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[P2P] [10-Day Reminder] P2P-NVE 2010 (Deadline: August 20, 2010)
by p2pnve2010 10 Aug '10

10 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 10 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. Please submit your papers soon and help distribute the CFP attached. 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 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] [CFP] P2P-NVE 2010 (Deadline: August 20, 2010)
by p2pnve2010 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

Dear Colleagues, You are invited to submit papers to "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)," held on December 8-10, 2010 in Shanghai, China. Please submit your papers soon and help distribute the CFP attached. All Accepted papers will be published by IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore. Best regards, Jehn-Ruey Jiang Program Chair of P2P-NVE 2010 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Central University Jhongli City, Taoyuan, 32001, Taiwan ============================================================================ = 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, Chinahttp://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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[P2P] [CFP] P2P-NVE 2010 (Deadline: August 20, 2010)
by p2pnve2010 17 Jul '10

17 Jul '10

Dear Colleagues, You are invited to submit papers to “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),” held on December 8-10, 2010 in Shanghai, China. Please submit your papers soon and help distribute the CFP attached below. Best regards, Jehn-Ruey Jiang Program Chair of P2P-NVE 2010 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Central University Jhongli City, Taoyuan, 32001, Taiwan ============================================================================= 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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[P2P] P2P 2010, Crete, Extended Deadlines
by Laura Ricci 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail P2P CDVE 2010, Crete, October 2010, Abstract and Paper Submission Deadlines: *Extended Deadlines* *Abstract: June 22th Papers: July 6th* First International Workshop P2P CDVE - International Workshop on P2P Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/p2pcdve2010 Hersonissou, Crete, Greece in conjunction with On The Move 2010 October 27-29, 2010 ** Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag ** Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments (CDVE) enable geographically distant users to echange information, communicate and collaborate. CDVE are currently exploited in different areas, from videoconferences, shared whiteboards and computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) to distributed simulations like military or civil protection distributed simulations for training and massively multiplayer online games (MMOG). MMOG like World of Warcraft or Second Life, are currently gaining increasingly attention in the software market. Currently the client server model is still the reference computational model for this kind of applications, but approaches based on the P2P model have recently been proposed. In the client server architecture a single server is responsible of guaranteeing the consistency and the persistency of the state of the CDVE. The server notifies the update of the state to the interested users. The main disadvantages of this solution is the low level of robustness and of scalability due to the presence of the single server. The definition of a fully distributed architecture for CDVE is an actual challenge because of the complexity of these applications which integrate networks, graphics and AI techniques. On the other hand, the adoption of a distributed computational model is mandatory to overcome the low scalability of client server architectures. P2P architectures are a promising alternative architecture for this kind of applications. Several issues have to be solved to define a fully distributed architecture for these applications. The most important are related, for instance, to the management and the consistency of the state in a fully distributed environment and to the security of the system. Researcher from academy and industry are invited to submit a paper related to the following topics P2P Overlays for Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments Scalability State Consistency State Persistency Security and Privacy Content Streaming Cheating Prevention Techniques Responsiveness Hybrid Architetures Implementation Issues Workshop Program Commette Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy (chair) Fabrizio Baiardi, University of Pisa, Italy Ranieri Baraglia, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom Stefano Ferretti, University of Bologna,Italy Behnoosh Hariri, University of Ottawa, Canada Alberto Montresor, University of Trento Raffaele Perego, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany Domenico Talia, Univeristy of Calabria, Italy Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg, Germany Shun Yun Hu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: Jun 22, 2010 Paper Submission Deadline: July 6, 2010 Acceptance Notification:Jul 30, 2010 Camera Ready Due:Aug 13, 2010 Registration Due: Sep 3, 2010 Workshop Date: October 25, 2010 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Detailed formatting instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review. The paper submission site is located at: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper Workshop Organizer Laura Ricci, Dipartimento di Informatica, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Pisa, Italy, ricci(a)di.unipi.it Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, Pisa Italy. email: ricci(a)di.unipi.it web: http://www.di.unipi.it/~ricci/ -- Laura Ricci Ricercatore Confermato Dipartimento di Informatica Universita' di Pisa tel :+39/050-2212768 fax :+39/050-2212726 web :http://www.di.unipi.it/~ricci/

