Wednesday, December 23, 2009

CFP: ACM DIS 2010 - Aarhus, Denmark, August 2010 - The Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Dear Colleagues,

The deadline for submission of full papers for the DIS 2010 conference
is approaching. During the upcoming festive season, writing a DIS 2010
paper is the ideal opportunity for getting away from culturally imposed
overeating and senseless consumerism.

Greetings,
The DIS 2010 org com

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Second Announcement and call for papers

DIS 2010
The ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Aarhus, Denmark, August 16-20, 2010

Full paper deadline: February 15, 2010

More info: http://www.dis2010.org
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The DIS conference addresses design as an integrated activity spanning
technical, social, cognitive, organisational, and cultural factors. It
brings together professional designers, ethnographers, systems
engineers, usability engineers, psychologists, design managers, product
managers, academics and anyone involved in the design of interactive
systems


Key dates 2010
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Deadlines:
February 15: Full paper and Workshop
May 1: Short paper, Demonstration, Doctoral Consortium

August 16-17: Workshops
August 18-20: Conference

More info: http://www.dis2010.org

Friday, December 18, 2009

CFP: The Second International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Processing (WMMP'10)

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*** The Second International Workshop on ***
*** Mobile Multimedia Processing (WMMP'10) ***
*** http://cvpr.uni-muenster.de/WMMP2010/ ***
*** Istanbul, Turkey, August 22, 2010 ***
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OVERVIEW

The Second International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Processing will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, on August 22, 2010, in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010). This is the follow-up of the successful First International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Processing held in conjunction with 19th ICPR in Tampa, Florida, 2008. The motivation of this workshop series is to timely address the challenges in applying advanced pattern recognition, signal processing, computer vision and multimedia techniques to mobile systems, given the proliferating market of mobile and portable devices that have been widely spreading in both consumer (e.g. smartphones such as iPhone, music, mobile TV, digital cameras, HDTV) and industrial markets (e.g. control, medical, defense etc.).

One aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers in pattern recognition as well as in mobile interaction, ubiquitous computing, and multimedia. The intended audiences of this workshop are researchers in traditional pattern recognition and media processing techniques wanting to extend their work in the mobile domain, and those researchers in mobile interaction, ubiquitous computing, and cross related fields wanting to explore latest achievements in the pattern recognition field to expand their work.


SCOPE

The motivation of this workshop is to timely address the challenges in applying advanced pattern recognition, signal processing, computer vision and multimedia techniques to mobile systems, given the proliferating market of mobile and portable devices that have been widely spreading in both consumer (e.g. smartphones such as iPhone, music, mobile TV, digital cameras, HDTV) and industrial markets (e.g. control, medical, defense). The proposed scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

- Mobile speech, image and video processing
- Surveillance, biometric, authentication and security technologies
in mobile environment
- Mobile visual search
- Mobile image retrieval
- Mobile augmented reality browsers
- Mobile video streaming
- Multimodal pedestrian navigation systems
- Multimedia applications for automotive systems
- Mobile navigation, content retrieval, authentication
- Pervasive computing / context aware methodology and application
- Multimodal interfaces and visualization for mobile devices
- Handheld augmented reality
- Personalization and recommender systems in mobile environment
- Mobile oriented media processing for communication and networking
- Medical applications and bioinformatics in mobile environment
- Entertainment applications in mobile environment
- Mobile multimedia applications in geospatial information systems


DATES AND DEADLINES

Paper submission: April 1, 2010
Author notification: May 1, 2010
ICPR early registration: May 14, 2010
Final camera-ready manuscript due: June 1, 2010


SUBMISSION

We strongly encourage prospective authors to respect the following guidelines:

We only accept the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) for submission and review. Other formats will automatically be rejected by the paper-management system. Papers should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. Papers must be in English and have no more than 8 pages including all references, tables and figures. WMMP 2010 follows single blind review process. Authors are required to include their names and affiliations in the paper. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and to present the work at the workshop, if it is accepted. Submissions should be made through the workshop management system (EasyChair).
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmmp2010
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0


PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings on CD-ROM. In addition, a Special Issue with selected papers or a post-workshop book is being planed. Details will be announced later.


