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CFP -- CoNext 2006
by Christophe Diot 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

the Second CoNext conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, December 4-7 2006. The CoNext 2006 web site is: http://www.adetti.pt/events/CONEXT06/Main.php?contents=home.htm Submission deadline is July 7, 2006 (registration of abstracts July 1st) CoNext is co-sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM. Travel grants will be available for students. CoNext 2006 will be a major forum in the area of future networking technologies. CoNext emphasizes synergies between various international and technical communities. The conference will feature a single-track, high quality technical program with significant opportunities for technical and social interaction among a close-knit community of participants. CoNext aims to be open and accommodating to multiple viewpoints and is committed to fairness in the review process and to returning deep and sound technical feedback to authors of submitted paper. CoNext 2006 will emphasize the emerging new paradigms for large-scale, ubiquitous networking. These generally aim to achieve new functionality to support advanced networked services and to provide seamless integration for embedded, wireless, and mobile devices into the network fabric. -- http://parislab.thomson.net

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CFP - Quality of Protection Workshop - Security Measurements and Metrics
by qop-submission 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

(* Apologies for multiple copies *) ===================================================================== Call for Paper for the 2nd International Workshop on QUALITY of PROTECTION - QoP 2006 Security Measurements and Metrics http://dit.unitn.it/~qop/ Mon. Oct. 30 - Alexandria VA, USA Affiliated with 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigsac/ccs/CCS2006/ EXTENDED DEADLINE: Fri. 23 June ======================================================================= WORKSHOP OVERVIEW Information Security in Industry has matured in the last few decades. Standards such as ISO17799, the Common Criteria, a number of industrial certification and risk analysis methodologies have raised the bar on what is considered a good security solution from a business perspective. Yet, if we compare Information Security with Networking or Empirical Software Engineering we find a major difference. Networking research has introduced concepts such as Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements. Conferences and Journals are frequently devoted to performance evaluation, QoS and SLAs. Empirical Software Engineering has made similar advances. Notions such as software metrics and measurements are well established. Processes to measure the quality and reliability of software exist and are appreciated in industry. Security looks different. Even a fairly sophisticated standard such as ISO17799 has an intrinsically qualitative nature. Notions such as Security Metrics, Quality of Protection (QoP) or Protection Level Agreement (PLA) have surfaced in the literature but still have a qualitative flavour. The "QoP field" in WS-Security is just a data field to specify a cryptographic algorithm. Indeed, neither ISO17799 nor ISO15408 (the Common Criteria) addresses QoP sufficiently. ISO17799 is a management standard, not directly concerned with the actual quality of protection achieved; ISO15408 is instead a product assessment standard and yet does not answer the question of how a user of a product assessed by it can achieve a high QoP within his/her operational environment. Both standards cover just one aspect of an effective QoP and even the combination of both would not address the aspect sufficiently. "Best practice" standards, such as the baseline protection standard published by many government agencies, also belong to the category of standards that are useful, but not sufficient, for achieving a good QoP. Security is different also in another respect. A very large proportion of recorded security incidents has a non-IT cause. Hence, while the networking and software communities may concentrate on technical features (networks and software), security requires a much wider notion of "system", including users, work processes, organisational structures in addition to the IT infrastructure. The QoP Workshop intends to discuss how security research can progress towards a notion of Quality of Protection in Security comparable to the notion of Quality of Service in Networking, Software Reliability, or Software Measurements and Metrics in Empirical Software Engineering. The 1st QoP workshop was held in Milano in September 2005 and was affiliated with the 10th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2005) and the 11th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS 2005). The revised proceedings of the workshop are going to appear in the Kluwer (now Springer) Applied Security Series. SUBMISSION TOPICS: Original submissions are solicited from industry and academic experts to presents their work, plans and views related to Quality of Protection. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Industrial Experience * Security Risk Analysis * Security Quality Assurance * Measurement-based decision making and risk management * Empirical assessment of security architectures and solutions * Mining data from attacks and vulnerabilities repositories * Security metrics * Measurement theory and formal theories of security metrics * Security measurement and monitoring, * Experimental verification and validation of models, * Simulation and statistical analysis, stochastic modeling * Reliability analysis IMPORTANT DATES: • Fri. 23 June - Paper submissions (EXTENDED) • Tue. 25 July - Authors’ notification • Thu. 17 August - Camera ready paper due • Oct. 30 - Nov 3 - ACM CCS and QoP Workshop PAPER SUBMISSION: Original RESEARCH PAPERS are solicited in any of the above mentioned topics describing significant research results based on sound theory or experimental assessment. Preliminary research results can be submitted in the form of SHORT PAPERS. We also solicit INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE REPORTS about the use of security measurements and metrics in industrial environments. Industry papers should have at least one author from industry or government, and will be considered for their industrial relevance. Industry and Research papers should be limited to 6 pages in the standard ACM conference format. Short Papers should be limited to 3 pages. PUBLICATION: Authors of accepted papers will be expected to give full presentations at the workshop. The proceedings of the workshop will be published by ACM. PROGRAM CHAIRS Guenter Karjoth - IBM Research - Zurich Fabio Massacci - University of Trento PROGRAM COMMITTE • Alessandro Acquisti - Carnegie Mellon University (USA) • Guenter Bitz - SAP (DE) • Yves Deswarte - LAAS-CNRS (FR) • Dieter Gollmann - TU Hamburg-Harburg (DE) • Virgil D. Gligor - University of Maryland (USA) • Judith N. Froscher - Naval Research Laboratory (USA) • Erland Jonsson - Chalmers University of Technology (SW) • Svein Johan Knapskog - The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NOR) • Helmut Kurth - ATSEC (DE) • Bev Littlewood - City University, London (UK) Volkmar Lotz - SAP (DE) • Roy Maxion - Carnegie Mellon University (USA) • David M. Nicol - University of Illinois (USA) • Mario Piattini - University of Castilla-La Mancha (SP) • Anand Prasad - DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe (DE) • Tomas Sander - HP Labs (USA) • Shrivastava Santosh - University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) • Ketil Stolen - SINTEF (NO) & Univ. of Oslo (NO) • Vipin Swarup - The MITRE Corporation (USA) • Marvin Zelkowitz - University of Maryland (USA)

