2008-10-31

[Mycolleagues] Call for workshop proposals

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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
33rd Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference
(COMPSAC 2009)
Seattle, Washington, USA
20 - 24 July, 2009
Co-located with SAINT 2009 (http://infonet.cse.kyutech.ac.jp/conf/saint09/)

The IEEE International Conference on Computer, Software and Applications
(COMPSAC), first held in Chicago in 1997, is one of the major international
forums for academia, industry, and government
to discuss research results, advances and future trends in computer and
software technologies and
applications. The technical program includes keynote addresses, research
papers, industrial case studies, panel discussions and fast abstracts. It
also includes a number of workshops on emerging important topics.

COMPSAC is designated as the IEEE Computer Society Signature International
Conference on
Computer, Software and Applications. Based on this designation, COMPSAC
organizers are able to work with other key functions of IEEE to create more
value for conference volunteers and participants.

Proposals for workshops are being solicited for consideration for
affiliation with COMPSAC 2009. Affiliated workshops will be held in
conjunction with COMPSAC and co-located with other affiliated workshops.
The purpose of these workshops is to provide a platform for presenting novel
ideas in a
less formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. As
such, they also offer a good opportunity for young researchers to present
their work and to obtain feedback from an interested community.
Workshop organizers are responsible for establishing a program committee,
collecting
and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection in
due time, ensuring a transparent and fair selection process, organizing
selected papers into sessions, and assigning session chairs.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a one-page workshop
proposal to the 33rd COMPSAC Workshop Chair, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
(iq@mscs.mu.edu) by November 15, 2008. Submissions should be sent
electronically
by email with "COMPSAC Preliminary Workshop Proposal" in the subject header.
Submissions must follow the Workshop Proposal Format outlined below.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 15, 2008. Following
acceptance, workshop organizers will be expected to work closely with the
COMPSAC Workshop Chair to finalize details. Important due dates are
mentioned below.

Selection criteria for new workshops to be included in COMPSAC 09 will be
based upon several factors, including the scientific/technical interest of
the topics to conference participants, the quality of the proposal,
balance and distinctness of workshop topics, and the capacity of the
conference workshop
program. Special consideration will be given to proposals that address the
technical theme of COMPSAC 2009, Harmonizing Humans, Computers, and Software
in Services Environments.

Workshops use the same paper submission system COMPSAC 2009. Each paper
selected for inclusion in the proceedings must be registered for COMPSAC at
the full registration rate. Without confirmed
registration an accepted paper will be removed. Each paper must be presented
in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the COMPSAC
Workshops will be provided as a separate volume by IEEE Computer
Society Press, and will be made available to all conference registrants on
site. It is the
policy of COMPSAC not to mail proceedings to the "no show" authors. All
workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore
Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index
(Elsevier's Engineering Information Index). For further information on
preparing a workshop proposal, please contact Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, the
COMPSAC Workshop Chair, at iq@mscs.mu.edu. Also consult the 33rd COMPSAC
website at http://www.compsac.org as a source of first-hand information.

33rd COMPSAC Preliminary Workshop Proposal Format follows. Each proposal is
limited to one page, typed double space in 11 pt Times New Roman. Include
workshop title, primary organizers with their affiliations and
contact information, the significance of the workshop either to the
conference theme or to the general advancement of research in computer and
software technologies and applications, a statement of goals for the
workshop, workshop theme for 2009, likely participants, proposed duration
(i.e. number of sessions envisioned; 1 session=90 minutes for typically 3
presentations; typically 3-4 sessions to fill a day), plans for publicity,
and a draft call-for-papers. Please check http://www.compsac.org for
examples of past workshops.

33rd COMPSAC important dates for workshops

Nov. 15, 2008: Preliminary Workshop Proposal submission due
Dec. 15, 2008: Feedback provided to the workshop proposers
Dec 21, 2008: Final workshop proposal submission due
March 1, 2009: Workshop paper submission due
April 7, 2009: Workshop paper notification (electronic)
April 30, 2009: All final manuscript and author pre-registration due


Note: The 33rd COMPSAC Steering Committee will allocate sessions to each
workshop within the constraints of space availability and the likely
interest of the attendees in the workshop. Please be advised to organize
your workshop early and request for adequate space as soon as your effort
turns out to be fruitful. The COMPSAC Workshop Chair will work closely with
the primary organizers to ensure a successful workshop. In your individual
announcement please make sure that your contributors are aware of the
registration requirements, as well as the proceedings policy.

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[Mycolleagues] CFP Sensor Networking Track of ITNG'2009 Las Vegas, April 2009



6th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations  (ITNG 2009)

Sensor Networks Track
April 27-29, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  http://www.cnrl.colostate.edu/itng2009/ 
   


THEME:
Advances in sensor technology, networking and distributed processing are leading to the emergence  of a global sensing infrastructure. Networked sensor-actuator systems  include a) dense collections of power limited, smart, self-configuring wireless sensors and actuators, b) microphones and cameras forming surveillance networks, and c) networks of complex sensors such as weather radars or telescopes. Many applications are emerging that have the potential to revolutionize the way the physical world around us is instrumented, monitored and controlled.
Original technical papers addressing different aspects of sensor networks are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in conference proceedings (to be available in print and via IEEE XPlore.)
 

Topics include but are not limited to following:
Applications and deployments/ case studies
Sensors
Sensor nodes - architecture, hardware
Wireless sensor networks
Wired sensor networks
RFIDs and their applications
Protocols and standards
Algorithms for sensor networks
Data fusion in sensor networks
Resource management
Modeling and performance
Complexity and analysis
Software platforms and  middleware
Tools and techniques for design, deployment, testing and evaluation
Fault tolerance in sensor networks
Security and authentication


PAPER SUBMISSION:
Papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical or experimental nature, or be unique experience reports. Interested authors should submit the full paper, not exceeding  6-page summary of their original and unpublished work including 5 keywords.  Papers are to be submitted electronically.

    * Paper submission and formating  instructions
    * Submit your paper Electronically.

For additional information please contact  Anura.Jayasumana@colostate.edu . In the subject line please use ITNG 2009.

EVALUATION PROCESS:
Per ITNG policy, except for invited papers, all papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers.Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness.   Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. Selected papers presented in the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of an international journal.

