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[P2P] [Last CFP] P2PNVE 2011 [Deadline extended to Aug. 30, 2011 (Firm Deadline)]
by 2011 p2pnve 28 Aug '11

28 Aug '11

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] * Deadline extended to August 30, 2011 (Firm Deadline)* CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================== The 5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2011) in conjunction with The 17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2011) December 7-9, 2011 Tainan, Taiwan http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2011/ ======================================================================== PURPOSE AND SCOPE Peer-to-peer (P2P) is a computing paradigm based on self-organizing network overlays, in which participating entities play symmetric roles as both servers and clients for accomplish common goals. Compared with the traditional client/server (C/S) paradigm, the P2P paradigm is not vulnerable to a single point of failure and has better scalability and lower installation and management cost. It has been successfully applied to many applications, such as data sharing, storage sharing, bandwidth sharing, collaborative computation, and so on. Many research studies have been devoted to developing efficient, flexible, and secure P2P systems. They call for a workshop to provide a forum for researchers to exchange their ideas about state-of-the-art P2P technologies. Recently, some studies try to apply the P2P paradigm to network virtual environments (NVEs), which is also known as distributed virtual environment (DVEs) or collaborative virtual environment (CVEs), to increase NVE scalability and to reduce NVE management and deployment costs. An NVE is a computer-generated virtual world where multiple users can assume virtual representatives (or avatars) to concurrently interact with each other via networked links. Examples of NVEs include early DARPA SIMNET and DIS systems as well as currently booming Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs). Typical examples of studies on P2P NVEs are P2P voice chatting, P2P 3D streaming, P2P game state management, and so on. In spite of the success of the studies, we need more studies about state consistency control, persistent data storage, multimedia data dissemination, cheat-prevention, topology mismatching, and virtual world interoperability to construct NVEs of better performance. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments were held in conjunction with the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 respectively. To adhere to the theme of P2P-NVE workshops, the theme of P2P-NVE 2011 is to solicit original and previously unpublished new ideas on general P2P schemes as well as on the design and realization of P2P NVEs. The workshop aims to facilitate discussions and idea exchanges by both academics and practitioners. Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts, not to exceed 8 double-columned, single-spaced pages, to the workshop. Submitted papers should be in accordance with IEEE Computer Society guidelines, and will be refereed by reviewers in terms of relevance, originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation. All Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Press (indexed by EI) and will be included in IEEE Xplore. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * P2P systems and infrastructures * Applications of P2P systems * Performance evaluation of P2P systems * Trust and security issues in P2P systems * Network support for P2P systems * Fault tolerance in P2P systems * Data structures for P2P systems * Efficient P2P resource lookup and sharing * Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) and related issues * Solutions to topology mismatching for P2P overlays * P2P overlays for NVEs * P2P NVE multicast * P2P NVE interoperability * P2P NVE content distribution * P2P NVE 3D streaming * P2P NVE voice communications * P2P NVE architecture designs * P2P NVE prototypes * P2P NVE consistency control * Persistent storage for P2P NVEs * Security and cheat-prevention mechanisms for P2P games * P2P control for mobile NVEs * P2P NVE applications on mobile devices ========================================== IMPORTANT DATES Submission: August 30, 2011 (Firm Deadline) Notification: September 25, 2011 Camera ready: October 7, 2011 =========================================== PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts, not to exceed 8 double-columned, single-spaced pages, to the workshop. Submitted papers should be in PDF format in accordance with IEEE Computer Society guidelines, and will be refereed by reviewers in terms of originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation.

