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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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[P2P] Call for papers and workshops - CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing)
by Jinjun Chen 27 May '11

27 May '11

Call for papers and workshops: CGC2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Dec. 12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2011 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011 Workshop Proposal: Ongoing as received (to workshop chairs listed on the website) Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (pending). Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Computing (Springer); or Journal of Computer and System Sciences. =========== 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 (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 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 -- ************************************************* Associate Professor Jinjun Chen (PhD) School of Systems, Management and Leadership Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia. Tel: +61 2 9514 1831 Fax: +61 2 9514 4492 Office: CB 10.04.356(Room 04.356, Level 4, Building 10), City Campus Email: Jinjun.Chen(a)uts.edu.au URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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[P2P] Call for papers and workshops - CGC2011: International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing Dec. 12-14, Sydney, Australia
by Jinjun Chen 03 May '11

03 May '11

Call for papers and workshops: CGC2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Dec. 12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ Key dates: Workshop Proposal: June 1, 2011 (to workshop chairs listed on the website) Submission Deadline: July 15, 2011 (UTC/GMT time 23:59) Authors Notification: September 15, 2011 Final Manuscript Due: October 3, 2011 Registration Due: October 3, 2011 =========== 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 (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 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 -- ************************************************* Associate Professor Jinjun Chen (PhD) Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia. Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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[P2P] CfP: Special Issue on Experimental Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Applications
by Claudia CANALI 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '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 === ======================================================================= 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: June 30, 2011 Notification to authors: September 30, 2011 Revisions: November 25, 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) -- Researcher Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia Via Vignolese 905 41100 Modena, Italy Tel.: +39 0592056317 Fax.: +39 05920566129

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[P2P] [Paper due today]P2P-NVE 2010 (Firm deadline, August 30, 2010)
by p2pnve2010 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Dear Colleagues, Please be advised that the firm paper submission deadline, August 30, 2010, of 「The 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2010)」 is due today. P2P-NVE 2010 will be held in conjunction with 」The 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010)」 on December 8-10, 2010 in Shanghai, China. You are invited to submit your paper(s) to P2P-NVE 2010. All Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Press (indexed by EI) and will be included in IEEE Xplore. Please register and upload your paper(s) now. Should you have any problem, please feel free to contact me. Best regards, Jehn-Ruey Jiang Program Chair of P2P-NVE 2010 ============================================================================= Call for Papers The 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2010) in conjunction with The 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010) December 8 -10, 2010 Shanghai, China *http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2010/* ============================================================================= PURPOSE AND SCOPE A networked virtual environment (NVE), also known as a distributed virtual environment (DVE) or collaborative virtual environment (CVE), 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). Some recent studies propose using P2P architectures to increase NVE scalability and to reduce NVE management and deployment costs. Typical examples of such studies 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 and 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments were held in conjunction with the 13th, 14th and 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems in 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. To adhere to the theme of P2P-NVE workshops, the theme of P2P-NVE 2010 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. 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 20, 2010 August 30, 2010 (Firm Deadline) Notification: September 15, 2010 Camera ready: October 1, 2010 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] [Paper due tomorrow]P2P-NVE 2010 (Firm deadline, August 30, 2010)
by p2pnve2010 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Dear Colleagues, Please be advised that the firm paper submission deadline, August 30, 2010, of “The 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2010)” is due tomorrow. P2P-NVE 2010 will be held in conjunction with ”The 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010)” on December 8-10, 2010 in Shanghai, China. You are invited to submit your paper(s) to P2P-NVE 2010. All Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Press (indexed by EI) and will be included in IEEE Xplore. Please register and upload your paper(s) soon. Best regards, Jehn-Ruey Jiang Program Chair of P2P-NVE 2010 ============================================================================= Call for Papers The 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2010) in conjunction with The 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010) December 8 -10, 2010 Shanghai, China *http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2010/* ============================================================================= PURPOSE AND SCOPE A networked virtual environment (NVE), also known as a distributed virtual environment (DVE) or collaborative virtual environment (CVE), 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). Some recent studies propose using P2P architectures to increase NVE scalability and to reduce NVE management and deployment costs. Typical examples of such studies 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 and 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments were held in conjunction with the 13th, 14th and 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems in 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. To adhere to the theme of P2P-NVE workshops, the theme of P2P-NVE 2010 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. 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 20, 2010 August 30, 2010 (Firm Deadline) Notification: September 15, 2010 Camera ready: October 1, 2010 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] [Deadline extended to August 30, 2010][CFP]P2P-NVE 2010
by p2pnve2010 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Dear Colleagues, Please be advised that the paper submission deadline of “The 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2010)” is extended to August 30, 2010, which will be the firm deadline. P2P-NVE 2010 will be held in conjunction with ”The 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010),” held on December 8-10, 2010 in Shanghai, China. You are invited to submit your papers to P2P-NVE 2010. All Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Press (indexed by EI) and will be included in IEEE Xplore. Best regards, Jehn-Ruey Jiang Program Chair of P2P-NVE 2010 ============================================================================= Call for Papers The 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2010) in conjunction with The 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010) December 8 -10, 2010 Shanghai, China *http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2010/* ============================================================================= PURPOSE AND SCOPE A networked virtual environment (NVE), also known as a distributed virtual environment (DVE) or collaborative virtual environment (CVE), 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). Some recent studies propose using P2P architectures to increase NVE scalability and to reduce NVE management and deployment costs. Typical examples of such studies 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 and 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments were held in conjunction with the 13th, 14th and 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems in 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. To adhere to the theme of P2P-NVE workshops, the theme of P2P-NVE 2010 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. 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 20, 2010 August 30, 2010 (Firm Deadline) Notification: September 15, 2010 Camera ready: October 1, 2010 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. Paper Format Template: DOC ( http://grid.sjtu.edu.cn/icpads10/docs/instruct8.5x11x2.doc) or PDF ( http://grid.sjtu.edu.cn/icpads10/docs/instruct8.5x11x2.pdf)

