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From bononi@CS.UniBO.IT Tue Apr 1 17:24:56 2003 From: bononi@CS.UniBO.IT (Luciano Bononi) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:24:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Acpc-l] [CFP] MSWiM 2003 Call for Papers Message-ID: <1918.130.136.2.241.1049214296.squirrel@ssl.cs.unibo.it> ==================================================================== Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. Please, feel free to distribute and advertise the following cfp. CALL FOR PAPERS 6th ACM* MSWiM 2003 The Sixth International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (Jointly with ACM MobiCom 2003, September 14-19) September 19, 2003 San Diego, CA, USA http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2003/ * ACM and ACM SIGMOBILE Pending Approval MSWiM is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobile and wireless systems. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile computing and wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Performance evaluation and modeling of mobile and wireless communication networks * Simulation and analysis of wireless protocols and mobile computing systems * Integrated simulation and measurement based evaluation of mobile and wireless systems * Survivability and reliability evaluation and modeling * RF channel capacity modeling and analysis * Design methodologies for wireless systems * Network support for QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile networks * Modeling and analysis of wireless Internet access * Traffic measurements and models for audio, video, multimedia, and WWW services * New simulation languages and tools for wireless systems * Database management systems and mobile computing (location-based queries, wireless data caching, mobile transactions) * Wireless data dissemination (broadcasting and indexing techniques) * Pervasive computing and ad hoc networking * Wireless PANs, LANs * Sensor networks * Mobile agents support for wireless networks PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Paper length should not exceed 20 pages. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. Papers must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system. For paper submission, please follow the submission instructions at: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2003/ Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by by ACM CS-press. A Special Issue with ACM/Baltzer MONET/WINET will be planned which will contain selected papers from MSWiM. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: June 5, 2003 Notification: July 15, 2003 Camera Ready due: TBD Organizing Committee General Chair Rassul Ayani Department of Microelectronics and Information Technology Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Email: rassul@it.kth.se Program Co-Chairs Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: chiasserini@polito.it Hossam Hassanein Department of Computing and Information Science Queen's University Email: Hossam@cs.queensu.ca Publicity Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Email: bononi@cs.unibo.it Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Email: karatza@csd.auth.gr Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare Barddal University, Florianopolis, SC Brazil Email: mirela@barddal.br Program Committee Anand Balachandran, University of California at San Diego, USA Simonetta Balsamo, Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy Luciano Bononi, Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Lorenzo Casaccia, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy Teresa A. Dahlberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Juan Carlos De Martin, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria Vincenzo Grassi, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA Fredrik Gunnarsson, Ericsson Research, Sweden Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Yi-Bing Lin, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Pavan Nugehalli, University of California at San Diego, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Krishna M. Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Vikram Srinivasan, University of California at San Diego, USA Dirk Staehle, University of Wurzburg, Germany Mineo Takai, University of California at Los Angeles, USA David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wurzburg, Germany Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, AU Steering Committee Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of North texas, USA Advisory Board Committee Azzedine Boukerche, University of North texas, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Lorenzo Donatiello, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan William C.Y. Lee, AirTouch Inc. Registration Chair Tom Jacob, University of North texas, USA Webmaster and System Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Email: bononi@cs.unibo.it Maurizio Munafo', Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: munafo@polito.it ==================================================================== From harald.kosch@itec.uni-klu.ac.at Thu Apr 3 17:23:47 2003 From: harald.kosch@itec.uni-klu.ac.at (Harald Kosch) Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 18:23:47 +0200 Subject: [Acpc-l] Call for Papers: EURESCO-Environments and Tools for High Performance Computing Message-ID: <3E8C6013.E41DB25E@itec.uni-klu.ac.at> ===== EURESCO Conference on Advanced Environments and Tools for High Performance Computing, Albufeira, Portugal, 14-19 June 2003 I would like to inform you that we are still accepting applications, so if you have any students or colleagues to whom you think this event may be of interest please pass on details. The web link to the conference page is: http://www.esf.org/euresco/03/pc03139 ===== From mirela@newsite.com.br Sat Apr 5 04:02:27 2003 From: mirela@newsite.com.br (Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 00:02:27 -0300 Subject: [Acpc-l] ACM MSWiM 2003 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <0ec501c2fb1f$caa76080$5600a8c0@MIRELA> ============ Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ============ CALL FOR PAPERS 6th ACM MSWiM 2003 The Sixth International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (Jointly with ACM MobiCom 2003, September 14-19) September 19, 2003 San Diego, CA, USA http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2003/ MSWiM is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobile and wireless systems. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile computing and wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Performance evaluation and modeling of mobile and wireless communication networks * Simulation and analysis of wireless protocols and mobile computing systems * Integrated simulation and measurement based evaluation of mobile and wireless systems * Survivability and reliability evaluation and modeling * RF channel capacity modeling and analysis * Design methodologies for wireless systems * Network support for QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile networks * Modeling and analysis of wireless Internet access * Traffic measurements and models for audio, video, multimedia, and WWW services * New simulation languages and tools for wireless systems * Database management systems and mobile computing (location-based queries, wireless data caching, mobile transactions) * Wireless data dissemination (broadcasting and indexing techniques) * Pervasive computing and ad hoc networking * Wireless PANs, LANs * Sensor networks * Mobile agents support for wireless networks PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Paper length should not exceed 20 pages. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. Papers must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system. For paper submission, please follow the submission instructions at: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2003/ Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by by ACM CS-press. A Special Issue with ACM/Baltzer MONET/WINET will be planned which will contain selected papers from MSWiM. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: June 5, 2003 Notification: July 15, 2003 Camera Ready due: TBD Organizing Committee General Chair Rassul Ayani Department of Microelectronics and Information Technology Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Email: rassul@it.kth.se Program Co-Chairs Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: chiasserini@polito.it Hossam Hassanein Department of Computing and Information Science Queen's University Email: Hossam@cs.queensu.ca Publicity Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Email: bononi@cs.unibo.it Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Email: karatza@csd.auth.gr Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare Barddal University, Florianopolis, SC Brazil Email: mirela@barddal.br Program Committee Anand Balachandran, University of California at San Diego, USA Simonetta Balsamo, Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy Luciano Bononi, Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Lorenzo Casaccia, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy Teresa A. Dahlberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Juan Carlos De Martin, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria Vincenzo Grassi, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA Fredrik Gunnarsson, Ericsson Research, Sweden Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Yi-Bing Lin, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Pavan Nugehalli, University of California at San Diego, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Krishna M. Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Vikram Srinivasan, University of California at San Diego, USA Dirk Staehle, University of Wurzburg, Germany Mineo Takai, University of California at Los Angeles, USA David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wurzburg, Germany Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, AU Steering Committee Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of North texas, USA Advisory Board Committee Azzedine Boukerche, University of North texas, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Lorenzo Donatiello, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan William C.Y. Lee, AirTouch Inc. Registration Chair Tom Jacob, University of North texas, USA Webmaster and System Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Email: bononi@cs.unibo.it Maurizio Munafo', Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: munafo@polito.it From mirela@newsite.com.br Sat Apr 5 04:02:43 2003 From: mirela@newsite.com.br (Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 00:02:43 -0300 Subject: [Acpc-l] IEEE MWCN'2003 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <0ec601c2fb1f$d3e65200$5600a8c0@MIRELA> Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ****************************************** ****** CALL FOR PAPERS ******* ****************************************** IEEE MWCN'2003 The Fifth IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks Singapore in 27 - 29 October, 2003 http://www.icr.a-star.edu.sg/mwcn2003/ You are invited to submit original papers addressing topics in all areas of wireless communication systems and networks. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the technical subject categories listed below: Management - Resource and Information Management - Pricing and Billing Issues Architecture - Convergence of Fixed and Mobile - Hybrid Communications System Devices - Low-Power End-Devices and Wireless Communications Security - Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks QoS - Adaptive Quality of Service Provisioning - End-to-end Quality of Service Mobility Support - Handoff Algorithms - IP and Mobility - Mobility and Connection Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks - Policy-based Mobility Management Applications - Personal Communications - Location and Context Management - Smart Media - Mobile Code - Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Applications Access - Wireless IP - Wireless Multimedia Services - Wireless Local Loop (WLL) - Multiple Access Technology - Broadband Wireless Access Networking - Wireless Personal Area Networks - Wireless Local Area Networks - Mobility and Nomadic Computing - Analysis and Simulation of Mobile Network Protocols - Home Networking - Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and the Internet - Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking Routing - Satellite Networks The official language of the conference for submission of a paper and or an extended abstract and view graphs is English. This conference will identify the theoretical and actual problems that face designers of today's complex problems associated with mobile and wireless communications networks. The participants will show test results of experiments from building prototype systems, explore modeling and simulation tools as well as analytical methodologies and techniques for dealing with wireless systems. The objective of this event is to foster the exchange of information among researchers in this fast-moving field. The program will include presentations by distinguished researchers, speaking on recent advances in theory and practice. This conference also intends to bring together various mobile and wireless network systems developers to discuss the current status, technical challenges, standards, fundamental issues, and future services and applications in the form of workshops, business applications sessions and tutorials. It is also intended to provide a timely forum for exploratory research and practical contributions from North America, Europe, The Middle East, and the Far East. Guidelines for Submission Papers are invited on the conference theme and related topics. The original submission containing affiliation and full contact information of the authors should be addressed to the TPC chairs by the date indicated above based on the following instructions: Extended abstract should be in English, with no more than 1500 words and submitted to http://mwcn2003.lri.fr/REG-paper/ The paper should include an abstract of about 150 words, and must not exceed Accepted formats include Microsoft Word, PostScript and PDF. Authors must state that their paper have neither been published before nor currently being submitted elsewhere. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the lead author's postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail. The language of the conference is English and papers must be in this language. Accepted papers will have to expanded into full paper to be distributed on the conference proceedings and or CD-ROMS, and will also be made available in the IEEExplore. Dates to Remember Deadline for submitting an extended abstract : May 5, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2003 Papers received in camera ready form to MWCN 2003: July 1, 2003 Conference Date and place: 27-29 October, Singapore Organizing Committee Conference General Chair Dr. Guy Omidyar Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:gomidyar@icr.a-star.edu.sg Conference Technical Program Chair Khaldoun Al-Agha Khaldoun Al Agha, LRI, University of Paris XI, France Email: alagha@lri.fr Conference Technical Program Co-chairs and area Coordinators Asia-Pacific: Boon Sain Yeo Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email: boonyeo@ieee.org North and South Americas: Azzedine Boukerche University of North Texas, USA Email: boukerche@cs.unt.edu Middle-East and Far East: Khaled Elsayed Cairo University, Egypt Email: khaled@ieee.org Tutorial, Workshop, Panel Chair Dr. Guy Omidyar Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:gomidyar@icr.a-star.edu.sg Organizing Chair Ms Patricia Loh Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Email:patricia@i2r.a-star.edu.sg Finance Chair S Kunaselvam Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:kuna@icr.a-star.edu.sg Conference Secretariat Please contact mwcn@i2r.a-star.edu.sg Web Chair Gek Hiong Tan Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:tangh@icr.a-star.edu.sg Steering Committee Khaldoun Al Agha, LRI, University of Paris XI, France Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Guy Omidyar, ICR-NUS, Singapore (Chair) Guy Pujolle, Université Paris 6, France Boon Sain Yeo, ICR-NUS, Singapore Technical Scientific Program Committee Hossam Afifi, INT, France Khaldoun Al Agha, LRI, University of Paris XI, France Hamid Aghvami, Kings College of London, UK André-Luc Beylot, IRIT, France Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, US Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA Olga Casals, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Colin Chandler, Qualcomm Europe, France Francois Chin, Institute for Communications Research, NUS, Singapore Sajal K. Das, University Texas at Arlington, USA Khaled Elsayed, Cairo University, Egypt Markus Endler, IME/USP, Brazil Serge Fdida, Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6, France Afonso Ferreira, CNRS INRIA, France Adolf Finger, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Martin Haardt, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK Jamshid Khun Jush, Ericsson, Germany Theo Kanter, Ericsson Research, Sweden Parviz Kermani, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Witold Krzymien, University of Alberta, Canada Xavier Lagrange, ENST Bretagne, France Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong University, HK Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr., KTH, Wireless Center, Sweden Jon W. Mark, University of Waterloo, Canada Geraldo Robson Mateus, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Marie-Jose Montpetit, Nokia, USA Mahmoud Naghshineh, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Ayman Naguib, Qualcomm, USA Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brasil Guy Omidyar, Institute for Communications Research, NUS, Singapore Elena Pagani, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Kaveh Pahlavan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gregory P. Pollini, Telecordia, USA Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark Guy Pujolle, Université Paris 6, France Christopher Rose, Associate Director, Rutgers WinLab, USA Elisabeth Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara Djamel Sadok, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission, Belgium Jan Slavik, Testcom, Czech Republic Kelvino S. Sousa, University of Toronto, Canada Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork, Ireland Sumei Sun, Institute for Communication Research, NUS, Singapore T.T. Tjhung, Institute for Communication Research, NUS, Singapore Guillaume Vivier, Motorola Labs, France Branimir Vojcic, George Washington University, USA Ivan Vukovic, Motorola, USA Adam Wolisz, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Boon Sain Yeo, Institute for Communication Research, NUS, Singapore Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney Australia From wp@cg.tuwien.ac.at Wed Apr 9 14:22:11 2003 From: wp@cg.tuwien.ac.at (Werner Purgathofer) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 15:22:11 +0200 Subject: [Acpc-l] Einladung zum Informatik-Kolloquium Prof. SOLINA Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20030409144813.00cddd98@mail.cg.tuwien.ac.at> Der Fachbereich Informatik und die Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft laden zu folgendem Vortrag ein: ======================================================================== Professor Dr. Franc SOLINA University of Ljubljana, Computer Vision Laboratories Datum: 12. Mai 2003 Uhrzeit: 17.00 Uhr pünktlich Ort: Hörsaal EI 10 (Paschke-Hs), Gußhausstr. 27-29, Erdgeschoss ======================================================================== TITEL: 15 seconds of fame - Use of Computer Vision in a modern art installation ======================================================================== ABSTRACT: "15 seconds of fame" is an interactive art installation which elevates the face of a randomly selected observer for 15 seconds into a "work of art". The installation was inspired by Andy Warhol's statement that "In the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes" as well as by the pop-art style of his works. The critical part of the installation is detection of faces which enables the cropping of faces from the wide-angle images of people standing in front of the installation. The method for color-based face detection which must be reliable in different illumination conditions and scenes will be described as well as the Internet dissemination of the resulting portraits. ======================================================================== Kurzbiographie zu Professor Dr. Franc SOLINA ======================================================================== Franc Solina is a professor of computer science at University of Ljubljana and Head of Computer Vision Laboratory at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science. He received a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1979 and 1982, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. His research interests include range image interpretation, 3D shape reconstruction, panoramic imaging, and applications of computer vision in the arts. Weitere Informationen über den Vortragenden finden Sie auf http://www.lrv.fri.uni-lj.si/~franc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kontaktperson an der TU Wien: Prof.Dr.Walter Kropatsch, Tel. 58801-18350 Die Finanzierung dieser Veranstaltung erfolgt durch das Institut für Rechnergestützte Automation und die TU Wien ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Der Fachbereich Informatik erhält Sponsorgelder u.a. von - Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf - Siemens AG Österreich ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Werner Purgathofer | Tel. +43(1)58801 18648 Technische Universitaet Wien | http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at From wp@cg.tuwien.ac.at Wed Apr 9 14:22:22 2003 From: wp@cg.tuwien.ac.at (Werner Purgathofer) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 15:22:22 +0200 Subject: [Acpc-l] Einladung zum Informatik-Kolloquium Prof. HLAVAC Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20030409151630.02594e08@mail.cg.tuwien.ac.at> Der Fachbereich Informatik und die Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft laden zu folgendem Vortrag ein: ======================================================================== Professor Dr. Vaclav HLAVAC Czech University of Technology Datum: 12. Mai 2003 Uhrzeit: 17.45 Uhr pünktlich Ort: Hörsaal EI 10 (Paschke-Hs), Gußhausstr. 27-29, Erdgeschoss ======================================================================== TITEL: Omni-directional Vision for sewerage inspection ======================================================================== ABSTRACT: I will report on technology transfer. Computer vision knowledge (geometry, omni-cameras, mosaicing, pattern recognition) is being transferred into innovation of an inspection vehicle for sewerages. I will report about (a) technology from academic point of view, (2) laboratory and field experiments and the (3) experience with transfer. The work was done within the project ISAAC, IST-2001-33266. ======================================================================== Kurzbiographie zu Professor Dr. Vaclav HLAVAC ======================================================================== Vaclav Hlavac was born in 1956 in Praha. He is a professor at the Czech Technical University, Praha, Czech Republic where he a head of the Center for Machine Perception, http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~hlavac. He received MSc. in 1981, and PhD in 1987 from the same institution. His research interests are in 3D computer vision and recentlyin both statistical and structural pattern recognition. He is a co-author of the books Sonka M., Hlavac V., Boyle R.B.: Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision, 1993, second extended edition PWS Boston, 1999. Schlesinger M.I., Hlavac. V.: Ten lectures on statistical and structural pattern recognition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2002. Weitere Informationen über den Vortragenden finden Sie auf http://cmp.felc.cvut.cz/~hlavac ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kontaktperson an der TU Wien: Prof.Dr.Walter Kropatsch, Tel. 58801-18350 Die Finanzierung dieser Veranstaltung erfolgt durch das Institut für Rechnergestützte Automation und die TU Wien ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Der Fachbereich Informatik erhält Sponsorgelder u.a. von - Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf - Siemens AG Österreich ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Werner Purgathofer | Tel. +43(1)58801 18648 Technische Universitaet Wien | http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at From mirela@newsite.com.br Thu Apr 17 05:08:37 2003 From: mirela@newsite.com.br (Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 01:08:37 -0300 Subject: [Acpc-l] 7th IEEE DS-RT'2003 Message-ID: <0a6101c30497$063b0590$5600a8c0@MIRELA> Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. Call for Papers DS-RT 2003 Seventh IEEE* International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, October 23-25, 2003, Delft, The Netherlands. http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds-rt2003/ In conjunction with 15th European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2003) October 26-29, 2003, Delft, The Netherlands Hosted by the Delft University of Technology *IEEE Approval Pending Scope In its seventh year, the 2003 International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2003) will take place at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, just before the European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2003). This is an excellent opportunity to participate in two conferences covering a wide range of simulation research. Workshop Objectives DS-RT 2003 serves as a forum for simulationists from academia, industry and research labs, for presenting recent research results in Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. DS-RT 2003 targets the growing overlap between large distributed simulations and real time applications. The conference features prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. DS-RT 2003 will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, and panel discussions. The proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS press. Call for Papers DS-RT is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to distributed simulation and real time applications. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. Demonstration of new tools/applications is very desirable. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to: o- Interactive Virtual Reality, Multi-User Virtual Reality, Interactive Simulation in Entertainment; o-Algorithms and Studies relating to existing protocols (e.g., HLA, DIS); o-Implementation issues; (e.g., general purpose distributed simulation); o-Algorithms and Methods for Distributed Interactive Simulation; (e.g., o-event synchronization, network time protocols); o-Applications of Distributed Simulation (e.g., Real Time DS, large distributed simulation systems); o- Distributed Models and Simulation for Analysis; o- Data Distribution Management and Interest Management; o- Multi-resolution modeling; o- Current Critical Design Issues (e.g.: causality, simultaneous events, zero look-ahead, compensation for slower than real time); o- Methodology for Distributed/Parallel Simulation; o- Approaches to interoperation of COTS simulation modelling packages; o- Interface Definition, Communication, Management, Security; o- Performance of Distributed Simulation; (e.g., benchmark, theoretical, empirical, and HLA/RTI studies); o- Dead-Reckoning Mechanisms; o- Visual Interactive Simulation (e.g., generic animation, visual o- interactive modeling, interactive computer based learning); o- Animating Language Tools, Visualization Tools for Computational Process under Simulation; o- Language and Modeling Issues; o- Modeling and Simulation Environments for Real Time Concurrent Systems; o- Influence of Network-Centric Systems (such as Java, and DCOM) on DIS; o- Interoperable Communication Networks; o- Network support for distributed simulation and real-time systems (QoS requirements and their realization, multicast for distributed/ real-time simulation systems); o- Applications of Web-Based Simulation (e.g. Modeling Global Internet); o- Integration of DIS and HLA with Web Technologies. Important dates Submission Deadline: June 1, 2003 (hard copy or electronic paper submission) Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2003 Camera Ready version due: August 15, 2003 Symposium presentation: October 23-25, 2003 in Delft, The Netherlands IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY Submission Guidelines Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in electronic form, postscript pdf, or Microsoft Word 6.0 (or higher) only. Please submit papers to http://sentosa.sas.ntu.edu.sg:8000/~dsrt2003/ by June 1, 2003. Questions from authors may be directed to Simon Taylor (simon.taylor@brunel.ac.uk), or Stephen Turner (ASSJTurner@ntu.edu.sg). Hardcopy papers also may be submitted, in which case four copies are required. Each submission, electronic or paper, must be accompanied by the following information: a short abstract a complete list of authors and their affiliations a contact person for correspondence postal and e-mail addresses. Please contact the above if you wish to do so. Organizing Committee General Chair Stephen J. Turner School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Email: ASSJTurner@ntu.edu.sg Phone: +65-6790-4054. Fax : +65-6792-6559 Program Chair Simon J. E. Taylor Department of Information Systems and Computing Brunel University Uxbridge, Middx, UB8 3PH Email: simon.taylor@brunel.ac.uk Phone: +44-1895-203389 Fax: +44-1895-251686 Publicity Co-Chairs Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece Mirela M. S. A. Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Program Committee Lee Belfore, Old Dominion University, USA Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Alexander Verbraeck, TU Delft Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School Wentong Cai, Nanyang Technological University Judith Dahmann, MITRE Corporation, USA Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University at Linz Robert Fransechini, SAIC, USA Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology Katherine MorseSAIC, USA Anand Natrajan, University of Virginia Mikel Petty, Old Dominion University Mark Pullen, George Mason University Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia Doug Schmidt, DARPA, and University of California at Irvine Roger Smith, Model Benders Corp., USA Gary Tan, National University of Singapore Simon Taylor, Brunel University, UK Stephen Turner, Nanyang Technological University Richard Weatherly, MITRE Corp., USA Philip Wilsey, University of Cincinnati Steering Committee Azzedine Boukerche (Chair), University of North Texas Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia Stephen J. Turner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Albert Zomaya, University of Western Australia Advisory Board Committee Jean-Loup Baer, University of Washington Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas K. M. Chandy, California Institute of Technology, USA Sajal K. Das, University of North Texas Lorenzo Donatiello, University of Bologna, Italy Doug DeGroot, Texas Instruments, USA Tuncer Oren, University of Ottawa, Canada Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia Gabriel Silberman, IBM Research, USA Stephen J. Turner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore G. Zobrist, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Local Arrangement Chair: Alexander Verbraeck, Systems Engineering, TU Delft Delft, The Netherlands Registration Chair Susan Standing, Brunel University, UK Webmaster and System Chair Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy For local information on the beautiful city of Delft see www.delft.nl! From hra@cs.uga.edu Sat Apr 19 20:20:34 2003 From: hra@cs.uga.edu (Hamid Arabnia) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 15:20:34 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Acpc-l] 2003 Int'l Conf. in CS & CE - Las Vegas, June 23-26, 2003 Message-ID: <200304191920.PAA02138@apollo.cs.uga.edu> -------------------------CUT HERE----------------------------- Deadline for Submissions: May 5, 2003 (absolute deadline) C A L L F O R P A P E R S The 2003 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering (15 Joint Int'l Conferences) Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 23-26, 2003 Dear Colleagues: We have received a large number of requests for permission to submit papers to be considered as RRR, SRP, or PST papers (see the appended information for categories of accepted papers.) I am happy to report that we now have the infrastructure to consider all such submissions if received by May 5, 2003 (this is the absolute deadline.) You are invited to submit a draft paper (see instructions below.) All accepted papers submitted in response to this Call For Papers will be published in the respective Post-Conference proceedings/books. We expect to have about 2000 attendees for the whole event. The fifteen Joint Conferences are: 1. The 2003 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'03) 2. The 2003 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'03) 3. The 2003 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'03) 4. The 2003 International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'03) 5. The 2003 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'03) 6. The 2003 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'03) 7. The 2003 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA) 8. The 2003 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'03) 9. The 2003 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'03) 10. The 2003 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'03) 11. The 2003 International Conference on VLSI (VLSI'03) 12. The 2003 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'03) 13. The 2003 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'03) 14. The 2003 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'03) 15. The First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03) (a link to each conference's URL can be found at http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences) You are requested to submit your paper for consideration to the following site (in electronic form): http://www.ucmss.com:8080/2003/UCMSS/papersPostConf/first_html SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers (about 5 pages - single spaced and font size of 10 to 12 - all reasonable typesetting format is acceptable) to http://www.ucmss.com:8080/2003/UCMSS/papersPostConf/first_html by May 5, 2003. The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, and Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of the conference the paper is being submitted to. IMPORTANT DATES: May 5, 2003: Submissions Due May 15, 2003: Notification of acceptance June 1, 2003: Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due June 23-26, 2003 All 15 Int'l Conferences PRESENTATION FORMATS / PAPER CATEGORIES: The Accepted Paper Categories are: RRR papers (Regular Research Report) will be a maximum of 7 IEEE style pages in Camera-Ready form (will be published in the proceedings). RRR papers will be presented in Discussion Sessions. Authors of these papers are expected to bring with them to the conference a maximum of 10 pages describing their paper. These pages will be pinned to presentation boards during the Discussion Sessions. Please use large fonts so that the paper can be read from about 1.5 meter distance - any reasonable typesetting format is acceptable. Authors of RRR papers are expected to be present during these sessions to answer any questions that readers might have (scheduled times for Discussion Sessions will be emailed to you in June. Please note that you are still required to send us the Camera-Ready of your paper by the due date for publication in the proceedings. Your Camera-Ready paper should not exceed 7 IEEE style pages. SRP papers (Short Research Paper): Same as RRR papers (above) except SRP papers will be a maximum of 4 IEEE style pages in Camera-Ready form (will be published in the proceedings). PST papers (Poster Paper): Same as RRR papers (above) except PST papers will be a maximum of 2 IEEE style pages in Camera-Ready form (will be published in the proceedings). From dikemartins@eudoramail.com Tue Apr 22 07:34:58 2003 From: dikemartins@eudoramail.com (Martins) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 22:34:58 -0800 Subject: [Acpc-l] re: benefactor assistance Message-ID: <200304220635.h3M6Z3Cn022090@alijku01.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> Mr.Dike Martins Almond Bank Nig Ltd. 36 kofu Abayomi street. Victoria island. Lagos. I am Mr.Dike Martins,a Senior Management Staff of Almond Bank of Nigeria ltd,Lagos Island Branch. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On June 6, 1997, an American Oil Consultant/Contractor with the National Oil Nigeria LTD, Mr.Robert Akazawa made a numbered time(Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$15,611,000.00 (Fifteen Million six hundred and eleven thousand US Dollars only)in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the National Oil Nigeria LTD that Mr. Robert died from an automobile crash. On further investigation, I found out that he died without making "WILL",and all attempts to tracehis next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr.Robert did not declare any kin or relations in all his officialdocuments,including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$15,611,000.00 only is still sitting in my Bank and theinterest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Nigerian Law, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the fund. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you to act as the next of kin to Mr.Robert Akazawa so that the fruits of this old man's labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials. This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and address so that the Attorney whom we will engage his services will down here, will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits which will put you in place as the next of kin. This Attorney will prepare the drafting and notarization of the "WILL" and equally obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate/administration in your favour for the transfer. A Bank Account in any part of the world which you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin. The money will be paid into your Accountfor us to share in the ratio of 60% for me and 30% for you, while 10% is for expences in the course of the transaction. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the Attorney and my position as the Branch Manager guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, forward your contact telephone numbers to faciliate easier and faster communication and for us to discuss orally. Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and my private contact telephone number. Please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country. Awaiting your urgent reply mail.dikemartins@eudoramail.com Regards, Mr.Dike Martins. From ben.ijeh@voila.fr Tue Apr 22 07:41:08 2003 From: ben.ijeh@voila.fr (Ben) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 22:41:08 -0800 Subject: [Acpc-l] re: benefactor assistance Message-ID: <200304220641.h3M6fDCn029076@alijku01.