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EC-SIPMCS 2007 call for papers
by EC2007 conference team 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

CALL FOR PAPERS 6th EURASIP Conference EC-SIPMCS 2007 June 27 - July 1, 2007, Maribor, Slovenia Conference Website: <http://ec2007.feri.uni-mb.si/index.htm> http://ec2007.feri.uni-mb.si/index.htm This conference is initiated by the European Association for Speech, Signal and Image Processing (EURASIP) in order to start a new tradition of conferences, each devoted to a specific area of discipline. It is focused on Speech and Image Processing, Multimedia Communications and Services (EC-SIPMCS). The goal of EC-SIPMCS is to promote the interface researchers involved in the development and applications of methods and techni-ques within the framework of speech/image processing, multimedia communications and services. The EC-SIPMCS 2007 is the sixth biennial conference promoted by EURASIP. The first conference was organized in Prague, Czech Republic (1997), second in Krakow, Poland (1999), third in Budapest, Hungary (2001), fourth in Zagreb, Croatia (2003) and fifth in Smolenice (2005), Slovak republic. The 6th EC-SIPMCS will be held in Maribor, Slovenia from June 27 - June 30, 2007. Topics of Interest The program includes keynote and invited lectures by eminent international experts, peer reviewed contributed papers, posters, invited sessions on the same or related topics, industrial presentations and exhibitions around but not limited to the following topics: * Image and Video Processing * Image and Video Coding * Image Scanning, Display and Printing * Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval * Speech and Audio Processing * Watermarking and Encryption * Digital Signal Processing (DSP) * Standards and Related Issues * ICT in e-learning/consulting * Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) * Video Streaming and Videoconferencing Multimedia Signal Processing * Multimedia Databases * Multimedia and DTV Technologies * Multimedia Communications and Networking * Multimedia Human-Machine Interface and Interaction * Multimedia Services and Applications Publications All accepted papers will be published in CD Proceedings that will be available at the Conference. Abstracts of accepted papers will be printed and included in the INSPEC database. Selected papers will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Important Dates Paper and Poster Submissions: March 18, 2007 Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2007 Camera ready copy due: May 6, 2007 Author Registration: May 6, 2007 Submission Guidelines Regular Papers Papers must be submitted electronically by March 18, 2007. Each paper will be evaluated by at least two independent reviewers, and will be accepted based on its originality, significance and clarity. Papers must not exceed 6 pages single spaced 11-point font. General Chair prof. dr. Zarko Cucej University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Smetanova 17, SI-2000 Maribor <mailto:ec2007@uni-mb.si?subject=For%20Mr.%20%C5%BDarko%20%C4%8Cu%C4%8Dej> ec2007(a)uni-mb.si <http://sparc.uni-mb.si> http://sparc.uni-mb.si Program Chair dr. Peter Planinsic University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Smetanova 17, SI-2000 Maribor <mailto:ec2007@uni-mb.si?subject=For%20Mr.%20%C5%BDarko%20%C4%8Cu%C4%8Dej> ec2007(a)uni-mb.si <http://sparc.uni-mb.si> http://sparc.uni-mb.si

