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Democracy under Siege: How Actors, Communication Strategies, and Emerging Phenomena Are Changing the Rules in the Public Sphere
by German.Llorca＠uv.es 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

Dear Colleagues, "Democracy under Siege: How Actors, Communication Strategies, and Emerging Phenomena Are Changing the Rules in the Public Sphere" is aimed to be the most up-to-date and impactful collection of research on this topic. With your knowledge and expertise in disinformation, the effects of media and journalism, and public opinion dynamics, the editorial team invites you to send a proposal. Why publish in our Research Topic? Alongside a top group of authors, your work will be published in either Frontiers in Communication or Frontiers in Sociology (you will be able to select which journal upon submission of your manuscript). Both are leading journals in their fields, with a respective CiteScore of 2.1 and 1.7. Both journals will also receive their first impact factor in June of this year. You may find full detail on the CFP through this link: https://fro.ntiers.in/democracy_under_siege As well as original research, reviews, research reports, perspectives, and case reports will also be considered. Please, do note the following relevant information: Deadline for abstracts: April 15, 2023 Deadline for manuscripts: November 15, 2023 The aim of this Research Topic is to delve into the various dimensions of the (dis)information crisis, including one of the key solutions to it—media literacy. Specific themes to be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: • the disinformation strategies and techniques used by political and influential agents • the effects of mis- and/or disinformation on democratic processes • biased representations of ideologies, social groups, and institutions • new communicative ecologies • media centrality in the information ecosystem • the media/journalism crisis and the ‘era of multiple authorities’ • public opinion dynamics • media literacy. As an open access journal, publishing fees are applied to accepted articles You can find out more about the journal publishing fees as well as fee support and institutional waivers and discounts here: https://www.frontiersinorg/journals/communication/for-authors/publishing-fe… I believe your insight will be a great addition to this topic, and I look forward to hearing more about your latest research. Best regards, Germán Llorca-Abad, Full Professor at Universitat de València -- **************************** Germán Llorca Abad **************************** CLÀUSULA DE CONFIDENCIALITAT Aquest missatge ha estat generat des d'un compte de la Universitat de València per a les finalitats pròpies de la institució. El seu contingut es considera confidencial i, llevat que la seua naturalesa així ho exigisca, no se’n permet la reproducció o distribució sense autorització expressa. Si heu rebut indegudament el correu, us demanem que advertiu d'aquest fet al remitent i que l’elimineu. En el lloc web institucional de la Universitat de València podeu consultar les nostres condicions d'ús i polítiques de privacitat pel que fa a l'enviament de correu electrònic (http://links.uv.es/E0GKasq, http://links.uv.es/26uC3dX) Podeu comunicar qualsevol incidència relacionada amb la recepció dels nostres correus electrònics, i en particular aquelles que es relacionen amb la seguretat i la confidencialitat, mitjançant lopd(a)uv.es.

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WEBCAST FEB 16 – Communications and Networking in LEO Mega-Constellations – Dr. Gunes Karabulut Kur
by Joly MacFie 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

Just starting. See ISOC's take on LEO here: https://www.internetsociety.org/action-plan/leos/ [image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/16323>On *Thursday February 16 2023* at *7:30pm-9:30pm EST* (00:30-02:30 UTC Feb 17) the *IEEE Consultants Network of Northern New Jersey <https://www.technologyontap.org/>* (CNNNJ) will host a presentation '*Communications and Networking in LEO Mega-Constellations <https://www.technologyontap.org/event/communications-and-networking-in-leo-…>*'. Presenter *Dr. Gunes Karabulut Kurt <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gunes-karabulut-kurt-1715773/>*, chair of the IEEE Satellite Mega-constellations: Communications and Networking Special Interest Group will focus on the communications and networking aspects of these mega-constellations and their integration with the terrestrial networks. The associated communication and networking problems will be investigated along with potential remedies such as the use of distributed massive MIMO and high altitude platform station (HAPS) systems. The talk will conclude with an overview of the open issues and future research directions. *SPEAKER* *Dr. Gunes Karabulut Kurt PhD*, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cnnnj-leo <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cnnnj-leo>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3xfXRWT <https://bit.ly/3xfXRWT>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3YXyoO0 <https://bit.ly/3YXyoO0>* *TWITTER #leo #megaconstellations Dr. Gunes Karabulut Kurt @IEEE #CNNNJ <https://bit.ly/3XBWv3F> @0brane* *MASTODON #megaconstellations <https://mastodon.social/tags/megaconstellations>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/> *(AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/cnnnj-leo <https://archive.org/details/cnnnj-leo>* Permalink https://isoc.live/16323 -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Call to authors of forthcoming books on privacy and surveillance - AoIR 2023
by Ollier Malaterre, Ariane 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

Greetings! I would like to organize a book panel session for AoIR in Philadelphia, October 18-21; I have a forthcoming book in the Routledge Studies in Surveillance and am looking for related books. If you are interested in presenting yours or discussing the books, please contact me!

