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WiMAN 2007 Call for Papers
by Jun LUO (UWaterloo) 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] ************************************************************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S The First International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN 2007) http://www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang/WiMAN2007/index.htm in conjunction with ICCCN 2007 Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA August 16, 2007 * General Information The First International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN 2007) will be held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2007), in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. All papers presented in WiMAN 2007 will be published in the workshop proceeding by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Digital Library, or Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Distinguished papers will be invited to extend to full version for a special issue of Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal (ComCom) on Wireless Mesh Networks. * Scope and Topics Recently, wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest from academia, industry, and standard organizations. With several favorable characteristics, such as dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, easy maintenance, high scalability and reliable services, wireless mesh networks have been advocated as a cost-effective approach to support high-speed last mile connectivity and ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, or community networking. Despite recent advances, and the technical accumulations from more than a decade's research effort in mobile ad hoc networks, many research issues remain in all protocol layers of wireless mesh networks. For example, the introducing of mixed (infrastructure and ad hoc) architecture, multi-radio, multi-channel, and multi-antenna, have brought new challenges in the design of physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application scenarios, such as all-wireless office, are urging researchers to address enhanced QoS support and various security issues in the design of different protocol layers for wireless mesh networks. This workshop aims to bring together the technologies and researchers who share interest in the area of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks. The main purpose is to promote discussions of research and relevant activities in the design of architectures, protocols, algorithms, services, and applications for wireless networks. It also aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area. We plan to seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress at the all layers of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks, from application layer to the physical layer. Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the following: a.. Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh networking b.. Wireless LAN, PAN, MAN and WAN c.. Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking d.. MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond) e.. Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols f.. Implications of smart antennas on MAC and routing protocols g.. Quality of Services provisioning h.. Multimedia communications over mesh and ad hoc networks i.. Network deployment, localization, and synchronization j.. Topology construction and maintenance k.. Methods and tools for mesh and ad hoc networks simulation l.. Modeling and performance evaluations m.. Physical layer techniques n.. Cross layer optimizations o.. Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms p.. Self-organization, self-configuration network architectures q.. Intelligent system techniques for mesh and ad hoc networks r.. Security-related issues in mesh and ad hoc networks s.. Testbed, prototype, and practical systems t.. Novel applications of mesh and ad hoc networks u.. Wireless sensor networks and RFID * Important Dates Paper submission due: March 23, 2007 Acceptance notification: May 11, 2007 Camera-ready due: June 1, 2007 Workshop: August 16, 2007 * Submissions and Publications Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review somewhere else, are solicited. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of the papers should be limited up to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or postscript) by sending it as an e-mail attachment to Liqiang Zhang (liqzhang(a)cs.iusb.edu) or Dakai Zhu (dzhu(a)cs.utsa.edu). Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. All accepted papers will be published in workshop proceeding by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Digital Library, or Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Distinguished papers will be invited to extend to full version for a special issue of Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal (ComCom) on Wireless Mesh Networks. The special issue will be published in early 2008. * Technical Program To Be Announced * Invited Speakers To Be Announced * Organizing Committees Workshop Program Co-Chairs Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA (liqzhang(a)cs.iusb.edu) Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (dzhu(a)cs.utsa.edu) Publicity Chair Jun Luo, University of Waterloo, Canada (j7luo(a)engmail.uwaterloo.ca) Technical Program Committee Malik Audeh, Tropos Networks, USA Edoardo S. Biagioni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA Guihai Chen, Nanjing