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Fwd: 19th IFIP World Computer Congress 2006
by Otto Spaniol 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

---------------- Anfang Weiterleitung ---------------- Betreff: 19th IFIP World Computer Congress 2006 Gesendet: Montag, 7. November 2005 11:07 Uhr Von: Valeska Larrucea <vlarrucea(a)diinf.usach.cl> An: wcc2006(a)diinf.usach.cl Dear TC chairs and WG chairs (cc to vice-chairs and secretaries), The 19th IFIP World Computer Congress 2006 is less than a year ahead, in advertizing the Call for Papers we rely on the joint efforts of both all the TC chairs and WG chairs. Please send it as frequently as you consider convenient this Call for Papers to to your colleagues and to the mailing lists you use to publicize your conferences that might be addressing potential authors. I am sending attached to this email, a zip file containing PDF files with Call for Papers of every co-located specific conference at WCC 2006. Please, feel free to unzip the corresponding conference that you are going to advertise, or send the zip file in order to widely advertise the WCC 2006. So, we should encourage people working in our vicinity and beyond to contribute high quality papers on the various aspects addressed in the WCC 2006. Best wishes, Mauricio Solar OC Chair Valeska Larrucea G. Assistant "World Computer Congress 2006" Phone: (+56 - 2) 776 3511 - 145 Fax: (+56 - 2) 776 5892 ----------------- Ende Weiterleitung -----------------

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Fwd: [Ifip_tcchairs] [Ifip_ga] IFIP leaflet
by Otto Spaniol 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

---------------- Anfang Weiterleitung ---------------- Betreff: [Ifip_tcchairs] [Ifip_ga] IFIP leaflet Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2005 14:32 Uhr Von: Eduard Dundler <eduard.dundler(a)ifip.org> An: IFIP General Assembly <ifip_ga(a)ifip.org> , ifip_tcoff(a)ifip.org , ifip_wgoff(a)ifip.org , ifip_memsocs(a)ifip.org , ifip_editors(a)ifip.org Dear IFIP members, Please find at http://www.ifip.org/pdf/this_is_IFIP.pdf the updated version of the IFIP leaflet (members, working groups, version number). The printed leaflet will be available at the Secretariat with November 5th, 2005. If you need some of the folders, please send an e-mail to Eduard.dundler(a)ifip.org . Best regards Eduard _______________________________________________ Ifip_ga mailing list Ifip_ga(a)ifip.org http://www.ifip.org/mailman/listinfo/ifip_ga _______________________________________________ Ifip_tcchairs mailing list Ifip_tcchairs(a)ifip.org http://www.ifip.org/mailman/listinfo/ifip_tcchairs ----------------- Ende Weiterleitung -----------------

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CFP: MobiQuitous 2006
by Prasun Sinha 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Please accept my sincere apologies, if you are receiving multiple copies of this CFPPrasun 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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TC6 strategy planning
by raouf boutaba 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Please find attached the draft minutes of the TC6 strategic planning meeting in Wroclaw (Poland), October 29-30, 2005. Regards Raouf

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ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiHoc 2006
by ACM MobiHoc 2006 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

(Apologies if you receive this call multiple times.) ************************************************************ PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiHoc 2006 The Seventh ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2006/ May 22-25 2006 Florence, Italy ************************************************************ ACM MobiHoc is the premier international meeting dedicated to addressing challenges emerging from wireless ad hoc networking and computing. This year's symposium will include a highly selective technical program, as well as hands-on research demonstrations, keynote, panel, and tutorials. We invite paper, poster, and demonstration submissions on mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, and ad hoc computing systems, with the focus being on issues at and above the MAC layer. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Applications, operating system, and middleware support * Transport, network, and MAC protocols * Energy-efficient algorithms * Quality of Service issues * Location discovery techniques * Network scaling and limits * Cross layer design * Network resilience, fault-tolerance, and reliability * Trust, security and privacy * Distributed sensing, actuation, control, and coordination * Measurements and practical experience from experimental systems and testbeds * Modeling and performance evaluation PAPERS: Papers must report new results substantiated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format. Papers must not exceed 12 pages (US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must NOT appear in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. Instructions on paper submission and formatting are available on the symposium webpage. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs Marco Conti (marco.conti(a)iit.cnr.it) and Raghupathy Sivakumar (siva(a)ece.gatech.edu). POSTERS: Posters presenting early work and preliminary results are solicited. The poster session will provide an excellent opportunity for initial feedback on early research results. Poster descriptions of no more than 3 pages (US letter size 8.5 x 11 inches) using font size 10 should be submitted to the Poster Co-Chairs Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini (chiasserini(a)polito.it) and Wendi B. Heinzelman (wheinzel(a)ece.rochester.edu) before March 15, 2006. Please include the words "Poster Abstract:" to precede the title on the cover page. A selected subset of poster abstracts will be published in ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review. DEMOS: Technical demonstration of experimental ad hoc networking and computing systems are solicited. One-page demo descriptions, including a list of any required supporting equipment, should be sent to the Demo Co-Chairs Srdan Capkun (capkun(a)ucla.edu) and Xudong Wang (wxudong(a)ieee.org) before March 15, 2006. TUTORIALS: Proposals for tutorials are solicited. Evaluation of proposals will be based on the expertise and experience of the instructors, and on the relevance of the subject matter. Potential instructors are requested to submit a tutorial proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch, to the Tutorial Co-Chairs Doug Blough (doug.blough(a)ece.gatech.edu) and Silvia Giordano (silvia.giordano(a)supsi.ch) before January 15, 2006. PANELS: Panels are solicited that examine innovative, controversial, or otherwise provocative issues of interest. Panel proposals should not exceed 2 pages, including biographical sketches of the panelists. Potential panel organizers should contact the General Chair Sergio Palazzo (sergio.palazzo(a)diit.unict.it) before Dec. 15, 2005. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration: December 2, 2005 (5 PM US EST) Paper submission: December 9, 2005 (5 PM US EST) Notification of acceptance: March 27, 2006 Camera-ready version due: April 10, 2006 For more information contact the General Chair Sergio Palazzo (sergio.palazzo(a)diit.unict.it) or consult the MobiHoc 2006 webpage at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2006/.

