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Final CFP: IEEE Workshop on Dependability and Security in Sensor Networks and Systems
by Moustafa Youssef 03 Nov '05

03 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 7, 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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Networking 2006
by raouf boutaba 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Though I don't know at what levels, it seems that Networking 2006 has secured sponsorship from: Cisco, EuroNGI, Alcatel, and FCT. Also the conference preparations led by Edmundo Monteiro seem to be well underway. Regards Raouf

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Final Call for Participation: IFM 2005 (Eindhoven)
by Graeme Smith 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Fifth International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods (IFM) November 29 - December 2, 2005 Eindhoven, The Netherlands http://www.win.tue.nl/ifm/ INVITED SPEAKERS Patrice Godefroid - Software Model Checking: Searching for Computations in the Abstract or the Concrete David Parnas - A Family of Mathematical Methods for Professional Software Documentation Doron Peled - Generating Path Conditions for Timed Systems INVITED TUTORIAL Holger Hermanns - QoS Modelling and Analysis for Embedded Systems PROGRAM The program is available on the IFM2005 web site. DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM There will be thirteen presentations from PhD students on November 29, after the invited tutorial. The symposium schedule is available through the IFM program at the web site: http://www.win.tue.nl/ifm/. EXCURSION We will visit the Van Abbe Museum, which is one of the most important museums for contemporary art in Europe. Changing exhibitions are being made on a regular base. A great deal of space is destined for the famous museum collection. The collection contains modern classic works by artists such as Picasso, Chagall and Mondrian, the second largest collection of the Russian artist El Lissitzky outside of Russia, but most of all many contemporary art works by artists such as Lily van der Stokker, De Rijke & De Rooij and all works from the exhibition No Ghost Just a Shell (around the Manga figure AnnLee). Currently, a large part of the museum is dedicated to the exhibition EindhovenIstanbul. In this exhibition, a selection of key artworks is presented drawn from the famous Istanbul Biennial exhibitions of the past 18 years. The exhibits from 40 international artists include large scale installations, video projections, sculpture, painting and drawing. See the museum web site: http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl. REGISTRATION At the IFM web site, the registration page can be found. The registration fee includes a copy of the proceedings, attendance of the tutorial and the main conference, lunches, refreshments in the coffee breaks, a welcome reception, the excursion and dinner banquet. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Jaco van de Pol, CWI, The Netherlands Judi Romijn, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Graeme Smith, University of Queensland, Australia SPONSORS IFM2005 is sponsored by NWO, IPA, FME and BCS-FACS.

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Google Scholar
by Guy Leduc 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

For those of you who don't know Google scholar yet: http://scholar.google.com/ Best regards, Guy -- ________________________________________________________________________ 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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Fwd: Publisher's Rationale for IFIP LNCS/ LNCS costs
by Otto Spaniol 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

---------------- Anfang Weiterleitung ---------------- Betreff: Publisher's Rationale for IFIP LNCS/ LNCS costs Gesendet: Montag, 31. Oktober 2005 11:09 Uhr Von: IFIP Mailbox, Springer US <ifip(a)springer-sbm.com> An: spaniol(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de , brunnstein(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de , turner(a)cs.clemson.edu , rgj(a)dcs.bbk.ac.uk , eduard.dundler(a)ifip.org 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. 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. 3. Due to IFIP copyright policy, etc., IFIP LNCS proceedings also require significantly more effort at the pre-production and production work level. 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 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 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 -----------------