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[P2P] P2P-CDVE-2010, Crete, Extended Deadlines
by Laura Ricci 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail P2P CDVE 2010, Crete, October 2010, Abstract and Paper Submission Deadlines: *Extended Deadlines* *Abstract: June 22th Papers: July 6th* First International Workshop P2P CDVE - International Workshop on P2P Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/p2pcdve2010 Hersonissou, Crete, Greece in conjunction with On The Move 2010 October 27-29, 2010 ** Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag ** Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments (CDVE) enable geographically distant users to echange information, communicate and collaborate. CDVE are currently exploited in different areas, from videoconferences, shared whiteboards and computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) to distributed simulations like military or civil protection distributed simulations for training and massively multiplayer online games (MMOG). MMOG like World of Warcraft or Second Life, are currently gaining increasingly attention in the software market. Currently the client server model is still the reference computational model for this kind of applications, but approaches based on the P2P model have recently been proposed. In the client server architecture a single server is responsible of guaranteeing the consistency and the persistency of the state of the CDVE. The server notifies the update of the state to the interested users. The main disadvantages of this solution is the low level of robustness and of scalability due to the presence of the single server. The definition of a fully distributed architecture for CDVE is an actual challenge because of the complexity of these applications which integrate networks, graphics and AI techniques. On the other hand, the adoption of a distributed computational model is mandatory to overcome the low scalability of client server architectures. P2P architectures are a promising alternative architecture for this kind of applications. Several issues have to be solved to define a fully distributed architecture for these applications. The most important are related, for instance, to the management and the consistency of the state in a fully distributed environment and to the security of the system. Researcher from academy and industry are invited to submit a paper related to the following topics P2P Overlays for Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments Scalability State Consistency State Persistency Security and Privacy Content Streaming Cheating Prevention Techniques Responsiveness Hybrid Architetures Implementation Issues Workshop Program Commette Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy (chair) Fabrizio Baiardi, University of Pisa, Italy Ranieri Baraglia, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom Stefano Ferretti, University of Bologna,Italy Behnoosh Hariri, University of Ottawa, Canada Alberto Montresor, University of Trento Raffaele Perego, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany Domenico Talia, Univeristy of Calabria, Italy Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg, Germany Shun Yun Hu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: Jun 22, 2010 Paper Submission Deadline: July 6, 2010 Acceptance Notification:Jul 30, 2010 Camera Ready Due:Aug 13, 2010 Registration Due: Sep 3, 2010 Workshop Date: October 25, 2010 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Detailed formatting instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review. The paper submission site is located at: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper Workshop Organizer Laura Ricci, Dipartimento di Informatica, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Pisa, Italy, ricci(a)di.unipi.it Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, Pisa Italy. email: ricci(a)di.unipi.it web: http://www.di.unipi.it/~ricci/ -- Laura Ricci Ricercatore Confermato Dipartimento di Informatica Universita' di Pisa tel :+39/050-2212768 fax :+39/050-2212726 web :http://www.di.unipi.it/~ricci/

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[P2P] P2P CDVE, Crete, October 2010
by Laura Ricci 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for paper First International Workshop P2P CDVE - International Workshop on P2P Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/p2pcdve2010 Hersonissou, Crete, Greece in conjunction with On The Move 2010 October 27-29, 2010 ** Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag ** Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments (CDVE) enable geographically distant users to echange information, communicate and collaborate. CDVE are currently exploited in different areas, from videoconferences, shared whiteboards and computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) to distributed simulations like military or civil protection distributed simulations for training and massively multiplayer online games (MMOG). MMOG like World of Warcraft or Second Life, are currently gaining increasingly attention in the software market. Currently the client server model is still the reference computational model for this kind of applications, but approaches based on the P2P model have recently been proposed. In the client server architecture a single server is responsible of guaranteeing the consistency and the persistency of the state of the CDVE. The server notifies the update of the state to the interested users. The main disadvantages of this solution is the low level of robustness and of scalability due to the presence of the single server. The definition of a fully distributed architecture for CDVE is an actual challenge because of the complexity of these applications which integrate networks, graphics and AI techniques. On the other hand, the adoption of a distributed computational model is mandatory to overcome the low scalability of client server architectures. P2P architectures are a promising alternative architecture for this kind of applications. Several issues have to be solved to define a fully distributed architecture for these applications. The most important are related, for instance, to the management and the consistency of the state in a fully distributed environment and to the security of the system. Researcher from academy and industry are invited to submit a paper related to the following topics P2P Overlays for Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments Scalability State Consistency State Persistency Security and Privacy Content Streaming Cheating Prevention Techniques Responsiveness Hybrid Architetures Implementation Issues Workshop Program Commette Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy (chair) Fabrizio Baiardi, University of Pisa, Italy Ranieri Baraglia, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom Stefano Ferretti, University of Bologna,Italy Behnoosh Hariri, University of Ottawa, Canada Stephan Krause, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Alberto Montresor, University of Trento Raffaele Perego, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany Domenico Talia, Univeristy of Calabria, Italy Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg, Germany Shun Yun Hu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: Jun 15, 2010 Paper Submission Deadline:Jun 30, 2010 Acceptance Notification:Jul 30, 2010 Camera Ready Due:Aug 13, 2010 Registration Due: Sep 3, 2010 Workshop Date: October 25, 2010 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Detailed formatting instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review. The paper submission site is located at: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper Workshop Organizer Laura Ricci, Dipartimento di Informatica, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Pisa, Italy, ricci(a)di.unipi.it Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, Pisa Italy. email: ricci(a)di.unipi.it web: http://www.di.unipi.it/~ricci/ -- Laura Ricci Ricercatore Confermato Dipartimento di Informatica Universita' di Pisa tel :+39/050-2212768 fax :+39/050-2212726 web :http://www.di.unipi.it/~ricci/