University, China Christian Hartmann, Technical University of Munich, Germany Anders Host-Madsen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Daeyoung Kim, Information and Communications University, Korea Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA Hyunjeong hannah Lee, Intel Research, USA Guoqing Li, Intel Research, USA Hock Beng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Wei Lou, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong Jun Luo, University of Waterloo, Canada Frank Reichenbach, University of Rostock, Germany Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR, Italy Kaoru Sezaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Pavan Sikka, CSIRO, Australia Ali Tosun, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong Yuan Xue, Vanderbilt University, USA Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan Advisory Committee Hossein Hakimzadeh, Indiana University South Bend, USA Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame, USA Yingbo Hua, University of California Riverside, USA Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA Bahar Sadeghi, Intel Research, USA Loren Schwiebert, Wayne State University, USA Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University, USA

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Submission January 31 || ICAS 2007 & ICNS 2007 || Athens, June 19-25, 2007
by invitation＠iaria.org 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

IMPORTANT: Full paper submission, January 31, 2007 ICAS 2007: The Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems June 19-25, 2007 - Athens, Greece Site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICAS07.html ICNS 2007: The Third International Conference on Networking and Services June 19-25, 2007 - Athens, Greece Site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICNS07.html DETAILS: ======================================= CALL FOR PAPERS The Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems ICAS 2007 Date: June 19-25, 2007 Place: Athens, Greece Site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICAS07.html Featuring also the workshops: SELF 2007: The Second International Workshop on Self-adaptability and Self-management of Context-aware Systems, http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/SELF.html KUI 2007: The First International Workshop on Knowledge-based User Interface, http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/KUI.html Important deadlines: Full paper submission, January 31, 2007 Author notification, February 25, 2007 Registration and camera ready, March 15, 2007 Published by IEEE Computer Society Press Published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library Indexing: http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_indexing.html Main ICAS 2007 Tracks: * SYSAT: Advances in system automation * AUTSY: Theory and practice of autonomous systems * AWARE: Design and deployment of context-awareness networks, services and applications * AUTONOMIC: Autonomic computing: design and management of self-behavioural networks and services * MCMAC: Monitoring, control, and management of autonomous self-aware and context-aware systems * CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments * ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation * MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SOA ============================================= ================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS ICNS 2007: The Third International Conference on Networking and Services June 19-25, 2007 - Athens, Greece Site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICNS07.html Important deadlines: Full paper submission, January 31, 2007 Author notification, February 25, 2007 Registration and camera ready, March 15, 2007 Published by IEEE Computer Society Press Published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library Indexing: http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_indexing.html featuring also the workshops: IPv6DFI 2007: The Second International Workshop on Deploying the Future Infrastructure, http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/IPV6DFI.html IPDy 2007: The Second International Workshop on Internet Packet Dynamics, http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/IPDY.html GOBS 2007: The First International Workshop on GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks, http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/GOBS.html ICNS 2007 Main Tracks: * ENCOT: Emerging Network Communications and Technologies * COMAN: Network Control and Management * SERVI: Multi-technology service deployment and assurance * NGNUS: Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services * MPQSI: Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking * GRIDNS: Grid Networks and Services * EDNA: Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications ================================================ To be removed from this announcement list, please reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject field

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ICST - Call for Panel Proposals at AccessNets 2007
