[Tccc] 3rd CfP: ICONS 2010 || April 11-16, 2010 - Menuires, The Three Valleys, French Alps, France

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============== ICONS 2010 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICONS 2010: The Fifth International Conference on Systems
April 11-16, 2010 - Menuires, The Three Valleys, French Alps, France

Weather: Enjoying warm spring weather in the valley, while skiing at the
top.

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICONS10.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPICONS10.html

Submission deadline: November 10, 2009
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Publisher: CPS ( see: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps )
Archived: IEEE CSDL (Computer Science Digital Library) and IEEE Xplore
Submitted for indexing: Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EI's
Engineering Information Index
Other indexes are being considered: INSPEC, DBLP, Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index

Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors
are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under
review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not
limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in
terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ICONS 2010 Tracks (tracks' topics and submission details: see CfP on the
site)

Systems' Theory and Practice
Systems design methodologies and techniques; Formal methods to specify
systems? behavior; Online and offline systems; Open and closed systems;
Centralized and distributed systems; Proactive and reactive systems;
System robustness; Systems scalability; Fault-tolerant systems; Feedback
systems; High-speed systems; Delay tolerant systems; Real-time systems

Systems engineering
Systems requirements; Systems modeling; Systems development lifecycle;
System-of-systems; Systems ergonomics; Subsystem interactions; Systems
decomposition; Systems integration

System Instrumentation
Metering embedded sensors; Composing multi-scale measurements;
Monitoring instrumentation; Smart sensor-based systems; Calibration and
self-calibration systems; Instrumentation for prediction systems

Embedded systems and systems-on-the-chip
Real-time embedded systems Programming embedded systems; Controlling
embedded systems; High speed embedded systems; Designing methodologies
for embedded systems; Performance on embedded systems; Updating embedded
systems; Wireless/wired design of systems-on-the-chip; Testing embedded
systems; Technologies for systems processors; Migration to single-chip
systems; Micro/nano structures and systems

Target-oriented systems [emulation, simulation, prediction, etc.]
Information systems; Real-time systems; Software systems; Hardware
systems; Emulation systems; Simulation systems Prediction systems

Specialized systems [sensor-based, mobile, multimedia, biometrics, etc.]
Sensor-based systems; Biometrics systems; Mobile and fixed systems;
Ubiquitous systems; Nano-technology-based systems; Multimedia systems

Validation systems
Test systems; Validation systems; Performance measurement systems;
Maintenance systems

Security and protection systems
Security systems; Vulnerability detecting systems; Intrusion detection
systems Intrusion avoidance systems; Presence detection systems;
Monitoring systems; Management systems; Alert systems; Defense systems;
Emergency systems

Advanced systems [expert, tutoring, self-adapting, interactive, etc.]
Expert systems; Tutoring systems; Highly interactive systems;
Anticipative systems; On-demand systems; GRID systems; Autonomic
systems; Autonomous systems; Self-adapting systems; Adjustable autonomic
systems; High performance computing systems; Mission critical systems

Application-oriented systems [content, eHealth, radar, financial,
vehicular, etc.]
Web-cashing systems; Content-distributed systems; Accounting and billing
systems; E-Health systems; E-Commerce systems; Radar systems; Navigation
systems; Systems for measuring physical quantities; Earthquake detection
and ranking systems; Financial systems; Robotics systems; Vehicular
systems; Entertainment systems; Gaming systems; Speech recognition system

Safety in industrial systems
Fundamentals on system safety; Safety of software systems and software
engineering; Safety requirements; Safety for critical systems;
Engineering for system robustness and reliability; Control of mission
critical systems; Safety-oriented system design; Human tasks and error
models; Hazard analysis; Cost and effectiveness of system safety;
Verification and validation of safety; Safety tools; Evaluation of
safety data, and mitigation and prevention strategies; Safety control
and management; System Safety Implementation Guidelines and Standards;
Transferring safety knowledge; Metrics for Risk Assessment; Contingency
Planning and Occurrence Reporting; Preparedness Activities; Industry
specific safety systems (Medical devices, Aerospace, Chemical industry,
Nuclear power plants, Public health, Biological Safety)

Complex systems
Theory of complex systems; Ontologies for complex systems; Chaos and
complexity; Design and integrate complex systems; Complexity and
simulation; Simulation and datamining; Artificial intelligence and soft
computing in complex systems; Multi-agent based simulation; Systems of
systems; Intelligent agent architectures; Evolutionary programming;
Uncertainty reduction and classification; Monitoring and managing
complex systems; Case studies of complex systems [vehicular, avionic,
health, emergency, sensing, etc.]; Industrial systems [robotics,
production, accounting and billing, e-commerce, etc.]

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[Tccc] CFP: Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks 2010 (regular paper final call) (updated)

[We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message]

============================================================
Submission:
* Extended Submission Deadline:
Full Paper, November 1, 2009;
Poster Paper, November 7, 2009.

Registration:
* One registration for the UBSN 2010 with WICON 2010
package 'technical session + workshop' covers up to 2
papers for either the WICON 2010 technical session, or
the UBSN 2010 workshop, or 1 paper for the WICON 2010
session + one for the UBSN 2010 workshop.
============================================================

Call for Papers
============================================================
2010 International Workshop on Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks
(UBSN 2010)
http://sites.google.com/site/ubsn2010

In conjunction with
The 5th International Wireless Internet Conference
(WICON 2010)
http://www.wicon.org/
============================================================

Overview

Recently, there has been increased investigation into new types of wireless sensor
networks located on or around the human body, which are generally known as body
sensor networks (BSNs). Following continuous advances in wireless communication
technologies, there has been growing interest in the design, development and deployment
of BSN systems in applications for improving people's daily life, which has led to
an increased demand for interconnecting BSNs with other emerging wireless technologies,
such as RFID technology, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Zigbee, Bluetooth, WiBree,
video surveillance systems, WPAN, WLAN, the Internet, and cellular networks. With BSNs
being incorporated into these technologies, BSNs have become ubiquitous. As a result
of this, and due to an increased demand for advanced e-healthcare management systems
in recent years, the marketing opportunities for advanced consumer electronics and
related services have greatly increased. More and more autonomous and intelligent
applications which are closely integrated with a person's everyday life are being
generated. For example, by using BSNs to collect patient information, and by deploying
diverse wireless networking systems for enhanced diagnostic assistance and action
handling, better e-healthcare management systems can be designed for providing more
desirable services.

In this workshop, we solicit research papers (regular papers and posters) on hardware
for body sensors, system architectures, networking and communication protocols,
applications, testbeds and prototypes, biomedical sensor data processing and sensor
data management. In particular, we are interested in the following communication issues:

* Intra-BSN Communication: The term "intra-BSN communication" defines communications
directly related to the user (within radio coverage of about 2 meters), which consists
of two categories: (1) the communications amongst the body sensors, which are deployed
strategically on the human body, implanted inside the body, or attached within in the
person's clothing; (2) the communication between the body sensors and the portable
personal server, which typically can be a cell phone, PDA or headset.

* Inter-BSN communication: The term "inter-BSN communication" defines communications
between the personal server and one or more access points. The access point can be
deployed as a part of a home or work infrastructure, or strategically placed within
a dynamic environment for handling emergency situations. Inter-BSN communications
will interconnect BSNs with the wide range of networks which are easily accessible
in daily life.

* Beyond-BSN communication: Beyond-BSN communication is used to interconnect a BSN
with the outside world, which enhances the application possibilities and brings the
coverage / range of body sensor systems a step further via pervasive communication
technologies, such as the Internet and cellular networks.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together state-of-the-art research
contributions, tutorials, and position papers that address these key aspects of
Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks. Original papers describing completed and unpublished
work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference/workshop are
solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* New applications of ubiquitous body-sensor networks, e.g., healthcare and consumer
electronics applications
* Remote health/fitness monitoring in ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g., location
and mobility issues
* Ambulatory monitoring (activity monitoring, fall detection, cardiac and wellbeing
monitoring) and BSN assisted rehabilitation, bio-motion, wellbeing analysis and
clinical applications
* Emerging engineering issues and wearable, implantable/ingestible sensor integration
and development platforms, e.g., new operating systems, middleware, etc.
* Scalable and flexible network architectures and deployments for ubiquitous body
sensor networks
* Advanced body sensor devices, e.g., novel bioelectrical, biochemical, biophysical,
and mechanical sensors
* Networking and data transmission issues for ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Integrating emerging wireless technologies with ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Integration with ambient sensors for personalized smart spaces and applications
* Link to environment sensing, smart dwellings, and home monitoring
* Standards for light-weight communication protocols and integration with heterogeneous
networks
* Advanced algorithms for ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g., routing, data
processing, packet scheduling
* Power efficient issues, e.g., low power RF transceivers, energy scavenging,
miniaturization, system integration
* Signal processing, context awareness and multi-sensory fusion
* MAC Protocols and QoS Designing for Intra-BSN Communication
* Mobile and multimedia supported ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Server side body sensor networks information processing, data mining, transient pattern
recognition, and long-term, predictive trend analysis
* Sensor data management issues for ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g.,
publish-subscribe approach
* Query processing and optimization for ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Sensor data stream processing in ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Semantic Web technology enabled ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Adaptability and stability of ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Transactions and workflows in ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Information support, security, privacy, and fault tolerance issues for ubiquitous
body sensor networks

Important Dates:
* Extended Submission Deadline:

Full Paper, November 1, 2009;
Poster Paper, November 7, 2009.

