CfP: PerCoSC 2011 - 1st IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds

http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/PerCoSC2011

held in conjunction with 9th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications 2011 (PerCom 2011), March 21, 2011, Seattle, USA

Important Dates:

• October 31, 2010          Deadline for workshop paper submission
• January 7, 2011              Notification of acceptance
• January 28, 2011           Deadline for camera ready papers
• March 21, 2011              PerCom 2011

Workshop Scope and Descriptions

The First IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds aims to offer researchers, Ph.D. students, and practitioners a forum to present and discuss research advances and challenges related to cloud computing support for pervasive communities. The workshop thus aims to enable the sharing of insights and experiences related to the development and use of cloud computing technologies, often called service clouds, for supporting pervasive communities. Pervasive communities are user communities that are enabled by pervasive computing technologies. Service clouds denote the totality of cloud computing services, applications, platforms, and infrastructure that comply with the service-oriented architecture paradigm. 

Pervasive community services deal with data sensed and collected from the users' physical environments via networked mobile devices. Hence, they support data exchange, communication, and collaboration among mobile users. Pervasive communities of users with mobile devices and network connections have been increasing. Thus, the pervasive technologies to support pervasive communities face new requirements, e.g., related to mobility support, context-awareness, spatiotemporal intelligence, connectivity to communities, information sharing, collaboration, pervasive interaction, and privacy and security issues. However, the computational capabilities of mobile devices remain limited, when faced with pervasive communities who share large data volumes. Cloud computing technologies offer computational resources on a pay-per-use basis and are capable of abstracting technical details from the mobile devices. These technologies thus hold the potential for enabling pervasive community services with varying computing requirements in a cost-effective and scalable manner. Indeed, service clouds may envision future pervasive computing and enables innovative pervasive community services and applications.

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to the following topics:

• Cloud computing (services, platforms, infrastructure, and standards etc.) for pervasive communities
• Cloud computing for pervasive technologies
• User-targeted pervasive, mobile and context-aware services and applications
• Location-based, temporal, or spatiotemporal services and applications
• Software architectures for cloud computing and pervasive computing
• Data modeling and management for cloud computing and pervasive communities
• Social software and Web 2.0 in cloud computing and pervasive computing
• Augmented reality for pervasive communities
• Security and privacy in cloud computing and pervasive communities

Workshop Organizers

Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Christian S. Jensen, University Aalborg, Denmark

Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Dejan Kovachev, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Program Committee

Christian Bischof,             RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Daniel Catrein,                  Ericsson Eurolab, Germany

Chang Wen Chen,            University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Michael Granitzer,           Know Center Graz, Austria

Wolfgang Gräther,          Fraunhofer FIT, Germany

Tim Hussein,                      University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Antony D. Joseph,           University of California, Berkeley, USA

Harald Kosch,                     University of Passau, Germany

Wei-Shinn Ku,                   Auburn University, USA

Wang-Chien Lee,             Pennsylvania State University, USA

Mathias Lux,                      Klagenfurt University, Austria

Vincent Oria,                      New Jersey's Science & Technology University, USA

Marc Spaniol,                     Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany

Marcus Specht,                 Open University of the Netherlands, the Netherlands

Markus Strohmaier,        Know Center Graz, Austria

Christian Timmerer,        Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria

Mark Vorwerk,                 Ericsson Eurolab, Germany

Weichao Wang,                University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Felix Wolf,                           RWTH Aachen University, Germany

List of accepted papers for ACM Workshop on Advanced Video Streaming Techniques for Peer-to-Peer Networks and Social Networking

ACM Workshop on Advanced Video Streaming Techniques for Peer-to-Peer Networks and Social Networking

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We received a huge number of high-quality papers to this workshop but only the best of the best could be accepted. The review process was very competitive this year. In particular, we accepted 15 out of 30 papers.