by info＠icstconferences.org 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************ * CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS * * * * ACCESSNETS 2007 * * The Second International Conference on Access Networks * * August 22-24, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada * * http://www.accessnets.org/2007/ * * * ************************************************************ Co-Sponsored by Create-Net and ICST OVERVIEW: The annual International Conference on Access Networks (AccessNets) is an exciting forum that brings together scientists and researchers from academia as well as managers and engineers from industry and government organizations to meet and exchange ideas and recent work on all aspects of access networks and how they integrate with their in-home counterparts. AccessNets'07 is the second edition of this exciting event, which will be held in Ottawa, the beautiful and historical capital city of Canada, in August 2007. The conference will consist of technical sessions, workshops, and panels. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the workshops and panels will focus on development, application, and related business issues in this hot and exciting area. Topics of interest include all aspects of access networks. WHAT TO SUBMIT: We solicit panel proposals on hot and controversial topics in wired and wireless access networks. A proposal should focus on a specific topic of current interest related to optical access, wireless access, integrated optical and wireless access, broadband powerline communication, xDSL technologies, etc. A proposal should include the following information: * Panel's topic * Panel organizer's name, affiliation, and contact information * Panelists'names, affiliation, and contact information * A one-page abstract PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Please send panel proposals in PDF format by March 10, 2007 to the panel co-chairs, Dr. Kenneth J. Kerpez and Dr. Abdallah Shami. IMPORTANT DATES: Proposal submission due March 10, 2007 Notification of acceptance May 31, 2007 Conference dates August 22-24, 2007 PANEL CO-CHAIRS Kenneth J. Kerpez Telcordia Technologies, USA Abdallah Shami University of Western Ontario, Canada GENERAL CHAIR of ACCESSNETS 2007 Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada Cheng Li *************************************** Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, NL, A1B 3X5 Tel: (1) 709 737 8972 Fax: (1) 709 737 4042 Web: www.engr.mun.ca/~licheng -------------------------------------------------- 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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Call for Workshops: 4-th IEEE MASS 2007 (Oct. 8-11, Pisa, Italy)
by Nathalie Mitton 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

Good morning everyone, Please find below a call for workshops proposals which would be held in conjunction with MASS 2007 in October in Pisa, Italy. Workshops proposals submission deadline is February 9, 2007. The deadline for submitting paper to MASS 2007 (http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mass2007/) is March 31, 2007. This message is cross-posted to several lists. Apologies for any duplicate postings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - CALL FOR WORKSHOPS PROPOSALS Fourth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems MASS 2007 (http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mass2007/) Pisa, Italy, October 8-11, 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- **** Workshop Proposals Deadline --- February 9, 2007 **** Sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Computer Society Co-sponsored by the IEEE TCCC and the IEEE TCPP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- IEEE MASS 2007 will be the fourth annual conference on the rapidly expanding area of multi-hop wireless computing and sensor networking, and will provide an exciting platform for discussing research vision of a digitally networked wireless environment. The MASS Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference. The workshops will be held prior to, or after, the main conference. The purpose of these workshops is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and more specific research areas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than at the conference itself. Please visit http://www.cse.fau.edu/mass2006/workshops.html to view information on workshops held last year at MASS 2006. Workshops Proposals are solicited in all areas and topics pertaining to ad-hoc wireless and sensor networking research and applications, including, but not limited to, theoretical performance bounds for ad-hoc networks, sensor and wireless network and application security/privacy, mesh networks, middleware platforms and applications of specific techniques (e.g., control theory or biological networks) to wireless networks. We expect all selected workshops to adhere to a common paper submission and reviewing schedule outlined below. All papers included in the MASS 2007 workshops will appear in the MASS 2007 Proceedings published by IEEE. ------------------------------- Proposal Submission Guidelines: ------------------------------- Each workshop proposal must include: 1. The name of the workshop. 2. The names, addresses, and a short bio (up to 200 words) of the organizers (maximum up to three). 3. A brief description (up to 1 page) of the technical issues that the workshop will address, and the reasons why the workshop is of interest this time. 4. The names of potential participants, such as program committee members, 5. Planned format of the workshop, such as number of refereed papers, keynotes, panels etc. 6. If appropriate, a description of past versions of the workshop, including: number of submitted and accepted papers, number of attendees. 7. A description of the publicity plan. 8. A call for papers 9. The workshop website address Workshop proposals should be submitted, no later than February 9, 2007, by e-mail (in PDF format) with "MASS 2007 Workshop Proposal" in the subject, to BOTH MASS 2007 Workshop Co-chairs: Luciano Bononi Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy Mura Anteo Zamboni 7, 40127, Bologna, Italy E-mail: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it and Archan Misra IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 19 Skyline Drive, Room 2N-B18 Hawthorne, NY 10532 Email: archan(a)us.ibm.com ---------------- IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Proposals submission deadline: February 9, 2007 Acceptance/Reject notification: February 21, 2007 Papers due by: April 30, 2005 Paper selections due by: July 15, 2007 Final papers due to IEEE: August 10, 2007 --