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Call For Papers April 11- 13 Bangalore, India, www.wocn2006.org
by Guy Omidyar 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Call for Papers Third International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks WOCN 2006 http://WWW.WOCN2006.org April 11, 12 and 13, 2006 Bangalore, India Paper Submission Deadline: January 15, 2006 Publication on IEEE XploreTM and selected journals Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Communications society

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WWW2006 fire update - deadline extension
by Arun Iyengar 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

=========================================================== Extension: The submission deadline for WWW2006 refereed papers has been extended to Friday November 11 11:59PM Hawaii time (hard deadline). As you may know, on Sunday October 30 there was a significant fire at the site hosting the www2006 server. No one will be allowed into the building until Christmas and half the research labs are completely destroyed. We attempted to mask the failure with a temporary site and have restored the site as quickly as possible in order to maintain the original deadline. But we have become aware that DNS and routing problems are still causing locations to be unable to reach the site even as late as Friday November 4th 2005. Given these technical difficulties, the fairest thing to do seems to be to grant a blanket 1-week extension, until November 11th 2005. In fairness to those who submitted on time and managed to find the web site, we will allow revised versions of papers to be uploaded up to the new deadline. We apologize unreservedly for the confusion stemming from this fire and its aftermath - its been an interesting exercise in network complexity, and at least nobody was hurt - and we thank you for very much for submitting your work to WWW2006. TEMPORARY WWW2006 WEBSITE: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~lac/ but SHOULD be visible at www2006.org DIRECT ACCESS to the paper submission website: http:// www.openconf.org/www2006/ TEMPORARY EMAIL FOR ENQUIRIES: lescarr(a)gmail.com Information about the fire can be found at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/ hi/england/hampshire/4390048.stm. --- WWW2006 Co-chairs: Les Carr, Dave De Roure, Arun Iyengar WWW2006 PC Chairs: Carole Goble, Mike Dahlin

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Re: [ifip-tc6] TC6 strategy planning
by Otto Spaniol 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Dear all, here is a message from Finn Arve Aagesen who (unfortunately) could not attend our meeting in Wroclaw. His contributions seem to be important for me (even if they are many questions and only two answers). Best regards Otto > >I agree on that we are going straight to the wall. However, IFIP is still >a brand and there are many PhD students that >need accepted papers on their way to a degree. So there is still obvious >hope as long as .... > >So my question is you have listed subproblems, like: > >- How to make scientists feel associated with IFIP? >- How to create working groups that works? >- How to find qualified wg chairs (and what is the qualification >requirements)? >- how to stimulate working groups activity and chairs? >- How to find qualified chairs of conferences? >- How to stimulate conference chairs so that they are eager to arrange a >follow up conference? >- How to arrange very low cost conferences with high prestige? >- how to set together program committees and stimulate program committee >members >to submit papers? >- how to create a harmonised and consistent IFIP face and procedures >towards the conference organiser, >speakers and participants? >- how to stimulate a qualified journal editor to take the responsibility >- etc... > > >Two proposed actions that I feel make obvious problems are > >- <Involve the local societies>. I did that before and it made >conferences very costly. The local society require payment for >participation in the planning as well as profit from the conference. >- <Distribute the TC6 chair work>. If centralised system does not work >because the central server >is overloeded I understand it. But I am sure if this is the problem in >this case. > > finn arve... >

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E2EMON'06 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Aiko Pras 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