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[CALL FOR DEMOS AND POSTERS] IEEE WoWMoM 2023, June 12-15, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, DEADLINE: March 15, 2023
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) June 12-15, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, USA CALL FOR DEMOS AND POSTERS https://coe.northeastern.edu/Groups/wowmom2023/call_for_demos.html Submission Due Date: March 15, 2023 Notification Date: April 7, 2023 Camera-ready version: April 15, 2023 Conference Dates: June 12-15, 2023 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND OVERVIEW Welcome to the 24th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks. IEEE WoWMoM 2023 is soliciting original and previously unpublished research works addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems and applications. Wireless networking technologies are continuously evolving and have become a critical part of modern life, be it for communication services, media distribution, or sensing and actuation services within the Internet of Things (IoT) context. Appropriate resource management, applications design, and architectural networking paradigms are necessary to provide users with high quality experience in multimedia communication and services. Edge computing and data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are becoming essential tools to cope with the increasing diversity of connected devices and the plethora of new data-intensive and latency-sensitive applications requested by end-users. At the same time, the interoperability among IoT environments (including wearable computing and sensors), the network edge, and the cloud are evolving towards an edge-cloud continuum that is expected to support a wide range of application domains and services in a more smooth and efficient manner. In this context, providing rich sets of measurements for characterizing, detecting, and understanding the behavior of such complex systems is of paramount importance. IEEE WoWMoM 2023 takes a broad view and seeks papers describing innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and wireless networking and applications. We solicit papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. We also welcome practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field trials, or real deployments. You are invited to submit a poster and/or demo related to the following topics of interest: SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST * 5G/ 6G networks for mobile and multimedia services * AI-assisted and data-driven networking in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Authentication, authorization, accounting for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Behavior-aware human-centric multimedia networks * Communication technologies and services for MTC * Connected vehicles: networking issues and services * Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Context-awareness in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * IoT-edge-cloud continuum for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking and services * Energy efficiency for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) multimedia networks * Internet/Web of Things * Localization, tracking, and mobility management and services * Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks * Mobile big data networking and services * Mobile social networks * Modeling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Network traffic characterization and measurements * Participatory, mobile, and urban sensing * Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning * Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) enabled multimedia networks * Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning * Seamless inter-networking and self-organization * Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and slicing for wireless and mobile networks * System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences * Trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Virtual mobile infrastructure * Wearable Computing * Wireless multimedia systems, services, and applications We particularly encourage the following types of submissions: * Demos of the research related to accepted IEEE WoWMoM papers * Demos and posters from student authors related to their research topics within the IEEE WoWMoM topics of interest * Demos from experts from industry and academia showing the state-of-the-art within IEEE WoWMoM topics of interest * Posters showing results of a work-in-progress paper SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers must be submitted electronically as a PDF file through the conference management system, at: Poster submission: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30201 Demo submission: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30200 Please note: All posters/demos will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. All poster/demo submissions will be handled electronically. Posters/demos that do not comply with the Submission Guidelines will be rejected without review. All posters/demos should be submitted electronically in PDF and be no longer than 3 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format including tables, figures and references. Papers exceeding 3 pages will not be accepted. All accepted abstracts will appear in the proceedings. The demos and posters should include the prefix "DEMO:" and "POSTER:" in the title of the submitted paper, respectively. Download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Poster title must start with "Poster:" and Demo title must start with "Demo:" At least one author of each accepted poster/demo is required to register to the conference and present. Only registered and presented posters/demos will be published in the conference proceedings. Accepted posters/demos will be included in the IEEE WoWMoM 2023 Proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. Demos