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[EURO mGOV 2006] Mobile Government Comference
by EURO mGOV 2006 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

--- Apologies for cross postings ---- Extended deadlines: --------------------- Practice talks: 15th of July Late Break-in-Papers: 1st of July ----------------------------------------------- EURO mGOV 2006: Second European Conference on Mobile Government University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 30-31 August & 1 September 2006 ------------------------------------------------ http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/ euromgov2006(a)mgovernment.org -- New opportunities for eGovernment: adapting to mobile and ubiquitous Business -- ---- CALL for PRACTICE TALKS ---- http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/euromgov2006/talks.html EURO mGOV 2006 Committee is soliciting proposals for practice talks from public or private sector professionals regarding implementations, best-practices, cases in all areas related to mobile government, e-government, mobile business and mobile technologies in general (please refer to conference topics at the EURO mGOV 2005 web site). These sessions aim to provide a chance for the practicing professionals to present their cases at the EURO mGOV 2006 conference to other researchers, government and industry representatives without submitting a research paper and thus to promote exchange of knowledge / ideas with other professionals. If you are interested in doing a practice presentation at the EURO mGOV 2006, please send, to the conference secretariat at euromgov2006(a)mgovernment.org, a page long proposal with the following information: About you: ------------------ - Name; - Job Title and Affiliation: - Postal Address, Email address, Phone and Fax number: About the Session: --------------------- - Title: - The Proposal (approx. a page long - describing the content, goals and outcome): All submitted proposals will be evaluated by the program chairs and accepted proposals will be given a slot at the practice stream of the conference. The abstract or slides of the practice talks will be made available to the audience at the conference. All practice presenters must register to the conference. Where to send? euromgov2006(a)mgovernment.org When to send? no later than June 1st, 2006 For more information please write to EURO mGOV 2006: ------------------------------------------------------------------- euromgov2006(a)mgovernment.org or visit the web site: http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org EURO mGOV Series: ----------------- The Euro mGOV Conference series are home to professionals from the public and private sectors; and the research institutes who are all working on mobility, eGovernment, mBusiness, mobile government and closely related topics. The series aim to establish a forum and provide a showcase for the developments on the public administration and mobile Internet technologies, services and business models, and tie them to the existing and future m-government applications and government business models. The series will also present evidences of applications and trends in mobile government implementations from various parts of the world. Euro mGov 2006 organization cordially invites researchers and practitioners from academia, public sector, IT and Telecom Industry to participate and contribute to this largest gathering of the mobile government professionals. WAYS to PARTICIPATE ------------------- public or private sector practitioners? to speak, or to do a demo, please send in a page long proposal and the short bio of the speaker or demonstrator to conference management at euromgov2006(a)mgovernment.org (see http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/euromgov2006/talks.html) researchers and academics? to speak, to do a demo or publish, please send in the full paper (see http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/euromgov2006/submission.html to present a tutorial? please submit your tutorial proposal (see http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/euromgov2006/tutorials.html to organize a special session? please submit your session proposal (see http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/euromgov2006/sessions.html to exhibit? please refer to exhibition page. http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/euromgov2006/exhibition.html to sponsor? please refer to sponsorship page http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/euromgov2006/sponsor.html the conference web site: --------------------------- http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/ All enquiries: ------------- euromgov2006(a)mgovernment.org

