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CFP-MEDHOCNET2006: 5th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop
by Ozgur B. Akan 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '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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CFP: MobiQuitous 2006
by Prasun Sinha 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

My apologies if you are receiving multiple copies of this CFP. - Prasun Sinha -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MobiQuitous 2006 The Third Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services http://www.mobiquitous.org July 17 -- 21, 2006 San Jose, California, USA (ACM/IEEE sponsorship pending) The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm with the goal to provide computing and communication services all the time, everywhere, transparently and invisibly to the user, using devices embedded in the surrounding physical environment. In this context, the communication devices, the objects with which they interact, or both may be mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, and discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services. The Third Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: networking and services (Mobiquitous-06) will cover all these aspects, providing a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from the many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions design and deployment will be able to interact exchanging the cross-layer experiences needed to build the overall ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, data management and services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing. PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. The conference is interested in contributions addressing all the areas associated with mobile and ubiquitous architectures, infrastructure, data and services. Technical papers clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working solution are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following feature topics: * Ubiquitous architectures and systems * Wearable computing and personal area networks * Wireless technologies for mobile and ubiquitous (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi) * Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems * Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless networks * Service discovery mechanisms, knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms * Wireless/mobile service management and delivery * Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems * Peer-to-peer computing and networking * Emerging industrial/business/scientific scenarios * Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile) * Adaptive and customizable user interfaces * Smart spaces * Ad hoc and sensor networks * Location-based services and tracking * Context and location aware application * Multimedia encoding and transcoding * Middleware services * Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems * Hardware and software platforms for ubiquitous systems, and testbeds * Context modeling, services and frameworks * Toolkits, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing * Rapid prototyping of ubiquitous applications * Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing * Mobile and ubiquitous data management SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 8 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. The deadline for registering the title and the abstract of the paper with our electronic submission system is February 13, 2006. The deadline for submitting the actual paper is February 20, 2006. All deadlines are 11:59PM PST. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal. WORKSHOPS: Proposals for one-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include the workshop name, its scope and a list of topic of interests. Proposals should be submitted to both the Workshop Chair by December 16, 2005. DEMOS: Proposals for research and industrial demos are solicited. A maximum of 3 pages should be submitted which include a description of the demo and needed equipment. Proposals should be submitted to the Demo Chair by March 1, 2006. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration and submission: February 13 and 20, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 21, 2006 General Co-Chairs Hamid Ahmadi, IBM, hahmadi(a)us.ibm.com Tom La Porta, Penn State, tlp(a)cse.psu.edu Program Co-Chairs Ravi Jain, Google, ravi.jain(a)acm.org Asim Smailagic, CMU, asim(a)cs.cmu.edu Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, arkady.zaslavsky(a)csse.monash.edu.au Workshop Chair Kin Leung, Imperial College, kin.leung(a)imperial.ac.uk Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST, karen(a)icst.org Local Arrangements Chair Ulas Kozat, DoCoMo Labs, kozat(a)docomolabs-usa.com Web Chair Patrick Traynor, Penn State, traynor(a)cse.psu.edu Steering Committee Chair Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, imrich.chlamtac(a)create-net.it Publicity Chair Prasun Sinha, Ohio State University, prasun(a)cse.ohio-state.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CFP IFIP Networking2006: Deadline extended to 27th November 2005
by Edmundo Monteiro 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

We apologize if multiple copies ------------------------------- NETWORKING 2006 IFIP International Conference on Networking May 15-19, 2006 Coimbra, Portugal www.IFIP-Networking.org New paper submission deadline: November 27th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2006 Edmundo Monteiro General Chair

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Call For Papers: 2006 PDPTA, ICAI, SERP + more (28 joint conferences); Las Vegas, USA, June 2006
