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CfP 4th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing
by W. Lamersdorf 09 May '06

09 May '06

[ Apologies for multiple copies of this message ] ICSOC 2006: Call for Papers ---------------------------------------- The 4th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing December 4-7 2006, Chicago Submission deadline: June 12 Detailed info: http://www.icsoc.org Important dates: Workshop proposal submission: May 30, 2006 Paper abstract submission: June 12, 11:59pm, PST Full paper submission: June 19, 11:59pm, PST Tutorial and panel submission: July 6, 2006 Notification of acceptance: September 12, 2006 Final manuscript due: September 25, 2006 Workshops: December 4, 2006 Main conference (includes tutorials): December 5-7, 2006 --------------------------- ICSOC'06 seeks original papers in the field of service oriented computing, from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences, with the emphasis on results that contribute to solve the many still open research problems that are of significant impact to the field of service oriented applications. Topics include but are not limited to the following: Business Service Modeling: Methods and tools for capturing business goals and requirements, Decomposition into business services, Business processes, Business policies, Modeling, analysis, and simulation, Specification of functional and non-functional quality requirements; Service Assembly: Development and Discovery: Model-driven development, Service composition architectures, Service registries, Service discovery mechanisms, Semantic matching, Methods and tools for service development, Governance, Verification and validation, Deployment strategies; Service Management: Instrumentation and service related data aggregation, end-to-end Measurement, Analysis, Modeling and Capacity planning, Definition of deployment topology, Infrastructure configuration, Problem determination for SOAs, ITIL processes, Change management in live systems. SOA Runtime: Service Bus for mediation, transformation and routing, Runtime registry, Integration of legacy applications, Information services for data access and data integration, Scalability, Topology and Optimization, Service oriented middleware, Policy based configuration & Workload management Quality of Service: Reliable Service-Oriented Computing, Security and Privacy in Service-Oriented Computing, SLA and Policy specification, QoS Negotiation, Autonomic management of service levels, Empirical Studies and Benchmarking of QoS, Performance and Dependability prediction in SOA; Grid Services: Services and architecture for management of infrastructural resources, Data and Compute intensive applications, Execution and resource allocation services for job scheduling, Protocols for coordination across multiple resource managers, Business value based allocation, Innovative Strategies for Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations, Prototype systems and Toolkits. ---------------------------- General Chairs: Ian Foster (The University of Chicago) Carlo Ghezzi (Politechnico di Milano) Program Chairs: Asit Dan (IBM) Winfried Lamersdorf (Hamburg University) Industrial Track Chairs: Robert Johnson (IBM) Jeff Mischkinsky (Oracle) Workshop Coordination: Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (Telcordia) Norbert Ritter (Hamburg University) Tutorial Chairs: Frank Leymann (Univ. of Stuttgart) Heiko Ludwig (IBM) Local Arrangements Chair: Julie Wulf (Univa Corporation) Financial Chair: Vincenzo D'andrea (Univ. of Trento) Registration Chair: Martin Swany (Univ. of Delaware) Publicity Chair: Matei Ripeanu (Univ. of British Columbia) Publication Chair: Boualem Benatallah (UNSW) Area Coorfinators: Service Modeling: Wolfgang Emmerich (UC London) Mathias Weske (University of Potsdam) Service Assembly: Barbara Pernici (Politecnico di Milano) Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University) Service Management: Luciano Baresi (Politecnico di Milano) Hiro Kishimoto (Fujitsu) SOA Runtime: Douglas Schmidt (Vanderbilt University) Steve Vinoski (Iona) Quality of Service: Priya Narasimhan (CMU) Jim Pruyne (HP) Grid Services: Dennis Gannon (Indiana University) Paul Watson (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Steering Committee: Fabio Casati (Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA) Paco Curbera (IBM Research, USA) Mike Papazoglou (Tilburg University, The Nederland) Paolo Traverso (ITC-IRST, Italy)

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FCS-ARSPA'06: deadline extension
by vigano＠inf.ethz.ch 08 May '06

08 May '06

apologies for multiple copies **************************************** *** *** *** Due to several requests, the *** *** deadline is extended to May 17 *** *** *** **************************************** ************************ **** **** **** FCS-ARSPA'06 **** **** **** ************************ A LICS'06 (and FLoC'06) Affiliated Workshop on FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SECURITY and AUTOMATED REASONING FOR SECURITY PROTOCOL ANALYSIS Seattle, Washington, August 15-16, 2006 http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~vigano/fcs-arspa06 *********************** *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** *********************** Submission deadline: May 17, 2006 BACKGROUND, AIM AND SCOPE ========================= Computer security is an established field of computer science of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in logic-based foundations for various methods in computer security, including the formal specification, analysis and design of security protocols and their applications, the formal definition of various aspects of security such as access control mechanisms, mobile code security and denial-of-service attacks, and the modeling of information flow and its application to confidentiality policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis. The workshop FCS-ARSPA'06 is the fusion of two workshops. The workshop FCS continues a tradition, initiated with the Workshops on Formal Methods and Security Protocols (FMSP) in 1998 and 1999, then with the Workshop on Formal Methods and Computer Security (FMCS) in 2000, and finally with the LICS satellite Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS) in 2002 through 2005, of bringing together formal methods and the security community. The ARSPA workshop is the third in a series of workshops on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis, bringing together researchers and practitioners from both the security and the formal methods communities, from academia and industry, who are working on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. The first two ARSPA workshops were held as satellite events of IJCAR'04 and of ICALP'05, respectively. The aim of the joint workshop FCS-ARSPA'06 is to provide a forum for continued activity in these areas, to bring computer security researchers in closer contact with the LICS community, and to give LICS attendees an opportunity to talk to experts in computer security. We thus solicit submissions of papers both on mature work and on work in progress. We are interested both in new results in theories of computer security and also in more exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories, as well as in new results on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Automated reasoning techniques Access control and resource usage control Composition issues Authentication Formal specification Availability and denial of service Foundations of verification Covert channels Information flow analysis Confidentiality Language-based security Integrity and privacy Logic-based design for Intrusion detection Program transformation Malicious code Security models Mobile code Static analysis Mutual distrust Statistical methods Privacy Tools Security policies Trust management Security protocols All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. SUBMISSION ========== Submissions should be at most 15 pages (a4paper, 11pt), including references, in the Springer LNCS style available at the URL http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The cover page should include title, names of authors, co-ordinates of the corresponding author, an abstract, and a list of keywords. It is recommended that submissions adhere to the specified format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. Simultaneous submissions to a journal or another conference are accepted, unless the rules for the journal or the other conference exclude such a possibility. If the paper is accepted to both FCS-ARSPA'06 and the other venue, it is the responsibility of the authors to promptly notify FCS-ARSPA'06 chairs and to acknowledge copyright holders. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically, as portable document format (pdf) or postscript (ps); please, do not send files formatted for work processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or Wordperfect files). The only mechanism for paper submissions is via the electronic submission web-site. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Papers due: May 17, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 16, 2006 Final paper versions due: July 14, 2006 Workshop: August 15-16, 2006 PUBLICATION =========== Informal proceedings will be made available in electronic format and they will be distributed to all participants of the workshop. Moreover, workshop participants will be invited to submit full versions of their papers to a special issue of Information and Computation, which will be open also to non-participants, in all cases with fresh reviewing. INVITED TALKS ============= To be announced PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= * Alessandro Armando (Universita` di Genova, Italy) * Jorge R. Cuellar (SIEMENS AG, Munich, Germany) * Anupam Datta (Stanford University, USA) * Pierpaolo Degano (Universita` di Pisa, Italy; co-chair) * Pablo Giambiagi (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) * Virgil Gligor (University of Maryland, USA) * Roberto Gorrieri (Universita` di Bologna, Italy) * Carl A. Gunter (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) * Joshua Guttman (Mitre, USA) * Ralf Kuesters (Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Germany; co-chair) * Ninghui Li (Purdue University, USA) * Sjouke Mauw (University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands) * Peter Ryan (University of Newcastle, UK) * Luca Vigano` (ETH Zurich, Switzerland; co-chair) * Laurent Vigneron (INRIA-LORRAINE, Nancy, France) * Bogdan Warinschi (INRIA-LORRAINE, Nancy, France) * Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania, USA; co-chair) FCS Steering Committee: * Martin Abadi (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) * Joshua Guttman (MITRE, USA) * John Mitchell (Stanford University, USA) * Andrei Sabelfeld (Chalmers, Sweden; chair) * Andre Scedrov (University of Pennsylvania, USA) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ====================== Information about registration, travel, and venue can be found at the LICS'06 and FLoC'06 web-sites. For further information send an email to the workshop co-chairs at fcs-arspa06 -at- lists.inf.ethz.ch

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CfP ICSNC 2006 || International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications, Tahiti, November 2 - November 4, 2006
by Damien Magoni 08 May '06

08 May '06

=================================================== Apologies for multiple postings CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications, ICSNC 2006 November 2 - November 4, 2006, Tahiti. Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/CfPICSNC06.html Submission: Go to http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICSNC06.html and click "Submit a paper" Deadlines: Submission deadline: June 1, 2006 Notification: July 1, 2006 Camera ready: July 15, 2006 The Second International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications continues a series of events covering a broad spectrum of systems and networks related topics. The conference covers fundamentals on wireless, high speed, sensor and mobile and ad hoc networks, security, policy based systems, and education systems. Topics are targeting design, implementation, testing, use cases, tools, and lessons learnt for such networks and systems. The conference has the following specialized topics (mini-conferences) : WINET 2006 Wireless networks HSNET 2006 High speed networks SENET 2006 Sensor networks MHNET 2006 Mobile and Ad hoc networks SESYS 2006 Security systems MCSYS 2006 Multimedia communications systems POSYS 2006 Policy-based systems PESYS 2006 Pervasive education systems We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas. Industrial presentations are not subject to these constraints. Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged. http://www.iaria.org/conferences/CfPICSEA06.html The ICSNC 2006 Proceedings are published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, and are indexed by SCI and EI via IEEE. Regular papers Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All papers submitted via the EDAS system will receive an ID that will be e-mailed to the contact author. Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found via anonymous FTP site at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formattin… Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. . Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference's CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to petre(a)iaria.org. Tutorials Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to petre(a)iaria.org. Panel proposals: The 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. For more information, petre(a)iaria.org. Workshop proposals We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre(a)iaria.org. Looking forward for your submissions, Thanks, On behalf of the ICSNC Advisory Committee Petre Dini, pdini(a)cisco.com ==================================================

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CFP: ACM Sensys'06 - Posters & Demos
by Cormac J. Sreenan 08 May '06

08 May '06

Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this SenSys Posters & Demo CFP. Cormac J. Sreenan and Wei Ye SenSys'06 Publicity Co-Chairs ------------ ACM SenSys 2006: Call for Posters and Demos The 4th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS and SIGBED; with support from NSF. Boulder, Colorado, USA November 1-3, 2006 http://sensys.acm.org/2006/ CALL FOR POSTERS The poster session will provide a forum for researchers to showcase their work and obtain feedback on ongoing research from knowledgeable conference attendees. Areas of interest are the same as those listed in the technical call for papers. While the poster need not describe completed work, it should report on research for which at least preliminary results are available. We especially encourage submissions by students (that is, for which a student is the first author on the poster). POSTER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Poster proposals must be submitted as a single PDF file with no more than 3 pages. The first two pages should contain an abstract describing the research content of the poster, along with title, authors, institutional affiliations and contact information. The third page should contain a thumbnail draft of the poster's contents. Please submit your poster proposal as a PDF e-mail attachment to sensys06-poster-chairs(a)isi.edu with the subject line reading "Sensys Poster Submission" before the deadline. Any questions for the Poster Co-chairs Henry Tirri (Nokia), Robert Szewczyk (Moteiv) may also be directed to this address. IMPORTANT DATES Three-page poster proposal: 11:59pm (EST), July 24, 2006 Notification of acceptance: August 7, 2006 Camera-ready abstract: August 22, 2006 Conference dates: November 1-3, 2006 BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT POSTERS Two-page poster abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings. Authors of accepted poster proposals will have a chance to present the poster to interested attendees during a special poster session at SenSys. Well-crafted posters will tell the story well by themselves, but authors of posters are expected to be available to describe and discuss the work in the poster during the session. The poster dimensions are 30" by 40", with poster contents mounted on rectangular poster board that we will provide. You may choose a layout consisting of individual sheets of paper, or a monolithic large piece of poster paper (which can be printed at document companies). Henry Tirri, Nokia Robert Szewczyk, Moteiv SenSys 2006 Poster Chairs CALL FOR DEMOS Demonstrations showing innovative research and applications are solicited. SenSys'06 is very interested in demonstrations of technology, platforms, and applications of wireless sensor networks. Two-page abstracts of accepted demos will be published in the SenSys conference proceedings. Submissions from both industries and universities are encouraged. Large-scale, outdoor demos can also be accommodated at the conference facility. For the first time, SenSys 2006 will present a best demo award. DEMO SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Please send a two-page description of your demo to sensys06-demo-chairs(a)isi.edu in PDF format by the dates listed below. An additional one page appendix can be included in the initial submission but will be removed in published proceedings. Be as specific as possible in describing what you will show. IMPORTANT DATES Two-page demo descriptions: 11:59pm (EST), July 24, 2006 Notification of acceptance: August 7, 2006 Camera-ready abstract: August 22, 2006 Conference dates: November 1-3, 2006 Chieh-Yih Wan, Intel Labs Jie Liu, Microsoft Research SenSys 2006 Demo Chairs

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CFP - LAST REMINDER: 2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SECURITY AND TRUST MANAGEMENT (STM'06)
by Claudio Ardagna 08 May '06

08 May '06

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************************************************** 2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SECURITY AND TRUST MANAGEMENT (STM'06) Hamburg,Germany - September 20, 2006 (in conjunction with ESORICS 2006) http://www.hec.unil.ch/STM06/ *********************************************************************************************** STM (Security and Trust Management) is a recently established working group of ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics). STM 2006 is the second workshop in this series, and has the following aims: - to investigate the foundations and applications of security and trust in ICT - to study the deep interplay between trust management and common security issues such as confidentiality, integrity and availability - to identify and promote new areas of research connected with security management, e.g. dynamic and mobile coalition management (e.g., P2P, MANETs, Web/GRID services) - to identify and promote new areas of research connected with trust management, e.g. reputation, recommendation, collaboration etc - to provide a platform for presenting and discussing emerging ideas and trends Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - semantics and computational models for security and trust - security and trust management architectures, mechanisms and policies - networked systems security - privacy and anonymity - Identity management - ICT for securing digital as well as physical assets - cryptography The primary focus is on high-quality original unpublished research, case studies, and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions discussing the application and deployment of security technologies in practice. Paper submissions. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must have authors' affiliation and contact information on the first page. Papers are limited to 12 pages in ENTCS style format (using the generic template). Excessively long papers will be returned without review. Accepted papers will be published in a post-workshop ENTCS volume. To submit a paper, please visit http://www.easychair.org/STM06/ . For more information contact stm06(a)dti.unimi.it Papers must be received by the deadline of May 15, 2006. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: May 15, 2006 Acceptance notification: June 26, 2006 Final Papers due: August 20, 2006 GENERAL CHAIRS Solange Ghernaouti Hélie Univ. Lausanne, CH email: sgh(a)unil.ch Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche Univ. Fribourg, CH email: uun(a)unifr.ch PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Sandro Etalle University of Twente, NL email: sandro.etalle(a)utwente.nl Pierangela Samarati Universita' di Milano - Italy email: samarati(a)dti.unimi.it PUBLICATION CHAIR Sara Foresti Universita' di Milano - Italy email: foresti(a)dti.unimi.it PUBLICITY CHAIR Claudio A. Ardagna Universita' di Milano - Italy email: ardagna(a)dti.unimi.it PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Viajy Atluri, Rutgers Univ., USA Joris Claessens, Microsoft EMIC, DE Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Univ. Milano, IT Theo Dimitrakos, British Telecom, UK Mara Isabel González Vasco, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, SP Stefanos Gritzalis, Univ. of Aegean, GR Peter Herrmann, NTNU, NO Valerie Issarny, INRIA, FR Guenter Karjoth, IBM Research, CH Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, IT Javier Lopez, Univ. Malaga, SP Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, IT Sjouke Mauw, Technical Univ. Eindhoven, NL Daniel Olmedilla, L3S, GR Babak Sadighi, SICS, SE Luca Vigano', ETH Zurich, CH Will Winsborough, Univ. Texas at S. Antonio, USA Ting Yu, North Carolina State Univ., USA Alec Yasinsac, Florida State Univ., USA This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at http://www.hec.unil.ch/STM06

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IFIP Digital Library
by Harry Rudin 07 May '06

07 May '06

Dear all, In preparation of our TC6 meeting in Coimbra, here is the report on the IFIP TC6 digital library prepared by the TC6 committee on our potential digital library ---- as set up in Wroclaw. We are looking forward to an interesting discussion in Coimbra. Best regards, Harry (PS With thanks to Guy Leduc for this report format!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Report from the IFIP TC6 committee on an IFIP Digital Library * _Committee members_: Arun Iyengar Guy Leduc Elie Najm Harry Rudin, chair The *main problem *is that we are hamstrung (have a roadblock) through the five-year contract which IFIP signed with Springer. Since we have chosen alternative publication routes for some of our past conferences, one suggestion is that we make an experiment with one of our conferences and evaluate the result. With this goal in mind, I have informally contacted Google. They seem to be interested, would be willing to display the IFIP logo in association with the papers for such a conference, but do not want to run into problems with the rights assigned to Springer. In the long term, what we would like to have is an IFIP digital library, similar to what the ACM or IEEE have which could also be accessed via Google Scholar and through each conference's own Web site. An open question is whether the author or IFIP should retain rights to the papers. A draft copyright form, *assigning copyright* to IFIP is attached, only as a basis for discussion. In Coimbra, we should decide *1* - Do we want to try an *experimen*t or just wait until the next four years have passed? *2* - If we decide for an experiment, should we try to do this *via Google*? 3 - To whom should *copyright* be assigned for the individual papers --- to IFIP or should the rights be held by the individual authors? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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JNSM CfP - P2P technologies in Network and Service Management
by Aiko Pras 07 May '06

07 May '06

CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/ Special Issue on Peer-to-Peer Technologies in Network and Service Management One of the most interesting and promising technologies of the last five years is the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology. This technology allows users to voluntarily share computer resources such as storage space, processing power, and bandwidth. An important characteristic of P2P systems is that there is little or no central control, and each system can act as a client as well as a server. Initially, P2P systems were used for file-sharing purposes; examples of such systems are Kazaa and Bittorrent. Nowadays, P2P technologies are also used for many other kinds of applications, including VoIP (Skype), video distribution (GhostShare), and decentralized auctions (PeerMart). From a management perspective, P2P systems pose completely different challenges than traditional client-server systems. P2P systems include hardly any centralized management components and most distributed management functions are performed in an automatic way; examples of such functions include resource discovery, security, and NAT traversal. From a management perspective, P2P technologies are also interesting to manage traditional client-server application. Compared to traditional manager-agent technologies, the promise of P2P technologies is better scalability, improved reliability, and lower operational costs. This special issue of Journal of Network and Systems Management will focus on the management of P2P systems and the use of P2P technologies for managing traditional systems. Submissions may span a broad range of topics, including: • P2P-based management architectures and protocols • Distributed control and management in P2P systems • Accounting and payment in P2P environments • Security and trust management for P2P systems • (identification, authentication, reputation, auditing) • Performance, scalability, and reliability of P2P systems • (bandwidth, CPU load, memory usage) • Detection and analysis of P2P traffic • Impact of data retention legislation for P2P systems • Case studies and measurements Authors are invited to submit high quality and unpublished papers that are not under review in any other conference or journal. Submissions should be in single-column PDF format through the JEMS system (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/jnsm). Paper preparation instructions can be found in any copy of the Journal, or by visiting the JNSM Web site at http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/. Guest editors: Aiko Pras, University of Twente <a.pras(a)utwente.nl> Jürgen Schönwälder, International University Bremen <j.schoenwaelder(a)iu-bremen.de> Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich <stiller(a)ifi.unizh.ch> Schedule: Manuscript due: September 30, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2006 Final Manuscript due: March 1, 2007 Publication Date: September 2007

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Call For Papers - worldcomp'06; Las Vegas, USA (deadline May 15th)
by hra＠cs.uga.edu 06 May '06

06 May '06

Call For Papers - Deadline: May 15, 2006 WORLDCOMP'06 The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, USA http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp06/ws This is a Call For Papers for publication in the Final Edition of conference proceedings; if accepted, papers would be published in the proceedings AFTER the conferences. This announcement is ONLY for those who missed the opportunity to submit their papers in response to earlier announcements (authors who have already been notified that their papers have been accepted/not-accepted should ignore this announcement.) You are invited to submit a draft paper (see instructions below.) All accepted papers submitted in response to this Call For Papers will be published in the respective proceedings/books after the conferences. SPONSORS/CO-SPONSORS: WORLDCOMP'06 is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, and workshops); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: June 26-29, 2006. See http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp06/ws for the complete list of joint-conferences. The Academic Co-sponsors of WORLDCOMP'06 include: Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Media Lab (http://www.media.mit.edu/); Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) of University of Texas at Austin (http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/); Institute for Informatics Problems of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (The IIP of Russian Academy of Sciences is co-sponsoring the ILINTEC Workshop and MLMTA Conference only); and The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC is co-sponsoring the CIC Conference only). Organizers and Co-sponsors at-large include: A number of university faculty members and their staff; World Academy of Science; and Computer Science Research, Education, and Applications Press. Media Co-Sponsors include: HPC wire; GRID today; H2CM Hodges' Health; and a number of others (complete list will soon be posted on the web). Other Co-Sponsors include: One Laptop Per Child Association (OLPC; http://www.laptop.org/); and International Technology Institute (http://www.itiworld.org/). In addition to the above, several publishers of computer science and computer engineering books and journals, chapters and/or task forces of computer science associations/organizations from 12 countries, and developers of high-performance machines and systems have provided significant help in organizing the conferences. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: We have received a large number of requests for permission to submit papers to be considered as RRR, SRP, or PST papers (see below for categories of accepted papers.) Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers (no more than 7 pages, single spaced and font size of 10 to 12 - all reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable) to: hra(a)cs.uga.edu Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also include the name of the conference the paper is being submitted to (the list of conferences is appended to this message.) Accepted papers will be published in the final edition of the respective proceedings/books. All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in the topical area. IMPORTANT DATES: May 15, 2006 (or sooner): Submissions Due May 24, 2006: Notification of acceptance June 4, 2006: Camera-Ready papers and Registration June 26-29, 2006: WORLDCOMP'06 PAPER CATEGORIES: The Accepted Paper Categories are (in response to this Call For Papers): RRR papers (Regular Research Reports) will be a maximum of 7 IEEE style pages in camera-ready form. RRR papers will be presented in Discussion Sessions. (Scheduled times for Discussion Sessions will be emailed to you in June.) SRP papers (Short Research Papers): Same as RRR papers (above) except SRP papers will be a maximum of 4 IEEE style pages in camera-ready form (will be published in the proceedings). PST papers (Poster Papers): Same as RRR papers (above) except PST papers will be a maximum of 2 IEEE style pages in camera-ready form. For a more detailed description about RRR, SRP, and PST papers, refer to: www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp06/ws/paper_categories LIST OF CONFERENCES: o The 2006 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications (GCA'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Programming Languages and Compilers (PLC'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCOMP'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Pervasive Systems and Computing (PSC'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'06) o The 2006 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, e-Government, and Outsourcing (EEE'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'6) ---------- If you do not wish to receive future announcements about this event, please send an email to hra(a)cs.uga.edu.