must show how the user can interact with the device/concept. IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission Due Date: March 15, 2023 * Notification Date: April 7, 2023 * Camera-ready version: April 15, 2023 * Conference Dates: June 12-15, 2023 POSTER AND DEMO CHAIRS Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA ) Uichin Lee (KAIST, South Korea) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Vice Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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IEEE BlackSeaCom 2023, IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (IEEE BlackSeaCom 2023) 5-7, JULY 2023, ISTANBUL, TURKEY Immersive Bridging of Continents in the Era of Hyperconnectivity https://blackseacom2023.ieee-blackseacom.org/ IEEE BlackSeaCom 2023 will be held in Istanbul that straddles Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait. Themed Immersive Bridging of Continents in the Era of Hyperconnectivity, the conference is seeking highquality and original technical papers not currently under review by any other journal, magazine or conference. Besides the regular technical papers, the technical program seeks poster papers that present work in progress with preliminary results and demos. Also, IEEE BlackSeaCom seeks proposals for tutorials and special sessions. Technical Scope: • 5G mobile systems, 6G connectivity and applications • Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics in wireless communications and networks Software-defined networks, network virtualization, and network slicing • Communications and networks for cloud, edge and fog • Internet of Things (IoT) applications and Sensor Networks • Social networking, smart cities, and multimedia communications • Connected health and e-Health • Optical networks and systems, radio over fiber • Mobile and wireless communications and networking • Image, speech and signal processing for communications • Molecular and nanoscale communications • Modelling, semantic web and ontologies, and interoperability for the Internet, the Metaverse and related applications • Big data analysis, processing, and transmission • Smart grids, M2M and vehicular networks • Future Internet and testbeds • Network and Service Management • Communications and Information theory • Cognitive radio and networking • Security, privacy, and trust • Sustainable communications and computing • Electromagnetic compatibility • Drones, UAV, V2X communications • Cloud-based data streaming General Co-Chairs • Sema Oktug (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) • Burak Kantarci(University of Ottawa, Canada) Technical Program Co-Chairs • Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada) • Mehmet Yunus Donmez (Ericsson, Turkey) • Sebnem Baydere (Yeditepe University, Turkey) Submission Link: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30406 Important Dates • Submission Deadline: Feb 28th, 2023 • Notification of Acceptance: April 15th, 2023 • Camera Ready Deadline: April 30th, 2023 Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit a full paper with a maximum paper length of six (6) pages including results, figures, and references without incurring additional page charges (maximum 2 additional pages with over length page charge for an additional fee, if accepted), in the standard IEEE two-column conference format. Papers should be submitted via EDAS<https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30406>. Papers submitted to the conference must describe original unpublished work that has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three TPC members, and all accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings and IEEE digital library. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Vice Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab’s News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” ~ Aristotle

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Join us for the Digimethods 2023: Africa Digital Methods Winter School
by Alette Schoon 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

Join us for the Digimethods 2023: Africa Digital Methods Winter School at Rhodes University in South Africa 19-22 June 2023 We invite digital media researchers and postgraduate students to attend a digital methods winter school that will explore topics in the field of Media and Journalism Studies related to the study of digital media, social media and mobile apps. Whether you are a seasoned digital researcher or a total novice, or primarily a qualitative researcher looking to expand your repertoire of methods, this Winter School is for you. The four-day winter school in Makhanda from 19-22 June 2023 will be an immersive experience starting off with a series of masterclasses that will ready participants to take part in small research teams. On the first day we kick off the winter school by exploring a range of tools. Participants will learn methods for scraping, visualising and analysing online textual and visual data and then apply these towards answering actual research questions over the final three days of the winter school. They will tackle uniquely African research questions related to digital and social media and participate in a carefully choreographed research scrum that will result in a range of original findings. Currently topics of interest being developed include: - Textual analysis tools for exploring African News websites - Social media and network analysis - Tools for exploring mobile apps - Visual analysis of social media - Machine learning We have already signed up the following speakers to share their extensive experience in the field: - Dr Dani Madrid-Morales, Sheffield University (Content analysis tools using R-Studio) - Dr Dennis Nguyen, Utrecht University (Data Bias & online content analysis) - Dr Henri-Count Evans, University of eSwatini (Social Network Analysis) - Prof Adam Peruta, Syracuse University (Understanding mobile apps) - Mr Jean