BEST STUDENT PAPER:

The Best Student Paper will be awarded at the conference. To be eligible, the student must be the sole author of the paper, or the first author and primary contributor. (The winner of the award will present the paper in a plenary session at the conference). A cover letter to the General Chair/Track Chair must identify the paper as a candidate for this competition at the time of submission.

DEADLINES:
Registration : November 7, 2008
Submission: November 14, 2008
Author Notification: December 19, 2008
Camera Ready (6 pages): January 11, 2009

http://www.cnrl.colostate.edu/itng2009/


Anura P. Jayasumana
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
                           and Computer Science
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
Phone: (970) 491-7855
Fax: (970) 491-2249

Email: <Anura.Jayasumana@Colostate.edu>

[Mycolleagues] Call for Papers - Special Issue on Model Order Selection in Signal Processing Systems

Call for Papers
IEEE Signal Processing Society
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Special Issue on Model Order Selection in Signal Processing Systems

Model determination is a fundamental problem in a wide variety of signal processing applications, such as model-order determination for linear predictive coding of speech signal, model-order selection for image segmentation and diversity-order selection for linear equalization in telecommunications. Generally speaking, the criterion for selecting a proper model order is to discover an appropriate tradeoff between the model-fitness and the implementation complexity associated with hardware or software for digital signal processing platforms. Crucial tradeoffs between the system performance and the methodological complexity appear to draw a lot of recent research attention. In this call for papers, we would like to invite novel ideas, theoretical analyses as well as the practical implementation studies regarding the tradeoff between system performance and model-order subject to hardware and/or software constraints for signal processing applications. The new tradeoff measures are essential in this issue. Subject to these new tradeoff measures, novel model determination techniques and joint optimization approaches for parameter estimation, or hybrid models are encouraged to be addressed thereupon.

Original papers, previously unpublished and not currently under review by another journal, are solicited for this special issue. The scope of this special issue includes, but is not limited to:

* new measures, concepts and theories of the model determination in the tradeoff among system performance, hardware, software for general signal processing applications

* trade-off oriented model-order determination for autoregressive (AR), moving-Average (MA), autoregressive-moving-average (ARMA) signals and systems

* signal processing applications for the system performance optimization subject to the resource constraints, i.e., storage space, algorithm complexity, etc.

* optimal model-based array signal processing subject to implementation constraints

* model-order selection or hybrid models for signal processing applications

* new studies on the tradeoff effects of improper model-order selections

* tradeoff learning for reference-based/blind and supervised/unsupervised paradigms

Submission information is available at
http://www.ece.byu.edu/jstsp. Prospective authors are required to follow the Author's Guide for manuscript preparation of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing at http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/sps/tsp. Manuscripts will be peer reviewed according to the standard IEEE process.

Manuscript submission due: Apr. 1, 2009
First review completed: Jul. 1, 2009
Revised manuscript due: Aug. 15, 2009
Second review completed: Oct. 15, 2009
Final manuscript due: Nov. 15, 2009

Lead guest editor:
Hsiao-Chun Wu, Louisiana State University, USA, wu@ece.lsu.edu

Guest editors:
Iain Collings, University of Sydney, Australia, Iain.Collings@csiro.au
Are Hjørungnes, University of Oslo, Norway, arehj@unik.no
Chin-Liang Wang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, clwang@ee.nthu.edu.tw
Michael Wicks, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA, Michael.Wicks@rl.af.mil

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[Mycolleagues] Deadline extension: ICAS 2009 | April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

Note that the deadline for ICAS 2009 has been extended to November 10.

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results.

Apologies for cross-postings.

============== ICAS 2009 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICAS 2009, The Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICAS09.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICAS09.html

Submission deadline: November 1, 2008

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Extended versions of selected papers will also be published in the Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems: https://www.inderscience.com/www/IJAACS_leaflet.pdf

Please note the Poster Forum special submission with on progress and challenging ideas.

ICAS 2009 Special Areas (details in the CfP on site):

SYSAT: Advances in system automation

AUTSY: Theory and practice of autonomous systems

AWARE: Design and deployment of context-awareness networks, services and applications

AUTONOMIC: Autonomic computing: design and management of self-behavioral networks and services

CLOUD: Cloud computing and Virtualization

MCMAC: Monitoring, control, and management of autonomous self-aware and context-aware systems

CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments

ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation

MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SOA

SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems

KUI: Knowledge-based user interface

AMMO: Adaptive management and mobility

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ICAS 2009 Technical Program Committee Chairs
Radu Calinescu, Oxford University, UK
Mauricio Marin, Yahoo!, Chile
Carlos Turro, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

AMMO Special area chairs:
Fidel Liberal, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Armando Ferro, University of the Basque Country, Spain

ICAS General Chairs
Lourdes Pe�alver Herrero, Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia, Spain
Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

ICAS 2009 Industry Chair
Stefano Crosta, Cisco Systems, Inc., France
Mikael Salaun, Orange-ftgroup, France
Kevin Y Ung, Boeing, USA

ICAS 2009 Demos Chair
Mikael Salaun, Orange-ftgroup, France

ICAS Advisory Chairs
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada
Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan
Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
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[Mycolleagues] CFP: Special Issue on Recent Advances in Network and Parallel Computing, Journal of Networks



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Subject: CFP: Special Issue on Recent Advances in Network and Parallel Computing, Journal of Networks
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CALL FOR PAPERS  Journal of Networks (JNW, ISSN 1796-2056)
Special Issue on Recent Advances in Network and Parallel Computing
Papers submission: December 1, 2008
 
Network and parallel computing are important research and application fields of current information technology.
The Journal of Networks (JNW, ISSN 1796-2056) is a professional, peer-reviewed, open-access journal
publishing high-quality scientific articles in networks field. The journal has a distinguished editorial board with
extensive academic qualifications, ensuring that the journal will maintain high scientific standards and have a
broad international coverage. The journal is abstracted and indexed in major databases including EBSCO,
INSPEC, and EI Compendex. For details on the aims and scope of the journal, please visit the journal web
site (URL: http://www.academypublisher.com/jnw/).
This special issue has its origins in the International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC
2008), which was held in Shanghai, China in October 2008. It will be published by Academy Publisher within
the Journal of Networks.
The purpose of this special issue is to provide a channel to guarantee fast publication of extended versions
of the high-quality conference papers on network and parallel computing in the Journal.

