishment) of possibilities to establish an open, global network. These demonstrations incorporated technological concepts, which were the precursor of the Internet. Enjoy, The Delivery Co. ************************** P.S. ...Talking about stars, have you heard this story? Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson went on a camping trip. As they lay down for the night, Holmes asked: "Watson, look up into the sky and tell me what you see." Watson said, "I see millions and millions of stars." Holmes: "And what does that tell you? " Watson: "Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Theologically, it tells me that God is great and that we are small and insignificant. Meteorologically, it tells me that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you?" Holmes: "Elementary, my dear Watson. Somebody stole our tent!" -------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/

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CFP: SCI 2002 Special Session on Complexity Theory and its Applic ations
by Kulkarni, Amit B (Research) 26 Apr '02

26 Apr '02

Apologies for multiple copies... Final Call for Papers - Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI) 2002, Special session on: COMPLEXITY AND ALGORITHMIC INFORMATION THEORY WITH APPLICATION TO SYSTEMS, NETWORKS, AND INFORMATION ASSURANCE Amit B. Kulkarni and Stephen F. Bush (General Electric Global Research Center) are organizing a special session for SCI-2002 titled "Complexity Theory and its Applications to Systems, Networks and Information Assurance". This session seeks to consolidate research in the areas of modeling, management, and security in systems and networks with the large and growing body of work in Complexity and Algorithmic Information Theory. The goal of this session is to compare traditional state-of-the-art methods with new advances incorporating Complexity-based or Algorithmic Information methods and discuss their applications to the health, management, and security of information systems. We invite you to submit papers to the session on topics that can include, but are not limited to, the following: EXAMPLE OF RELEVANT SESSION TOPICS: * Fundamental Relationships between Computation and Communication * Controlled Access of Information, System Vulnerability Detection and Policy Enforcement * Quantification and Security Metrics * Self-Organization and Composition of System Solutions * Applications of 'Physics Of Information' to Information Systems * Case Studies Involving the Use of Complexity in Information Systems * Advances in Estimation and Measurement of Complexity * Novel Definitions of Complexity with Emphasis on Implementation Feasibility and Facilitation of System Health * Quantitative Comparison and Contrast of Complexity Estimators If you are interested in contributing a paper to the session, please email kulkarni(a)crd.ge.com <mailto:kulkarni@crd.ge.com> <mailto:kulkarni@crd.ge.com> or bushsf(a)crd.ge.com <mailto:bushsf@crd.ge.com> the full paper or extended abstract by midnight June 30. [Note: new deadline] The main conference call for papers follows: THE 6th WORLD MULTI CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS SCI 2002 July 14 - 18, 2002 Orlando, Florida, USA Sheraton World http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/ Honorary Presidents: Bela Banathy, Stafford Beer and George Klir Program Committee Chair: William Lesso General Chair: Nagib Callaos Organizing Committee Chair: Belkis Sanchez g Amit B. Kulkarni Computer Scientist GE Corporate Research & Development One Research Circle, KW-C606 Phone: (518) 387-4291 Fax: (518) 387-5975 amit.kulkarni(a)crd.ge.com

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