From buyurman at metu.edu.tr Mon Jan 12 13:54:00 2004 From: buyurman at metu.edu.tr (Buyurman Baykal) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:54:00 +0200 Subject: MedHocNet'04 Message-ID: <052d01c3d90c$b7792270$a6a77a90@kerpeten> Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Med-Hoc-Net 2004 ================ The Third Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop June 27-30, 2004, Bodrum, Turkey http://www.medhoc04.diit.unict.it/ Call for Papers --------------- Ad hoc network applications are emerging continuously imposing their own stringent constraints which cannot be fulfilled by generic approaches and thus spur new research efforts. The aim of Med-Hoc-Net 2004 is to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry from all over the globe to share their ideas, views, results, and experiences in the field of ad-hoc networking and communications. Med-Hoc-Net 2004 will include presentations of theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative ad-hoc systems, prototyping efforts, case studies, and advancements in technology directly affecting ad-hoc networking and communications infrastructures. After Sardinia (Italy) and Mahdia (Tunisia), this year the workshop will take place in another beautiful spot on the Mediterranean Sea: Bodrum (Turkey) where you will find wonderful nature and amazing historical sites close to hand. Bodrum is easy to reach via frequent flight connections from Istanbul. Topics of Interest: ------------------- The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2004 cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Novel ad-hoc network architectures and applications, - Sensor network applications and protocols, - Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes, - Interfacing ad-hoc systems with different networks, - Resource discovery and management, - Power management and control, - Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc networks, - Multimedia location services, - Self organization and network reconfiguration, - Protocols for QoS support in ad-hoc networks, - QoS support in Bluetooth, HomeRF, HIPERLAN, IEEE 802.11 etc., - MAC protocols, scheduling, and radio resource sharing in ad hoc networks, - Unicast and multicast routing algorithms and protocols, - Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks, - Congestion control, - Performance evaluation of ad-hoc network protocols through simulations, analysis, and measurements, - Security in ad-hoc networks, - Fault tolerance and error recovery - Signal processing algorithms (coding, compression) for ad-hoc networks The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. PAPERS OF PARTICULAR MERIT WILL BE PUBLISHED IN AD HOC NETWORKS (ELSEVIER) JOURNAL. Submission and Important Dates: ------------------------------- Manuscripts must be formatted according to the IEEE double-column standard format, except the font size, which must be 11pt. Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e., Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica, or their equivalent. The maximum length of the manuscript is 12 pages. Papers should be submitted in pdf or ps format via email to medhoc04 at diit.unict.it according to the following timetable: Full Paper Electronic Submission: March 2, 2004 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 3, 2004 Camera ready submission of full papers: May 17, 2004 Tutorial date: June 27, 2004 Conference dates: June 28-30, 2004 Keynote Speakers: ----------------- Leonard Kleinrock (UCLA, USA), and Imrich Chlamtac (UTDallas, USA). Steering Committee: ------------------- Khaldoun Al Agha (LRI, France), Mario Gerla (UCLA, USA), Farouk Kamoun (ENSI, Tunisia), Giovanni Pau (UCLA, USA), and Guy Pujolle (LIP6, France). Organization Committee: ----------------------- General Chair: Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA General Vice Chair: Erdal Cayirci, Istanbul Technical University, TURKEY Technical Program Chairs: Giacomo Morabito, University of Catania, ITALY Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Tutorial Chairs: Francesca Cuomo, University of Rome - La Sapienza, ITALY Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, GREECE Publicity Chairs: Buyurman Baykal, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira, Drexel University, USA Registration Chair: Sebnem Baydere, Yeditepe University, TURKEY Technical Program Committee: ---------------------------- Khaldoun Al Agha, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, FRANCE Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, UK Eitan Altman, INRIA, FRANCE Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, ITALY Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, CANADA Walid Dabbous, INRIA, FRANCE Magda El Zarki, University of California at Irvine, USA Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Paul J. M. Havinga, University of Twente, NETHERLANDS Farouk Kamoun, ENSI, TUNISIA Holger Karl, Technical University of Berlin, GERMANY Ulf Korner, Lund Institute of Technology, SWEDEN Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona, USA Albert Levi, Sabanci University, TURKEY Janise McNair, University of Florida, USA Lazaros Merakos, University of Athens, GREECE Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, CANADA Ariel Orda, Technion, ISRAEL Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, ITALY Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", ITALY Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, CYPRUS Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRANCE Paolo Santi, CNR, ITALY Adrian Segall, Technion, ISRAEL Ness Shroff, Purdue University, USA Moshe Sidi, Technion, ISRAEL Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, GREECE Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CANADA Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Leandros Tassiulas, University of Thessaly, GREECE Bernhard H. Walke, Aachen University of Technology, GERMANY Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Michele Zorzi, University of Ferrara, ITALY -------------------------------------------------- For more information on the workshop, please check http://www.medhoc04.diit.unict.it/ From basagni at ECE.NEU.EDU Mon Jan 12 23:48:34 2004 From: basagni at ECE.NEU.EDU (Stefano Basagni) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:48:34 -0500 (EST) Subject: MobiQuitous 2004, Call for Papers (New deadlines!) Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, please, find below the Call for Papers for MobiQuitous 04. Notice that the paper submission deadline has been postponed to February 13 (with paper registration due on February 6). We *TRULY* apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers. *********************************************************************** PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS MobiQuitous 2004 http://www.mobiquitous.org The First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services August 22-25, 2004 Boston, Massachusetts, USA (ACM sponsorship pending) *********************************************************************** The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm with the goal to provide computing and communication services all the time, everywhere, transparently and invisibly to the user, using devices embedded in the surrounding physical environment. In this context, the communication devices, the objects with which they interact, or both may be mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, and discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services. The first ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: networking and services (Mobiquitous 04) will cover all these aspects, representing a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from the many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions design and deployment will be able to interact exchanging the cross-layer experiences needed to build the overall ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include: applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, knowledge management and databases. PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. The conference is interested in contributions addressing all the areas associated with mobile and ubiquitous architectures, infrastructure and services. Technical works clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working solution are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following feature topics: * Ubiquitous architectures and systems * Wearable computing and personal area network * Wireless technologies for mobile and ubiquitous communications (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi) * Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems * Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless network * Service discovery mechanisms, knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms * Wireless/mobile service management and delivery * Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems * Peer-to-peer knowledge management * Emerging industrial/business scenarios * Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile) * Smart spaces * Ad hoc and sensor networking * Localization and tracking * Context and location aware application * Multimedia encoding and transcoding * Middleware services * Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems * Hardware and software platforms for ubiquitous systems, and testbeds * User interfaces * Toolkits, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing * Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) or postscript version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 8 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks journal. TUTORIALS: Proposals for tutorials are solicited. Evaluation of tutorial proposals will be based on the expertise and experience of the instructors, and on the relevance of the subject matter. Potential instructors are requested to submit a tutorial proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch, to the Tutorial Chair by March 1, 2004. DEMOS: Proposals for research and industrial demos are solicited. A maximum of 3 pages should be submitted which include a description of the demo and needed equipment. Proposals should be submitted to the Demo Chair by March 1, 2004 (responses will be given by April 30, 2004). *********************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES *********************************************************************** Paper registration deadline: FEBRUARY 6 2004, 11:59pm PST Paper submission deadline: FEBRUARY 13 2004, 11:59pm PST Notification of acceptance: APRIL 30 2004 Camera-ready version due: MAY 15 2004 ********************************************************************** Papers submitted to MobiQuitous 2004 must be registered with EDAS by 11:59pm, PST, February 6, 2004. The deadline for submitting a registered paper is 11:59pm, PST, February 13, 2004. *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * General Co-Chairs Imrich Chlamtac University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A. chlamtac at utdallas.edu Fausto Giunchiglia Universita` di Trento, Italy fausto at dit.unitn.it * General Vice Co-Chairs Michele Zorzi Universita` di Padova, Italy zorzi at dei.unipd.it Valentina Tamma University of Liverpool, U.K. valli at csc.liv.ac.uk * Program Co-Chairs * NETWORKING Tom La Porta Penn State University, U.S.A. tlp at cse.psu.edu Chiara Petrioli Universita` di Roma "La Sapienza," Italy petrioli at dsi.uniroma1.it * SERVICES Tim Finin Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, U.S.A. finin at cs.umbc.edu Chiara Ghidini ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy ghidini at itc.it * Tutorial Chair Mani Srivastava Univ. of California Los Angeles, U.S.A. mbs at ucla.edu * Publicity Co-Chairs Stefano Basagni Northeastern University, U.S.A. Ilya Zaihrayeu Universita` di Trento, Italy * Registration Chair Robin Kravets Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. * Demo Chair Yannis Labrou Fujitsu Labs of America, U.S.A. yannis at fla.fujitsu.com * Local Arrangements Chair Prithwish Basu BBN Technologies, U.S.A. * Publication Chair Roger Whitaker Cardiff University, U.K. From ew2004 at ac.upc.es Tue Jan 13 15:41:28 2004 From: ew2004 at ac.upc.es (Conferencia ew2004) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:41:28 +0100 Subject: EW2004 Call For Participation Message-ID: <20040113144128.GA6873@ac.upc.es> Dear Colleague, Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail. You are cordially invited to attend The 5th European Wireless Conference (EW2004) Mobile and Wireless Systems beyond 3G to be held in Barcelona, Spain in February 24-27, 2004. All the details about the conference can be found at: http://www.ac.upc.es/EW2004 (look at links: "Conference Program", "Tutorials" and "Conference and tutorial Registration") Looking forward to see you in Barcelona, EW2004 organizing committee.