le Roux, DFR Lab (Misinformation Online) And online presentations by: - Prof Anne Helmond, University of Utrecht (Mobile App Methods) - Dr Ranjit Singh, Data & Society (AI research agenda for the majority world) We will aim towards: - Showing how certain digital methods lend themselves to specific research questions - Sharing approaches for developing relevant research questions that can be researched through digital methods. - Developing appropriate research questions related to African cultural phenomena, working within specific topics relevant to digital media on the continent. - Getting participants to sign up for a small research team in which they will generate local research questions, scrape, visualise and analyse data. - Furthermore, we will also showcase research methods developed on the continent. - We will develop all of this into a handbook for digital methods for the Global South as well as a MOOC. We are looking to compile a sense of interest in the winter school as well as ideas for local collaborators and possible topics for research through such digital methods. Any enquiries should be directed at Alette Schoon on a.schoon(a)ru.ac.za. We invite you to fill in this Google Form to indicate your interest in the Winter School: https://forms.gle/vCTKT3EsKG4PgJzh8 The Winter School will be directly followed by a colloquium for journalism and media educators, who are invited to submit a proposal at the following link: https://forms.gle/YjFjBwxykE2vFZjAA. --

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CALL FOR WIP papers, Demos, Posters: IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 -- Nashville, Tennessee, June 26-30, 2023 --Deadline: April 1, 2023
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

=============================================================================================================== ================================================================================================================ IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, June 26-30, 2023 https://smartcomp.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ https://twitter.com/IEEESmartComp CALL FOR WIP papers, Demos, Posters ================================================================================================================ ================================================================================================================ SMARTCOMP 2023 is the 9th edition of the premier conference on Smart Computing. Smart computing is a multidisciplinary domain based on the synergistic influence of advances in sensor-based technologies, the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, big data analytics, machine learning, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence. Applications of smart computing can be found in different societal domains including, but not limited to, transportation, energy, environmental protection, smart and connected communities, healthcare, banking, industrial systems, entertainment, and social media. Algorithmic and system advancements in cloud computing, mobile/pervasive computing, cyber-physical systems, sensor networking, and social computing are taking smart computing to a new dimension and improving our ways of living. SMARTCOMP Poster, Demo, and WiP sessions will provide a forum to discuss novel ideas and emerging results, present innovative applications and tools, and bring about novel research questions, approaches, and directions. The work-in-progress track will particularly provide a forum to discuss describing preliminary work on theory, platform design and implementation, verification and validation, empirical case studies, and other work that has the potential to advance the state of the art in CPS. Authors of papers that received favorable reviews but could not be accepted to the main track may be offered the opportunity to publish their submitted work in the Work-in-Progress or poster tracks. Topics Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): Future Smart Computing Paradigms Models of Smart Environments Algorithms for Smart Computing AI and Machine Learning in Smart Computing Security, Privacy, and Trust issues in Smart Computing Fairness and Socio-technical issues of Smart Computing Cyber-physical System Platforms for Smart Environments Middleware Platforms for Smart Environments Mobile and Ubiquitous Platforms for Smart Environments Cloud, Edge and Fog Computing Platforms for Smart Systems Data Architectures and Analytics for Smart Computing Smart Computing for Smart and Connected Communities Smart green computing Social computing and smart systems Wearable computing and IoT for Smart Systems Architectures and Software for Smart Computing Novel communication paradigms (e.g., 5G/6G, VLC, DSA) in smart computing Quantum Computing in Smart Systems Interdisciplinary approaches to Smart Computing Applications of Smart Computing include: - Smart healthcare and digital epidemiology - Smart agriculture - Smart infrastructures - Smart cities - Smart energy, transportation, water distribution systems - Smart factories - Smart workspace Submission Guidelines Titles in this track should follow the following formats below: WIP papers - WIP: Title of Paper Demo Posters - DEMO: Title of Poster Posters - POSTER: Title of Poster Demo, poster, and WiP papers should be no more than 3 pages in length, including figures, tables, and references and formatted according to the two-column IEEE proceedings template. IEEE provides corresponding formatting templates at IEEE proceedings template (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) IEEE provides corresponding formatting templates at IEEE conference template. Make sure to use the conference mode of the template, i.e., LaTeX users must use the conference option of the IEEEtran document class. While accepted submissions in the poster track will be presented as part of the poster session, the submissions must be in the form of short