From sven.crone at neural-forecasting.com Thu Mar 1 03:28:36 2007 From: sven.crone at neural-forecasting.com (NN3 Forecasting Competition) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 03:28:36 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] ISF'07 New York City - Last reminder Message-ID: <20070301.BRYVGXWVAUUGKNGM@neural-forecasting.com> ************************************** ISF'07 Forecasting Competition NN3 ************************************** You have ONLY 2 DAYS left to submit your ABSTRACT to the Forecasting Competition NN3 session at the ISF'07 conference! Deadlines - submission ONLY OF ABSTRACT until 02 March 2007 - Full predictions not due until 14 May 2007! ******************************** Conference ******************************** The 27th International Symposium on Forecasting, 24-27 June 2007 Marriott Marquis, Times Square, New York City, USA. The ISF is the premier conference for academics and professionals in forecasting. KEY SPEAKERS include Nobel Price laureate Robert Engle, Charles Manski, M. Hashem Pesaran, Kevin Trenberth, J. Scott Armstrong, Robert Fildes, Paul Goodwin, David Hendry, Stephen Penman, Herman Stekler, Allan Timmermann, Victor Zarnowitz and Arnold Zellner. ******************************** NN3 Objectives & Methods ******************************** Forecast 11 or 111 time series as accurately as possible, using methods from computational intelligence and a consistent methodology. We hope to evaluate progress in modelling neural networks for forecasting & to disseminate knowledge on ?best practices?. The competition is for academic purposes and supported by a grant from SAS & the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF). The prediction competition is open to all methods of computational intelligence, incl. feed-forward and recurrent neural networks, fuzzy predictors, decision & regression tress, support vector regression, hybrid approaches etc. used in financial forecasting, statistical prediction, time series analysis Your NN3 opportunities: conference presentation, invitation to journal & book publications, awards! ******************************** Publication of Results ******************************** The abstract submitted to the ISF'07 will be presented at a dedicated workshop of the main conference. All accepted ISF'07 submissions will be - considered for a special issue of the International Journal of Forecasting (IJF, Elsevier) on "Neural Networks for Forecasting" (ISI SCI, DBLP, EBSCO, ScienceDirect etc. indexed). - invited for submission of extended versions in an edited book ?Advances in Forecasting wit Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence?, Springer (ISI SCI, DBLP etc. indexed), (pending) ******************************** ISF'07 Dates & deadlines ******************************** 02 March 2007 Abstract submission to ISF'07 website --> Select Neural Networks 14 May 2007 Submission of final prediction values due 24-27 June 2007 ISF'07 Competition Workshop 15 October 2007 Submissions to full publications Please visit the NN3 website at http://www.neural-forecasting-competition.com/ for further instructions. GOOD LUCK! Sven F. Crone & Konstantinos Nikolopoulos _____________________________________________________ Sven F. Crone Deputy Director, Lancaster Centre for Forecasting Lecturer (Ass. Prof.), Department of Management Science Lancaster University Management School Lancaster LA1 4YX United Kingdom Internet http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk eMail s.crone at lancaster.ac.uk _______________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20070301/0a4bd835/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This has led to a massive network deployment with the goal of eliminating the bandwidth bottleneck between end-users and the network core. Today many diverse technologies are being used to provide broadband access to end users. The architecture and performance of the access segment (local loop, wired and wireless access networks, and even home networks) are getting increasing attention for ensuring quality of service of diverse broadband applications. Moreover, most access lines will no longer terminate on a single device, thus leading to the necessity of having a home network designed for applications that transcend simple Internet access sharing among multiple personal computers and enable multimedia support. Therefore, the access network and its home portion have become a hot investment pool from both a financial as well as a research perspective. The aim of the annual International Conference on Access Networks (AccessNets) is to provide a forum that brings together scientists and researchers from academia as well as managers and engineers from the industry and government organizations to meet and exchange ideas and recent work on all aspects of access networks and how they integrate with their in-home counterparts. AccessNets'07 is the second edition of this exciting event, which will be held in Ottawa, the beautiful and historical capital city of Canada, in August 2007. The conference will consist of technical sessions, workshops, and panels. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the workshops and panels will focus on development, application, and related business issues in this hot and exciting area. TOPICS: The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * FTTx and PON technologies * xDSL technology and DSM * Hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) technology * Cable-based access technology * Powerline communication technology * Digital satellite access technology * WiFi and WiMax networks * Wireless mesh networks * Integrated wired/wireless networks * Long reach Ethernet * Home networks * Networked appliances * Hybrid wired/wireless LANs * Municipal and community networks * Network architectures and protocols * Medium access control * Cross-layer design * OFDM, OFDMA, CDMA techniques * MIMO techniques * Service convergence * Quality of service provisioning * Network scalability and upgradeability * Network survivability and security * Billing and management aspects * Business and regulatory aspects * Deployment/standardization statuses PANELS AND WORKSHOPS: We solicit panel and workshop proposals on hot and controversial topics in access networks. Proposals should be submitted to the panel and workshop co-chairs, respectively. Please visit the conference website for detailed instructions. PAPER SUBMISSION: Please visit the conference website for detailed instructions. IMPORTANT DATES: Workshop proposal due March 15, 2007 (Extended) Panel proposal due March 10, 2007 Paper submission due March 10, 2007 Notification of acceptance May 31, 2007 Final manuscript due June 15, 2007 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada TPC CO-CHAIRS Stefano Galli, Panasonic, USA Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology, India WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Martin Maier, University of Quebec, Canada Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA PANEL CO-CHAIRS Kenneth J. Kerpez, Telcordia Technologies, USA Abdallah Shami, University of Western Ontario, Canada PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Cheng Li, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Baoxian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China PUBLICATION CHAIR Shiwen Mao, University of Auburn, USA INDUSTRY SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Angel Lozano, Lucent Technologies, USA IEEE LIAISON Burt Christian, Flextronics, Canada FINANCIAL CHAIR Karen Decker, ICST, USA CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Zita Rozsa, ICST, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Peng He, University of Ottawa, Canada STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-net, Italy Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology, Greece Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology, India TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE See http://www.accessnets.org/2007/ -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=htzqgjovll and enter your email address. From Anne-francoise.Le-meur at lifl.fr Thu Mar 1 14:35:46 2007 From: Anne-francoise.Le-meur at lifl.fr (Anne-Francoise Le Meur) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:35:46 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] Postdoc Research Fellowship at INRIA Lille, France Message-ID: <45E6D6B2.2030708@lifl.fr> Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Component-Based Software Engineering. INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) The ADAM team (ex JACQUARD project) from the INRIA research institute in France has an open postdoc research fellowship position. The team seeks for motivated and innovative persons interested in investigating the co-evolution of abstract and execution application models. Applicants should have a background in Software Engineering, CBSE, ADL, middleware, distributed systems and distributed services. The position is for one year with possibility of extension. This contract is aimed at French or foreign candidates who have defended their Phd after May 1st, 2006. Candidates who prepared their Phd abroad will be considered with priority. Applicants must be less than 40 years old. The ADAM research group is located in Lille, France, on the campus of the University of Lille 1. Lille is situated in the North of France near the Belgian border, just 38 minutes from Brussels, 1h from Paris and 1h40 from London by train. Details about the postdoc research topic can be found below or also online. Applications have to be registered online. The application deadline is: March 31, 2007. Best regards, =================================================================== *Title:* Enabling the co-evolution of abstract application models and execution application models *Research context: * To reduce software development costs and enhance the flexibility and maintainability of systems, component-based software engineering (CBSE) proposes to build software systems by integrating existing software components. Often, the overall structure of the application is first described at the abstract level, through abstract models expressed with an architecture description language (ADL). Such description highlights the needed components and their assembly, which facilitates the understanding and analysis of the application. At this level, it is for example possible, to verify a certain amount of properties to guarantee that the resulting component assembly is valid. This high-level description is then projected toward a given implementation and the resulting application is finally deployed and executed. At runtime, it is often necessary to apply modifications to the executing application, for example, new components may be integrated to adapt to a changing execution context. Rapidly the execution model of the application becomes less and less coherent with its abstract model. It is thus difficult to know exactly what structure the currently running application has and more importantly it is impossible to predict if a given modification of the execution application model is correct and will not break some component assembling properties, which may, in the worst case, yield to a system failure. *Postdoctoral researcher work description*: The purpose of this postdoctoral position is to design and implement a framework which will enable the co-evolution of the abstract model of an application and its executing model. By co-evolution we mean that applying a modification to the running system should automatically update the abstract model and that, reciprocally, modifying the abstract model should trigger the appropriate modification onto the running system. This will enable the abstract and executing models to remain coherent at any time, and will allow verifications to be performed, enhancing the overall robustness of the application through its entire life-cycle. *Required knowledge and background:* The candidate should: - Hold a PhD degree in Computer Science - Be fluent in English (French is an advantage but not demanded) - Be knowledgeable in the domains of Software Engineering, CBSE, ADL, middleware, distributed systems and distributed services - Have very good programming skills in JAVA *Contact: *For further information, please contact : Anne-Francoise Le Meur : lemeur at lifl.fr Laurence Duchien : duchien at lifl.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The OWL: Experiences and Direction (OWLED) workshop series is a forum for practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers, and others interested in OWL to describe real and potential applications, to share experience, and to discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. At OWLED 2006 it was agreed to move forward with a member submission of the OWL 1.1 proposal which extends OWL DL in ways that have been requested by users, that have effective reasoning algorithms, and that developers of OWL reasoning systems are willing to support. The 3rd OWL: Experiences and Directions workshop (OWLED 2007) will again bring users, implementors and researchers together in order to measure the current state of need against the state of the art and to set an agenda for language evolutions that satisfy users. OWLED 2007 shall in particular present industrial efforts and experiences with OWL. It shall further the interaction between industry, theoreticians and tool builders, help consolidate OWL 1.1, clarify the relationships between OWL and rules and initiate the specification of OWL 2.0. Building on the success of the 2005 OWLED and the 2006 OWLED workshops, the 2007 OWLED workshop will again be immediately after one of the main Semantic Web conferences, namely the ESWC conference, and is colocated with the First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR2007. Topics ------------- OWLED 2007 welcomes the submission of papers about all aspects of OWL and extensions, application, theory, method, tool, including but not limited to the following topics: - All applications of OWL - Application-driven requirements for OWL - Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages - Performance and scalability issues - Bridges between knowledge engineering and OWL - Non-standard inference services, including explanations, static verification, modularity - Enriching ontologies with rules - Query answering and data integration - Tools for OWL including: editors, visualisation tools, parsers and syntax checkers, versioning frameworks - Extensions to OWL including: extended datatype constructors, property constructors, class constructors keys, constraints, rules probabilistic and fuzzy extensions, non-monotonic extensions, temporal and spatial extensions *********************************************************** Submissions of papers on industrial efforts, experiences reports, system descriptions, position papers (especially about new features or issues with OWL), and survey papers about theory or tools (for example comparing different ways of combining rules with OWL) are strongly encouraged. We particularly welcome: - Descriptions of industry system or industrial applications - Experience reports with OWL or OWL 1.1 (or any fragment or extension) Domain or application ontologies (e-Science, e-Health, e-Culture, e-Learning etc.) - Industry requirements - Life Sciences or other community requirements - Implementation issues with OWL or OWL 1.1 - Demos with OWL or OWL 1.1 - Reasoning with OWL and rules in practical applications - Requirements for a potential OWL 2.0 revision *********************************************************** Workshop Format ------------------------------ The goal of the workshop will be to maximise discussion. The technical sessions will therefore consist of short presentations of selected papers (grouped by topic area) followed by directed discussion. As in prior years, there will be session(s) devoted to standardization efforts, to some issues deferred from 2006 (alternative syntaxes, constraints, SPARQL and OWL, rules and OWL), and a report, with discussion, on the progress of the OWL 1.1 W3C submission and working group. Submissions ---------------- Submissions can be either long or short papers. Papers must be no longer than 10 pages. Short submissions no longer than 4 pages are welcome. Interested parties may send the organizers a one page description of their demo. All submissions must be received before 11 March 2007. All papers must be submitted online using the submission website http://www.easychair.org/OWLED2007/ Submissions must be in PDF, and will not be accepted in any other format. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that their submission displays and prints correctly on common PDF viewers. Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details see http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.h tml. Proceedings ------------- All accepted submissions and demo descriptions will be made available from the workshop web site; these may be updated with final versions after the reviewing process. Final versions of accepted papers will be published on CEUR-WS. Presentation materials from the workshop will also be placed on the web site. All submissions will be reviewed by the workshop committee. Decisions on the acceptance of papers will be communicated to authors no later than 14 April, 2007. Organization ------------------- General Chair: Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester (UK) Programme Chairs ---------------------------- Christine Golbreich, University of Versailles (France) Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM TJ Watson (USA) Steering Committee ----------------------------- Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Manchester (UK) Pascal Hitzler, AIFB Karlsruhe (Germany) Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester (UK) Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester (UK) Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA) Program Committee -------------------------------------------------------- Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant (USA) Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) Kendall Clark, Clark&Parsia LLC (USA) Catherine Dolbear, Ordinance Survey of Great Britain (UK) Peter Fox, High Altitude Observatory (USA) Volker Haarslev, Concordia University (Canada) Peter Haase, AIFB (Germany) Rinke Hoekstra, University of Amsterdam(NL) Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System (USA) Alain L?ger, France Telecom (France) Fran?ois-Marie Lesaffre, Arcelor (France) Thorsten Liebig, Ulm University, (Germany) Yann Loyer, University of Versailles (France) Joanne Luciano, Harvard Medical School (USA) Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden (Germany) Pierre Mariot, Ardans (France) Maryann Martone, BIRN (USA) Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University (USA) Anne Monceaux, EADS CCR (France) Boris Motik, University of Manchester (UK) Chris Mungall, Gene Ontology and Lawrence Berkeley Labs (USA) Gary Ng, Web Methods (USA) Daniel Oberle, SAP AG (Germany) Massimo Paolucci, NTT DoCoMo (Germany) Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen (UK) Riccardo Rosati, Universita di Roma La Sapienza (Italy) Daniel Rubin, CBIO (USA) Alan Ruttenberg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, (USA) Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK) Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universitat Amsterdam (NL) Fran?ois-Paul Servant, Renault (France) Margherita Sini, FAO (Italy) Kent Spackman, SNOMED (USA) Robert Stevens, BioHealth Informatics Group University of Manchester (UK) Susie Stephens, Oracle (USA) Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR Pisa (Italy) Hans Teijgeler, ISO Standards (NL) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20070301/a7a1d783/attachment-0001.htm From skiada at otenet.gr Fri Mar 2 01:10:51 2007 From: skiada at otenet.gr (ASMDA2007) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 00:10:51 GMT Subject: [ecoop-info] Early Registration, March 15, 2007. 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The ASMDA2007 Secretariat (* Apologies for cross posting) From info at icstconferences.org Fri Mar 2 20:22:06 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:22:06 -0500 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - Multicom-4G - Call for papers Message-ID: MobiMedia 2007 Workshop MULTICOM-4G CALL FOR PAPERS MULTICOM-4G is the Workshop on Convergence among Mobile Multimedia Services and Fourth-Generation Wireless Networking Standards: Technical Challenges and Users? Perspectives, organized in the context of the MobiMedia 2007 Conference. The ambitious goals of future 4G standardization process are well known: broadband mobile connectivity, ubiquitous connectivity, global coverage reached by a tight integration of terrestrial and satellite networking infrastructures, adaptive reconfigurability of the terminals, seamless vertical handover, etc. Pillars in the transition from 3G to 4G are represented by multicarrier modulations (OFDM, MC-CDMA), software-defined radio (SDR) technologies, situation- location aware networks and services. If this panorama is ?framed? in a multimedia perspective, some questions obviously arise. Could 4G standards be ?broadband? enough to improve perceptual quality of video streaming, real- time interaction in delay-sensitive applications, throughput of TCP-based applications? How can mobility issues be addressed by 4G standards in multimedia applications? In other words, will it be possible to provide a good quality of service also to multimedia users travelling by high-speed trains or airplanes? What would the real impact of SDR technologies be on multimedia service provision? How might be efficiently exploited location-situation awareness in order to improve the perceived QoS? Should the concept of ?wireless security? be revised in a renewed framework of large-scale broadband multimedia mobility? To try to answer to these questions (and to other ones), MULTICOM-4G workshop is organized. MULTICOM-4G aims at bringing together leading experts on multimedia signal processing and mobile communications in order to exchange novel ideas about the future of multimedia communications in the perspective of the ?broadband? mobile revolution expected with the near- future deployment of 4G standards. WORKSHOP TOPICS ? Multicarrier modulation ? MIMO systems ? Future-generation mobile networking protocols for multimedia applications ? Software radio techniques for multimedia communications ? Middleware for multimedia communications ? Advanced channel coding techniques for multimedia communications ? High-speed mobility and broadband multimedia ? Multimedia handset implementation issues ? Satellite communications and multimedia applications: a look to the future ? Innovative video coding techniques for mobile HDTV services ? Wireless ad-hoc networks for mobile multimedia ? Security issues in next-generation mobile multimedia services ? Applications: the end-user perspective THE WORKSHOP LOCATION Nafpaktos is a seaside town, bordered by the Corinthian gulf; it combines mountains and seaside in a unique way, in a picture of unequalled beauty, where the greatest jewel is the unique Venetian castle, ending to a spectacular vision, the Port of Nafpaktos. The hospitable city of Nafpaktos, a city of unequalled beauty and rich historical heritage, has plenty of sights: the Castle at the top of the hill, which ends to the small, graphic port with Venetian walls, the imposing Clock, the Old City and its historical centre ? which preserves its traditional physiognomy, Botsaris? mansion, the beautiful, picturesque beaches which frame the Venetian Port and offer a spectacular view of the Corinthian Gulf and the impressive Rio-Antirrio Bridge. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Perspective authors are kindly asked to tightly adhere to the ACM publication guidelines when they are formatting their papers (these guidelines, together with the related author kit can be found at the address: http://www.mobimedia.org/authorskitacm.php). The papers MUST be submitted by email as pdf attachment to the following address: multicom-4g at lenst.det.unifi.it. Note that only pdf format will be accepted for paper submission. Authors should quote in the cover e-mail their names, affiliation and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. WORKSHOP CHAIR Claudio Sacchi University of Trento claudio.sacchi at unitn.it PUBLICATIONS CHAIR Simone Morosi University of Florence morosi at lenst.det.unifi.it PUBLICITY CHAIR Giulia Boato University of Trento boato at dit.unitn.it PROGRAM and REVIEW COMMITTEE Luc Vandendorpe Catholic University of Louvain (B) Jonathan Rodriguez Instituto de Telecomunicaciones, Aveiro (P) Gregory Yovanof Athens Information Technology (GR) Christos Politis OfCom (UK) Massimo Donelli University of Trento (I) Ramjee Prasad University of Aalborg (DK) Petri Mahonen RWTH Aachen (D) Lajos Hanzo University of Southampton (UK) Merouane Debbah EURECOM (F) Fabrizio Granelli University of Trento (I) Maristella Musso University of Genoa (I) IMPORTANT DATES Deadline paper submission: April 30th 2007 Notification of acceptance: June 8th 2007 Submission of camera ready papers: July 2nd 2007 Please visit http://www.mobimedia.org/documents/Multicom_4G.htm -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. 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From huanggang at sei.pku.edu.cn Fri Mar 2 03:33:26 2007 From: huanggang at sei.pku.edu.cn (Huang Gang) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:33:26 +0800 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Papers: COMPSAC 2007 Doctoral Symposium Message-ID: <200703021033260461277@sei.pku.edu.cn> Call for Papers: COMPSAC 2007 Doctoral Symposium Beijing, China, July 24-27, 2007 http://www.compsac.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission: March 12, 2007 Decision notification (electronic): April 9, 2007 Deadline for camera-ready copy and pre-registration: April 30, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW: The Doctoral Symposium at COMPSAC will provide an international forum for doctoral students to interact with other students and faculty mentors. Since 2006, COMPSAC has been designated as the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Software Technology and Applications. The Doctoral Symposium seeks to bring together PhD Students working in software engineering and technology and related fields. Selected students will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research goals, methodology, and preliminary results within a constructive and international atmosphere. . The Symposium organizers will strive to provide useful guidance for completion of the dissertation research and motivation for a research career. The Symposium is intended for students who have already settled on a specific research proposal and have produced limited preliminary results, but have enough time remaining before their final defense to benefit from the fruitful Symposium discussions. In coordination with the technical theme of COMPSAC 2007, topics pertaining to software engineering of critical infrastructure systems such as civil, telecommunications, and medical systems will be of particular interest. Related topics include, but are not limited to, requirements analysis, co-analysis and co-design, modeling, design, development, testing, measurement, verification and validation for performance, safety, security, and dependability constraints of such systems. As effective construction of critical infrastructure systems is not limited solely to the field of computer science and engineering and is truly a multidisciplinary effort, submissions addressing multidisciplinary research topics are particularly encouraged. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in hardcopy and on-line version by the IEEE Computer Society. . -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS: Submissions will be judged on originality, overall contribution, technical merit, presentation quality and relevance to the conference topics. It is anticipated that each submission will be reviewed by at least two mentors from the program committee. Each student invited to attend will be assigned a specific mentor who will be in charge of leading the discussion after the student's presentation. Students should consider participating in the Doctoral Symposium at least six months BEFORE completion of their dissertation, but after having settled on a solid dissertation topic. In the email that accompanies the abstract submission, students should identify their level of progress toward completion (i.e., briefly state the expected date of graduation). Students desiring to participate in the Symposium must submit an extended abstract that describes their doctoral work. Each abstract submission should: * clearly formulate the research topic * outline the significant problems in the field and their current solutions * present the preliminary idea, the proposed approach, and the results achieved so far * explicitly point out the contributions of the proposed work Detailed instructions for electronic paper submission can be found at http://www.compsac.org/. The length of the initial submission and camera-ready versions of the abstract should be limited to 3 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages printed in 10-12 point font. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to pay the student registration fee to the conference. Pending availability of funds, a limited number of travel grants may be available. All invited participants will be asked to provide a poster describing their research, which will be displayed throughout the conference. Each accepted paper must be presented in person by the author, in a 30-minute timeslot with 20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for discussion and feedback. -------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACTS: Questions should be addressed to the Doctoral Symposium Chair, Dr. Sahra Sedigh, at: sedighs[at]umr.edu. From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Fri Mar 2 11:47:17 2007 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S B Cooper) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:47:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [ecoop-info] [CiE] Student grants to attend CiE 2007 - deadline March 16 Message-ID: ____________________________________________________________________________ To all PhD students hoping to attend CiE 2007, and their supervisors: If you are a PhD student hoping to come to CiE 2007, we would like to remind you that the deadline for applying for a grant is MARCH 16, 2007. If you are a supervisor, or know of such students, we would be very grateful if you would pass on this information. There are two types of grant available, those available to student ASL members (you can still join the ASL), and those for students from Italian universities. ASL Student Travel Grants: CiE 2007 is an ASL sponsored conference. This means that registered students who are members of the ASL can apply for ASL travel funds. Applications have to be addressed directly to the ASL, with a strict deadline of MARCH 16, 2007. AILA Italian Student CiE 2007 Grants: As a result of AILA support for CiE 2007, the organisers are able to waive the registration fees of a small number of Italian PhD students. To be considered for waived fees, write to the conference organisers at cie2007 @ unisi.it giving your name, institution, and supervisor's name and email address, with a deadline of MARCH 16, 2007. Full information is at: http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~pmt6sbc/cie07.grants.html ____________________________________________________________________________ From C.Shoniregun at uel.ac.uk Fri Mar 2 19:49:31 2007 From: C.Shoniregun at uel.ac.uk (Charles Shoniregun) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 18:49:31 -0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions 2007 (ICITST-2007) Message-ID: <3BED1B658E71464E9399FCF6CA0DACEC0B40A5@DL-MAIL.uel.ac.uk> REMINDER - DEADLINE IS APPROACHING - CALL FOR PAPERS Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students. International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions 2007 (ICITST-2007) www.icitst.org May 21-23, 2007, London, United Kingdom Conference Theme The International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2007) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of secured Internet transactions and to fostering discussions on information technology evolution. ICITST aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry. The ICITST-2007, bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem in secured Internet transactions and the importance of information technology evolution to secured transactions. ICITST-2007 invites and welcomes research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. Topics of Interest The coverage of ICITST-2007 includes, but is not limited to, the following subjects: Application of agents Application security Blended Internet security methods Biometrics Boundary issues of Internet security Broadband access technologies Challenges of content authoring Data mining security E-society Globalisation of information society Government, and corporate Internet security policy Internet architecture Internet business applications Infonomics IPSec quality of services Patentability Regulation, self-regulation, and co-regulation Web services Secured database systems Synchronising e-security Technology-enabled information Trust, privacy, and data security Wireless transactions Proceedings All papers accepted for the conference, including special sessions papers, will be published in the proceedings. The Proceedings of the International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2007) will be published by the e-Centre for Infonomics in a book (CD) with ISBN 0-9546628-2-2. Best Paper Award Author(s) of best paper will receive one of ICITST-2007 awards and certificate of achievement and contribution to research within the subject area of the paper. Important Dates Paper submissions 25 March 2007 - paper submission 8 April 2007 - notification of acceptance 22 April 2007 - final paper submission Poster submissions 25 March 2007 - paper submission 8 April 2007 - notification of acceptance 22 April 2007 - final paper submission For further information please visit www.icitst.org Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students. From hica07 at gmail.com Mon Mar 5 05:19:35 2007 From: hica07 at gmail.com (HICA-07 Cyberchair) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:19:35 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] [HICA-07 Call for Papers] Message-ID: <5e533dd70703042019w1b73150pe33eeac0d1b1db7a@mail.gmail.com> [HICA-07 Call for Papers] This message is cross-posted to several lists. Apologies for any duplicate postings. ================================================================================================= The 2007 Special Session on Hybrid Intelligent Computing and its Application (HICA-07) http://210.37.44.253/session/1/hica.htm Hainan University, China, August 24-27, 2007 The 3rd International Conference on Natural Computation(ICNC '07) The 3rd International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD '07) ================================================================================================= == HICA-07 Synopsis == Hybrid Intelligent Computing (HIC) are emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm including ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, and peer-to-peer computing to provide computing and communication services any time and anywhere. But in order to realize their advantages, it requires the application to be suitable for HIC. Our special session is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of HIC including intelligent computing, security services, business models, and novel applications associated with its utilization. The goal of this session is to bring together the researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to all aspects of intelligent application and service. == Topics == (included, but are not limited to) *Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Computing *Industrial applications of AI *Knowledge acquisition, engineering, discovery and representation for HIC *Mobile / Wearable intelligence *Neural networks and intelligent databases for HIC *Data mining for HIC *Frameworks for integrating AI and data mining *Wireless sensor networks (WSN) / RFID application for HIC *Smart Space (Home, Building, Office) services *Smart Home network middleware and protocols *Context Awareness for HIC *Multimedia Security and Services in HIC *Security Issues for HIC *Commercial and industrial application for HIC == Organizers == * Co-Chairs ------------ Jong Hyuk Park Hanwha S&C, Korea Email: parkjonghyuk at gmail.com Hai Jin Huazhong, University of Science and Technology, China Email: hjin at hust.edu.cn * Program Committee -------------------- Agustinus Borgy Waluyo (I2R, ingapore) Andres Marin (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain) Andrew Kusiak (The University of Iowa, USA) Anna Squicciarini (Purdue University, USA) Boungsoo Koh (DigiCaps Co., Ltd., Korea) Cetin Kaya Koc (Oregon State University, USA) Deok Gyu Lee (ETRI, Korea) Dongseop Kwon (Myungji University, Korea) Fangguo Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University, China) Geyong Min (University of Bradford, UK) Han-Chieh Chao (National Ilan University, Taiwan) Hidenori Kawamura (Hokkaido University, Japan) Jari Veijalainen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland) Jelena Misic (University of Manitoba, Canada) Kouichi SAKURAI (Kyushu University, Japan) Madjid Merabti (Liverpool John Moored University, UK) Mahmut Kandemir (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Maria Papadaki (University of Plymouth, UK) Michael Lavine (Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, USA) Miguel P. Correia (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Rajesh Gupta (University of California, USA) Reynold Cheng (Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, Hong-Kong) Roberto Di Pietro (University of Rome Tre, Italy) Stefan Katzenbeisser (Philips Research, The Netherlands) Toshihiro TABATA (Okayama University, Japan) Yang Xiao Zong (Harbin Institute of Technology, China) Yuh-Shyan Chen (National Taipei University, Taiwan) Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK) Wei Lou (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,Hong Kong) == Important Dates == Paper Submission deadline March 15, 2007 Acceptance notification April 30, 2007 Camera-ready due May 15, 2007 Session Date August 24 - 27, 2007 == Paper Submission & Publication == Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format of regular papers specified in ICNC'07-FSKD'07 webpage. Manuscripts should be directly submitted to the co-chairs via email( hica07 at gmail.com). Special session papers will be treated in the same way as regular papers and included in the conference proceedings. the extended versions of selected high-quality papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), and International Journal of Smart Home (IJSH). == Contact == For further information regarding the HICA-07 and paper submission, please contact: hica07 at gmail.com -------------------------- The End of Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20070305/8643ecbd/attachment-0001.htm From wish07 at gmail.com Mon Mar 5 06:07:37 2007 From: wish07 at gmail.com (WISH-07 Cyberchair) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:07:37 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] WISH07 Call for Papers Message-ID: <3951055f0703042107l637451afod0d9650cacf09257@mail.gmail.com> WISH2007 Call for Papers http://www.chu.edu.tw/~wish07 Workshop Overview Smart Home Environments (SHE) are emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm including ubiquitous, grid, and peer-to-peer computing to provide computing and communication services any time and anywhere. But in order to realize their advantages, it requires the intelligent systems to be suitable for SHE. In addtion, it will be proved user-centric services that can remotely access and control all information appliances in the workplace as well as at home, and easily and conveniently use various services to enable working from home, remote education, remote diagnosis, virtual shopping, network gaming, and portal & high quality VOD with no limitations on space and time. Our workshop is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of SHE including intelligent system, security services, business models, and novel applications associated with its utilization. In this workshop, we plan to publish high quality papers, which cover the various theories and practical applications related smart home. The published papers are expected to present the high level results to solve the application services and various problems in the various SH fields. In addition, we expect they will trigger further related research and technology improvements for SH. The goal of this Workshop is to bring together the researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to all aspects of intelligent systems and smart home. We invite authors to submit papers on any aspect of intelligence systems / smart home research and practice. All papers will be peer reviewed, and those accepted for the workshop will be included in a proceedings volume published by Springer-Verlag. Workshop topics (include but are not limited to the following): *Intelligent Systems* - Ubiquitous and Artificial Intelligent - Environment sensing / understanding - Information retrieval and enhancement - Intelligent data analysis and e-mail processing - Industrial applications of AI - Knowledge acquisition, engineering, discovery and representation - Machine learning and translation - Mobile / Wearable intelligence - Natural language processing - Neural networks and intelligent databases - Data mining and Semantic web - Computer-aided education - Entertainment - Metrics for evaluating intelligent systems - Frameworks for integrating AI and data mining *Smart Home* - Wireless sensor networks (WSN) / RFID application for SH - Smart Space (Home, Building, Office) applications and services - Smart Home network middleware and protocols - Context Awareness for Smart Home Services - Multimedia Security and Services in SH - Security Issues for SHE - Access control and Privacy Protection in SH - Forensics and Security Policy in SH - WSN / RFID Security in SH - Commercial and industrial system & application for SH Proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Scienceby Springer-Verlag (approved). Authors should follow the instructions and web links provided on the paper submissionpage. Important Dates Paper submission: March 31, 2007 Notification of acceptance: May 21, 2007 Final version: June 01, 2007 Workshop date Aug. 28-Sept. 1, 2007 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20070305/c9f4e551/attachment.htm From csanto at diit.unict.it Mon Mar 5 09:44:38 2007 From: csanto at diit.unict.it (Corrado Santoro) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:44:38 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] ETNGRID 2007: Deadline is expiring Message-ID: <45EBD876.3040909@diit.unict.it> (apologies for multiple copies) Dear Researcher, please note that the deadline for submitting a paper to ETNGRID 2007 is expiring. See the call-for-papers below. -------------------------------------- =========================================================================== Fourth Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next generation GRID (ETNGRID-2007) 16th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2007) http://etngrid.diit.unict.it GET/INT Paris, France, 18th-20th June 2007 ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: Mar. 06, 2007 ***** =========================================================================== The Grid was originally designed as a large network of computer systems able to offer an environment where computing and storage resources are