Call for Papers

First International Forum on Next-Generation
Multicore/Manycore Technologies
IFMT’08
Nov 24-25, 2008, Cairo, Egypt

With the tremendous advances in process technology and the non-scalability of complex monolithic designs, multicore architecture is becoming the design of choice for high-end machines to embedded devices. The number of cores per chip is expected to grow, even to double, every two years. Although these advances are providing us with a lot of opportunities, they are also giving us a lot of design challenges, such as bandwidth requirement, power (both static and dynamic), memory wall, parallelization, etc…
This forum aims to provide an avenue to foster communication among academia and industry in all aspects of next-generation multicore technologies, such as the Cell BE processor. Authors are invited to submit high quality papers representing their original work in (but not limited to) the following topics targeting multicore/manycore processors:
* Parallel Programming Models
* Specific applications
* Performance modeling and analysis
* Memory management and models (including software caching and prefetching)
* Thread management and Thread-level speculation (including scheduling and
load-balancing)
* Cache hierarchy design
* Interconnection and network on chip
* Power-aware design
* Simulation tools
* Compilation techniques
* Homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures
* Security issues

Paper Submission instruction
Papers should be 12 pages or less in length, using the ACM Word or Latex style template. Papers should describe original work not published elsewhere. Proceedings will be published in ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (AICPS), and will be on the ACM Digital Library. Papers have to be sent by email to both the forum TPC Co-Chairs: Ahmed El-Mahdy (elmahdy@alex.edu.eg), and Hossam Aly Fahmy (hfahmy@arithmetic.stanford.edu). Please indicate in your e-mail whether the first author is a full-time student or not.

Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: 30 June, 2008
NEW FIRM EXTENSION July 31
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: September 30, 2008
Camera-ready copy due: October 25, 2008

Contact US
For any further information or queries, please contact the conference secretary: Shaimaa Yehia (shyehia@eg.ibm.com)
Conference URL: www.ifmt.org/
Local Organizers:
IBM Center for Advanced
Studies in Cairo

General Co-Chairs
Ian Watson, Manchester University, UK
Hisham El-Shishiny, IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Egypt

Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs
Ahmed El-Mahdy, Alexandria University, Egypt
Hossam Aly Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt

Technical Program Committee:
Michael Perrone, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Virginia Tech, USA
Pedro Medeiros, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Fadi Sibai, UAE University, UAE
Mazen Saghir, AUB, Lebanon
Leila Ismail, UAE University, UAE
Hironori Kasahara,Waseda University, Japan
Seinosuke Narita, Waseda University, Japan
Ian Rogers, Manchester University, UK
David Albonesi, Cornell University, USA
Jayaprakash Pisharath, Intel Corporation, USA
Sandhya Dwarkadas, University of Rochester, USA
Michael Huang, University of Rochester, USA
Salwa Nassar, Electronics Research Institute, Egypt
Alaa Alameldeen, Intel Corporation, USA
Mohamed Zahran, City University of NY, USA
Sami Yehia, Thales Research and Technology, France
Michael J. Flynn, Stanford University, USA
Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Bill Scherer III, Rice University, USA Khaled Nabil Salama, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, IBM Austin Research Center, USA
Pradip Bose, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Peter Hofstee, IBM system and Technology Group, USA
Tarek El-Ghazawi, The George Washington University, USA
Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, University of Connecticut, USA
Chuck Moore, AMD, USA
David A. Bader, Georgia Tech, USA
Ali El-Moursy, IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Egypt

Finance and Registration Chair:
Salwa Nassar, Electronics Research Institute, Egypt

Local Committee Chair:
Mohamed Saad El Sherif, Electronics Research Institute, Egypt

Publication and Web Chair:
Ian Rogers, Manchester University, UK

Publicity Chair:
Michael Perrone, IBM Watson Research Center, USA

Conference Secretary:
Shaimaa Yehia, IBM, Egypt

Local Organizers:IBM Center for Advanced Studies in Cairo
IEEE GOLD EGYPTElectronics Research Institute, Egypt

Call for Papers
International Workshop on OpenMP
IWOMP 2009
Evolving OpenMP in an Age of Extreme Parallelism

June 3rd – June 5th, 2009
Dresden, Germany
www.iwomp.org

The 2009 International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP 2009) will be held on the campus of Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. IWOMP is the premier event focusing on parallel programming with OpenMP. The workshop serves as a forum to present the latest research ideas and results related to this shared memory programming model. It also offers the opportunity to interact with OpenMP users, developers and the people working on the next release of the standard. IWOMP 2009 will be a three-day event. The first day will consist of tutorials focusing on topics of interest to current and prospective OpenMP developers, suitable for both beginners as well as those interested in learning of recent developments in the evolving OpenMP standard. The second and third day will consist of technical papers and panel session(s) during which research ideas and results will be presented and discussed.