* Acceptance Notice: November 15, 2009
* Final Manuscript: November 25, 2009
* Publication Date: March 1-3, 2010

Submission Instructions
Please submit your paper(s) in PDF format to:
* Min Chen, minchen@ece.ubc.ca
and
* Lei Shu, lei.shu@ieee.org

All submissions will be reviewed by the technical program committee and will be judged
by their technical merit and relevance to workshop.

For regular paper:
The page length limit is 9 pages in IEEE double column format pages (including figures,
tables, and references) with font size not smaller than 9 points.

For poster paper:
The posters may describe work in progress and offers an excellent opportunity for feedback
and discussions on early research. A maximum of TWO IEEE double column format pages
(including figures, tables, and references) with font size not smaller than 9 points.

Publication:
Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE/ACM (pending) International Conference Proceedings
Series and will be made available in IEEE/ACM (pending) Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI.

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in UBSN 2010, after further revisions, will be
published in a Special Issue of International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications
Systems (IJAACS).

Registration Rule:
UBSN 2010 with WICON 2010 have the following registration rules:

* One registration for the WICON 2010 technical session covers up to two papers for the
WICON 2010 technical session,
* One registration for the UBSN 2010 workshop covers up to 2 papers for the UBSN 2010 workshop, and
* One registration for the UBSN 2010 with WICON 2010 package 'technical session + workshop'
covers up to 2 papers for either the WICON 2010 technical session, or the UBSN 2010 workshop,
or 1 paper for the WICON 2010 session + one for the UBSN 2010 workshop.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIRS
* Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
* Min Chen, University of British Columbia, Canada
* John Breslin, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

TPC CHAIR
* Lei Shu, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland

PUBLICITY CHAIRs
* Wen Ji, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
* Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA

Technical Program Committee
# Victor Leng, University of British Columbia, Canada
# Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
# Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA
# Naixue Xiong, Georgia State University, USA
# Liang Zhou, ENSTA, ParisTech, France
# Lei Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China
# William G. Scanlon, Queen's University, Belfast, UK
# Zhangbing Zhou, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Irleand
# Han-Chieh Chao, Ilan University, Taiwan
# Gearoid O Laighin, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
# Weiwei Fang, Beihang University, China
# Xiaolong Jin, University of Bradford, UK
# Tomoki Yoshihisa, Osaka University, Japan
# Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
# Tianji Li, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
# Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
# James Chang Wu Yu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
# Xiuzhen (Susan) Cheng, The George Washington University, USA
# Hung-Min Sun, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
# Yang Hao, Queen Mary University of London, UK
# Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada
# John Nelson, University of Limerick, Ireland
# Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
# Jinlei Jiang, Tsinghua University, China
# Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia
# Hui Chen, Virginia State University, USA
# Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, South Korea
# William Zhu, University of Auckland, New Zealand
# Choong Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
# Jinli Cao, La Trobe University, Australia
# Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
# Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China
# Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA
# Tai-hoon Kim, Hannam University, South Korea
# Senol Zafer Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey
# Pilipe Abrantes, Fraunhofer, Portugal
# Dermot Diamond, Dublin City University, Ireland
# Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
# Georgios Y. Lazarou, Mississippi State University, USA
# Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China
# Safwan Al-Omari, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
# Wenbing Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
# Xiaodong Lin, University of Ontario, Canada
# Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan
# Dennis Pfisterer, University of Lubeck, Germany
# Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
# Sana Ullah, Inha University, South Korea
# Paul Breen, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
# Mei Yu, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway/Tianjin University, China

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[Tccc] CFP: Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks 2010 (regular paper final call)

[We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message]

============================================================
Submission:
* Extended Submission Deadline:
Full Paper, November 1, 2009;
Poster Paper, November 7, 2009.

Registration:
* One registration for the UBSN 2010 with WICON 2010
package 'technical session + workshop' covers up to 2
papers for either the WICON 2010 technical session, or
the UBSN 2010 workshop, or 1 paper for the WICON 2010
session + one for the UBSN 2010 workshop.
============================================================

Call for Papers
============================================================
2010 International Workshop on Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks
(UBSN 2010)
http://sites.google.com/site/ubsn2010

In conjunction with
The 5th International Wireless Internet Conference
(WICON 2010)
http://www.wicon.org/
============================================================

Overview

Recently, there has been increased investigation into new types of wireless sensor
networks located on or around the human body, which are generally known as body
sensor networks (BSNs). Following continuous advances in wireless communication
technologies, there has been growing interest in the design, development and deployment
of BSN systems in applications for improving people's daily life, which has led to
an increased demand for interconnecting BSNs with other emerging wireless technologies,
such as RFID technology, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Zigbee, Bluetooth, WiBree,
video surveillance systems, WPAN, WLAN, the Internet, and cellular networks. With BSNs
being incorporated into these technologies, BSNs have become ubiquitous. As a result
of this, and due to an increased demand for advanced e-healthcare management systems
in recent years, the marketing opportunities for advanced consumer electronics and
related services have greatly increased. More and more autonomous and intelligent
applications which are closely integrated with a person's everyday life are being
generated. For example, by using BSNs to collect patient information, and by deploying
diverse wireless networking systems for enhanced diagnostic assistance and action
handling, better e-healthcare management systems can be designed for providing more
desirable services.

In this workshop, we solicit research papers (regular papers and posters) on hardware
for body sensors, system architectures, networking and communication protocols,
applications, testbeds and prototypes, biomedical sensor data processing and sensor
data management. In particular, we are interested in the following communication issues:

* Intra-BSN Communication: The term "intra-BSN communication" defines communications
directly related to the user (within radio coverage of about 2 meters), which consists
of two categories: (1) the communications amongst the body sensors, which are deployed
strategically on the human body, implanted inside the body, or attached within in the
person's clothing; (2) the communication between the body sensors and the portable
personal server, which typically can be a cell phone, PDA or headset.

* Inter-BSN communication: The term "inter-BSN communication" defines communications
between the personal server and one or more access points. The access point can be
deployed as a part of a home or work infrastructure, or strategically placed within
a dynamic environment for handling emergency situations. Inter-BSN communications
will interconnect BSNs with the wide range of networks which are easily accessible
in daily life.

* Beyond-BSN communication: Beyond-BSN communication is used to interconnect a BSN
with the outside world, which enhances the application possibilities and brings the
coverage / range of body sensor systems a step further via pervasive communication
technologies, such as the Internet and cellular networks.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together state-of-the-art research
contributions, tutorials, and position papers that address these key aspects of
Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks. Original papers describing completed and unpublished
work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference/workshop are
solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* New applications of ubiquitous body-sensor networks, e.g., healthcare and consumer
electronics applications
* Remote health/fitness monitoring in ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g., location
and mobility issues
* Ambulatory monitoring (activity monitoring, fall detection, cardiac and wellbeing
monitoring) and BSN assisted rehabilitation, bio-motion, wellbeing analysis and
clinical applications
* Emerging engineering issues and wearable, implantable/ingestible sensor integration
and development platforms, e.g., new operating systems, middleware, etc.
* Scalable and flexible network architectures and deployments for ubiquitous body
sensor networks
* Advanced body sensor devices, e.g., novel bioelectrical, biochemical, biophysical,
and mechanical sensors
* Networking and data transmission issues for ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Integrating emerging wireless technologies with ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Integration with ambient sensors for personalized smart spaces and applications
* Link to environment sensing, smart dwellings, and home monitoring
* Standards for light-weight communication protocols and integration with heterogeneous
networks
* Advanced algorithms for ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g., routing, data
processing, packet scheduling
* Power efficient issues, e.g., low power RF transceivers, energy scavenging,
miniaturization, system integration
* Signal processing, context awareness and multi-sensory fusion
* MAC Protocols and QoS Designing for Intra-BSN Communication
* Mobile and multimedia supported ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Server side body sensor networks information processing, data mining, transient pattern
recognition, and long-term, predictive trend analysis
* Sensor data management issues for ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g.,
publish-subscribe approach
* Query processing and optimization for ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Sensor data stream processing in ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Semantic Web technology enabled ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Adaptability and stability of ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Transactions and workflows in ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Information support, security, privacy, and fault tolerance issues for ubiquitous
body sensor networks

Important Dates:
* Extended Submission Deadline:

Full Paper, November 1, 2009;
Poster Paper, November 7, 2009.