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[P2P] Final CFP: EmbeddedCom2011 (Embedded Computing) - Deadline: August 30, 2011
by Chang Liu 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: EmbeddedCom2011 - 9th International Symposium on Embedded Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sec2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~Embedded2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Systems Architecture, and others. =========== Introduction The EmbeddedCom (Symposium on Embedded Computing) is aiming to be a premier international conference in embedded computing. This symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of embedded computing include all aspects of embedded computing systems with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: #Embedded System Architecture #Embedded Software Development and Optimization #Cyber-Physical Systems #Security and Fault Tolerance #Embedded Hardware Support #Hardware/Software Co-design #Real-time Systems #Power and Energy-aware Computing #Sensor Networks #Pervasive Computing & Communications #Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing #Internet Computing and Applications #Multimedia and Data Management #Human-computer Interaction #Mobile Computing #Agents and Distributed Computing #Application-specific Processors and Devices #Industrial Practices and Benchmark Suites #Supporting Technologies: SoC, FPGA, etc. #Embedded & Ubiquitous Applications Development #Emerging New Topics: New challenges for next generation embedded computing systems, arising from new technologies (e.g., nanotechnology), new applications (e.g., ubiquitous computing, embedded internet tools), new principle (e.g., embedded engineering), etc. 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 EmbeddedCom2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~Embedded2011/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 Systems Architecture, and other journals. General Chairs Jarmo Takala, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Rabi N. Mahapatra, Texas A&M University, USA Program Chairs Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales, Australia Workshop Chairs Yu-Chu Tian, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Publicity Chairs Angelo Ambrose, University of New South Wales, Australia Man Lin, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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[P2P] Final CFP: PICom2011 (Pervasive Intelligence and Computing) - Deadline: August 30, 2011
by Chang Liu 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: PICom2011 - 9th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/picom2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/sub/ 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 PICom2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/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] Final CFP: DASC2011 (Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing) - Deadline: August 30, 2011
by Chang Liu 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: DASC2011 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dasc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Computer and System Sciences; or Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. =========== 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 Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 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] [CFP] P2PNVE 2011 [Deadline extended to Aug. 30, 2011 (Firm Deadline)]
by 2011 p2pnve 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] * Deadline extended to August 30, 2011 (Firm Deadline)* CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================== The 5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2011) in conjunction with The 17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2011) December 7-9, 2011 Tainan, Taiwan http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2011/ ======================================================================== PURPOSE AND SCOPE Peer-to-peer (P2P) is a computing paradigm based on self-organizing network overlays, in which participating entities play symmetric roles as both servers and clients for accomplish common goals. Compared with the traditional client/server (C/S) paradigm, the P2P paradigm is not vulnerable to a single point of failure and has better scalability and lower installation and management cost. It has been successfully applied to many applications, such as data sharing, storage sharing, bandwidth sharing, collaborative computation, and so on. Many research studies have been devoted to developing efficient, flexible, and secure P2P systems. They call for a workshop to provide a forum for researchers to exchange their ideas about state-of-the-art P2P technologies. Recently, some studies try to apply the P2P paradigm to network virtual environments (NVEs), which is also known as distributed virtual environment (DVEs) or collaborative virtual environment (CVEs), to increase NVE scalability and to reduce NVE management and deployment costs. An NVE is a computer-generated virtual world where multiple users can assume virtual representatives (or avatars) to concurrently interact with each other via networked links. Examples of NVEs include early DARPA SIMNET and DIS systems as well as currently booming Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs). Typical examples of studies on P2P NVEs are P2P voice chatting, P2P 3D streaming, P2P game state management, and so on. In spite of the success of the studies, we need more studies about state consistency control, persistent data storage, multimedia data dissemination, cheat-prevention, topology mismatching, and virtual world interoperability to construct NVEs of better performance. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments were held in conjunction with the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 respectively. To adhere to the theme of P2P-NVE workshops, the theme of P2P-NVE 2011 is to solicit original and previously unpublished new ideas on general P2P schemes as well as on the design and realization of P2P NVEs. The workshop aims to facilitate discussions and idea exchanges by both academics and practitioners. Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts, not to exceed 8 double-columned, single-spaced pages, to the workshop. Submitted papers should be in accordance with IEEE Computer Society guidelines, and will be refereed by reviewers in terms of relevance, originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation. All Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Press (indexed by EI) and will be included in IEEE Xplore. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * P2P systems and infrastructures * Applications of P2P systems * Performance evaluation of P2P systems * Trust and security issues in P2P systems * Network support for P2P systems * Fault tolerance in P2P systems * Data structures for P2P systems * Efficient P2P resource lookup and sharing * Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) and related issues * Solutions to topology mismatching for P2P overlays * P2P overlays for NVEs * P2P NVE multicast * P2P NVE interoperability * P2P NVE content distribution * P2P NVE 3D streaming * P2P NVE voice communications * P2P NVE architecture designs * P2P NVE prototypes * P2P NVE consistency control * Persistent storage for P2P NVEs * Security and cheat-prevention mechanisms for P2P games * P2P control for mobile NVEs * P2P NVE applications on mobile devices ========================================== IMPORTANT DATES Submission: August 30, 2011 (Firm Deadline) Notification: September 25, 2011 Camera ready: October 7, 2011 =========================================== PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts, not to exceed 8 double-columned, single-spaced pages, to the workshop. Submitted papers should be in PDF format in accordance with IEEE Computer Society guidelines, and will be refereed by reviewers in terms of originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation.

