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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

First IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on

*** AUTONOMIC and OPPORTUNISTIC COMMUNICATIONS - AOC 2007 *** June 18, 2007 - Helsinki, Finland http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2007/

organized by *ANA and HAGGLE projects* funded by the FET-IST Programme in the area Situated and Autonomic Communications (SAC)

**** *EXTENDED Deadline --- February 11, 2007* ****

Fast Track on Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc

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We are faced with an era where the widespread use of small portable wireless devices and wireless technologies are building the pervasive vision. This pervaded world has generated new communication paradigms: autonomic and opportunistic communications. Communication among devices in a pervasive environment can happen if the devices can communicate autonomously, and manage their own evolution and configuration changes in the network, without explicit user or administrator action. In a pervasive world, even in the absence of any connectivity infrastructure mobile devices can communicate using the connection "opportunities" that arise due to mobility. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum between the autonomic and opportunistic communication communities to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of autonomic communications and computing are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment are particularly welcome.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Architecture and models for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic and opportunistic networks * Adaptive security for self protection of networks * Economic, biological and social models used for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Mobility models for opportunistic networking * Novel management techniques for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Sensing, monitoring and measurements for self-managing networks * Advanced technologies for enabling autonomic and opportunistic communications * Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and measurements

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================= Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2007/. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. Extended versions of workshop selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier).

IMPORTANT DATES =============== Full papers due : *February 11, 2007 (Extended)* Notification : March 15, 2007

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ====================

WORKSHOP Chairs: Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece

PUBLICITY Chair: Luciana Pelusi, IIT-CNR, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Edoardo Biagioni, University of Hawaii, USA Levente Buttyan, BUTE, Hungary Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson, France Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Murat Demirbas, SUNY Buffalo, USA Spyros Denazis, Hitachi Europe, France & University of Patras, Greece Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech., USA Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Vincent Lenders, ETH, Switzerland Cecilia Mascolo, UCL, UK Martin May, ETH, Switzerland Daniele Miorandi, Create-net, Italy Refik Molva, Eurécom, France Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University, Greece Joerg Ott, HUT, Finland Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Kaustubh Phanse, Uppsala University, Sweden George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Chunming Qiao, SUNY Buffalo, USA Kave Salamatian, EPFL, Switzerland Fabrizio Sestini, FET, European Commission Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA John Vicente, Intel, USA Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena-Reggio, Italy Ellen W. Zegura, Georgia Tech, USA