[TCDP] IEEE TC on Distributed Computing Newsletter, August 2006 Table of Contents * Important Dates, ICDCS 2007 * PerCom'07 Announcement, PerCom 2007 * Recent News about IEEE Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2006 * Proceedings Available at the Springer Website, DCOSS 2006 * Notification of Acceptance(August 20), MSN'06 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****************************************************************************** ICDCS 2007 The 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Toronto, Canada June 25-29, 2007 http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/icdcs07/ Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing ****************************************************************************** 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 * Algorithms and Theory * Autonomic Computing * Data Management * Fault-Tolerance and Dependability * Internet Computing and Applications * Network Protocols * Operating Systems and Middleware * Parallel, Cluster and GRID Computing * Peer to Peer * Security * Sensor Networks and Ubiquitous Computing * Wireless and Mobile Computing Workshops Workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference. Workshop proposals should be submitted to Workshops Chair Ling Liu by August 15, 2006. Notification of acceptance will be made by October 1, 2006. More information is available in the call for workshop proposals. Paper Submission Form of Manuscript: Not to exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5 x 11-inch pages (including figures, tables and references) in 10-12 point font. Number each page. Include an abstract, five to ten keywords, the technical area(s) most relevant to your paper, and the corresponding author's e-mail address. Electronic Submission: Submissions will be handled via the conference web page. The proceedings of the conference and the workshops will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Important Dates * Paper Submission: November 20, 2006 * Author Notification: March 1, 2007 * Final Manuscript Due: April 2, 2007 For further information, please contact the program chair. Tarek S. Abdelrahman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto tsa@eecg.utoronto.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PerCom'07 Announcement IEEE PerCom 2007 will be the fifth annual conference on the emerging area of pervasive computing and communications aimed at providing an exciting platform and paradigm for all the time, everywhere services. The conference will be held in New York city March 26-30, 2007. Paper submission deadline is September 1, 2006, and the notification date is November 25, 2006. For further information, please visit the following web site: http://www.cse.psu.edu/~hurson/percom2007/. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) 2006 October 9-12, 2006, Vancouver, Canada http://www.cse.fau.edu/mass2006/ Sponsored by: IEEE, Air Force, and NSF 07/25/2006: IEEE Copyright Form submission information now online. 07/23/2006: Conference sessions posted. 07/23/2006: Submission instructions for workshop papers updated. 07/22/2006: Formatting and submission instructions for the camera-ready manuscript posted. 07/11/2006: Registration information posted. Deadline: 08/19/2006. 07/06/2006: paper acceptance notifications will be sent on Friday, July 7th 2006. IMPORTANT DATES One-page demo descriptions: July 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance: July 20, 2006 Camera-ready manuscript: August 10, 2006 Conference dates: October 9-12, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2006 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '06) took place in San Francisco during June 18 - June 20, 2006. DCOSS '06 is intended to cover high-level aspects of distributed computing in sensor systems such as high-level abstractions, computational models, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, analysis and applications. The DCOSS 2006 proceedings are now available at the Springer website (LNCS 4026). For detailed Information on the proceeding. Please visit http://www.springeronline.com/3-540-35227-9 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN'06) 13-15 Dec 2006, Hong Kong, China http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/msn06 Organized and supported by Hong Kong Polytechnic University ----------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------- Important Dates: Submission deadline: Extended to 23 June, 2006 Notification of acceptacne: 20 Aug, 2006 * Final Manuscript due: 5 Sept, 2006 Conference: 13 - 15 Dec. 2006 Following the success of the first conference MSNĄŻ05, held in Wuhan, China, MSNĄŻ06 provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange research results and share development experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks: - Network architecture and protocols - Software platforms and development tools - Self-organization and synchronization - Routing and data dissemination - Failure resilience and fault isolation - Energy management - Data, information, and signal processing - Security and privacy - Network planning, provisioning, and deployment - Network modeling and performance evaluation - Developments and applications - Integration with other systems PUBLICATION --------------------- The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pending) and distributed at the conference. Selected papers of best quality will be published in a special issue at journal special issues. BEST PAPER AWARDS --------------------- The program committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award (all regular papers areeligible) and one winner for the Best Student Paper Award (only the regular papers whose firstauthor is a full-time student are eligible). Each winner will be presented at the conferencewith a certificate and US$100. KEYNOTE SPEECHES: --------------------- MSN'06 will feature three keynote speeches. Speakers and topics will soon be announced. ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTES -------------------------------- Advisory Committees Keith K.C. Chan, H.K. Polytechnic Univ., H.K. Marco Conti, IIT, CNR, Italy Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Lionel Ni, H.K. Univ. of Sci. & Tech., H.K. Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic Univ., USA General Co-Chairs Sajal K. Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA Xiaohua Jia, HK CityU Program Co-Chairs Jiannong Cao, HK PolyU Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Program Vice Co-Chairs - Physical layer, power, and other architecture issues Amiya Nayak, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada - Data link layer and MAC protocols Vojislav B. Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada - Routing and broadcasting Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain - Deployment, topology control, clustering, Paolo Santi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR, Italy - Transport layer, session layer protocols Soung-Chang Liew, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Data centric, tracking, and positioning protocols in sensor networks Eric Fleury, INRIA, France - Query processing, Middleware Jingyuan(Alex) Zhang, University of Alabama, USA - Security, privacy, and reliability Zhen Jiang, West Chester University, USA - Systems and applications Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, H.K. Progrma Committee Please see MSNĄŻ06 Website for the list of program committee members Publicity Co-Chairs Wei Lou, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. H.K. Isabelle Simplot-Ryl, Univ. Lille 1, France Yu Wang, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Local Organization Chair Allan Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. H.K. Publication Chair Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist Univ., H.K. Awards Co-Chairs Stephen Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Symeon Papavasileiou, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan Webmaster Hui Cheng (cshcheng@comp.polyu.edu.hk) ---------------------------------------- For more information, please contact: Prof. Jiannong Cao Deartment of Computing Hong Kong Polytechnic University Email: csjcao@comp.polyu.edu.hk Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic School of Information Technology and Engineering Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Email: ivan@site.uottawa.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join TCDP The TCDP welcomes IEEE Computer Society members with an interest in distributed computing. There are many ways to participate in TCDP activities. Please contact Dr. Jie Wu, TCDP chair, at jie@cse.fau.edu for more information. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Letter Editor: Prof. Jiannong Cao Department of Computing Hong Kong Polytechnic University Email: csjcao@comp.polyu.edu.hk ________________________________________ TCDP-announce mailing list TCDP-announce@ml.comp.polyu.edu.hk End of TCDP Newsletter, August 2006 ****************************************