papers, as mentioned above. While posters will be non-archival, the demo and WiP papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. While the submission format is the same, the goals for posters, demos, and WiP are different, i.e. We welcome short papers discussing early or ongoing research activities for posters. Novel approaches and preliminary results are especially appreciated. As posters are non-archival, we also welcome work that has been previously published. Demo papers, on the other hand, should naturally focus explicitly on the component that will be demonstrated to the audience and how the attendees will be able to interact. They should also contain an overview of the background research leading up to the demo. WiP papers should focus on early results and ongoing research, similar to posters, but are archival in nature. All submitted demo and poster papers will be subject to peer reviews by SMARTCOMP Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the conference to present the work. How to submit? Papers must be submitted electronically as a single PDF file on US Letter size paper (not A4), with all fonts embedded (the PDF-A standard complies with that), through EDAS. Select WiP/Demo/Poster Track at the following link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30194 Important Dates Paper submission: April 1, 2023 Acceptance notification: May 1, 2023 Camera ready: May 10, 2023 WIP/Demo/Poster Co-Chairs Dario Bruneo (University of Messina) Sara Khalifa (CSIRO) Ayan Mukhopadhyay (Vanderbilt University) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Vice Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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IEEE HPSR 2023: paper submission deadline [March 7, 2023, firm]
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing Artificial Intelligent Next Generation (NextG) Integrated Communications and Computing Systems 5-7 June 2023 @ Albuquerque, New Mexico https://hpsr2023.ieee-hpsr.org/ https://twitter.com/ieeehpsr2023 *IEEE HPSR 2023 Organizing Committee is planning for an in-person conference and encourages the authors to participate physically; however, we understand that the pandemic situation is not over yet. Therefore, depending on the situation during the conference time, remote participation and online presentation may be allowed under special circumstances. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next Generation (NextG) Integrated Communications and Computing Systems are envisioned to be characterized by resiliency, security, robustness, adaptability, and autonomy, while being supported by modern communication devices, computing solutions, networks, and systems. New networking technologies and intelligent techniques are needed to efficiently and effectively cope with the intricacy in traffic demands, as well as the heterogeneity of the services and applications requested by the end-users. In parallel, the advent of the Digital Continuum, i.e., device-to-edge-to-fog-to-Cloud continuum, promises to offer low-latency and ubiquitous computation to heterogeneous mobile and Internet of Things devices. A rich array of network services is expected to emerge seeking to realize greater synergy across the various component subsystems of the NextG Integrated Communications and Computing Systems. The main focus of the HPSR 2023 - the 24th edition of HPSR conference - will be to assess how breakthrough changes occurring to NextG Integrated Communications and Computing Systems are affecting areas related to switching and routing, and NextG networks and systems in general. We are soliciting original and thought-provoking works on big data, data analytics, cloud and edge services, and artificial intelligent techniques applied to networking and switching and routing. Works on autonomous networks, 5G/6G, Industry 4.0, social networks, network, cybersecurity, virtualization, and other advanced topics are also welcome. Papers describing original, previously unpublished research, experimental efforts, practical experiences, as well as visionary roadmaps, in all aspects of switching and routing, and NextG networks and systems are solicited. Research works on the following topics, but not limited to, are welcome for submission through the following symposia: Track A: NextG Integrated Communications and Computing Systems Symposium Application of data analytics to switching and routing Artificial intelligent routing and resource-allocation algorithms Behavior-aware human-centric NextG networks and systems Deep-learning technologies for NextG networks Digital Continuum -- device-to-edge-to-fog-to-Cloud continuum Dynamic bandwidth access and management for smart-factory/Industry 4.0 applications Experimental measurements and testbed implementations Game theory enabling resource allocation and routing High performance, programmable networks for the Internet of Things Integrated access and backhaul technologies Integrated caching, computation, and communications Positioning, Navigation, and Timing techniques Quality of Experience resulting from intelligent routing Quality of Service Optimization and resource allocation Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-enabled switching and routing Switching architectures for NextG applications Traffic monitoring and modeling applied to switching and routing Traffic predictions in routing and resource assignment Track B: High-Performance High Functionality Architectures Symposium Address lookup algorithms, packet classification, scheduling, and dropping Applications of data science and analysis on high-performance networks Applications of GPU on network functions Efficient data structures for networking applications Future technologies for IoT High-speed packet processors ICT enabling technologies for e-health systems Multiprocessor networks Nano-communication networks Network management Network traffic characterization and measurements Optical switching and routing