Subject: [Mip4] DCOSS '06 Call for Papers-- Feb. 8 abstract submission deadline (THIS WEEK)

From: "Wendi Heinzelman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:16:34 -0500

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                     IEEE International Conference on
                 Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
                          June 18 - 20, 2006
                    San Francisco, California, USA
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                               WWW.DCOSS.ORG
 
The 2006 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
(DCOSS '06) will take place in San Francisco during June 18 - 20, 2006.
DCOSS '06 will represent a merger of the DCOSS conference series and the 
IEEE International Workshops on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and 
Sensor Networks (WMAN). The first DCOSS conference, held at Marina del Rey on 
June 30-July 1, 2005, featured high quality research papers and interesting 
invited and contributed poster/presentation sessions.  DCOSS '06 is intended 
to cover several aspects of distributed computing in sensor systems such as 
high level abstractions, computational models, systematic design methodologies,
algorithms, analysis and applications. The conference will be co-located with 
several closely related workshops, and will provide a forum for researchers 
and practitioners to present their contributions related to the above 
high-level aspects of distributed sensor systems. In addition to contributed 
papers, the meeting will also include keynote addresses by leading researchers,
a panel discussion, and a poster/presentation session.

SPONSORED BY

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)

Held in co-operation with

ACM SIGARCH 
ACM SIGBED
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
IFIP WG 10.3

MEETING INFORMATION
 
The advance program will be available in April 2006. 
Check http://www.dcoss.org/ for updated information. 

IMPORTANT DATES (firm deadlines)

February  08, 2006  Paper Abstract Submission Due
February  15, 2006  Paper Submission Due
March   15, 2006  Poster Abstract Submission Due
April     01, 2006  Notification of Acceptance/Rejection 
April     16, 2006  Camera-Ready Paper Due 

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                          CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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CALL FOR PAPERS 

Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due 
to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities.  Such systems 
allow intelligent dense monitoring of physical environments, which makes 
them immensely useful for data collection and analysis.  While much 
ongoing research has addressed networking, communication and low-level 
self-configuration issues in such systems, there are also significant 
challenges pertaining to systematic design, algorithm development and 
analysis, and abstract modeling in order to achieve efficient and robust 
realizations of large-scale distributed sensor systems.  The large number 
of sensor devices involved, severe power, computational and memory 
limitations, resource heterogeneity, dense deployment and frequent
failures pose novel challenges to design, algorithms, analysis and 
implementation.

The focus of the conference is on distributed computing issues in 
large-scale networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications,
and systematic design techniques and tools), but networking-related 
contributions that support high level abstractions are also welcome.
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that 
demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed 
sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 

       - Computation and programming models
       - Energy models, minimization, awareness
       - Distributed algorithms for collaborative information processing
       - Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, 
              scalability, fault-tolerance
       - Abstractions for modular design
       - Languages, operating systems
       - Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration
       - Dynamic resource management
       - Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level)
       - Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives
       - Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment 
              and operation
       - Design automation and application synthesis techniques
       - Case studies: lessons from real world deployments

PAPER SUBMISSION
Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 12 single-spaced pages using 
12-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures and tables.
References may be included in addition to the 12 pages. Submissions 
will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, 
significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to 
the conference attendees. Submitted papers may not have appeared 
in or be under consideration for another conference or a journal. 
Submission procedures will be available via Web access at http://www.dcoss.org/

All manuscripts will be reviewed.  Manuscripts must be received by
February 15, 2006, by 5 p.m. U.S. Pacific Coast Time. This is a final 
deadline; to ensure fairness, no extensions will be given. Notification 
of review decisions will be mailed by April 1, 2006. Camera-ready papers 
will be due April 16, 2006.

DCOSS '06 Proceedings will be distributed at the Conference.

PROGRAM CHAIR
 
Phil Gibbons
Intel Research / Carnegie Mellon University
USA

PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS 

Algorithms:
James Aspnes, Yale University, USA

Applications:
Ramesh Rao, UCSD/Calit2, USA

Systems:
Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC, USA

POSTER/PRESENTATION SESSION

The conference will include a poster session for researchers 
and practitioners to present novel on-going work-in-progress 
and to obtain feedback from conference attendees in an informal 
setting. Authors of accepted posters will have an opportunity 
to briefly present their work in this session. A 2-page extended 
abstract will also appear in the conference proceedings. Select 
invited presentations and posters from industry and academia will 
also be included in this session.

Poster abstracts must be received by March 15, 2006. Submission details
will be available at the DCOSS website.

POSTER CHAIR

Jim Reich
Palo Alto Research Center
USA

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Awards will be given for one best paper in each of the three conference 
technical tracks: algorithms, applications, and systems.

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                          DCOSS '06 ORGANIZATION
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GENERAL CHAIR

Viktor K. Prasanna
University of Southern California
USA

VICE GENERAL CHAIR

Jie Wu
Florida Atlantic University
USA

PROGRAM CHAIR

Phil Gibbons
Intel Research / Carnegie Mellon University
USA

WORKSHOPS CHAIR

Sotiris Nikoletseas
University of Patras and CTI
Greece

POSTER CHAIR

Jim Reich
Palo Alto Research Center
USA

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR

Yang Yu
Motorola Labs
USA

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS CHAIR

Loren Schweibert
Wayne State University
USA

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS 

Wendi Heinzelman
University of Rochester
USA

Amol Bakshi
University of Southern California
USA

FINANCE CHAIR

Germaine Gusthiot
University of Geneva
Switzerland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
 
Algorithms: 
Costas Busch, RPI 
Bogdan Chlebus, CU Denver 
Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion U. 
Jennifer Hou, UIUC 
Dariusz Kowalski, U. Liverpool 
Rajeev Motwani, Stanford 
Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. Patras 
Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel-Aviv U. 
Pino Persiano, Salerno U. 
Andrea Richa, Arizona State U. 
Christian Scheideler, TU Munich 
Maria Jose Serna, UPC Barcelona 
Devavrat Shah, MIT 
Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich 
Yinyu Ye, Stanford 

Applications: 
Edgar Chavez, U. Michoacana, Mexico 
Alfredo Ferro, U. Catania 
Stefan Fischer, U. Luebeck 
Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State U. 
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC 
Julia Liu, PARC 
Chenyang Lu, Washington U. in St. Louis 
C. Siva Ram Murthy, IIT Madras, India 
Andreas Savvides, Yale 
Vikram Srinivasan, NUS 
Ivan Stojmenovic, U. Ottawa 
Gaurav Sukhatme, USC 
Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State U. 
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UC Irvine 

Systems: 
Mohamed Gouda, U. Texas 
Tian He, U. Minnesota 
Wendi Heinzelman, U. Rochester 
Phil Levis, Stanford 
Jie Liu, Microsoft Research 
Haiyun Luo, UIUC 
Radhika Nagpal, Harvard 
Suman Nath, Microsoft Research 
John Regehr, U. Utah 
Kurt Rothermel, Stuttgart 
Mani Srivastava, UCLA 
Jack Stankovic, U. Virginia 
Chieh-Yih Wan, Intel 
Stephen Wicker, Cornell 
Ying Zhang, PARC 

STEERING COMMITTEE
Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Josep Diaz, UPC Barcelona, Spain
Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA
Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece
Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Kris Pister, University of California, Berkeley, and Dust, Inc., USA
Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland (CHAIR)

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