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MSN'06 - Extended deadline
by Isabelle Simplot-Ryl 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

We apologize for multiple receipts. ----------- ------------------------------- MSN'06 - Deadline extended to June 23, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN'06) 13-15 Dec 2006, Hong Kong, China http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/msn06 Organized and supported by Hong Kong Polytechnic University ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Following the success of the first conference MSN¡¯05, held in Wuhan, China, MSN¡¯06 provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange research results and share development experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks: - Network architecture and protocols - Software platforms and development tools - Self-organization and synchronization - Routing and data dissemination - Failure resilience and fault isolation - Energy management - Data, information, and signal processing - Security and privacy - Network planning, provisioning, and deployment - Network modeling and performance evaluation - Developments and applications - Integration with other systems SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- MSN invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the correspondingauthor, and must not exceed 15 pages, including tables and figures, with PDF, PostScript, or MSWord format. Electronic submission through the submission website is strongly encouraged. Hard copies will be accepted only if electronic submission is not possible. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted,at least one ofthe authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Questions concerning hardcopy submissions or any other issues may be directed to the Program Chair at msn06(a)comp.polyu.edu.hk. IMPORTANT DATES --------------------- Important Dates: Submission deadline: Extended to 23 June, 2006 Notification of acceptance: 20 Aug, 2006 Final Manuscript due: 5 Sept, 2006 Conference: 13 - 15 Dec. 2006 PUBLICATION --------------------- The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pending) and distributed at the conference. Selected papers of best quality will be published in a special issue at journal special issues. BEST PAPER AWARDS --------------------- The program committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award (all regular papers are eligible) and one winner for the Best Student Paper Award (only the regular papers whose firstauthor is a full-time student are eligible). Each winner will be presented at the conferencewith a certificate and US$100. KEYNOTE SPEECHES: --------------------- MSN'06 will feature three keynote speeches. Speakers and topics will soon be announced. ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES -------------------------------- Advisory Committees Keith K.C. Chan, H.K. Polytechnic Univ., H.K. Marco Conti, IIT, CNR, Italy Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Lionel Ni, H.K. Univ. of Sci. & Tech., H.K. Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic Univ., USA General Co-Chairs Sajal K. Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA Xiaohua Jia, HK CityU Program Co-Chairs Jiannong Cao, HK PolyU Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Program Vice Co-Chairs - Physical layer, power, and other architecture issues Amiya Nayak, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada - Data link layer and MAC protocols Vojislav B. Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada - Routing and broadcasting Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain - Deployment, topology control, clustering, Paolo Santi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR, Italy - Transport layer, session layer protocols Soung-Chang Liew, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Data centric, tracking, and positioning protocols in sensor networks Eric Fleury, INRIA, France - Query processing, Middleware Jingyuan(Alex) Zhang, University of Alabama, USA - Security, privacy, and reliability Zhen Jiang, West Chester University, USA - Systems and applications Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, H.K. Progrma Committee Please see MSN¡¯06 Website for the list of program committee members Publicity Co-Chairs Wei Lou, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. H.K. Isabelle Simplot-Ryl, Univ. Lille 1, France Yu Wang, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Local Organization Chair Allan Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. H.K. Publication Chair Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist Univ., H.K. Awards Co-Chairs Stephen Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Symeon Papavasileiou, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan Webmaster Hui Cheng (cshcheng(a)comp.polyu.edu.hk) ---------------------------------------- For more information, please contact: Prof. Jiannong Cao Deartment of Computing Hong Kong Polytechnic University Email: csjcao(a)comp.polyu.edu.hk Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic School of Information Technology and Engineering Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Email: ivan(a)site.uottawa.ca

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Re: [ifip-tc6] [Ifip_eb] The New IFIP
by dipak.khakhar 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