ORGANIZERS

The workshop is jointly organized by:
Xiaoyi Jiang, University of Münster, Germany
Matthew Ma, Scientific Works, USA
Michael Rohs, Technical University of Berlin, Germany


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (preliminary)

Suchendra M. Bhandarkar, University of Georgia, USA
Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Yung-Fu Chen, China Medical University, Taiwan
David Doermann, University of Maryland, USA
Hamed Ketabdar, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany
Christian Kray, University of Newcastle, UK
Jakob Eg Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Yuehu Liu, Xian Jiaotong University, China
Michael O'Mahony, University College Dublin, Ireland
Marius Preda, Institut TELECOM/TELECOM & Management SudParis, France
Encrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK
Andreas E. Savakis, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Shiva Sundaram, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany
Rahul Swaminathan, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany
Tan-Hsu Tan, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Steffen Wachenfeld, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Hong Yan, City University of Hong Kong, China


WORKSHOP WEB PAGE
http://cvpr.uni-muenster.de/WMMP2010/organization.html

Thursday, December 17, 2009

CFP: WWW2010 Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW2010)

++apologies for cross-posting++


****1st CALL FOR PAPERS****

The 4th Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2010)

in conjunction with the 19th World Wide Web Conference 2010

April 26-30 (one day) 2010, Raleigh, NC, USA
http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wicow4/


* WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION*

As computers and computer networks become more common, a huge amount
of information such as that found in Web documents has been
accumulated and circulated. Such information gives many people a
framework for organizing their private and professional lives.
However, in general, the quality control of Web content is
insufficient due to low publishing barriers. In result there is a lot
of mistaken or unreliable information on the Web that can have
detrimental effects on users. This situation calls for technology that
would facilitate judging the trustworthiness of content and the
quality and accuracy of the information that users encounter on the
Web. Such technology should be able to handle a wide range of tasks:
extracting credible information related to a given topic, organizing
this information, detecting its provenance, clarifying background,
facts, and other related opinions and the distribution of them, and so
on. The problem of Web information reliability and Web data quality
has become also apparent in the view of the recent emergence of many
popular Web 2.0 applications.


* TOPICS *

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion on
issues related to information credibility criteria and the process of
its evaluation. We invite submissions on any aspect of information
credibility on the Web. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Information credibility evaluation and its applications
- Web content analysis for credibility evaluation
- Author's intent detection
- Content quality and credibility in Web archiving
- Credibility of Web search results
- Search models for trustworthy content on the Web
- Conflicting opinion detection
- News credibility
- Multimedia content credibility
- Credibility evaluation of user-generated content (ex. Wikipedia, Q&A)
- Information credibility evaluation in social networks
- Analysis of information dissemination on the Web
- Spatial and temporal aspects in information credibility on the Web
- Information credibility theory and fundamentals
- Estimation of information age, provenance and validity
- Estimation of author's and publisher's reputation
- Sociological and psychological aspects of information credibility estimation
- Users study for information credibility evaluation
- Persuasive technologies
- Information credibility in online advertising
- Web spam detection
- Data consistency and provenance
- Processing uncertain data and information
- Modeling trust on the Web
- Credible interaction on the Web
- Credibility and trust in e-commerce


* KEYNOTE *

Speaker: Miriam Metzger (UCSB, USA)


* IMPORTANT DATES *

January 25, 2010 - Paper submission deadline
February 12, 2010 - Notification of acceptance
February 19, 2010 - Camera ready deadline
April 26-30 (one day), 2010 - Workshop


* SUBMISSION *

Submissions should be sent in English in PDF format. Papers should
adhere to ACM formatting guidelines and be no longer than 8 pages.
They must be original and have not been submitted for publication
elsewhere. We encourage also submission of position papers outlining
interesting research directions.


* ORGANIZATION *

Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia)
Min Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan)

Program Committee:

see the website.


* CONTACT *

Adam Jatowt
email: adam [at] dl [dot] kuis [dot] kyoto-u [dot] ac [dot] jp
phone/fax: +81-75-231-4282

CFP: BRIMS 2010

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BRIMS Submission Deadline Extended to January 6, 2010!