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Call for Participation - ISWPC 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Special RFID Panels by Organized by HP)
by Boon Sain YEO 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2007 (ISWPC 2007) 5-7 February 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA http://www.iswpc.org/2007/ Technically Sponsored By IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Hosted By University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE Wireless pervasive computing is a rapidly growing area that has attracted significant attention due to its potential impact on the quality of lifestyles of individuals. To enable wireless pervasive computing, it is necessary to integrate technologies from the fields of communications, signal processing, distributed computing, and numerous other fields. The aim of this symposium is to provide a platform for researchers in the area of wireless pervasive computing and related areas to showcase their results, launch new ideas, as well as to interact with colleagues from these areas. The scope of the symposium covers all enabling technologies of wireless pervasive computing. This includes a huge variety of topics ranging from wireless communications and networking to services and applications of pervasive computing. A series of panel and tutorials will also seek to inform and invoke interaction among researchers which are interested in this area. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTES Wireless Networks Work - What's Next? Dr Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research RF Localization and the Internet of Things Professor Kaveh Pahlavan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Context Modelng in Smart Environments: A Perspective from Pervasive Computing Professor Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ON WIRELESS NETWORKING, AUTOMATED INFORMATION PROCESSING, AND WEB & GRID SERVICES The workshop will be hold on 4th Feb 2007 and is free to all registered participants of ISWPC 2007. SCOPE This workshop intends to serve as a forum for the exchange of new ideas, concepts, and results associated with three specific areas showing a degree of convergence: Wireless Networking (WN), Grid and Web Services (GWS), and Automated Information Processing (AIP). AIP is serving as a bridge between WN and GWS and in this context is bringing out new exciting and challenging issues. The workshop is addressing issues along the following lines through a set of thought-provoking questions: Grid and Web Services Grid Computing: a new technology or a cheaper alternative? What are the financial and technological benefits of grid computing versus cluster computing? What markets stand to benefit the most from grid computing? Does wireless access to computing grids open up new application/ service markets? Which ones? Do projected trends for future data processing needs align favorably with the capabilities of computing grids? Wireless Networking How wireless sensor networks (WSN) integrate with wireless networking in general? How can WSNs characterize smart environments in our automated society? How to manage uncertainty due inhabitants' contexts in smart environments? What significant automated information processing issues need to be addressed for context-aware resource management in smart environments? Beyond mere wireless access to grids: are there any wireless-specific services or applications that may benefit from grid computing? Automated Information Processing What information processing applications are good and poor matches for grids? What is automated in automated information processing? How to integrate syntactic and semantic issues in automated information processing? How AIP is serving as a bridge between grid and web services and wireless networking? What role plays signal processing in automated information processing and smart environments? TOPICS Wireless Networking Web and Grid Services Sensor and Mobile Databases Collaborative Signal Processing Sensor Metadata Interoperability and Management Secure Wireless Sensor Networks Signal-based Automated Information Processing Sensor Grids and Sensor Registry Environmental Surveillance Monitoring SPEAKERS Ian Foster - http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~foster/ Sajal Das - http://ranger.uta.edu/~das/ Sandra Thuel - http://www.bell-labs.com/user/thuel/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PANAL SESSION ON RFID Fulfilling the promise of RFID: Applications, Case Studies and Future Research SCOPE Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) will certainly be an integral part of most supply chains in 10 to 20 years' time. Up to now, however, RFID has failed to live up to its promise, remaining