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[P2P] Final CFP: SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications) - Deadline: August 26, 2011 (firm)
by Jinjun Chen 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 26, 2011 (firm) due to many requests for about this date. Final Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 26, 2011 (firm). Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: 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. 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, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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[P2P] PICom2011 (Pervasive Intelligence and Computing) - Deadline: August 30, 2011
by Chang Liu 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: PICom2011 - 9th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/picom2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/sub/ 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 PICom2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/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] CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) - Deadline extended to September 5, 2011 (firm)
by Jinjun Chen 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to September 5, 2011 (firm) to allow for most requests of extension. Call for papers: CGC2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Dec. 12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to September 5, 2011 (firm) Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Computing (Springer); or Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Keynote speakers: 1. Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic from University of Ottawa Canada to talk about "Green Computing in Mobile Cloud". 2. Prof. Geoffrey Fox from Indiana University USA. His talk is to be decided later. 3. Prof. Craig Standing from Edith Cowan University Australia to talk about "Social Computing, ICT developments and Innovation: Implications for Practice and Research". 4. More keynote speakers to be confirmed shortly. =========== Introduction Cloud computing is positioning itself as a new emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can then provision and deploy these services in a pay-as-you-go fashion and in a convenient way while saving huge capital investment in their own IT infrastructures. It has evoked a high degree of interest internationally with many challenges such as security and privacy remaining open. Green computing, in general, aims to enable computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With dramatically increasing demand on computing and storage systems, IT infrastructures have been scaled tremendously which results in huge amount of energy consumption, heat dissemination, greenhouse emission and even part of climate change. As such, green computing has come to the picture seeking solutions for computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. While customers can enjoy green atmosphere as well as cost saving and convenience because cloud computing accommodates their IT infrastructures in the cloud, how to green the cloud becomes increasingly challenging and extremely important in terms of global energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) 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 Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud 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. 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 CGC2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011. 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. 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 Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Computing (Springer), Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Craig Mudge, Pacific Challenge and the University of Adelaide, Australia General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Behrooz A. Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Program Vice-Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Xiang Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, The University of New South Wales, Australia Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Award Chairs Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Panel Chairs Steve Versteeg, CA Technologies, Australia 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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[P2P] [CFP][P2PNVE 2011][DEADLINE EXTENSION: AUGUST 20, 2011] THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
by 2011 p2pnve 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] * Deadline extended to August 25, 2011 * CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================== The 5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2011) in conjunction with The 17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2011) December 7-9, 2011 Tainan, Taiwan http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2011/ ======================================================================== PURPOSE AND SCOPE Peer-to-peer (P2P) is a computing paradigm based on self-organizing network overlays, in which participating entities play symmetric roles as both servers and clients for accomplish common goals. Compared with the traditional client/server (C/S) paradigm, the P2P paradigm is not vulnerable to a single point of failure and has better scalability and lower installation and management cost. It has been successfully applied to many applications, such as data sharing, storage sharing, bandwidth sharing, collaborative computation, and so on. Many research studies have been devoted to developing efficient, flexible, and secure P2P systems. They call for a workshop to provide a forum for researchers to exchange their ideas about state-of-the-art P2P technologies. Recently, some studies try to apply the P2P paradigm to network virtual environments (NVEs), which is also known as distributed virtual environment (DVEs) or collaborative virtual environment (CVEs), to increase NVE scalability and to reduce NVE management and deployment costs. An NVE is a computer-generated virtual world where multiple users can assume virtual representatives (or avatars) to concurrently interact with each other via networked links. Examples of NVEs include early DARPA SIMNET and DIS systems as well as currently booming Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs). Typical examples of studies on P2P NVEs are P2P voice chatting, P2P 3D streaming, P2P game state management, and so on. In spite of the success of the studies, we need more studies about state consistency control, persistent data storage, multimedia data dissemination, cheat-prevention, topology mismatching, and virtual world interoperability to construct NVEs of better performance. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments were held in conjunction with the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 respectively. To adhere to the theme of P2P-NVE workshops, the theme of P2P-NVE 2011 is to solicit original and previously unpublished new ideas on general P2P schemes as well as on the design and realization of P2P NVEs. The workshop aims to facilitate discussions and idea exchanges by both academics and practitioners. Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts, not to exceed 8 double-columned, single-spaced pages, to the workshop. Submitted papers should be in accordance with IEEE Computer Society guidelines, and will be refereed by reviewers in terms of relevance, originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation. All Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Press (indexed by EI) and will be included in IEEE Xplore. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * P2P systems and infrastructures * Applications of P2P systems * Performance evaluation of P2P systems * Trust and security issues in P2P systems * Network support for P2P systems * Fault tolerance in P2P systems * Data structures for P2P systems * Efficient P2P resource lookup and sharing * Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) and related issues * Solutions to topology mismatching for P2P overlays * P2P overlays for NVEs * P2P NVE multicast * P2P NVE interoperability * P2P NVE content distribution * P2P NVE 3D streaming * P2P NVE voice communications * P2P NVE architecture designs * P2P NVE prototypes * P2P NVE consistency control * Persistent storage for P2P NVEs * Security and cheat-prevention mechanisms for P2P games * P2P control for mobile NVEs * P2P NVE applications on mobile devices ========================================== IMPORTANT DATES Submission: August 25, 2011 Notification: September 25, 2011 Camera ready: October 7, 2011 =========================================== PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts, not to exceed 8 double-columned, single-spaced pages, to the workshop. Submitted papers should be in PDF format in accordance with IEEE Computer Society guidelines, and will be refereed by reviewers in terms of originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation.

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[P2P] SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications) - Deadline extended to August 26, 2011 (firm)
by Jinjun Chen 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 26, 2011 (firm) due to many requests for this date. Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 26, 2011 (firm). Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: 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. 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, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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