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> RE: TRANSFER OF ($12,800.000.00 USD) TWELVE MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS. I WANT TO TRANSFER TO ABROAD ($12,800.000.00 USD). TWELVE MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS. FROM MY BANK-GUARANTY TRUST BANK PLC, LAGOS,NIGERIA. I WANT TO ASK YOU TO QUITELY LOOK FOR A RELIABLE AND HONEST PERSON WHO WILL BE CAPABLE AND FIT TO PROVIDE EITHER AN EXISTING BANK ACCOUNT OR TO SET UP A NEW BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY TO RECEIVE THIS MONEY, EVEN AN EMPTY ACCOUNT CAN SERVE TO RECEIVE THIS MONEY, AS LONG AS YOU WILL REMAIN HONEST TO ME TILL THE END OF THIS IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION.I WANT TO BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL NEVER LET ME DOWN EITHER NOW OR IN FUTURE. I AM BEN IJEH THE AUDIT SURPERVISOR, GUARANTY TRUST BANK PLC , LAGOS, NIGERIA. DURING THE COURSE OF OUR AUDITING, I DISCOVERED A FLOATING FUND IN AN ACCOUNT OPENED IN THE BANK IN 1993 AND SINCE 1996 NOBODY HAS OPERATED ON THIS ACCOUNT AGAIN. AFTER GOING THROUGH SOME OLD FILES IN THE RECORDS, I DISCOVERED THAT THE OWNER OF THE ACCOUNT DIED WITHOUT A [HEIR], HENCE THE MONEY HAS BEEN FLOATING AND IF I DO NOT REMIT THIS MONEY OUT URGENTLY IT WILL BE FORFEITED FOR NOTHING.THE OWNER OF THIS ACCOUNT WAS MR. ALLAN P.SEAMAN, A FOREIGNER, AND AN INDUSTRIALIST, HE DIED SINCE 1996 AND NO OTHER PERSON KNOWS ABOUT THIS ACCOUNT OR ANYTHING CONCERNING IT. THE ACCOUNT HAS NO BENEFICIARY AND MY INVESTIGATION PROVED TO ME AS WELL THAT ALLAN P.SEAMAN UNTIL HIS DEATH WAS THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, DIAMOND SAFARI [PTY] SA. WE WILL START THE FIRST TRANSFER WITH $6 MILLION U.S.DOLLARS [$6,000.000.00] UPON SUCCESSFUL TRANSFER WITHOUT ANY DISAPPOINTMENT FROM YOUR SIDE, WE SHALL RE-APPLY FOR THE TRANSFER OF THE REMAINING $6.8 MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS [$6,800.000.00] INTO YOUR ACCOUNT BRINGING THE SUM TOTAL TO TWELVE MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS [$12,800.000.00]. I AM CONTACTING YOU AS A FOREIGNER BECAUSE THIS MONEY CAN ONLY BE APPROVED TO A FOREIGNER WITH A VALID INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT, DRIVERS LICENCE AND FOREIGN ACCOUNT BECAUSE THE MONEY IS IN US DOLLARS AND THE FORMER OWNER OF THE ACCOUNT MR. ALLAN P.SEAMAN IS A FOREIGNER.I WILL LIKE US TO SIGN A BINDING AGREEMENT THAT WILL BIND US TOGETHER IN THE BUSINESS, I AM REVEALING ALL THIS TO YOU WITH THE BELIEF THAT YOU WILL NEVER LET ME DOWN IN THIS BUSINESS, YOU ARE THE FIRST AND THE ONLY PERSON I AM CONTACTING FOR THE BUSINESS SO PLEASE REPLY URGENTLY FOR ME TO TELL YOU THE NEXT STEP TO TAKE. YOU SHOULD FORWARD YOUR TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS AND YOUR BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS THAT WILL BE USED IN TRANSFERING THE MONEY.YOU WILL HAVE TO GIVE ME THE ASSURANCE THAT THIS MONEY WILL BE INTACT PENDING MY PHYSICAL ARRIVAL IN YOUR COUNTRY FOR SHARING AND DISBURSEMENT OF THE FUND WHICH WILL BE 35% FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE, 60% WILL BE FOR US WHILE 5% WILL BE SET ASIDE TO TAKE CARE OF ALL THE EXPENSES THAT WILL BE INCURED BY BOTH PARTIES DURING THE COURSE OF THE TRANSFER. I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR EARLIEST RESPONSE THROUGH MY E-MAIL benijeh@zwallet.com FOR SECURITY REASONS. BEST REGARDS, BEN IJEH From bononi@cs.unibo.it Wed Apr 23 17:17:19 2003 From: bononi@cs.unibo.it (Luciano Bononi) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:17:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Acpc-l] [CFP] DS-RT 2003 Message-ID: <20030423161719.55DF326FE7@zuma.cs.unibo.it> ==================================================================== Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. Call for Papers DS-RT 2003 Seventh IEEE* International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, October 23-25, 2003, Delft, The Netherlands. http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds-rt2003/ In conjunction with 15th European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2003) October 26-29, 2003, Delft, The Netherlands Hosted by the Delft University of Technology *IEEE Approval Pending SCOPE In its seventh year, the 2003 International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2003) will take place at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, just before the European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2003). This is an excellent opportunity to participate in two conferences covering a wide range of simulation research. SYMPOSIUM OBJECTIVES DS-RT 2003 serves as a forum for simulationists from academia, industry and research labs, for presenting recent research results in Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. DS-RT 2003 targets the growing overlap between large distributed simulations and real time applications. The conference features prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. DS-RT 2003 will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, and panel discussions. The proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS press. CALL FOR PAPERS DS-RT is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to distributed simulation and real time applications. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. Demonstration of new tools/applications is very desirable. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: o- Interactive Virtual Reality, Multi-User Virtual Reality, Interactive Simulation in Entertainment; o- Algorithms and Studies relating to existing protocols (e.g., HLA, DIS); o- Implementation issues; (e.g., general purpose distributed simulation); o- Algorithms and Methods for Distributed Interactive Simulation (e.g.,event synchronization, network time protocols); o- Applications of Distributed Simulation (e.g., Real Time DS, large distributed simulation systems); o- Distributed Models and Simulation for Analysis; o- Data Distribution Management and Interest Management; o- Multi-resolution modeling; o- Current Critical Design Issues (e.g.: causality, simultaneous events, zero look-ahead, compensation for slower than real time); o- Methodology for Distributed/Parallel Simulation; o- Approaches to interoperation of COTS simulation modelling packages; o- Interface Definition, Communication, Management, Security; o- Performance of Distributed Simulation; (e.g., benchmark, theoretical, empirical, and HLA/RTI studies); o- Dead-Reckoning Mechanisms; o- Visual Interactive Simulation (e.g., generic animation, visual interactive modeling, interactive computer based learning); o- Animating Language Tools, Visualization Tools for Computational Process under Simulation; o- Language and Modeling Issues; o- Modeling and Simulation Environments for Real Time Concurrent Systems; o- Influence of Network-Centric Systems (such as Java, and DCOM) on DIS; o- Interoperable Communication Networks; o- Network support for distributed simulation and real-time systems (QoS requirements and their realization, multicast for distributed/ real-time simulation systems); o- Applications of Web-Based Simulation (e.g. Modeling Global Internet); o- Integration of DIS and HLA with Web Technologies. IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: June 1, 2003 (hard copy or electronic paper submission) Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2003 Camera Ready version due: August 15, 2003 Symposium presentation: October 23-25, 2003 in Delft, The Netherlands IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in electronic form, postscript pdf, or Microsoft Word 6.0 (or higher) only. Please submit papers to http://sentosa.sas.ntu.edu.sg:8000/~dsrt2003/ by June 1, 2003. Questions from authors may be directed to Simon Taylor (simon.taylor@brunel.ac.uk), or Stephen Turner (ASSJTurner@ntu.edu.sg). Hardcopy papers also may be submitted, in which case four copies are required. Each submission, electronic or paper, must be accompanied by the following information: a short abstract a complete list of authors and their affiliations a contact person for correspondence postal and e-mail addresses. Please contact the above if you wish to do so. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Stephen J. Turner School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Email: ASSJTurner@ntu.edu.sg Phone: +65-6790-4054. Fax : +65-6792-6559 Program Chair Simon J. E. Taylor Department of Information Systems and Computing Brunel University Uxbridge, Middx, UB8 3PH Email: simon.taylor@brunel.ac.uk Phone: +44-1895-203389 Fax: +44-1895-251686 Publicity Co-Chairs Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Mirela M. S. A. Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Program Committee Lee Belfore, Old Dominion University, USA Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Alexander Verbraeck, TU Delft Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School Wentong Cai, Nanyang Technological University Judith Dahmann, MITRE Corporation, USA Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University at Linz Robert Fransechini, SAIC, USA Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology Katherine Morse, SAIC, USA Anand Natrajan, University of Virginia Mikel Petty, Old Dominion University Mark Pullen, George Mason University Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia Doug Schmidt, DARPA, and University of California at Irvine Roger Smith, Model Benders Corp., USA Gary Tan, National University of Singapore Simon Taylor, Brunel University, UK Stephen Turner, Nanyang Technological University Richard Weatherly, MITRE Corp., USA Philip Wilsey, University of Cincinnati Steering Committee Azzedine Boukerche (Chair), University of North Texas Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia Stephen J. Turner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Albert Zomaya, University of Western Australia Advisory Board Committee Jean-Loup Baer, University of Washington Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas K. M. Chandy, California Institute of Technology, USA Sajal K. Das, University of North Texas Lorenzo Donatiello, University of Bologna, Italy Doug DeGroot, Texas Instruments, USA Tuncer Oren, University of Ottawa, Canada Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia Gabriel Silberman, IBM Research, USA Stephen J. Turner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore G. Zobrist, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Local Arrangement Chair: Alexander Verbraeck, Systems Engineering, TU Delft Delft, The Netherlands Registration Chair Susan Standing, Brunel University, UK Webmaster and System Chair Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy For local information on the beautiful city of Delft see www.delft.nl! ==================================================================== . From mariam_abacha1918@yahoo.com Thu Apr 24 04:54:05 2003 From: mariam_abacha1918@yahoo.com (mariam abacha) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:54:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Acpc-l] URGENT /ASSISTANCE Message-ID: <20030424035405.74610.qmail@web20711.mail.yahoo.com> --0-1308996857-1051156445=:73146 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ATTN:sir Following the sudden death of my husband General Sani Abacha the late former head of state of Nigeria in August 1998, I have been thrown into a state of utter confusion, frustration and hopelessness by the present civilian administration, I have been subjected to physical and psychological torture by the security agents in the country.As a widow that is so traumatized,I have lost confidence with anybody within the country. You must have heard over the media reports and the internet on the recovery of various huge sums of money deposited by my husband in different security firms abroad, some companies willingly give up their secrets and disclosed our money confidently lodged there or many out right blackmail. In fact the total sum discovered by the Government so far is in the tune of $700. Million dollars. And they are not relenting to make me poor for life. I got your contacts through my personal research,and out of desperation decided to reach you.I will give you more information as to this regard as soon as you reply. I repose great confidence in you hence my approach to you due to security network placed on my day affairs I cannot afford to visit the embassy so that is why I decided to contact you and I hope you will not betray my confidence in you. I have deposited the sum of 45.5 million dollars with a security firm abroad whose name is with held for now until we open communication. I shall be grateful if you could receive this fund into your account for safe keeping. This arrangement is known to you and my Lawyer Sherif alone, so my Lawyer will deal directly with you as security is up my whole being.I am seriously considering to settle down abroad in a friendly atmosphere like yours as soon as this fund get into your account so that I can start all over again if only you wish, but if it is impossible,just help me indiverting this fund into your account which will accrue you 30% of this fund . Please honesty is the watch word in this transaction. I will require your telephone and fax numbers so that we can commence communication immediately and I will give you a more detailed picture of things. In case you dont accept please do not let me out to the security as I am giving you this information in total trust and confidence I will greatly appreciate if you accept my proposal in good faith.Please expedite action. Sincerely yours Dr.Mrs. Mariam Abacha --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. --0-1308996857-1051156445=:73146 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
ATTN:sir