* Acceptance Notice: November 15, 2009
* Final Manuscript: November 25, 2009
* Publication Date: March 1-3, 2010

Submission Instructions
Please submit your paper(s) in PDF format to:
* Min Chen, minchen@ece.ubc.ca
and
* Lei Shu, lei.shu@ieee.org

All submissions will be reviewed by the technical program committee and will be judged
by their technical merit and relevance to workshop.

For regular paper:
The page length limit is 9 pages in IEEE double column format pages (including figures,
tables, and references) with font size not smaller than 9 points.

For poster paper:
The posters may describe work in progress and offers an excellent opportunity for feedback
and discussions on early research. A maximum of TWO IEEE double column format pages
(including figures, tables, and references) with font size not smaller than 9 points.

Publication:
Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE/ACM (pending) International Conference Proceedings
Series and will be made available in IEEE/ACM (pending) Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI.

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in UBSN 2010, after further revisions, will be
published in a Special Issue of International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications
Systems (IJAACS).

Registration Rule:
UBSN 2010 with WICON 2010 have the following registration rules:

* One registration for the WICON 2010 technical session covers up to two papers for the
WICON 2010 technical session,
* One registration for the UBSN 2010 workshop covers up to 2 papers for the UBSN 2010 workshop, and
* One registration for the UBSN 2010 with WICON 2010 package 'technical session + workshop'
covers up to 2 papers for either the WICON 2010 technical session, or the UBSN 2010 workshop,
or 1 paper for the WICON 2010 session + one for the UBSN 2010 workshop.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIRS
* Thanos Vasilakos, University of Thessaly, Greece
* Min Chen, University of British Columbia, Canada
* John Breslin, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

TPC CHAIR
* Lei Shu, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland

PUBLICITY CHAIRs
* Wen Ji, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
* Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA

Technical Program Committee
# Victor Leng, University of British Columbia, Canada
# Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
# Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA
# Naixue Xiong, Georgia State University, USA
# Liang Zhou, ENSTA, ParisTech, France
# Lei Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China
# William G. Scanlon, Queen's University, Belfast, UK
# Zhangbing Zhou, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Irleand
# Han-Chieh Chao, Ilan University, Taiwan
# Gearoid O Laighin, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
# Weiwei Fang, Beihang University, China
# Xiaolong Jin, University of Bradford, UK
# Tomoki Yoshihisa, Osaka University, Japan
# Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
# Tianji Li, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
# Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
# James Chang Wu Yu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
# Xiuzhen (Susan) Cheng, The George Washington University, USA
# Hung-Min Sun, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
# Yang Hao, Queen Mary University of London, UK
# Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada
# John Nelson, University of Limerick, Ireland
# Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
# Jinlei Jiang, Tsinghua University, China
# Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia
# Hui Chen, Virginia State University, USA
# Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, South Korea
# William Zhu, University of Auckland, New Zealand
# Choong Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
# Jinli Cao, La Trobe University, Australia
# Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
# Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China
# Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA
# Tai-hoon Kim, Hannam University, South Korea
# Senol Zafer Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey
# Pilipe Abrantes, Fraunhofer, Portugal
# Dermot Diamond, Dublin City University, Ireland
# Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
# Georgios Y. Lazarou, Mississippi State University, USA
# Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China
# Safwan Al-Omari, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
# Wenbing Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
# Xiaodong Lin, University of Ontario, Canada
# Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan
# Dennis Pfisterer, University of Lubeck, Germany
# Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
# Sana Ullah, Inha University, South Korea
# Paul Breen, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
# Mei Yu, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway/Tianjin University, China

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[Tccc] CFP: AASNET 2010

The Third International Symposium on Applications of Ad hoc and Sensor
Networks (AASNET '10) is held in conjunction with the 24th IEEE

International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and
Applications (AINA 2010)

http://sites.google.com/site/aasnet10/

Wireless mobile ad hoc and sensor network nodes have limited battery
capacity. Hence, they tend to be energy conservative. Many MAC, routing

protocols, scheduling scheme were proposed to promote energy
conservation without degrading the performance of the network.
Nonetheless,

nowadays, many real-time applications have been proposed and developed
using ad hoc and sensor networks.

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for academic and
industry professionals to discuss recent progress and challenges in the
area of

real time applications in ad hoc and sensor networks. We encourage
contributions that describe innovative work and results on AASNET. The
topics

of interest include but are not limited to:

Energy-aware routing protocols

Energy-aware scheduling techniques

Energy-aware MAC protocols

Artificial intelligence applications in ad hoc and sensor networks

Sensor networks for oil and gas industry

Mobility tracking schemes in ad hoc networks

Voice over ad hoc networks

Multimedia over sensor networks

Machine leaning schemes for ad hoc and sensor networks

Intrusion detection systems in ad hoc and sensor networks

Telehealth monitoring system using ad hoc and sensor networks

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: 16 November 2009
Author Notification: 01 December 2009
Author Registration:15 January 2010
Final Manuscript Due: 15 January 2010

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PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
==========================
Submit a full paper of at most 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society
Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including
figures and

references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can confirm the
IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following
web

page: URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm

Papers of high quality will be invited to submit extended version of
their papers for publication in a special issue of an international
journal.

Workshop Organizers

Tarek Sheltami, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi
Arabia
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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[Tccc] PlanNet 2010 workshop in conjuction with IEEE WCNC 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS (PlanNet2010)

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Second International Workshop on Planning and Optimization of Wireless Communication Networks (PlanNet2010)
http://www.beds.ac.uk/research/irac/cwind/PlanNet2010

To be held in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2010, Sydney, Australia, 18 April, 2010
http://www.ieee-wcnc.org/2010/index.html
=======================================================================

-------------------------
Aim of the Workshop
-------------------------

The aim of the workshop is to bring together both the mobile communications industry (operators, telecom vendors, radio network planning and optimization consulting firms and tool producers) and academia to present and discuss the problems, challenges, directions, and state-of-art in the fields of future wireless communication networks deployment, planning and optimization. The workshop will try to build a bridge between the mobile communications industry and academic research so that future collaborations between two sectors can be identified. The goal of future wireless networks is to provide ubiquitous connections and support high data rate demand. The WiMAX, LTE, and LTE-Advanced standardizations have already processed toward this direction but still require significant improvements. Network planning and optimization faces many challenges arising from the use of new air interfaces and new technologies (e.g., MIMO, smart antennas, cooperative relay), the mix of voice, video and data traffic, the co-existence of different RATs (Radio Access Technologies), the growing importance of indoor coverage and the paradigm shifts (e.g., femtocells). The future wireless networks cannot operate efficiently, unless these challenges are properly addressed.

In this workshop, the advances of wireless communications that enable future wireless networks and challenges in network planning and optimization arising from the adoption of new technologies will be discussed. PlanNet seeks papers dealing with architectural issues, theoretical studies, new paradigms, enabling technologies, practical implementations, and policy issues for future wireless communications and network planning and optimization problems. Besides the technical insights, the workshop will provide a supportive environment for technical discussions between like-minded researchers and engineers.

Further details are listed on the website http://www.beds.ac.uk/research/irac/cwind/PlanNet2010.

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Topics of interests
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Topics of interest relating to network planning and optimization and future wireless communications are (but not limited to):

1. Network Planning and Optimization

- Automatic UMTS/HSPA/LTE/LTE-A/WiFi/WiMAX radio network planning and optimization methods
- New system simulation and performance evaluation methods
- Indoor/outdoor radio propagation models and scenarios
- The use of measurements in radio network planning and optimisation
- MIMO measurements scenarios
- Network performance study using MIMO and smart antennas
- Automatic configuration algorithms of femtocells
- Mobility management in femto/macrocell scenarios
- Interference analysis in femto/macrocell scenarios
- Indoor radio network planning and optimization (repeaters, DAS, picocells and femtocells) methods and tools
- Heterogeneous wireless networks (UMTS/HSPA/LTE/WiFi/WiMAX/DVB) planning and optimization
- CRRM/JRRM in heterogeneous wireless networks
- Radio resource management (RRM)
- Dynamic frequency allocation and spectrum sharing techniques
- Radio network planning and optimization reference scenarios
- UMTS/HSPA/WiMAX pre-launch and post-launch optimization
- Self-optimization and self-healing in LTE networks
- Cooperative relay in UMTS/HSPA/LTE and WiMAX networks
- Wireless mesh network planning and optimization methods and tools
- Transmission and core network dimensioning to account for HSPA and femtocell traffic
- Traffic modeling and real network traffic scenarios

2. Future Wireless Communication

- HSPA/HSPA+/LTE and LTE advanced
- WiMAX and Wireless MAN
- Relay and cooperative communications
- Heterogeneous wireless networks
- Femtocells
- MIMO and smart antennas
- Cognitive radios
- Wireless mesh networks

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Submission Guidelines
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PlanNet accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers in the area of future wireless communications and network planning and optimization. Submissions must include an abstract, five to ten keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 6 pages, including tables and figures (up to two extra pages at additional cost) in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font).

