[TCDP] IEEE TC on Distributed Computing Newsletter, December 2007 [http://tab.computer.org/tcdp/] Table of Contents * IPDPS 2008 Invited Speakers * ICDCS 2008 Conference * WoWMoM 2008 * CFP for NetEcon'08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IPDPS 2008 Conference 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium April 14-18, 2008 ~ Miami, Florida USA Invited Speakers Joel Saltz Department of Biomedical Informatics The Ohio State University Katherine Yelick NERSC Division Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and EECS Department, University of California at Berkeley Jeannette Wing Carnegie Mellon University and National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering Dror Feitelson School of Computer Science & Engineering The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Preliminary Call For Participation Join us in April 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Resort in Miami, Florida, known as the "Magic City" and recognized worldwide as an international cultural and business hub. IPDPS serves as a forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in the fields of parallel processing and distributed computing. The five-day program will follow the usual format of contributed papers, invited speakers, panels, tutorials, and commercial participation mid week, framed by workshops held on the first and last days. General Chair Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University and National Science Foundation, USA General Vice Chair Alessandro Mei, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Program Chair Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Sup¨¦rieure de Lyon, France IPDPS 2008 Important Dates July 1, 2007 New Workshop Proposals Due October 8, 2007 Final Deadline for Manuscripts (closed) November 15, 2007 Tutorial Proposals Due December 11, 2007 Review Decisions Mailed January 28, 2008 Camera-ready Papers Due For more details, please visit http://www.ipdps.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ICDCS 2008 Conference The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems June 17 - 20, 2008, Beijing, China ICDCS is an IEEE Computer Society sponsored premier conference with a wide coverage of topics in Distributed Computing. It has a long history of significant achievements and worldwide visibility. The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in any aspects of distributed and parallel computing. Areas of Interest * Theoretical Foundations * Data Management and Data Centers * Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems * Reliability and Dependability * Security and Privacy * Network Architectures and Protocols * Operating Systems and Middleware * Cyber-Infrastructure for Distributed Computing * Sensor Networks and Applications * Wireless and Mobile Computing * Multimedia Systems * Web-Based Distributed Computing For more details, please visit http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/icdcs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9th IEEE International Symposium on A WORLD of WIRELESS, MOBILE, and MULTIMEDIA NETWORKS IEEE WoWMoM 2008 June 23-27, 2008 Newport Beach/Irvine, California, USA http://wowmom08.ics.uci.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society The University of Texas at Arlington IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) Organized by University of California at Irvine, USA IEEE WoWMoM 2008 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards a world of wireless, mobile, and multimedia pervasive communications. The emergence of wireless network standards and their future evolutions offer exciting new opportunities for delivering rich multimedia content over wireless networks. Users will be able to seamlessly and ubiquitously accomplish their tasks such as accessing and retrieving information, communicating with other users or devices, exploiting advanced context-dependent services, and so on. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academy, duly documenting the lessons learned from test-beds, field-trial, or real deployments, are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - System prototypes and experiences - QoS for voice and video in wireless/mobile networks - Middleware support for QoS provision - Networking services for pervasive systems - Context-aware wireless multimedia applications - Location mechanism and services - Content management and distribution - IP-based wireless/mobile multimedia services - IP-based wireless/mobile networks - Multicasting and broadcasting issues - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Handoff and mobility management - Seamless internetworking and self-organization - Network management and control - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN, WAN, and RAN - Ad-hoc and mesh networks - Vehicular networks - Wireless Sensor Networks - Opportunistic Networking - Security, privacy and dependability - Pricing and accounting - Modeling and performance evaluation ----------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ----------------------------------- Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting will be provided on the website. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process managed by the technical program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. ----------------------------------- WORKSHOPS ----------------------------------- The IEEE WoWMoM 2008 technical program will also include one-day workshops on hot topics on wireless, mobile and multimedia networks. ----------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline:..................NOVEMBER 15, 2007 Notification of Paper Acceptance:...........February 15, 2008 Camera-ready Submission:.......................March 31, 2008 ----------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------------- GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Ramesh Jain, University of California at Irvine, USA Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California at Irvine, USA WORKSHOPS CHAIR: Roger Zimmerman, National University of Singapore, Singapore DEMO CHAIR: Shivajit Mohapatra, Motorola Research Labs, USA? INDUSTRIAL SESSION CHAIR: Anand Prasad, DoCoMo, USA? KEYNOTE CHAIR: Vincent Stanford, NIST, USA PANEL CHAIR: Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland FINANCE & REGISTRATION CHAIR: Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS Seon Ho Kim, University of Denver, USA Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS: Mario Di Francesco, University of Pisa, Italy Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Ricky Robinson, NICTA, Australia Wendong Xiao, I2R, Singapore LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS: Lichun Bao, University of California at Irvine, USA Athina Markopolou, University of California at Irvine, USA WEB DESIGNER & MANAGER: Bo Xing, University of California at Irvine, USA STEERING COMMITTEE: Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Sajal Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA (chair) Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers University, USA Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo, USA ----------------------------------- TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------------------------- Kevin Almeroth, University of California at S. Barbara, USA Nilanjan Banerjee, IBM Research Lab, India Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Edoardo Biagioni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Rome at Tor Vergata, Italy Chris Blondia, University of