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--------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Eighth IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC 2014) June 16, 2014 - Sydney, Australia http://aoc2014.conference.nicta.com.au Fast Track on Computer Communication Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom **** Extended Submission Deadline --- March 14, 2014 **** --------------------------------------------------------------------- The recent proliferation of sensor-rich portable devices is enabling novel communication paradigms for users and contributing to the implementation of the ubiquitous computing and networking vision. Opportunistic networking represents a key communication paradigm for this vision. Either as a standalone communication mode or as a complement to infrastructure-based communication, opportunistic networking leverages the mobility of end users to enhance their ability to communicate in the absence of reliable end-to-end connectivity. Opportunistic networking opens up many possibilities but also poses countless new challenges. The goal of the AOC 2014 workshop is to serve as a forum for researchers, professionals, application developers, and other experts from both academia and industry to exchange new ideas, discuss new solutions, and share their experiences. As with previous editions, this year's workshop is particularly interested in novel research directions, such as service composition techniques, co-existence with infrastructure networks, and insights from game theory, social networking analysis, and cognitive psychology. The workshop will solicit original papers addressing theoretical and practical aspects of autonomic and opportunistic communications as well as papers describing prototype implementations and deployments. Topics of interest for AOC 2014 include, but are not limited to: * Routing, transport, and reliability issues * Techniques for data dissemination and replication * Applications and middleware support, mobile social networking applications * Mobility models and statistical analysis of mobility traces * Context and social awareness mechanisms and algorithms * Co-existence of opportunistic networks with infrastructure mobile wireless networks * Service composition in autonomic and opportunistic networks * Cognition-driven information processing and decision making * Performance modelling, scaling laws, and fundamental limits for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Game-theoretical insights to the operation of autonomic and opportunistic networks * Participatory and urban sensing in autonomic and opportunistic networks * Trust, security, and reputation * Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and prototypes, measurement data from real experiments * Socio-economic models for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Mobile Social networks PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================ Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts are limited to 6 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to the template format. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. There will be no separate workshop registration, as one single registration will cover both conference and workshops participation. At least one author of each accepted paper is required and present his/her work at the workshop. Submissions and reviews will be done through EDAS. Please submit your manuscript at http://edas.info/N16861. Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier). IMPORTANT DATES =============== * Register by: March 7, 2014 * Full papers due: March 14, 2014 (Extended) * Notification: April 15, 2014 * Workshop: June 16, 2014 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== Workshop Chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Mohan Kumar, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA * Peizhao Hu, NICTA, Australia Steering Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy * Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland * Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece Publicity Chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Olivier Mehani, NICTA, Australia * Davide Mascitti, IIT-CNR, Italy Webmaster ~~~~~~~~~ * Christoph Dwertmann, NICTA, Australia Program Committee (tentative) ============================= * Nils Aschenbruck, University of Osnabruck, Germany * Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy * Eleonora Borgia, IIT-CNR, Italy * Jian-Nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK * Vania Conan, Thales, France * Serge Fdida, UPMC, Paris VI, France * Laura Galluccio, University of Catania, Italy * Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK * Kyunghan Lee, North Carolina State University, USA * Franck Legendre, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Daniele Miorandi, Create-net, Italy * Valtteri Niemi, Nokia, Switzerland * Katia Obraczka, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA * Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University, Greece * Joerg Ott, HUT, Finland * Elena Pagani, U niversita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy * Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy * Daniele Puccinelli, SUPSI, Switzerland * Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden * Abdullatif Shikfa, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, France * Weisheng Si, University of Western Sydney, Australia * Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, EURECOM, France * Roger Whitaker, Cardiff University, UK * Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA * Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK * Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena-Reggio, Italy * Sebastian Zander, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia