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CFP-MEDHOCNET2006: 5th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop
by Ozgur B. Akan 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

We apologize in advance for the multiple copies of this CFP. ************************************************************ PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS MED HOC NET 2006 The Fifth Annual MEDITERRANEAN AD HOC NETWORKING Workshop http://www.medhoc.diit.unict.it/2006/ June 14-17 2006 Lipari, Italy ************************************************************ Ad hoc networks have attracted the attention of the research community in the last several years. Now that some of the fundamental issues and challenges of ad hoc networking have been clearly assessed, the focus is partially shifting to new issues, which include application scenarios (road safety, disaster recovery, sensors and actuators, etc.), autonomous Organization and operation, optimization and control, service creation and support, middleware. Moreover, wireless MESH networking is emerging as an "ad hoc spin-off" aimed at extending and integrating the multi-hop paradigm with more traditional networking, which poses new and exciting technical challenges. Med-Hoc-Net 2006 is the major annual international workshop aiming to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry from all over the world. Sharing ideas, views, results, and experiences in the field of wireless multi-hop networking is what Med-Hoc-Net 2006 intends to be about. Anything from theoretical and experimental achievements, to innovative ad hoc systems, prototyping efforts, and case studies is of interest to the Med-Hoc-Net community. The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2006 cover a variety of topics related to ad hoc and MESH networks, including but not limited to: - Novel multi-hop wireless network architectures - Routing algorithms and protocols - MAC protocols, scheduling, power control and radio resource sharing - Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks - Middleware for ad hoc networks - Application driven architectures and protocols - Sensor network applications and protocols - Vehicular networks - Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks - Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes - Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.20, etc.) - Self organization and network reconfiguration - Optimization models and algorithms - Resource and service discovery - Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc networks - Use of advanced antenna technologies (MIMO, beam forming, etc.) - QoS support - Security and privacy The members of program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be published in the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal. Manuscripts must be formatted according to the IEEE double-column standard format, with the exception of the font size, which must be 11pt. Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e., Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica, or their equivalent. The maximum length of the manuscript is 8 pages, including figure, tables and references. Papers should be submitted in pdf or ps format through EDAS system (http://edas.info) according to the timetable below. IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Electronic Submission: Friday February 24, 2006 Tutorial proposal submission: Sunday April 23, 2006 Notification of acceptance/rejection: Tuesday May 2, 2006 Camera ready submission of full papers: Friday May 22, 2006 Tutorial date: June 14, 2006 Conference dates: June 15-17, 2006 -- Dr. Ozgur B. Akan Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey 06531 Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 1261 E-mail: akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan

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Happy New Year
by Kiril Boyanov 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Dear Friends, I wish to all of you MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR Best regards Kiril ======================================= acad. Kiril Boyanov BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute for Parallel Processing Director Sofia 1113, acad.G.Bonchev str.Bl.25A phone (+359 2)9796617, (+359 2) 8708494 (secretary) fax (+359 2) 8707273 E-Mail boyanov(a)acad.bg =======================================

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EWSN 2006: Call for Participation
by Thiemo Voigt 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ********************************************************************* * EWSN 2006 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * * * 3rd European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN) * * * * ETH Zurich, Switzerland * * February 13 - 15, 2006 * * * * http://www.ewsn.org * ********************************************************************* Wireless sensor networks (WSN) - networks of tiny, autonomous sensor devices equipped with wireless communication - are a topic of active research in a number of different research communities, ranging from hardware to applications. You are cordially invited to participate in EWSN 2006 - the third of a series of annual meetings focusing on the latest research in this rapidly growing research area. This year's conference features: - 21 full papers (abstracts available online), selected from over 130 submissions; - a keynote by Karl Aberer, EPFL, director of NCCR-MICS (www.mics.ch), the major Swiss research initiative on ad hoc wireless sensor networks; - two half-day tutorials by leading experts in their fields: * Data Management in Sensor Networks by Samuel Madden, MIT, and * Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks by Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich; - poster and demonstration sessions; - a special session on European research initiatives dedicated to wireless sensor networks; and - a special session on the "Sentient Future Competition", where the best ideas about applications of sensor networks in ten years from now will be introduced and awarded. Program details and online registration are now available at http://www.ewsn.org. The early registration deadline is January 15, 2006. Best regards, EWSN 2006 organizers.

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Summer Contest WCTS 2006 || Call for Submissions
by iaria - announce 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

============================= Apologies if you receive multiple copies * * *Second Call for Submissions* *Summer contest: WCTS 2006* *Silicon Valley**, July 16-23, 2006* * * http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SummerContest06.html * * The first Summer Contest "World Class Technology Summit" (WCTS 2006) is organized July 16-23 2006 in Silicon Valley, California. WCTS 2006* *initiates a series of biannual IARIA international events focusing on excellence in challenging topics. The contributions are carefully reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. After the presentation of the accepted contributions in the scheduled sessions and an extended debate, an international jury will rank each presentation. The three best presentations will be awarded diplomas and financial recognitions. For details and instructions, please see http://www.iaria.org/conferences/CfPSummerContest06.html. Contributions may belong to any domain. The listed domains are simply to guide the reviewers. Submission categories can range from new theories, new paradigms, new systems, new logics, new algorithms, new solutions for known problems, and optimized implementations. Please read carefully the instructions for the authors. There is no limit of on the number of submitted contributions. There is no limit on the number on contributions coming from the same authors or team, providing each contribution is properly registered. For the award procedure, please see http://www.iaria.org/conferences/AwardSummer06.htm. * * For submissions, go on the WCTS 2006 page and click "Submit a paper<http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICNS06.html> ". Only those papers selected by the TPC enter the contest. Looking forward for your submissions, On behalf of the organizing committees Dumitru Roman, Damien Magoni, Joel Rodriques Details: petre(a)iaria.org, lorenz(a)ieee.org ====================================================

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ICNS 2006 || Second Call for Submissions
by iaria - announce 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

============================== Apologies if you receive multiple copies * * *Second Call for Submissions* *ICNS 2006* *Silicon Valley**, July 16-18, 2006* * * http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICNS06.html * * The Second International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2006) is organized on July 16-18 2006, in Silicon Valley, California. The ICNS 2006 is targeting general networking and services aspects in multi-technologies environments. The conference covers fundamentals on networking and services, and highlights new challenging industrial and research topics. Ubiquitous services, next generation networks, inter-provider quality of service, GRID networks and services, and emergency services and disaster recovery are considered. The conference has the following independents tracks: *ENCOT 2006: *Emerging Network Communications and Technologies *COMAN 2006: *Network Control and Management* * *SERVI 2006: *Multi-technology service deployment and assurance *NGNUS 2006: *Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services* * *MPQSI 2006: *Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking** *GRIDNS 2006: *Grid Networks and Services* * *EDNA 2006:* Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications* * * * 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, workshops, and panel proposals. * * For submissions, go on the ICNS 2006 page at http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICNS06.html and click "Submit a paper<http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICNS06.html> ". Important dates: Submission deadline: January 20, 2006 Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2006 Camera-ready: March 20, 2006 *ICNS Committees* ** *ICNS Advisory Committee* Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale Alessandra, Italy Prosper Chemouil, France Telecom, France Fabio Chiussi, Invento Networks, Inc., USA Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA José Neuman de Souza, UFC, Brazil Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada Luyuan Fang, AT&T, USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC - North Carolina, USA Stein Gjessing, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC, USA Takumi Kimura, NTT Corporation, Japan Paul Labbé, First Secretary, TTCP, Defence R&D, Canada Pascal Lorenz, University Haute Alsace, France Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII – Val de Marne, France Nikolai Nefedov, Nokia Research Center, Finlad Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK Bruno Schulze, LNCC/MCT, Brazil Mazin S Yousif, Intel, USA *ICNS 2006 Chairs* Alan Marshall, Queen's University Belfast, Ireland [ENCOT 2006 Chair] Adolf Finger, Dresden University of Technology, Germany [COMAN Co-Chair] Stefano Giordano, Università di Pisa, Italy [COMAN Co-Chair] Bernhard Neumair, University of Gottingen, Germany [SERVI 2006 Co-Chair] Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Essex, UK [SERVI 2006 Co-Chair] Dilip Sarkar, University of Miami, USA [NGNUS 2006 Co-Chair] Emmanuel Bertin, France Telecom, France [NGNUS 2006 Co-Chair] Sakae Okubo, Waseda University, Japan [MPQSI 2006 Chair] Bruno Schulze, LNCC / MCT, Brazil [GRIDNS 2006 Co-Chair] Damien Magoni, University of Strasbourg, France [EDNA 2006 Chair] *ICNS 2006 Technical Program Committee * Nazim Agoulmine, Université d'Évry, France Rui Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale Alessandra, Italy Amy Apon, University of Arkansas, USA Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada Tulin Atmaca, Institut National des Télécommunications, France Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada Jim Basney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Sujoy Basu, HP Palo-Alto, USA Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, UK Emmanuel Bertin, France Telecom, France Benny Bing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal José Marcos C. Brito, INATEL, Brazil Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Scott Burleigh, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Marco Carli, University of Roma TRE, Italy Augusto Casaca, INESC, Portugal Bruno Chatras, France Telecom, France Claude Chaudet, INRIA, France Serge Chaumette, University of Bordeaux, France Xueqi Cheng, Chinese Acad. of Sciences, China Jeremy de Clercq, Alcatel Research Center, Belgium Prosper Chemouil, France Telecom R&D, France Fabio Chiussi, Invento Networks, Inc., USA Paolo Conforto, Alenia Spazio, Italy Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK Todor Cooklev, San Francisco State University, USA Paul Cotae, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Hervé Debar, France Telecom R&D, France Jeremy de Clercq, Alcatel Research Center, Belgium José Neuman de Souza, UFC, Brazil Piet Demeester, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Qian Depei, Beihang University, China Dave de Roure, Southampton University, UK Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State University, USA Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Theo Dimitrakos, BT, UK Peter Dinda, Northwestern University, USA Cosmin Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA Bart Dhoedt, Ghent University Belgium Mari Carmen Domingo, University of Technology (UPC), Spain Hans-Peter Dommel, Santa Clara University, USA Yezid Donoso University del Norte, Colombia Olivier Dugeon, France Telecom, France Sevki Erdogan, University of Hawaii, Hilo, USA Ramon Fabregat, Girona University, Spain Luyuan Fang, AT&T Labs, USA Armando Ferro Vazquez, University of the Basque Country, Spain Olivier Festor, LORIA-INRIA Lorraine, France Adolf Finger, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Matthias Matthew Frank, University of Bonn, Germany Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Steffen Fries, Siemens, Germany Alex Galis, University College London, UK Eric Garcia, University of Franche-Comte, France Emilio Garcia-Palacios, Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland, UK Rosario Garroppo, Università di Pisa, Italy Markus Garschhammer, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Munich, Germany Stefano Giordano, Università di Pisa, Italy Bezalel Gavish, Southern Methodist University, USA Marc Gilg, University of Haute-Alsace, France Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-GRID, Germany Manfred Georg, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Laurent George, Ecole Centrale d'Electronique, France Sorin Georgescu, Ericsson Research, Canada Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy Karl-Johan Grinnemo, Karlstad University, Sweden Hervé Guyennet, University of Franche-Comte, France Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Hermann Hellwagner, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada Neil Hurley, University College Dublin, Ireland Juneseok Hwang, Syracuse University, USA Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia Admela Jukan, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Matthias Kabatnik, University of Stuttgart, Germany Markus Kampmann, Ericsson GmBH, Germany Nirav Kapadia, Capital One, USA Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC, USA Jiro Katto, Waseda University, Japan Xu Ke, Tsinghua University, China Ibrahim Khalil, RMIT University, Australia Takumi Kimura, NTT Corporation, Japan Hartmut König, University of Cottbus, Germany Christopher Kruegel, Technical University Vienna Paul Labbé, Attaché Defence R&D Canada, USA Jean-Louis Le Roux, France Telecom, France Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Leo Lehmann, Federal Office of Communications, Switzerland Frank Leymann, IBM, Germany Fidel Liberal, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Ignac Lovrek, University of Zagreb, Croatia José Soler-Lucas, Research Center COM, Denmark Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil Damien Magoni, University of Strasbourg, France Zoubir Mammeri, University of Toulouse, France Gabriel Mateescu, National Research Council, Canada Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Ina Minei, Juniper Networks, USA Sudip Misra, Carleton University, Canada Melody Moh, San Jose State University, USA Antonella Molinaro, University "Mediterranea" or Reggio Calabria , Italy Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal João César Moura Mota, UFC, Brazil Juan J. Ramos Munoz, Universidad de Granada, Spain Pramila Mullan, France Telecom, France Nikolai Nefedov, Nokia Research Center, Finland Bernhard Neumair, University of Göttingen, Germany Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA Satoru Okamoto, NTT, Japan Sakae Okubo, Waseda University, Japan Jalel Ben Othman, University of Versailles, France Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK Manuela Pereira, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Christian Perez, INRIA, France Harry Perros, NC State University, USA Antonio Pescapé, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Christian Prehofer, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Andreas Polze, University of Potsdam, Germany Ognjen Prnjat, University College London, UK Francesco Quaglia, University "La Sapienza", Italy Juan J. Ramos Munoz, Universidad de Granada, Spain Danny Raz, Technion, Israel Helmut Reiser, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Mauricio G. C. Resende, AT&T Labs Research, USA Pierluigi Ritrovato, CRMPA, Italy Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Marcos Rojerio Salvador, CPQD, Brazil Pierre Rolin, France Telecom R&D, France Dumitru Roman, DERI, Austria Paolo Romano, Rome University "La Sapienza", Italy Nikola Rozic, University of Split, Croatia Behcet Sarikaya, UNBC, Canada Dilip Sarkar, University of Miami, USA Bruno Schulze, LNCC / MCT, Brazil Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission, Belgium Karolj Skala, Ruder Boskovic Institute Zagreb, Croatia Dimitra Simeonidou, Univ. of Essex, UK Henk Sips, Technical University, Delft, Netherlands Kurt Stockinger, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, USA Sakir Sezer, Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland, UK Tor Skeie, Simula Labs, Norway Zoran Skocir, University of Zagreb, Croatia Said Soulhi, Ericsson Research, Canada Maciej Stasiak, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Radu State, LORIA-INRIA Lorraine, France Giovanni Stea, Università di Pisa, Italy Valerie Elaine Taylor, Texam A&M University, USA António Luís Jesus Teixeira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Do van Thanh, Telenor, Norway Ingebjørg Theiss, Simula Labs, Norway Braun Torsten, UNIUBE, Switzerland Elisa Turrini, University of Bologna, Italy Rui Valadas, University of Aveiro, Portugal Teresa Vazao Vasques, INSEC/IST, Portugal Enrique Vazquez, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Armando Ferro Vazquez, University of the Basque Country, Spain Dimitrios Vergados, University of the Aegean, Greece Victor A. Villagra, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Steven A. Wright, Bellsouth, USA Ramin Yahyapour, Univ. Dortmund, Germany Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh, University of California, Irvine, USA Mazin S. Yousif, Intel, USA Waider D. Yu, San Jose State University, USA Vlad Zaborovski, Saint-Petersburg Politechnical University, Russia Roland Zalite, Alcatel, France Pavel Zahradnik, Czech Technical University Prague, Czech Republic Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Hans-Jürgen Zepernik, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada Looking forward for your submissions, On behalf of the organizing committees Dumitru Roman, Damien Magoni, Joel Rodriques Details: petre(a)iaria.org, lorenz(a)ieee.org ====================================================

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Fwd: [Ifip_tcchairs] IFIP Schools / IFIP Academy
by Otto Spaniol 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

---------------- Anfang Weiterleitung ---------------- Betreff: [Ifip_tcchairs] IFIP Schools / IFIP Academy Gesendet: Montag, 19. Dezember 2005 11:22 Uhr Von: Eduard Dundler <eduard.dundler(a)ifip.org> An: Ifip_tcchairs(a)ifip.org Dear TC Chairs, At the Secretariat are only the IFIP Schools of Brazil and forthcoming of TC2 recorded. Could you please provide Jan with the below requested information? Best regards Eduard ________________________________________ From: Jan Wibe [mailto:jan.wibe@plu.ntnu.no] Sent: Montag, 19. Dezember 2005 11:16 To: Eduard Dundler Cc: strous(a)iae.nl Subject: IFIP Schools / IFIP Academy Dear Eduard, Regarding the Minutes from the last GA: Item: 4.8 Technical Assembly IFIP Schools / IFIP Academy Mr von Solms reported that the document on IFIP Schools that had been prepared by the TC Chairs has been adopted by the Activity Management Board (with a minor textual adjustment) and will be proposed to GA for formal approval as a new type of IFIP event. TA is in agreement with an IFIP fee of € 2 per participant per day. The concept of the IFIP Academy will be taken up by a small team and a first discussion document is expected to be ready for TA in March 2006. Mr J Wibe will chair the team. Comment: Does it exist a complete list of the IFIP Schools which has been arranged so far? I suppose they have websites with information about them? Has these "schools" generated income for IFIP? Thank you for information if the Secretariat have it. If not, I do hope that you can send a request to the TC-chairs about it? Best regards Jan _______________________________________________ Ifip_tcchairs mailing list Ifip_tcchairs(a)ifip.org http://www.ifip.org/mailman/listinfo/ifip_tcchairs ----------------- Ende Weiterleitung -----------------

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ICAS 2006 || Second Call for Submissions
by iaria - announce 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

============================== Apologies if you receive multiple copies * * *Second Call for Submissions* *ICAS 2006* *Silicon Valley, July 19-21, 2006* * * http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICSA06.html * * The Second International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2006) is organized July 19-21 2006 in Silicon Valley, California. The conference focuses on general concepts of systems automation, and methodologies and techniques for designing, implementing and deploying autonomic and autonomous systems. Other special topics are concerning context-aware networks, services and applications, and the design and management of self-behavioral networks and services. It is also considering monitoring, control, and management of autonomous self-aware and context-aware systems and topics dedicated to specific autonomous entities, namely, satellite systems, nomadic code systems, mobile networks, and robots. It has been recognized that modeling (in all forms this activity is known) is the fundamental for autonomous subsystems, as both managed and management entities must communicate and understand each other. Small-scale and large-scale virtualization and model-driven architecture, as well as management challenges in such architectures are considered. *SYSAT 2006: *Advances in system automation *AUTSY 2006: *Theory and practice of autonomous systems *AWARE 2006: *Design and deployment of context-awareness networks, services and applications *AUTONOMIC 2006: *Autonomic computing: design and management of self-behavioral Networks and Services *MCMAC 2006: *Monitoring, control, and management of autonomous self-aware *CASES 2006: *Automation in specialized mobile environments *ALCOC 2006: *Algorithms and theory for control and computation *MODEL 2006: *Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SOA * * 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, workshops, and panel proposals. * * For submissions, go on the ICAS 2006 page at http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICSA06.html and click "Submit a paper<http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICNS06.html> ". Important dates: Submission deadline: January 20, 2006 Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2006 Camera-ready: March 20, 2006 ** *ICAS Committees * * * *ICAS Advisory Committee *Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC, USA Michael G. Hinchey, NASA Software Engineering Laboratory at Goddard Space Flight Center, USA Kazuo Iwano, IBM, Japan Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Christopher A. Rouff, Science Applications International Corporation, USA Fabrizio Sestini, European Comission Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany Walter F. Truszkowski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA Mazim S. Yousif, Intel, USA *ICAS 2006* *Technical Program Committee* * * *TPC Chairs* Freimut Bodendorf, University of Erlangen, Germany [AUTONOMIC 2006 Chair] Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA [SYSAT 2006 Chair] Alex Galis, University College London, UK [AWARE 2006 Chair] Wu- Hon Francis Leung, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA [ALCOC 2006 Chair] José Neuman De Souza, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil [MCMAC 2006 Chair] Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK [AUTSY 2006 Chair] Reda Reda, Siemens Communications, Austria/Germany [CASES 2006 Chair] Thanh van Do, Telenor R&D, Norway [MODEL 2006 Chair] * * *TPC *Evripidis Bampis, University d'Evry, France** Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Osman Burchan Bayazit, Washington University in St. Louis, USA* *Dave Bustard, University of Ulster, UK Helène Lim Chei Keong, University of Warwick, UK Tan Kay Chen, National University of Singapore, Singapore Hepu Deng, RMIT University, Australia José Neuman De Souza, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil Spyros Denazis, Hitachi, France Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Justin Dyson, University of Warwick, UK Sevki Erdogan, University of Hawaii, Hilo, USA Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University, Canada Armando Ferro Vazquez, University of the Basque Country, Spain Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC, USA Manfred Georg, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Laurent George, Ecole Centrale d'Electronique, France Sorin Georgescu, Ericsson Research, Canada Alfredo Goñi, University of the Basque Country, Spain Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, University of Texas A&M, USA Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada Kazuo Iwano, IBM, Japan Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia Michael Jenkin, York University, USA Theo Kanter, Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, UQAM, Canada Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII-Val de Marne, France Milos Manic, University of Idaho, USA Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Marios Mavronikolas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Emanuele Menegatti, University of Padua, Italy Diane Mularz, Mitre Corporation, USA Juan J. Ramos Munoz, Universidad de Granada, Spain Nimal Nissanke, London South Bank University, UK Francesco Quaglia, University "La Sapienza", Italy Juan J. Ramos Munoz, Universidad de Granada, Spain Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Mauricio G. C. Resende, AT&T Labs Research, USA Dumitru Roman, DERI, Austria Paolo Romano, Rome University "La Sapienza", Italy Fabrice Saffre, BT, UK Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany Said Soulhi, Ericsson Research, Canada Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, UK Marc Teboulle, Tel Aviv University, Israel Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Thanh van Do, Telenor R&D, Norway Armando Ferro Vazquez, University of the Basque Country, Spain Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Reuven Yagel, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Mazim S. Yousif, Intel, USA Franco Zamborelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Arkdy Zaslavski, Monash University, Australia Albert Zomaia, University of Sidney, Australia Looking forward for your submissions, On behalf of the organizing committees Dumitru Roman, Damien Magoni, Joel Rodriques Details: petre(a)iaria.org, lorenz(a)ieee.org ==============================================

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season's greetings
by Radford, Peter 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

I had this drawn to my attention the other day. It is its twentieth anniversary! (It is a parody of a rhyme that starts 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; ") Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Peter Peter Radford UK Representative to TC6 E: Peter.Radford(a)LogicaCMG.com <mailto:Peter.Radford@LogicaCMG.com> T: +44 (0) 7770 395506 (M) T: +44 (0) 20 7446 1281 (O) T: +44 (0) 1245 262328 (H) Network Working Group V. Cerf Request for Comments: 968 MCI December 1985 'Twas the Night Before Start-up' STATUS OF THIS MEMO This memo discusses problems that arise and debugging techniques used in bringing a new network into operation. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. DISCUSSION Twas the night before start-up and all through the net, not a packet was moving; no bit nor octet. The engineers rattled their cards in despair, hoping a bad chip would blow with a flare. The salesmen were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of data nets danced in their heads. And I with my datascope tracings and dumps prepared for some pretty bad bruises and lumps. When out in the hall there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my desk to see what was the matter. There stood at the threshold with PC in tow, An ARPANET hacker, all ready to go. I could see from the creases that covered his brow, he'd conquer the crisis confronting him now. More rapid than eagles, he checked each alarm and scrutinized each for its potential harm. On LAPB, on OSI, X.25! TCP, SNA, V.35! His eyes were afire with the strength of his gaze; no bug could hide long; not for hours or days. A wink of his eye and a twitch of his head, soon gave me to know I had little to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, fixing a net that had gone plumb berserk; And laying a finger on one suspect line, he entered a patch and the net came up fine! The packets flowed neatly and protocols matched; the hosts interfaced and shift-registers latched. He tested the system from Gateway to PAD; not one bit was dropped; no checksum was bad. At last he was finished and wearily sighed and turned to explain why the system had died. I twisted my fingers and counted to ten; an off-by-one index had done it again... Vint Cerf December 1985 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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Home Computer of the year 2004
by Otto Spaniol 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Dear all, here is a picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine.... read the caption and marvel. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all of you Otto p.s.: Maybe after looking at the picture you might be wanting to check <http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Top_2004_Hoaxes/comments/1642/>