hurdled by limited implementation and applications, and has yet to be considered a mainstream technology on its own. A range of technologies, from WiFi to Sensor Networks to RFID, is being explored for asset management to "smart" shelving - but what combination of technologies solves the right sets of problems? How does one identify the problems to solve? What are the capabilities of each technology to solve them in differing use scenarios? Where can WiFi be more useful vs. RFID or EPC (Electronic Product Codes) in other situations? In this panel, we will discuss these questions, current and potential future applications, and possibilities for further research and study. PANELISTS Dr. Rajit Gadh, UCLA Dr. Salil Pradhan, CTO, HP RFID Program Dr. Dario Sassi Thober, Wernher Von Braun Center for Advanced Research, Campinas, Brazil Marcelo de Carvalho Pandini, Manager, RFID & Business Development, Hewlett-Packard Brazil Martina Y. Trucco, University Relations Latin America, Hewlett-Packard Labs

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ISM2007 first call for papers
by Zhiwen Yu 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this) ********************* ISM2007 Call For Papers ************************* IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2007) December 10-12, 2007 Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C. http://ism2007.ncu.edu.tw/ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2007) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing. The technical program of ISM2007 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include but are not limited to: . Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications . Multimedia networking and QoS . Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming . Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV . Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems . Architecture specification languages . Software development using multimedia techniques . Multimedia signal processing including audio, video, image processing, and coding . Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing, editing, and browsing . Visualization and Virtual Reality . Multimedia and multimodal user interfaces and interaction models . Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval . Multimedia Collaboration . Rich media enabled E-commerce . Computational intelligence including neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms . Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis . Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems . Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption . Mobile Multimedia Systems and Services Submissions: The written and spoken language of ISM2007 is English. Authors should submit an 8-page technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines available on the ISM2007 web page (http://cse.stfx.ca/~ism07/). Only electronic submission will be accepted. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). The paper should have a cover page, which includes a 200-word abstract, a list of keywords, and author's phone number and e-mail address. The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A number of the papers presented at the conference will be selected for possible publications in journals. ISM2007 will also include a few workshops and special tracks dedicated to focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special tracks of emerging areas are invited. Full length papers from Workshops and Focused Tracks will be presented at ISM2007, and included in the Proceedings. Please visit the conference website for detailed guidelines on submitting workshop and special track proposals. Submissions of proposals on panels and demonstrations are also encouraged. A short demo article (up to 3 pages) and panel summary articles may also be included in the conference proceedings. Guidelines for submitting panel and demo proposals are available on the conference website. Important Dates: April 1, 2007 Submission of workshop proposals due April 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals due May 18, 2007 Submission of papers and proposals on panels & special tracks due June 1, 2007 Notification of acceptance of special track proposals due August 1, 2007 Submission of demonstration proposals due August 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance of papers due September 21, 2007 Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due Conference Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs: Dick Bulterman, CWI, The Netherlands Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Program Co-Chairs: Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Frances Xavier University, Canada Program Vice Co-Chairs: Audio Processing Track: Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Image and Video Processing Track: Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, Germany Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Modeling, Language, Interface and Tools for Multimedia Systems Track: Jiro Katto, Waseda University, Japan Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Multimedia Applications Track: Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Clark N. Taylor, Brigham Young University, USA Multimedia Database and Information Retrieval Track: Masahito Hirakawa, Shimane University, Japan V.S. Subrahmanian University of Maryland, College Park, USA Multimedia Networking and QoS Track: Linda Xie, University of North Carolina, USA Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Multimedia Security Track: Jong Hyuk Park, Hanwha S&C, Korea James B. D. Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Visualization, CG, Virtual Reality Track: Xiangjian He, University of Technology at Sydney, Australia Aljoscha Smolic, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany Mobile Multimedia Systems and Services Track: Sabin Tabirca, National University of Ireland at Cork, Ireland Eckehard Steinbach, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Special Tracks: K.P. (Suba) Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Tech., USA Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China Workshops Co-Chairs: Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, P.R. China Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA Industrial Program Chair: Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Best Paper Award Committee Co-Chairs: Max Muhlhauser, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Alexei Sourin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Demo Co-Chairs: Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Mary Comer, Purdue University, USA Panel Co-Chairs: Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland Publicity Co-Chairs: Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan Alex Zhaoyu Liu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA Zhiwen Yu, Nagoya University, Japan Daniel C Doolan, National University of Ireland at Cork, Ireland Publication Co-Chairs: George Wang, Cal. State University, USA Yan Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, P.R. China Finance Co-Chairs: Phillip C.Y. Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA Rong-Ming Chen, National University of Tainan, Taiwan Web Co-Chairs: Shih-Nung Chen, Asia University, Taiwan Addison Sue, National Central University, Taiwan Tony Li Xu, St. Frances Xavier University, Canada Local Arrangement Chair: Anthony Y.H. Liao, Asia University, Taiwan Registration Chair: Han-Wen Hsiao, Asia University, Taiwan --------------------------- Dr. Zhiwen YU Information Technology Center, Nagoya University Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan Tel: (+81)052-789-5910 Mobile: (+81)090-9891-1552 Email: zhiwen(a)itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp http://www.ulan.jp/~zhiwen/ ---------------------------

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ICST - CFP: AccessNets 2007
by info＠icstconferences.org 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************ * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * ACCESSNETS 2007 * * The Second International Conference on Access Networks * * August 22-24, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada * * http://www.accessnets.org/2007/ * * * ************************************************************ Co-Sponsored by Create-Net and ICST OVERVIEW: With the rapid growth of the Internet as well as the increasing demand for broadband services, access networks have been receiving growing investments in recent years. This has led to a massive network deployment with the goal of eliminating the bandwidth bottleneck between end-users and the network core. Today many diverse technologies are being used to provide broadband access to end users. The architecture and performance of the access segment (local loop, wired and wireless access networks, and even home networks) are getting increasing attention for ensuring quality of service of diverse broadband applications. Moreover, most access lines will no longer terminate on a single device, thus leading to the necessity of having a home network designed for applications that transcend simple Internet access sharing among multiple personal computers and enable multimedia support. Therefore, the access network and its home portion have become a hot investment pool from both a fin! ancial as well as a research perspective. The aim of the annual International Conference on Access Networks (AccessNets) is to provide a forum that brings together scientists and researchers from academia as well as managers and engineers from the industry and government organizations to meet and exchange ideas and recent work on all aspects of access networks and how they integrate with their in-home counterparts. AccessNets'07 is the second edition of this exciting event, which will be held in Ottawa, the beautiful and historical capital city of Canada, in August 2007. The conference will consist of technical sessions, workshops, and panels. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the workshops and panels will focus on development, application, and related business issues in this hot and exciting area. TOPICS: The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * FTTx and PON technologies * xDSL technology and DSM * Hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) technology * Cable-based access technology * Powerline communication technology * Digital satellite access technology * WiFi and WiMax networks * Wireless mesh networks * Integrated wired/wireless networks * Long reach Ethernet * Home networks * Networked appliances * Hybrid wired/wireless LANs * Municipal and community networks * Network architectures and protocols * Medium access control * Cross-layer design * OFDM, OFDMA, CDMA techniques * MIMO techniques * Service convergence * Quality of service provisioning * Network scalability and upgradeability * Network survivability and security * Billing and management aspects * Business and regulatory aspects * Deployment/standardization statuses PANELS AND WORKSHOPS: We solicit panel and workshop