2008-03-06

[Mycolleagues] CFP: ACM TAAS Special Issue on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Wireless Networking Systems

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

           ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

                         Special Issue on

       Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Wireless Networking Systems 

 

 

                  http://taas.acm.org/TAAS-ACM-SelfOrg-WSN.pdf

 

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Recent advances in wireless communications and networking, distributed sensing and

control, and real-time and embedded systems have led to some new computing paradigms,

such as ubiquitous and pervasive computing, wireless sensor networks, and cyber-physical

systems. Many novel and attractive applications are made possible, such as advanced

automotive systems, environmental control, critical infrastructure control, high

confidence medical devices and systems, etc. In these applications, a large scale wireless

networking system that consists of massive numbers of connected processing elements,

sensors, and actuators often plays a key role.  The high complexity of such large scale

heterogeneous systems raises new challenges to the system design:  we expect the system

to be context-aware and self-adaptive to internal and external environments to achieve

reliable and robust performance; to be self-organizing and scalable so that managing and

maintaining costs could be minimized; to have programmable architecture and protocols for

achieving optimal performance in different situations/scenarios, etc. These challenges

need to be addressed under joint efforts from different areas, such as networking, system,

control, AI, biology, and others. 

 

The special issue seeks original and unpublished papers that address theoretical and

experimental work related to self-adaptive and self-organizing wireless networking systems

(SASOWNS). Papers are solicited from, but are not limited to, the following topics:

 

 

•    Self-adaptive architectures, algorithms, and protocols

•    Control theoretical approaches for self-optimization

•    Self-organizing wireless mesh, ad hoc, and sensor networking

•    Self-configurable and programmable MAC and routing protocols

•    Biological, economic, and social models for large scale SASOWNS

•    Applications and testbeds of SASOWNS

•    Autonomic and autonomous wireless networking systems

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

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Paper submission due:   July 31st, 2008

Acceptance notification: Dec. 31st, 2008

Camera-ready due:  Feb. 28th, 2009

Tentative publication date: June/Sep. 2009

 

 

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW GUIDELINES

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Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting important developments (or advances) in

the topics related to the special issue. The submitted papers must be written in English and

describe original research not published nor currently under review by other journals or

conferences. Parallel submissions will not be accepted. If an earlier version of the manuscript

was published/accepted in conferences, authors should state so in the cover letter. 

The manuscript must be a substantial extension to the previously published/accepted work and

a summary of changes and a copy of the previous conference paper must be submitted together

with the submission to the special issue.

 

Guest editors will pre-screen submitted manuscripts for their suitability in the issue.

Submissions passing the pre-screen process will go through a rigorous peer-review process

according to the standards of TAAS. Submitting a paper implies the willingness of reviewing

one paper submitted to the special issue. 

 

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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The manuscripts should be formatted according to the ACM TAAS guidelines available from the

journal homepage (http://www.acm.org/pubs/taas) and submitted to the guest editors through

email (cpoellab@cse.nd.edu).

 

 

GUEST EDITORS

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Dr. Michael Lemmon

Dept. of Electrical Engineering

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN 46556

Email: lemmon@nd.edu

Http: www.nd.edu/~lemmon

 

Dr. Christian Poellabauer

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN 46556

Email: cpoellab@cse.nd.edu

Http: www.cse.nd.edu/~cpoellab

 

Dr. Liqiang Zhang

Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences

Indiana University South Bend

South Bend, IN 46615

Email: liqzhang@cs.iusb.edu

 Http: www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang  

 

Dr. Xiaobo Zhou

Dept. of Computer Science

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Email: zbo@cs.uccs.edu

Http: www.cs.uccs.edu/~zbo

 

 

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