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[P2P] [Deadline extended to August 30, 2010][CFP]P2P-NVE 2010
by p2pnve2010 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Dear Colleagues, Please be advised that the paper submission deadline of “The 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2010)” is extended to August 30, 2010, which will be the firm deadline. P2P-NVE 2010 will be held in conjunction with ”The 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010),” held on December 8-10, 2010 in Shanghai, China. You are invited to submit your papers to P2P-NVE 2010. All Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Press (indexed by EI) and will be included in IEEE Xplore. Best regards, Jehn-Ruey Jiang Program Chair of P2P-NVE 2010 ============================================================================= Call for Papers The 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2010) in conjunction with The 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010) December 8 -10, 2010 Shanghai, China *http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2010/* ============================================================================= PURPOSE AND SCOPE A networked virtual environment (NVE), also known as a distributed virtual environment (DVE) or collaborative virtual environment (CVE), 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). Some recent studies propose using P2P architectures to increase NVE scalability and to reduce NVE management and deployment costs. Typical examples of such studies 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 and 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments were held in conjunction with the 13th, 14th and 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems in 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. To adhere to the theme of P2P-NVE workshops, the theme of P2P-NVE 2010 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. 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 20, 2010 August 30, 2010 (Firm Deadline) Notification: September 15, 2010 Camera ready: October 1, 2010 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. Paper Format Template: DOC ( http://grid.sjtu.edu.cn/icpads10/docs/instruct8.5x11x2.doc) or PDF ( http://grid.sjtu.edu.cn/icpads10/docs/instruct8.5x11x2.pdf)

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[P2P] [CFP]P2P-NVE 2010 (Deadline, August 20, 2010, is 4 days away)
by p2pnve2010 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Dear Colleagues, Please be advised that the paper submission deadline (August 20, 2010) of “The 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2010)” is 4 days away. P2P-NVE 2010 will be held in conjunction with ”The 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010),” held on December 8-10, 2010 in Shanghai, China. You are invited to submit your papers to P2P-NVE 2010, whose CFP is attached. All Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Press (indexed by EI) and will be included in IEEE Xplore digital library. Best regards, Jehn-Ruey Jiang Program Chair of P2P-NVE 2010 ============================================================================= Call for Papers The 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2010) in conjunction with The 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010) December 8 -10, 2010 Shanghai, China *http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2010/* ============================================================================= PURPOSE AND SCOPE A networked virtual environment (NVE), also known as a distributed virtual environment (DVE) or collaborative virtual environment (CVE), 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). Some recent studies propose using P2P architectures to increase NVE scalability and to reduce NVE management and deployment costs. Typical examples of such studies 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 and 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments were held in conjunction with the 13th, 14th and 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems in 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. To adhere to the theme of P2P-NVE workshops, the theme of P2P-NVE 2010 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. 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 20, 2010 Notification: September 15, 2010 Camera ready: October 1, 2010 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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