shared on-demand. To date, the development of standards, such as the Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA), along with the introduction of new paradigms, such as the Semantic Grid, is leading the Grid toward an environment that is not only suited for computational-intensive applications, but also for computing scenarios typical of distributed systems, like service and information providing, multimedia environments, ubiquitous computing, etc. For these and other reasons, the Grid is becoming an interesting and challenging environment supporting both old and new services for cooperative applications. A relevant research effort is thus needed not only to investigate innovative Grid infrastructures but also to make the current Grid model suitable for these emerging usage scenarios. The objective of this workshop is to gather researchers working on different emerging Grid computing aspects relevant to enterprise collaboration, covering issues ranging from the middleware layer to application development and user interaction. The goals of the workshop include (but are not limited to) discovering new application scenarios, proposing new programming abstractions and tools, identifying the challenging problem that still need to be solved, and reporting results and experiences gained by researchers in building Grid-based middleware, applications and alike. Submission Requirements ----------------------- Participants are expected to submit an original research paper or a position paper, not submitted or published elsewhere, by email to . Submission should include the title of the paper, the names and affiliations of the authors, a 150-word abstract and at most eight keywords. Submission should follow the IEEE format (single spaced, two columns, 10pt, Times font) and not exceed six pages, including figures. Accepted papers will be published along with the WETICE 2007 post-proceedings. The paper should be in either PS or PDF format. Papers must focus on collaborative aspects of the Grid, including, but not limiting to, the following topics: * Middlewares for the Grid * Multimedia applications with the Grid * Reflective and Aspect-Oriented Grid systems * Reliability and Quality-of-Service aspects * Wireless and ubiquitous access to the Grid * Cooperative Agents and the Grid * Grids and Peer-to-peer systems * Web integration with the Grid * Peer-to-peer and self-organizing approaches for the Grid * Abstractions and tools for collaborative application development in Grid environments * Semantic Grid * Experience reports on collaborative application development in Grid * Scalability and Performance issues in the Grid * Analysis of stability and bottlenecks for Grid applications * Resource-aware applications in the Grid * Architectures for Grid-oriented applications * Security and Verification Issues in Large Distributed Systems Important Dates --------------- * Paper Submission: March 06, 2007 * Notification of Acceptance: April 13, 2007 * Camera Ready Paper Due: May 12, 2007 Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Angelo Corsaro (acorsaro at selex-si.it), Selex-SI, ITALY Antonella Di Stefano (adistefa at diit.unict.it), Dept. of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, Engineering Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Giuseppe Pappalardo (pappalardo at dmi.unict.it), Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Science Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Corrado Santoro (csanto at diit.unict.it), Dept. of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, Engineering Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Emiliano Tramontana (tramontana at dmi.unict.it), Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Science Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Program Committee Members ------------------------- Mauro Andreolini ........ University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Cosimo Anglano .......... University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Roberto Barbera ......... University of Catania, Italy Mario Cannataro ......... University of Calabria, Italy Walter Cazzola .......... University of Milano, Italy Giovanni Chiola ......... University of Genova, Italy Paolo Ciancarini ........ University of Bologna, Italy Geoffrey Coulson ........ Lancaster Universtity, UK Marco Fargetta .......... University of Catania, Italy Giancarlo Fortino ....... University of Calabria, Italy Geoffrey Fox ............ Indiana University, USA Aniruddha Gokhale ....... Vanderbilt University, USA Pilar Herrero ........... Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Giulio Iannello ......... University of Naples Federico II, Italy Ryszard Janicki ......... McMaster University, Canada Maciej Koutny ........... University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Luigi Mancini ........... University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Carlo Mastroianni ....... ICAR-CNR, Italy Agostino Poggi .......... University of Parma, Italy Svetlana Shasharina ..... Tech-X Corporation, USA Domenico Talia .......... University of Calabria, Italy Sara Tucci Piergiovanni.. University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Rainer Unland ........... University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Eric Renault ............ GET/INT, Evry Cedex, France Ilias Savvas ............ Higher Tech. Edu. Institute of Larissa, Greece Ian Taylor .............. University of Cardiff, UK Giorgio Ventre .......... University of Naples Federico II, Italy Brian Vinter ............ University of Copenhagen, Denmark Luca Vollero ............ CINI ITeM, Italy Ian Welch ............... Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Nanbor Wang ............. Tech-X Corporation, USA -- ================================================================== Eng. Corrado Santoro, Ph.D. University of Catania - ITALY - Engineering Faculty Tel: +39 095 7382380 VoIP: sip:7035 at voicegw2.diit.unict.it Personal Home Page: http://www.diit.unict.it/users/csanto NUXI Home Page: http://nuxi.diit.unict.it ================================================================== From nathalie.mitton at inria.fr Mon Mar 5 11:46:46 2007 From: nathalie.mitton at inria.fr (Nathalie Mitton) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:46:46 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP (dead line march 31) - IEEE MASS 2007 - Pisa, Italy - October 2007 Message-ID: <00db01c75f13$9967ea10$d80bce86@ROMY> This message is cross-posted to several lists. Apologies for any duplicate postings. IEEE MASS 2007 ( http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mass2007/) The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems Pisa, October 8-11, 2007 Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing, and IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation In-cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE **** Papers Submission Deadline --- March 31, 2007 **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless multi-hop communication is envisioned in multiple scenarios where network nodes communicate via other network nodes: conferences, hospitals, battlefields, rescue operations, environment control, cars-to-cars, and monitoring scenarios. Wireless mesh networks have been applied as alternatives for providing Internet access in remote business and residential areas. Wireless sensor networks are being deployed for several industrial control processes and for monitoring environment. This conference aims to address multi-hop ad-hoc and sensor networks systems, covering topics ranging from technology issues up to the applications aspects. Original manuscripts that focus on the analytical modeling, protocol/algorithm design, and/or experimental studies of the following topics of interest are sought: * physical layer impact on higher level protocols * MAC protocols for ad-hoc and sensor networks (802.11, 802.15.4, UWB) Provisioning of wireless QoS in terms of bandwidth and delay assurance * Routing protocols (unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast) and routing metrics * Data transport in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks * Power-aware and energy-efficient design * Topology construction and coverage maintenance * Cross layer design and optimization * Incentives and game theoretic approaches in wireless ad-hoc networks * Localization and synchronization in wireless sensor networks * Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination in wireless sensor * Reliability, security, and trustworthiness issues in ad hoc and sensor networks * Operating system and middleware support * Measurements and practical experience from experimental systems and test-beds * Modeling, analysis and performance evaluation * Mesh networking * Delay tolerant networks and opportunistic networking * Handoff and mobility management and seamless internetworking * Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution wireless ad hoc networks * Reliability, security, and trustworthiness issues in ad hoc and sensor networks Paper submission All submissions must be full papers in .pdf or .ps (PostScript) format. Papers must be uploaded to EDAS by March 31, 2007, and must not exceed 10 single-spaced, two-column pages using at least 11 point size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages. Detailed submission instructions will be published in due time on the conference website http://www.ieee-mass.org together with format files. Workshops Proposals for full day workshops are solicited. Selections will be made considering the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers and the relevance of the topic to the central theme of the conference. Proposals of at most 4 pages, including a 1-page biographical sketch, should be submitted to the Workshops Chair by March 31, 2007 Demos Technical demonstration of experimental ad hoc networking and computing systems are solicited. To Instructions for submitting a demo proposal will be published in due time on the conference website. Important dates Manuscript Submission Due: March 31, 2007 Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: August 10, 2007 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20070305/db626360/attachment-0001.htm From Joerg.Roth at fh-nuernberg.de Mon Mar 5 11:47:28 2007 From: Joerg.Roth at fh-nuernberg.de (=?windows-1252?Q?J=F6rg_Roth?=) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:47:28 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP WAC2007 - Updated deadline for submissions 5 April 2007 Message-ID: <45EBF540.5020503@FH-Nuernberg.de> Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students -- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions extended: 5 April 2007 -- (DEADLINE UPDATED!) IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WIRELESS APPLICATIONS AND COMPUTING 2007 Lisbon, Portugal, 6 to 8 July 2007 (http://www.wac-conf.org/) part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2007) Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 8 July 2007 (http://www.mccsis.org) * Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Professor Qusay H. Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada * Conference background and goals The IADIS Wireless Applications and Computing 2007 conference addresses several themes related to theory and practice within wireless networks, computing and application related areas. Enormous developments in wireless technologies made in recent years enabled both researchers and industry to create new, innovative wireless and mobile application and services, protocols, middleware platforms and application frameworks. Corresponding research is related to all communication layers, but also includes application-related topics, theoretical results and non-technical issues. Main topics have been identified (see below). However, innovative contributions that don?t fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees. * Format of the Conference The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (online accessible). The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692) and also in other selected Journals. * Types of submissions Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. * Topics related to Wireless Applications and Computing are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: - Ad-hoc Networking - Cellular Phone Networks and Satellite Based Systems - Context Aware Applications - Distributed Systems Aspects of Wireless Applications - Integration of Wired and Wireless Networks - Location-based Applications and Services - Mobile Commerce - Mobile Computing Software Architectures - Mobile Entertainment, Gaming and Learning - Performance and Simulation Aspects of Wireless Networks - Pervasive Computing - Security in Wireless Networks - Wireless Access Networks - Wireless Application Frameworks - Wireless Applications Programming - Wireless Communication Middleware - Wireless Database Access - Wireless End-user Devices - Wireless Home Networks - Wireless Multimedia - Wireless Peer-to-Peer Networks - Wireless Positioning Technologies - WLANs and WPANs * Important Dates: - Submission Deadline extended: 5 April 2007 - Notification to Authors: Until 27 April 2007 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 18 May 2007 - Late Registration: After 18 May 2007 - Conference: Lisbon, Portugal, 6 to 8 July 2007 * Conference Location The conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal. * Secretariat IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WIRELESS APPLICATIONS AND COMPUTING 2007 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal E-mail: secretariat at wac-conf.org Web site: http://www.wac-conf.org/ * Program Committee Wireless Applications and Computing 2007 Program Chair J?rg Roth, University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Germany General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs: Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Pedro Isa?as, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Committee Members: * * for committee list please refer to http://www.wac-conf.org/committees.asp From guerra.francesco at unimore.it Mon Mar 5 18:19:25 2007 From: guerra.francesco at unimore.it (Francesco Guerra) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:19:25 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] Extended Deadline: Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises - SWAE07 Message-ID: <20070305171930.618372F40FD@mail.mjolner.com> Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues. Thanks. **************************************** DEADLINE EXTENSION Submission deadline: March 23, 2007 (DEADLINE EXTENDED) **************************************** 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises - SWAE07 http://www.dbgroup.unimo.it/swae07 in conjunction with DEXA 2007 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications Regensburg, Germany 3-7 September 2007 **************************************** AIMS AND SCOPE "The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners." [W3C - http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/] SWAE aims at evaluating how and how much the Semantic Web vision has met its promises with respect to business and market needs. Even though the Semantic Web is a relatively new branch of scientific and technological research, its relevance has already been envisaged for some crucial business processes: - Semantic-based business data integration: data integration satisfies both "structural" requirements of enterprises (e.g. the possibility of consulting its data in a unified manner), and "dynamic" requirement (e.g. business-to-business partnerships to execute an order). Information systems implementing semantic web architectures can strongly support this process, or simply enable it. - Semantic interoperability: metadata and ontologies support the dynamic and flexible exchange of data and services across information systems of different organizations. The development of applications for the automatic classification of services and goods on the basis of standard hierarchies, and the translation of such classifications into the different standards used by companies is a clear example of the potential for semantic interoperability methods and tools. - Knowledge management: ontologies and automated reasoning tools seem to provide an innovative support to the elicitation, representation and sharing of corporate knowledge. In particular, for the shift from document-centric KM to an entity-centric KM approach. - Enterprise and process modeling: ontologies and rules are becoming an effective way for modeling corporate processes and business domains (for example, in cost reduction). The goal of the workshop is to evaluate and assess how deep the permeation of Semantic Web models, languages, technologies and applications has been in effective enterprise business applications. It would also identify how semantic web based systems, methods and theories sustain business applications such as decision processes, workflow management processes, accountability, and production chain management. A particular attention will be dedicated to metrics and criteria that evaluate cost-effectiveness of system designing processes, knowledge encoding and management, system maintenance, etc. Papers and demonstrations of interest for the workshop will show and highlight the interactions between Semantic Web technologies and business applications. In particular, the workshops aims at collecting models, tools and practical experience in which Semantic Web techniques have been developed and applied to support any relevant business process, and assess their degree of success, the difficulties which were addressed, the solutions which have been found, the new tools which have been implemented. TOPICS The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Semantic Integration * Information extraction * Managing metadata for information integration * Managing metadata for data classification * Semantic Web technologies for enterprises * Ontologies for Information Integration and data exchange * Ontology mapping and merging * Schema mapping/evaluating/integrating * On-the-fly Integration * Information Integration architectures * Reviews and evaluation of existing Integration approaches * Data Integration in e-Commerce applications * Integration of legacy applications in a semantic web architecture * Semantic web and business processes * Reliability and scalability of Semantic Web technologies and tools * Enterprise-level tools and applications * Costs of semantic-based architectures for enterprises * Semantic Web and Integrated Information Systems * Semantic based systems and business applications: cost management, decision support systems, workflow management systems, etc. * Economic sustainability of semantic web based systems * Metrics to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the knowledge encoding process IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: March 23, 2007 **DEADLINE EXTENDED! * Submission of full papers: March 23, 2007 * Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2007 * Camera-ready copies due: May 31, 2007 PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and application papers that are not being considered in another forum. Manuscripts will be limited to 5 two-column pages (IEEE Proceeding style) including figures and references. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers (http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp). Authors of accepted papers are requested to sign the IEEE copyright form. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Papers accepted for presentation will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA'07 workshops. Authors of accepted papers are requested to send the full paper to be received by May 31, 2007. PC CHAIRS Prof. Sonia Bergamaschi Department of Computer Science University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Prof. Paolo Bouquet Department of Information and Communication Technology University of Trento Dott. Francesco Guerra Department of Business Economics University of Modena and Reggio Emilia PC COMMITTEE Carlo Batini, Universit? degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy Andreas Becks, Fraunhofer-Institut f?r Angewandte Informationstechnik FIT, Germany Francesco Bellomi, University of Verona , Italy Omar Boucelma, Universit? Aix-Marseille, France Andrea Cal?, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester, UK Matteo Cristani, University of Verona , Italy Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Roberta Cuel, Universit? di Trento, Italy Stefan Decker, Digital Enterprise Research Institute National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Alfio Ferrara, Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Matthias Hemmje, FernUniversit?t Hagen, Germany Mustafa Jarrar, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Alain Leger, France Telecom R&D, France Claudia Niederee, L3S Research Center, Germany Lyndon Nixon, University of Berlin, Germany Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Christoph Quix, RWTH Aachen, Germany Peter Spyns, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany York Sure, Institut AIFB Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany dott. ing. Francesco Guerra Researcher in Computer Science, Ph. D. Dipartimento di Economia Aziendale Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia Phone: +39 059 205 6264 / +39 059 205 6828 Fax: +39 059 205 6129 Web: www.dbgroup.unimo.it/~guerra Email: guerra.francesco at unimore.it From info at icstconferences.org Mon Mar 5 20:12:06 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:12:06 -0500 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - GridNets'07: 1st International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications (CFP) Message-ID: Please excuse multiple copies. ********************************************************************* * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * GridNets 2007 * * First International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications * * Co-Sponsored by Create-Net, ICST and INRIA * * In-technical cooperation with ACM SIGARCH * * Lyon, France, October 17-19, 2007 * * http://www.gridnets.org/2007 * * * ********************************************************************* The GridNets conference series is an annual international meeting which provides a focused and highly interactive forum where researchers and technologists have the opportunity to present and discuss leading research, developments, and future directions in the Grid networking area. The objective of this event is to serve as both the premier conference presenting best Grid Networking research and a forum where new concepts can be introduced and explored. The previous events in this series were: GridNets 2004 in San Jose (USA), GridNets 2005 in Boston (USA), GridNets 2006 in San Jose (USA). All of these events have been successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international participation. From the first event through the fourth, we have been known as the GridNets Workshop affiliated with the IEEE BroadNets conference series. For this, our fifth event, we will convene our first meeting as a conference and in Europe. Grid developers and practicioners are increasingly realising the importance of an efficient network support. Entire classes of applications would greatly benefit by a network-aware Grid middleware, able to effectively manage the network resource in terms of scheduling, access and use. Conversely, the peculiar requirements of Grid applications provide stimulating drivers for new challenging research towards the development of Grid-aware networks. Cooperation between Grid middleware and network infrastructure driven by a common control plane is a key factor to effectively empower the global Grid platform for the execution of network-intensive applications, requiring massive data transfers, very fast and low-latency connections, and stable and guaranteed transmission rates. Big e-science projects, as well as industrial and engineering applications for data analysis, image processing, multimedia, or visualisation just to name a few are awaiting an efficient Grid network support. They would be boosted by a global Grid platform enabling end-to-end dynamic bandwidth allocation, broadband and low-latency access, interdomain access control, and other network performance monitoring capabilities. Scope ----- * Network architectures and technologies for grids * Integration of advanced optical networking technologies into the grid environment. * End to end lightpath provisioning software systems and emergent standards * The network as a first class grid resource: network resource information publication, brokering and co-scheduling with other Grid resources. * Interaction of the network with distributed data management systems. * Network monitoring, traffic characterisation and performance analysis * Inter-layer interactions: optical layer with higher layer protocols, integration among layers * Experience with pre-production optical network infrastructures and exchange points * Peer-to-peer network enhancements applied to the Grid * Network support for wireless and ad hoc Grids * Data replication and multicasting strategies and novel data transport protocols * Fault-tolerance, self healing networks * Security and scalability issues when connecting a large number of sites within a virtual organization VPN. * Simulations * New concepts and requirements which may fundamentally reshape the evolution of Networks. Workshops --------- Proposals for workshops are solicited. Potential instructors are requested to submit a workshop proposal in ASCII or PDF format to the Workshops chair, Laurent Lefevre (laurent.lefevre at inria dot fr) by April 3, 2007 Important Dates --------------- Workshop Proposal Deadline: April 3, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: May 11, 2007, Midnight CET Paper Acceptance Notification: June 22, 2007 Final paper submission: July 27, 2007 Conference in Lyon: October 17-19, 2007 (For submission instructions, refer to http://www.gridnets.org) Organizing Committee ==================== General co-chairs: Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA, ENS-Lyon), Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck) Local co-chairs: Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA, ENS-Lyon), Paulo Goncalves (INRIA,ENS-Lyon) Program Committee co-chairs: Peter Clarke (University of Edinburgh), David Hutchison (Lancaster University), Joe Mambretti (Northwestern University) Publicity chair: Serafim Kotrotsos (EXIS IT) for Europe, Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST) for Asia, Sumit Naiksatam (Cisco Systems) for USA Publications chair: Piero Spinnato (CREATE-NET) Workshop chair: Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, ENS-Lyon) Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac, Chair, (CREATE-NET), Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA,ENS-Lyon), Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck) Industry track chair: Bela Berde (Alcatel) Panels chair: Volker Sander (University of Applied Sciences Aachen) Exhibits and sponsorship chair: Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, ENS-Lyon) Conference coordination and registration: Zita Rozsa (ICST) Finance chair: Karen Decker (ICST) Webmaster: Jean-Christophe Mignot (CNRS, ENS-Lyon) -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=htzqgjovll and enter your email address. From Bertrand.Meyer at inf.ethz.ch Mon Mar 5 21:58:19 2007 From: Bertrand.Meyer at inf.ethz.ch (Bertrand Meyer) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:58:19 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] A central place to look up and announce CS events Message-ID: <45EC846B.5050300@inf.ethz.ch> Dear ECOOP community: Informatics Europe is offering a new service to conference goers, submitters and organizers: a list of events with an easy mechanism to add entries. Any computer science event with innovative content, held anywhere, is eligible. The service is at http://events.informatics-europe.org where you will already find a few entries about current events, although we expect many more in the coming weeks. 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Thanks, -- Bertrand Meyer From franconi at inf.unibz.it Tue Mar 6 13:39:25 2007 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 23:39:25 +1100 Subject: [ecoop-info] *20th* Description Logics workshop - Call for Papers Message-ID: <7328D99C-DE31-4EC7-B1E0-380687753E97@inf.unibz.it> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *20th* International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'07) CALL FOR PAPERS Brixen-Bressanone (near Bozen-Bolzano), Italy 8-10 June 2007 http://dl.kr.org/dl2007/ Paper submission DEADLINE: 23 MARCH 2007. The 2007 edition of the DL workshop will take place from the 8th to the 10th of June 2007 in Brixen-Bressanone (near Bozen-Bolzano), Italy. This is 80 Km south of Innsbruck (where the ESWC-07 conference will take place immediately before); direct train connections run every hour between Innsbruck and Brixen-Bressanone. Arrived this year to its 20th edition, DL is the major annual event of the description logics research community. The workshop is thought as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in the academy and industry, who are interested in description logics and in all their broad range of applications. Participants in the workshop will enjoy the invited talks by: * Hector Levesque * Alex Borgida * Renee J. Miller Moreover, Ron Brachman, John Mylopoulos and others will join us for a special event to celebrate the *20th* edition of the Description Lo- gics workshop! Students with accepted papers may apply to grants supporting travels within Europe (300 EUR) or from outside Europe (500 EUR). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 23 March 2007 Notification of acceptance: 27 April 2007 Camera ready papers due: 18 May 2007 DL'07 Workshop: 8-10 June 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics. Possible subjects include: -- Foundations of description logics, including distinguishing features of description logics with respect to other formalisms, expressive power of description logics, decidability and complexity of reasoning, and novel inference problems and reasoning techniques for solving these problems. -- Extensions of description logics, including, but not limited to, closed world reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages. -- Integration of description logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems. -- Use of description logics in applications or areas such as natural language, planning, learning, databases, document management, semistructured data, ontology design, ontology languages, ontology engineering, semantic web, and grid computing. -- Building systems based on description logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques. -- Tools that exploit description Logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite submissions of technical papers as extended abstracts of 8 pages, and submissions of statements of interest of 2 pages. The technical papers will be judged according to their scientific quality, while the statements of interest will be judged according to their scientific relevance. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings as extended abstract (8 pages), regular papers (12 pages), or as statements of interest (2 pages). The workshop proceedings will be distributed in paper form at the workshop, and will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series. Papers should follow the formatting and submission guidelines to be found at the workshop submissions web page, and should arrive by the paper submission deadline stated above. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Area chairs: Volker Haarslev (chair of the Systems and Tools area) Domenico Lembo (chair of the Database and Information Systems area) Boris Motik (chair of the Ontologies and Semantic Web area) Anni-Yasmin Turhan (chair of the Foundations and Theory area) PC members: * Aditya Kalyanpur * Alessandro Artale * Alex Borgida * Andrea Cali' * Bernardo Cuenca Grau * Bijan Parsia * Birte Glimm * Carlos Areces * Carsten Lutz * David Toman * Evren Sirin * Francesco Donini * Frank Wolter * Franz Baader * Grant Weddell * Ian Horrocks * Luciano Serafini * Luigi Palopoli * Maarten Marx * Maurizio Lenzerini * Michael Zakharyaschev * Peter F. Patel-Schneider * Ralf Kuesters * Ralf Moeller * Riccardo Rosati * Rob Shearer * Stefan Schlobach * Thomas Eiter * Thorsten Liebig * Ulrike Sattler * Umberto Straccia * Yevgeny Kazakov ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DL-07 COMMITTEE Alessandro Artale Raffella Bernardi Andrea Cal? Diego Calvanese Jos de Bruijn Enrico Franconi Rosella Gennari Davide Martinenghi Werner Nutt Sergio Tessaris David Toman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- VENUE The workshop will take place in the charming town of Brixen- Bressanone, near Bozen-Bolzano in South Tyrol at the heart of the Dolomites - the pink mountains of the Alps. Like Bozen-Bolzano, Brixen-Bressanone has always been a crossroads of various cultures and it is distinguished by its mediaeval Gothic architecture. The mediaeval alleys and the wealth of historical references are an ideal starting point for excursions into the countryside and for practising a whole variety of sports and leisure activities. Leaving directly from the town centre delegates can set off on their bikes or on foot for excursions into the surrounding hills and mountains. Brixen-Bressanone is on the main arterial road between Austria/Germany and Italy and it is easily accessible from everywhere by train, car, bus or plane. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2425 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20070306/0fa5672b/attachment-0001.bin From jules.white at gmail.com Tue Mar 6 16:12:09 2007 From: jules.white at gmail.com (Jules White) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:12:09 -0600 Subject: [ecoop-info] 27 Days to Go Until the MODELS Submission Deadline Message-ID: <7906c7db0703060712k3f598483mc070fc208e2b19f3@mail.gmail.com> =========================================================================== MODELS 2007 -- First Call for Contributions ACM/IEEE 10th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems September 30 - October 5, 2007 Nashville (TN), USA http://www.modelsconference.org/ =========================================================================== The past decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in advanced techniques for expressing design intent at a higher level of abstraction than third-generation programming languages and keeping abstract models of complex software systems in sync with the underlying code. MODELS 2007 (formerly the UML series of conferences) is the premier conference in model-driven approaches to software development. Scientific papers: We invite scientific research papers describing innovative research on model-driven engineering and other aspects of modeling in the development process. Experience papers: We invite experience papers that focus on reporting project experience with model-driven engineering. Please visit the conference website http://www.modelsconference.org/ for more information. IMPORTANT DATES Experience and Scientific Papers deadlines: Abstracts: March 19, 2007 Submissions: April 2, 2007 Workshop Proposals deadline: April 2, 2007 Tutorial Proposals deadline: May 1, 2007 Doctoral and Educators Symposiums, Vendor Tools Exhibits, Academic Posters and Demos, and Panels deadline: May 1, 2007 Submission guidelines are available from the website. Authors of best papers from the conference will be invited to revise and submit extended versions of their papers for publication consideration in a special issue of Software and Systems Modeling (Springer). Proposals for advanced workshops, tutorials and posters are requested. From iclp07-publicity at di.uevora.pt Tue Mar 6 10:59:23 2007 From: iclp07-publicity at di.uevora.pt (ICLP07 publicity) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:59:23 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] Second CFP: ICLP 2007 Doctoral Consortium Message-ID: <3EBD4E85-996D-414A-8E6C-E56C292FE293@di.uevora.pt> (apologies if you receive multiple copies) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Logic Programming Third Doctoral Consortium Porto, Portugal September 8-13, 2007 http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~epontell/DC2007 ----------- The 2007 ICLP Doctoral Consortium (DC) is the third international doctoral consortium to be offered as part of the International Conference on Logic Programming. The DC will take place during ICLP 2007 in Porto, Portugal. The Doctoral Consortium is designed for doctoral students working in areas related to logic programming, as well as Master's students interested in pursuing doctoral degrees in the field of logic programming. The Doctoral Consortium aims to provide students with an opportunity to present and discuss their research directions and to obtain feedbacks from peers as well as world-renown experts in the field. The Doctoral Consortium will also offer invited speakers and panels discussions. ------------ The Doctoral Consortium is held the during the regular activities of the ICLP 2007 Conference. The aims of the Doctoral Consortium are: * To provide doctoral students working in the field of logic and constraint programming with a friendly and open forum to present their research ideas, listen to ongoing work from peer students, and receive constructive feedback * To provide students with relevant information about important issues for doctoral candidates and future academics * To develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research. * To support a new generation of researchers with information and advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths. The Consortium is designed for students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program, though we are also open to exceptions (e.g., students currently in a Masters program and interested in doctoral studies). The Consortium is for students at any stage of their doctoral studies are welcome to apply. Applicants are expected to be conducting research in the field of Logic Programming; topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Theoretical Foundations of Logic and Constraint Logic Programming * Sequential and Parallel Implementation Technology * Static and Dynamic Analysis, Abstract Interpretation, Compilation Technology, Verification * Logic-based Paradigms (e.g., Answer Set Programming, Concurrent Logic Programming, Inductive Logic Programming) * Innovative Applications of Logic Programming The Consortium allows participants to interact with established researchers and with other students, through presentations, question- answer sessions, panel discussions, and invited presentations. The Doctoral Consortium will provide the possibility to reflect - through short activities, information sessions, and discussions - on the process and lessons of research and life in academia. Each participant will give a short, critiqued, research presentation. The Doctoral Consortium will be held on a date to be determined, in parallel with the regular activities of the ICLP 2007 conference; the ICLP conference will run from September 8th to September 13th, 2007. Doctoral Consortium participants will be offered the opportunity to have their abstracts published in the ICLP 2007 conference proceedings. Discussants: Several renowned faculty members and researchers in the field of Logic Programming will join in evaluating the submission packets and will participate in the Doctoral Consortium, providing feedback to the presenters. The list of the discussants will be published at a later date. -------- Detailed submission instructions can be found in the ICLP 2007 Doctoral Consortium web site, at: http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~epontell/DC2007 -------- Important Dates Submission Deadline: May 2nd, 2007 (strict) Acceptance Notification: May 20th, 2007 Last Date to Update Research Summary: June 5th, 2007 (strict) Doctoral Consortium: September 8-13, 2007 (TBA) ICLP 2006 Conference: September 8-13, 2007 ------------ Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Enrico Pontelli Ines de Castro Dutra Department of Computer Science COPPE/Sistemas New Mexico State University Universidade Federal do Rio MSC CS, Box 30001 de Janeiro Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA Rio de Janeiro, Brasil epontell _a_t_ cs.nmsu _dot_ edu ines _a_t_ cos.ufrj _dot_ br From K.Bogdanov at dcs.shef.ac.uk Mon Mar 5 22:25:08 2007 From: K.Bogdanov at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Kirill Bogdanov) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:25:08 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] RA post at the University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <45EC8AB4.2020807@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Post-Doc Research Associate, up to 15 months. Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield. The post holder will work in a team with another post-doc on an EPSRC-funded project ?Automated abstraction of code into a state-based specification and test generation?. One of the aims of the project is the development of methods for automated abstraction of Java/C++ code into partial X-machine specifications, using hints from a developer as a guide. On one extreme, these ?hints? can take a form of formal mappings taking a lot of work from a developer, on the other, without any hints, it is not even possible to determine the part of code to build a model from. For this reason, the main duty of the research assistant is to (a) identify practically-useful hints and (b) implement a tool to use them in order to construct a model of a program and perform test generation from this model. More information is at http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~kirill/autoabstract.html Candidates should hold a PhD (awarded or expected) in a relevant area and have an expertise in one or more of the following areas: (a) state-based systems, such as X-machines, Extended Finite-State Machines or Abstract State Machines, (b) testing techniques for state-based systems, (c) program analysis/model-checking techniques. Also required experience in writing software in a variety of languages; analytic, presentational and communication skills; effective interpersonal skills; ability to work effectively within the research team; proven capacity to work to and meet deadlines. The post is available until Oct 2008 with a flexible starting date and up to around 15 months duration. The post will be officially advertised soon, until then feel free to contact me if interested. -- Kirill. /**********************************************************\ * Dr. Kirill Bogdanov : * * K.Bogdanov at dcs.shef.ac.uk * * http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~kirill * \**********************************************************/ From jv at imm.dtu.dk Wed Mar 7 09:50:08 2007 From: jv at imm.dtu.dk (Joergen Villadsen) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:50:08 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CONTEXT'07, final reminder, March 15, 2007 Message-ID: <20070307085008.9A8F58A00C1@pfepc.post.tele.dk> CONTEXT'07: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS, deadline ***March 15, 2007*** Sixth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context http://context-07.ruc.dk/ August 20-24, 2007 - Roskilde University, Denmark See details about submission: - call for papers http://context-07.ruc.dk/cfp.html - submission page http://context-07.ruc.dk/submt.html CONTEXT'07 offers also a collection of 8 highly interesting workshops and a doctorial consortium with expected deadlines around May 15, three prominent invited speakers, and exciting social events yet to be announced. Follow links at http://context-07.ruc.dk/ From wwwiscis at metu.edu.tr Wed Mar 7 11:06:35 2007 From: wwwiscis at