by hra＠cs.uga.edu 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Call For Papers and Call For Session Proposals The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing WORLDCOMP'06 (composed of 28 Joint Conferences) June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, USA Dear Colleagues: You are invited to submit a draft paper (see instructions below) and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings (included in major science citation indexes). The names of technical session/workshop organizers/chairs will appear on the cover of the proceedings as Associate Editors. The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'06) is composed of the following 28 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: June 26-29, 2006, USA). o The 2006 International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Grid Computing & Applications (GCA'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Security & Management (SAM'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications (MLMTA'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Software Engineering Research & Practice (SERP'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Programming Languages & Compilers (PLC'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Semantic Web & Web Services (SWWS'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Real-Time Computing Systems & Applications (RTCOMP'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Embedded Systems & Applications (ESA'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Pervasive Systems & Computing (PSC'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality (CGVR'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods (MSV'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Games Development (CGD'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'06) o The 2006 International Conference on e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, e-Government, & Outsourcing (EEE'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biological Sciences (BBS'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Computing in Nanotechnology (CNAN'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms (ERSA'06) o The 2006 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'6) (a link to each conference's URL can be found at http://www.world-academy-of-science.org - currently under construction.) GENERAL CHAIR AND COORDINATOR: H. R. Arabnia, PhD The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 E-mail: hra(a)cs.uga.edu PURPOSE / HISTORY: This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Each of the 28 joint conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for presentation of advances in their respective fields. The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact. The model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Both inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be covered during the conferences. PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS: Each technical session will have at least 6 paper presentations (from different authors). The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books. Proposals to organize technical sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ E-mail) of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, the name of the conference the session is submitted for consideration, and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer). Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred. We would like to receive the proposals by December 29, 2005. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal submissions are also fine.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.) The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, & Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords. Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being submitted to must be mentioned on the first page. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in the topical area. The Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one person. MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES: The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering; embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.) The Program Committee for individual conferences is currently being formed. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia (hra(a)cs.uga.edu) the following information: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography together with research interests and the name of the conference offering to help with. LOCATION OF CONFERENCES: The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms. The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and from the airport. This hotel has many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area, bars, ... Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a day & most are suitable for families & children. The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable. The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street shows, ...). IMPORTANT DATES: Dec. 29, 2005: Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions. Feb. 20, 2006: Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages) March 20, 2006: Notification of acceptance April 20, 2006: Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due June 26-29, 2006: The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences) TOPICAL SCOPE FOR EACH CONFERENCE: To receive the complete list of topics for each of the 28 conferences, send an email to hra(a)cs.uga.edu or wait for the conferences' URL's to be constructed. FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS: 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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Extended Deadline: IEEE Workshop on Dependability and Security in Sensor Networks and Systems