Accepted papers (in alphabetic order by title):

1. "A Hybrid Approach to Modeling End-to-End Delay in P2P Networks" by Philipp Berndt; Dominic Battré; Odej Kao
2. "A Novel Cache Optimization Algorithm and Protocol for Video Streaming in Pure Peer-to-Peer Networks" by Carlo Giulietti; Dan Schonfeld; Rashid Ansari
3. "Access Control to BitTorrent swarms using Closed Swarms" by Keith Mitchell; Njaal Borch; Ingar Arntzen; Dusan Gabrijelcic
4. "Advanced Prefetching and Upload Strategies for P2P Video-on-Demand" by Osama Abboud; Konstantin Pussep; Markus Müller; Aleksandra Kovacevic; Ralf Steinmetz
5. "An Analytical Approach to Model Adaptive Video Streaming and Delivery" by Razib Iqbal; Shervin Shirmohammadi
6. "Consistent Image Decoding from Multiple Lossy Versions" by Marco Dalai; Serena Malavasi; Riccardo Leonardi
7. "Design and Evaluation of an Optimized Overlay Topology for a Single Operator Video Streaming Service" by Stefano Giordano; Rosario G. Garroppo; Stella Spagna; Saverio Niccolini; Jan Seedorf
8. "Design and Implementation of a Generic Library for P2P Streaming" by Luca Abeni; Csaba Kiraly; Alessandro Russo; Marco Biazzini; Renato Lo Cigno
9. "Improving Quality-of-Experience for Multiple Description Video Transmission in Peer-To-Peer Networks" by Simone Milani; Giancarlo Calvagno
10. "Knapsack Problem-based Piece-Picking Algorithms for Layered Content in Peer-to-Peer Networks" by Michael Eberhard; Tibor Szkaliczki; Hermann Hellwagner; Laszlo Szobonya; Christian Timmerer
11. "MixNStream: Multi-Source Video Distribution with Stream Mixers" by Philip Chun Ho Yuen; Gary Chan
12. "P2P Group Communication with Layer-Aware FEC" by Yago Sánchez; Cornelius Hellge; Thomas Schierl; Thomas Wiegand
13. "P2P streaming with LT codes: a prototype experimentation" by Andrea Magnetto; Rossano Gaeta; Marco Grangetto; Matteo Sereno
14. "Peer-to-Peer streaming based on network coding improves packet jitter" by Riccardo Bernardini; Roberto Cesco Fabbro; Roberto Rinaldo
15. "Three Highly Available Data Streaming Techniques and Their Tradeoffs" by Sumita Barahmand; Shahram Ghandeharizadeh; Anurag Ojha; Jason Yap

MMM 2011 CFP (deadline is Jul. 19, 2010)

The 17^th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2011)

Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 5-7, 2011.

http://mmm2011.org/

The International MultiMedia Modeling Conference is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial track papers reporting real multimedia applications and system development experience. The conference also solicits proposals for tutorials on crucial technologies of multimedia modeling, and calls for special sessions proposals focusing on specific new challenges in the multimedia arena.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1.     Multimedia Content Analysis

•   Multimedia Indexing

•   Multimedia Mining

•   Multimedia Abstraction and Summarization

•   Multimedia Annotation, Tagging and Recommendation

•   Multimodal Analysis for Retrieval Applications

•   Semantic Analysis of Multimedia and Contextual Data

•   Multimedia Fusion Methods

•   Media Content Browsing and Retrieval Tools

2.     Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications

•   Media Representation and Algorithms

•   Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression

•   Multimedia Security and Content Protection

•   Multimedia Standards and Related Issues

•   Advances in Multimedia Networking and Streaming

•   Multimedia Databases, Content Delivery and Transport

3.     Multimedia Applications and Services

•   Multi-Camera and Multi-View Systems

•   Virtual Reality and Virtual Environment

•   Real-Time and Interactive Multimedia Applications

•   Mobile Multimedia Applications

•   Multimedia Web Applications

•   Interactive Multimedia Authoring Personalization

•   Sensor Networks (Video Surveillance, Distributed Systems)

•  Emerging Trends (e-learning, e-Health, Medical Imaging, Visualization, Social Media, Multimedia Collaboration, etc.)

General Chairs:

Kuo-Tien Lee, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan

Wen-Hsiang Tsai, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Hong-Yuan Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Program Co-Chairs:

Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Jun-Wei Hsieh, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan

Chien-Cheng Tseng, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

US Liaison

Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio,USA

Asian Liaison

Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore

European Liaison

Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Steering Committee:

Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University, Australia

Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Tosiyasu L. Kunii, University of Tokyo, Japan

Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Patrick Senac, ENSICA, France

Submissions:

  Submissions must not exceed eleven (11) pages including title page, references, and figures. They must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS instructions. (seehttp://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ). Papers must be submitted electronically as a PDF file through the conference paper submission web site:

http://mmm2011.org/ocs/index.php/mmm2011/main

Important Dates:

    Paper submission deadline: July 19, 2010

Notification of acceptance: September 20, 2010

Camera ready papers due: October 12, 2010

Author Registration: October 5, 2010