Technical Paper Submission and Publication

We solicit submissions of unpublished technical papers detailing innovative, original research and development related to OpenMP. All topics related to OpenMP are of interest, including OpenMP applications in any domain (e.g., scientific computation, video games, computer graphics, multimedia, information retrieval, optimization, text processing, data mining, finance, signal and image processing and numerical solvers), OpenMP performance analysis and modeling, OpenMP performance and correctness tools and proposed OpenMP extensions.

Advances in technologies, such as multi-core processors and accelerators (e.g., GPGPU, FPGA), the use of OpenMP in very large-scale parallel systems, and recent developments in OpenMP itself (e.g., tasking) present new opportunities and challenges for software and hardware developers. IWOMP 2009 solicits submissions that highlight OpenMP work on these fronts.

As in previous years, IWOMP 2009 will publish formal proceedings of the accepted papers in Springer Verlag\’s LNCS series. Submitted papers for review should be limited to 12 pages. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to prepare a final paper of up to 15 pages. Relevant deadlines are provided under \”Important Dates\” in this CFP.
Authors of a subset of accepted papers will be contacted to consider a submission of an extended paper to a special issue of International Journal of Parallel Programming after the workshop.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: December 14, 2009 Notification of acceptance: February 6, 2009 Camera-ready version of paper due: March 6, 2009 Registration deadline: May 18, 2009 Tutorial and Workshop in Dresden: June 3-5, 2009

Call for Papers
Architecture and Microarchitecture Track (D10) at DATE 2009
Nice, France, April 20-24, 2009

The Design, Automation and Test in Europe conference and exhibition is the main European event bringing together design automation researchers, users and vendors, as well as specialists in the design, test, and manufacturing of electronic systems and circuits. You are invited to submit your research contributions to the Architecture and Microarchitecture Track (D10). The track is included in the Design Methods, Tools, Algorithms, and Languages portion of the conference.

TRACK OBJECTIVES:
The purpose of the Architecture and Microarchitecture Track of DATE is to bring together researchers from architecture, compilers and applications to present and discuss innovative research of common interest.

The track topics include but are not limited to:
* Architectural and microarchitectural design techniques
* Multicore and multithreaded architecture
* Superscalar and VLIW architectures
* Memory systems,
* Power and energy efficient architectures
* Branch prediction
* Multithreading techniques
* Compilation techniqes and tools
* Modeling and performance analysis
* Application-specific architectures
* Special purpose processors and accelerators
* Arithmetic architectures

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: Sunday, September 7th
Notification: Friday, November 17, 2008
Final version: Friday, December 12, 2008

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS:
All manuscripts must be submitted electronically following the instructions on the conference Web page: www.date-conference.com
The accepted file formats are PDF and Postscript. Submissions should not exceed 6 pages in length for oral-presentation and 4 pages in length for interactive-presentation papers, and should be formatted as close as possible to the final format: A4 or letter sheets, double column, single spaced, Times or equivalent font of minimum 10pt (templates are available on the DATE Web site for your convenience). To permit blind review, submissions should not include the author names.

For additional information, please contact the track chair, Dionisios Pnevmatikatos (pnevmati@mhl.tuc.gr) or the DATE Program Chair, Bashir M.
Al-Hashimi (bmah@ecs.soton.ac.uk)

DATE 2009 D10 Track Organization
PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, Technical Univ. of Crete
Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford Univ.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Todd Austin, Univ. of Michigan
Albert Cohen, Inria
Koen De Bosschere, Ghent University
Babak Falsafi, EPFL
Georgi Gaydadjiev, TU-Delft
Gokhan Memik, Northwestern Univ.
Andreas Moshovos, University of Toronto
Ronny Ronen, Intel
Toshinori Sato, Kyushu University
Yiannakis Sazeides, Univ. of Cyprus
Thomas Wenisch, Univ. of Michigan
Stefanos Kaxiras, Univ. of Patras
Laura Pozzi, Univ. of Lugano

STMicroelectronics Doctoral Student Position #92820

Subject: Data Flow Optimizations on the PSI-SSA Form

Description: Classic data-flow optimizations in compilers rely on two separate steps: analysis and transformations. Recent research however shows that combining the two into a unified pass is more effective and efficient.
The purpose of this research is to extend this unified approach to the compiler code generator optimizations for embedded media processors, by combining: 1. advanced description of machine operators; 2. compiler intermediate representation based on the PSI-SSA form; and 3. semantic description of machine operators. The PSI-SSA form is an extension of the classic Static Single Assignment (SSA) form that is used to represent predicated computations. Implementation of the research results will be based on the Open64 compiler framework and on the STMicroelectronics CLI-JIT compiler [EuroPar\'2008]. Target processors for this research are the ST200 VLIW (Lx architecture [ISCA\'2000]) processors and the ARM processors.

Requirements: The candidate must be familiar with the basics of graph theory and of compiler design. Knowledge of code generator optimizations problems is a plus. The candidate should have working knowledge of Unix systems, C|C++ for implementations, Perl|Python|Tcl for scripting.

Conditions: Work located at STMicroelectronics, Grenoble. Supervision by a professor from the VERIMAG laboratory, Grenoble.

Duration: 3 years

Salary: CIFRE grant: 2050EUR, 2225EUR, 2375EUR gross/month

Contact: Christophe.Guillon@st.com, Benoit.Dupont-de-Dinechin@st.com

An open position for a post doctor:

Research of on-chip multiple baseband processor for software defined radio. His/her background could be either radio baseband or multiple processors or both. The research focus will be parallel memory architecture for low latency and low cost parallel memory access.
Applications are radio baseband processors for future radio base stations.

Applicants can send your CV to Dake Liu. Thanks for your interesting.
Apologize for people who are not interested in the position.

Best regards!
Dake Liu

Dake Liu, Professor
Dept. of E.E. (ISY)
Div. of Computer Engineering
Linkoping University
S-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden
www.da.isy.liu.se
Phone : +46 13 281256
Fax : +46 13 139282
Mobile: +46 70 268 1256
Mail : dake@isy.liu.se

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Call for Papers Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM) 2009 Seoul, Korea
April 1 – 3, 2009
pam2009.kaist.ac.kr
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The tenth Passive and Active Measurement conference will be held April 1-3rd, 2009 in Seoul, Korea. PAM focuses on research and practical applications of network measurement and analysis techniques. The conference\’s goal is to provide a forum for current work in its early stages. Original papers are invited from the research and operations communities on topics including, but not limited to:
* Active Network Measurements
* Passive Network Measurements
* Performance Metrics
* Traffic Statistics
* Measurement Visualization
* New Measurement Approaches & Techniques
* Deployment of Measurement Infrastructure
* New Measurement Initiatives
* Applications of Network Measurements
* Network Measurements and Security
* Network Troubleshooting using Measurements
* Reproduce (or Refute) Previous Measurement Results

The PAM steering committee believes that releasing measurement data allows for better science to be conducted in the field of network measurement. The refore, an award will be given at PAM 2009 for the best paper based on a new dataset that the authors are releasing for community use in subsequent research. To qualify, a paper must significantly utilize a dataset that has been collected for the work presented in the paper. Further, the dataset must be freely available to any researcher; wireless data sets may, for instance, be published through CRAWDAD. Authors should flag papers they wish to be considered for this award with a footnote on the first page of the paper. Novel datasets are especially encouraged. The awarded paper will be chosen from the set of qualifying papers accepted for the conference by a committee made up of a subset of the program and steering committees.

IMPORTANT DATES
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* Paper Registration: September 24th, 2008, 23:59 GMT (UK Time)
* Paper Submission: October 1st, 2008, 23:59 GMT (UK Time) (HARD deadline)
* Author Notification: December 5th, 2008
* Camera Ready: January 14th, 2009

SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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To ensure PAM 2009 is fresh and interesting, we are soliciting papers, submitted in the Springer LNCS format, that do not exceed 10 pages. No additional space will be given once a paper has been accepted.

Authors are, as always, asked to refrain from submitting papers submitted t= o PAM to other venues during the reviewing period.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Jussara Almeida, UFMG, Brazil
Ernst Biersack, Eurecom, France
Kenjiro Cho, WIDE/IIJ, Japan
kc claffy, CAIDA, USA
Mark Crovella, BU, USA
Anja Feldmann, TU-Berlin, Germany
Clarence Filsfils, Cisco, Belgium
Jaeyeon Jung, Intel Seattle, USA
Thomas Karagiannis, MSR, UK
Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T, USA
Anukool Lakhina, Guavus, India
Simon Leinen, Switch, Switzerland
Olaf Maennel, TU-Berlin, Germany
Z. Morley Mao, U. Michigan, USA
Priya Mahadevan, HP Labs, USA
Maurizio Molina, Dante, UK
Hung Nugyen, University of Adelaide, Australia
Dina Papagiannaki, Intel Pittsburgh, USA
Vern Paxson, Berkeley, USA
Himabindu Pucha, CMU, USA
Jennifer Rexford, Princeton, USA
Renata Teixeira, CNRS and UPMC, France (Chair)
Jia Wang, AT&T
Tanja Zseby, Fokus, Germany

The 11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management= (IM 2009) will be held on 1 – 5 June 2009 at Columbia University in New Yo= rk, New York, USA (www.ieee-im.org/2009/). The IM series of conferences has been held in odd-numbered years since 1989 (taking turns with its sibling conference NOMS), and has established itself as the main venue for original research in the area of management, operations and control of networks, networking services, networked applications, and distributed systems. The symposium is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, and by the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM).
Featuring:
- Technical Sessions
- Invited and Keynote Speakers
- Application sessions
- Panels
- Birds-of-a-feather sessions
- Tutorials
- Satellite Workshops
- Industrial experience track
Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format through the JEMS (Journal and Event Management System) at submissoes.sbc.org.br/im2009. Only original, full papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted.

Each submission is limited to 8 pages in IEEE 2-column style (main text in 10-point font). Papers exceeding 8 pages, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review process.

Please use the stylesheet templates provided by IEEE to assure that your proposal is in line with our guidelines. Standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html. If you are using neither Microsoft Word nor Latex, you can use the guidelines provided by a template file.

(Download IM2009_CFP PDF)
Topics of interest that will be given special attention include:

1) Management Technologies – Monitoring – Event correlation and root cause analysis
- Integrated control and management
- Performance and fault management
- Configuration and accounting management
- Resource inventory, planning, and allocation
- Service management and Service-oriented architectures
- Quality-of-Service (QoS) management
- Security management
- Mobility management

2) Management for Most Intereseted Networks, Services and Systems
- Management of Next generation Converged networks and services
- Management of VoIP
- Managing virtual resources and services (VPNs, VLANs)
- Management of Web services, Grids, grid services, and grid applications, ASPs server farms
- Management of Wireless networks (2G, 2.5G, 3G, and beyond, WLANs, PANs)
- Management of Video and broadband cable networks, IP TV, Video on Demand
- Management of content hosting and content delivery networks

3) New Approaches on Management – Theory (control, optimization, economic) for management
- Self and autonomic aspects of management
- Virtualization and its role in management
- Distributed, decentralized, and scalable management
- Information modeling and management using P2P and overlay network for network Management
- Policy and role based management
- Programmable, active, and adaptive management
- Resilience, dependability, and survivability
- Evaluation and benchmarking of management systems and technologies – Biologically-inspired management systems and techniques

Technical Session Papers – Important Dates
- Abstract Registration: 1 August 2008
- Submission: 8 August 2008
- Notification of Acceptance: 15 November 2008
- Camera ready Copy: 15 January 2009

(NOTE: Please plan accordingly !)

1. All submission times are 22:55 EDT (New York Time)
2. No extensions will be granted for paper submissions.

For further information:

* Web: www.ieee-im.org/2009
* e-Mail: IM2009tpcchairs@comsocconferences.org

MEDEA Workshop
Workshop on MEmory performance: DEaling with applications, systems and Arch= itecture
garga.iet.unipi.it/medea08

DATES
July 31, 2008 Abstract Submission (not mandatory)
August 07, 2008 Paper Submission Deadline
September 21, 2008 Notification of Acceptance
September 28, 2008 Final Papers Due
October 25-26, 2008 MEDEA-2008 Workshop held in PACT (to be defined)

