[TCPP-announce] Message from New Chair - Call for Volunteers, CFPs


Dear TCPP member,

Greetings! I am truly honored to be the TCPP chair. I look forward
to your continued support.

To get started, pl. drop me a line if you are interested in
participating in any of the TCPP activities (related to newsletter, web
resource, education, students, international outreach, standards,
etc.), or if you just want to share an idea to better serve the TCPP
community.

I am restarting the practice of batched announcements. Below I am
attaching a list of CFPs which have been submitted recently. To begin
with, we will try to batch them and disseminate at the beginning
of each month - to ensure that your announcement is considered, pl.
submit by end of the month.

Regards,

Sushil

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Sushil K. Prasad
Professor and Director, Distributed and Mobile Systems (DiMoS) Lab
Computer Science Department
Georgia State University, Atlanta
www.cs.gsu.edu/~cscskp

====================== Announcements ======================

1. Call for Posters: HiPC 2007 (the 14th annual IEEE International
Conference on High Performance Computing, Dec 18-21, 2007, Goa, India)
http://www.hipc.org/hipc2007/presentation.html

Submission deadline: September 24, 2007

2. CALL FOR PAPERS: Managing Complexity in a Distributed World - MCDES
2008 http://csa.iisc.ernet.in/MCDES-2008 An international
conference, to be held in Bangalore, India during 27-31 May 2008

Submission deadline: September 30, 2007

3. Call for Submissions: ACM SenSys 2007 Doctoral Colloquium Tuesday 6
Nov 2007 http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~hazas/sensys07dc/

Submission deadline: 28 August 2007

4. Call for Participation: EuroPVM/MPI'07 http://www.pvmmpi07.org 14th
European PVM/MPI Users' Group conference, which will be held in Paris,
France from

September 30 to October 3.

5. Call for Papers: The Fourth IEEE PerCom International Workshop on
Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS 2008)
http://www.ing.unipi.it/persens/ in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2008
( http://www.percom.org/) March 17-21, 2008, Hong Kong

Papers due SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

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HiPC 2007 Call for Posters

HiPC 2007 (the 14th annual IEEE International Conference on High
Performance Computing, Dec 18-21, 2007, Goa, India) will have a
Poster/Presentation Session emphasizing novel applications of
high-performance computing. The poster session will have a brief
presentation time for each poster, followed by a "walk-up and talk"
setting. Authors are invited to submit a 5-page summary of their work
by September 24, 2007. The poster selection at HiPC is very
competitive, and all submissions will be reviewed. For details about
the submission format etc, please see
http://www.hipc.org/hipc2007/presentation.html .


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CALL FOR PAPERS

Managing Complexity in a Distributed World - MCDES 2008

http://csa.iisc.ernet.in/MCDES-2008

An international conference, to be held in Bangalore, India
during 27-31 May 2008

May 27th, 2008 is the first day of the centenary year of Indian
Institute of Science (IISc), which was established in 1909 through the
pioneering vision of Jamshedji N. Tata. To celebrate this important
milestone in the Institute's history, the Division of Electrical
Sciences, IISc, is organizing a centenary conference with the theme
"Managing Complexity in a Distributed World."

This forward looking theme envisions the growing importance of the
design, optimisation, control, implementation and management of
complex distributed systems such as ubiquitous and pervasive computing
systems, distributed security and surveillance systems, content
distribution networks, intelligent transportation systems, integrated
hybrid power systems, ad hoc and cooperative multihop wireless
networks, etc. We expect this conference to serve as a forum for
presenting current work in these and related areas from the points of
view of electrical & electronics engineering, communication, and
computing. The conference will be unique in that its sessions and
tracks will be planned to promote inter-disciplinary interaction. In
addition to technical sessions consisting of contributed papers, the
conference will include invited and plenary talks, special sessions on
inter-disciplinary areas, poster sessions, tutorials, and panel
discussions.

