From nahum at watson.ibm.com  Wed Jun  6 18:45:14 2007
From: nahum at watson.ibm.com (Erich Nahum)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:45:14 -0400
Subject: [sigcomm] Call for nominations, TOIT EIC
Message-ID: <20070607014514.GA5762@barcelona.watson.ibm.com>

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY (TOIT)

The term of the current editor-in-chief of TOIT
(http://www.acm.org/toit/) is coming to an end, and the ACM
Publications Board has set up a nominating committee to assist the
Board in selecting the next EIC.

Nominations, including self nominations, are invited for a three-year
term as TOIT EIC, beginning as soon as the position can be filled. The
EIC appointment may be renewed once, after review. This is an entirely
voluntary position, but ACM will provide appropriate administrative
support.

The EIC is responsible for maintaining the highest editorial quality,
for setting technical direction of the papers published in TOIT, and
for maintaining a reasonable pipeline of articles for
publication. He/she has final say on acceptance of papers, size of the
Editorial Board, and appointment of Associate Editors. The new EIC
will transition TOIT to using ManuscriptCentral to handle
submissions. The EIC is expected to adhere to the commitments
expressed in the ACM Publishing Rights and Responsibilities Policy
(http://www.acm.org/pubs/rights.html). For more information about the
role of the EIC, see http://www.acm.org/pubs/editors_manual.html.

Nominations should include a c.v. of the nominee, as well as a brief
statement of why the nominee should be considered. Self-nominations
are encouraged. The deadline for submitting nominations is  July 8,  
2007,
but nominations will be accepted until the position is filled.

Please send all nominations to the nominating committee chair,
Lorrie Cranor, <lorrie at acm.org>.

The nominating committee members are:

Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University
Erich Nahum, IBM TJ Watson Research
Dick Bulterman, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research
Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University


From guoqiang at ee.usyd.edu.au  Fri Jun 29 04:08:14 2007
From: guoqiang at ee.usyd.edu.au (Guo Qiang Mao)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:08:14 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [sigcomm] SenSys 2007 Call For Demo and Poster
Message-ID: <11154.220.233.174.32.1183115294.squirrel@www.ee.usyd.edu.au>

SenSys 2007 Call For Demo and Poster
==========================================
CALL FOR POSTERS

Posters showing exciting early work on sensor systems are solicited.
Areas of interest are the same as those listed in the technical call for
papers. While the poster need not describe completed work, it should
report on research for which at least preliminary results are available.

The poster session will provide a forum for researchers to showcase their
work and obtain feedback on ongoing research from knowledgeable conference
attendees. Areas of interest are the same as those listed in the technical
call for papers. While the poster need not describe completed work, it
should report on research for which at least preliminary results are
available. We especially encourage submissions by students (that is, for
which a student is the first author on the poster).

POSTER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Poster proposals must be submitted as a single PDF file with no more than
3 pages. The first two pages should contain an abstract describing the
research content of the poster, along with title, authors, institutional
affiliations and contact information. The third page should contain a
thumbnail draft of the poster's contents. Please submit your poster
proposal as a PDF e-mail attachment to

sensys07-poster-chairs AT cs.pdx.edu

with the subject line reading "Sensys Poster Submission" before the
deadline. Any questions for the Poster Co-chairs Nirupama Bulusu, Portland
State Rachel Cardell-Oliver, University of Western Australia may also be
directed to this address.

IMPORTANT DATES

Three-page poster proposal: 11:59pm (PST), July 27, 2007 Notification of
acceptance: August 10, 2007 Camera-ready abstract: August 24, 2007
Conference dates: November 6-9, 2007

BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT POSTERS

Two-page poster abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings.
Authors of accepted poster proposals will have a chance to present the
poster to interested attendees during a special poster session at SenSys.
Well-crafted posters will tell the story well by themselves, but authors
of posters are expected to be available to describe and discuss the work
in the poster during the session.

The poster dimensions are 30" by 40", with poster contents mounted on
rectangular poster board that we will provide. You may choose a layout
consisting of individual sheets of paper, or a monolithic large piece of
poster paper (which can be printed at document companies).

Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State
Rachel Cardell-Oliver, University of Western Australia SenSys 2007 Poster
Chairs


==============================
CALL FOR DEMO

Demonstrations showing innovative research and applications are solicited.
SenSys'07 is very interested in demonstrations of technology, platforms,
and applications of wireless sensor networks and their integration with
the Web. The demo session of SenSys'07 will provide a forum for
researchers to showcase their work and obtain feedback on ongoing research
from knowledgeable conference attendees. Areas of interest are the same as
those listed in the technical call for papers.

Two-page abstracts of accepted demos will be published in the SenSys
conference proceedings. Submissions from both industries and universities
are encouraged. There will be one Best Student Demo Award and one  Best
Industry Demo Award.

DEMO SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Please send a two-page description of your demo to

                sensys07-demo-chairs [AT] nicta.com.au

with the subject line reading "Sensys Demo Submission" before the deadline.
Submissions should be in PDF format. An additional one page appendix can
be included in the initial submission but will be removed in published
proceedings. Be as specific as possible in describing what you will show.


Any questions for the Demonstration Co-chairs Max Ott  and Suman Nath may
also be directed to this address: sensys07-demo-chairs [AT] nicta.com.au

IMPORTANT DATES

Demo proposal: 11:59pm (PST), July 27, 2007 Notification of acceptance:
August 10, 2007 Camera-ready abstract: August 24, 2007 Conference dates:
November 6-9, 2007

Suman Nath, Microsoft Research
Max Ott, NICTA, Australia
SenSys 2007 Demo Chairs





From Bonaventure at info.ucl.ac.be  Sat Jun 30 12:19:11 2007
From: Bonaventure at info.ucl.ac.be (Olivier Bonaventure)
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:19:11 +0200
Subject: [sigcomm] Shadow TPC for CoNEXT 2007
Message-ID: <4686ACAF.3080804@info.ucl.ac.be>

Dear colleague,

Reviewing and selecting papers by participating at TPC is one of the
many facets of the work of researchers. Despite the importance of this
work, young researchers are only trained on the spot. In parallel with
the CoNext 2007 conference ( http://www.sigcomm.org/co-next2007 ),
Laurent Mathy and Olivier Bonaventure organise a shadow TPC for young 
PhD graduates.

The shadow TPC is entirely educational. The members of shadow TPC will 
write real reviews that will be used to select a programme and will be 
returned to paper authors. We will contact the authors of papers 
submitted to CoNEXT2007 to allow them to opt-in to allow the shadow TPC 
to also review their paper. We will organise the shadow TPC meeting on 
Sept. 27th and 28th in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).

The shadow TPC meeting will be composed of two parts. During the first 
part, we will consider the reviews written by the members of  the shadow 
TPC to rank the papers and prepare a shadow programme. During the second 
part, the shadow TPC will hold a meta-discussion about the process with 
access to both their own reviews and the anonymized reviews of the real 
TPC (the CoNEXT2007 TPC members will also be allowed to conceal their 
reviews from the shadow TPC if they wish so). This discussion will cover 
how to write a good networking paper, how to review one, and how a 
conference programme is chosen.

You can find additional information about previous experiences with
shadow TPCs by reading the paper published by Anja Feldmann about her
experience with a SIGCOMM shadow TPC, see
http://www.net.in.tum.de/~anja/sigcomm2005/shadow_pc.html and
http://www.net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~anja/feldmann/papers/shadow.pdf

We are now recruiting members for the CoNEXT 2007 shadow TPC. If you are 
a PhD advisor and feel that someone who recently graduated from your 
university or will graduate this year would both qualify and benefit 
from this educational experience, let us know. The shadow TPC will of 
course, have no influence on the selection of the official Conext 2007 
papers. We expect a shadow TPC composed of between 30 and 50
members and each shadow TPC member will have to review about a dozen of 
papers during the summer and more importantly each shadow TPC member 
will participate to the shadow TPC meeting in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

When proposing one shadow TPC member, please indicate their
main expertise among the CoNext 2007 topics :

Internet measurements and modelling
Economic aspects of the Internet
Implementation and experimental evaluation of network protocols/applications
Network security and deep packet inspection
Networked games, multimedia applications
Routing and traffic engineering
Peer-to-peer and overlay networks
Wireless and mobile networks
Ad hoc and sensors networks
Delay and disruption tolerant networks
New networking protocols, architectures, and
addressing schemes
Autonomic and dependable communications

We would appreciate if you could send us your proposals for candidate
shadow TPC members by July 6th.

Best regards,


Laurent Mathy and Olivier Bonaventure