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[P2P] Deadline Extension: CfP Special Issue on Experimental Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Applications
by Claudia CANALI 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp] ======================================================================= === Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (ISI indexed) === === Special Issue Call for Papers === ======================================================================= === Experimental Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Applications === ======================================================================= Deadline extended to July 24, 2011 Journal web page at: http://www.springer.com/12083 Peer-to-peer applications produce nowadays a significant fraction of the whole Internet traffic. The peer-to-peer paradigm is not only used for file sharing and content dissemination but also for live video broadcasting, multiparty interactive gaming, as well as for large scale VoIP and teleconferencing applications. Existing peer-to-peer applications and protocols have been designed for peers running in normal PCs equipped with a broadband connection to the Internet. However, the emerging scenario is much more complex and heterogeneous, including a variety of terminals (PDAs, NAS boxes, etc.) and access networks (xDSL, Wi-Fi, WiMax, WMNs, etc.) Simulation has been the most widely used approach for performance evaluation of peer-to-peer applications because it represents a fast and inexpensive way to test novel solutions. Nonetheless, the growing complexity and heterogeneity of the emerging scenario for peer-to-peer applications has made it necessary to validate models and simulation results through experimental evaluation in realistic settings. This need is testified by the recent trend of conducting evaluation of peer-to-peer applications in large scale testbeds (e.g. PlanetLab) as well as in the real world (e.g. by collecting data from existing BitTorrent trackers or by participating in real peer-to-peer networks with instrumented peers). This special issue strives to collect recent advances and emerging methodologies in the experimental evaluation of peer-to-peer applications, with the aim of comparing advantages and limitations of different evaluation approaches and highlighting novel features to be implemented in next-generation large-scale experimental facilities to better support the evaluation of peer-to-peer applications. Papers simply presenting experimental facilities will be considered out of scope. The topics of interest for the special issue include, but are not limited to: - Methodological issues in the experimental evaluation of peer-to-peer applications and protocols - Statistical analysis of experimental data gathered from real world peer-to-peer applications - Validation of simulation models and analytic models based on large-scale experimental testbeds - Evaluation of peer-to-peer applications with regard to non-functional requirements, such as performance, scalability, fault tolerance, availability and accessibility - Evaluation of peer-to-peer applications and protocols in wireless multi-hop networks To avoid delays, authors of submissions that, in the opinion of the editors, fall out of scope of this issue will be notified promptly. ======================================================================= SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS ======================================================================= Prof. Roberto Canonico (roberto.canonico(a)unina.it) Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy Dr. Claudia Canali (claudia.canali(a)unimore.it) Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Dr. Walid Dabbous (walid.dabbous(a)inria.fr) INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France ======================================================================= JOURNAL EDITORS ======================================================================= Editor-in-Chief Xuemin (Sherman) Shen University of Waterloo, Canada Associate Editor-in-Chief Heather Yu Huawei Technologies, USA ======================================================================= IMPORTANT DATES ======================================================================= Paper submission deadline: July 24, 2011 Notification to authors: October 15, 2011 Revisions: December 15, 2011 Date of publication: 2012 ======================================================================= PAPER SUBMISSION ======================================================================= Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. Manuscripts should be submitted through the "Editorial Manager" online submission system available at: http://PPNA.edmgr.com. Choose P2P Experimental Evaluation as the article type. ======================================================================= Journal ISSN: 1936-6442 (print), 1936-6450 (electronic)