(see www.brimsconference.org for details)
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You are invited to participate in the 19th Conference on Behavior
Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS). BRIMS enables
modeling
and simulation research scientists, engineers, and technical communities
across disciplines to meet, share ideas, identify capability gaps,
discuss
cutting-edge research directions, highlight promising technologies, and
showcase the state-of-the-art in applications. The BRIMS Conference will
consist of many exciting elements in 2010, including special topic
areas,
technical paper sessions, special symposia/panel discussions, and
government
laboratory sponsor sessions.

BRIMS 2010 includes a dynamic and eclectic lineup of keynote speakers:
Wayne Gray, PhD
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, www.rpi.edu/~grayw/
LCDR Joseph Cohn, Phd
DARPA, www.darpa.mil/dso/personnel/cohn.htm
Jerrold Post, MD
George Washington University,
www.gwu.edu/~elliott/faculty/post.cfm
Robert Axtell, PhD
George Mason University, www.santafe.edu/profiles/?pid=79

The BRIMS Executive Committee invites papers, posters, demos, symposia,
panel discussions, and tutorials on topics related to the representation
of
individuals, groups, teams and organizations in models and simulations.
All
submissions are peer-reviewed (see www.brimsconference.org for
additional details on submission types).

Key Dates:
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All submissions due: January 6, 2010
Tutorial Acceptance: February 1, 2010
Authors Notification February 1, 2010
Final version due: February 19, 2010
Tutorials held: March 22, 2010
BRIMS 2010 Opens: March 23, 2010
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Special Topic Areas of Interest are identified to elicit specific
technical
content:
* Socio-cultural modeling and simulation
* Neurobiological & biologically-inspired cognitive modeling
* Models of terrorist decision-making for IED placement
* Models of civilian-insurgent interaction
* Situation awareness/decision making models for ISTAR ops
* Model validation & comparison
* Necessity & sufficiency of mechanisms and parameters

General Topic Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to:
Modeling
* Cognitive or behavioral moderators on performance
* Intelligent agents and avatars
* Models of reasoning and decision making
* Team, group, crowd, and organizational behavior
* Physical models of human movement
* Performance assessment and skill monitoring/tracking
* Performance prediction
* Performance enhancement/optimization
* Modeling architectures/knowledge representation systems
* Knowledge acquisition/engineering
* Human behavior issues in model federations
* Human behavior representation for system design and evaluation

Simulation
* Synthetic environments for human behavior representation
* Terrain representation and reasoning
* Spatial reasoning
* Time representation
* Human behavior usability and interoperability
* Efficiency, usability, affordability issues
* Operator interfaces
* Multi-resolution/fidelity simulations

ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION
The conference will be held at the Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina.
Visit www.charlestonharborresort.com for general information about the
site and accommodations. Conference and hotel registration, general
area, and
travel information can be found at www.brimsconference.org.

BRIMS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
Joe Armstrong (CAE), Sheila Banks (Calculated Insight), Brad Best
(Adaptive
Cognitive Systems), Brad Cain (Defence Research and Development Canada),
Andrew Cowell (Pacific Northwest), Nathan Denny (21st Century Systems),
Uwe
Dompke (NATO C3), Avelino Gonzalez (University of Central Florida), Coty
Gonzalez (Carnegie Mellon), Jeff Hansberger (Army Research Lab), Tiffany
Jastrzembski (Air Force Research Laboratory), Troy Kelley (Army Research
Lab), Bill Kennedy (George Mason), Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon),
Bharat Patel (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK), Frank
Ritter
(Penn State), Barry Silverman (University of Pennsylvania), Lt Col David
Sonntag (Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development), Webb Stacy
(Aptima), Michael Van Lent (SoarTech), Walter Warwick (Alion).

If you have any questions, please contact the BRIMS 2010 Conference
Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jastrzembski (tiffany.jastrzembski@mesa.afmc.af.mil).