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[Researchers] IEEE/ACM IPDPS 2006/PMEO-PDS'06 - 5th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation and Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Systems
by Profa Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Systems(PMEO-PDS'06) To be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2006 (sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and in co-operation with ACM SIGARCH) Rhodes Island, Greece April 25-29, 2006 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~mohamed/pmeo06.html SCOPE: The performance modeling, evaluation, and optimization of parallel, distributed, and grid systems have been an important research topic over the past years and poses challenging problems that require new tools and methods to keep up with the rapid evolution and increasing complexity of such systems. This workshop will bring together scientists, engineers, practitioners, and computer users to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of performance modeling, evaluation, and optimization of parallel, distributed, and grid systems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: .Predictive performance models of parallel and distributed systems .Performance measurement and monitoring tools .Tracing and trace analysis .Simulation .Analytical modeling .Software tools for system performance and evaluation .Automatic performance analysis .Performance comparison .Performance of memory and I/O interconnect .Performance of communication networks .Performance of mobile distributed systems .Performance analysis and evaluation of parallel and distributed applications .Improvement in system performance through optimization and tuning .Case studies showing the role of evaluation in the design of systems WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Mohamed Ould-Khaoua Department of Computing Science University of Glasgow Glasgow, G12 8RZ, U.K. E-mail: mohamed(a)dcs.gla.ac.uk Geyong Min Department of Computing University of Bradford Bradford, BD7 1DP, U.K. E-mail: g.min(a)bradford.ac.uk Publicity Chair: Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare Barddal University Florianopolis, SC Brazil Email: mirela(a)barddal.br POTENTIAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Khalid Al-Begain, Univ. of Glamorgan (UK) A. Al-Dubai, Thames Valley University-London (UK) Marco Ajmone-Marsan, Politechnico di Torino (Italy) Hamid R. Arabnia, Univ. of Georgia (USA) Irfan Awan, Univ. of Bradford (UK) Mark Baker, Univ. of Portsmouth (UK) Pradip Bose, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (USA) Azzedine Boukerche, Univ. of North Texas (USA) Michele Colajanni, Univ. of Modena (Italy) Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London (UK) Pete Harrison, Imperial College London (UK) Roland Ibbett, Univ. of Edinburgh (UK) Stephen Jarvis, Univ. of Warwick (UK) Helen Karatza, Univ. of Thessaloniki (Greece) Demetres D. Kouvatsos, Univ. of Bradford (UK) Keqin Li, State Univ. of New York at New Paltz (USA) Samia Loucif, Emirates University, (UAE) Lewis M. Mackenzie, Univ. of Glasgow (UK) Yi Pan, Georgia State Univ. (USA) Dhiraj K. Pradhan, Univ. of Bristol (UK) Mirela S. M. A. Notare, Barddal University, (Brazil) Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, Sharif University & IPM (Iran) Nigel Thomas, Univ. of Newcastle (UK) Mike E. Woodward, Univ. of Bradford (UK) Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic Univ. (USA) Qing Yang, Univ. of Rhode Island (USA) Albert Zomaya, Univ. of Sydney (Australia) PAPER SUBMISIION: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. The length of the papers should not exceed 18 DOUBLE-spaced pages including figures and references on 8.5 by 11 inch paper using at least 11 point font. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or postscript) by sending it as an e-mail attachment to mohamed(a)dcs.gla.ac.uk. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. The accepted papers will be published together with those of other IPDPS '2005 workshops by the IEEE Computer Society Press. IMPORTANT DATES: .Submission Deadline: 2 November 2005 .Author Notification: 20 December, 2005 .Final Manuscript Due: 21 January, 2005 _______________________________________________ Researchers mailing list Researchers(a)mailman.ufsc.br http://mailman.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/researchers

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Preliminary Agenda
by Otto Spaniol 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

Dear all, please find enclosed the preliminary agenda for meeting 2005/2 as well as the actual attendance list. The deadline for submission of material into the meeting documents is over. We have only reports from WG 6.4, 6.8, 6.11. Any other document should be copied (30 times) by the respective producer and brought to Wroclaw. There will be an incredible confusion of loose pages (what we intended to stop) but as long as the reactions of WG chairs are so "timely" as in this particular case there will be no improvement. Best regards and see many of you soon Otto

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Call For Papers - FMOODS'06
by Elie Najm 30 Oct '05