We invite papers that conform to the above described theme, in the
various areas of electrical sciences, some of which are listed below.


Database Systems Power Processing
Data Visualization Interconnected Power Networks
Formal Methods in Communication, Networking,
Software Engineering and Distributed Systems
Information Security Multi-terminal information theory
Machine Learning Large Scale Networks
Data Mining Modern Coding Theory
Compiler Design Wireless Networks (mesh networks,
Internet Analytics ad hoc networks)
Robotics, Stochastic Wireless Sensor Networks
Control and Optimization Vehicular Networks
Computational Biology Signal Processing
Theoretical Computer Science Micro-Nano Electronics
Storage Systems Gigascale Integration Challenges
Information Security MEMS/NEMS and Sensors
Cognitive Computing Photonics
and Biological Systems Microwave Engineering

More details on the conference and on submission of papers can be
found at the conference website

http://csa.iisc.ernet.in/MCDES-2008


We invite you to contribute to the technical programme and request you
to block the dates from 27-31 May 2008 for the MCDES conference.

Best regards

Anurag Kumar, General Chair, MCDES 2008
Y.N.Srikant, Program Committee Chair
Lawrence Jenkins, Program Committee Co-Chair

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ACM SenSys 2007 Doctoral Colloquium
Tuesday 6 Nov 2007

Call for Submissions

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~hazas/sensys07dc/

GOALS

The purpose of the doctoral colloquium (DC) is to provide a friendly,
supportive, and constructive atmosphere where PhD students can present
their research-in-progress for an open discussion, guided by a panel
of experienced researchers and practitioners. Applicants should be
far enough into their PhD to have a concrete proposal, and have
initially outlined the salient issues and proposed research
methodology. Applicants should not be planning to submit their PhD
thesis or dissertation for at least six months after the DC, so that
any advice or input may still be incorporated into the doctoral work.

FORMAT

The DC will be a one-day, seminar-style event, consisting of short
presentations followed by roundtable discussion. Time will be
allotted to each student not only for the presentation, but also for
careful, in-depth consideration and discussion amongst the panelists
and DC participants. In order to provide such individual attention,
the number of accepted DC participants will be limited to fifteen.

SUBMISSION

Topic scope is the same as those listed in the SenSys call for papers.
DC submissions should consist of the following

1. research summary (2-3 pages) describing the work in progress,
and including a 100 word abstract. Things to consider for inclusion
in the research summary might be: the expected contribution to the
field of sensor networking; the original idea or thesis statement; the
problem domain and the specific problem addressed; a brief overview of
related work; the methodological approach; research carried out and
results so far.

2. student biographical sketch, including the names and
affiliations of the research advisor(s), and expected date of
dissertation submission

3. brief recommendation letter from the student's primary PhD
advisor, which summarises the student's progress thus far. The
recommendation letter will be treated as confidential, and will only
be seen by the DC chairs.

The research summary and biographical sketch should be in the ACM
double-column conference publication format. The recommendation
letter may be submitted directly by the student's advisor.
Submissions should be emailed to

sensys07dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Research summaries will be reviewed by the chairs and advisory
committee. If accepted, a student may be expected to make
clarifications and improvements to their research summary by the
camera-ready deadline. Note that the research summaries will not be
formally published, but hardcopies will be made available to
colloquium delegates.

TRAVEL SUPPORT

Travel support for PhD students studying in Australia may be available
from the ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks
and Information Processing (ISSNIP). Funding for students from the UK
is currently being pursued. Students travelling from the United States
may apply for support through the normal SenSys 2007 student awards
procedure. In all these cases, negotiations for travel funding are
still ongoing; please watch the SenSys DC website and the main SenSys
2007 website for updates.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 28 August 2007
Acceptance notification: 5 September 2007
Camera-ready deadline: 28 September 2007
Doctoral colloquium: 6 November 2007

DC CHAIRS

Mike Hazas, Lancaster University
Athanassios Boulis, National ICT Australia
Lewis Girod, MIT CSAIL


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Call for Participation: EuroPVM/MPI'07

http://www.pvmmpi07.org

Please join us for the 14th European PVM/MPI Users' Group
conference, which will be held in Paris, France from
September 30 to October 3. This conference is a forum for
the discussion and presentation of recent advances and major
challenges in Message Passing programming of clusters and
other parallel machines.

