Re: [dtn-interest] ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galápagos Expedition

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

And thanks Fernando for asking first!
S

On 02/25/2014 02:24 PM, Fernando Ramos wrote:
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> CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS
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> Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing - The Galápagos Expedition
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> ExtremeCom 2014
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> 11-16 August, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador 
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> http://www.extremecom.org/ 
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> Important dates 
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> Submission deadline: May 4, 2014
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> Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2014
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> Early registration deadline: June 7, 2014
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> Registration deadline: June 15, 2014
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> Conference dates: August 11-16, 2014 (tentative dates)
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> Scope 
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> The Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing (ExtremeCom) brings
> together researchers and practitioners in areas related to communications in
> rural, remote or other extreme environments, and computing in extreme
> operating conditions such as extreme temperatures and energy constraints,
> extreme quantities ("big data"), extremely large-scale systems, and extreme
> levels of threat and uncertainty, in order to gain experience and insight
> into the challenges that such environments pose for the network and the
> users. 
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> We welcome a broad range of topics concerning both technical and economical
> aspects, for example wireless communication, mobile computing, low power
> devices and protocols, delay tolerant networks and other networking
> paradigms, distributed computing paradigms, big data, distributed systems,
> cloud computing, business and services models, user experiences and web
> applications. Researches addressing computing challenges in general mobile
> environments (even not completely extreme) are also welcomed by the
> conference.
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> Following on from the success of ExtremeCom 2009 - The Midnight Sun
> Expedition in Laponia, Sweden, ExtremeCom 2010 - The Himalayan Expedition in
> Dharamsala, India, ExtremeCom 2011 - The Amazon Expedition in Manaus,
> Brazil, ExtremeCom 2012 - The Swiss Alps Winter Expedition in Zurich,
> Switzerland, and ExtremeCom 2013 - The Volcanic Expedition in the
> Eyjafjallajökull Volcano region in Iceland, we present the ExtremeCom 2014
> edition: The Galápagos Expedition. The conference will start with 3 days of
> excursions in the amazing nature of the Galápagos Islands. Along the way,
> participants will get to see and experience the islands and their plant and
> animal life, both above and beneath the surface of the ocean. The immersion
> will not only give a better idea of both the technical and user requirements
> of such a harsh environment, but it will also give many opportunities for
> informal research discussions between the participants. Participants that
> have their own software for scenarios like this will also, to as great an
> extent as possible, be encouraged to test and demonstrate it within this
> environment. After the excursions, there will be two days of paper
> presentations and demos. Focus will still be on informal research
> discussions, with the hope that the field experience will give participants
> the ability to discuss the topics in a new light.
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> Submission Guidelines 
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> Participants should submit 6 page papers about ideas and visions about the
> topics of the conference or demo proposals to be shown during the
> conference. Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to
> generate much discussion during the conference are especially solicited. The
> aim of the conference is to maintain an informal environment, where new
> research ideas can be discussed and developed. We also hope to have a demo
> session where participants can show their implementations and systems. If
> you want to show a demo, please submit a 2 page demo proposal using the same
> submission system as for conference papers. Accepted papers will be
> published in the ACM Digital Library. A selected set of top submissions will
> be fast-tracked to a special issue in a reputed SCI/E journal.
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> We only accept PDF files, no greater than 6 pages in length (2 pages for the
> demos), including text, figures and references. Manuscripts should use the
> ACM templates (for LaTeX, please use Option 2 files), with 9pt fonts.
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> Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to:
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> Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of moobile communication
> systems
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> Real deployments of networks in extreme environments
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> Business and service models for networks in rural, remote, and other
> challenging environments
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> Delay tolerant networking
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> User experience research
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> Big data research such as mining and modeling of mobility and social network
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> Cloud computing for extreme scalability
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> Mesh networks and sensor networks
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> Low-power and intermittent-power protocols
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> Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications
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> Distributed computing for mobile environments
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> Networked applications and services
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> Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking
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> Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of extreme communications
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> Underwater networking
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> Robotic communications and mobile augmented reality
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> Due to logistics, the number of participants will be limited. Priority will
> be given to authors of papers and those who register first.
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> Organizers 
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> General co-chairs:
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> Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany
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> Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden
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> Local conference operations chair:
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> Carlos Herrera, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador
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> TPC vice-chairs:
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> Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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> Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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> Sponsorship co-chairs:
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> Filipe Mota Pinto, Instituto Politécnica Leiria, Portugal
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> Carlos Egas, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador
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> Publicity chair:
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> Fernando Ramos, University of Lisbon, Portugal
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> Web chair:
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> Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden
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> Technical Program Committee: 
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> TBC
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> Steering Committee:
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> Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
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> Avri Doria, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
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> Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK
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> Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany
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> Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden
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> Fernando
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