The proceedings of the workshops program will be included in the IEEE Digital Library with the WCNC2010 main conference.

Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submissions will be conducted electronically through EDAS:

http://edas.info/N8423.

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Important Dates
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Paper submission due: 30 Nov. 2009
Author notification: 15 Jan 2009
Camera-ready due: 31 January 2010

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Workshop General Chairs
=================

Prof. Jie Zhang, CWiND, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Prof. Jean-Marie Gorce, CITI, University of Lyon, INRIA, INSA-Lyon, France

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Workshop TPC Chairs
================

Prof. Lingyang Song, Peking University, China
Prof. Di Yuan, Linkoping University, Sweden

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Workshop Industry Chair
================

Hui Song, Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd., UK

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Workshop Publicity Chair
=================

Prof. Guillaume Villemaud, INSA-Lyon, France
Dr Guillaume de la Roche, CWiND, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Prof. Mugen Peng, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China
Prof. Liqiang Zhao, Xidian University, China

Best regards,

Jie

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Jie Zhang (PhD)
Professor of Wireless Communications & Networks
Director, Centre for Wireless Network Design (CWiND)
Dept. of Computer Science & Technology
University of Bedfordshire
Luton, LU1 3JU
UK
E: jie.zhang@beds.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1582 743288
W: www.beds.ac.uk/departments/computing/staff/jie-zhang
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[Tccc] Preliminary CfP: SIROCCO 2010 (17th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity)

*** Apologies for multiple copies ***
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Preliminary call for papers

SIROCCO 2010

17th International Colloquium on
Structural Information and Communication Complexity

June 7-11, 2010
Sirince, Turkey

http://www.sirocco2010.boun.edu.tr/
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Important dates
===============

Submission deadline: January 31, 2010 (5pm CET)
Author notification: March 21, 2010
Camera-ready submission: April 4, 2010
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Theme
=====

SIROCCO is devoted to the study of communication and knowledge in
multi-processor systems from both the qualitative and quantitative
viewpoints. Special emphasis is given to innovative approaches and
fundamental understanding, in addition to efforts to optimize current
designs.

Conference
==========

SIROCCO has a tradition of interesting and productive scientific
meetings in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, attracting leading
researchers in a variety of fields in which communication and
knowledge play a significant role. This year, SIROCCO is held in
Turkey, in the Nesin Mathematics Village, located in the midst of a
beautiful scenery, close to the sea and to the ancient city of
Ephesus.

Scope
=====

Original papers are solicited from all areas of study of local
structural knowledge and global communication and computational
complexities. Among the typical areas are distributed computing,
communication networks, game theory, parallel computing, social
networks, mobile computing (including autonomous robots), peer to peer
systems, and communication complexity. Keeping with the tradition of
SIROCCO, new areas are always welcome.

SIROCCO Award
=============

The Prize for Innovation In Distributed Computing is awarded annually
in the SIROCCO conference to recognize individuals whose research
contributions had a major impact on the understanding of the
relationships between information and efficiency in decentralized
computing. Only authors of papers that were published in SIROCCO are
eligible to receive the award. More details are available in the
SIROCCO 2010 web site.
______________________________________________________________________

Submission
==========

Papers are to be submitted electronically, following the guidelines
available on the conference web page. The deadline for submitting a
paper is *January 31, 5pm CET*. Notification of acceptance will be
sent out by March 21, and the camera-ready papers are due on April 4.

Publication
===========

The proceedings of SIROCCO 2010 will be published by Springer-Verlag
as a part of the LNCS series. Selected papers will be invited to a
special issue of the journal /Theoretical Computer Science/.
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Conference oragnization
=======================

Program Committee Chair
-----------------------
Boaz Patt-Shamir (Tel Aviv U.)

Program Committee
-----------------
Amotz Bar-Noy (CUNY)
Joffroy Beauquier (U. Paris-Sud, LRI)
Andrea Clementi (U. Roma)
Tinaz Ekim (Bogazici U.)
Robert Elsasser (U. Paderborn)
Pinar Heggernes (U. Bergen)
Elias Koutsoupias (U. Athens)
Alex Kesselman (Google)
Thomas Moscibroda (Microsoft)
Dariusz Kowalski (U. Liverpool)
Thomas Sauerwald (SFU & PIMS)
Maria Serna (U. Pol. Catalunya)
Peter Widmayer (ETH)

Steering Committee Chair
------------------------
Pierre Fraigniaud (CNRS & U. Paris Diderot)

Steering Committee
------------------
Pascal Felber (U. Neuchatel)
Paola Flocchini (U. Ottawa)
Lefteris Kirousis (U. Patras)
Rastislav Kralovic (Comenius U.)
Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton U.)
Danny Krizanc (Wesleyan U.)
Bernard Mans (Macquarie U.)
David Peleg (Weizmann)
Giuseppe Prencipe (Pisa U.)
Nicola Santoro (Carleton U.)
Alex Shvartsman (U. Connecticut)
Pavlos Spirakis (CTI & U. Patras)
Shmuel Zaks (Technion)
Janez Zerovnik (U. Maribor)

Local Arrangements
------------------
Tinaz Ekim (Bogazici U.)
Arman Boyaci (Bogazici U.)

Publicity Chair
---------------
David Ilcinkas (CNRS & U. Bordeaux)
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[Tccc] Deadline Extension: JSAC Issues on Internet Routing Scalability

The submission deadline has been extended to November 8th

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CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
INTERNET ROUTING SCALABILITY

The Internet routing infrastructure provides connectivity among millions
of computers around the globe. As the Internet went through a phenomenal
growth over the last three decades, its routing system has encountered
multitude of challenges brought forth by the unprecedented scale of the
system. In addition to the rapid growth in the number of customer
networks, there have been increasing trends of customer network
multihoming to facilitate load balancing and fail-over between multiple
providers, desiring provider-independent IP address assignments over
provider-allocated addresses to avoid internal renumbering when changing
providers, and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) deployment to support
business and enterprise users. Unfortunately, the rapid user growth
compounded with multihoming, provider-independent addressing, and VPN
provisioning has led to a fast growth of the global routing systems. At
the same time, Internet service providers (ISPs) face economical
constraints that may prevent them from prompt upgrade to the latest
technologies to meet the demands.

More recently, the Internet routing architecture also confronted two new
challenges: the imminent exhaustion of IPv4 address space and hence
foreseeable wide deployment of IPv6, and the emerging mobile access to
Internet from billions of hand-held devices. The latter further drives
the demands for IPv6 roll out, yet the sheer size of the IPv6 address
space presents a great scaling concern to the routing system, and the
impact of various global-scale mobility solutions on the routing system
remains to be fully understood. The ever increasing size of the global
routing system also directly impacts its security and management. It is
imperative to solve the routing scalability problems in order to enable
continued growth of the Internet while allowing ISPs to operate with
feasible upgrade intervals. This need has sparked a plethora of recent
research efforts, with proposed solutions ranging from
backwards-compatible, evolutionary techniques, to revolutionary
clean-slate approaches.