Following the sudden death of my husband General Sani
Abacha the late former head of state of Nigeria in
August 1998, I have been thrown into a state of utter
confusion, frustration and hopelessness by the present
civilian administration, I have been subjected to
physical and psychological torture by the security
agents in the country.As a widow that is so
traumatized,I have lost confidence with anybody within
the country.

You must have heard over the media reports and the
internet on the recovery of various huge sums of money
deposited by my husband in different security firms
abroad, some companies willingly give up their secrets
and disclosed our money confidently lodged there or
many out right blackmail. In fact the total sum
discovered by the Government so far is in the tune of
$700. Million dollars. And they are not relenting to
make me poor for life.

I got your contacts through my personal research,and
out of desperation decided to reach you.I will give
you more information as to this regard as soon as you
reply. I repose great confidence in you hence my
approach to you due to security network placed on my
day affairs I cannot afford to visit the embassy so
that is why I decided to contact you and I hope you
will not betray my confidence in you. I have deposited
the sum of 45.5 million dollars with a security firm
abroad whose name is with held for now until we open
communication.

I shall be grateful if you could receive this fund
into your account for safe keeping. This arrangement
is known to you and my Lawyer Sherif alone, so my
Lawyer will deal directly with you as security is up
my whole being.I am seriously considering to settle
down abroad in a friendly atmosphere like yours as
soon as this fund get into your account so that I can
start all over again if only you wish, but if it is
impossible,just help me indiverting this fund into
your account which will accrue you 30% of this fund .

Please honesty is the watch word in this transaction.
I will require your telephone and fax numbers so that
we can commence communication immediately and I will
give you a more detailed picture of things.
In case you dont accept please do not let me out to
the security as I am giving you this information in
total trust and confidence

I will greatly appreciate if you accept my proposal in
good faith.Please expedite action.

Sincerely yours

Dr.Mrs. Mariam Abacha



Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. --0-1308996857-1051156445=:73146-- From mariam_abacha1918@yahoo.com Thu Apr 24 04:54:05 2003 From: mariam_abacha1918@yahoo.com (mariam abacha) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:54:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Acpc-l] URGENT /ASSISTANCE Message-ID: <20030424035405.74610.qmail@web20711.mail.yahoo.com> --0-1308996857-1051156445=:73146 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ATTN:sir Following the sudden death of my husband General Sani Abacha the late former head of state of Nigeria in August 1998, I have been thrown into a state of utter confusion, frustration and hopelessness by the present civilian administration, I have been subjected to physical and psychological torture by the security agents in the country.As a widow that is so traumatized,I have lost confidence with anybody within the country. You must have heard over the media reports and the internet on the recovery of various huge sums of money deposited by my husband in different security firms abroad, some companies willingly give up their secrets and disclosed our money confidently lodged there or many out right blackmail. In fact the total sum discovered by the Government so far is in the tune of $700. Million dollars. And they are not relenting to make me poor for life. I got your contacts through my personal research,and out of desperation decided to reach you.I will give you more information as to this regard as soon as you reply. I repose great confidence in you hence my approach to you due to security network placed on my day affairs I cannot afford to visit the embassy so that is why I decided to contact you and I hope you will not betray my confidence in you. I have deposited the sum of 45.5 million dollars with a security firm abroad whose name is with held for now until we open communication. I shall be grateful if you could receive this fund into your account for safe keeping. This arrangement is known to you and my Lawyer Sherif alone, so my Lawyer will deal directly with you as security is up my whole being.I am seriously considering to settle down abroad in a friendly atmosphere like yours as soon as this fund get into your account so that I can start all over again if only you wish, but if it is impossible,just help me indiverting this fund into your account which will accrue you 30% of this fund . Please honesty is the watch word in this transaction. I will require your telephone and fax numbers so that we can commence communication immediately and I will give you a more detailed picture of things. In case you dont accept please do not let me out to the security as I am giving you this information in total trust and confidence I will greatly appreciate if you accept my proposal in good faith.Please expedite action. Sincerely yours Dr.Mrs. Mariam Abacha --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. --0-1308996857-1051156445=:73146 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
ATTN:sir

Following the sudden death of my husband General Sani
Abacha the late former head of state of Nigeria in
August 1998, I have been thrown into a state of utter
confusion, frustration and hopelessness by the present
civilian administration, I have been subjected to
physical and psychological torture by the security
agents in the country.As a widow that is so
traumatized,I have lost confidence with anybody within
the country.