Overview
MEDEA-2008 aims to continue the high level of interest of the previous edit= ions held with PACT Conference since 2000.
Due to the ever-increasing gap between CPU and memory speed, there is alway= s great interest in evaluating and proposing processor, multiprocessor, CMP= , multi-core and system architectures dealing with the \”memory wall\” and wi= re-delay problems. At the same time, a modular high-level design is becomin= g more and more attracting in order to reduce design costs. In this scenari= o, design solutions and their corresponding performance are shaped by the c= ombined pressure of a) technological opportunities and limitations, b) feat= ures and organization of system architecture and c) critical requirements o= f specific application domains.In particular, the emerging trend of single-= chip multi-core solutions, will push towards new design principles for memo= ry hierarchy and interconnection networks, especially when the design is ai= med to build systems with a high number of cores, which aim to scale perfor= mance and power efficiency in a variety of application domains.
From a slightly different point of view, the mutual interaction between the= application behavior and the system on which it executes, is responsible o= f the figures of merit of the memory subsystem and, therefore, pushes towar= ds specific solutions.
Typical architectural choices of interest include, single processors, chip = multiprocessors, SoC, tiled/clustered architectures, multithreaded or VLIW = architectures, massive parallelism designs, heterogeneous architectures, ar= chitectures equipped with application-domain accelerators as well as endowe= d with reconfigurable modules. The emerging network on chip infrastructure = and transactional memory may suggest new solutions and issues.
Proceedings of the Workshop will be published under ACM ISBN. As in the pre= vious year, a selection of papers will be considered for publication on tra= nsactions on HIPEAC (www.hipeac.net/journal).
The format of the workshop includes the presentation of selected papers and= discussion after each presentation.

Topics of Interest
- Memory hierarchy design, analysis, tuning for embedded, general and speci= al purpose systems – On-chip Multiprocessors and System On Chip architectures, development too= ls and applications – Issues in memory hierarchy design of scalable single chip systems – Memory hierarchy issues for heterogeneous and accelerator-based systems – Low-Power/Wire Delay design of memory hierarchies – Inter-Chip and Intra-Chip memory latency tolerant and reduction technique= s – Cache coherence and memory models – Exploitation of application parallelism (e.g.: ILP, TLP, DLP) – Transactional Memory – Compile/link time optimization techniques – Network On Chip
- Academic/industrial experience in high performance, embedded systems and = memory design
Information for Authors
The papers should be 6-8 pages in length. The abstracts and papers should b= e submitted in PDF format by email to Pierfrancesco Foglia and Sandro Barto= lini.
Paper should be written in standard ACM SIG Proceedings Template.
Please email submissions by August, 7th 2008.
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by September, 21st 2008= and the final papers are due by September, 28th 2008.
To speed-up the reviewing process, we encourage also submission of abstract= by July 31st, 2008.
All submissions will be refereed,
and Proceedings with ACM ISBN will be printed and distributed at the worksh= op (They appear in ACM DL in the following weeks).

DATES
July 31, 2008 Abstract Submission (not mandatory)
August 07, 2008 Paper Submission Deadline
September 21, 2008 Notification of Acceptance
September 28, 2008 Final Papers Due
October 25-26, 2008 MEDEA-2008 Workshop held in PACT (to be defined)
Organizing and steering commettee
Sandro Bartolini, bartolini@dii.unisi.it University of Siena, Italy Pierfrancesco Foglia, foglia@iet.unipi.it University of Pisa, Italy Cosimo Antonio Prete, prete@iet.unipi.it University of Pisa, Italy Roberto Giorgi, giorgi@acm.org University of Siena, Italy

Program Committee
Erik Altman, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA
Davide Bertozzi, Universit=E0 di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Alessio Bechini, Universit=E0 di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Matt. Blumrich, IBM Watson Research Center, NY, USA
Vincenzo Catania, Universit=E0 di Catania, Catania, Italy
John Cavazos, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
Marcelo Cintra, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Derek Chiou, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
Jos=E9 Flich, UPV, Valencia, Spain
Bjoern Franke, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Koji Inoue, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Timothy Jones, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
David Kaeli, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Krishna Kavi, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
Changkyu Kim, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Hiroaki Kobayashi, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
David M. Koppelman, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Enrico Martinelli, Universit=E0 of Siena, Siena, Italy
Mike Marty, Google, Madison, WI, USA
Avi Mendelson, Intel, Haifa, Israel
Alex. Milencovich, Un. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, USA
Afrin Naz, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Toshinori Sato, Fukuoka University, Japan
Andr=E9 Seznec, IRISA, Rennes Cedex, France
Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany
Mateo Valero, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
Wei Zhang, Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL, USA

Third International Workshop on Personalized Networks

pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/

to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2009) – www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/
January 13, 2008 – Harrah\’s Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library

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*Purpose of this workshop
*The ubiquitous nature of wireless networks has spawned many interesting
applications that were unimagined hitherto.
It has also brought many challenges for the communication and networking community to address.
On one hand we see present day mobile devices are capable of providing many services that required several devices before.
For example, most cell phones nowadays provide high speed data access, still and video cameras, PDA functionality, etc.
These advances in device sophistication and service offerings, including wireless hotspots, have made a difference in the way we communicate. With increased user mobility and user\’s desire to always be connected, we have seen a growing interest in Personal Area Networks (PANs) and Body Area Networks (BANs). These networks can be tuned and applied meaningfully for individual users and their requirements. On the other hand the Internet has changed our way of interacting dramatically.
These two major communication areas are having an in-depth influence on the way we communicate; it is worth considering them \’together\’ as the future communication vehicle.