This special issue will focus on the latest research on Internet routing
scalability. Prospective authors are expected to submit original
unpublished contributions to further analyze the problem space, to
compare and evaluate existing solution proposals, or to present new
solutions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

- addressing schemes that facilitate scalable routing designs,
- scalable solutions to network multihoming, traffic engineering, and
VPN support
- impact of mobility on routing scalability
- routing threat analyses and security methods
- economical considerations
- analytical or comparative studies

All submissions must be prepared in accordance with the format described
at http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html, and be sent via email
to jsac-routing@lists.cs.ucla.edu according to the following timetable:

Manuscript submission: EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 8, 2009
Acceptance notification: February 15, 2010
Final Manuscript due: May 15, 2010
Publication: 3rd quarter, 2010

Guest Editors:
- Tim Griffin, University of Cambridge UK (Timothy.Griffin@cl.cam.ac.uk)
- Tony Li, Ericsson USA (tony.li@tony.li)
- Dan Massey, Colorado State University, USA (massey@cs.colostate.edu)
- Christian Vogt, Ericsson USA (christian.vogt@ericsson.com)
- Jia Wang, AT&T Labs, Inc. - Research, USA (jiawang@research.att.com)
- Lixia Zhang, University of California, USA (lixia@cs.ucla.edu)

http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Calls/internetroutingscalabilityCFP.pdf

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[Tccc] CFP: EvoCOMNET 2010, 7th European Workshop on Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunications Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems

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Call For Papers

*** EvoCOMNET 2010 ***

7th European Workshop on Nature-inspired Techniques for
Telecommunications Networks and
other Parallel and Distributed Systems

* Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2010 *

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Extended submission deadline: 11 November 2009
Notification of acceptance: 6 January 2010
Camera ready papers: 15 January 2010
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http://www.evostar.org/

-- Part of the EVOSTAR 2010 events: http://www.evostar.org --
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Many biological systems and processes are characterized by a
parallel and distributed architecture in which a large number of
autonomous and minimalist units synergistically generate
global-level behaviors through local interactions,
communications, and the adoption of relatively simple stochastic
action policies. The resulting global-level behaviors usually
show a number of properties essential for success in natural
environments such as: adaptivity to environmental variations,
robustness to internal changes and failures, and effectiveness
and scalability of performance.

Because of all these architectural and performance properties,
the observation and reverse-engineering of successful processes
in organic, inorganic, and animal systems in nature, has drawn in
recent years the attention of many researchers and engineers
working in the fields of parallel and distributed systems, and,
more in particular, in telecommunications networks. In these
domains, nature has provided basic inspiration for the definition
of a number of novel algorithms and computational frameworks able
to deal effectively with the challenges of current networked
systems, which show a growing structural and computational
complexity and are made of a large number of highly dynamic and
heterogeneous components.

The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum to present cutting
edge research on nature-inspired approaches to problems arising
in the design, control, protection, and management of network
systems, and to outline new trends in parallel nature-inspired
computation for the solution of complex problems.

EvoCOMNET is part of EVOSTAR (EVO*), Europe's premier co-located
events in the field of evolutionary and nature-inspired
computing. EVO* includes the EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoBIO
conferences and a number of workshops collectively entitled
EvoWorkshops. EVO* 2010 is the 12th edition of the event, details
and cfps can be found at: http://www.evostar.org

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SELECTED TOPICS OF INTEREST
---------------------------

EvoCOMNET 2010 solicits contributions dealing with the
application of ideas from natural processes and systems to the
definition, analysis, and development of novel parallel and
distributed algorithms, and to the solution of problems of
practical and theoretical interest in all domains related to
network systems. The scope of the workshop emphasizes the
contribution of nature-inspired approaches to the following
domains:

+ Network analysis and design

+ Routing protocols

+ Transport protocols

+ Network protection systems

+ Load balancing

+ Quality-of-service provisioning

+ Mobile ad hoc networks

+ Sensor networks

+ Network robotics and sensor-actor networks

+ Distributed search and computation in P2P networks

+ Parallel and distributed optimization algorithms

+ Grid computing

+ Distributed data mining

+ Tuning and application of hybrid approaches

Particularly welcome are papers reporting:

* Applications of nature-inspired techniques to novel
problems in the domain of telecommunications networks and
parallel and distributed systems

* Detailed comparative studies of nature-inspired solutions
versus more classical/established techniques

* Definition of innovative techniques and/or computational
frameworks based on biological systems or processes that
have not been considered so far in the literature of
nature-inspired systems

* Analytical studies of the behavior of the proposed systems

* Performance evaluation and visualization of parallel and
distributed systems inspired by nature

* Real-world implementations

* Studies based on real-world data sets

* Live demonstrations of algorithm behavior

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PUBLICATION DETAILS AND AWARDS
------------------------------

+ Conference Proceedings:
----------------------
Accepted papers will be published in a volume of the Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) together with papers
from other workshops of the EVO* conference.

+ Best Paper Award:
----------------
A Best Paper Award will be given to the author(s) of the paper
presented at the workshop that will receive the best evaluation
marks from the reviewers and the Session Chairs.

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SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
--------------------

Please refer to the http://www.evostar.org website for the
submission procedure. The maximum length for a paper is 10 PAGES
in LNCS format. Papers will be reviewed by at least three
reviewers according to a double blind peer process.

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WORKSHOP CHAIRS
---------------

+ Gianni A. Di Caro
IDSIA
Lugano, Switzerland
gianni AT idsia DOT ch

+ Muddassar Farooq
NUCES
Islamabad, Pakistan
muddassar DOT farooq AT udo DOT edu

+ Ernesto Tarantino
ICAR-CNR
Naples, Italy
ernesto DOT tarantino AT na DOT icar DOT cnr DOT it

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IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

* Submission deadline: 11 November 2009

* Notification of acceptance: 6 January 2010

* Camera ready papers: 15 January 2010

* Events: 7-9 April 2010

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WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Ozgur B. Akan (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Enrique Alba (University of Malaga, Spain)
Qing Anyong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Payman Arabshahi, (University of Washington, USA)
Mehmet E. Aydin (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
Iacopo Carreras, (CREATE-NET, Italy)
Arindam K. Das (University of Washington, USA)
Falko Dressler (University of Erlangen, Germany)
Frederick Ducatelle (IDSIA, Switzerland)
Luca Gambardella (IDSIA, Switzerland)
Jin-Kao Hao (University of Angers, France)
Malcolm I. Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Byrant Julstrom (St. Cloud State University, USA)
Graham Kendall (University of Nottingham, UK)
Kenji Leibnitz (Osaka University, Japan)
Manuel Lozano-Marquez (University of Granada, Spain)
Domenico Maisto (ICAR CNR, Italy)
Ronaldo Menezes (Florida Institute of Technology, USA)
Martin Middendorf (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Roberto Montemanni (IDSIA, Switzerland)
Chien-Chung Shen (University of Delaware, USA)
Tony White (Carleton University, Canada)
Lidia Yamamoto (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada)
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[Tccc] Femtocell workshop

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Workshop: Research and Industrial Perspectives on Femtocells
=======================================

Putteridge Bury Conference Centre, University of Bedfordshire, Luton,
UK, 9M-5PM, 19th November 2009.

Organizers: Dr. Guillaume de la Roche, Dr. Enjie Liu and Prof. Jie
Zhang

Contacts: guillaume.delaroche@beds.ac.uk; enjie.liu@beds.ac.uk

Registration fees: £50

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Industrial session
----------------------

9:30 Mahendi Mahendrarajah (Vodafone): "Mobile Broadband - Can
Femtos deliver?"
10:00 Jaroslav Holis (T-Mobile): "Femto Trials - Key Findings"
10:30 Hui Song (Ranplan): "An indoor radio planning tool to study
Femtocell deployment"

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Yuefeng Zhou (Huawei): Title to be confirmed
12:00 Olivier Marcé (Alcatel - Lucent): Title to be confirmed

12:30 Lunch

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Academic session
----------------------
14:00 Merouane Debbah (Supelec): "Game theoretic Approach for the
design of Femtocell Networks"
14:30 Tim O'Farrell (Swansea University): "Green Radio -
Sustainable Future Wireless Networks"
15:00 Xiaoli Chu (King's College London): Title to be
confirmed

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Harald Haas (University of Edinburgh): "Throughput Enhancement
through Femtocell Deployment".
16:30 David Lopez (University of Bedfordshire): "Sensing and
self-organising techniques for femtocells"

17:00 Closure

Best regards,

Jie

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[Tccc] Deadline Extension: IJCNDS – Special Issue on Network Virtualization: Concepts and Performance Aspects

DEADLINE EXTENSION: Nov. 6, 2009

Call for Papers:

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed
Systems (IJCNDS) – Special Issue on Network Virtualization – Concepts
and Performance Aspects

ISSN (Online): 1754-3924 - ISSN (Print): 1754-3916
Guest Editors: Prof. Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna, Austria;
Prof. Paul Müller, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany; Dr. Frédéric
Dang Tran, France Telecom, France.