Please see minutes of previous GA and Co regarding IFIP strategy

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Comments on IFIP strategy document
by Otto Spaniol 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Dear Basie and Leon, dear TC6 delegates, I had circulated a request for comments on the "New IFIP" document. Only a few responses were obtained until now, namely from (in alphabetic order): - Finn Arve Aagesen (Norway) - Peter Radford (UK) - S V Raghavan (India). Since I feel that I'm not allowed to make a combined document out of those I attach them below. I hope that this may help for a constructive discussion in Lonon. Best regards Otto -------------------------------------------------- >From Finn Arve Aagesen <finnarve(a)item.ntnu.no> 1) The document needs to reflect an appropriate and accepted analytical and creative method applied in the strategic process. 2) Any strategic process method needs a status decription. The document needs a status decription of the landscape to-day concerning the landscape that IPIP is a part of and intends to be a part of in the close and far future. This landscape must be structured. I am confused about which landscape "IFIP" is talking about. Reading the document made med feel that IFIP in the future should be better than IEEE in the academic conference production field, better than INRIA (a.o) in the research production field and better than ERCIM (a.o) in the research project coordination and acquisition field. 3) In addition to having a status, vision and objectives -- the document also needs to discuss "implementation" . Concepts such as money, cost, "IFIP" cost, non-"IFIP" paid cost, "IFIP" paid labor, non-"IFIP" paid volontary "free" labor, non-"IFIP" paid travel costs, "IFIP" incitaments, "IFIP" career should also be a part of the document. The reality is that the real working forces of IFIP that contributes with non-"IFIP" paid travels and labor are located in various parts of "the landscape" at the same time. ----------------- >From Peter Radford <peter.radford(a)logicacmg.com>: I would have liked to have sent a much more detailed response to the revised strategy paper but that needed more time than I have available. Instead let me support Finn Arve's comments, particular point 3. If IFIP is going to sell its services to outside bodies, from where are the resources going to come? People give a lot of their time in support of IFIP but, if that time is going to be generating revenue for IFIP, will they still continue to give that time freely (in both sense of that word)? Indeed, for people from outside the academic community, might there not arise conflicts of interest between the interests of their employers and the interests of IFIP? The strategy needs to be supported by a business model that deals with things like money, resources and people's time. Maybe (to be more positive) there should be some examples of how IFIP could operate in the way proposed in the strategy. WITFOR and TC3 are areas which might be drawn upon to demonstrate that the strategy could work. If there is an opportunity to get "late contributions" into the meeting next week, then I might (emphasis "might") be able to do more. --------------------------------- >From S V Raghavan <svr(a)cs.iitm.ernet.in> I have following the recent discussions on "New IFIP" with a great deal interest. Here is a suggestion - Methinks it will work in India. Introduce INDIVIDUAL membership in addition to Country Membership. Provide a list of Digital Services. If TC6 desires, we can run the Portal for a while. With a modest INR 500 per annum, India can generate 100,000 members; i.e. annual revenue of 50 Million Indian Rupees (INR) or just under 1 Million Euros. We may need to share it with organizations such as Computer Society of India. If it is interesting, we can proceed further.

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Re: [ifip-tc6] Strategy deadline earlier!
by Radford, Peter 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Otto, et all First of all, I know this is the 2nd June! (I know we are only 1 hour not 1 day behind Central Europe but I thought I'd throw in a brief contribution.) I would have liked to have sent a much more detailed response to the revised strategy paper but that needed more time than I have available. Instead let me support Finn Arve's comments, particular point 3. If IFIP is going to sell its services to outside bodies, from where are the resources going to come? People give a lot of their time in support of IFIP but, if that time is going to be generating revenue for IFIP, will they still continue to give that time freely (in both sense of that word)? Indeed, for people from outside the academic community, might there not arise conflicts of interest between the interests of their employers and the interests of IFIP? The strategy needs to be supported by a business model that deals with things like money, resources and people's time. Maybe (to be more positive) there should be some examples of how IFIP could operate in the way proposed in the strategy. WITFOR and TC3 are areas which might be drawn upon to demonstrate that the strategy could work. If there is an opportunity to get "late contributions" into the meeting next week, then I might (emphasis "might") be able to do more. Regards Peter Peter Radford UK Representative to TC6 E: Peter.Radford(a)LogicaCMG.com T: +44 (0) 7770 395506 (M) T: +44 (0) 20 7446 4248 (O) T: +44 (0) 1245 262328 (H) -----Original Message----- From: ifip-tc6-bounces(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE [mailto:ifip-tc6-bounces@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE] On Behalf Of Otto Spaniol Sent: 30 May 2006 13:11 To: ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: [ifip-tc6] Strategy deadline earlier! Dear all, until now (approx. four hours since sending my corresonding message) only one -but very detailed and constructive - answer has been obtained concerning the IFIP strategy document. We need an earlier deadine since Basie von Solms leaves for Europe already on June 6 and needs the comments by June 5. Thus either you send your comments directly to him or send it to me *** until June 1 ***. (June 4 + 5 are holidays in catholic countries). Best regards Otto _______________________________________________ ifip-tc6 mailing list ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6 This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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Fw: NAEC 2006 call for papers B12
by hella kaffel ben ayed 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