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Tiffany S. Jastrzembski, Ph.D.
Cognitive Research Psychologist
711th Human Performance Wing
Air Force Research Laboratory
6030 South Kent Street, Mesa, AZ 85212
Phone: (480) 988-6561 x688
tiffany.jastrzembski@mesa.afmc.af.mil

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

CFP: CHI 2010 Workshop on Free/Libre/Open Source Software and HCI

*Note new extended deadline: January 6, 2010*

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ACM CHI 2010 Workshop on
Free/Libre/Open Source Software and HCI

April 11, 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA

Extended submission deadline: January 6, 2010
http://flosshci.org
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In the past 10 years, Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) has become
a ubiquitous and vital force in business, education, government, and
research. This vibrant new community of software developers creates new
opportunities and challenges for HCI that are only beginning to be
explored and understood.

This workshop will:
* identify key differences between FLOSS environments and closed source
software production with respect to culture, practices, and motivations
for HCI,
* examine how these differences can (or should) impact the design of
tools and practices for usability/UX in FLOSS development, and
* explore the development of new theoretical approaches, tools, and
practices for HCI in the FLOSS community.

An important, overarching goal of the workshop is to bring the two
communities together to explore collaboration opportunities. As such,
the workshop invites practitioners and researchers in both the CHI and
FLOSS communities.

Interested individuals should submit one of the following in a two-page
conference publication format:

* A case study describing experiences in introducing and/or practicing
usability/UX in a FLOSS development context
* A summary of research conducted in the FLOSS community related to the
workshop's theme (for example, understanding motivations of designers in
FLOSS, mapping design conversations, design tools and methods used in
FLOSS, etc.)

Submissions should use the HCI Archive Format template found here:
http://www.chi2010.org/authors/format.html#archiveformat

Deadline for submissions is January 6, 2010. Submissions should be
emailed to flosshci@gmail.com.

More information about the workshop can be found at the workshop
website: http://flosshci.org. Questions about the workshop can be
directed to flosshci@gmail.com.

Workshop organizers:
Paula Bach (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Michael Terry (University of Waterloo, Canada)

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

CFP: Workshop on Collaboration and Security (COLSEC'10)

The 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems
(CTS 2010)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Collaboration and Security (COLSEC'10)

The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center Chicago, Illinois, USA May 17-21, 2010 In
Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP (Pending)

http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/10/

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2010

Brief Description:

Dynamic, on-demand, whole life-cycle, multi-domain, coalition, fusion between
security technologies and models.

Collaboration relies on distributed systems that combine different resources, often provisioned on-demand for the duration of the mission or project. Security services are an important component of the collaboration infrastructure that ensures normal uninterruptible reliable operation of the collaborative systems. The open Internet and networking environment, over which the modern collaborative systems operate, impose a number of common and specific security threats and attacks (spamming, worms, session hijacking, buffer overflow, denial of service, social engineering, etc.). Collaborative organizations require better security properties (strong authentication, efficient encryption, Mandatory Access Control, integrity, non-repudiation and availability). Nowadays, collaborative organizations use new technologies such as mobile devices, smartcards, wireless networks, high performance networks, cloud and grid computing, multi-agent systems. These environments introduce new needs, requirements and difficulties related to security. Hence, collaborative organizations and technologies face several challenges in the field of security.

This Workshop on Security and Collaboration, to be held as part of the 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS'10), will focus on security issues related to collaborative systems with emphasis on distributed environments, Grid and cloud based resource virtualisation and on-demand provisioning, multi-agent systems, mobile and wireless cooperation. The aim is to have a dedicated workshop that fosters closer interactions among researchers and users communities, providing an excellent opportunity for them to meet and discuss their ideas. The workshop will address issues related to the security infrastructure and services design, implementation and operation. It intends to address new security challenges and present new ideas and solutions addressing modern security requirements, specific methods of access control that should allow large scale cooperation, use of mobile technologies and smartcards, enable intrusion detection, system recovery and healing in the context of cooperative systems.

We invite original contributions from researchers in academia, research institutions and industry on these emerging and important areas of information technology.