The conference will feature six keynote talks from pioneers
and global leaders of message passing and parallel machines,
namely:

Tony Hey, Microsoft Research, USA
Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Ewing Lusk, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Bernd Mohr, Central Institute for Applied Mathematics, Germany
George Bosilca, University of Tennessee, USA

Afterwards, there will be an open forum where attendees can
discuss recent modifications to the message passing
standards and future directions. Also, the conference is a
unique opportunity to meet the major developers and
designers of communication libraries for HPC (such as PVM
and MPI) and the major high-speed network interface builders
to shape future research and development.

The conference program and registration information can be
found at:

http://www.pvmmpi07.org

Register soon to take advantage of the discount rates
offered by the conference hotels.

PC Chairs of EuroPVM/MPI'07:
Thomas Herault, University of Paris Sud-XI / INRIA Futurs, France
Franck Cappello, INRIA Futurs, France


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The Fourth IEEE PerCom International Workshop on
Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing
(PerSeNS 2008)

http://www.ing.unipi.it/persens/

in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2008
(http://www.percom.org/)
March 17-21, 2008, Hong Kong

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Thanks to wireless sensor networks, pervasive
computing environments are becoming a reality.
Wireless sensor networks are aggregates of sensor
nodes into sophisticated sensing, computational and
communication infrastructures. These new networks are
having a significant impact (and promises to have even
more) on a wide array of applications ranging from
military, to scientific, to industrial, to
health-care, to domestic, establishing ubiquitous
computing that will pervade society and redefine the
way in which we live and work.

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to
exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share
experiences among researchers, professionals, and
application developers both from industry and
academia. Original papers addressing both theoretical
and practical aspects of sensor networks are
solicited. Papers describing prototype and
experimental implementations and deployment of sensor
networks and systems are particularly welcome.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Sensor-based systems and applications
- Operating systems
- Middleware and software tools
- Networking architectures and protocols
- Data gathering, aggregation and dissemination
- Topology control
- Power management and energy-efficient design
- Time synchronization
- Location management
- Sensor networks with mobile elements
- Cross-layer architectures
- Intelligent sensor nodes
- Security and dependability issues
- Modelling and performance evaluation
- Measurements


PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers should contain original material and not be
previously published, or currently submitted for
consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited
to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and
formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society
author guidelines
(ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/INSTRUCT.HTM).

All submissions will be handled electronically.
Authors should prepare a PDF file and submit it
according to the submission instructions that will be
made available at the workshop website. Accepted
papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society
in the combined PerCom 2008 workshops proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

Papers due SEPTEMBER 28, 2007
Notification of acceptance November 23, 2007
Camera-ready papers due December 21, 2007


WORKSHOP CO-ORGANIZERS

Giuseppe Anastasi
Dept. of Information Engineering
University of Pisa
Via Diotisalvi 2, 56122 Pisa - Italy
E-mail: g.anastasi@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Silvia Giordano
Dept. of Technologies and Innovations
University of Applied Science - SUPSI
Galleria 2 - Via Cantonale
6928 Manno - Switzerland
Email: silvia.giordano@xxxxxxxx

Qi Han
Dept. of Mathematical and Computer Science
Colorado School of Mines
1500 Illinois Street
Golden, CO 80401, U.S.A.
Email: qhan@xxxxxxxxx

Stephan Olariu
Department of Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529-0162, U.S.A.
Email: olariu@xxxxxxxxxx


PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
Mario Di Francesco, University of Pisa, Italy
Guoliang Xing, City University of Hong Kong, HK

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