by Moustafa Youssef 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) ------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Second IEEE Workshop on Dependability and Security in Sensor Networks and Systems (DSSNS'2006) http://www.dssns.org In conjunction with 2nd NASA/IEEE Systems and Software Week 30th NASA/IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW'2006) Columbia, Maryland, USA ~ April 24-28, 2006 Recently, there has been a growing interest in the potential use of networked sensors in applications such as smart environments, disaster management, combat field reconnaissance, and security surveillance. While the initial view of the community was that networked sensors will play a complementary role that enhances the quality of these applications, recent research results have encouraged practitioners to envision an increased reliance on sensor networks and systems (SN&S) in such critical and sensitive applications. Therefore to realize their potential, necessary dependability and security (D&S) measures have to be incorporated in the design and during the operation of SN&S. Dependability is usually specified using attributes like reliability, survivability, safety, maintainability, and availability in presence of failure, while security is specified by attributes like integrity, authenticity, confidentiality, and availability in presence of attacks. D&S services accomplish tasks for attack and failure prevention, detection and response. The scope of D&S services may span the deployed sensors to command nodes and likely beyond. It also involves D&S support at, and cross-cutting, the protocol stack layers from physical to application. Achieving dependability and security in SN&S will require non-conventional mechanisms due to many factors including: (1) sensors are significantly constrained in the amount of available resources such as energy, storage and computation; (2) sensors are expected to be deployed in very large numbers in normal as well as harsh/hostile environments; (3) sensor networks suffer from structural weakness and limited physical protection, and (4) localization of impact is complicated due to the un-tethered nature of SN&S and of the potential attackers. In addition, D&S requirements may vary according to mission defined over a multi-dimensional context, such as field of deployment (e.g., hostile versus friendly), type of application (e.g., monitoring, tracking, data collection), mode of operation (e.g., normal, exception, post-event recovery), and time. This workshop will foster a forum for discussing and presenting recent research results on dependability and security in SN&S. Topics of interest include, although not limited to, the following: - Fault and intrusion-tolerant architectures, middleware and operational models - Robust routing, storage, and processing of sensed data - D&S architectures, protocols and tools - Vulnerabilities, attacks and countermeasures - Monitoring and evaluation techniques - Robust clustering techniques - Self-awareness and context-awareness - Resilient virtual infrastructures - Autonomic and adaptive D&S support. - Formal representation and verification of D&S properties - Network inference support for D&S - Quality of service provisioning - Models, metrics, and measurements for D&S - Privacy-aware D&S services - Testbeds, simulation and visualization - Agent-based D&S management - SN&S support for D&S in larger information grids - SN&S application development environments Submission Guidelines --------------------- Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. The manuscript should not exceed 20 single-column double-space pages in PDF format, font size 11 or larger. The first page should include title, authors' contact information, abstract and five keywords. Please e-mail (subject: DSSNS 2006) the paper as an attachment in PDF format to: submission(a)dssns.org The e-mail should include title, authors, and the corresponding author's contact information. Important Dates ---------------- Submission deadline: November 15, 2005 Decision notification: December 20, 2005 Final manuscript due: January 20, 2006 The accepted papers will appear in a proceedings published by IEEE. The best paper will be recognized and selected papers will be invited to a Special Issue of the Journal of Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks. Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------- Mohamed Eltoweissy Virginia Tech, USA E-mail: toweissy(a)vt.edu Mohamed Younis University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA E-mail: younis(a)csee.umbc.edu Publicity Co-Chairs -------------------- Denis Gracanin Virginia Tech, USA E-mail: gracanin(a)vt.edu Moustafa Youssef University of Maryland at College Park, USA E-mail: moustafa(a)cs.umd.edu Program Committee ------------------ Farooq Anjum, Telcordia & U. of Penn, USA David Carman, Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Lab, USA Ing-Ray Chen, Virginia Tech, USA M. Nazih Elderini, Alexandria U., Egypt Deborah Frincke, Pacific Northwest National Lab and U. of Idaho, USA Ahmed Helmy, University of Southern California, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason U., USA Shivakant Mishra, U. of Colorado, USA Peng Ning, North Carolina State U., USA Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue U., USA Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion U., USA David Simplot-Ryl, U. Lille, INRIA Futurs, France Mani B. Srivastava, U. of California Los Angeles, USA John A. Stankovic, U. of Virginia, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, U. of Ottawa, Canada Gene Tsudik, U. of California-Irvine, USA Cliff Wang, Army Research Office, USA Stephen D. Wolthusen, Fraunhofer-IGD, Germany Albert Zomaya, U. of Sydney, Australia

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CfP - ICQT'06 - Internet Charging and QoS Technology
by Burkhard Stiller 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Apologies for possibly receiving multiple copies of this CfP. 5th International Workshop on Advanced Internet Charging and QoS Technologies ICQT'06 in conjunction with SIGMETRICS/Performance 2006 http://icqt.irisa.fr/ June 27, 2006 St Malo, France Scope Internet communications and their commercial use has shown a large demand on charging support. While differentiated services, grid-based services, and QoS-guaranteed services enable a huge variety of prosperous business models, the need for viable models and pricing schemes is urgent. The esulting combination of technical and economic perspectives drives many relevant research topics for application developers, business architects, network providers, service providers, and customers. Especially the identification of novel service charging solutions, the investigation and evaluation of their technical