Antwerpen, Belgium Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Vinny Cahill, Trinity College, Ireland Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, USA Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Yong Cui, Tsing Hua University, China Igor Curcio, Nokia, Finland Murat Demirbas, SUNY at Buffalo, USA Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, USA Nikil Dutt, University of California at Irvine, USA Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California at Irvine, USA Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa, Italy Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Rajesh Gupta, University of California at San Diego, USA Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Albert Harris III, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Mahbub Hassan, University of New South Wales, Australia Vana Kalogeraki, University of California at Riverside, USA Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Kevin A. Kwiat, Airforce Research Lab, USA Qilian Liang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Haitao Lin, Nortel, USA Christoph Lindemann, University of Leipzig, Germany Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Giridhar Mandayam, Qualcomm, USA Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Refik Molva, Institut Eurecom, France Mirco Musolesi, Dartmouth College, USA Matt Mutka, Michigan State University, USA Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Jörg Ott, TKK/HUT, Finland Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy George Polyzos, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Alessandro Puiatti, SUPSI, Switzerland Fengyuan Ren, Tsing Hua University, China Ricky Robinson, NICTA, Australia Vasilios Siris, University of Crete, Greece Cormac J. Sreenan, University College of Cork, Ireland Vikram Srinivasan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Wendong Xiao, I2R, Singapore Yuan Xue, Vanderbilt University, USA Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA You-Chiun Wang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Gergely Zaruba, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS 2008 Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation (NetEcon'08) Co-located with the ACM Sigcomm'08 Conference http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/workshops/netecon/ The emergence of the Internet as a global platform for computation and communication has sparked the development and deployment of many large-scale networked systems. Often, these systems involve multiple stakeholders with divergent or even competing interests. Unmitigated selfish behavior in these systems can lead to high inefficiency or even complete collapse. Research interest in the application of economic and game-theoretic principles to the design and analysis of networked systems has grown in recent years. The NetEcon Workshop promotes multi-discplinary work and discussion about the role of incentives in communication and computation. Topics of interest to NetEcon'08 include, but are not limited to: * Use of incentives and economic mechanisms in peer-to-peer systems, grids, SPAM prevention, security, Internet routing and peering, wireless networks, and other computational systems * Algorithmic mechanism design * Methods for engineering incentives and disincentives (e.g., reputation, trust, control, accountability, anonymity, etc.) * Mathematical modeling and analysis of strategic behavior (or the lack thereof) in existing, deployed systems * Empirical studies of strategic behavior (or the lack thereof) in existing, deployed systems * Critique of existing models and solution concepts (as well as proposals of better models and solution concepts) * Privacy, security, and anonymity in incentive-compatible computational systems Information about NetEcon'06 and NetEcon'07 can be found at http://www.cs.duke.edu/nicl/netecon06/ and http://netecon-ibc.si.umich.edu/ respectively. Submission Instructions: Submission of both technical papers and position papers is encouraged. Submitted papers should contain original material: Papers that have already appeared in conference proceedings or journals or are currently under review are ineligible for consideration by NetEcon'08. If you have questions about the eligibility of a potential submission, please email the PC chairs at netecon08@cs.yale.edu. Papers will be selected based on both technical merit and potential to spark interesting discussion at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published by ACM SIGCOMM. Paper submissions should be at most 6 pages in length (not counting the bibliography) with 10pt fonts or larger. Additional information (including detailed proofs or experimental data) may be included in a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program-committee members. Proposals for panel discussions are also solicited. Panel proposals should be no longer than 2 pages in 10pt font or larger and should contain a brief topic description, a list of specific questions that the panel members will be expected to answer, the name and affiliation of the moderator, and a list of at least three potential panel members. (The final list of panelists need not be fixed before submission.) Submit papers and panel proposals electronically at the submission site: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6167 All submissions should be in PDF format only. If you are unable to produce a PDF submission or to upload your paper at the submission site, please email the PC chairs at netecon08@cs.yale.edu. Important Dates: * Submissions due: Friday, March 7, 2008 * Acceptance Notification: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 * Camera Ready Due: Friday, May 9, 2008 * Workshop: August 22, 2008 Workshop Web site: http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/workshops/netecon/ Program Chairs: Joan Feigenbaum Department of Computer Science Yale University 51 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511 USA Phone: +1-203-432-6432 Fax: +1-203-432-6373 e-mail: joan.feigenbaum@yale.edu Y. Richard Yang Department of Computer Science Yale University 51 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511 USA Phone: +1-203-432-6400 Fax: +1-203-432-0593 e-mail: yry@cs.yale.edu NetEcon '08 Program Committee: * Kevin Almeroth (UC Santa Barbara) * Lorenzo Alvisi (U. of Texas at Austin) * Jeff Chase (Duke) * Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge) * Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech) * Michal Feldman (Hebrew University) * Daniel Grosu (Wayne State) * Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL) * John C.S. Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong) * Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft Research, Redmond) * Jean-Phillipe Martin (Microsoft Research, UK) * Tim Roughgarden (Stanford) * Rahul Sami (U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor) * R. Srikant (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign) * Xiaowei Yang (U. of California at Irvine) * Sheng Zhong (SUNY Buffalo) NetEcon Steering Committee: * David Parkes (committee chair, Harvard) * Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech) * Emin Gun Sirer (Cornell) * John Chuang (Berkeley) * Joan Feigenbaum (Yale) * Daniel Grosu (Wayne State) * Paul Spirakis (University of Patras) * Milan Vojnovic (Microsoft) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join TCDP The TCDP welcomes IEEE Computer Society members with an interest in distributed computing. There are many ways to participate in TCDP activities. 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