You must have heard over the media reports and the
internet on the recovery of various huge sums of money
deposited by my husband in different security firms
abroad, some companies willingly give up their secrets
and disclosed our money confidently lodged there or
many out right blackmail. In fact the total sum
discovered by the Government so far is in the tune of
$700. Million dollars. And they are not relenting to
make me poor for life.

I got your contacts through my personal research,and
out of desperation decided to reach you.I will give
you more information as to this regard as soon as you
reply. I repose great confidence in you hence my
approach to you due to security network placed on my
day affairs I cannot afford to visit the embassy so
that is why I decided to contact you and I hope you
will not betray my confidence in you. I have deposited
the sum of 45.5 million dollars with a security firm
abroad whose name is with held for now until we open
communication.

I shall be grateful if you could receive this fund
into your account for safe keeping. This arrangement
is known to you and my Lawyer Sherif alone, so my
Lawyer will deal directly with you as security is up
my whole being.I am seriously considering to settle
down abroad in a friendly atmosphere like yours as
soon as this fund get into your account so that I can
start all over again if only you wish, but if it is
impossible,just help me indiverting this fund into
your account which will accrue you 30% of this fund .

Please honesty is the watch word in this transaction.
I will require your telephone and fax numbers so that
we can commence communication immediately and I will
give you a more detailed picture of things.
In case you dont accept please do not let me out to
the security as I am giving you this information in
total trust and confidence

I will greatly appreciate if you accept my proposal in
good faith.Please expedite action.