Workshop topics must address security and collaboration:
* Frameworks for Security in Collaborative Systems
* Security of Grid and Cluster Architectures Supporting Cooperative Applications
* Security models for emerging Cloud Computing
* High performance optical networking infrastructure for collaboration
* Access Control in Collaborative Environments
* Role Based Access Control, Reputation, and Trust
* Cross Domain Identity and User Attributes Management Systems
* Security Context Management in Scientific Workflow Applications
* Security models and infrastructure for Complex Resource Provisioning in Distributed Collaborative Systems, supporting the whole life-cycle of the provisioned resources
* Security model for Coalition Networks combining on-demand provisioned multilayer infrastructure for communications, Information exchange and human interaction
* Security standards and security education
* Relation between Infrastructure security, information security and security management
* Policy driven SLA negotiation
* Privacy Protection for Collaborative Systems
* Encryption and Cryptography Systems Supporting Cooperative Systems, including group oriented and Identity Based Cryptography
* Security for Specific Collaboration Domains (e.g., e-Government, e-Business, Public Services, P2P, e-Social Security, Medical Collaboration, etc.)
* Virtual Organisations and dynamic security associations
* Trust and reputation management in dynamic environment
* Web Services Security
* Security in multi agent systems
* Secure collaborative agents
* Using multi agent systems for security
* Middleware Security
* Use of Smartcards in the Context of Collaboration
* Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks
* Usability and security
* Trusted Operating Systems for Distributed Environments
* Honeypots for Collaborative Systems
* Intrusion and Attacks Detection for Collaborative Systems
* Collaborative Security Monitoring Schemes and Systems
* Disclosure and Integrity Issues
* Resistance to Denial of Service
* Detection and Self-Recovery Schemes and Strategies Supporting Cooperation


Submission Instructions:

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on above and any other related topics are solicited. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, addresses, fax and phone numbers, and email addresses. Please indicate clearly the corresponding author. Include up to 6 keywords from the above list and an abstract of no more than 300 words. Please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript not to exceed 8 pages in length in single-space, two columns IEEE format Conference style. If accepted the final camera ready version will be following the CTS 2010 template and requirements to be posted on the CTS web site. Electronic submissions will be accepted only in PDF format uploaded at http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Manifestations/COLSEC/. For other electronic formats, please check with the organizers.

Consistent with standard practice, each submitted paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Initial selection will be based on full papers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. All accepted papers in the Workshop are required to be presented and will be included in the Symposium proceedings. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the web site later.

Further instructions will be provided at
http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Manifestations/COLSEC/.

Organizers Information:
Dr. Patrice Clemente and Dr. Jean-François Lalande
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans (LIFO)
ENSI-Bourges
10 Bld Lahitolle
18020 Bourges Cedex France
Emails: patrice.clemente@ensi-bourges.fr , jean-francois.lalande@ensi-bourges.fr

Dr. Yuri Demchenko
System and Network Engineering Group
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 107, 1098XG, Amsterdam
Email: y.demchenko@uva.nl

Technical Program Committee:

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members.

Program committee chair: Prof. Christian Toinard
LIFO, ENSI-Bourges, France

Dr. Julien Bourgeois, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Dr. Jorge R. Cuellar, Siemens AG Corporate Technology, Germany
Dr. Nora Cuppens, ENST Bretagne, France *
Dr. Michel Cukier, University of Maryland, USA *
Dr. Eric Dubois, Centre d'Innovation par les Technologies de
l'Information, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg *
Dr. Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands *
Dr. Jean-Bernard Fischer, Nagra, France
Mr. Vincent Glaume, CEA, France *
Pr. Claude Godart, INRIA Lorraine, France
Pr. Hervé Guyennet, LIFC, France *
Dr. Vincent Louis, France Telecom R&D, France *
Dr. Volkmar Lotz, SAP, France *
Pr. Philippe Mathieu, University of Lille, France *
Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala, New Mexico Tech, USA *
Dr. Franck Panaget, France Telecom R&D, France *
Pr. Pierre Paradinas, CNAM Paris, France
Dr. Emmanuel Prouff, Oberthur Card Systems, France *
Dr. Michael Rusinowitch, INRIA Lorraine, France
Dr. Luca Spalazzi, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Pr. Pascal Urien, ENST, France

* Final acceptance pending


Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: ---------- January 15, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: ------------------ February 8, 2010
Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due: ---------- March 3, 2010


For information or questions about the workshop and the paper submission procedure, please contact the Workshop organizers.