----- Original Message ----- From: bezalel Gavish To: bgavish Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 2:22 AM Subject: NAEC 2006 call for papers B12 Call for Papers The 2006 Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC 2006) Riva Del Garda, Italy, October 19-22, 2006 http://atsma.org/NAEC2006/ [My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Networking has been the fundamental technology fostering the development of the web and electronic commerce. Over the past few years, electronic commerce has emerged as a dramatic new model of conducting business. Advances in networking, automated processes, decision technologies, economics, and management are already forcing dramatic changes in a variety of industries, ranging from banking and finance to music and entertainment. Many of the significant advances in understanding the interaction between the two fields and their impact on the implementation of e-commerce are occurring in academia and industry. A dialogue on the interaction between the two fields and between academia and industry is important. As electronic business spans a wide range of reference disciplines, forums focusing on networking and e-commerce research are vital to stimulate the necessary interactions and knowledge sharing across this broad community. Following the success of NAEC2005, the 2006 Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC 2006) addresses these needs. NAEC conferences bring together academic and industrial researchers from various fields to discuss developments and challenges of networking and electronic business. The aim of the conference is to provide a high quality forum for the presentation of results, exchange of ideas, and scientific discussions on challenges, methodologies, new technologies and their impact, computational and deployment issues, policies and advanced applications in the area of networking and e-business. Our goal is to open the conference to participants from all fields, in particular, telecommunications, computer science, management sciences and operations research, economy, legal and policy studies. The conference will combine technical presentations grouped in research sessions, with industry and research plenary speakers, as well as industry-lead panels. Papers submitted for presentation at the conference will be refereed and selected based on the full paper (15 to 35 pages) or an extended abstract (2 to 4 pages). The papers or abstracts have to be submitted through E-mail, by June 1, 2006 to Professor Bezalel Gavish. All papers selected for presentation will be published in the conference proceedings. Refereed full papers will be considered for publication in the Electronic Commerce Research Journal or the Telecommunication Systems Journal. Further information and instructions will be announced later and will be posted on the conference web site. Paper or extended abstract e-mailing address: Professor Bezalel Gavish, gavishb2000(a)yahoo.com. Tel: (214) 750-8474 FAX (775) 860-7130. Professor Bezalel Gavish Eugene J. and Ruth F. Constantin Distinguished Chair in Business Editor-in-Chief Electronic Commerce Research Journal Editor-in-Chief Telecommunication Systems Journal Edwin L. Cox School of Business Southern Methodist University POB 750333 Dallas, TX 75275-0333 E-mail: gavishb2000(a)yahoo.com Tell: (214) 750-8474 FAX (775) 860-7130 skype gavishb2000 (no blanks)