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[P2P] P2P-CDVE-2010, Crete, October 2010
by Laura Ricci 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for paper First International Workshop P2P CDVE - International Workshop on P2P Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/p2pcdve2010 Hersonissou, Crete, Greece in conjunction with On The Move 2010 October 27-29, 2010 ** Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag ** Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments (CDVE) enable geographically distant users to echange information, communicate and collaborate. CDVE are currently exploited in different areas, from videoconferences, shared whiteboards and computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) to distributed simulations like military or civil protection distributed simulations for training and massively multiplayer online games (MMOG). MMOG like World of Warcraft or Second Life, are currently gaining increasingly attention in the software market. Currently the client server model is still the reference computational model for this kind of applications, but approaches based on the P2P model have recently been proposed. In the client server architecture a single server is responsible of guaranteeing the consistency and the persistency of the state of the CDVE. The server notifies the update of the state to the interested users. The main disadvantages of this solution is the low level of robustness and of scalability due to the presence of the single server. The definition of a fully distributed architecture for CDVE is an actual challenge because of the complexity of these applications which integrate networks, graphics and AI techniques. On the other hand, the adoption of a distributed computational model is mandatory to overcome the low scalability of client server architectures. P2P architectures are a promising alternative architecture for this kind of applications. Several issues have to be solved to define a fully distributed architecture for these applications. The most important are related, for instance, to the management and the consistency of the state in a fully distributed environment and to the security of the system. Researcher from academy and industry are invited to submit a paper related to the following topics P2P Overlays for Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments Scalability State Consistency State Persistency Security and Privacy Content Streaming Cheating Prevention Techniques Responsiveness Hybrid Architetures Implementation Issues Workshop Program Commette Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy (chair) Fabrizio Baiardi, University of Pisa, Italy Ranieri Baraglia, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom Stefano Ferretti, University of Bologna,Italy Behnoosh Hariri, University of Ottawa, Canada Stephan Krause, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Alberto Montresor, University of Trento Raffaele Perego, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany Domenico Talia, Univeristy of Calabria, Italy Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg, Germany Shun Yun Hu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: Jun 15, 2010 Paper Submission Deadline:Jun 30, 2010 Acceptance Notification:Jul 30, 2010 Camera Ready Due:Aug 13, 2010 Registration Due: Sep 3, 2010 Workshop Date: October 25, 2010 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Detailed formatting instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review. The paper submission site is located at: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper Workshop Organizer Laura Ricci, Dipartimento di Informatica, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Pisa, Italy, ricci(a)di.unipi.it Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, Pisa Italy. email: ricci(a)di.unipi.it web: http://www.di.unipi.it/~ricci/ -- Laura Ricci Ricercatore Confermato Dipartimento di Informatica Universita' di Pisa tel :+39/050-2212768 fax :+39/050-2212726 web :http://www.di.unipi.it/~ricci/

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[P2P] P2PCDVE-CFP-Crete, October 2010
by Laura Ricci 27 May '10

27 May '10

First International Workshop P2P CDVE - International Workshop on P2P Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/p2pcdve2010 Hersonissou, Crete, Greece in conjunction with On The Move 2010 October 27-29, 2010 ** Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag ** Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments (CDVE) enable geographically distant users to echange information, communicate and collaborate. CDVE are currently exploited in different areas, from videoconferences, shared whiteboards and computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) to distributed simulations like military or civil protection distributed simulations for training and massively multiplayer online games (MMOG). MMOG like World of Warcraft or Second Life, are currently gaining increasingly attention in the software market. Currently the client server model is still the reference computational model for this kind of applications, but approaches based on the P2P model have recently been proposed. In the client server architecture a single server is responsible of guaranteeing the consistency and the persistency of the state of the CDVE. The server notifies the update of the state to the interested users. The main disadvantages of this solution is the low level of robustness and of scalability due to the presence of the single server. The definition of a fully distributed architecture for CDVE is an actual challenge because of the complexity of these applications which integrate networks, graphics and AI techniques. On the other hand, the adoption of a distributed computational model is mandatory to overcome the low scalability of client server architectures. P2P architectures are a promising alternative architecture for this kind of applications. Several issues have to be solved to define a fully distributed architecture for these applications. The most important are related, for instance, to the management and the consistency of the state in a fully distributed environment and to the security of the system. Researcher from academy and industry are invited to submit a paper related to the following topics P2P Overlays for Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments Scalability State Consistency State Persistency Security and Privacy Content Streaming Cheating Prevention Techniques Responsiveness Hybrid Architetures Implementation Issues Workshop Program Commette Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy (chair) Fabrizio Baiardi, University of Pisa, Italy Ranieri Baraglia, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom Stefano Ferretti, University of Bologna,Italy Behnoosh Hariri, University of Ottawa, Canada Stephan Krause, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Alberto Montresor, University of Trento Raffaele Perego, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany Domenico Talia, Univeristy of Calabria, Italy Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg, Germany Shun Yun Hu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: Jun 15, 2010 Paper Submission Deadline:Jun 30, 2010 Acceptance Notification:Jul 30, 2010 Camera Ready Due:Aug 13, 2010 Registration Due: Sep 3, 2010 Workshop Date: October 25, 2010 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Detailed formatting instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review. The paper submission site is located at: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper Workshop Organizer Laura Ricci, Dipartimento di Informatica, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Pisa, Italy, ricci(a)di.unipi.it Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, Pisa Italy. email: ricci(a)di.unipi.it web: http://www.di.unipi.it/~ricci/ -- Laura Ricci Ricercatore Confermato Dipartimento di Informatica Universita' di Pisa tel :+39/050-2212768 fax :+39/050-2212726 web :http://www.di.unipi.it/~ricci/

