Call for Papers and Other Useful Academic Information

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CALL FOR PAPERS
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
Special Issue on
Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Wireless Networking Systems

http://taas.acm.org/TAAS-ACM-SelfOrg-WSN.pdf

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Recent advances in wireless communications and networking, distributed sens=
ing and
control, and real-time and embedded systems have led to some new computing =
paradigms,
such as ubiquitous and pervasive computing, wireless sensor networks, and c=
yber-physical
systems. Many novel and attractive applications are made possible, such as =
advanced
automotive systems, environmental control, critical infrastructure control,=
high
confidence medical devices and systems, etc. In these applications, a large=
scale wireless
networking system that consists of massive numbers of connected processing =
elements,
sensors, and actuators often plays a key role. The high complexity of such=
large scale
heterogeneous systems raises new challenges to the system design: we expec=
t the system
to be context-aware and self-adaptive to internal and external environments=
to achieve
reliable and robust performance; to be self-organizing and scalable so that=
managing and
maintaining costs could be minimized; to have programmable architecture and=
protocols for
achieving optimal performance in different situations/scenarios, etc. These=
challenges
need to be addressed under joint efforts from different areas, such as netw=
orking, system,
control, AI, biology, and others.

The special issue seeks original and unpublished papers that address theore=
tical and
experimental work related to self-adaptive and self-organizing wireless net=
working systems
(SASOWNS). Papers are solicited from, but are not limited to, the following=
topics:

* Self-adaptive architectures, algorithms, and protocols
* Control theoretical approaches for self-optimization
* Self-organizing wireless mesh, ad hoc, and sensor networking
* Self-configurable and programmable MAC and routing protocols
* Biological, economic, and social models for large scale SASOWNS
* Applications and testbeds of SASOWNS
* Autonomic and autonomous wireless networking systems

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission due: July 31st, 2008
Acceptance notification: Dec. 31st, 2008
Camera-ready due: Feb. 28th, 2009
Tentative publication date: June/Sep. 2009

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW GUIDELINES
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Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting important developments =
(or advances) in
the topics related to the special issue. The submitted papers must be writt=
en in English and
describe original research not published nor currently under review by othe=
r journals or
conferences. Parallel submissions will not be accepted. If an earlier versi=
on of the manuscript
was published/accepted in conferences, authors should state so in the cover=
letter.
The manuscript must be a substantial extension to the previously published/=
accepted work and
a summary of changes and a copy of the previous conference paper must be su=
bmitted together
with the submission to the special issue.

Guest editors will pre-screen submitted manuscripts for their suitability i=
n the issue.
Submissions passing the pre-screen process will go through a rigorous peer-=
review process
according to the standards of TAAS. Submitting a paper implies the willingn=
ess of reviewing
one paper submitted to the special issue.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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The manuscripts should be formatted according to the ACM TAAS guidelines av=
ailable from the
journal homepage (http://www.acm.org/pubs/taas) and submitted to the guest =
editors through
email (cpoellab@cse.nd.edu).

GUEST EDITORS
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Dr. Michael Lemmon
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Email: lemmon@nd.edu
Http: www.nd.edu/~lemmon

Dr. Christian Poellabauer
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Email: cpoellab@cse.nd.edu
Http: www.cse.nd.edu/~cpoellab

Dr. Liqiang Zhang
Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences
Indiana University South Bend
South Bend, IN 46615
Email: liqzhang@cs.iusb.edu
Http: www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang

Dr. Xiaobo Zhou
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
Email: zbo@cs.uccs.edu
Http: www.cs.uccs.edu/~zbo

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