For information or questions about Symposium's paper submission, tutorials, exhibits, demos, panels, posters, workshops and special sessions organization, please consult the conference web site at URL:
http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/08/ or contact the symposium co-chairs:
Bill McQuay at AFRL/RYT, WPAFB (William.McQuay@wpafb.af.mil), or
Waleed W. Smari at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton (Waleed.Smari@notes.udayton.edu).


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Patrice Clemente
Maître de Conférences
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Bourges
Equipe Sécurité et Distribution des Systèmes - LIFO
88 bld Lahitolle, 18020 Bourges cedex
Tel: +33 (0)2 48 48 40 63

Monday, December 7, 2009

CFP: IEEE HST 10


NEWS from IEEE-USA
2001 L Street, N.W., Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036-4910
 

IEEE Homeland Security Conference Seeks Technical Papers, Posters, Tutorials
WASHINGTON (3 December 2009) -- Organizers of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST 10) are seeking technical papers, posters and tutorials in the following areas:
-- Homeland cyber security
-- Land & maritime border security
-- Attack & disaster preparation, recovery & response
-- Counter-WMD techniques & key resources protection physical security
 

Accepted papers will be published by IEEE and presented at HST 10 at the Westin Waltham Boston in Waltham, Mass., USA, 8-10 November 2010. At least one author of an accepted paper has to register for the conference and pay the conference fee. 
 

The event, the 10th in an annual series, will bring together leading researchers and innovators working on technologies designed to deter and prevent homeland attacks, protect critical infrastructures and people, mitigate damage and expedite recovery. Input from international partners is encouraged.
 

Papers should focus on technologies capable of deployment within five years, particularly applied research addressing areas in which breakthroughs are needed. Proposals should be no more than 500 words. Tutorial and poster submissions should include a one-page abstract and one-page biography.
 

Here are important 2010 submission dates to keep in mind:
-- Abstract & tutorial proposal deadline - 24 April
-- Tutorial acceptance notification - 10 May
-- Full paper submission deadline - 25 June
-- Paper acceptance notification - 6 August
-- Poster abstract submission deadline - 13 August
-- Poster acceptance notification - 27 August
-- Publication-ready paper deadline - 3 September
-- Tutorial presentation deadline - 3 November
 
All submissions must describe original work not previously published or currently under review for publication in another conference or journal. Instructions can be found at http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/pubs/confpubcenter/pdfs/samplems.pdf .
For more information on submitting paper, poster and tutorial proposals, go to http://www.ieee-hst.org/technical_program/cfp/HST_2010_CFP_Nov_24_09.pdf.

For general information on the conference, see http://www.ieee-hst.org/.
The IEEE Boston Section (http://www.ieeeboston.org/) is producing HST 10 with organizational support from IEEE-USA. More than 450 people attended the 2009 conference, including representatives from at least 10 foreign countries. The Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate and the DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office are providing technical assistance.
IEEE-USA advances the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of more than 210,000 engineers, scientists and allied professionals who are U.S. members of IEEE. IEEE-USA is part of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional society with 375,000 members in 160 countries. See http://www.ieeeusa.org.
 Contact: Chris McManes
IEEE-USA Public Relations Manager
Phone: 1 202 530 8356
E-mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org



Friday, December 4, 2009

CFP: Special Issue of Visual Studies on New Visual Technologies

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of Visual Studies

TITLE: New Visual Technologies – Shifting Boundaries, Shared Moments

LINK TO FULL CALL: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rvstcfp.pdf

GUEST EDITORS: Connor Graham, Eric Laurier, Vincent O'Brien, Mark Rouncefield

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SYNOPSIS
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This special issue of Visual Studies aims to explore the implications of the wide range of
contemporary and emerging visual technologies for social groups, professions and
institutions. Visual technology has been and is being transformed in a number of areas:
carriers (e.g. cellular networks, the Internet), production technologies (e.g. digital
camcorders and cameras, mobile phones), display technologies (e.g. public displays,
mobile phone projectors) and services (e.g. Flickr, MMS, blogs), Of particular interest for
this special issue is the dissolving boundaries of exchange and media mobilities that these
transformations entail. New visual technologies (e.g. the Internet) now support sharing of
visual media across geographical regions, temporal zones and cultural conventions. This
not only has implications for how boundaries between individual (e.g. friends) and groups
(e.g. different households) are defined but also for how these boundaries are managed
through the use of different forms of media. Some examples of this are the visual
narratives portrayed in digital photographs on Flickr and snippets of video on YouTube.
Such visual technologies can be used to maintain family through the remote,
asynchronous sharing of digital photos or to bring home the experience and impact of a
particular event.