metu.edu.tr (ISCIS 2007) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:06:35 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP-ISCIS2007: 22nd International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2007) Message-ID: <45EE8EAB.2030304@metu.edu.tr> [We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] ********************************************************************** ******** I S C I S 2007 ******** ****** ****** **** 22nd International Symposium on **** *** Computer and Information Sciences *** ** ** * November 7-9, 2007 * * * * Cultural and Convention Center, * * Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey * * * * http://www.iscis.metu.edu.tr/ * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * ********************************************************************** We kindly invite you to submit papers for the twenty-second of the ISCIS series of conferences that bring together computer scientists and engineers from around the world. This year's conference will be held in METU, Ankara. There will be invited talks given by leading researchers, and oral and poster presentations in three main tracks: COMPUTER VISION, GRAPHICS AND INTELLIGENCE - Computational and Artificial Intelligence - Computer Vision - Pattern Analysis and Recognition - Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality - Human-Computer Interaction - Simulation and Modeling - Natural Language Understanding NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS - Computer networks - Parallel and Distributed Computing - Computer Architecture - Operating Systems - Security and Cryptography - Mobile computing - Reconfigurable computing systems - Sensor networks - Embedded systems DATA MANAGEMENT - Databases - Information Retrieval - Web Data Management - Web Information Systems - Multimedia DB's - Mining Data, Text, and the Web Keynote Speakers: _________________ Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK (http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/gelenbe/) Nick Jennings, University of Southampton, UK (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~nrj/ Ozgur Ulusoy, Bilkent University, Turkey (http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~oulusoy/ Important Dates: ________________ - Submission of full papers: May 14, 2007 - Notification of acceptance: July 14, 2007 - Camera-Ready copies due: August 4, 2007 - Author Registration deadline: August 6, 2007 Paper Submission and Publication: _________________________________ Authors are invited to submit manuscripts written in English. Papers must contain original work not published or under revision elsewhere. All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field based on originality, significance, quality, and clarity. Proceedings of the previous ISCIS conferences have been published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. While selected papers will be published in conference proceedings published by a prestigious publisher, we will provide the other papers with the opportunity for oral and poster presentations, which will be published on a CD-ROM. For submission instructions, and more information about the conference please refer to http://www.iscis.metu.edu.tr/. From andy at schuerrs.de Wed Mar 7 11:30:15 2007 From: andy at schuerrs.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andy_Sch=FCrr?=) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:30:15 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: AGTIVE Symposium on Graph/Model Transformation Applications with Industrial Relevance Message-ID: <45EE9437.6020405@schuerrs.de> ** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop and Symposium A G T I V E ' 0 7 http://www.se.eecs.uni-kassel.de/se/agtive07 Schlosshotel am Bergpark Wilhelmsh?he Kassel, Germany October 10 - October 12, 2007 The international workshop and symposium AGTIVE '07 is the third event of the Graph & Model Transformation community for researchers and industrial practitioners interested in the application of precisely defined and well-understood transformation techniques working on any kind of object-relational graph-like structures. It combines a traditional conference (symposium) program with open space workshop elements that give its participants the freedom to organize their own panels, discussion groups or even start joint software development activities. This year, AGTIVE'07 will put a special emphasis on the role graph transformation technology plays for model-driven system engineering languages, tools, and methods. Invited Talks * J. K?hler (IBM Z?rich): Model Transformation Languages & Tools, an Experience Report from Industry * I. Kurtev (University of Twente): State-of-the-Art of QVT, OMG's model transformation language standard SUBMISSION DEADLINE *** May 29, 2007 *** For further details please visit our web pages http://www.se.eecs.uni-kassel.de/se/agtive07 Hope to see you in Kassel, a very old German city, the name of which goes back to the German Tribe of the Chatti (first mentioned by Tacitus about 2000 years ago). The Organizers Manfred Nagl, Andy Sch?rr, and Albert Z?ndorf From pietriga at lri.fr Wed Mar 7 15:59:27 2007 From: pietriga at lri.fr (Emmanuel Pietriga) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:59:27 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] [Last CfP] 2007 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'07) Message-ID: <99184215-CA9B-454A-B5DE-692545CA7F63@lri.fr> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Submissions from authors who did not have time to submit an abstract will still be accepted up to the final deadline (March 20th), but we ask that you submit a title abstract and keywords as soon as possible to help us make preliminary reviewing assignments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- CALL FOR PAPERS 2007 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'07) Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA, 22-26 September 2007 http://vlhcc07.eecs.wsu.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- From the beginning of the computer age, researchers and computing practitioners have sought ways to make interactions with computers more human-oriented. For example, visual languages have long been used to provide effective communication between human and machine, and are successfully employed for end-user programming, modeling, rapid prototyping, and design by people of many disciplines including architects, artists, children, engineers, and scientists. In addition, visual languages and technologies are increasingly being used to facilitate human-human communication through Internet/Web technology and electronic mobile devices. The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for researchers andindustrial practitioners to discuss the theory, applications and evaluation of technologies, visual and otherwise, that enhance the role of humans in the computing process. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- SCOPE AND TOPIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on some aspect of human-centric computing technology, whether it be visual technology, text, sound, virtual reality, the Web, or other multimedia technologies. Research papers may address cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, formal aspects, taxonomies, implementation work, tool support, and empirical studies. We also solicit short papers detailing work in progress or tool demonstrations. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Empirical Studies of human-centric software technologies * Languages and tools for end-user software development * Languages and tools for domain-specific software development * Multimedia systems * Multi-modal interaction * Design, theory, and application of visual programming languages * Software visualization and algorithm animation * Model-driven engineering (MDE) * Domain-specific languages (DSL) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- PAPER SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Authors are encouraged to submit: * standard papers reporting on research or experience, * short papers detailing work in progress or tool demonstrations. Standard papers may be up to eight pages in IEEE double-column format; short papers may be up to four pages in IEEE double-column format. Papers must be submitted electronically. All paper submissions will be reviewed by members of the international Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of VL/HCC'07, published by the IEEE Computer Society. The paper submission deadline is March 20, 2007. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Workshop/Tutorial proposals: 20 February 2007 Workshop/Tutorial decision: 6 March 2007 Paper submission: 20 March 2007 Notification of decision: 22 May 2007 Camera-ready copy: 19 June 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- GENERAL CHAIR Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University, USA. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Phil Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada. John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand. PUBLICITY CHAIR Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA, France WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL CHAIR Mark Minas, Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mark Apperley, University of Waikato, New Zealand Thomas Baar, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Alan Blackwell, University of Cambridge, UK Paolo Bottoni, Universita di Roma, Italy Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA Maria Francesca Costabile, Universita di Bari, Italy Gennaro Costagliola, Universita di Salerno, Italy Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Peter Eades, NICTA, Australia Gregor Engels, Universitaet Paderborn, Germany Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, UK Mark Gross, Carnegie Mellon University, USA John Grundy, University of Auckland, New Zealand John Howse, University of Brighton, UK Stefano Levialdi, Universita di Roma, Italy Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Australia Mark Minas, Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen, Germany James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Marian Petre, Open University, UK Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA, France Pablo Romero, Sussex University, UK Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University, USA Andy Sch?rr, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Shin Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan Steve Tanimoto, University of Washington, USA Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland Susan Wiedenbeck, Drexel University, USA Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Note to graduate students: VL/HCC'07 has applied for a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to cover travel expenses to attend the conference in Coeur d'Al?ne, Idaho, USA, on September 22-26, 2007. Eligibility for this funding is limited to students and other researchers from U.S. universities and research institutions; however, participants from outside the U.S. are encouraged to obtain other support to participate in this event. Details to be announced. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- [This CfP is also available in PDF] http://vlhcc07.eecs.wsu.edu/cfp.html#pdf -- Emmanuel Pietriga INRIA Futurs - Projet In Situ tel : +33 1 69 15 34 66 Bat 490, Universit? Paris-Sud fax : +33 1 69 15 65 86 91405 ORSAY Cedex FRANCE http://www.lri.fr/~pietriga From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed Mar 7 16:13:20 2007 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:13:20 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] Fw: 1st CfP: CONTEXT'07 workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Representation and Reasoning (C&O:RR-2007) Message-ID: <01be01c760cb$320674e0$76eaa8c0@alphaekts5r299> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The Third International Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Representation and Reasoning (C&O:RR-2007) http://www.c-and-o.net/ August 21, 2007, CONTEXT Workshop Program, Roskilde University, Denmark. OBJECTIVES The goal of this workshop is to bring people from the context and ontology communities together to discuss the approaches they use for information integration from the knowledge representation and reasoning perspective. Therefore, the workshop will push the cross-fertilization and exchange of ideas (e.g., which of the methods from the context community can be successfully adopted in the ontology community, and vice versa), and, hence, make their meeting mutually beneficial. TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: Information interoperability and reuse via multiple contexts and ontologies. Coordination of multiple contexts and ontologies. Modular ontologies. Logical formalisms for contexts and ontologies. Distributed reasoning algorithms for contexts and ontologies. Complexity of distributed reasoning for contexts and ontologies. Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies. Applications of reasoning with contexts and ontologies in the areas of semantic web, information retrieval, e-commerce, telecommunications, multimedia, content indexing, grid and peer-to-peer, pervasive computing and ambient intelligence. INVITED TALKS: 1. Frank Wolter University of Liverpool, UK http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~frank/ 2. David Robertson University of Edinburgh, UK http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/groups/ssp/members/dave.htm FORMAT, ATTENDANCE AND SUBMISSIONS The schedule assumes a one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components: keynote presentations, technical presentations, posters, and general discussion. Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers or statements of interest. Formatting and submission instructions will be published shortly on the workshop web-site, http://www.c-and-o.net/. Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers and statements of interest will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR WS http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/ IMPORTANT DATES May 28, 2007: Deadline for the submissions. June 25, 2007: Notification of acceptance/rejection. July 9, 2007: Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers. August 21, 2007: C&O:RR-2007, Roskilde University, Denmark. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1.Paolo Bouquet University of Trento, Italy 2.Jerome Euzenat INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France 3.Chiara Ghidini Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy 4.Deborah L. McGuinness Stanford University, USA 5.Valeria de Paiva Palo Alto Research Center, USA 6.Luciano Serafini Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy 7.Pavel Shvaiko University of Trento, Italy 8.Holger Wache University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Thanks for your time and cooperation! -------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko PostDoc, University of Trento Dept. of Information and Communication Technology Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY Tel: +39 0461 883386; Fax: +39 0461 882093 Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.c-and-o.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20070307/a147e043/attachment-0001.htm From info at icstconferences.org Wed Mar 7 18:22:11 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:22:11 -0500 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - Update on CHINACOM 2007 Message-ID: 1. Conference proceeding to be indexed by EI 2. Relevant papers to be considered for journal publication 3. Student travel grants available ========================================================== My apology if you receive multiple copies of this message. ========================================================== CHINACOM 2007 Call For Papers August 22-24, 2007, Shanghai, China - http://www.chinacom.org Co-Sponsors: Create-Net ICST Technical Sponsors: IEEE IEEE MTT-S IEEE CAS IEEE CVTC Shanghai Jiao Tong University Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: March 15th, 2007 Notification: May 31st, 2007 Camera Ready: June 30th, 2007 Conference: August, 22-24, 2007 All ACCEPTED and PRESENTED papers will be included in the CHINACOM 2007 Conference Proceedings and made available in IEEExplore Digital Library and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Selected papers from CHINACOM2007 will be considered for Computer Networks and Ad Hoc Networks. Relevant papers will also be considered for a special issue on Advanced in Wireless Mesh Networks, ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET). CHINACOM is being positioned as the premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental research advances in the field of Communications, Networks, and Internet Applications. The conference will consist of Technical Symposia and Workshops. PAPERS: The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit papers to the following symposia: - Frontiers on Communications and Networking - Optical Communications and Networking - Wireless Communications and Networking - Advances in Internet - Communication Theory and Signal Processing for Communications - Networking Security and Information Assurance PANELS/WORKSHOPS: Proposals for panels/workshops are solicited. Potential chairs are requested to submit a proposal to one of the panel/workshop Chairs by March 15th, 2007 for review (leizd at i2r.a-star.edu.sg; bernard.uguen at univ-rennes1.fr; haifeng.wang at nokia.com; wasim.malik at eng.ox.ac.uk). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in IEEE conference proceedings format, which are limited to 5 two-column pages in a 10-points font. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please submit the paper through the COCUS System,http://cocus.info. Visit the conference website http://www.chinacom.org/submission.shtml for detailed submission requirements and procedures. STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: Applications are invited from qualified graduate students. Up to 10 awards are expected. GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Wenjun Zhang, Vice President, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo GENERAL Vice CO-CHAIRS Jianping Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Honggang Zhang, Create-Net TPC CO-CHAIRS Andreas F. Molisch, MERL/Lund University Xiaodong Wang, Columbia University Matti Latva-aho,University of Oulu SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Zhihua Guo, Lenovo Stefan Mangold, Swisscom Innovations Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa Indra Widjaja, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Yikai Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo Petri Mahonen, RWTH Aachen University Chonggang Wang, University of Arkansas Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Junzhong Gu, East China Normal University Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University Thomas Kaiser, Leibniz University of Hannover Zongxin Wang, Fudan University Mischa Dohler, France Telecom Zhenfu Cao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Peter Stavroulakis, Technical University of Crete Radha Poovendran, University of Washington STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Yabin Ye, Create-Net Zheng Zhou, BUPT Bo Li, HKUST WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Haifeng Wang, Nokia Wasim Q. Malik, Oxford University PANELS CO-CHAIRS Zhongding Lei, I2R Bernard Uguen, Universit? de Rennes 1 PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Marina Petrova, RWTH Aachen University Teck Yoong Chai, I2R PUBLICATION CHAIR Chunsheng Xin, Norfolk State University Bin Wang, Wright State University LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CO-CHAIRS Xiaokang Yang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shenghong Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University INTERN. ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Zsuzsi Kaszab, ICST INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology Yeheskel (Zeke) Bar-Ness, NJIT Bob Brodersen, UC Berkeley Junliang Chen, BUPT Roberto Coisson, Italian Embassy in China Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University Byeong Gi Lee, Seoul National University Jintong Lin, BUPT Guangnan Ni, Inst. of Computing Technology Hequan Wu, Chinese Academy of Engineering Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=htzqgjovll and enter your email address. From akan at eee.metu.edu.tr Wed Mar 7 20:45:54 2007 From: akan at eee.metu.edu.tr (Ozgur B. Akan) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:45:54 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: Special Issue on "Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks " Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal Message-ID: <45EF1672.3090806@eee.metu.edu.tr> [We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers COMPUTER NETWORKS JOURNAL (ELSEVIER) Special Issue on WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA SENSOR NETWORKS Submission deadline: April 30, 2007 _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have recently been the focus of a significant amount of attention and effort of the research community. The main motivation has been to address the challenges posed by the WSN paradigm, i.e., limited node power, processing, and communication capabilities, dense network deployment, multi-hop communications, and heterogeneous application-specific requirements. The vast majority of these studies applies to conventional WSN applications which need reliable and efficient communication of scalar event features and sensor data such as temperature, pressure, humidity. With the availability of low-cost small-scale imaging sensors, CMOS cameras, microphones, which may ubiquitously capture multimedia content from the field, Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN) have been proposed and drawn the immediate attention of the research community. WMSN applications, e.g., multimedia surveillance networks, target tracking, environmental monitoring, and traffic management systems, require effective harvesting and communication of event features in the form of multimedia such as audio, image, and video. To this end, additional challenges for energy-efficient multimedia processing and communication in WMSN, i.e., heterogeneous multimedia reliability definitions, tight QoS expectations, and high bandwidth demands, must be addressed as well. This special issue solicits papers describing the state-of-the-art, reliable and efficient multimedia processing and delivery solutions imperative for the realization of WMSN. Original contributions (previously unpublished and not currently under review) are solicited in areas including (but not limited to) the following: * Novel WMSN architectures and applications * Protocols for real-time, reliable multimedia streaming in WMSN * Energy-efficient MAC, routing, and traffic management for WMSN * Cross-layer design for effective communications in WMSN * Low-bit rate and energy-efficient multimedia source coding for WMSN * Joint multimedia processing and communication solutions for WMSN * Distributed source coding and multimedia processing in WMSN * Information fusion and multimedia aggregation in WMSN * Group and cooperative communications for multimedia delivery in sensor/actor networks * WMSN capacity modeling and theoretical analysis * Delay-tolerant networking for WMSN * Topology control, localization, synchronization, and mobility * Physical layer technologies for efficient WMSN * Secure multimedia communications in WMSN * Experimental and testbed studies of WMSN Submission Instructions and Important Dates: ____________________________________________ Prospective Authors: Please follow Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal format described at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comnet, and submit your papers to the online submission and reviewing system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/comnet. Please select Article Type: Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. Papers must be in single- column format, double-spaced,and use at least 11pt fonts, and should not exceed 25 pages including references. Submission Deadline: April 30, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2007 Camera-Ready Papers Due: November 30, 2007 Online Publication Date: April 2008 Journal Publication Date: August 2008 Guest Editors: ____________________________________________ Ozgur B. Akan ( akan at eee.metu.edu.tr ) Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Nikil Jayant ( jayant at ece.gatech.edu ) Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA Pascal Frossard ( pascal.frossard at epfl.ch ) Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Qian Zhang ( qianzh at cse.ust.hk ) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong -- Dr. Ozgur B. Akan Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey 06531 Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 2304 E-mail: akan at eee.metu.edu.tr http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan From dimitra at email.arc.nasa.gov Wed Mar 7 22:46:40 2007 From: dimitra at email.arc.nasa.gov (Dimitra Giannakopoulou) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:46:40 -0800 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: SAVCBS'07 at ESEC/FSE 2007 Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20070307134515.058d4eb0@gate.arc.nasa.gov> CALL FOR PAPERS: SAVCBS'07 Workshop at ACM ESEC/FSE 2007, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 3-4 2007 http://www.cs.iastate.edu/SAVCBS/ The sixth workshop on specification and verification of component-based systems is affiliated with ACM ESEC/FSE 2007 and will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, during September 3-4, 2007. Eight page papers are due on June 15, 2007. Details on paper submission follow a general description of the workshop below. THEME AND TOPICS OF INTEREST SAVCBS is focused on using formal (i.e., mathematical) techniques to establish a foundation for the specification and verification of component-based systems. Specification techniques are urgently needed to support effective reasoning about systems composed from components. Component-based approaches also underscore the need for scaling advanced verification techniques such as extended static analysis and model checking to the size of real systems. The workshop will consider formalization of both functional and non-functional behavior (such as performance or reliability). Suggested research topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Techniques for component-based verification or reasoning * Component-based specification languages * Static analysis of components and component compositions * Verification-oriented design methodologies for components * Dynamic checking techniques, including run-time assertion or property checking * Specification and verification of non-functional component behavior (performance, memory, concurrency, etc.) * Unifying formal descriptions of concurrency properties with model-based behavioral descriptions of components * Balancing tradeoffs (automatic/manual verification, soundness/completeness, static/dynamic verification, testing/formal verification, scalability/coverage, etc.) * Theories of component composition * Industrial experience, such as adoption issues, with formal techniques for component-based systems * Case studies of applying formal techniques to component based systems * Educational experience or tactics for formal approaches to component-based systems We are soliciting position papers from researchers and practitioners in the areas of component-based software engineering and formal methods. Submissions should outline the current state of research or practice, describe the most pressing shortcomings, and formulate goals for future development. CHALLENGE PROBLEM One session during the workshop will be devoted to presenting solutions (full or partial) to a challenge problem. This problem presents features that pose difficulties for current specification technologies. The session will be open both to presenters as well as participants of the workshop. Details on the challenge problem are posted at http://www.cs.iastate.edu/SAVCBS/2007/challenge.shtml . Solutions should illustrate innovative features of specification or verification as they pertain to this particular problem. SUBMISSIONS / PUBLICATION Invitation to the workshop will be based on accepted position papers. An ideal position paper would identify new research topics, areas, or problems related to component-based software engineering. It should address the following questions. * What is the problem (or topic or area) that is being described? * What is the significance of the problem for component-based software engineering? * What theoretical or practical insights might help to solve this problem? * What related work is there about the problem and the theoretical approach? How does it compare? Important dates: Submission deadline: June 15, 2007 Notification date: July 15, 2007 Final versions: August 23, 2007 Details: Submissions must not exceed 8 pages, including figures and bibliographical references. We encourage, but do not require, use of the ACM Conference format. We also suggest that you add page numbers to your submission, to make adding comments easier. Papers will be accepted in PDF or P