feasibility, and the consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms for enabling a fast, guaranteed, and efficient charging of services is of fundamental importance for the future evolution of the Internet, and as such the central focus of the international ICQT workshop series. ICQT'06 is the fifth event in this series, following the highly successful workshops ICQT'01 in Vienna (Austria), ICQT'02 in Zurich (Switzerland), ICQT'03 in Munich (Germany), and ICQT'04 in Barcelona (Spain). The focus of this year's workshop is on the close relation between economics and technologies in support of charging, pricing for Quality-of-Service (QoS), and business modeling. Therefore, authors are invited to submit work on issues related to, but not limited by, the following list of topics: * Network economics and economic models for the Internet * Internet pricing, tariffing, and billing * Application service provider models * Charging technologies for next generation networks * Monitoring, measuring, and accounting * ISP cost and business models * Service charging models, e.g., grids and web services * Charging for QoS, services, and content * Interdomain pricing approaches * Pricing mobile and wireless services * Management of Service Level Agreements * Security mechanisms for charging Papers and Submissions Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 12 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Submissions should already follow the author guidelines as specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of at most five keywords. The corresponding author should be identified clearly, including name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory, please check the URL http://www.ftw.at/icqt for further submission instructions or contact icqt06(a)ftw.at for additional information. The conference proceedings are planned to be published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series and will be available during the event. In preparing their manuscript, authors are obliged to follow the LNCS guidelines (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) strictly and without exception, including the 12 page limit. Important Dates * Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2006. * Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2006. * Camera ready version: April 25, 2006. * Workshop date: June 27, 2006. General Information The workshop will be organized on the second day of the two ACM Sigmetrics and IFIP Performance conferences, especially as a full day on June 27, 2006. The registration for this event is handled within the framework of the ACM Sigmetrics/IFIP Performance 2006 conference, see http://www.cs.wm.edu/sigm06/ for further details. For more information please visit ICQT series' web page or contact icqt06(a)ftw.at. Committees General Chair * Bruno Tuffin, INRIA Rennes, France Program Co-Chairs * Peter Reichl, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Program Committee * Rui Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal * Eitan Altman, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France * Joern Altmann, International University Bruchsal, Germany * Ragnar Andreassen, Telenor, Norway * Dominique Barth, University of Versailles, France * Nicola Blefari Melazzi, University of Rome, Italy * Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Switzerland * Costas Courcoubetis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece * Chris Edwards, University of Lancaster, U.K. * Errin Fulp, Wake Forest University, U.S.A. * Richard Gibbens, University of Cambridge, U.K. * Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo, Canada * Peter Key, Microsoft, U.K. * Patrick Maille, ENST Bretagne, France * Robin Mason, University of Southampton, U.K. * Lee McKnight, Syracuse University, U.S.A. * Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota, U.S.A. * Huw Oliver, Ericsson, Ireland * Kihong Park, Purdue University, U.S.A. * Guido Petit, Alcatel, Belgium * Douglas Reeves, North Carolina State University, U.S.A. * Guenther Schaefer, TU Ilmenau, Germany * Vasilis Siris, ICS FORTH, Greece * George Stamoulis, AUEB Athens, Greece * Yoshiaki Tanaka, Waseda University, Japan Organization Committee * Bruno Tuffin, INRIA Rennes * Elisabeth Lebret, INRIA Rennes

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SECON 2006 Call for Papers
by Wendi Heinzelman 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

======================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE SECON 2006 Third Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks Reston, VA, USA September 25-29, 2006 Paper submissions due (via EDAS): April 1, 2006 (Abstract/title registration) April 7, 2006 (Full paper) http://www.ieee-secon.org/2006/index.html ======================================================= The third annual IEEE SECON conference will provide a unique forum to exchange ideas, techniques, and applications, discuss best practices, raise awareness, and share experiences among researchers, practitioners, standard developers and policy makers in the field of sensor, ad hoc, and mesh networks and systems. IEEE SECON grew out of IEEE INFOCOM (http://www.ieee-infocom.org) in 2004, in order to create an event that focused on the important and exciting topics of Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks. The conference will be organized to provide for collegiality and continuity in the discussions of the various topics among participants from the industrial, governmental and academic sectors. Original technical papers that address the communications, networking, applications, systems and algorithmic aspects of mesh and sensor networks, as well as those that describe practical deployment and implementation experiences are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in the conference proceedings. Papers presenting novel contributions in such disciplines as communications, networking protocols and architectures, algorithms, embedded systems, middleware and information management, and novel applications are solicited. PAPERS: Full papers - describing original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences, and industrial and commercial developments in sensor, ad hoc, and mesh communications and networks - are solicited. Papers with a deep focus on a specific discipline or stimulated by the synergistic interaction of diverse disciplines are encouraged. Papers describing practical application of technology to real-world problems are similarly encouraged. Papers submitted should not be concurrently under review at another conference, journal or similar venue. Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * New architectures and protocols to support communication, localization, time synchronization, routing, data dissemination, and other distributed services in heterogeneous, large-scale distributed, mesh networks and sensor networks * Novel algorithms and theories for management, supervisory control, and monitoring of distributed ad hoc networks, and techniques for the interpretation and use of sensor data in decision-making processes * Modeling and performance evaluation of large-scale distributed ad hoc and sensor networks, practical implementations and deployments, and real-world experiences * Theories and models on fundamental information and communication aspects of wireless mesh and sensor networks * Mechanisms for authenticated, secure communication and data dissemination in sensor and mesh networks * Algorithms and protocols to support quality of service in mesh and sensor networks, including admission control, resource allocation and fairness, and capacity planning * Integration of sensors into engineered systems, including novel techniques for on-sensor renewable power sources, mechanisms for on-sensor self-calibration and self-testing, and efficient schemes to maximize accuracy and minimize false alarms * Hardware platforms incorporating multiple sensors, computation, actuation, and wireless interfaces * Software platforms, middleware, and tools for mesh and sensor network applications development, deployment, and management TUTORIALS AND PANELS: Proposals for tutorials and panels on current topics in the field of ad hoc and sensor networking and applications are solicited. Panels related to the commercial application and development of sensors and mesh networks are especially encouraged. DEMOS AND EXPO: Demonstrations that showcase practical implementations, industrial and commercial developments, and new applications for mesh and sensor networks are solicited. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically through the EDAS system. Details regarding the paper format and the submission process will be announced shortly at http://www.ieee-secon.org/2006/index.html. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will appear on IEEE Xplore. IEEE Communications Society policy states that all accepted SECON 2006 papers must have at least one registration at the regular rate. For authors co-authoring multiple papers, one regular registration is valid for up to three papers. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration: April 1, 2006, by 5pm EDT Full Paper Submission: April 7, 2006, by 5pm EDT Decision Notification: June 15, 2006, by 5pm EDT Camera-ready paper due: July 7, 2006, by 5pm EDT Demo proposals due: June 1, 2006, by 5pm EDT Poster proposals due: June 30, 2006, by 5pm EDT Tutorial/Panel proposals due: May 1, 2006, by 5pm EDT CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITEE GENERAL CHAIR: Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, krishna(a)umbc.edu TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Mark Yarvis, Intel Corporation, mark.d.yarvis(a)intel.com Michele Zorzi, Universita' degli Studi di Padova, zorzi(a)dei.unipd.it POSTERS/DEMOS CO-CHAIRS: Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, basagni(a)ece.neu.edu Cedric Westphal, Nokia, Cedric.Westphal(a)nokia.com PANELS CO-CHAIRS: TBA TUTORIALS CHAIR: Tom Hou, Virginia Tech, thou(a)vt.edu PUBLICITY CHAIR: Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, wheinzel(a)ece.rochester.edu EXHIBITS/SPONSORSHIPS CHAIR: Vishal Anand, SUNY Brockport, vanand(a)brockport.edu LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR: Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virgina Tech, toweissy(a)vt.edu STANDING COMMITTEE: Fred Bauer (fred(a)fredbauer.com), PacketHop (CHAIR) Harvey Freeman, Booz Allen Hamilton Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE TBA ==========================================================================

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Call for Workshop Proposals for MobiQuitous 2006
by Leung, Kin K 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Apologies for duplicated copies of this message. Call for Workshop Proposals for MobiQuitous 2006 Building on the success of the last two years, the 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (MobiQuitous 2006) will be held on July 17 - 21, 2006 in San Jose, California. This is an exciting forum for researchers and practitioners working in the areas of mobile and ubiquitous systems, services, and applications. Areas addressed by the conference include applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, mobile computing and networking, agents, knowledge management and databases. In conjunction with the main conference, four one-day workshops will be held on July 17 and 21. Please visit www.mobiquitous.org for details. WHAT TO SUBMIT: We solicit proposals for the one-day workshops on new and emerging topics in mobile and ubiquitous computing and systems, infrastructure, and services. An ideal proposal would focus on a specific theme, be of current interest, and be able to attract a number of high quality submissions. The workshop proposal should be a maximum of 2 pages long and should clearly identify the theme, the scope, and specific topic areas of interest. The proposal should also suggest potential program chairs and program committee members. SUBMISSION GUIDELINE: Please send workshop proposals by December 16, 2005 to both the General Co-Chair, Tom LaPorta (tlp(a)cse.psu.edu) and the Workshop Chair, Kin Leung (kin.leung(a)imperial.ac.uk). We look forward to your workshop proposals.