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Report on the IFIP TC6 journal
by Guy Leduc 05 May '06

05 May '06

Dear all, In preparation of our TC6 meeting in Coimbra, here is the report on the IFIP TC6 journal prepared by the TC6 committee on "publication/QualityOfConference/LinkWithSpringer" set up in Wroclaw. We are looking forward to an interesting discussion in Coimbra. Best regards, Guy _______________________________________________________________________________ IFIP TC6 committee on publication/QualityOfConference/LinkWithSpringer Committee members: R. Boutaba G. Leduc, chair G. Pujolle H. Rudin Topics to be addressed by the committee: - IFIP TC6 Journal - Quality of Conferences - Link with Springer Only the first issue (the IFIP TC6 Journal) is addressed here, although some obvious link with Springer is also implicitly there. We did not discuss the "Quality of Conferences" issue, but noticed anyway that this topic seems to have moved to another TC6 committee chaired by Arun Iyengar. Table of contents - Open-access - Electronic-only versus electronic+paper - Copyrights - Quality - Reliable archives - Web site - Business model - The journal 1. Open access The journal should be open access (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access) 2. Electronic-only versus electronic+paper Electronic-only is enough. Anyway, if needed an open-access electronic journal can be published simultaneously as a hardcopy, either by an official publisher or not. 3. Copyrights Copyrights are retained by the author, i.e. not even transfered to IFIP. This is the main asset of open access: authors keep control on their work. Authors are likely to appreciate this feature very much. 'No copyrights to IFIP' also means 'no problem with SSBM (Springer Science & Business Media)'. We propose to replace the "copyrights transfer form" by a "Code of ethics". This will solve the problem of verbatim republication in absence of copyrights transfer. We would ask the author to sign it instead of a copyright transfer form. We would also require the author to use the URI of the paper (i.e. the link to the journal DL) instead of putting the paper on his/her personal web page (after all the journal DL would be freely accessible to anyone). If an IFIP conference paper (for which IFIP may still hold the copyrights in some cases) is extended and published in the TC6 journal, the traditional problem of reuse of copyrighted material applies. This problem will disappear when most IFIP TC6 conferences will be published in the IFIP DL (and not any more by SSBM). [Question] How can we use the IFIP name and logo for the journal without having to apply to the usual IFIP bylaws (principally the copyrights transfer). 4. Quality Authors of best papers from our best conferences (Middleware, WWW, Networking, ...) will be invited to submit extended paper versions to the journal. We need a strong editorial board. We should first provide and agree on a list of (broad) topics and at least one expert per topic to be part of the editorial board. An expert can be associated with several topics. We need to fix a ratio between the number of editorial board members and the number of "submitted+invited" papers: suppose we get 40 papers to review per year (at the beginning at least), 20 editorial board members are enough. This would lead to 2 papers per year per editorial board member. Note that the editorial board is not a list of reviewers, but a list of people responsible for handling the review process, including the selection of reviewers. The rule should be: only renowned and reliable people should be in the editorial board. This list will set the tone of the journal. No focus on one sub-community in particular (e.g. the performance community). Fair representation of American, Asian and European members. The purpose of this journal is not to set up an "IFIP mafia" against other mafias such as SIGCOMM or INFOCOM. If we are considered as another mafia, we will surely fail. We should be open-minded. For the open call, the papers should be submitted to the Editor in Chief who will dispatch the submitted papers fairly to the editorial board members. [Variant] The IEEE Surveys and Tutorials uses an on-demand reviewing procedure by the editorial board. Members are invited to check the list of submitted papers and give reviewing preferences. We could also implement that. Authors will receive immediate acknowledgment of submission and will be contacted within at most two weeks by the responsible editor who will handle their paper. Short reviewing delays (3 months). We can define a maximum number of very best papers per conference (depending on the quality level of the conference) that are invited to submit an extended version to the IFIP TC6 journal. Order of magnitude: 2% of the submitted papers. For a big conference like Networking, this would mean 9 papers. [Question] Is there a problem with IEEE/IFIP conferences? 5. Reliable archives Example of the open access 'Logical Methods in Computer Science' Journal (http://www.lmcs-online.org/index.php): Disk archive and a hardcopy of the contents is maintained by the Department of Theoretical Computer Science at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, and also by a large number of mirror sites around the world. Something similar should be in place for the TC6 journal. 6. Web site We have three ways: A. Experienced centre We delegate this responsibility to a experienced centre, which is already managing one or several (preferably open access) journals. The cost, if reasonable, can be covered by IFIP TC6 for example. A possible example is the GET in France which already publishes "Annals of Telecommunications" and has some resources to do so. There are other possibilities. B. Google-like solution Same as A, with Google handling the process. If the author retains the copyrights (i.e. does not transfer the copyrights to IFIP (and SSBM)), Google should not raise any copyrights issue here. Probably no cost for TC6 either. I don't know if Google would accept to handle the typesetting which is resource consuming. Though less appealing than Google, there are other possibilities, such as ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education, http://www.iste.org/). C. One of us is responsible for it with some support from his institution or IFIP (?) Free, open source software is available for those wishing to start up new journals For example the Open Journal Systems (OJS) http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ developed by the Public Knowledge Project http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/index.html. While OJS is designed for academic publishing, it can be used by anyone. System Requirements for OJS: To run OJS 2.x, your web server will need: - PHP 4.2.x or later (including PHP 5.x) with MySQL or PostgreSQL support - A database server: MySQL 3.23 or later OR PostgreSQL 7.1 or later - UNIX-like OS recommended (such as Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.). OJS 2.0.2 and above supports Windows servers. Another open source software to run a conference or journal: - OpenConf: http://www.zakongroup.com/technology/openconf.shtml 7. Business model Depending on the solutions, the costs may differ. The following costs are foreseen: - typesetting costs (perhaps the highest of all costs involved) - managing the web site (storage of papers, interface and reviewing process) - ensuring the reliability of the archives - possibly handling printed copies (perhaps only for reliable archiving) This is not a big deal for just a journal, but it may become substantial if this grows to a full DL. Perhaps an institution could handle it (e.g. The MIT manages the 'Logical Methods in Computer Science' Journal). If Google (or ISTE) manages it, they get revenues from advertisements (or use our journal as an advertisement for other things). If a university manages it, we don't know. We need some continuity guarantee also. The journal should not depend on the presence of an individual (e.g. a professor) at a given institution. People move. [Question] Could we estimate the typesetting costs? Guy Pujolle will ask 'Annals of Telecom' to have estimates of the needed resources/costs for this journal which publishes more or less the same number of papers as our TC6 journal would. Note that IEEE charges $60 for the typesetting of a page (and the total cost for an extra page is at least $200). 8. The journal Name of the journal: IFIP Journal on Networking? [Is it broad enough?] [Variant]: IFIP Journal on Communications Systems [May be too broad, we don't really address the physical layer in TC6] Acronym: JONET? JoN? Logo [Otto, any suggestion?] ISSN Number needed. Structure of the board (inspired by other Open Access journals): - Steering committee It will be responsible for maintaining the philosophy of the journal in the long run and to decide any changes in the direction of the journal. For example, the steering committee should appoint the editor-in-chief (EiC), then the associate EiC in consultation with EiC. The steering committee has also to approve appointed area editors and updates to the scope of the journal. The steering committee can be composed of the founders of the journal. The EiC and other members below should be renewed periodically. Maybe the steering committee should also be renewed, e.g. (re)elected by TC6 on a regular basis. - One Editor-in-Chief (EiC) - One Associate Editor-in-Chief He can handle special issues for example. He will definitely have to handle all those papers for which the editor in chief has a conflict of interest. The associate editor in chief should also take over in case the editor in chief is unavailable. - Editorial Board Small group of 20 people max. In case of conflict of interest, the EiC may act as editorial board member. - Liaison board If the need arises, we can have liaisons to the following bodies: Liaison to IFIP TC6, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE Computer Society Liaison to conferences such as Networking, etc Liaison to some non open-access journal (e.g. IEEE, ACM, COMNET, ...) Liaison to W3C consortium Liaison to DBLP, http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/ Liaison to Google Liaison to University libraries Liaison to the directory of open access journals (http://www.doaj.org/) Liaison to CoRR: see http://arxiv.org/corr/home Journal of the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) Liaison to the public knowledge project http://pkp.sfu.ca/harvester/ ... - Web Master - Periodicity, Call for papers and Invitations to submit We will start with a quaterly-published Journal, which will carry full versions of the best papers presented in the TC6 sponsored conferences. Assuming about 10 papers per issue, we believe that we will have a good supply of good papers. In the second year of its operation, we will start accepting papers from the open literature that will permit us to build it up to a monthly publication. The final goal is to alternate issues, one with papers from TC6 conferences, and one from the open call. Several good quality IFIP TC6 conferences take place every year. The total number of submitted papers is about 2000. The number of presented papers in a conference that will be invited for publication in the new Journal will be proportional to the number of submitted papers to the conference. In this way, more papers from prestigious conferences (such as the Networking series that typically attracts 450 submissions) will be published in the Journal than from a lesser conference, which typically does not attract many papers. Assuming that we accept 1 paper for every 50 submitted papers, we will have about 40 papers per year. (These ratios can be changed depending on our discussions). The acceptance procedure will be as follows. Once the selection of the papers has been concluded, we will invite a number of authors to submit full papers. The papers will be sent to referees along with the original reviews done for the conference. The refereeing process should take at most 3 months. Papers from the open call will follow the normal reviewing process. We need criteria to evaluate the quality of a conference (our second mandate, not really addressed at this stage). Perhaps some impact factor criterion. Anyway, if we apply the principle above, namely inviting the top 2% of every TC6 conference (where 2% is applied to the number of submitted papers), this may be fair with respect to all TC6 WGs and events. By invitation we mean 'invitation to submit an extended version which will be carefully reviewed'. Workshops are not considered here. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Guy Leduc Phone : +32 4 366 26 98 Université de Liège Secr : +32 4 366 26 91 Réseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89 Research Unit in Networking (RUN) Email: Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/People/GuyLeduc/

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CFP ICCS 2006, 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2006, Singapore
by Boon Sain Yeo 05 May '06

05 May '06

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email CALL FOR PAPERS Tenth IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2006, Singapore http://www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/iccs2006 Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE and the IEEE Communications Society co-organized by the IEEE Singapore Section, Singapore Communications Society Local Chapter, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore. The organising and technical committees of the symposium are seeking original contributions in the areas of, but not limited to: . Antennas, propagation and channel modeling . Cognitive radio . Communication software & electronics . Dynamic spectrum management . Grid networks . High speed networks . Information Theory . Microwave devices and systems . Mobile radio communication systems . Modulation and coding . Network architecture . Network Security . Optical communications and photonics . Optical networks . Resource allocation, mobility management and QoS provisioning . Satellite communications . Signal processing for communications . Space time processing & MIMO systems . Speech, video and image processing . Spread spectrum systems . Ultra wideband technology . Wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit full papers in PDF format with sufficient detail to permit reasonable evaluation. Detailed instructions can be found on the conference website: http://www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/iccs2006. The proposal for tutorial should include the title and clear explanation of the content of the proposed tutorial. Please include in the proposal (1) Organizer Name, (2) Name of proposed instructor, (3) Title of tutorial and detailed outline, (4) Qualifications of proposed instructor, (5) Full contact information: mailing address, telephone & fax number, and email address. Special Session Proposal The proposal should include the title of the proposed special session and brief description of the proposed session. Please include in the proposal (1) Full Organizer Name, (2) Short biography of proposed session organizer, (3) Complete mailing address, (4) Telephone, (5) Fax number, (6) Email address, and (7) Potential authors that could contribute to the session. Detailed submission guidelines and manuscript templates will be published on the conference's website. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: May 31, 2006 Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2006 Tutorials proposals deadline: August 31, 2006 Final paper due: July 1, 2006 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE General Chair: Lawrence Wong I2R, Singapore Organizing Chair: Yong Huat Chew I2R, Singapore Technical Program Co-Chairs: Tjeng Thiang Tjung I2R, Singapore Mehul Motani NUS, Singapore Mohan Gurusamy NUS, Singapore Ying Chang Liang I2R, Singapore Publication Chair: Nallanathan Arumugam NUS, Singapore Finance Chair: Michael Ong NUS, Singapore Publicity Chair: Boon Sain Yeo I2R, Singapore Local Arrangement Chair: Emily Hao Jianzhong I2R, Singapore Sponsorship Chair: Manjeet Singh I2R, Singapore Committee Members Zhining Chen I2R, Singapore Chen Khong Tham NUS, Singapore International Advisory Panel: Tjeng Thiang Tjung (Chair) I2R, Singapore Fumiyuki Adachi Tohoku University, Japan Vijay Bhargava University of British Columbia, Canada Hsiao-Hwa Chen National Sun Yat Sen University, Taiwan. Kah Seng Chung Curtin University of Technology, Australia Lajos Hanzo University of Southampton, UK Paul K M Ho Simon Fraser University, Canada Chi Chung Ko NUS, Singapore Witold A. Krzymien University of Alberta, Canada Jon W. Mark University of Waterloo, Canada Kenneth K Mei City Uiniversity of Hong Kong, China Tung Sang Ng The University of Hong Kong, China Ramjee Prasad Aalborg University, Denmark Yoshihide Yamada National Defense Academy, Japan Kiyotoshi Yasumoto Kyushu University, Japan Susumu Yoshida Kyoto University, Japan Peter T S Yum Chinese University Hong Kong, China Keith Q T Zhang City University of Hong Kong, China

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