This special issue represents an exploration of both new visual technologies material form
and their content-carrying capabilities across different settings as well as how these
technologies interlock and interweave with more traditional visual (e.g. paper photos) and
written technologies (e.g. text on paper) to achieve particular purposes. We wish to
gather articles on new visual technologies which represent forays into visual research,
explorations of the visual aspects of culture, as well as new or adaptations to existing
methods and methodologies for investigating particular social worlds. Submissions can
include uses of digital photography and video and other new visual media in domestic,
community and leisure settings.

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SUBMISSIONS
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Appropriate longer submissions include:

* Extended reports from the field studies using visual and other technologies;
* Critical literature reviews of uses of visual technologies in other studies;
* Discursive pieces exploring themes in visual technology use and/or their potential in
particular settings;
* Developments of existing/proposal of new methods/methodologies.

Shorter submissions can include:
* Reflections on approaches and methods;
* Opinion pieces;
* Early reports on studies of technologies in situ;
* Design proposals addressing particular themes.

Given the topic of the special issue and the nature of the journal, visual materials (e.g.
photographs, screen shots, figures) are encouraged as an integral part of submissions.

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Submitting authors should conform with the journal's guidelines including copyright
guidelines available from: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1472-
586X&linktype=44
. Papers can either be long submissions of between 7,000 and 8,000
words or shorter papers of between to 2,000 and 3,000 words. Papers should be
submitted via email to Connor Graham at cgraham@unimelb.edu.au.

Information on the Visual Studies journal is available from:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1472586X.asp. Please contact Connor Graham
(cgraham@unimelb.edu.au) if you have any questions.

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KEY DATES
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15th February 2010 : Papers due*
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31st July 2010 : Final notification:
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late 2010/early 2011: Target Publication
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*2400 (EST) to cgraham [at] unimelb.edu.au

Thursday, December 3, 2009

CFP: CrownCom 2010

*CROWNCOM 2010*

*5th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless
Networks and Communications*
16-18 June 2010, Cannes, France

www.crowncom2010.org

*CALL FOR PAPERS*


*SPONSORS*

Sponsored by ICST <http://www.icst.org/>
Technically co-sponsored by CREATE-NET <http://www.create-net.org/>,
U.R.S.I. and SPS IEEE (pending)

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*SCOPE*

Cognitive radio is an emerging technology in wireless access, aimed at
vastly improving the way radio spectrum is utilized. The motivation for
cognitive radio stems from various measurements of spectrum utilization,
which generally show that spectrum is under-utilized. This means that there
are many "holes" in the radio spectrum that could be exploited by the
secondary users. The secondary user must exploit these spectrum
opportunities without causing harmful degradation to the primary system. The
research challenges in this area include devising methods for efficient
spectrum pooling and sensing, and for interference management and dynamic
resource allocation as well as circuits and architectures meeting the often
challenging requirements.

The aim of this conference is to bring together original, high-quality
contributions that present new techniques, concepts and analyses in the area
of cognitive radio algorithms and system design. Specific topics of the
conference include: spectrum sensing and pooling, network design and
optimization, software-defined and flexible radio architectures, channel
modeling, cooperative communications, as well as beamforming and multicast
methods.