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CMS Statistics
by Otto Spaniol 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Dear all, Herbert Leipold has provided the following statistics about CMS 05 (see below). Dear WG chairs, could you insist that organisors give us similar informations after the events of "your" working group, please?! Best regards Otto ---------------- For the event statistsics: CMS'05 had 143 submissions 28 full papers (with presentations) have been accepted plus 13 work-in-progress-papers (2 page ext. Abstract + posters at conference) CMS'05 had 55 attendees Procedings have been published by Springer http://www.springeronline.com/3-540-28791-4

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: IEEE Workshop on Dependability and Security in Sensor Networks and Systems
by Moustafa Youssef 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Dear Colleagues, Due to the large number of requests, the submission deadline has been extended to November 14, 2005. Please see attached CFP. Sincerely, DSSNS 2006 Organization Committee (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) ------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Second IEEE Workshop on Dependability and Security in Sensor Networks and Systems (DSSNS'2006) http://www.dssns.org In conjunction with 2nd NASA/IEEE Systems and Software Week 30th NASA/IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW'2006) Columbia, Maryland, USA ~ April 24-28, 2006 Recently, there has been a growing interest in the potential use of networked sensors in applications such as smart environments, disaster management, combat field reconnaissance, and security surveillance. While the initial view of the community was that networked sensors will play a complementary role that enhances the quality of these applications, recent research results have encouraged practitioners to envision an increased reliance on sensor networks and systems (SN&S) in such critical and sensitive applications. Therefore to realize their potential, necessary dependability and security (D&S) measures have to be incorporated in the design and during the operation of SN&S. Dependability is usually specified using attributes like reliability, survivability, safety, maintainability, and availability in presence of failure, while security is specified by attributes like integrity, authenticity, confidentiality, and availability in presence of attacks. D&S services accomplish tasks for attack and failure prevention, detection and response. The scope of D&S services may span the deployed sensors to command nodes and likely beyond. It also involves D&S support at, and cross-cutting, the protocol stack layers from physical to application. Achieving dependability and security in SN&S will require non-conventional mechanisms due to many factors including: (1) sensors are significantly constrained in the amount of available resources such as energy, storage and computation; (2) sensors are expected to be deployed in very large numbers in normal as well as harsh/hostile environments; (3) sensor networks suffer from structural weakness and limited physical protection, and (4) localization of impact is complicated due to the un-tethered nature of SN&S and of the potential attackers. In addition, D&S requirements may vary according to mission defined over a multi-dimensional context, such as field of deployment (e.g., hostile versus friendly), type of application (e.g., monitoring, tracking, data collection), mode of operation (e.g., normal, exception, post-event recovery), and time. This workshop will foster a forum for discussing and presenting recent research results on dependability and security in SN&S. Topics of interest include, although not limited to, the following: - Fault and intrusion-tolerant architectures, middleware and operational models - Robust routing, storage, and processing of sensed data - D&S architectures, protocols and tools - Vulnerabilities, attacks and countermeasures - Monitoring and evaluation techniques - Robust clustering techniques - Self-awareness and context-awareness - Resilient virtual infrastructures - Autonomic and adaptive D&S support. - Formal representation and verification of D&S properties - Network inference support for D&S - Quality of service provisioning - Models, metrics, and measurements for D&S - Privacy-aware D&S services - Testbeds, simulation and visualization - Agent-based D&S management - SN&S support for D&S in larger information grids - SN&S application development environments Submission Guidelines --------------------- Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. The manuscript should not exceed 20 single-column double-space pages in PDF format, font size 11 or larger. The first page should include title, authors' contact information, abstract and five keywords. Please e-mail (subject: DSSNS 2006) the paper as an attachment in PDF format to: submission(a)dssns.org The e-mail should include title, authors, and the corresponding author's contact information. Important Dates ---------------- Submission deadline: November 14, 2005 Decision notification: December 20, 2005 Final manuscript due: January 20, 2006 The accepted papers will appear in a proceedings published by IEEE. The best paper will be recognized and selected papers will be invited to a Special Issue of the Journal of Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks. Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------- Mohamed Eltoweissy Virginia Tech, USA E-mail: toweissy(a)vt.edu Mohamed Younis University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA E-mail: younis(a)csee.umbc.edu Publicity Co-Chairs -------------------- Denis Gracanin Virginia Tech, USA E-mail: gracanin(a)vt.edu Moustafa Youssef University of Maryland at College Park, USA E-mail: moustafa(a)cs.umd.edu Program Committee ------------------ Farooq Anjum, Telcordia & U. of Penn, USA David Carman, Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Lab, USA Ing-Ray Chen, Virginia Tech, USA M. Nazih Elderini, Alexandria U., Egypt Deborah Frincke, Pacific Northwest National Lab and U. of Idaho, USA Ahmed Helmy, University of Southern California, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason U., USA Shivakant Mishra, U. of Colorado, USA Peng Ning, North Carolina State U., USA Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue U., USA Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion U., USA David Simplot-Ryl, U. Lille, INRIA Futurs, France Mani B. Srivastava, U. of California Los Angeles, USA John A. Stankovic, U. of Virginia, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, U. of Ottawa, Canada Gene Tsudik, U. of California-Irvine, USA Cliff Wang, Army Research Office, USA Stephen D. Wolthusen, Fraunhofer-IGD, Germany Albert Zomaya, U. of Sydney, Australia

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