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[P2P] AusPDC2010 - Call for papers
by Jinjun Chen 18 Jul '09

18 Jul '09

------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2010) Brisbane, Australia, January 18-22, 2010 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~rajivr/auspdc2010/ in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 18-22 January 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview/Scope: The 8th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed (AusPDC 2010) will be held in January, in Brisbane, Australia in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 18-22 January 2010. Scope of the Symposium AusGrid event has been broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence it will be called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC) from 2010. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include but not limited to: * Multicore * GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors * Cluster computing * Grid computing * Green computing * Cloud computing * Peer-to-peer computing * Service computing and workflow management * Managing large distributed data sets * Middleware and tools * Performance evaluation and modeling * Problem-solving environments * Parallel programming models, languages and compilers * Runtime systems * Operating systems * Resource scheduling and load balancing * Data mining * Reliability, security, privacy and dependability * Applications and e-Science The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers. Best Paper Award: A best paper award sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty. Ltd, Australia will be presented to a paper receiving the highest quality rating. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international journal will be organized for selected best papers. Program Committee Chairs: - Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology - Rajiv Ranjan, University of Melbourne Program Committee: David Abramson, Monash University Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK David Bannon, Victoria Partnership for Advanced Computing Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne Paul Coddington, University of Adelaide Neil Gemmell, University of Otago, NZ Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University Kenneth Hawick, Massey University, NZ John Hine, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Jane Hunter, University of Queensland Martin Johnson, Massey University, NZ Nick Jones, University of Auckland, NZ Laurent Lefevre, University of Lyon, France Andrew Lewis, Griffith University Piyush Maheshwari, Perot Systems Teo Yong Meng, National University of Singapore Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Srikumar Venugopal, University of New South Wales Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. Jinjun Chen Lecturer in Information Technology CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN508a, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/

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[P2P] [CFP] The 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2PNVE 2009)
by p2pnve 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Apologize if you received multiple copies of this CFP. Call for Papers The 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments in conjunction with The 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2009) December 9 -11, 2009 Shenzhen, China http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2009/ PURPOSE AND SCOPE The rapid growth and popularity of networked virtual environments (NVEs) such as Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) in recent years have spawned a series of research interests in constructing large-scale virtual environments. For increasing scalability and decreasing the cost of management and deployment, more and more studies propose using peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures to construct large-scale NVEs for games, multimedia virtual worlds and other applications. The goal of such research is to support an Earth-scale virtual environment or to make hosting virtual worlds more affordable than existing client-server approaches. However, existing solutions for consistency control, persistent data storage, multimedia data dissemination, cheat-prevention, topology mismatching, and virtual world interoperability are not straightforwardly adapted to such new environments. Novel ideas and designs thus are needed to realize the potential of P2P-based NVEs. The 1st and the 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments were in conjunction with the 13th and 14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems in 2007 and 2008, respectively. To adhere to the theme of P2PNVE workshops, the theme of P2PNVE 2009 is to solicit original and previously unpublished new ideas on general P2P schemes and on the design and realization of P2P-based NVEs. The workshop aims to facilitate discussions and idea exchanges by both academics and practitioners. 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: July 15, 2009 Notification: September 1, 2009 Camera ready: October 1, 2009 PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts, not to exceed 8 double-columned, single-spaced pages, to web site http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2009. Submitted papers should be in PDF format in accordance with IEEE Computer Society guidelines (Word or Latex). All submitted papers will be refereed by reviewers in terms of originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation. Accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI.

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