proposals on hot and controversial topics in access networks. Proposals should be submitted to the panel and workshop co-chairs, respectively. Please visit the conference website for detailed instructions. PAPER SUBMISSION: Please visit the conference website for detailed instructions. IMPORTANT DATES: Workshop proposal due February 15, 2007 Panel proposal due March 10, 2007 Paper submission due March 10, 2007 Notification of acceptance May 31, 2007 Final manuscript due June 15, 2007 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada TPC CO-CHAIRS Stefano Galli, Panasonic, USA Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology, India WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Martin Maier, University of Quebec, Canada Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA PANEL CO-CHAIRS Kenneth J. Kerpez, Telcordia Technologies, USA Abdallah Shami, University of Western Ontario, Canada PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Cheng Li, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Baoxian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China PUBLICATION CHAIR Shiwen Mao, University of Auburn, USA INDUSTRY SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Angel Lozano, Lucent Technologies, USA FINANCIAL CHAIR Karen Decker, ICST, USA CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Zita Rozsa, ICST, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Peng He, University of Ottawa, Canada STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-net, Italy Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology, Greece Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology, India TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE See http://www.accessnets.org/2007/ Cheng Li *************************************** Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, NL, A1B 3X5 Tel: (1) 709 737 8972 Fax: (1) 709 737 4042 Web: www.engr.mun.ca/~licheng -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. 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ICST - WiOpt'07: Call For Participation
by info＠icstconferences.org 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

5th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks April 16-20, 2007, Limassol, Cyprus www.wiopt.org Scope of the Symposium: The design of wireless networks offers challenges not present in fixed networks: both the offered traffic and the network capacity depend on the mobility of the nodes. The designs should not only be functioning correctly, they are also expected to optimize the performance with respect to many criteria, such as energy efficiency, quality of service, and capacity utilization. This symposium intends to bring together researchers and practitioners working on optimization of wireless network design and operations. It welcomes different perspectives, including performance analysis, protocol design, wireless communication, and optimization theory. Conference Program: Visit the conference website www.wiopt.org for the conference program as well as travel information. Keynote Speaker: Prof. R. Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Adjunct Workshops: Five one-day workshops will accompany the main WiOpt Symposium. Please check the conference website for more details: * WiNMee/WiTNeMo 2007 : International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements * RAWNET 2007 : Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks * SPASWIN 2007: Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks * CONCOM 2007 : Control over Communication Channels * WNC3 2007 : Wireless Networks: Communication, Cooperation and Competition Technical Sponsorship: IEEE-CSS, IEEE-ITS, IFIP, EURASIP -------------------------------------------------- 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] BDIM 2007 CFP - Submission deadline: Jan 31, 2007
by Admin 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Second IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2007) In conjunction with IEEE/IFIP Integrated Management (IM 2007), Munich, Germany, May 21st, 2007. http://www.businessdrivenitmanagement.org/bdim2007/ Information Technology (IT) management has evolved significantly over the past few years as IT-based solutions have become increasingly critical to the functioning of organizations. From device, network and systems management, solutions have evolved to include service management and IT governance, as witnessed by the recent popularity of ITIL and COBIT frameworks. A recent shift in perspective brought to bear a more user-centric approach to IT management, putting IT managers in condition to look at IT not just from the IT department's traditional point of view but from the user's point of view: this is the reason for the appearance of services and quality of service metrics in these frameworks. Even more recently, a further shift towards holistic understanding of IT in order to fulfill business objectives is occurring: one now wishes to look beyond IT services to the context where the services are used. This is termed Business-driven IT Management (BDIM) and is the object of this workshop. BDIM focuses on the impact of IT on business processes and business-level objectives and vice versa; besides the conventional IT metrics such as availability and response time, it looks at other key performance indicators (KPIs), that is metrics that have significance from the point of view of the business supported by the IT. The BDIM approach aims at rethinking IT management from a business perspective, whether this be in an