URL of CfP: http://fc.cs.univie.ac.at/

Topic:

Network virtualization is the technology that allows the simultaneous
operation of multiple logical networks (also known as overlays) on a
single physical platform. Network virtualization permits distributed
participants to create almost instantly their own network with
application-specific naming, routing, and resource management
mechanisms such as server virtualization enables users to use even a
whole computing center arbitrarily as their own personal computer.
Recently, network virtualization received tremendous attention since
it is expected to be one of the major paradigms for the future
Internet as proposed by numerous international initiatives on future
networks, e.g. PlanetLab (USA, International), GENI (USA), AKARI
(JAPAN), OneLab2 (Europe) and G-Lab (Germany).

Network virtualization is a rather new technology with performance
aspects not yet eminent but expected to grow with its spreading
application, the scaling of this new type of virtual networks, and the
dynamics of invoking them. These new performance aspects may comprise
the quality of isolation, fairness among virtual systems, the location
transparency of virtual services, the quality of synthetic virtual
resources, and the scalability of the composition of virtual network
and service and of the management mechanisms for virtual network and
their communication patterns.
As a follow-up of the successful 20th ITC Specialist Seminar on
Network Virtualization (Hoi An, Vietnam, 20.-21. May 2009), the
objective of this special issue of the IJCNDS is to address
techniques, architectures, performance models, and performance
engineering methods leading to real world network virtualization
solutions that provide users with efficient techniques for creating
and operating their own high performance virtual network.

Topics of interest are amongst others, but not limited to:
- Performance issues of virtualization techniques on routers and end
hosts
o Isolation and fairness for the resource access among multiple
guest systems on a single host
o Performance issues of virtualized operating systems and server
virtualization
o Performance metrics for virtualized hosts or routers
o Measurement techniques, e.g. for the parallel throughput on a
single host
o Performance evaluation of virtualized packet switching technologies
o Middleware for virtualization
- Performance issues of bandwidth and resource virtualization techniques
o Media access mechanisms for network virtualization in wireline and
wireless environments
o Performance of Multiqueue Network Interfaces
o Fairness among overlays using the same transmission system
o Scheduling mechanisms for virtualized connections
o Models for resource contention between virtual networks
- Performance issues of overlays for future network architectures
o Performance of overlay composition
o Performance assessment of grid computing platforms
o Performance of content/data-oriented routing
o Stability, robustness and resilience of overlays, virtual networks
and self-organizing mechanisms
o Static and time-dependent topology/resource/user models for overlays
o Metrics for adaptation and dynamics in overlays
o Mechanisms, Capabilities and Accuracy of Network Coordinate
Systems (NCS)
o Traffic engineering for virtual networks
o QoS and Quality-of-Experience (QoE) in overlays
- Performance of virtualized transport mechanisms
o Performance of multi-source download
o Path selection, path splicing in overlays
o Engineering for path combination
- Performance of virtualized services and virtualized applications
o Traffic models of virtualized services and applications (e.g.
w.r.t. QoE)
o Performance of security mechanisms in virtualized network
environments
o Performance of virtualization technologies for Grid Computing and
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
o Performance of Virtual Storages
- Virtual Test Labs and Network Federation
o Capability and performance and of network emulation
o Performance of virtual network management mechanisms
o Performance and management of federation points / gateways /
interconnects
o Measurements in deploy virtualized networks

Submissions: Electronic submission of PDF files can be done using the
EasyChair system

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcndssinv2010

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline (NEW): 06.11.2009
Notification of Acceptance: 01.12.2009
Camera-ready Version: 15.12.2009
Publication: Early 2010
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Prof. Dr. Kurt Tutschku
Chair of Future Communication (Endowed by Telekom Austria)
Institute of Distributed and Multimedia Systems, Faculty of Computer
Science
University of Vienna, Universitaetsstrasse 10/T11, 1090 Wien, Austria.

Tel: +43/1/4277-39611 Mobile: +43/664/60277-39611

http://www.cs.univie.ac.at/fc

mailto:kurt.tutschku@univie.ac.at or mailto:kurttutschku@gmail.com

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[Tccc] CFP - IEEE Network Special Issue on Online Social Networks

The popularity and complexity of online social networks continues to grow triggering intense research interest in the analysis of the structure and properties of online communities. Today, online social network applications range from social communities and discussion groups, to recommendation engines, tagging systems, mobile social networks and virtual worlds.

This special issue solicits innovative contributions that describe completed, unpublished work covering various aspects of online social networks. In particular, the goal of this special issue is to share new research developments in the area, and assemble papers from a variety of disciplines that address the challenges and important questions posed by online social applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

* Implications of social networking on network and distributed systems design
* System design for social networks
* Measurement and analysis of online communities and social media
* Analytical frameworks for user interactions and behavior
* Management of trust and privacy: reputation, rating and reviews
* Mobile social networks
Important Dates

Abstract submission (optional): January 8, 2010 Full paper submission: January 15, 2010
Acceptance notification: May 1, 2010
Camera-ready: July 1, 2010
Publication date: September, 2010

Submission Instructions

Authors should submit their manuscript electronically in PDF format by email to the guest editors according to the above timetable. Authors are encouraged to register their papers by submitting the paper abstract, the paper title, authors and keywords by the corresponding deadline. Prospective authors must prepare their original submissions in accordance with the IEEE Network guidelines to authors, http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html. Articles should not exceed 4500 words, be tutorial in nature, and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. All submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance.

Guest editors

Dr. Thomas Karagiannis
Researcher
Microsoft Research
Cambridge, UK
thomkar@microsoft.com<mailto:thomkar@microsoft.com>

Dr. Michalis Faloutsos
Associate Professor
CS Department
UC Riverside, USA
michalis@cs.ucr.edu<mailto:michalis@cs.ucr.edu>

Dr. Sue B. Moon
Associate Professor
CS Department
KAIST, Korea
sbmoon@kaist.edu<mailto:sbmoon@kaist.edu>

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[Tccc] [CFPs] The Second International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking (MAN 2010) In conjunction with ICC 2010, Cape Town, South Africa

The Second International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking (MAN
2010)
In conjunction with ICC 2010,
Cape Town, South Africa

Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communication Society

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Second International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking (MAN)
provides a forum for discussion of recent developments, bringing together
researchers, scientists, engineers, academicians and students all around the
world to share the latest updates on new technologies and applications that
would shape the next generation of networks and systems related with
medicine and healthcare.

Communications and network technologies play an important role in medical
solutions and healthcare. New solutions continue to be developed to create
safer health care environments. The rapid growth of using such devices and
technologies in medical fields has created new opportunities and
applications. However, enormous challenges still remain to be resolved in
order to develop flexible, reliable, secure, and power-efficient networks
suitable for medical needs.

MAN 2010 will be held in conjunction with ICC 2010, Cape Town, South Africa.
The Workshop is soliciting papers describing original work, unpublished and
not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, on topics, including but
not limited to, the following:
• Body sensor networks
• Clinical Biofeedback
• Communications protocols and applications
• E-Health
• Health and healthcare applications
• Medical signal acquisition, analysis and processing
• Mobile applications
• Modeling, simulation, and performance evaluation
• Real-time Systems
• Security and privacy
• Situation-aware medical decision support systems
• Telemedicine
• Image and video processing
• Wearable sensors and systems
• Wireless sensor networks

Technically endorsed by IEEE Technical Sub-committee on e-Health, IEEE
Technical Committee on Communications Software, IEEE Technical Committee on
Communications, Systems Integration and Modeling, IEEE Technical Committee
on Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks, and technically co-sponsored by IEEE
Communications Society.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Perspective authors are invited to submit their papers using EDAS System
http://edas.info. A full paper should not have more than five (5) IEEE style
pages including results, figures and references. Papers will be reviewed
with the standard
reviewing procedure (with at least 3 independent anonymous reviews).
Accepted papers will be published on IEEExplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/).
The best accepted paper will receive the Best Paper Award and an extended
version will be consider for publication on the International Journal on
E-Health and Medical Communications (http://www.igi-global.com/IJEHMC).

