cfp

• practical master classes of leading experts in program engineering;
• stories about examples of the successful decision of problems in various areas of software development;
• reports on results of research work;
• round tables and panel discussions;
• presentations of technical solutions;
• etc.

• Practice of the solution of concrete applied problems;
• Software architecture;
• Source code writing technicians;
• Software development environments;
• Technologies of programming;
• Trends in the field of software development.

Baltic Congress on Future Internet Communications BCFIC 2011

Riga, Latvia

February 16 - 18, 2011

http://bcfic.org/

Paper submission: October 11, 2010
Acceptance Notification: December 01, 2010
Camera Ready: December 18, 2010

Baltic Congress on Future Internet Communications BCFIC Riga 2011 will address all the challenges of building the Future Internet, which will be based on mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures. BCFIC Riga 2011 will become a stage for researchers, officials, decision makers, practitioners from the public sector and industry, people involved in other related initiatives and many others. The Congress will facilitate knowledge transfer to the community and practitioners by promoting results dissemination.

The Scientific Programme will incorporate all the components of Future Communication Networks including the topics Future Internet Technologies, Internet of the things, wireless networking for moving objects etc.

The Internet of the Future will incorporate a large number of autonomous wireless objects moving with diverse patterns and speeds while communicating via several radio interfaces. Examples of such objects may include humans, cars or unmanned aerial vehicles, with every object acting as a networking device generating, relaying and/or absorbing data. Achieving the Internet of the Future, will require global interoperability amongst objects/devices, not typically common place due to inherent features of today’s Internet. To overcome the current shortcomings, a number of research challenges have to be addressed in the area of networking, including protocol engineering, development of applications and services, as well as realistic use-cases. Applications, services, overlay networking will receive a special treatment within the Congress.

BCFIC Riga 2011 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (pending) and IEEE Latvia Section.

BCFIC Riga 2011 proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and indexed in the correspondent databases (e.g. EI-index and others).

Core Thematic Topics of interest for Baltic Congress on Future Internet and Communications BCFIC Riga 2011 include, but are not limited to:

Future Internet Technologies

• Ubiquitous computing and networking
• Future Internet Architecture and Protocol Design
• Scalable Architectures for the Real World Internet
• Future Internet Self-Management Frameworks
• QoS and QoE
• Platforms and Middleware for Seamless Service and Content Delivery
• Cloud Computing
• Network Security
• Green Communications
• Energy-efficient networking
• Privacy, security and reputation, Identity management

Pervasive computing and smart environment

• RFID and Sensor Network Technologies
• Architecture and platforms
• Distributed and pervasive services
• Personal and body networks, wearable computing
• Semantic analysis
• Metadata and Meta modeling
• XML and Data Management
• Knowledge Management
• Web Security and Privacy
• Cyber threats
• Web Services and Web Engineering
• Web Intelligence
• Bio-inspired/Bio-oriented Networks

Wireless Networking for Moving Objects

• End-to-end Quality of Service Support
• Traffic Characterization and Modeling
• Resource Management and Admission Control
• Cross layer design, optimization and Interactions
• Routing and Addressing
• Network Security in Wired and Wireless
• Network Management Applications
• Services and Applications
• Mobile Service Level Agreements and Specification
• Mesh and Ad-hoc Networks
• Wireless Multimedia

Home networking

• Home Networks
• ITU G.hn concept
• Overlay Networks
• Transport Protocols
• Network Planning
• Convergence of Broadcast and Communications Technologies
• Solutions for Consumer Communications
• Digital TV and Radio Broadcasting
• Computing in Signal Processing
• Intelligent Agent and Web Applications
• Intelligent Control and Automation

Mobile and Wireless Networks

• Cellular & broadband Wireless (3G/4G/5G)
• Cognitive wireless networks
• Cooperative communications
• Ecological wireless networks
• Multi-hop networks
• Ad hoc networks
• Sensor networks
• Local dependent networks
• Mobile computing
• Analysis, simulation, measurement and performance evaluation
• Congestion and admission control
• Routing, Qos and scheduling
• Satellite communications
• Transport layer issues
• Wireless multicast
• Wireless IP

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs)

• Vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-roadside communications
• Intra-vehicle communications
• Vehicle-to-Internet communications
• Mobility and vehicular traffic models
• Information collection and dissemination
• Analytical and simulation techniques
• Experimental systems and field operational testing
• Safety and non-safety related applications
• Recent standardization efforts and problems (e.g. 802.11p)
• Overview of the activities and status of the ongoing projects
• Deployment strategies and predictions

P2P technologies

• Advances in theoretical foundations of P2P
• Security, trust and reputation in P2P
• Performance analysis of P2P systems, applications and services
• Quality of experience in P2P systems
• Mobile P2P

Social Networks

• Computational Aspects of Social Network
• Security, data protection inside communities
• Evaluation and benchmarking

E-business

• e-Business system design and development
• e-Payment and e-Commerce
• Social and Legal Issues
• Digital Ecology
• e-Health
• e-Governance
• e-Entertainment
• e-Journalism
• e-Learning and virtual classrooms

The Section for Communication Technology at DTU Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineering, would like to invite international students to a short summer course in July to August as part of the DTU Summer University program. The idea is to present DTU and the especially DTU Fotonik to students that potentially would like to be guests of DTU. Guest students may be at DTU for one semester or they may be enrolled in the two year M.Sc. programs.

Please note that the application deadline is postponed until May, 14.

8th Conference of Finnish-Russian University Cooperation in Telecommunications (FRUCT) Program will be held in Lappeenranta, Finland, 9-12 November 2010.

OVERVIEW

The FRUCT Program is one of the largest regional academia-to-industry and university-to-university cooperation frameworks. The conferences are attended by the representatives of over 15 FRUCT universities from Russia, Finland and Denmark, and industrial experts from Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Symbian Foundation, a number of guests from other companies and universities.

The conference is a forum for the most active students, a chance to meet colleagues from industrial research and learn more about the FRUCT initiative. The conference provides an opportunity for student teams to present progress and results of their ongoing R&D projects and attend lectures given by the top academic and industrial experts. Traditionally the conference program consists of 1.5-2 days of intensive training for the hottest technologies and 2.5-3 days of the conference presentations.

We warmly welcome all university research teams to participate in the conference, present your research and joint the FRUCT Program. Participation is free, but requires pre-registration. This call for participation is also available in PDF format.

BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION

The distinctive feature of modern IT and Telecommunications industries is in dramatic shortening of the period when technology remains commercially viable. On the one hand, this is due to the competition between key market players that are pushing all manufacturers to accelerate innovations; on the other hand, this is due to technological progress speed up caused by the growing expansion of intellectual resource invested into R&D and design activities. This trend is an important call and challenge for the leading educational and research institutions around the globe. In the FRUCT we believe that it is crucial to combine forces of EU and Russia to follow up the competition in adopting university education to the new industrial trends. The first step is to strength a bridge between Russian and Finnish academic worlds, increase visibility of involved research teams and set direct personal contacts between academic and industrial experts. For more information about the FRUCT program please visit www.fruct.org.

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Please submit your full papers (paper templates: TEX, MS Word) or "presentation only" (based on 150-500 words abstract) proposals before September 27, 2010. Please note that papers and presentation only reports have to be done in line with the provided template for the paper header and paper body (for the full paper submissions). The FRUCT papers should be at least 2 full pages and the maximum length is 12 pages. The recommended size is 4-6 pages. The list of the conference focus topics is provided below, but you also welcome to propose new challenging R&D subjects:

●  Open source solutions, development and maintenance of mobile OSS MeeGo
●  Smart spaces, new use cases for well known devices, integration of peripherals
●  Inter-device connectivity, embedded networks, hardware/software co-design
●  Software and services for mobile devices, design of future applications and UIs
●  Technology proofing, modeling, verification and validation, testing techniques
●  Security for mobile devices, management of personal and business privacy
●  Design and optimization of emerging wireless network technologies
●  Energy management, new sources of energy, green technologies
●  Modern network architectures, air interfaces and protocols
●  Mobile multimedia and video services and solutions

ACCOMODATION

Huhtiniemi camping. It is possible to put 3 persons/room. Price is 95 euroes/room. The price with conference group discount is 87 euroes/room. They have 20 rooms available.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Chair of the local organizing committee: Pekka Jappinen
Secretary of the organizing committee: Alexandra Reyss
All general questions about FRUCT conference please send to info@fruct.org

Положение о конкурсе “Бизнес-идеи для мобильного мира”

Организатор конкурса

Конкурс организуется Нижегородским государственным университетом им. Н.И. Лобачевского.