operational, tactical or strategic context. BDIM is not restricted to IT environments in enterprises but encompasses techniques and decision making that involve thinking about IT in terms of objectives that are at business level, of organizations that may not traditionally be classified as "businesses". The second edition of the BDIM workshop builds on the success of the first edition, that was held in conjunction with NOMS 2006. BDIM 2007 aims to continue building the community of researchers in business-driven IT management by inviting complete, original, unpublished contributions in the following, or related topic areas: - Models for measuring/estimating business-IT alignment (- Models for IT faults and performance degradations) (- Data mining techniques for impact model construction) (- Modeling of business operations and their relationships to IT) (- Modeling of business strategies and their relationships to IT) (- Modeling IT risk and IT-related business risk- Software tools for Business-driven IT management) (- Semantic web models for business-IT alignment) - Decision support for IT Management from a business perspective (- Business-driven IT optimization problems) (- Business-driven IT planning and decision-making) (- IT actions to enhance/optimize business performance) - Automation for IT Management from a business perspective (- Adaptive/autonomic computing from a business perspective) (- Automated IT management solutions from a business perspective) - Business Objectives, Processes and SLM (- Business process modeling for IT management) (- Business-driven Service Level Management) (- Business-driven dynamic provisioning) (- Business-driven inventory management) (- Business continuity management and its impact on IT) (- Accounting, Billing, Chargeback and linkages to business objectives) (- IT Governance, ITSM, COBIT) (- Business objectives and their impact on new IT paradigms like utility/grid computing) - Case studies in Business-driven IT management (in e-commerce, messaging, ...) (- E-commerce, e-business and relation to IT infrastrcutures) (- Services infrastructures and QOS concerns (MTBF, MTTR, Response times, latency etc) that have customer impact) Submissions: We are seeking submissions for full papers (10 pages on 2-columns IEEE style) and short papers presenting position statements or preliminary results on relevant work (2 pages on 2-columns IEEE style). All selected works will appear in the proceedings in an IEEE press volume with assigned ISBN number. Submissions are to be uploaded at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/bdim2007 on or before January 31st, 2007. Important dates: Submission deadline: Jan 31, 2007 Notification of acceptance: Feb 28, 2007 Camera-ready version: Mar 12, 2007 Workshop: May 21, 2007 Organizing committee: Workshop co-chairs Claudio Bartolini (HP Labs, USA) Akhil Sahai (HP Labs, USA) Jacques Sauvé (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) Publicity chair Carlos Becker Westphall (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) Technical program committee Virgílio Almeida (UFMG, Brazil) Arosha Bandara (The Open University, UK) Tony Bailetti (Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Canada) Mark Burgess (University College Oslo, Norway) Lalana Kagal (MIT, USA) Alexander Keller (IBM Research TJ Watson, USA) Jeff Kephart (IBM TJ Watson Research, USA) Lundy Lewis (Southern New Hampshire University, USA) Antonio Liotta (Essex University, UK) Zoran Milosevic (Deontik, Australia) Naftaly Minsky (Rutgers University, USA) Antão Moura (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) Pradeep Kr. Ray (University of New South Wales, Australia) Sharad Singhal (HP Labs, USA) Vladimir Tosic (University of New South Wales, Australia) Joseph Weiss (Bentley College, USA) Carlos Becker Westphall (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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IPSN 2007: Call for Demos
by Ying Zhang 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

IPSN 2007: Call for Demos The 6th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2007) Sponsored by ACM and IEEE Cambridge (MIT Campus), Massachusetts, USA April 24 - 27, 2007 http://www.cse.wustl.edu/ipsn07.html CALL FOR DEMOS The 6th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2007) draws upon many disciplines including networking, signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases, embedded systems, wireless communications, and machine learning. In addition to full-length technical papers, IPSN is very interested in demonstrations of novel sensor network technology, applications, and hardware. The IPSN Program Commitee encourages submissions from industry as well as academia. DEMO SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Accepted demos will be included in the IPSN proceedings. Submissions should be sent to: ipsn2007demos(a)gmail.com and should be a two-page abstract that follows the IPSN formatting guidelines: refer to the IPSN submission instructions for details. Be specific as possible in describing what you will demonstrate. The demo session will have power and wireless connectivity available. If a demonstration requires special arrangements, please note them in the mail message with the submission (not in the submission itself). IMPORTANT DATES Two-page demo descriptions: 11:59pm (PST), February 9, 2007 Notification of acceptance: February 16, 2007 Conference dates: April 25-27 IPSN 2007 Demo Chair Philip Levis (Stanford University)

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