[TCDP] IEEE TC on Distributed Computing Newsletter, December 2008 [http://tab.computer.org/tcdp/] Table of Contents * Call for Paper, MASS 2009, Macau SAR, P.R.China * Call for Paper, MASCOTS 2009, Imperial College London, UK * Call for Paper, DCOSS 2009, Marina Del Rey, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 6th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems October, 5-8, 2009, Macau SAR, P.R.C. http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/mass09 * Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing * Topics of Interest Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of (mobile) ad-hoc networks and wireless sensor networks (WSN), systems and applications. Topics include, but are not limited to: * MAC layer design for ad-hoc networks and WSNs * MAC protocols (802.11, 802.15.4, UWB) * Directional / smart antennas * Multi-channel, multi-radio and MIMO technologies * Wireless mesh networks and cognitive networks * P2P, overlay, and content distribution architectures for ad-hoc and sensor networks * Delay tolerant networks and opportunistic networking * Vehicular networks and protocols * Mobile/robotic sensor networks * Power-aware architectures, algorithms and protocols design * Clustering, topology control, coverage and connectivity * Routing protocols (unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast) * Data transport and management in WSNs * Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination in WSNs * Localization and synchronization in WSNs * Cooperative sensing in WSNs * Capacity planning and admission control in ad-hoc and sensor networks * Handoff / mobility management and seamless internetworking * Resource management and wireless QoS Provisioning * Cross layer design and optimization * Reliability, resiliency and fault tolerance techniques * Security, privacy, and trust issues * Operating systems and middleware support * Novel applications and architectures for WSNs * Modeling, analysis and performance evaluation * Measurements and experience from experimental systems and test-beds * Submission Guidelines All submissions must be full papers in PDF format and uploaded on EDAS. Abstract registration due: March 25, 2009 (Wed). They must not exceed 10 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10 pt size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages in IEEE style format. Detailed formatting and submission guidelines will be available on the conference website. * Important Dates Abstracts Due: March 25, 2009 (Wed) Manuscript Due: March 31, 2009 (Tue) Acceptance Notification: June 28, 2009 (Sun) Camera-ready Submission: July 24, 2009 (Fri) * Committees Honorary Chair Wei Zhao, University of Macau General Chair Lionel M. Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Program Co-Chairs Doug Blough, Georgia Tech Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong TPC Sub-Area Chairs Algorithms and Theory Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR MAC and Cross-Layer Technologies Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Data Management and Information Processing Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University Protocols, Systems and Applications Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University Workshop Chair Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa Finance and Registration Chair Anup Kumar, University of Louisville Publication Chair Dajin Wang, Montclair State University Publicity Co-Chair Guihai Chen, Nanjing University Local Arrangements Co-Chairs Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong Steering Committee Chair Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati Chair of IEEE TC on Distributed Processing Jie Wu, US National Science Foundation Chair of IEEE TC on Simulation Dave Cavalcanti, Phillips Research ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MASCOTS 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems September 21-23, 2009 South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, UK http://mascots2009.doc.ic.ac.uk/ The MASCOTS conference is a well-established international forum for state-of-the-art research on measurement, modelling and performance analysis of computer systems and communication networks. The 17th annual meeting of MASCOTS will be held at the South Kensington Campus of Imperial College London, UK. The conference will bring together academics and industry practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results. The technical programme for the 3-day conference will include keynote talks, refereed papers, and posters. The fourth International workshop on Practical Applications of Stochastic Modelling (PASM) will be held jointly with MASCOTS, on September 24: http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/nigel.thomas/PASM09.html We encourage researchers world-wide to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance which have not been published elsewhere. The conference proceedings for MASCOTS 2009 will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. -----PAPERS----- MASCOTS 2009 seeks original technical papers describing research in the areas of computer systems and network performance evaluation. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: * Computer Architecture * Distributed/Parallel Systems * Computer Networks * Heterogeneous Systems * Industrial Practice and Experience * Internetworking Protocols * Multi-core Systems * Multimedia Systems * Performance Evaluation Methodologies * Pervasive Web and Mobility * Sensor Networks * Software and Operating Systems * Storage Systems * Web-based Systems * Wireless Networks Submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size no less than 10 point. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in any other conference or journal. Accepted papers for MASCOTS 2009 will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. Authors of highly-ranked papers may be invited to submit extended versions of their work to appropriate IEEE or ACM journals. ------POSTERS----- Posters provide a forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent work, and to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Material submitted as a full paper may also be submitted as a poster paper; if the full papers is accepted the poster will not be considered. Poster paper submissions may be up to two pages in length, excluding references, formatted as described in the submission page. Accepted poster papers will be allocated up to three pages in the conference proceedings. -----IMPORTANT DATES----- March 27, 2009 ¨C Abstract submission April 3, 2009 ¨C Paper submission April 30, 2009 ¨C Poster Submission May 20, 2009 ¨C Acceptance Notification June 10, 2009 ¨C Camera Ready Submission -----SUBMISSION----- Authors should submit manuscripts by the above deadlines by following the instructions on the conference web site. ----ORGANISERS----- Conference General Chairs Tony Field Imperial College London, UK George Riley Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Program Chairs James M. Conrad University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA William Knottenbelt Imperial College London, UK Proceedings Chair Jeremy Bradley Imperial College London, UK Publicity Chair Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Local Arrangements Chairs Nicholas Dingle Uli Harder Imperial College London, UK Programme Committee Ismail Ari (HP Labs) Marta Beltran (Rey Juan Carlos University) Jeremy Bradley (Imperial College London) Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University) Ken Christensen (University of South Florida) Lucia Cloth (University of Twente) Dror Feitelson (Hebrew University) Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary) Stephen Gilmore (University of Edinburgh) Garth Goodson (Network Appliance) Kanchi Gopinath (Indian Institute of Science) Marco Gribaudo (University of Turin) Peter Harrison (Imperial College London) Felix Hernandez-Campos (Google) Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh) Andras Horvath (University of Turin) Stephen Jarvis (University of Warwick) Nikolai Joukov (IBM) Bharat Joshi (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Helen Karatza (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki) Peter King (Heriot-Watt University) Pieter Kritzinger (University of Cape Town) Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary) Ellen Liu (University of Manitoba) Catalina Llado (University of the Balearic Islands) Darrell Long (University of California at Santa Cruz) Anirban Mahanti (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) Daniel Menasce (George Mason University) Ethan Miller (University of California at Santa Cruz) David Nicol (UIUC) Jianping Pan (University of Victoria) Dave Parker (University of Oxford) Naresh Patel (Network Appliance) Alma Riska (Seagate) Bianca Schroeder (University of Toronto) Thomas Schwarz (Santa Clara University) Kai Shen (University of Rochester) Mark Squillante (IBM) Nigel Thomas (University of Newcastle) Kishor Trivedi (Duke University) Rob van der Mei (CWI Amsterdam) Aad van Moorsel (University of Newcastle) Adam Wierman (Cal Tech) John Wilkes (Google) Carey Williamson (University of Calgary) Andrew Willis (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Soraya Zertal (University of Versailles) Xiaoyun Zhu (HP Labs) Steering Committee Dharma Agrawal (U. of Cincinnati, USA) Kallol Bagchi (U. of Texas at El Paso, USA) Thomas Braunl (U. of Western Australia, Australia) Giovanni Chiola (Universitat di Genova, Italy) Doug DeGroot (U. of Leiden, Netherlands) Patrick Dowd (U. of Maryland, USA) Jozo Dujmovic (San Francisco State U., USA) David Finkel (Worcester Polytechnic Inst., USA) Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA) Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College, UK) Darrell Long (U. of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Marco Marsan (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) George Riley (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA) Herb Schwetman (Mesquite Inc., USA) Kishor Trivedi (Duke U., USA) Jean Walrand (U. of California at Berkeley, USA) ------CATION----- Imperial College¡¯s South Kensington campus is located in the heart of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, a quiet and green part of the capital, yet close to several of London's major cultural landmarks. Imperial is next door to the Natural History Museum, the Royal Albert Hall, the Albert Memorial, the Science museum and the Victoria and Albert museum. Hyde Park, Kensington Palace and Harrods are a short walk away. London's other major attractions, including Buckingham Palace, the Palace of Westminster, the West End and Covent Garden can be reached in a few minutes by bus, tube (metro) or taxi. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING IN SENSOR SYSTEMS (DCOSS) June 7 - 10, 2009, Marina Del Rey, USA -----IMPORTANT DATES----- Submission Deadline: 11:59PM EST Jan 25, 2009 Notification: March 24, 2009 Camera Ready: March 31, 2009 -----Overview----- Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities. Such systems allow intelligent dense monitoring of physical environments. The focus of this conference is on distributed computing issues in large-scale networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications, systematic design techniques and tools, and in-network signal and information processing). Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Computation and programming models * Energy models, minimization, awareness * Distributed collaborative information processing * Detection and tracking * Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability * Abstractions for modular design * Fault tolerance and security * Languages, operating systems * Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration * Dynamic resource management * Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) * Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives * Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation * Design automation and application synthesis techniques * closed-loop control for sensing and actuation * Case studies: lessons from real world deployments * Network coding and compression Detailed submission guidelines coming soon. -----Organization Committee----- General Co-Chairs Viktor K. Prasanna, Univ. of Southern California, USA Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA Vice General Chair Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Program Chair Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Univ. of Southern California, USA Program Vice-Chairs Subhash Suri (Algorithms and Performance Analysis), Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA Wendi Heinzelman (Systems and Applications), Univ. of Rochester, USA Urbashi Mitra (Signal Processing and Information Theory), Univ. of Southern California, USA Program Committee (Algorithms and Performance Analysis) * Pankaj Agarwal, Duke University, USA * Jim Aspnes, Yale University, USA * Jit Bose, Carleton University, Canada * Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Amazon, USA * Carla Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy * Sandor Fekete, Braunschweig, Germany * Jie Gao, Stony Brook, USA * Martin Haenggi, University of Notre Dame, USA * Ravi Kannan, Microsoft, India * Sameer Khuller, University of Maryland, USA * Steve LaValle, UIUC, USA * Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan, USA * Paolo Santi, University of Pisa, Italy * Sanjay Shakkottai, University of Texas at Austin, USA * Peter Widmayer, ETH, Switzerland * Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Italy * Gil Zussman, Columbia University, USA Program Committee (Applications and Systems) * Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC, USA * Nael Abu-Ghazelah, Binghamton University, USA * Stefano Basagni, Northwestern University, USA * Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State University, USA * Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA * Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth College, USA * Mihaela Cardei, Floria Atlantic University, USA * Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA * Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia * Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany * Dilip Krishnaswamy, Qualcomm, USA * Cecilia Mascolo, Cambridge University, England * Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy * Joe Polastre, Sentilla, USA * Andreas Savvides, Yale University, USA * Curt Schurgers, UCSD, USA * Rajeev Shorey, GM Research, India * Krishna Sivalingam, UMBC, USA * Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA * Sameer Tilak, San Diego Supercomputer, UCSD, USA * Cedric Westphal, DoCoMo Labs, USA * Ying Zhang, Xerox PARC, USA Program Committee (Signal Processing and Information Theory) * Jean Francois Chamberland, Texas A&M University, USA * Alex Dimakis, California Institute of Technology, USA * Stark Draper, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA * Emre Ertin, Ohio State University, USA * John Fisher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Massimo Franchescetti, Univ. of California, San Diego, USA * Michael Gastpar, University of California, Berkeley, USA * Dennis Goeckel, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA * Prakash Ishwar, Boston University, USA * Tom Luo, University of Minnesota, USA * Ivana Maric, Stanford University, USA * Rob Nowak, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA * Antonio Ortega, University of Southern California, USA * Ashu Sabharwal, Rice University, USA * Anna Scaglione, University of California, Davis, USA * Aaron Wagner, Cornell University, USA * Qing Zhao, University of California, Davis, USA Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) Held in co-operation with ACM SIGARCH, ACM SIGBED, European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and IFIP WG 10.3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 An archive of previous TCDP Newsletters can be found at: http://tab.computer.org/tcdp/publications.html End of TCDP Newsletter, December 2008 ******************************************************************************