Call for Paper Conference

http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dolev/OSC10

SCOPE:

OSC, the International Workshop on Optical SuperComputing, is an annual forum for research presentations on all facets of optical computing for solving hard computation tasks. Optical computing devices have the potential to be the very next computing infrastructure. Optical computing presents an alternative to the frequency limitations, cross-talk phenomena and soft-errors of electronic devices. The natural parallelism of optical computing devices, coupled with the advance in fiber optics and optical switches make optical computing commercially viable. Research contributions to the theory, design, specification, analysis, implementation, or application of optical supercomputers are solicited.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Designs or demonstrations of optical computing devices and systems

• Algorithmics and complexity issues of optical computing

• Computation representation by photons and holograms

• Neural and brain inspired architectures

• Electro-optic devices for interacting with optical computing devices

• Practical implementations

• Analysis of existing devices and case studies

• Optical photonics and laser switching technologies

• Optical and photonic memories

• Optical signal processing subsystems

• Optical networks for high-performance computing

• Optical interconnections

• Quantum optical systems

• Applications and algorithms for optical devices

• Alpha particles, X-Rays and nano-technologies for optical computing

Dates:

Submission deadline: June 3, 2010

Acceptance notification August 10, 2010

Camera-ready copy due September 03, 2010

Pisa, Italy, 17-18 September, 2010
http://www.di.unipi.it/FLACOS2010


ABOUT FLACOS:

The ability to negotiate contracts for a wide range of aspects and to
provide services conforming to them is a most pressing need in
service-oriented architectures. High-level models of contracts are
making their way, but application developers are still left to their
own devices when it comes to writing code that will comply with a
contract. At the programming language level, contracts appear as
separate concerns that cut across application logic, while analysis
requires that contracts are abstracted from applications to become
amenable to formal reasoning.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners working on language-based solutions to the above issues
through formalization of contracts, design of appropriate abstraction
mechanisms, and formal analysis of contract languages and
software. Such languages include, but are not limited to SLA, BPEL,
behavioral interfaces, deontic logic for services, social contracts
(multi-agent systems), formalised legal contracts and other
prescriptive formalisms.

The workshop will include presentations by a number of invited
speakers and others from researchers in the field who are encouraged
to submit an abstract of their work as an expression of interest in
participating in the workshop. The number of participants in the
workshop is strictly limited.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: April 15, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2010
Final Version Due: July 1, 2010
Early registration: July 15, 2010
WORKSHOP: September 17-18, 2010


SCOPE

Topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to):

* Formal languages for contracts
* Contract-oriented software development
* Formal analysis of contracts, including static analysis,
run-time verification,
and model checking techniques
* Contract synthesis
* Contract transformation and contract refinement
* Contract negotiation, discovery and monitoring


CONFIRMED INVITED PARTICIPANTS

* Fabio Massacci, Università di Trento
* Michael Papazoglou, Tilburg University
* Andreas Roth, SAP Research
* Marek Sergot, Imperial College London
* More to be announced


SUBMISSIONS

Authors wishing to give a talk at the workshop are invited to submit
an extended abstract of their work (3-8 pages, in PDF format, one
column, printable on A4 paper) to flacos2010@di.unipi.it by 15 April
2010. Submission of work submitted for formal publication elsewhere
and work in progress is permitted.

The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be available at the
workshop. After the workshop, selected papers will be published in a
special issue of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming
(Elsevier), following the standard reviewing process of the journal.

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

MESH 2010: The Third International Conference on Advances in Mesh Networks

July 18-25, 2010 - Venice, Italy


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/MESH10.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPMESH10.html


Submission deadline: February 28, 2010

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Publisher: CPS ( see: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps )

Archived: IEEE CSDL (Computer Science Digital Library) and IEEE Xplore

Submitted for indexing: Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EI's Engineering Information Index

Other indexes are being considered: INSPEC, DBLP, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index


Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


MESH 2010 Tracks (tracks' topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Architectures and algorithms

Frameworks

- Wireless interference models

- Topology models

- Large-scale networks

- Real-time and non-real-time communications

- Channel assignment schemes

- Resource allocation

- Centralized and distributed scheduling

- Performance

- Static/mobile scenarios

- Access control

- Service differentiation

- Security, Privacy, and Trust


Protocols

- Protocol interference models

- Access and routing protocols

- Single-channel multihop / multi-channel routing

- Joint routing and scheduling

- Routing metrics

- Multichannel routing

- Quality of Services routing

- Multimedia-centric routing

- Fast-link quality metrics

- Bandwidth estimation

- Cross-layer multicast routing

- QoS-based access protocols for mesh networks

- Multi-channel access protocols


Applications

- Multimedia services

- Home IPTV

- WiMax

- Broadband home networking communications

- Emergency/disaster

- Telemedicine and e-health

- Smart buildings

- Broadband Internet access

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MESH Advisory Chairs

Eugen Borcoci, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest (UPB), Romania

Petre Dini, IARIA / Concordia University, Canada

Dan Harkins, Aruba Networks, USA

Andreas J. Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden


MESH 2010 Research/Industry Chair

Mathilde Benveniste, InterDigital Communications LLC, USA


MESH 2010 Industry Liaison Chairs

Michael Bahr, Siemens AG - München, Germany

Vladimir Sulc, Microrisc s. r. o. - Jicin, Czech Republic


Committee members: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ComMESH10.html