Цель конкурса

Публичное обсуждение перспективных мобильных приложений и сервисов, а также отбор бизнес-идей для их дальнейшей коммерциализации.

Участники конкурса

К участию в конкурсе приглашаются все желающие без ограничений по месту жительства и возрасту. 
Проект подается заявителем индивидуально.

Условия конкурса

На конкурс могут быть представлены бизнес-идеи, базирующиеся на использовании мобильных технологий на любой стадии их воплощения, начиная с самого раннего (возникновения идеи).

Конкурс проходит в два этапа.

На первом, заочном этапе проводится сбор предложений по бизнес-идеям, основанным на использовании мобильных технологий. Объем документа-предложения не должен превышать трех страниц.

В предложении обязательно должны быть четко сформулированы следующие пункты:

1. Описание предлагаемого приложения или сервиса, основанного на использовании мобильных устройств, на базе которых планируется создание бизнеса. Например, если предлагается многопользовательская ролевая игра, основанная на основе использования мобильных телефонов, то необходимо описать сценарий игры, действия участников и т.д.
2. Описание целевой аудитории, для которой предлагается данная мобильная услуга.
3. Способ коммерциализации мобильной услуги.
4. Обоснование того, что услуга с учетом метода коммерциализации будет пользоваться спросом.
5. Планируемый метод продвижения услуги.
6. Необходимые для создания и продвижения ресурсы.

Заявитель должен быть пользователем мобильного сервиса LIST и иметь заполненную личную страницу.

Резюме бизнес-идеи должно быть опубликовано в блоге заявителя в мобильном сервисе LIST.

Подробно о сервисе можно узнать на сайте www.m-list.ru

Заявки на конкурс необходимо отправить по электронной почте до 7 мая 2010 г. на адрес managers@wl.unn.ru; в теме письма указать: Конкурс “Бизнес-идеи для мобильного мира”

На втором этапе проекты, отобранные в заочном конкурсе, представляются конкурсной комиссии в рамках «Week of Mobile Techologies in Nizhny Novgorod»/ «Неделя мобильных технологий в Нижнем Новгороде", которая будет проходить в Нижегородском государственном университете им. Н.И. Лобачевского с 11 по 15 мая 2010 г.

Дата и время заседания конкурсной комиссии будут объявлены позже. 
При оценке проектов будут учтены новизна и перспективность бизнес-идеи, а также результаты голосования пользователей LIST за проект.

Победителям конкурса будут вручены почетные грамоты и ценные призы. Проекты победителей будут рассмотрены Ассоциацией бизнес-ангелов «Cтартовые инвестиции».

15 мая 2010 года Intel и ННГУ им. Лобачевского проводят «День разработчика приложений для Intel® Atom™» в рамках “Недели мобильных технологий”.

Программа мероприятия:
- обзор семейства процессоров Intel® Atom™ и программного инструментария;
- рассказ о конкурсах и специальных программах Intel для творчески мыслящих разработчиков;
- мастер-классы по разработке программного обеспечения для Intel® Atom™;
- бизнес-игра: идеи приложений для Intel® Atom™ как основа собственного бизнеса.

Участие в мероприятии является бесплатным, приглашаются все желающие.

The program of 4th Nokia week and 7th FRUCT conference that will be held in Saint-Petersburg, Russia on 26-30 April 2010 is published. All events are free of charge, but require registration at the conference web page. Please remember that you have to take separate registration to all trainings that you want to attend, the corresponding registrations are available from the event registration menu. The conference registration will be closed on April 22 at 16:00 Finnish time. Registrations to trainings will be closed as soon as all available sits will be taken. The 4th Nokia week program is available here and detailed program of 7th FRUCT conference here.

The final program in PDF format can be found here (updated on 21.4).