[Tinyos] CoNGN 2008 - In Conj. with CollaborateCom 2008, November 2008 - Orlando, Florida

[Abdelmounaam Rezgui]

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  International Workshop on Collaboration and Cognition in Next Generation
Networks  (CoNGN'2008)
                         www.criticalnet.org/congn2008

                  In conjunction with CollaborateCom'2008
                     Orlando, Florida, November, 2008
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 The rapid developments in the Internet and emerging alternative network
protocol stacks promise unprecedented levels of sharing of information,
computing and communication resources through distributed collaborations of
diverse network elements. Collaborative networking comprises complex systems
with many tunable interdependent components, parameters and network
performance objectives. To realize their potential, collaborative networks
need to provide effective and efficient support for ubiquitous integration
of heterogeneous technologies such as mobile devices and infrastructures,
web services, grid computing systems, various operating environments, and
diverse COTS products. In addition, research is needed to provide network
cognition, which entails learning and reasoning by the diverse network
elements to dynamically select the ideal network operating state and adapt
to varying network and group contexts in order to optimize end-to-end
performance of the network as a whole.  Moreover, networking aspects such as
autonomicity, security, trust, management, quality-of-service support and
localization need to be cognizant of group dynamics. Aparently, numerous
challenges face the realization of collaborative networking. These
challenges include balancing the competing goals of collaboration, autonomy
and security; allowing mobile users and groups to seamlessly communicate
throughout multiple heterogeneous networks and enjoy multiparty multimedia
applications while on the move between different administrative domains;
developing new APIs to enable applications to detect available access
networks and learn their characteristics, thus becoming aware of location,
context, and quality-of-service; and carefully optimizing network parameters
across the entire protocol stack. The key goal of this workshop is to foster
active interactions among diverse researchers and practitioners, and
generate added momentum towards research addressing collaborative and
cognitive networking aspects. Topics include, but are not limited to the
following:
Architectural principles for decentralized information, computing and
communication resource sharing
Moving networks and dynamic coalition environments
Collaboration-aware network management
Peer-to-peer collaborative networking
Bio-inspired collaborative networking
Cognitive and autonomic network protocols and services
Collaborative sensor-actuator networks
Policy-based management of collaborative networks
Coopererative, un-cooperative, and anti-cooperative behavior
characterization, identification, modeling, and impact analysis
Context modelling and management in collaborative networks
Network monitors, API and network discovery services
Security, trust, and privacy models, frameworks, architectures, and systems
for collaborative networks
Security, dependability, privacy, QoS, performance, and energy awareness
and  trade-offs
Middleware for large-scale, distributed, multi-modal collaboration
Admission, delegation, accountability, and information flow control in
collaborative networks
Ubiquitous communication support for social networking
Web services and grid technologies for supporting multidomain collaborative
applications
Testbeds and experimental frameworks for collaboration and cognition in
network prtocol stacks

General Co-Chairs
• Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA
• Silvia Geordano, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
• Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
Program Chairs
• Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA
• Cristina Pinotti, University of Perguia, Italy
• M. Tamer Refaei, NIST, USA
• Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Publicity Chairs
• James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Virginia Tech, USA
Panel Chair
• Wael AbdelMageed, University of Maryland, USA

Technical Program Committee
Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille,
France
Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy
Farag Azzedine, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany
Luiz DaSilva, Virginia Tech, USA
Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, USA
Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, USA Kami Makki, University of Toledo,
USA
Peter Muller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
David Simplot-Ryle, University of Lille 1, France
Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA
Robin Sommer, ICSI/LBNL, USA
Doru Tiliute, University of Suceava, Romania
David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, USA
Mohamed Younis,University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA
Moustafa Youssef, Nile University, Egypt

Manuscript Submission
Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review
for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled
electronically via email to CoNGN-submission at criticalnet.org. Authors should
prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper.The
workshop will adhere to the page limit, duplicate paper policy, and
formatting guidelines of CollaborateCom'2008. These guidelines can be found
at
http://www.collaboratecom.org/information/sub_guidelines.php
The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will
appear in the Proceedings, following the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes of
the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and
Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) format. For more information visit
the workshop website.

Important Dates
Paper Submission: September 22, 2008
Acceptance Notification: October 13, 2008
Camera Ready Due: October 20, 2008
Workshop Date: November 13, 2008
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