Topics

Topics of this special issue include the following tracks, but are not limited to:
Topic I: Network applications
1. Peer-to-peer computing
2. Cluster and Grid computing
3. Wireless computing
4. Ubiquitous computing
5. Internet Computing
6. Optical networks
7. Multimedia services and applications

Topic II: Network technologies
1. Communication technology
2. Web technology
3. Network storage
4. Network reliability, security, and dependability
5. Network algorithms
6. Scheduling and load balancing

Topic III: Network and parallel architectures
1. Shared and distributed memory
2. Nontraditional processor technologies
3. Network and interconnect architecture
4. Parallel I/O and storage systems
5. System design issues for low power and energy efficiency
6. Performance modeling and evaluation
7. Multicore design issues
8. OS support in hardware

Topic IV: Parallel and distributed software
1. Parallel programming models, languages and compilers
2. Runtime systems
3. Operating systems
4. Resource management
5. Middleware
6. Data mining
7. Programming environments and tools
 

ACADEMY PUBLISHER
http://www.academypublisher.com/
Important Dates
Papers submission: December 1, 2008
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2009
Final paper due: April 1, 2009
Tentative publication date: June, 2009
Submissions

Authors of papers presented at the NPC 2008 and Workshops are welcome to submit extended and
revised versions of their papers. Manuscripts submitted for the special issue should report on original
research, must contain at least 30% of new material compared to NPC 2008 and Workshop paper, and
should not be under consideration for publication by any other journal.
This special issue also welcomes original high-quality contributions that have neither been published in nor
submitted to any journals or refereed conferences.
Submissions must be directly sent in PDF format via email to the guest editor Prof. Jian Cao (Email: caojian
<at> sjtu.edu.cn). Please identify your submission in the email subject line "Submission - JNW Special
Issue on RANPC". Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at
http://www.academypublisher.com/forauthors.html.

Guest Editors
Prof. Jian Cao
Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Email: cao-jian <at> sjtu.edu.cn

Dr. Xin Wang
Fudan University, China
Email: xinw <at> fudan.edu.cn

[Mycolleagues] Deadline extension: ICNS 2009 + 1st Workshop LMPCNAP | April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

Note that the deadline extension for ICNS 2009 has been extended to November 10.

We would like to make ICNS 2009 a primary reference event.

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results.

Please note that extended versions of highly ranked papers will be invited for journals submission.

Full contributions are expected by the submission deadline.


=========== ICNS 2009 + 1st Workshop LMPCNAP | Call for Papers ===========

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

- ICNS 2009, The Fifth International Conference on Networking and Services
April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICNS09.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICNS09.html

- The first International Workshop on Learning Methodologies and Platforms used in the Cisco Networking Academy Program (CNAP), LMPCNAP 2009 will be held
during ICNS 2009 in April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/LMPCNAP.html

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) November 10, 2008
Authors notification December 5, 2008
Registration December 20, 2008
Camera ready December 25, 2008

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CS Press, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster Forum special submission with on progress and challenging ideas.

ICNS 2009 Area Tracks are the following (details in the CfP on site):

ENCOT: Emerging Network Communications and Technologies
COMAN: Network Control and Management
SERVI: Multi-technology service deployment and assurance
NGNUS: Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services
MPQSI: Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking
GRIDNS: Grid Networks and Services
EDNA: Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications
IPv6DFI: Deploying the Future Infrastructure
IPDy: Internet Packet Dynamics
GOBS: GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks


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- ICNS General Chair

Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

- ICNS 2009 Industry Chairs

Kevin Y Ung, Boeing, USA
Leo Lehmann, OFCOM, Switzerland
Francisco Javier S�nchez, Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF), Spain

- ICNS 2009 Technical Program Committee Chair

Giancarlo Fortino, Universit� della Calabria, Italy
Salvador Sales, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Feng Xia, Queensland University of Technology, Australia / Zhejiang University, China

- ICNS Advisory Chairs

Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Vicente Casares, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada
Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong - Kowloon, Hong Kong
Manuel Sierra-P�rez, Universidad Polit�cnica de Madrid, Spain

- LMPCNAP 2009 General Chair

Rafael Tomas, Mediterranean Cisco Academy Training Center (CATC), Spain

- LMPCNAP 2009 Technical Program Commitee chair

Prof. Tomeu Serra, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

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2008-10-30

IEEE Broadband Multimedia 2009 - Call for Papers


CALL FOR PAPERS

2009 IEEE
International Symposium on
Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting

(Broadband Multimedia 2009)


sponsored by the IEEE Broadcast Technology  Society

13-15 May 2009
Bilbao, Spain

www.ieee-bmsb2009.org
   

NEW DEADLINE FOR  EXTENDED ABSTRACTS

12 November 2008

The IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting 2009, the fourth in the series, will be held in Bilbao, Spain. The symposium will be a premier forum for the presentation and exchange of technical advances in the rapidly converging areas of multimedia broadcasting, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and networking technologies.



The symposium seeks technical papers on the following topics:
       
• Multimedia systems and services

• Multimedia devices

• Multimedia quality: Performance evaluation

• Multimedia processing

• Transmission and networking


Call for Tutorials:
Proposals for half-day tutorials are also solicited based on the topics listed above.

Call for Panels:
Proposals are solicited for panels on technology, application, business, and policy-related issues and opportunities for multimedia and broadcasting industry.

Prospective authors are invited to submit extended abstracts of 500-1000 words via email to:  bts@ieee.org.   Each abstract must include at least two key words chosen from the topics mentioned above. Please indicate that the abstract is submitted to the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting 2009, and include the corresponding author’s full name and contact information including: Affiliation, address, e-mail, and phone number.