Important dates
- Paper Submission: November 10, 2009
- Notification of acceptance: January 10, 2010

General Chair
Joel Rodrigues, Institute of Telecommunications/University of Beira
Interior, Portugal

TPC Chairs
Joel Rodrigues, Institute of Telecommunications/University of Beira
Interior, Portugal
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Tsong-Ho Wu, Telcordia Technologies, USA

Publicity Chairs
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University, USA

Web Chair
Vasco Soares, Institute of Telecommunications/Univ. of Beira Interior/IPCB,
Portugal

Technical Program Committee
. Abdelhamid Mellouk (University of Paris XII, France)
. Andriyan Bayu Suksmono (Bangdong Institute of Technology, Indonesia)
. António Nogueira (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
. Artur Serrano (Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine, Norway)
. Asif Zafar Malik (Telemedicine & Ehealth training Center, Pakistan)
. Binod Vaidya (Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal)
. Eric Addeo (DeVry University, USA)
. Farid Farahmand (Sonoma State University, USA)
. Heng-Shuen Chen (Taipei National Hospital, Taiwan)
. Heung-Kook Choi (Inje University, Busan, Korea)
. Isao Nakajima (Tokai University, Japan)
. Joel Rodrigues (IT, University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
. Jorge Sá Silva (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
. Liang Zhou (ENSTA-ParisTech, France)
. Mieso Denko (University of Guelph, Canada)
. Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
. Noureddine Boudriga (School of Communication Engineering, Tunisia)
. Pascal Lorenz (University of Haute Alsace, France)
. Paulo Salvador (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
. Pradeep Ray (APuHC; Univ. Of South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
. Saroj Mishra (Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences,
India)
. Rui Valadas (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)
. Russell Hsing (Telcordia Technologies, USA)
. Serban Obreja (Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania)
. Tsong-Ho Wu (Telcordia Technologies, USA)

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[Tccc] PerSeNS 2010 NEW DEADLINE

                            CALL FOR PAPERS

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The Sixth IEEE PerCom International Workshop on
Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS 2010)

http://www2.ing.unipi.it/persens

in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2010 (http://www.percom.org/)
March 29-April 2, 2010 Mannheim, Germany

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                               Sponsored by

                       IEEE, IEEE Computer Society

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Wireless sensor networks collect sensing measurements or detect
special events, perform node-level processing, and export the combined
data from their sensing nodes to the outside world.
Sensing, processing and communication are three key elements whose
combination in one small device is instrumental to pervasive computing
and gives rise to countless applications.

This workshop will provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss
solutions, and share experiences among researchers and professionals
from industry and academia.

Papers describing original research on both theoretical and practical
aspects of sensor networks for pervasive computing are solicited.
We particularly welcome submissions that present implementation and
deployment results. Particular topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

- Sensor-based systems and applications
- Operating systems for Sensor Networks
- Middleware and software tools
- Networking architectures and protocols
- Data gathering, aggregation and dissemination
- Topology control
- Power Management and energy-efficient design
- Time synchronization
- Location management
- Sensor networks with mobile elements
- Cross-layer architectures
- Intelligent sensor nodes
- Security and dependability issues
- Modeling and performance evaluation
- Measurements

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers should contain original material and not be previously
published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.
Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference
format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society
author guidelines . The link for the templates can be found at:
http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

All submissions will be handled via EDAS. Accepted papers will be
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined PerCom
2010 Workshops Proceedings and will appear on IEEE Xplore. At least
one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the
workshop to present the paper. There is no workshop-only registration.
An oral presentation at the workshop is strictly required. Failure to
present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the
paper from the Proceedings as well as from IEEE Xplore.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): November 2, 2009
Notification of acceptance: December 21, 2009
Camera-ready papers due: January 29, 2010

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy
Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI),
Switzerland

PROGRAM CHAIR

Daniele Puccinelli, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland
(SUPSI), Switzerland

PUBLICITY CHAIR

Alessio Vecchio, University of Pisa, Italy

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Alan Bertossi, University of Bologna, Italy
Edoardo Biagioni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Ladislau Boloni, University of Central Florida, USA
Eleonora Borgia, Institute of Informatics and Telematics - National
Research Council, Italy
Raffaele Bruno, Institute of Informatics and Telematics - National
Research Council, Italy
Levente Buttyan, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Tiziana Calamoneri, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Geoffrey Werner Challen, Harvard University, USA
Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Diane J. Cook, Washington State University, USA
Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Mario Di Francesco, University of Pisa, Italy
Tassos Dimitriou, Athens Information Technology, Greece
Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA
Isabelle Guerin Lassous, INRIA, France
Omprakash Gnawali, Stanford University, USA
Martin Haenggi, University of Notre Dame, USA
Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Vlado Handziski, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Karl Holger, University of Paderborn, Germany
Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Giuseppe Lo Re, University of Palermo, Italy
Sanglu Lu, Nanjing University, China
Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa, Italy
Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK
Marcello Mura, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Fredrik Osterlind, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Andrea Passarella, Institute of Informatics and Telematics - National
Research Council, Italy
Cristina Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy
Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Alex Rogers, University of Southampton, UK
Antonio Ruzzelli, University College Dublin, Ireland
Maria Giovanna Sami, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Rahul Shah, Intel Corporation, USA
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA
Alessio Vecchio, University of Pisa, Italy
Kuang-Ching (KC) Wang, Clemson University, USA
Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland, USA

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[Tccc] HPSR 2010 Call for Papers (deadlines: Jan. 8, 2010 [abstract]; Jan. 15, 2010 [full paper])

Dear all,
the 11th IEEE HPSR 2010 conference is accepting paper submissions.
Please find more details at:

http://opnear.utdallas.edu/activ/hpsr2010/index.html

Best regards,
Luca Valcarenghi.

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Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Centre of Excellence for Information, Communication
and Perception Engineering (CEIICP)
via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa (PI), Italy
ph.: +39-0505492138
fax: +39-0505492194
web: www.ircphonet.it
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[Tccc] Open PhD position: Activity and context inference for adaptive lighting in healthcare at TU Eindhoven

A PhD position is available on "Activity and context inference for adaptive lighting
in healthcare" at Signal Processing Systems, TU Eindhoven, NL.

Project description:
Both artificial and natural light surrounds us every day. It cues day-night rhythms,
moods, attention, and could communicate information such as for home care patients.
These properties are particularly enhanced through novel solid-state lighting
technologies (LED and OLED) in combination with adaptive control functions. Thus, new
enriching environments could be enabled by actuating these lighting functions in
smart ways. Activity and context information on the environment and its occupants,
gathered by a distributed modular architecture of sensing and processing elements can
enable this functionality. In this project applications of adaptive lighting are
sought in patient care with regard to coaching daily rhythms, and in an educational
setting, regarding attention and interaction.

The goal of this PhD project is to create conceptual frameworks and practical
demonstrations of activity and context-aware functions in adaptive lighting
environments. In particular, the candidate's work will focus on developing novel
modular and adaptive activity and context recognition techniques that can be used to
control lighting functions based on information obtained from ambient and on-body
multimodal sensors. An important aspect will be the dynamic self-adaptive operation.
The candidate's work will span electronic systems, pilot studies, signal processing,
and pattern recognition fields, with a focus on the latter.

This PhD project is embedded in a joint endeavour involving in total 3 PhD students
from the departments industrial design, computer science, and electrical engineering
at TU Eindhoven. Thus this project will provide unique opportunities to become
acquainted and inspired by related fields in distributed system architectures,
wireless sensor networks, human-computer interaction, and design. Besides
demonstrated talents and experience, teamwork in this multidisciplinary group is a
primary concern for the candidate selection process.

For further information please contact Oliver Amft, amft@tue.nl. Applications
including a full CV and a letter of interests should be submitted to the same
address. The position will be filled as soon as possible.

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Oliver Amft, PhD Phone: +31 40 24-7 5261
Assistant Professor Fax: +31 40 24-6 6508
Signal Processing Systems Mobile: +31 63 159 58 21

http://www.sps.ele.tue.nl/members/O.Amft email: amft@tue.nl

TU Eindhoven (TU/e), Location: Den Dolch 2, PT 3.23
Mail: P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
ETH Zurich, Location: ETZ H60.1
Mail: Gloriastrasse 35, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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[Tccc] IEEE Vehi-Mobi 2010: submission open & deadline extension

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Vehicular Networks & Applications Workshop (IEEE Vehi-Mobi 2010)

Co-located with IEEE International Conference on Communications
(ICC 2010)

23-27 May 2010, Cape Town, South Africa

Web page: http://www.grc.upv.es/vehimobi2010/

IMPORTANT DATES
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Extended Paper Submission Deadline:
November 10, 2009

Notification of Acceptance:
January 10, 2010

Camera-Ready Submissions:
February 10, 2010

Workshop celebration date:
To Be Defined

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Papers submitted to IEEE ICC 2010 workshops with publication
must undergo a peer-review process, and accepted papers will be
published in IEEE Xplore.

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AIMS AND SCOPE

Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) has been growing rapidly in
importance in the past few years. Even despite the global economic
downturn that has hit the car industry hard, research continues in this
area, as new technical challenges have evolved that demand research and
development. Industry players like the automobile companies, and
government agencies, like the US Department of Transportation, are
investing heavily in research and development in VII. Technologies and
applications for VII are rapidly emerging, and there is an critical need
to bring together researchers & engineers, academia and industry,
standards, private and public sectors, to exchange ideas.