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*TOPICS*

We seek original and unpublished work not currently under review by any
other journal/magazine/conference. Topics include, but are not limited to,
the following:

*Track 1: Cognitive access and interference management strategies*

- Advanced access technologies for spectrum sharing
- Location-aided optimization of communication networks
- Cooperative and compressed sensing techniques for spectrum measurements
- Higher-layer resource allocation and scheduling
- Interference management, avoidance and alignment
- Multiple-antenna techniques (beamforming, MIMO, multicast)


*Track 2: Fundamental limits *

- Fundamental limits of cognitive radio
- Cooperative and coordinated multiuser communications
- Network, resource, and interference aware coding and decoding
- Network information theory, channel capacity bounds and network coding
- Wireless networks with private and common information: physical layer
secrecy


*Track 3: Network design and optimization*

- Self-organizing Networks
- WSN aided cognitive radio
- Cognitive radio protocols design
- Cognitive radio pilot channel


*Track 4: Architectures and implementation aspects*

- Software defined radio and flexible radio
- Real-time implementation and testbeds for cognitive radio
- Circuits and Architectures for cognitive radio


*Track 5: Modeling and performance evaluation tools*

- Spectral and Spatial aspects of channel modeling
- Antenna issues in cognitive radio
- Phy/Mac layers abstraction and modeling
- Interference modeling
- System level simulations


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*PUBLICATION*

All accepted submissions will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library
(confirmation pending).

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*SUBMISSION*

For submission instructions, please visit the conference
website<http://www.crowncom2010.org/>
..

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission and tutorial proposal deadline: 14 February 2010
Special session proposals deadline: *1 November 2009*
Notification of acceptance: *11 April 2010*
Camera-ready deadline: *2 May 2010*

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*
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*

*General Co-Chairs*
Erik G. Larsson, Linkoping University, Sweden
Aawatif Hayar, EURECOM, France

*General Vice-Chair*
Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Spain

*Technical Program Chairs*
Peter Olanders, Ericsson, Sweden
Jacques Palicot, Supelec, France

For a complete list of committee and board members, please visit
http://www.crowncom2010.org/org_committee.shtml

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

CFP: Interaction Design for Environmental Information Systems @ iEMSs 2010

** CALL FOR PAPERS **

Please consider submitting a paper for the International Congress on
Environmental Modelling and Software, July 5 - 8 2010, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Please pass this along to any potentially-interested parties. Please let me know
if you have any questions or concerns.

"Modelling for Environment's Sake"

http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010/

Potential topics include:
• agricultural sustainability and food safety
• adapting to a shifting climate
• water resources management
• ecosystem service issues
• sensor networks
• integrated modelling approaches
• modelling and software frameworks
• decision support systems issues
• capacity-building in less-developed countries and regions

In particular:
S22. Interaction Design for Environmental Information Systems
http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010/page04.html

> Organisers: Daryl Hepting, University of Regina, Canada (dhh@cs.uregina.ca)
> Steven Frysinger, James Madison University, USA (frysinsp@jmu.edu)
> Markus Wrobel, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,
> Germany (wrobel@pik-potsdam.de)
>
> Environmental informatics (or enviromatics) is a maturing subject
> with interdisciplinary roots. The application of information and
> communication technology (ICT) to the environment is emerging as one
> of great importance as the health of our planet gains priority on
> research agendas. Ultimately, environmental information must be put
> into people's hands so that they can make decisions. How best to
> involve stakeholders, so that they can access the information they
> need and put it to use in a satisfying manner, remains a topic of
> inquiry. Underlying the larger benefits of enviromatics as a tool
> for policy decisions is the architecture that enables those decision
> making processes. To maximize the value of the infrastructure,
> interaction design must be an integral part of the architectural
> plan. How do we best employ metaphor in educating users and
> influencing their mental models? What are the ethical concerns
> involved and how can they be addressed? This design helps the user
> to improve the quality of the information that is produced,
> presented, and used. Contributions are sought for a special session
> on human factors in enviromatics. We will seek to put work on
> interaction design and human computer interaction into the specific
> context of environmental modelling and software, with the goal of
> understanding how to draw on and apply existing knowledge to
> environmental informatics so that efforts are focused on refinement
> and adaptation instead of reinvention. Topics include, but are not
> limited to:
> • Usability analyses
> • Decision psychology
> • Task analyses (including, for example, decision support)
> • Validation of ICT tools
> • Human-computer interface design
> • Human performance evaluation
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Daryl H. Hepting, Ph.D.
Associate Professor * Computer Science Department * CW 308.22
University of Regina * Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
dhh@cs.uregina.ca * http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting
tel: (306) 585-5210 * fax: (306) 585-4745 * cell: (306) 596-6312