Power-aware switching, bridging, and routing protocols Routing and resource allocation for Tactile Internet Switching, bridging, and routing protocols whether wide-area or data centers Switching support to Extended reality (including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality) Traffic characterization and engineering Standardization activities of emerging high performance switching and routing Track C: Autonomous Networks Symposium Architectures of high-performance switches and routers, with a focus towards reconfigurable pipelines (P4, OpenFlow, etc.) Blockchain technologies Computation offloading Decentralized applications (DApps) Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) Economics and pricing Energy harvesting, storage, recycling, wireless power transfer Green network monitoring and routing Intelligent and connected vehicular networks Medium access control, routing, and path selection Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks Mobile social networks and routing Multi-access edge computing (MEC) Network and switch slicing Network performance for Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork (HART) Physical-layer aspects of switching and routing Software-defined networking Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGIN) Track D: Network Security Symposium Adversarial machine learning Applied cryptography for cyber, information, and network security Attack prediction, detection, response, and prevention Authentication protocols and key management Blockchain security Cloud, data center, and distributed systems security Future Internet Architecture (FIA) security and privacy Intrusion detection with artificial intelligent techniques Malware detection and damage recovery Network security and privacy protection NextG networks and Internet security Security in SDN and networking slicing Security aspects of social networks Security in smart grid communications Security in virtualized network functions built or managed using software-defined networks Security and privacy in the Age of Information Trust management in networks through emerging technologies Virtual Private WANs Zero Trust Architecture Important Dates: Paper Submission Due: March 7, 2023 (firm deadline) Acceptance Notifications: April 3, 2023 Author Registration Deadline: April 24, 2023 Final Version Submission Due: May 1, 2023 General Chair Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA General Co-chair Abdelhamid Mellouk, L'Université Paris-Est Créteil, France TPC Co-chairs Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Northeastern University, USA Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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Call for Feature Topic Proposals – Media International Australia
by Crystal Abidin 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

Dear AoIR crew, I hope you are all keeping well. Please see below a call for Feature Topic proposals for *Media International Australia. *For any queries or EOIs, please write to me via my Curtin email crystal.abidin[at]curtin.edu.au. URL version of the text below is here: https://t.co/r50QdYm5DU Many thanks! Professor Crystal Abidin Editor, Media International Australia // MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA Expression of Interest for Feature Topic Proposals, released Q1 2023 INTRODUCTION Media International Australia (MIA) publishes four issues a year, with one issue reserved for a selection of papers from the annual ANZCA conference, reflecting the important partnership between the journal and Australia and New Zealand’s premier academic organisation for media and communications. In each of the other three annual issues, as well as individually submitted work of the highest standard, MIA also normally publishes a guest-edited Feature Topic: a coherent themed collection of five to six articles, plus a scholarly introduction, devoted to a specific, important issue in contemporary media and communications research. THE FEATURE TOPIC A feature topic makes a significant contribution to international scholarship, advancing our knowledge of media and communications, by bringing a clear focus onto a specific set of questions and issues in the field. A feature topic is a partnership between the journal’s editor and the guest editorial team. It involves publication of the very best selection of papers proposed by researchers in response to an international call for contributions, following anonymous peer-review. Guest editors play a vital role in careful curation and development of the collection, so it represents both a series of individual voices, and a group of scholars speaking together. The editorial introduction is itself an academic contribution to the field and may be submitted for peer review. MIA particularly welcomes topics that give voice to emerging issues and perspectives on the changing socio-technological order of global media and communications, and which positively encourage diverse perspectives. Additional articles are also published in each issue, kept clearly distinct from the feature topic. MIA is responsible for deciding which additional articles are published in each issue. Where possible the individual articles chosen will have different themes than those in the feature topic, ensuring clear differentiation between the feature topic and other articles. MIA is committed to Online First publication: while each topic will be published in print and online at the appropriate date for the issue, feature topic articles (excepting the introduction) will be published online as soon as they are finalised for production. In exceptional circumstances, MIA may agree to hold back articles, so they only appear when the issue itself is published. PROPOSALS There is an open call for guest editorial teams to propose feature topics for the journal. Proposals are first discussed with MIA’s Editor, and then presented to the MIA Executive Board for comment and approval. It