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Second call for papers - DAIS 2006
by DAIS'06 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS 6th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems DAIS 2006 "From service-oriented architectures to self-managing applications" Bologna, Italy June 13-16, 2006 http://www.discotec06.cs.unibo.it/DAIS06/ To be held in conjunction with FMOODS 2006 and Coordination 2006 http://discotec06.cs.unibo.it ******** NEW ********** Abstract and paper submission is now open: http://conferences.cs.unibo.it/DAIS06 Invited speakers now ready http://discotec06.cs.unibo.it/invited.htm ABOUT THE CONFERENCE In recent years, distributed applications have indeed gained a practical and widely-known footing in everyday computing. Use of new communication technologies have brought up divergent application areas, including mobile computing, inter-enterprise collaborations, and ubiquitous services, just to name a few. New challenges include the need for service-oriented archi- tectures, autonomous and self-managing systems, peer-to-peer systems, grid computing, sensor networks, semantic enhancements, and adaptivity and dyna- micity of distribution constellations. The DAIS conference series addresses all aspects of distributed applications, including their design, implementation and operation, the supporting middleware, appropriate software engineering methodologies and tools, as well as experi- mental studies and practice reports. This time we welcome in particular contri- butions on architectures, models, technologies and platforms for interoperable, scalable and adaptable systems that are related to the latest trends towards service orientation and self-* properties. DAIS'06 is the sixth event in a series of successful international conferences which started in 1997. It will provide a forum for researchers, application and platform service vendors and users, to review, discuss and learn about new approaches, trends, concepts and experiences in the fields of distributed computing. Due to the success of the predecessor conferences and the emergence of many interesting and relevant new topics, DAIS has recently switched to a one-year-rhythm. CONFERENCE THEMES DAIS'06 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. DAIS'06 especially encourages submissions addressing the following topics: - novel and innovative applications in the areas of * enterprise computing * peer-to-peer systems and platforms * mobile computing * ubiquitous and pervasive computing * sensor networks - distributed application infrastructures * service-oriented frameworks, SOA, Web Services * component frameworks, such as CORBA Components, J2EE, .NET * peer-to-peer computing * mobile and wireless computing * Grid computing - software architectures supporting * autonomous systems * context-awareness * reconfiguration and adaptation * self-management * dependability - application integration and interoperability * enterprise-wide and inter-enterprise integration * integration vs. interoperability * semantic interoperability and semantic web services - life-cycle of distributed applications * modelling, specifying, monitoring and management * model-driven development and testing * tuning and re-engineering - dependability of distributed applications * trust and security * safety * fault-tolerance * dependability coordination in SOA SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must be done electronically as postscript or PDF, using the Springer LNCS style. DAIS'06 seeks: - Full technical papers in no more than 14 pages, - Work-in-progress papers, describing on-going work and interim results, in no more than 6 pages. Both categories of papers will be reviewed thoroughly by the DAIS'06 Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. More specific guidelines on the preparation of papers can be found on the conference website. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission January 10, 2006 Full paper submission: January 17, 2006 Work-in-progress papers: January 31, 2006 Notification of acceptance: March 7, 2006 Camera ready version: March 28, 2006 Workshop dates: June 13, 2006 Conference dates: June 14-16, 2006 VENUE & EVENT DAIS'06 will be held in the beautiful city of Bologna, Italy, colocated with the 8th IFIP Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS'06) and Coordination'06. Attendants of DAIS'06 will have the opportunity to attend the sessions of the two colocated conferences. Bologna, a historical capital of culture, was founded by the Etruscans in the VI century B.C. Bologna sits in the southern part of the historically and gastronomically famous Po River plain, a natural crossroads in northern Italy. Bologna's location was important not only for the trading of goods but also for the exchanging of ideas and the disseminating of culture. The Università di Bologna, founded in 1088 is the oldest university in the western world. Bologna is famous for its porticoes. Dating back to the 12th century the porticoes were used to enlarge houses to support the growing University community. Today 350,000 people call Bologna their home, of which 100,000 are students. Bologna, Italy's culinary capital, is also famous for its food. Furthermore, Bologna is surrounded by the famous food/wine regions of Parma, Modena, and Tuscany. Bologna is very accessible, being served by an international airport and one of the main hubs of the Italian railway system. Within easy access is Florence (1 hour), Milan (1.5 hours), Venice (1.5 hours), Rome (2.4 hours) and the ubiquitous Italian countryside of Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany. ORGANISERS General chair: Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy Steering committee: Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Hartmut Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany Elie Najm, ENST, Paris, France PC Chairs: Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy Publicity chair: Ketil Lund, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Program committee: N. Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece D. Bakken, Washington State University, USA A. Bartoli, University of Trieste, Italy Y. Berbers, Yolande, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium A. Beugnard, ENST-Bretagne, France G. Blair, Lancaster University, UK A. Corsaro, Alenia Marconi System, Italy I. Demeure, ENST, France F. Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway P. Felber, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, K. Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany K. M. Goschka, Technical University of Vienna, Austria S. Graupner, HP Labs, USA R. Grønmo, SINTEF ICT, Norway D. Hagimont, INP Toulouse, France S. Hallsteinsen, SINTEF ICT, Norway S. Haridi, SICS, Sweden J. Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia E. Jul, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK A. Keller, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA H. Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany R. Kroeger, Univeristy of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden, Germany H. Krumm, University of Dortmund, Germany L. Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland W. Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany C. Linnhof-Popien, University of Munich, Germany K. Lund, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway R. Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland A. Montresor, University of Trento, Italy E. Najm, ENST, France R. Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal K. Raymond, University of Queensland, Australia R. Schantz, BBN Technologies, USA A. Romanovsky, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK W. Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria T. Senivongse, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand K. Sere, Åbo Akademi University, Finland J.-B. Stefani, INRIA, France N. Wang, Tech-X Corporation, USA -- Ketil Lund Publicity chair DAIS'06

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