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[CFP] Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of, Distributed Systems (SSS 2006)
by Maria Gradinariu 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] Eighth International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (formerly Symposium on Self-stabilizing Systems) (SSS 2006) November 17th-19th, 2006 Dallas, Texas, USA http://www.irisa.fr/sss/2006/ ============================================================================== Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Important Dates Paper Submission: July 7th, 2006 Notification to Authors: August 21st, 2006 Camera-ready: August 31st, 2006 Symposium: November 17th-19th, 2006 ============================================================================== The Symposium is a prestigious international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of fault-tolerant distributed systems with self-* properties, such as self-stabilizing, self-configuring, self-organizing, self-managing, self-repairing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-adaptive, and self-protecting. The theory of self-stabilization has been enriched in the last 25 years by high quality research contributions in the areas of algorithmic techniques, formal methodologies, model theoretic issues, and composition techniques. All these areas are essential to the understanding and maintenance of self-* properties in fault-tolerant distributed systems. Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point in its evolution, marked by the importance of dynamic systems such as peer-to-peer networks, large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, robotic networks, etc. Moreover, new applications such as grid and web services, banking and e-commerce, e-health and robotics, aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process control, etc. have joined the traditional applications of distributed systems. Now, more than ever, the theory of self-stabilization has tremendous impact in these areas. Therefore, this year, we are extending the scope of the symposium to cover all safety and security related aspects of self-* systems. The title of the conference has been changed to reflect this expansion. There will be three tracks: networking, safety and security, and self-* properties in static and dynamic systems. The symposium solicits contributions on all aspects of self-stabilization, safety and security, recovery oriented systems and programing, from theoretical contributions, to reports of the actual experience of applying the principles of self-stabilization to static and dynamic systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Stabilization: - self-stabilizing systems - self-managed, self-assembling, autonomic and adaptive systems - self-optimizing and self-protecting systems - self-* abstractions for implementing fundamental services in static and dynamic distributed systems - impossibility results and lower bounds for self-* systems - application of stabilizing algorithms and techniques in dynamic distributed systems - data and code stabilization - algorithms for self-* error detection/correction Safety: - safety critical systems - trust models and specifications - semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust, over-trust, cheat, risk and reputation - trust-related security and privacy - reliable and dependable systems - fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy, robustness, survivable systems, failure recovery Security: - security of network protocols - security of sensor and mobile networks protocols - secure architectures, frameworks, policy, intrusion detection/awareness - proactive security - self-* properties and their relation with classical fault-tolerance and security - security protocols for self-* systems Networks and Applications: - models of fault-tolerant communication - stochastic, physical, and biological models to analyze self-* properties - communication complexity - data structures for efficient communication - self-stabilizing hardware, software, and middleware - algorithms for high-speed networks, sensors, wireless and robots networks - mobile agents - peer-to-peer networks, sensor networks, MANETs, and wireless mesh networks - network topologies, overlays, and protocols - protocols for secure and reliable data transport and search in wireless mesh networks - information storage and sharing in wireless mesh networks Contributors are invited to submit a PDF file of their paper. Submissions should be no longer than 4800 words and should not exceed 12 pages on letter-size paper using at least 11 point font and reasonable margins (the page limit includes all figures, tables, and graphs). Submissions should include a cover page (that does not count towards the 12 page limit) that includes paper title, authors and affiliations, contact author's e-mail address, an abstract of the work in a few lines, and a few keywords. Submitted papers may have appendices beyond the 12 page limit, but reviewers are free to disregard any material beyond the 12 page limit. A paper submitted to SSS 2006 is expected to be original research not previously published; a submission may not be concurrently submitted or to any other conference, workshop, or journal. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). General Chair: Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA, gouda(a)cs.utexas.edu Program Co-chairs: Ajoy K Datta University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA, datta(a)cs.unlv.edu Maria Gradinariu, IRISA, France, mgradina(a)irisa.fr Local Arrangements Chair: Jorge Cobb, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, cobb(a)utdallas.edu Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, ravip(a)utdallas.edu Publicity and Web Chair: Florent Claerhout, IRISA, France, fclaerho(a)irisa.fr Steering Committee: Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA, anish(a)cse.ohio-state.edu Ajoy K. Datta, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA, datta(a)cs.unlv.edu Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, dolev(a)cs.bgu.ac.il Sukumar Ghosh, Chair, University of Iowa, USA, ghosh(a)cs.uiowa.edu Mohamed G. Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA, gouda(a)cs.utexas.edu Ted Herman, University of Iowa, USA, ted-herman(a)uiowa.edu Shing-Tsaan Huang, National Central University, Taiwan, sthuang(a)csie.ncu.edu.tw Toshimitsu Masuzawa, Osaka University, Japan, masuzawa(a)ist.osaka-u.ac.jp Vincent Villain, Universie de Picardie, France, villain(a)laria.u-picardie.fr

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