FOCS 2008

Internaltional conference on Pervasive technologies for assistive environment
The 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments is organized by the University of Texas at STUDENT TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES Workshops Affiliated With the Conference The PETRA Conference brings together different types of technology to address an

International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems 2008, December 2008, Call for Papers, cfp, submission deadline 2008. Workshops, Tutorials. Topics of interest Applications of Topics of interest Applications of Self-organization and self-management, Self-configuration and self-optimization, Self-protection, -diagnosis, and -healing, Autonomic networking principles and practice, Control theory based models and approaches of self-organization, Feedback control in networked systems, Group-forming networks and techniques, Programmable networks for self-organization, Visualization of network system state, Inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society (e.g., bio-inspired or based on game theory), Risks in self-organization and risk management techniques, The (un-)controllability of self-organizing or emergent systems, Quality of Service / service level agreements and self-organization, Resilience, robustness and fault tolerance for networked systems, Security in self-organizing networked systems, Self-* sensor and ad-hoc networks, Self-* techniques in peer-to-peer networks, Self-organization of over- and underlays and in cross-layering, Self-* networks for ubiquitous computing, Self-organization in heterogeneous network convergence, Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet, Self-configuring place-and-play mobile networks, Self-organizing vehicular adhoc networks, Self-organizing multi-service networks and multi-network services, Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks, Applications, e.g. the self-organizing home network, The human in the loop of self-organizing networks, Vienna, Austria, http://www.iwsos.ani.univie.ac.at
IWSOS 2008, the third International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, will be held in Vienna, Austria, December 10-12, 2008. Building on the success of previous workshops in this series held in (September 2006), IWSOS 2008 aims to provide a visionary forum for self-organization in networks and

Workshop on Urban Networks and Applications
Urban Networks and Applications 4 - 6 August 2008, Lakeshore Hotel, Hsinchu, Taiwan Held in conjunction with the 13 th IEEE Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference ( Extended submission deadline: Urban settings are host of diverse networking technologies, from cellular and wired