Sincerely yours

Dr.Mrs. Mariam Abacha



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The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. --0-1308996857-1051156445=:73146-- From mirela@newsite.com.br Sun Apr 27 20:38:10 2003 From: mirela@newsite.com.br (Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:38:10 -0300 Subject: [Acpc-l] 5th IEEE MWCN'2003 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <08f201c30cf4$89c41b30$5600a8c0@MIRELA> Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ****************************************** ****** CALL FOR PAPERS ******* ****************************************** IEEE MWCN'2003 The Fifth IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks Singapore in 27 - 29 October, 2003 http://www.icr.a-star.edu.sg/mwcn2003/ You are invited to submit original papers addressing topics in all areas of wireless communication systems and networks. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the technical subject categories listed below: Management - Resource and Information Management - Pricing and Billing Issues Architecture - Convergence of Fixed and Mobile - Hybrid Communications System Devices - Low-Power End-Devices and Wireless Communications Security - Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks QoS - Adaptive Quality of Service Provisioning - End-to-end Quality of Service Mobility Support - Handoff Algorithms - IP and Mobility - Mobility and Connection Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks - Policy-based Mobility Management Applications - Personal Communications - Location and Context Management - Smart Media - Mobile Code - Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Applications Access - Wireless IP - Wireless Multimedia Services - Wireless Local Loop (WLL) - Multiple Access Technology - Broadband Wireless Access Networking - Wireless Personal Area Networks - Wireless Local Area Networks - Mobility and Nomadic Computing - Analysis and Simulation of Mobile Network Protocols - Home Networking - Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and the Internet - Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking Routing - Satellite Networks The official language of the conference for submission of a paper and or an extended abstract and view graphs is English. This conference will identify the theoretical and actual problems that face designers of today's complex problems associated with mobile and wireless communications networks. The participants will show test results of experiments from building prototype systems, explore modeling and simulation tools as well as analytical methodologies and techniques for dealing with wireless systems. The objective of this event is to foster the exchange of information among researchers in this fast-moving field. The program will include presentations by distinguished researchers, speaking on recent advances in theory and practice. This conference also intends to bring together various mobile and wireless network systems developers to discuss the current status, technical challenges, standards, fundamental issues, and future services and applications in the form of workshops, business applications sessions and tutorials. It is also intended to provide a timely forum for exploratory research and practical contributions from North America, Europe, The Middle East, and the Far East. Guidelines for Submission Papers are invited on the conference theme and related topics. The original submission containing affiliation and full contact information of the authors should be addressed to the TPC chairs by the date indicated above based on the following instructions: Extended abstract should be in English, with no more than 1500 words and submitted to http://mwcn2003.lri.fr/REG-paper/ The paper should include an abstract of about 150 words, and must not exceed Accepted formats include Microsoft Word, PostScript and PDF. Authors must state that their paper have neither been published before nor currently being submitted elsewhere. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the lead author's postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail. The language of the conference is English and papers must be in this language. Accepted papers will have to expanded into full paper to be distributed on the conference proceedings and or CD-ROMS, and will also be made available in the IEEExplore. Dates to Remember Deadline for submitting an extended abstract : May 5, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2003 Papers received in camera ready form to MWCN 2003: July 1, 2003 Conference Date and place: 27-29 October, Singapore Organizing Committee Conference General Chair Dr. Guy Omidyar Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:gomidyar@icr.a-star.edu.sg Conference Technical Program Chair Khaldoun Al-Agha Khaldoun Al Agha, LRI, University of Paris XI, France Email: alagha@lri.fr Conference Technical Program Co-chairs and area Coordinators Asia-Pacific: Boon Sain Yeo Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email: boonyeo@ieee.org North and South Americas: Azzedine Boukerche University of North Texas, USA Email: boukerche@cs.unt.edu Middle-East and Far East: Khaled Elsayed Cairo University, Egypt Email: khaled@ieee.org Tutorial, Workshop, Panel Chair Dr. Guy Omidyar Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:gomidyar@icr.a-star.edu.sg Organizing Chair Ms Patricia Loh Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Email:patricia@i2r.a-star.edu.sg Finance Chair S Kunaselvam Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:kuna@icr.a-star.edu.sg Conference Secretariat Please contact mwcn@i2r.a-star.edu.sg Web Chair Gek Hiong Tan Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:tangh@icr.a-star.edu.sg Steering Committee Khaldoun Al Agha, LRI, University of Paris XI, France Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Guy Omidyar, ICR-NUS, Singapore (Chair) Guy Pujolle, Université Paris 6, France Boon Sain Yeo, ICR-NUS, Singapore Technical Scientific Program Committee Hossam Afifi, INT, France Khaldoun Al Agha, LRI, University of Paris XI, France Hamid Aghvami, Kings College of London, UK André-Luc Beylot, IRIT, France Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, US Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA Olga Casals, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Colin Chandler, Qualcomm Europe, France Francois Chin, Institute for Communications Research, NUS, Singapore Sajal K. Das, University Texas at Arlington, USA Khaled Elsayed, Cairo University, Egypt Markus Endler, IME/USP, Brazil Serge Fdida, Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6, France Afonso Ferreira, CNRS INRIA, France Adolf Finger, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Martin Haardt, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK Jamshid Khun Jush, Ericsson, Germany Theo Kanter, Ericsson Research, Sweden Parviz Kermani, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Witold Krzymien, University of Alberta, Canada Xavier Lagrange, ENST Bretagne, France Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong University, HK Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr., KTH, Wireless Center, Sweden Jon W. Mark, University of Waterloo, Canada Geraldo Robson Mateus, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Marie-Jose Montpetit, Nokia, USA Mahmoud Naghshineh, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Ayman Naguib, Qualcomm, USA Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brasil Guy Omidyar, Institute for Communications Research, NUS, Singapore Elena Pagani, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Kaveh Pahlavan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gregory P. Pollini, Telecordia, USA Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark Guy Pujolle, Université Paris 6, France Christopher Rose, Associate Director, Rutgers WinLab, USA Elisabeth Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara Djamel Sadok, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission, Belgium Jan Slavik, Testcom, Czech Republic Kelvino S. Sousa, University of Toronto, Canada Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork, Ireland Sumei Sun, Institute for Communication Research, NUS, Singapore T.T. Tjhung, Institute for Communication Research, NUS, Singapore Guillaume Vivier, Motorola Labs, France Branimir Vojcic, George Washington University, USA Ivan Vukovic, Motorola, USA Adam Wolisz, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Boon Sain Yeo, Institute for Communication Research, NUS, Singapore Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia From mirela@newsite.com.br Sun Apr 27 20:38:55 2003 From: mirela@newsite.com.br (Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:38:55 -0300 Subject: [Acpc-l] 6th ACM MSWiM'2003 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <08f301c30cf4$a4495a10$5600a8c0@MIRELA> ============ Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ============ CALL FOR PAPERS 6th ACM MSWiM 2003 The Sixth International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (Jointly with ACM MobiCom 2003, September 14-19) September 19, 2003 San Diego, CA, USA http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2003/ MSWiM is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobile and wireless systems. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile computing and wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Performance evaluation and modeling of mobile and wireless communication networks * Simulation and analysis of wireless protocols and mobile computing systems * Integrated simulation and measurement based evaluation of mobile and wireless systems * Survivability and reliability evaluation and modeling * RF channel capacity modeling and analysis * Design methodologies for wireless systems * Network support for QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile networks * Modeling and analysis of wireless Internet access * Traffic measurements and models for audio, video, multimedia, and WWW services * New simulation languages and tools for wireless systems * Database management systems and mobile computing (location-based queries, wireless data caching, mobile transactions) * Wireless data dissemination (broadcasting and indexing techniques) * Pervasive computing and ad hoc networking * Wireless PANs, LANs * Sensor networks * Mobile agents support for wireless networks PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Paper length should not exceed 20 pages. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. Papers must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system. For paper submission, please follow the submission instructions at: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2003/ Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by by ACM CS-press. A Special Issue with ACM/Baltzer MONET/WINET will be planned which will contain selected papers from MSWiM. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: June 5, 2003 Notification: July 15, 2003 Camera Ready due: TBD Organizing Committee General Chair Rassul Ayani Department of Microelectronics and Information Technology Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Email: rassul@it.kth.se Program Co-Chairs Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: chiasserini@polito.it Hossam Hassanein Department of Computing and Information Science Queen's University Email: Hossam@cs.queensu.ca Publicity Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Email: bononi@cs.unibo.it Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Email: karatza@csd.auth.gr Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare Barddal University, Florianopolis, SC Brazil Email: mirela@barddal.br Program Committee Anand Balachandran, University of California at San Diego, USA Simonetta Balsamo, Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy Luciano Bononi, Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Lorenzo Casaccia, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy Teresa A. Dahlberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Juan Carlos De Martin, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria Vincenzo Grassi, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA Fredrik Gunnarsson, Ericsson Research, Sweden Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Yi-Bing Lin, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Pavan Nugehalli, University of California at San Diego, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Krishna M. Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Vikram Srinivasan, University of California at San Diego, USA Dirk Staehle, University of Wurzburg, Germany Mineo Takai, University of California at Los Angeles, USA David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wurzburg, Germany Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, AU Steering Committee Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of North texas, USA Advisory Board Committee Azzedine Boukerche, University of North texas, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Lorenzo Donatiello, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan William C.Y. Lee, AirTouch Inc. Registration Chair Tom Jacob, University of North texas, USA Webmaster and System Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Email: bononi@cs.unibo.it Maurizio Munafo', Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: munafo@polito.it From gabriele.kotsis@jku.ac.at Mon Apr 28 00:05:05 2003 From: gabriele.kotsis@jku.ac.at (Gabriele Kotsis) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:05:05 Subject: [Acpc-l] Reminder: mascots 2003 deadline approaching Message-ID: <200304272106.h3RL5x5D044834@yoda.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> Dear collegue, this is to kindly remind you that the deadlien for submissions to mascopts 2003 is may 4, 2003. you can submit your paper via http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/mascots2003/cm/REG-paper/ further info about mascots 2003 can be found in the attached call for papers and on the web http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/mascots2003/ I also appreaciate your help in distributing this call for papers to all of your collegues who might be interested in mascots. I am looking forward to receiving your submission, Gabriele Kotsis mascots 2003 PC chair ***************************************************************** Univ. Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kotsis Tel: +43 732 2468 9238 Telecooperation Department Fax: +43 732 2468 9829 Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz email: gabriele.kotsis@jku.ac.at Altenberger Strasse 69 http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at A-4040 Linz, Austria ***************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS MASCOTS2003 The 11th IEEE/ACM* International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems 12 - 15 October 2003, Orlando (FL) http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/mascots2003 Venue: Orlando Airport Marriott 7499 Augusta National Drive Orlando, FL 32822 * IEEE/ACM- Approval Pending ******************************************************************************** The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: [-] Computer Architecture Modeling and Simulation [-] Parallel and Distributed Systems [-] Real-Time and Multimedia Systems [-] Internetworking Protocol and Performance [-] Wireless and Mobile Networking and Computing [-] Broadband and Telecommunication Networks and Software [-] Network Traffic Studies [-] Web-Based Systems [-] Application areas such as databases [-] Analysis Techniques and Formal Methods [-] Benchmarking and Measurement Techniques [-] Capacity Planning [-] Performance Analysis and Validation Techniques [-] Workload Characterization and Generation [-] Discrete Event Simulation methodology and Tools [-] Middleware Performance (Object Oriented, Parallel Simulation etc.) Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance which have not been published elsewhere. The proceedings will be published by IEEE. ******************************************************************************** TOOLS TRACK Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing tools suitable for on-line demonstration. The tools papers will undergo a regular review process and will be published in the conference proceedings in a dedicated tools section. Separate sessions are planned where these tools will be demonstrated on-line. Projection systems capable for projecting from laptop screens and videotapes will be available. The authors are required to bring any additional equipment necessary for demonstration.Questions regarding tools track should be directed to the Tools Chair. Submissions can be submitted online via http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/mascots2003 or can be sent directly to Jane Hilston by the deadline May 30, 2003. ******************************************************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION Papers must not exceed 20 double-spaced pages with a minimum of 10-point font and must include an abstract, keywords, authors contact information (providing both postal and email addresses). Papers must be unpublished original work and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers in electronic form (preferably PDF or PostScript) using http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/mascots2003/cm/REG-paper/ Those unable to use electronic means should mail five (5) complete copies of the paper to Prof. Gabriele Kotsis by May 4, 2003. ******************************************************************************** PROCEEDINGS All regular papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE. Tool papers will also appear in the proceedings in a separate section. In order to guarantee publication it is necessary that the paper is formatted in coherence with the guidelines, received in time (July, precise date to be announced), and that at least one of the authors has registered for the conference. SPECIAL ISSUE Selected papers presented MASCOTS 2003 will be published in a special issue of the Performance Evaluation journal published by Elsevier. Based on suggestions from the programme committee, the program chair will invite selected authors to submit an extended version of their conference paper for possible publication in the journal. Those papers will again be reviewed with the help of the programme committee after the conference. ******************************************************************************** CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Proposals for half-day workshops are solicited on timely topics related to the above areas. The workshop proposal must include a description of topics presented and biographies of potential presenters. Send workshop proposals directly to the Workshops Chair, Ramon Puigjaner by the deadline May 4, 2003. ******************************************************************************** CALL FOR TUTORIALS Proposals for tutorials, running for 2 to 3 hours, are solicited on timely topics related to the above areas. The tutorial proposal must include description and length of the tutorial, breakdown of topics, and biographies of the presenters. Send tutorial proposals directly to the Tutorials Chair Mariacarla Calzarossa by the deadline May 4, 2003. ******************************************************************************** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Erol Gelenbe University of Central Florida erol@cs.ucf.edu Program Chair Gabriele Kotsis Telecooperation Department Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenberger Strasse 69 A-4040 Linz, Austria Phone: +43 732 2468 9238 Fax: +43 732 2468 9829 gabriele.kotsis@jku.ac.at Workshops Chair Ramon Puigjaner Univerity of the Baleares (Spain) putxi@uib.es Tools Chair Jane Hillston University of Edinburgh Scotland, UK jeh@inf.ed.ac.uk Tutorials Chair Mariacarla Calzarossa University of Pavia Italy mcc@unipv.it Finance Chair David Finkel Computer Science Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Road Worcester, MA 01609, USA Phone: (508) 831-5416 Fax: (508) 831-5776 dfinkel@wpi.edu Publicity Co-Chairs Khaled Hussain and Ricardo Lent University of Central Florida {khaled,rlent}@cs.ucf.edu Local Arrangements Chair Amy Wedel Division of Continuing Education University of Central Florida 407-882-0241 awedel@mail.ucf.edu Program Committee Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnatti, USA Khalid Al-Begain, Bradford University, UK Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida, USA Monique Becker, INT, France Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Azzeddine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Gregor v. Bochman, University of Ottawa, Canada Mariacarla Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Sajal K. Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA Samir Das, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria David Finkel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Jean Michel Fourneau, University of Versailles, France Ratan Guha, University of Central Florida, USA Mohsen Guizani, University of Michigan, USA Guenter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria Peter Harrison, Imperial College, UK Hossam Hossanein, Queens University, Canada Sungbum Hong, University of North Texas, USA Alain Jean-Marie, LIRMM, France Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Darrell Long, UC Santa Cruz, USA Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Raymond Marie, IRISA, France Dan Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA Daniel A. Menasce, George Mason University, USA David Nicol, Dartmouth College, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Nihal Pekergin, University of Versailles St-Quentin, France Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain William H. Sanders, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Mirela Sechi M. A. Notare, Barddal University, SC, Brazil Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA S V Raghavan, IIT Madras, India Gerardo Rubino, IRISA, France J. Bosco M. Sobral, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Satish K. Tripathi, University of California, Riverside, USA Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, USA Carl Tropper, McGill University, Canada Salvatore Tucci, University of Rome II, Italy Stephen J. Turner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada Zhiguang Xu, University of Central Florida, USA Jason Lin Yi-Bing, National Chiao-Tung Univ. Taiwan Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Western Australia ******************************************************************************** From mariam_abacha1918@yahoo.com Mon Apr 28 17:07:55 2003 From: mariam_abacha1918@yahoo.com (mariam abacha) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:07:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Acpc-l] URGENT /ASSISTANCE Message-ID: <20030428160755.38676.qmail@web20712.mail.yahoo.com> --0-774068656-1051546075=:37536 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ATTN:sir Following the sudden death of my husband General Sani Abacha the late former head of state of Nigeria in August 1998, I have been thrown into a state of utter confusion, frustration and hopelessness by the present civilian administration, I have been subjected to physical and psychological torture by the security agents in the country.As a widow that is so traumatized,I have lost confidence with anybody within the country. You must have heard over the media reports and the internet on the recovery of various huge sums of money deposited by my husband in different security firms abroad, some companies willingly give up their secrets and disclosed our money confidently lodged there or many out right blackmail. In fact the total sum discovered by the Government so far is in the tune of $700. Million dollars. And they are not relenting to make me poor for life. I got your contacts through my personal research,and out of desperation decided to reach you.I will give you more information as to this regard as soon as you reply. I repose great confidence in you hence my approach to you due to security network placed on my day affairs I cannot afford to visit the embassy so that is why I decided to contact you and I hope you will not betray my confidence in you. I have deposited the sum of 45.5 million dollars with a security firm abroad whose name is with held for now until we open communication. I shall be grateful if you could receive this fund into your account for safe keeping. This arrangement is known to you and my Lawyer Sherif alone, so my Lawyer will deal directly with you as security is up my whole being.I am seriously considering to settle down abroad in a friendly atmosphere like yours as soon as this fund get into your account so that I can start all over again if only you wish, but if it is impossible,just help me indiverting this fund into your account which will accrue you 30% of this fund . Please honesty is the watch word in this transaction. I will require your telephone and fax numbers so that we can commence communication immediately and I will give you a more detailed picture of things. In case you dont accept please do not let me out to the security as I am giving you this information in total trust and confidence I will greatly appreciate if you accept my proposal in good faith.Please expedite action. Sincerely yours Dr.Mrs. Mariam Abacha --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. --0-774068656-1051546075=:37536 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
ATTN:sir