E2EMON'06 - CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON) 3th April 2006, Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Center, Canada In conjunction with the 2006 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS'06) http://www.noms2006.org/ -------------------------- E2EMON'06 is the fourth workshop in a series focusing on advances in network monitoring technology. The workshop offers a unique opportunity for researchers in this area to exchange ideas and experiences on next-generation monitoring systems for emerging technologies such as Grid, overlay, p2p and Ad hoc networks, and end-to-end path measurements. E2EMON will be co-located with the 2006 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS'06), which is the major network management conference in the year 2006. The workshop provides an intimate setting for discussion and debate through panels and group work. The program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the area of e2e monitoring. Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: * Monitoring overlay networks and P2P services * Ad-hoc and sensor network monitoring * Monitoring Grid & pervasive computing environment * Path characteristics monitoring * Large-scalable monitoring techniques * Active and programmable monitoring * Traffic monitoring and data mining * Real-time monitoring * Visualization of monitoring information * High-speed network monitoring * Multicast network/service monitoring * Overlay monitoring services * Monitoring of service level agreements * Monitoring models, architectures and systems * Monitoring platforms and * Distributed and centralized monitoring prototypes * Languages for packet and distributed monitoring Workshop chairs: - Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, the Netherlands - Nevil Brownlee, University of Auckland, New Zealand Submission Guidelines The paper must be original material that is not currently under review, and has not been previously published by another conference or journal. The submission process involves the following three steps: 1. Creation of a personal account on JEMS (if the author does not already have one) https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/ 2. Registration of the paper (requiring a title and short abstract of up to 150 words) 3. Upload of the paper. Only in pdf format The paper must be formatted as PDF format. Papers must be written in English. The paper minimum/maximum length is 6/8 printed pages including figures. Paper submission guidelines can be found at: http://www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/events/e2emon06/instructions.htm. Important dates: - Submission deadline: January 1, 2006 - Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2006 - Final version: February 7, 2006 - Publication: February 15, 2006

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Re: [ifip-tc6] Publisher's Rationale for IFIP LNCS/ LNCS costs
by Otto Spaniol 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Dear all, here is a first reaction from Guy Leduc (TC6 delegate from Belgium) concerning the "explanation" obtained from Jennifer Evans who tried to explain the price differences between Springer LNCS and Springer IFIP LNCS. A small comment: My explanation of the reason for price difference is quite easy (and, unfortunately, maybe true): If Springer employees need two month in order to produce such an "elaborated" document, i.e. if two month working time is wasted for such a poor few lines, then it is no wonder that the company will be in financial trouble and must ask for substantially higher prices. Best regards Otto Spaniol -------------------------------------------------------------------- >Dear All: > >To follow up on the IFIP Publications Committee Meeting, I have >delineated several points in the rationale for IFIP LNCS series pricing >below: > >1. SpringerHD/LNCS is selling its product at high discounts - up to 64% >off list prices. For large bulk sales of proceedings with a page count >exceeding 800 pages or occupying two volumes, the discounts increase >considerably. Still unclear. I'd like to see a reference document where the discount is clearly stated, possibly as a function of the page count or other criteria. 'Up to 64%' does not say anything about 'At least ...%'. > >2. IFIP LNCS projects cause a substantial amount of additional effort >during the entire cycle of project administration at the LNCS editorial >office, as well as in the overall society cooperation, than regular LNCS >projects. Are we going to believe this? Adding the IFIP logo on a book, and adding a copyright sentence on the front page of every paper can be part of the automated formating procedure. > >3. Due to IFIP copyright policy, etc., IFIP LNCS proceedings also >require significantly more effort at the pre-production and production >work level. I don't believe this. I don't see which additional effort is required. The only tricky business is to estimate the amount of royalties due to IFIP (and it's covered in item 4 below). > >4. The publication fee paid for IFIP LNCS proceedings to IFIP is paid as >an up-front payment which has to be pre-financed by Springer. > I understand Springer has to pre-finance the royalties (which are 10% on the estimated non bulk sales). But this is not a reason to sell the (bulk and non bulk) IFIP LNCS at 30% higher price than standard LNCS! We could easily simplify this by changing the agreement and replace the up-front payment of royalties based on ESTIMATED sales by a post payment based on ACTUAL non bulk sales. I'd advise to do so. >I hope that the above helps explain the necessity of a price discrepancy >between the IFIP LNCS series and the regular LNCS series. Please let me >know if you have any questions Now, I'm convinced Springer is really cheating. It is clear that few conference organizers will accept to publish in IFIP LNCS under these conditions. They will just go for standard LNCS and we'll have no rational argument against it. And the IFIP primary series is of course not at all a substitute for IFIP LNCS as it's not attractive at all. It's urgent to start the IFIP TC6 DL and say bye bye to Springer... Best regards, Guy > >Best regards, > >Jennifer > >Jennifer Evans >Publishing Director >Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. >101 Philip Drive >Norwell MA 02061 >Tel: +1-(781) 681-0625 >Fax: +1-(781)-871-7507 >Email: Jennifer.evans(a)springer.com > > >----------------- Ende Weiterleitung ----------------- > > > > >_______________________________________________ >ifip-tc6 mailing list >ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE >http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6 -- ________________________________________________________________________ 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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