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[P2P] Call for papers - DASC2011 (Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing)
by Jinjun Chen 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Call for papers: DASC2011 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Dec.12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dasc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/ Workshop Proposal: Ongoing as received (to workshop chairs listed on the website) Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Computer and System Sciences and others. =========== Introduction As computer systems become increasingly large and complex, their Dependability, Security and Autonomy play critical role at supporting next-generation science, engineering, and commercial applications. These systems consist of heterogeneous software/hardware/network components of changing capacities, availability, and in varied contexts. They provide computing services to large pools of users and applications, and thus are exposed to a number of dangers such as accidental/deliberate faults, virus infections, malicious attacks, illegal intrusions, and natural disasters etc. As a result, too often computer systems fail, become compromised, or perform poorly and therefore untrustworthy. Thus, it remains a challenge to design, analyze, evaluate, and improve the dependability and security for a trusted computing environment. Trusted computing targets computing and communication systems as well as services that are autonomous, dependable, secure, privacy protect-able, predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable and sustainable. The scale and complexity of information systems evolve towards overwhelming the capability of system administrators, programmers, and designers. This calls for the autonomic computing paradigm, which meets the requirement of self-management by providing self-optimization, self-healing, self-configuration, and self-protection. As a promising means to implement dependable and secure systems in a self-managing manner, autonomic computing technology needs to be further explored. On the other hand, any autonomic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trusted and autonomic computing and communications need synergistic research efforts covering many disciplines, ranging from computer science and engineering, to the natural sciences to the social sciences. It requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software, system architectures, and communication systems that support the effective and coherent integration of the constituent technologies. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: #Autonomic Computing Theory, Models, Architectures and Communications #Dependable Automatic Control Techniques and Systems #Cloud Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment #Dependability Models and Evaluation Algorithms #Dependable Sensors, Devices, Electronic-Mechanical Systems, Optic-Electronic Systems, Embedded Systems, etc. #Self-improvement in Dependable Systems #Self-healing, Self-protection and Fault-tolerant Systems #Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing #Software Engineering for Dependable Systems #Safety-critical Systems in Transportation, Power System, etc. #Security Models and Quantifications #Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, PaaS, etc. #Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security #DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection #Context-aware Access Control #Virus Detections and Anti-virus Techniques/Software #Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War #Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems #Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing #QoS in Communications and Services Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the DASC2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and other quality journals. General Chairs Jennifer Seberry, University of Wollongong, Australia Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Workshop Chairs Xiao Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Jemal Abbawajy, Deakin University, Australia Publicity Chairs Jiankun Hu, UNSW@ADFA, Australia Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

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[P2P] Call for papers and workshops - PICom2011 (Pervasive Intelligence and Computing)
by Jinjun Chen 10 Jun '11

10 Jun '11

Call for papers: PICom2011 - 9th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Dec.12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/picom2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/sub/ Workshop Proposal: Ongoing as received (to workshop chairs listed on the website) Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; or International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. =========== Introduction Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from logic-based artificial intelligence, nature-inspired soft computing, social-oriented agent technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing. PICom2011 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Conferences on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom), previously held as PCC-03 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2003), PCC-04 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2004), PSC-05 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2005), PCAC-06 (Vienna, Austria, April 2006), PCAC-07 (Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007), IPC-07 (Jeju, Korea, December 2007), IPC-08 (Sydney, Australia, December 2008), PICom-09 (Chengdu, China, December 2009). PICom2011 is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: # Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Computing # Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems # Nature-inspired Intelligence & Soft Computing # Social Intelligence & Agent-based Computing # Ubiquitous Intelligence & Cyber-Physical Computing # The Internet of Things # Embedded Hardware, Software & Systems # Pervasive Computers and Devices, Wearable Computers, RFIDs, Sensor technology # Pervasive Networks & Communications # Pervasive Services & Systems, EaaS, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS # Multimedia Technologies & Applications # Intelligent HCI Design # Pervasive Electronic Market Management # Pervasive Mobile Commerce # Handheld Computing Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the DASC2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~dasc11/sub/. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (pending). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; or International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. General Chairs Max Ott, NICTA, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia Workshop Chairs Mohamed Gaber, University of Portsmouth, UK Alan Colman, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Publicity Chairs Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan Steering Chairs Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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[P2P] Call for papers and workshops - SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications)
by Jinjun Chen 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2011 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011 Workshop Proposal: Ongoing as received (to workshop chairs listed on the website) Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce; Social Science Computer Review; or Computers in Human Behavior. =========== Introduction Social computing is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and social contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised where people interact socially via computing space. Such applications have been profoundly impacting social behaviour and life style of human beings while pushing the boundary of computing technology simultaneously. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as privacy protection, touch-screen based HCI design, and modelling of social behaviour in computing space still remain challenging. SCA (Social Computing and its Applications) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing and broadly related areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of social computing · Modelling of social behaviour · Social network analysis and mining · Computational models of social simulation · Web 2.0 and semantic web · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models · Modelling of social conventions and social contexts · Social cognition and social intelligence · Social media analytics and intelligence · Group formation and evolution · Security, privacy, trust, risk in social contexts · Social system design and architectures · Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology · Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling · Handheld/mobile social computing · Service science and service oriented interaction design · Cultural patterns and representation · Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets · Connected e-health in social networks · Social policy and government management · Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum · Business social software systems · Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments · Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction · Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the SCA2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (pending). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Social Science Computer Review, and Computers in Human Behavior. General Chairs Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Rajiv Khosla, Latrobe University, Australia Tim Butcher, RMIT, Australia Man-Kwan Shan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO-ICT Centre, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Steering Committee V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China Wesley Chu, University of California, USA Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local and Finance Chairs Chang Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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