Important dates:

Submission of extended abstracts:
12 November 2008
Notification of acceptance: 16 January 2009

Submission of full papers: 9 April 2009



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[Mycolleagues] CFP: Journal Special Issue: Convergence of Digital TV System and Service

Special Issue:

Convergence of Digital TV Systems and Services

International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting



The migration from analog to digital of the broadcasting technologies, already well-consolidated for satellite systems, is becoming a reality also for terrestrial transmission. The digital terrestrial television (DTT) is also evolving to offer interactive services and a degree of flexibility which can be exploited to offer tailored application to users which includes, for instance, interactivity, different levels of personalization and innovative location-based as well as context-aware services. A clear example of this trend is given by the rising success of the IPTV which allows for a degree of flexibility on the offered services unknown to the other more traditional broadcasting systems. Some satellite operators are starting to launch IPTV services using direct satellite links, moreover some terrestrial internet service providers are offering digital TV channels embedded in the IP streaming over XDSL. Furthermore, IPTV services are likely to be broadcast and wireless, with the income of new technologies such as WiMAX. Last but not least, TV and broadcast services for mobile users are also being deployed in many countries using DVB-H and will be soon available on an even broader scale thanks to its satellite counterpart, DVB-SH. In the near future, a set of different technologies able to offer personalized and customized services to different classes of users are expected in the area of the wireless broadcasting, and the convergence on technologies is auspicious. This concept entails different levels of convergence, namely, at terminal level (one device fits all), at service level (convergence of traditional fixed, mobile, and broadcast services), at transport and network levels with a common and standardized set of protocols, and at access layer thanks to the harmonic coexistence of different access technologies
This special issue aims to promote the state-of-the-art research works on the integration of DTT/satellite/IPTV systems for the broadcasting of multimedia and interactive services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
  • Advances in DVB-T/H/SH/T2 system and implementation
  • System and service for IPTV and Interactive TV
  • System, service, and implementation of ISDB-T/S, CMMB, T/S-DMB, and MediaFLO
  • Digital TV with WiMax, LTE, and HSPA
  • Hybrid cellular/noncellular broadcasting
  • Source coding for mobile multimedia broadcasting
  • Channel coding, modulation, and signal processing techniques
  • Mobile TV and interactive multimedia broadcasting services
  • Field trials for mobile multimedia broadcasting
Authors should follow the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:
Manuscript DueFebruary 1 , 2009
First Round of ReviewsMay 1, 2009
Publication DateAugust 1, 2009

Guest Editors

  • Maurizio Murroni, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica (DIEE), Università di Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
  • Sandro Scalise, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Communications and Navigation, 17235 Neustrelitz, Germany
  • Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli, Centro di Ricerca sui Sistemi Elettronici per l'Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni "Ercole De Castro" (ARCES), Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica, Sistemistica, Università di Bologna, 40125 Bologna, Italy
  • Sooyoung Kim, College of Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756, South Korea
  • Robert Briskman, Sirius Satellite Radio, 1221 Avenue of the AmericasNew York, NY 10020, USA


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[Mycolleagues] CFP--CoPE 2009 (the First International Workshop on Cooperation in Pervasive)

*Apologies if you receive multiple copies*

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The First International Workshop on Cooperation in Pervasive
Environments
(CoPE 2009)
http://www.cse.nd.edu/~darts/cope.html
in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2009 (http://www.percom.org)

The continuous emergence of powerful personal handheld devices and
smart phones are redefining the pervasive computing paradigms of the
past. The questions this workshop aims to discuss are:
* How does the ubiquity of personal communication devices enable and
support cooperative activities?
* What are the technical challenges that must be overcome to achieve
seamless cooperation?
* What are the challenges in discovering and disseminating content
given energy and form factor constraints of mobile devices?

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from
both academia and industry to foster a discussion on key research
challenges in content sharing and dissemination, cooperative
activities, mobile search, and security and privacy issues in
pervasive environments. Additionally, the workshop forum will provide
an opportunity to explore new business models and act as a soundboard
for discussing bold new ideas in the area. While the main purpose is
to promote discussions in the design of cooperation and sharing
architectures, protocols, algorithms, middleware, services, and
applications for wireless systems, it also aims at increasing the
synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this
area. We therefore seek papers that address theoretical, experimental,
and work in-progress at all layers of pervasive environments, with the
focus on realistic application scenarios. The workshop aims to address
cooperation from both an application as well as a system design
standpoint. From the application perspective, the workshop encourages
submissions of studies of prototypes or real-world systems, including
demonstrations of these systems. Cooperation in such applications can
take many forms, including multimedia communications, interaction with
embedded sensing devices, etc. From the system point of view, the
workshop will solicit submissions that discuss architectures for
cooperative systems, resource management techniques, security
mechanisms, and other middleware or systems approaches for realistic
pervasive environments. We will also encourage submissions on "brave
new topics" that present futuristic ideas that have never previously
been explored. Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are
not limited to, the following:

* Application design, case studies, prototypes, real-world-systems
* Middleware technologies to support cooperation
* Content sharing and dissemination in mobile environments
* Context- and location-awareness
* Efficient search for and dissemination of information
* QoS, scalability, and energy efficiency in realistic pervasive systems
* Security/privacy aspects of mobile cooperation
* Payment and bartering techniques
* Multi-radio and multi-channel devices
* Network protocols for cooperative computing
* Opportunistic sensing, networking, and cooperation
* Mobile search and content discovery

Submission Instructions:
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original
unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to
the workshop. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, and
email address of the corresponding author. The length of the papers
should be limited to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format
(double-column, 10-pt font). Submission of a paper should be regarded
as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of
the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work.

Workshop Organizers:
Shivajit Mohapatra (Motorola Labs)
Christian Poellabauer (University of Notre Dame)
Aaron Striegel (University of Notre Dame)

Important Dates:
November 3, 2008: Paper due
December 19, 2008: Acceptance notification
January 7, 2009: Final camera ready paper due


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[Mycolleagues] Networking 2009: Cordial invitation

Dear colleague,

hereby I invite you very cordially to submit manuscripts
for the IFIP TC6 conference "Networking 2009" in Aachen (Germany).
See below for the most important information about the conference.

Please forward the invitation for manuscript submission to the members
of your team, to your colleagues, to experts who might be interested....

You have still approx. one month until the deadline for
manuscript submission.

Best regards
Otto Spaniol

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The event: NETWORKING 2009;
8th international conference in this series.
The ?flagship event" of IFIP TC6.

The venue: Aachen (Germany); situated at the borders of Belgium,
Germany, and the Netherlands.

TPC chairs: Luigi Fratta, Henning Schulzrinne, Yutaka Takahashi.

General chair: Otto Spaniol.

Topic areas: Applications and Services.
Wireless networks.
Next Generation Internet.
......

The date: May 11-15, 2009
Main conference: May 11-14;
Workshops: May 15.

Publication: Springer LNCS + IFIP Digital Library.

Submission via: EDAS (www.edas.info)

Deadline for
submissions: December 1, 2008.

Acceptance
notification: January 31, 2009.

Camera ready due: February 28, 2009.