This workshop is intended to serve as a forum and bring together the
researchers and engineers in both academia and industry to exchange
ideas, share experiences, and report original work about all aspects of
vehicular communications, VANETs, information dissemination, road
safety, ITS, emergency services, etc.. The main purpose is to promote
discussions of research and relevant activities in the design of
architectures, algorithms, and applications for inter-vehicular
communication environments. This workshop will also address some leading
standardization efforts (802.11p, p1609, TIA TR48, etc.). Work in
progress is also welcome.

Key industrial players (GM, Toyota, Telcordia, BMW, etc.) will be
represented at this workshop.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Please, submit your papers through EDAS.
Papers should be written in English with a standard length of five (5)
printed pages (10-point font) including figures, without incurring
additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with extra charge if
accepted). You may use the standard IEEE Transactions templates for
Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at
http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html.
Alternatively you can follow the sample instructions in template.pdf at
http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2008/template.pdf. Only PDF files
are accepted for paper review. You submitted PDF file and registered
EDAS account of a paper must list the same author(s), title and abstract
(minor wording differences in the abstract are ok). Papers where the PDF
and EDAS account do not match the author(s), title, and/or abstract will
be withdrawn by the Technical Program Co-Chairs or Symposium Co-Chairs.

TOPICS

Technical research papers are solicited in the following areas:

- Network technologies for VII
- New application scenarios of VII
- Supporting technology for: Traffic and flow control issues and
applications
- Supporting technology for: Enhanced braking information
dissemination and other road safety applications
- Supporting technology for: driver assistance applications
- MAC, routing, QoS, addressing, multicast, TCP protocols
- Congestion Control and Cooperative VANETs
- Mobility and handoff issues
- Sensors & Data Collection
- Content Distribution
- Inter-car communications
- Intra-car communications
- Info Dissemination; Data organization
- Security issues, architectures and solutions
- Privacy issues and solutions
- Data replication protocols in network partitions
- Different technologies (DSRC, WiMAX, WiFi, 3G/4G, cell phone)
- Application innovation
- 802.11p WAVE ; 802.11s MESH; DSRC
- Implementation/deployment status
- Network Management for VII

EXECUTIVE COMMITEE
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General Chairs
- Dr. Russell Hsing, Telcordia Technologies, USA
- Prof. C.K. Toh, University of Hong Kong, CHINA

General Vice Chairs
- Dr. Daniel Wong, Daniel Wireless LLC, USA
- Prof. Pietro Manzoni, Universidad Politecnica De Valencia, SPAIN

TPC Chair
- Prof. Teruo Higashino Osaka University, Japan

TPC Vice Chairs
- Dr. Timo Sukuvaara, Finland
- Prof. Michele Weigle, Old Dominion Univ, USA
- Prof. Juan-Carlos Cano, Universidad Politecnica De Valencia, SPAIN

Publications Chair
- Prof. Lingyang Song, Peking University, China

Publicity Chair
- Prof Carlos Calafate, Universidad Politecnica De Valencia, SPAIN

Steering Committee
- Dr. Russell Hsing, Telcordia Technologies, USA
- Prof. C.K. Toh, University of Hong Kong, CHINA
- Dr. Daniel Wong, Daniel Wireless LLC, USA
- Prof. D K Kim, Kyungpook National University, KOREA

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Carlos Calafate, PhD
Vehi-Mobi 2010 Publicity Chair
Computer Networks Group (GRC)
Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Voice: +34 96 387 7007 ext. 75727
Fax: +34 96 387 7579
E-mail: calafate@disca.upv.es

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[Tccc] CFP: AASNET2010

The Third International Symposium on Applications of Ad hoc and Sensor
Networks (AASNET '10) is held in conjunction with the 24th IEEE
International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and
Applications (AINA 2010) to be held in Perth, Western Australia, 20-23
April 2010.

Wireless mobile ad hoc and sensor network nodes have limited battery
capacity. Hence, they tend to be energy conservative. Many MAC, routing
protocols, scheduling scheme were proposed to promote energy
conservation without degrading the performance of the network.
Nonetheless, nowadays, many real-time applications have been proposed
and developed using ad hoc and sensor networks.

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for academic and
industry professionals to discuss recent progress and challenges in the
area of real time applications in ad hoc and sensor networks. We
encourage contributions that describe innovative work and results on
AASNET. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Energy-aware routing protocols

Energy-aware scheduling techniques

Energy-aware MAC protocols

Artificial intelligence applications in ad hoc and sensor networks

Sensor networks for oil and gas industry

Mobility tracking schemes in ad hoc networks

Voice over ad hoc networks

Multimedia over sensor networks

Machine leaning schemes for ad hoc and sensor networks

Intrusion detection systems in ad hoc and sensor networks

Telehealth monitoring system using ad hoc and sensor networks

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: 16 November 2009
Author Notification: 01 December 2009
Author Registration:15 January 2010
Final Manuscript Due: 15 January 2010

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PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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Submit a full paper of at most 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society
Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including
figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can
confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the
following web page: URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm

Papers of high quality will be invited to submit extended version of
their papers for publication in a special issue of an international
journal.

Workshop Organizers

Tarek Sheltami, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi
Arabia
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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[Tccc] [CFPs] The First International Workshop on Networking and Games (N&G 2010) In conjunction with AINA-2010, Perth, Australia, 20-23 April 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

The First International Workshop on Networking and Games (N&G 2010)
In conjunction with AINA-2010,
Perth, Australia, 20-23 April 2010

The International Workshop on Networking and Games (N&G) provides a forum
for discussion of recent developments, bringing together researchers,
scientists, engineers, academicians and students all around the world to
share the latest updates on new technologies and applications that would
shape the next generation of networks and systems related with online games.
Online games, also called network games, pose a number of new challenges to
communications and network technologies. Computer games are seen as the
driving force behind the new generation of high-end GPU-based personal
computers that produce stunning graphics and deliver massive general-purpose
computations.
The focus of this workshop is on the impact of online games upon network
architectures, quality of service, networking architectures and topologies,
and their adequacy to particular games N&G 2010 will be held in conjunction
with AINA-2010, Perth, Australia.

The Workshop is soliciting papers describing original work, unpublished and
not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, on topics, including but
not limited to, the following:
• Traffic Analysis & Modeling
• Security Issues / Anti-Cheating
• Computer-Human Interaction / User Behavior Analysis
• Quality of Service
• Scalability
• Network Protocols
• Decentralized / Peer to Peer / Overlay Networks
• System Design / Architecture
• Game Design Experience
• Sensor Networks for Games
• Grid and Cloud Computing for Games
• Mobile Games
• Online Serious Games
• Online Educational Games
• Massively Multiplayer Online Games
• GPUs and Networks for Games

PAPER SUBMISSION

Perspective authors are invited to submit their papers using EasyChair
System (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ng2010). A full paper
should not have more than six (6) IEEE style pages including results,
figures and references. Papers will be reviewed with the standard reviewing
procedure (with at least 3 independent anonymous reviews). Accepted papers
will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available on
IEEExplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/). The best accepted paper will
receive the Best Paper Award.

Important dates
- Paper Submission (Deadline extended): 1 November, 2009
- Notification of acceptance: 20 December, 2009
- Submission of camera-ready papers: 15 January, 2010

General Chair
Joel Rodrigues, Institute of Telecommunications/University of Beira
Interior, Portugal

TPC Chairs
Joel Rodrigues, Institute of Telecommunications/University of Beira
Interior, Portugal
Abel Gomes, Institute of Telecommunications/University of Beira Interior,
Portugal
Binod Vaidya, Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France

Publicity Chairs
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University, USA

Panel Chair
Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Web Chair
Vasco Soares
Institute of Telecommunications/University of Beira Interior/IPCB, Portugal

Technical Program Committee
. Abdelhamid Mellouk (University of Paris XII, France)
. Abel Gomes (IT, University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
. António Nogueira (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
. Binod Vaidya (Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal)
. Edmond Prakash (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
. Eric Addeo (DeVry University, USA)
. Farid Farahmand (Sonoma State University, USA)
. Frutuoso Silva (IT, University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
. Joel Rodrigues (IT, University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
. Jorge Sá Silva (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
. Jukka-Pekka Laulajainen (VTT Tech. Research Centre of Finland)
. Kevin Wong (Murdoch University, Australia)
. Liang Zhou (ENSTA-ParisTech, France)
. Mario Proença jr. (State University of Londrina, Brazil)
. Mieso Denko (University of Guelph, Canada)
. Mike Preuss (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)
. Noureddine Boudriga (School of Communication Engineering, Tunisia)
. Pascal Lorenz (University of Haute Alsace, France)
. Paulo Salvador (University of Aveiro, Portugal)

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