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CFP: InviCom 2001: International Workshop on Invisible Computing, May 16 - 18, 2001, Brisbane, Australia

The 2001 International Workshop on  Invisible Computing
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 InviCom 2001
 http://www.invicom.org
 
 Organized At
 IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing
 and the Grid (CCGrid'2001)
 May 16 - 18, 2001, Brisbane, Australia
 http://www.ccgrid.org |
 http://www.ccgrid2001.qut.edu.au/
 In Corporation with the IEEE Task Force
 on Cluster Computing (TFCC)
 
 CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 Scope
 =====
 Advances in mobile and pervasive computing and
 networking
 are bringing computation and connectivity into our
 life more
 than ever before. Human beings increasingly need
 computation
 and connectivity to perform tasks but do not need
 (nor want)
 the pain of grappling with the tools that provide
 such
 computation and connectivity. A vision is where
 such tools
 - with their supporting computational and
 communication
 infrastructure - fit the person and tasks so well,
 are
 sufficiently unobtrusive and inter-connectivity
 seamless,
 that the technological details become virtually
 invisible
 compared to the task. This means that complexity
 is in the
 task not in the tool for performing the task -
 cognitive
 load on the user is due to task rather than tool -
 and also,
 less attention and effort is spent in tool upkeep.
 
 As proposed by D.A. Norman is his book
 "The Invisible Computer", inter-connected
 information
 appliances specialized for tasks built with
 simplicity,
 versatility and pleasurability in mind is a
 possible answer
 to invisible computing. In the spirit of invisible
 computing,
 the computational grid can be viewed as an example
 of an
 infrastructure to provide easy, consistent and
 inexpensive
 access to resources irrespective of physical
 location or
 access point, analogous to the electric power
 grid.
 
 This workshop aims to provide a forum bringing
 together
 computing researchers and practitioners to discuss
 key
 enabling technologies, technical challenges,
 solutions, and
 applications of the invisible computing
 philosophy.
 Topics include, but are not limited to
 
  o computational and information infrastructures
 for
     invisible computing
  o middleware and service platforms for invisible
 computing
  o standards for invisible computing
  o novel applications based on invisible computing
 
  o intelligent agent systems for enabling
     invisible computing
  o application models
  o invisible computing for the enterprise
  o design methodologies and philosophy for
 invisible
     computing products and systems
  o plug and play distributed computing
 technologies
  o user interaction models and styles for
 information
     appliances and mobile appliances
  o software construction for information
 appliances
  o intelligent agents and information appliances
  o use of context to provide invisible computing,
     or to reduce burden of human-computer
 interaction
 
 A few projects of interest
 ===================
      The Portolano Project
      CoolTown Appliance Computing
      Universal Information Appliance
      Oxygen
      Endeavour
      Aura
      Things That Think
      Grid Resource Broker for Invisible
 Supercomputing
      Rome
      MediaCup
 
 Paper Submission
 ==============
 Submission should include authors names,
 affiliations,
 addresses and email addresses on the cover page.
 Submission
 implies the willingness of at least one of the
 authors to
 register and present the paper. Please submit
 original
 (unpublished), short papers (e.g., position
 papers,
 research statements) or full papers on ongoing or
 completed research work and/or research
 challenges.
 Short papers must not exceed 4 pages and full
 papers
 must not exceed 10 pages of two column text using
 single
 spaced 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages,
 as per
 IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines, see:
 http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.
 Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or
 PDF file
 that will print on a PostScript printer to the
 workshop
 chair Seng Wai Loke by email. Hard copies should
 be sent
 only if electronic submission is not possible.
 
 Proceedings
 ==========
 All papers selected for this workshop by
 peer-review
 process will be published in the the CCGrid'2001
 symposium proceedings through the IEEE Computer
 Society
 Press, USA and they will also be made available
 online
 through the IEEE digital library. The papers will
 be
 reviewed by or under the supervision of the
 international
 program committee.
 
 Workshop Co-chairs
 ================
 Seng Wai Loke
 DSTC Monash
 Level 5, C Block
 Monash University, Caulfield Campus
 900 Dandenong Road
 Caulfield East, Victoria 3145, AUSTRALIA
 Tel:  +61 3 9903 1415
 Fax:  +61 3 9903 2863
 Email: swloke@dstc.monash.edu.au
 WWW:
 http://www.dstc.monash.edu.au/staff/seng-wai-loke
 
 Rajkumar Buyya
 School of Computing Science and Software
 Engineering
 Monash University, Caulfield Campus
 900 Dandenong Road
 Caulfield East, Victoria 3145, AUSTRALIA
 Tel: +61 3 9903 1969
 Fax: +61 3 9903  2863
 Email: rajkumar@csse.monash.edu.au
 WWW: http:www.csse.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar
 
 Program Committee Members
 =======================
 Arkady Zaslavsky - CSSE, Monash University,
 Australia
 Jaga Indulska - CSEE, University of Queensland,
 Australia
 Andry Rakotonirainy - DSTC Brisbane, Australia
 Hans-W. Gellersen - TecO, University of Karlsruhe,
 Germany
 Friedemann Mattern - DCS, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
 Sandeep Gupta - CSD, Colorado State University,
 USA
 Steinar Kristoffersen - Norwegian Computing
 Center, Norway
 Anthony Joseph - CSD, University of California
 (Berkeley), USA
 Seng Wai Loke - DSTC Monash, Australia
 Rajkumar Buyya - CSSE, Monash University,
 Australia
 
 Important Dates
 ============
  Draft Papers due on: Nov 20, 2000
  Notification of Acceptance: Dec 20, 2000
  Camera Ready Papers and Preregistration due on:
 Jan 24, 2001
  CCGrid'2001 Symposium: May 16 - 18, 2001
 
 Mirror sites:
 http://www.dstc.monash.edu.au/staff/seng-wai-loke/invicom2001/
 
 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/invicom2001/
To members of COSC/Management/Maths research group on stochastic simulation, 
and anybody else interested in research in this area

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