More detailed
information: www.networking-2009.org

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[Mycolleagues] CFP: Sixth International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2009, May 26-29, 2009; Wuhan, China)

                                   ISNN2009 CALL FOR PAPERS


The Sixth International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2009) will be held in Wuhan, following the successes of previous events. Composed of three parts (Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang), Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province in central China with a long history and rich heritages. During the warrior-states period (481-221 BC), Wuhan is a part in Chu Kingdom It began to prosper as a commercial town about two-thousand years ago, when it was called Yingwuzhou (Parrot beach). During the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), the region became one of the most prosperous commercial centers along the Yangtze River. By the end of the Ming Dynasty (1368-164 AD), Hankou was one of the four most famous cities in China. Today, Wuhan is an educational and industrial center and a hub of water and rail transportation in China.

ISNN 2009 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of neural network research and applications in related fields. The symposium will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics.

Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to ISNN 2009. In addition, proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the symposium are solicited. Special sessions, to be organized by internationally recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposals to ISNN 2009. A special session proposal should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, names, contact information and brief biographical information on the organizers.

Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (10 pages maximum) by the submission deadline through the online submission system. Potential organizers are also invited to enlist five or more papers with cohesive topics to form special sessions. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review or is not copyright-protected elsewhere and will be presented by an author if accepted. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity
to revise their papers and take consideration of the referees' comments and suggestions. Papers presented at ISNN 2009 will be published in the EI-indexed proceedings (Springer LNCS) and some selected good papers will be included in special issues of several SCI-indexed journals.


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PROGRAM TOPICS
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1. Theories
Computational neuroscience
Connectionist theory
Cognitive science
Mathematical modeling of neural systems
Neurodynamic analysis
Neurodynamic optimization
Adaptive dynamic programming
Neuroinformatics
Bioinformatics
Self-organization and goal-oriented learning
Embodied intelligence

2. Models
Embedded neural systems
Forward neural networks
Recurrent neural networks
Gene regulatory network
Consensus in neural networks
Competitive networks
Coupled network model
Hybrid intelligent systems
Hardware implementation
Evolving neural networks
Complex neural models
Neural networks models in economics and marketing
Neural models in finance
Fuzzy neural networks
Hierarchical memory organizations
Incremental learning models
Swarm intelligence and optimization
Bio-inspired intelligent models
Associative memory models
Adaptive sensory-motor coordination
Cellular neural network models
Self-organizing map models

3. Algorithms
Probabilistic methods
information-theoretic methods
Supervised and unsupervised learning
Semi-supervised learning
Reinforcement learning
Support vector machines
Kernel methods
Principal component analysis
Independent component analysis
Boosting and adaptive boost algorithms
Multi-resolution algorithms
Assembly learning algorithms
Autonomous mental development
Hybrid optimization algorithms
Evolutionary computation algorithms
Fuzzy modeling and fuzzy systems
Statistical learning methods

4. Applications
Brain imaging
Medical imaging processing
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Pattern recognition
Machine learning and learning control systems
Time series analysis
Financial data prediction
Image and signal processing
Intelligent control system
Expert system
Computer Vision
Robotics
Games
Telecommunications
Transportation systems
Intrusion detection
Information security
Fault diagnosis
Real-world applications
Multi-agent learning systems
Planning and scheduling
Decision-making support systems
Computational intelligence for power systems
Sensor networks
Multimedia systems
Biomedical data analysis
Human-robot interaction
Intelligent navigation systems
Speech and language processing
Sequence learning and sequential behaviors
Computational intelligence for text mining
Computational intelligence for Web mining



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IMPORTANT DATES
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Special session proposals deadline: November 1, 2008
Paper submission deadline: December 1, 2008
Notification of acceptance: January 1, 2009
Camera-ready copy and author registration: February 1, 2009


More information can be found at:
http: http://isnn2009.hust.edu.cn  or     http://www.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2009

For inquiries, please contact the secretariat at: isnn2009@mae.cuhk.edu.hk  or  isnn2009@mail.hust.edu.cn

2008-10-29

[Mycolleagues] [IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology] Special Issue on "Achievements and the Road Ahead: The First Decade of Cognitive Radio"

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Dear all colleagues,

 

We are delighted to inform you of the upcoming IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT) special issue on “Achievements and the Road Ahead: The First Decade of Cognitive Radio”. Please find the Call for Papers (CFP) attached.

 

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A decade after Cognitive Radio (CR) first entered the lexicon of wireless communications, this special issue aims to bring together a comprehensive view of the major achievements and developments in this field. Through critical analysis of the state-of-the-art, a further aim is to highlight significant research challenges that remain for CR and CR Networking (CRN), and to present pioneering solutions to resolve such issues. This special issue also strives to point the way forward regarding the significant potential for CR and CRN to be employed within vehicular domains.

 

In line with the above objectives, original and unpublished submissions are solicited with relevant topics, including but not limited to:

 

  • CR enhanced Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications,
  • CR enhanced vehicular ad hoc networks,
  • CR enhanced radio resource management and QoS support in vehicular environments,
  • PHY and MAC techniques for CR,
  • Cognitive radio networking,
  • Information theoretic analyses of CR,
  • Interference mitigation in shared spectrum environments,
  • Security issues for CR,
  • Software Defined Radio (SDR) and reconfigurability,
  • Standardization efforts such as IEEE 802.22, IEEE P1900 (SCC41), IEEE 802.16h, etc.,
  • Higher layers and interdisciplinary research on CR (AI, computer vision, neural networks, etc.),
  • Intelligent radio and cognition cycle considerations,
  • Coding for CR channels,
  • Biologically-inspired networking for CR,
  • Study of applications and social impacts of CR, such as on public safety,
  • Cooperative networking with shared resources,
  • Cross-layer designs and architectures for CR,
  • Beam-forming and MIMO for interference avoidance in the CR context,
  • Self-organizing networks and autonomic communications,
  • Policy and policy languages for shared spectrum management,
  • Spectrum sensing techniques,
  • Ultra-wideband for spectrum sharing in CR,
  • Game theoretical analysis for CR.

 

Submission instructions can be found at the link: http://transactions.vtsociety.org/

 

Timeline:

 

  • Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2009,
  • First Review Deadline: August 1, 2009,
  • Revised Paper Deadline: October 1, 2009,
  • Second and Final Review Deadline: December 1, 2009,
  • Revised Manuscript Deadline: January 15, 2010,
  • Publication: May 2010.