Following the sudden death of my husband General Sani
Abacha the late former head of state of Nigeria in
August 1998, I have been thrown into a state of utter
confusion, frustration and hopelessness by the present
civilian administration, I have been subjected to
physical and psychological torture by the security
agents in the country.As a widow that is so
traumatized,I have lost confidence with anybody within
the country.

You must have heard over the media reports and the
internet on the recovery of various huge sums of money
deposited by my husband in different security firms
abroad, some companies willingly give up their secrets
and disclosed our money confidently lodged there or
many out right blackmail. In fact the total sum
discovered by the Government so far is in the tune of
$700. Million dollars. And they are not relenting to
make me poor for life.

I got your contacts through my personal research,and
out of desperation decided to reach you.I will give
you more information as to this regard as soon as you
reply. I repose great confidence in you hence my
approach to you due to security network placed on my
day affairs I cannot afford to visit the embassy so
that is why I decided to contact you and I hope you
will not betray my confidence in you. I have deposited
the sum of 45.5 million dollars with a security firm
abroad whose name is with held for now until we open
communication.

I shall be grateful if you could receive this fund
into your account for safe keeping. This arrangement
is known to you and my Lawyer Sherif alone, so my
Lawyer will deal directly with you as security is up
my whole being.I am seriously considering to settle
down abroad in a friendly atmosphere like yours as
soon as this fund get into your account so that I can
start all over again if only you wish, but if it is
impossible,just help me indiverting this fund into
your account which will accrue you 30% of this fund .

Please honesty is the watch word in this transaction.
I will require your telephone and fax numbers so that
we can commence communication immediately and I will
give you a more detailed picture of things.
In case you dont accept please do not let me out to
the security as I am giving you this information in
total trust and confidence

I will greatly appreciate if you accept my proposal in
good faith.Please expedite action.

Sincerely yours

Dr.Mrs. Mariam Abacha


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The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. --0-774068656-1051546075=:37536-- From wp@cg.tuwien.ac.at Tue Apr 29 15:15:43 2003 From: wp@cg.tuwien.ac.at (Werner Purgathofer) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:15:43 +0200 Subject: [Acpc-l] Einladung zum Informatik-Kolloquium Prof. Scheer Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20030429155435.028c9000@mail.cg.tuwien.ac.at> Der Fachbereich Informatik und die Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft laden zu folgendem Vortrag ein: ======================================================================== Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm SCHEER DFKI Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz Saarbrücken Datum: 26. Mai 2003 Uhrzeit: 17.00 Uhr pünktlich Ort: Hörsaal EI 10 (Paschke-Hs), Gußhausstr. 27-29, Erdgeschoss ======================================================================== TITEL: Business Process Engineering ======================================================================== ABSTRACT: The concept of a global, process-oriented view on information systems emerged from the notion of a company-wide data model at the beginning of the nineties. From today’s point of view business processes have established themselves as objects of the organisational design. The importance of business process modelling with direct connectivity to the software configuration grows steadily as component architecture and web services progressively transform software architectures. Moreover, business comprehensive processes require the specification of responsibilities dealing with reciprocal material and financial relationships, quality standards and time constraints. To achieve this, the relevant business processes have to be known, i.e. by documentation. Thus, know-how in the fields of developing and using the relevant methods of business process management will further affect the future’s business and research. ======================================================================== Kurzbiographie zu Professor Dr. August-Wilhelm SCHEER ======================================================================== Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer ist Direktor des Instituts für Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWi) im Deutschen Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) und beratender Professor der Tongji-Universität Shanghai sowie der Chinesischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Schwerpunkt seiner Forschungstätigkeit ist das Informations- und Geschäftsprozessmanagement in Industrie, Dienstleistung und Verwaltung. Im Januar 2003 wurde Prof. Scheer mit dem Philip Morris Forschungspreis ausgezeichnet. Prof. Scheer ist Gründer und Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats der IDS Scheer AG sowie der imc, information multimedia communication AG, beide mit Sitz in Saarbrücken. Er ist Herausgeber mehrerer Buchreihen und Zeitschriften, Veranstalter der jährlich stattfindenden Saarbrücker Arbeitstagung, Autor von über 300 Zeitschriftenartikeln und mehr als zehn Büchern, darunter die Standardwerke "Wirtschaftsinformatik: Referenzmodelle für industrielle Geschäftsprozesse" und "ARIS: Vom Geschäftsprozeß zum Anwendungssystem" sowie "ARIS: Modellierungsmethoden, Metamodelle, Anwendungen". Diese Bücher wurden in die englische, französische, japanische, chinesische, russische, tschechische und polnische Sprache übersetzt. Weitere Informationen über den Vortragenden finden Sie auf http://www.iwi.uni-sb.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kontaktperson an der TU Wien: Prof.Dr.Jürgen Dorn, Tel. 58801-18426 Die Finanzierung dieser Veranstaltung erfolgt durch das Institut für Informationssysteme und die TU Wien ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Der Fachbereich Informatik erhält Sponsorgelder u.a. von - Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf - Siemens AG Österreich ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Werner Purgathofer | Tel. +43(1)58801 18648 Technische Universitaet Wien | http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at From wp@cg.tuwien.ac.at Tue Apr 29 15:17:53 2003 From: wp@cg.tuwien.ac.at (Werner Purgathofer) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:17:53 +0200 Subject: [Acpc-l] Absage Informatik-Kolloquium Prof. HLAVAC + =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DCbersicht?= Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20030429160418.028c50f0@mail.cg.tuwien.ac.at> Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, Der für 12. Mai (17h45) geplante Vortrag im Informatik-Kolloquium von Prof. Hlavac muss leider abgesagt werden, weil Prof. Hlavac als Gutachter beim 6. RP der EU in dieser Zeit unerwartet in Brüssel gebunden ist. Es verbleiben somit die folgenden 2 Vorträge in nächster Zeit: 12. Mai 17h00 Prof. Franc SOLINA (Ljubljana), "15 seconds of fame - Use of Computer Vision in a modern art installation" 26. Mai 17h00 Prof. Dr. Dr.hc mult. A.-W. Scheer (Saarbrücken) "Business Process Engineering" Bitte beachten Sie, dass ab nun die Vorträge wegen der im Zemanek-Hörsaal für Datenprojektion ungeeigneten Lichtverhältnisse normalerweise im ***************** * HÖRSAAL EI 10 * ***************** (Paschke-Hörsaal), Gußhausstraße 27-29, Erdgeschoß, stattfinden werden. Werner Purgathofer -- Werner Purgathofer | Tel. +43(1)58801 18648 Technische Universitaet Wien | http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at