30 Oct '05

----------------------------------------------------- First CALL FOR PAPERS FMOODS 2006 8th IFIP International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems Bologna, Italy, 14 - 16 June, 2006 http://www.discotec06.cs.unibo.it/FMOODS06 The 8th IFIP International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems (FMOODS) is part of the federated conferences DisCoTec (Distributed Computing Techniques), together with the 8th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION) and the 6th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS). It will be organised by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bologna. OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE: Established in 1996, the FMOODS series of conferences aims to provide an integrated forum for research on formal aspects of Open Object-based Distributed Systems. The conference will especially welcome novel contributions reflecting recent developments in the area, in particular component- and model-based design, service-oriented computing and software quality. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Semantics and implementation of object-oriented programming and (visual) modelling languages - Formal techniques for specification, design, analysis, verification, validation and testing - Model checking, theorem proving and deductive verification - Type systems and behavioural typing - Formal methods for service-oriented computing - Formal techniques for security and trust in global computing - Multiple viewpoint modelling and consistency between different views - Model transformations and refactorings - Software architectures - Integration of quality of service requirements into formal models - Component-based design - Applications (e.g. web services, multimedia, telecommunications) - Experience report on best practices and tools ORGANISERS: General chair: Gianluigi Zavattaro (U. of Bologna, IT) PC chairs: Roberto Gorrieri (U. of Bologna, IT) Heike Wehrheim (U. of Paderborn, DE) Publicity Chair: Martin Steffen (CAU Kiel, DE) Steering Committee: John Derrick (U. of Sheffield, UK) Roberto Gorrieri (U. of Bologna, IT) Elie Najm (ENST, Paris, FR) Program Committee: Lynne Blair (U. of Lancaster, UK) Eerke Boiten (U. of Kent, UK) Nadia Busi (U. of Bologna, IT) John Derrick (U. of Sheffield, UK) Alessandro Fantechi (U. of Firenze, IT) Colin Fidge (U. of Queensland, AUS) Robert France (Colorado State U., USA) Roberto Gorrieri (U. of Bologna, IT) Reiko Heckel (U. of Leicester, UK) Einar Broch Johnsen (U. of Oslo, N) Doug Lea (State U. of New York, USA) Elie Najm (ENST Paris, FR) Uwe Nestmann (TU Berlin, D) Erik Poll (U. of Nijmegen, NL) Arend Rensink (U. of Twente, NL) Ralf Reussner (U. of Oldenburg, D) Bernhard Rumpe (TU Braunschweig, D) Martin Steffen (CAU Kiel, D) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw University, PL) Vasco Vasconcelos (U. of Lisbon, P) Heike Wehrheim (U. of Paderborn, D) Elena Zucca (U. of Genova, IT) IMPORTANT DATES: 10. January 2006: Abstract submission 17. January 2006: Paper submission 7. March 2006: Author notification 28. March 2006: Camera-ready copy 14. - 16. June 2006: FMOODS 2006 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The FMOODS 2006 conference solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the topics mentioned above. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submission will be electronically as postscript or PDF, using the SPRINGER LNCS style. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in length. Each paper will undergo a thorough process of review and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. Proceedings will be made available at the conference.

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EmNets 2006 Call for Papers
by Thomas C. Henderson 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

I am pleased to announce the Call for Papers for EmNets 2006 and hope you will consider participating! Thomas C. Henderson, Professor School of Computing, University of Utah ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The Third IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNets 2006) May 30-31, 2006 Maxwell Dworkin Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/emnets/ The Third Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNets 2006) will focus on groundbreaking research in wireless sensor systems with an emphasis on three topic areas: (1) Emerging research directions for sensor networks; (2) Application experiences; and (3) Early results from new research efforts. In keeping with the focused workshop format, EmNets encourages submissions that present exciting new work, challenge conventional ideas, propose new research directions, evaluate real-world applications and deployments, and generate controversy. We especially welcome papers reporting on highly original or risky research, position papers, and reports on application experiences and deployments, which may not otherwise be published as full conference papers. We specifically discourage submissions that are short versions of papers that will be submitted to other conferences in the near future, since our goal is to engage the research community in a discussion of future challenges and issues for sensor networks. EmNets 2006 is supported in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society (pending). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -New application domains for sensor networks -Sensor network architecture and protocols -Applications, testbeds, and real-world deployment experiences -Distributed algorithms and computation -Operating systems and network programming paradigms -Management, debugging, troubleshooting, and measurement tools -Data storage issues -Transport and dissemination -Distributed actuation and control -Fault tolerance and reliability -Security, vulnerabilities, and defenses -Architectural insight, analysis and fundamental limits Submissions: Please submit position papers or short papers describing early research results. Submitted papers should be no longer than five two-column pages, including all figures and references, using 10-point fonts, standard spacing, and 1-inch margins. For detailed submission information see the workshop website. Important Dates: Submissions due: Feb 27, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2006 Camera-ready copy due: May 15, 2006 Organizing Committee: General Chair: Daniela Rus (MIT) Publicity Chair: Thomas C. Henderson (Utah) Poster Chair: Peter Corke (CSIRO, Australia) Web and Local Arrangements Chair: Geoffrey Mainland (Harvard) Program Committee Co-Chairs: Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth) Matt Welsh (Harvard) Program Committee Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC) Pierre Chevillat (IBM Zurich) Deepak Ganesan (UMass) Wendi Heinzelman (Rochester) Kyle Jamieson (MIT) Eddie Kohler (UCLA) Akos Ledeczi (Vanderbilt) Mingyan Liu (Michigan) Sam Madden (MIT) Jason Redi (BBN) Pavan Sikka (CSIRO, Australia) Cormac Sreenan (Cork, Ireland) Dirk Westhoff (NEC, Germany) Adam Wolisz (TU Berlin) Alex Woo (Arched Rock Corp.) Mark Yarvis (Intel)

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CFP: IEEE Workshop on Dependability and Security in Sensor Networks and Systems
by Moustafa Youssef 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '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 --------------------- For guidelines regarding paper submission, please refer to the workshops website (http://www.dssns.org). 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. Important Dates ---------------- Submission deadline: November 7, 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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