Personalized Networks is one such future oriented concept where we seek to bring BANs, PANs, WLAN, sensor networks, ad hoc networks, home networks, vehicular networks and the Internet togethe= r onto one platform under one broader vision of future (4G) communication networks. The idea is to enable continuous and seamless connectivity of all the personal devices of a user, information sources, and network enabled controllers in an unobtrusive way, regardless of where these entities are located – be they local or remote.
It is a microcosm of the persons themselves with their associated accessories somewhere on the Internet.
It is equivalent to the Internet presence that has become a prominent concept in the last decade. This advanced overlay network is strongly person oriented and must be ad hoc, intelligent and must behave as a user-friendly virtual intelligent personal assistant to its owner.
It is a personal distributed environment, global in scope that can co-exist on the present day Internet with its active participation.
Such a platform enables many new applications, especially for users with rapidly changing communication demands that often operate in various contexts simultaneously. It can also provide the much needed user-friendliness to many services of today.

There are numerous issues which are challenging to the communication networ= k community in realizing a Personalized Network.
Most of them arise from the lack of current technology to deal in a transparent way with the dynamic and mobile nature of the entities, the unpredictable topology of the network, the power constraints of the mobile devices, and the heterogeneity of the networking and link-level technologies. Therefore, creating a Personalized Network yields new architectures, protocols, algorithms, platforms, middleware, etc.
They take care of addressing, routing, resource and service discovery, the self-organization of the network, the localization of the devices/person, the complex security and privacy requirements, the offering of context awar= e services and service management. Many of these issues, ventured upon earlier under various mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) and mobile network research initiatives, need to be reconsidered in this case.
These technologies have to meet strict requirements with respect to user perception, viable business models, usage of communication bandwidth, protocol complexity, robustness, availability of links and infrastructure, dependability and trust.

Four broader areas under which the presentations are classified:
- Architectures and systems
- End-to-end networking
- Security and privacy
- Operations, administration, management, and provisioning

*Scope of the submission
*We seek original contributions which are aimed at finding solutions to the
problems that are outlined above
towards realization of a Personalized Network. We have identified the following major topics under which we try to categorize the submissions. However, we will consider any other original, interesting, and imaginative ideas and thoughts towards meeting this goal of a Personalized Network.

- The architectural framework of personalized networks
- Context awareness and support
- Resource, service and context discovery
- Self-organization and adaptation
- Addressing and routing
- Interworking between PANs, ad hoc networks, etc, and
infrastructure-based heterogeneous networks
- Mobility of personalized networks
- Security, privacy and accounting
- Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use – Dependability – Context-aware and application-driven communication substrates – Interactions between persons through their networks, federations of such networks – Handling of QoS across heterogeneous and dynamically changing link layers – New QoS concepts in personalized networks – Mapping of functional requirements to physical devices and resources – Modeling and simulation of personalized networks – P2P paradigm in personalized networks – Innovative applications or prototypes and demonstrations of such perso= n centric applications are equally valued
*Why should you participate in this workshop?
*Personalized Networks is a concrete vision of the future networks, yet very current, in the field of communications.
It attracts researchers from both wired and wireless domains. This workshop is an ideal platform to share a vision of where we are heading, interact, and strongly advocate an exciting new avenu= e for researchers and practitioners in the field of communication. Further, the final program will consist of carefully selected – with at least three peer reviews – and high quality submissions with a large emphasis on new ideas rather than incremental contributions to the field.
Submissions of shorter versions of full papers that can be submitted to other conferences/journal in the near future are discouraged.

*Contact Information
*Email: wpn@ewi.tudelft.nl

*General chairperson
*Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

*Program Co-Chairpersons
*Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands
Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA

*Organizing Committee
*Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
R. V. Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

*Publicity Chairperson
*Paolo Bellavista, Universit=E0 degli Studi di Bologna, Italy