 

Co-guest editors:

 

Prof. Joseph Mitola III (Corresponding Guest Editor)

Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

 

Dr. Alireza Attar

King’s College London, UK

 

Prof. Honggang Zhang

Zhejiang University, China

 

Dr. Oliver Holland

King’s College London, UK

 

Dr. Hiroshi Harada

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

 

Prof. Hamid Aghvami

King’s College London, UK

 

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Honggang ZHANG, Professor, Ph.D.

Department of Information Science & Electronic Engineering

Zhejiang University

Zheda Road 38, Hangzhou 310027, CHINA

Tel: +86-571-87952022       Fax: +86-571-87952022

Email: honggangzhang@zju.edu.cn

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[Mycolleagues] CFP - WLAN/WPAN Symposium in Leipzig, Germany


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*                 CALL FOR PAPERS                                                     *
*  International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC'09)    *
*      Wireless LANs and Wireless PANs Symposium                                      *
*           June 21-24, 2009, Leipzig, Germany                                        *
*           www.engr.mun.ca/~licheng/iwcmc09                                          *
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SCOPE:
Original papers are invited on emerging architectures and technologies in the design of wireless local area networks (WLANs) and wireless personal area networks (WPANs) with emphasis on the use of such networks in diverse areas of applications such as supporting ubiquitous mobile Internet access, and the design of ad-hoc networks, and sensor networks.
 
TOPICS:
The symposium solicits high quality and previously unpublished work in the field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 
* Wireless Mesh Networks
* Medium access techniques and protocols for WLANs/WPANs
* Emerging standards and testbeds for WLANs/WPANs
* WLANs/WPANs protocols for smart antennas
* Energy efficiency in protocol and systems design
* Resource assignment and sharing in WLANs/WPANs
* Self configuration in WLANs/WPANs
* Provisioning quality of service in WLANs/WPANs
* Multimedia networking architectures and protocols for WLANs/WPANs
* Integration and interoperability of WLANs/WPANs and 3G (and beyond) networks
* Interoperability issues between wireless standards/protocols and the Internet
* User mobility and workload modeling
* Security issues in WLANs/WPANs
* OFDM Technology for Wireless LANs/PANs
* WLAN/WPAN based applications/Services
 
IMPORTANT DATES:
* Paper Submission Deadline:            December 20, 2008
* Paper Acceptance Notification:        March 25, 2009
* Camera-Ready Paper Submission:        April 15, 2009
* Registration Deadline for Authors:    April 15, 2009
* Conference Date:                      June 21-24, 2009
 
PAPER SUBMISSION:
Note that IWCMC papers are typically limited to six pages, including text, figures and references, and must be written in English and must be in standard ACM double-column format (unless mentioned otherwise on the conference's main WEB page). The font size must be at least 10 points. All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format. Information on best paper awards and other details will be made available on the IWCMC 2009 main page (www.engr.mun.ca/~licheng/iwcmc09).
 
All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through a peer-reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings of IWCMC'09. Further instructions on paper submission and formatting are available on the Conference Main Webpage. Paper submission please go through the EDAS System, WLANs and WPANs Symposium (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6851&track=5109&).
 
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
GENERAL CHAIR:
Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA, mguizani@ieee.org
 
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE(TPC) CHAIR:
Athanasios (Thanos) Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece, vasilako@ath.forthnet.gr
 
SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS:
Tarik Taleb, Tohoku University, Japan, taleb@aiet.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp
Cheng Li, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, licheng@engr.mun.ca
 
PUBLICITY CHAIR:
Stepan Kucera, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan, kucera@khn.nict.go.jp
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[IWCMC 2009 Multimedia over Wireless Symposium] CfP: Int'l Symposium on Multimedia over Wireless (ISMW 2009), in conjunction with IWCMC 2009, 21-24 JUNE 2009, LEIPZIG, GERMANY

CALL FOR PAPERS

Int'l Symposium on Multimedia over Wireless (ISMW 2009)
in conjunction with

The 5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference

(IWCMC 2009)

21-24 JUNE 2009, LEIPZIG, GERMANY


http://www.iwcmc.com/

One of the key elements in the convergence of future networks and services to IP
technology is the efficient support of rich multimedia applications and services
over wireless networks including sensor and mesh networks. The delivery and
transport of multimedia in such wireless environments, to heterogeneous mobiles
and users, is very challenging. The multimedia services should face many
shortcomings caused mainly by the wireless channel unreliability and its sharing
among many users, limited bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect,
different protocols and standards, etc. Future multimedia services require
innovation and advances in better MAC and routing protocols, session
establishment and signaling architectures, cross-layer interaction and
optimization, QoS provisioning and continuity, adaptive transmission techniques,
and scalability support, among
others.


The purpose of this symposium is to solicit high-quality theoretical and
practical research on the landscape of recent advances on multimedia over
wireless.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
- Architectures for wireless multimedia communications
- Multimedia over Cognitive Radio Networks
- Multimedia delivery over various types of wireless
networks (3G, 4G, ad hoc networks/relay, WLAN, WMAN, multi-hop wireless,
and hybrid networks)
- Wireless video sensor networks
- Multimedia over wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) network
- Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks
- QoS support for wireless multimedia networks
- Multimedia delivery over wireless embedded devices
- Scalable multimedia delivery over wireless
- Multimodal multimedia services
- Error resilience and concealment
- Joint source-channel coding and adaptive media delivery
- Cross-layer optimizations and interactions
- Interaction among (MAC), radio link control (RLC), IP and application layers
- Wireless multimedia terminal and devices
- Wireless multimedia traffic modeling
- Multimedia delivery to energy-constrained embedded devices
- Multimedia over wireless testbeds and related research infrastructures and demo
- QoS signaling and protocols for wireless multimedia
- Applications, best practices, and standard's support


Paper Submission
- Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2008
- Paper Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2009
- Camera-ready Paper Submissions: April 15, 2009
- Registration Deadline for Authors: April 15, 2009


Contact
- Toufik Ahmed, tad@labri.fr
- Christian Timmerer, christian.timmerer@itec.uni-klu.ac.at


All papers are limited to six printed pages, including text, figures and
references, and must be written in English and follow the standard IEEE double
-column format. The font size must be at least 10 points. All submissions will
be handled electronically through EDAS system at
http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6843& and must be in PDF format. All
submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through a double peer
-reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference
Proceedings of IWCMC2009, which will be included in ACM/IEEE Digital Library
(pending approval). Selected papers will be further considered for possible
publication in a special issue of the Wiley Journal of "Wireless Communications
and Mobile Computing (WCMC)," and "International Journal of Autonomous and
Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS)". There will also be best paper and
best symposium awards.

Chair
- Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux I, France
Co-Chair
- Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Technical Program Committee
- Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux I, France
- Eugen Borcoci, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania
- Cyril Concolato, TELECOM ParisTech, France
- Annie Gravey, INSTITUT TELECOM - TELECOM Bretagne, France
- Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA
- Zhihai He, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
- Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
- ChingYao Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
- Andreas Hutter, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany
- Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
- Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
- Francine Krief, University of Bordeaux I, France
- Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
- Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Paris - Descartes, France
- Marta Mrak, University of Surrey, UK
- Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Hamid Nafaa, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Gabriella Olmo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- George Pavlou, University College London, UK
- Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
- Harry Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria

[Mycolleagues] Deadline extension: INTENSIVE 2009 | April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

Apologizes for cross posting

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The deadline extension for INTENSIVE 2009 has been extended to November 10.

We would like to make INTENSIVE 2009 a primary reference event. Your active support is crucial not only for reviewing the submissions, but for the submission portfolio as well. This will guarantee a reasonable pool to select high quality papers.

Please note that extended versions of highly ranked papers will be invited for journals submission.

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results.

We expect contributions from committee members, their teams, specialized university teams, research teams, and private and public institutions interested in the topics of this conference.

Full contributions are expected by the submission deadline.

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============== INTENSIVE 2009 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

INTENSIVE 2009, The First International Conference on Intensive Applications and Services

April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/INTENSIVE09.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPINTENSIVE09.html

Submission deadline: November 10, 2008

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster Forum special submission with on progress and challenging ideas.


INTENSIVE 2009 Special Areas (details in the CfP on site):

Basics on IAS (Intensive Applications and Services) || Fundamentals on IAS; Heuristics for relaxing IAS; Optimization on IAS; Coordinated checkpointing and rollback in IAS; Approximation approach in IAS; Suboptimal solutions in IAS; Distribution IAS; Pervasive parallelism IAS

Communications intensive || Transaction IAS; Bandwidth IAS; Traffic IAS; Broadcast and multicast IAS; Propagation IAS; Stream media intensive

Process intensive || Resource IAS; Computation IAS; Memory IAS; Data acquisition IAS; Data compression IAS; Replication intensive IAS; Storage IAS; Access IAS; Image processing IAS

Operational intensive || Cryptography IAS; Intrusion prevention IAS; Deep packet inspection IAS; Reconfiguration IAS; Load-balancing IAS; Buffering & cashing IAS; Performance IAS

User intensive|| User interaction IAS; Multi-user IAS; User-adaptation IAS

Technology intensive|| Mobility IAS; High-speed IAS; Intensive real-time decoding

Control intensive|| Message IAS; Monitoring IAS; Power IAS; Hardware for IAS; Software for IAS; Middleware for IAS; Threat containment IAS

Complex IAS || Bioinformatics computation; Large scale ehealth systems; Pharmaceutical/drug computation; Weather forecast computation; Earthquake simulations; Geo-spatial simulations; Spatial programs; Real-time manufacturing systems; Transportation systems; Avionic systems; Economic/financial systems; Electric-power systems;


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General Chair

Fernando Boronat, Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Spain


Program Committee Chairs

Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Wuhan, China

Milena Radenkovic, University of Nottingham, UK

DJamel H. Sadok, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Marius Slavescu, IBM Toronto Lab, Canada

Chieh-Yih Wan, Intel, USA


Advisory Chairs

Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada

Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Institut für Informationssysteme/Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Chih-Cheng Hung, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA

Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

Simon Tsang, Telcordia Technologies, Inc. - Piscataway, USA

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[Mycolleagues] IEEE ICC 2009 Workshop Future Networks '09 - paper deadline extended to 15 Nov 2008!

************************ Final CALL FOR PAPERS ************************

Future-Networks 2009
International Workshop on the Network of the Future 2009

18 June 2009, Dresden, Germany

In conjunction with the
IEEE International Conference on Communications

http://www.future-network09.org

Submission deadline *extended*: November 15, 2008

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Today's Internet architecture is stifling innovation, restricting it mostly to the application layer. From a number of angles it appears that we have reached a point in the impressive development cycle of the Internet that now requires some major change. However, research and development in these areas is still at an early stage and the space of potential solutions is far from being explored.
The International Workshop on the Network of the Future (Future-Net 09) is a platform for both clean-slate as well as evolutionary approaches for a redesign of the Internet. It will uniquely bring together approaches driven from mobile and wireless demands, network virtualization, network self-management, content and sensor networking and discuss these from both a technical as well as socio-economic perspective.

Topics of Interest:
We solicit contributions that report early results addressing research challenges in topics related to the network of the future. Particularly, we want to identify and address issues with a high potential for significant impacts on the way the network is functioning and being used. The workshop welcomes submissions from both researchers and practitioners but fresh ideas in the form of early results, position papers and systems papers are particularly welcome.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
- Alternatives to established technologies such as routing
- Re-design and re-evaluation of today's architectural principles
- End-to-end virtualization of the network
- Technology to introduce vital but missing functionality
- Self-management of network services
- New media-aware transport services
- New approaches to network security
- Mechanisms to interconnect extremely heterogeneous edge networks
- Technology based on new communication paradigms
- Wide-scale Internets of Things
- Machine-to-machine networking
- Socio-economic for the future Internet
- Business models for the Internet of Things
- Business drivers for radical changes in the network
- Regulatory frameworks for a new networking layer

Important Dates:
*Submission Deadline: 01 November 2008*

Acceptance Notification: 15 January 2009 Camera Ready Version Due: 01 March 2009

Paper Submission Guidelines:
All papers will be reviewed by our international program committee. The guidelines follow ICC requirements which can be found here http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_submission_proc.html.

For submission instructions please see our website http://www.future-network09.org/cfp.html.


Workshop Website:
http://www.future-network09.org/

Organizing Committee:
Norbert Niebert - Ericsson
Mirko Presser - University of Surrey
Rolf Winter - NEC

Technical Program Committee:
Bengt Ahlgren - SICS
Carmelita Görg - University of Bremen
Christian Tschudin - Univ. Basel
Dipankar Raychaudhuri - Rutgers University
Fabrice Forest - University
Pierre Mendez France Francisco Valera - University Carlos III de Madrid
Jilles van Gurp - Nokia
Hannu Flinck - Nokia Siemens Networks
Henrik Abramowicz - Ericsson
Holger Karl - Univ. Paderborn
James Roberts - France Telecom
Jussi Haapola - University of Oulu
Laurent Herault - CEA-LETI
Luis Correia - TU Lisbon
Marcus Brunner - NEC
Marimuthu Palaniswami - University of Melbourne
Martina Zitterbart - Univ. Karlsruhe
Masugi Inoue - NICT, Japan
Michael Menth - University of Würzburg
Michael Soellner - Alcatel-Lucent
Michele Zorzi - University of Padova
Paul Havinga - University of Twente
Pedro A. Aranda - Telefonica
Pekka Nikander - Ericsson
Philip Eardley - BT
Pierre Francois - UC Louvain
Rahim Tafazolli - Univerity of Surrey
Richard Egan - Thales Research and Technology UK
Stefan Schmid - NEC
Stephan Haller - SAP
Wolfgang Mühlbauer - T-Labs


Sincerely,

The organizers
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[Mycolleagues] IQ2S 2009 Workshop Submission Deadline is Approaching

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The First International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2009)
Website: http://iq2s2009.i2r.a-star.edu.sg
In Conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2009 (http://www.percom.org)
Galveston, Texas, March 9-13, 2009

Quality of service (QoS) has been studied in various building blocks in pervasive computing, e.g., different QoS mechanisms are presented for wireless or wired networks, with QoS metrics being described in terms of delay, bandwidth, and/or data loss etc. The emerging pervasive computing is application-driven and mission-critical, therefore the information quality (IQ), such as the accuracy of target tracking or event detection, is also critical for the end users, service providers and the system designers. IQ and QoS provisioning for pervasive computing is challenging and difficult due to the resource-constrained, dynamic and distributed nature of the system, the weakness under security attacking, and the lack of a holistic design approach which takes into account the different types of resources and their inter-dependencies.
      
The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum to exchange ideas, present results, share experience, and enhance collaborations among researchers, professionals, and application developers in various aspects of IQ and QoS for pervasive computing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

l            System architecture for IQ and QoS provisioning 

l            IQ-oriented signal & information processing (e.g., source coding and data compression)

l            QoS for target/event detection, localization, tracking and classification

l            QoS for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks (including coverage and connectivity)

l            QoS for task mapping and scheduling

l            Cross-layer design for coordinated QoS (including IQ-QoS integration)

l            Adaptative IQ and QoS under dynamic environments

l            Trust, security and privacy issues in IQ and QoS

l            Development environments and programming languages for IQ and QoS

l            IQ and QoS for emerging pervasive computing applications, such as three-dimensional wireless sensor networks (like underwater sensor network), healthcare, and structural health monitoring

l            Prototype test-bed design, implementation, and field trials

 

Submission Instructions

The submitted paper should be in the IEEE standard conference format and should be no more than 6 pages in length. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair for IQ2S 2009. Detailed submission guidance can be found in the workshop website. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and selected based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined PerCom 2009 workshops proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper.

 

General Co-Chairs

Sajal K. Das, the University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Chen Khong Tham, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Program Co-Chairs
Wendong Xiao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Habib M. Ammari, the University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Important Dates
Paper submission:     October
31, 2008
Author notification:  December 19, 2008
Camera-ready due:     January 7, 2009

 

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[Mycolleagues] CFP: IEEE International Workshop on Opportunistic Networking (WON-09) (Deadline Extended to Nov. 7)

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Call for Papers

The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Opportunistic Networking (WON-09)

to be held in conjunction with The IEEE 23th International Conference
on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-09),
Bradford, UK, May 26-29, 2009

http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/WON09/

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Aims and Scope
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With the explosive deployment of mobile wireless devices recently,
Opportunistic Networking is becoming an increasingly popular area in
networking research, in which the assumption of having end-to-end
paths between the source and the destination is relaxed. Such networks
fall into the fields of mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) and
delay-tolerant networking (DTN).Opportunistic Networks enable user
communication in an environment where disconnection and reconnection
are common and link performance is extremely dynamic. They are very
suitable to support the situation where network infrastructure has
limited coverage and users have "islands of connectivity". By taking
advantage of device mobility, information can be stored and forwarded
over a wireless link when connection 'opportunities' arise (e.g. an
appropriate network contact is met). In this view, traditional
Internet connectivity can be considered as a special case of
connection opportunity. With numerous emerging applications,
Opportunistic Networks allow a huge number of devices to communicate
end-to-end without requiring any pre-existing infrastructure and are
very suitable to support pervasive networking scenarios.

Topics of Interest
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Original papers addressing applications and architecture, systems
and protocols design, development and analysis, in all areas related
to Opportunistic Networking are solicited. Papers that bring out
interesting and novel ideas at an early stage are favored over
highly-polish journal-style results. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:

* Advanced technologies for enabling opportunistic communication
* Architectures for opportunistic networks
* Applications for opportunistic networks
* Biological and social models for opportunistic communication
* Middleware services in opportunistic networks
* Dissemination and replication techniques for opportunistic networks
* Network and resource management techniques for opportunistic networks
* Trust and cooperation in opportunistic networks
* Security issues in opportunistic networks
* Transport and reliability issues in opportunistic networks
* Routing issues in opportunistic networks
* MAC layer issues and physical layer for opportunistic networks
* Simulation and modeling of Opportunistic networks
* Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building
opportunistic networks
* Opportunistic networks testbeds and measurements

Submissions and Proceedings
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Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original,
unpublished manuscripts via ISAS website
(http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/WON09/ISAS/).

The manuscript should be written in English and follow IEEE
two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the
text. The maximum manuscript length is six (6) pages including
figures and references. All submitted papers will be refereed
by reviewers in terms of correctness, originality, technical
strength, significance and quality of presentation. The CD
proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press
and available online through IEEE Xplore.

Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: Nov. 7, 2008
Authors Notification: Dec. 1, 2008
Authors Registration: Dec. 17, 2008
Final Manuscript Due: Dec. 28, 2008

General Chair
Kun-chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Program Chair
Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Program Committee Members
Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Jun-Hong Cui, University of Connecticut, USA
Jyh-How Huang, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Robert Hsieh, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dirk Kutscher, Bremen University, Germany
Lavy Libman, National ICT Australia, Australia
Joerg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy
Pablo Vidales, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Guang Yang, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, USA
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