is not unusual for proposals to be amended and resubmitted based on the Executive Board’s comments. We expect decisions to be made within four weeks. We request the following format be used in making a proposal: Proposal (Two pages maximum) This proposal needs to include: - Title of the topic - A summary of the editorial team including relevant expertise / experience - A summary of the topic’s theme, and any inherent arguments the collection seeks to make - A brief argument as to the benefit and timeliness of publishing on this theme - A brief argument as to the theme’s alignment with the overall aims and scope of MIA - Indicative list of referees — 6-8 people you expect to approach to do 2-3 reviews each Call for Papers (One page maximum) The draft CFP (for publication once approved) needs to include: - Title of the topic - Summary of the CFP (two sentences — suitable for social media and a stub on MIA website) - The main CFP — which likely includes elements also in the proposal - Editor names, affiliations, contact details, etc Exact dates and technical details (such as distribution of the CFP, email address for submission) do not need to be included in the proposal and can be arranged after approval. The following timeline can guide your planning, once a proposal is approved: - Allow six months from release of CFP to submission of papers, following an initial selection from abstracts - Allow six months for peer review, revisions, and any development after further review and completion of introduction. - Have production-ready content available to the publishers six months prior to the issue date. Please note that as at Q1 2023, MIA has approved feature topics through until end-2024. The next available issue will be Q1 2025. In most cases, issues proceed smoothly and are often completed ahead of time (with papers appearing online first). The 18-month timeline ensures unexpected complications can still be managed without running over time. Occasionally, feature topics can be arranged to publish the best work presented at conferences and symposia. MIA’s Editor can advise further on how to align such events with MIA’s expectations noting that it would be expected that the proposal is approved before the event is held. All manuscripts will still undergo MIA’s anonymous peer review process. KEY EXPECTATIONS OF GUEST EDITORS Once approved by the MIA Executive Board, and in consultation with the Editor, each feature topic will usually involve the following steps which need to be overseen at all stages by the guest editors: 1. An international open call for contributions on the theme, with abstracts submitted directly to the guest editors for assessment and, if need be, further development. 2. Selection by the editors of the most suitable abstracts to proceed for full paper submission, with selection reflecting both the inherent quality of the proposal and its fit with the scholarly direction the editors wish to take. 3. Submission by invited participants of their full papers via MIA’s Manuscript Central (Scholar One) site. 4. Anonymous peer-reviewing of papers and further development of them based on the outcomes of the review, led by the guest editors (including where appropriate further review of revised papers): this work is done within Scholar One with oversight from the Journal Editor. 5. Final acceptance of papers for inclusion and submission of the proposed introduction (where appropriate) for peer review. Manuscripts should be between 5,000-8,000 words in length (including notes, references, accompanying reference list, and all other inclusions). The total word count for the feature topic collection should be no more than 50,000 words. Please note that feature topic editors need to ensure that enough papers are selected, submitted and completed that the feature topic contains an appropriate number of articles (at least five). Given that some papers may be rejected after reviewing, or diverge from the intended topic, or are not finished by their authors in time, we occasionally end up having to cut one or two articles even after they have been reviewed. Editors should be careful to make clear that articles are not guaranteed publication. Editors may wish to have a ‘reserve list’ of one or two papers. Where appropriate the journal may select any articles not included in the feature topic but of sufficient quality for later publication, but this is not guaranteed. The following expectations are worth bearing in mind: ● Editors will be assisted by MIA in publicising their calls for papers but are expected to take the lead in ensuring a wide distribution of the proposal once approved and active encouragement of scholars from diverse backgrounds to submit work. ● The responsibility for arranging all reviewing rests with the feature topic editors, assisted by the MIA Editor. Peer reviewers are to be independent of the editorial team and authors, with editors able to act as a final reviewer if required when reviews conflict ● While MIA reserves the right to make a final decision against publication of a proposed article, feature topic editors are largely responsible for the quality of the work published and should exercise leadership in this regard. ● We ask feature topic editors to be conscious of their active role in promoting diversity and inclusion throughout the process of completing the work, including authors and reviewers. FURTHER INFORMATION For any assistance contact the MIA Editor, Professor Crystal Abidin, crystal.abidin[at]curtin.edu.au ------------------------------------ Professor Crystal Abidin, PhD wishcrys.com | Publications <https://wishcrys.com/academic-publications/> ARC DECRA Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University Director, Influencer Ethnography Research Lab Deputy Director, Korea Research Centre Associate Investigator, Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child Founder, TikTok Cultures Research Network Programme Lead of Social Media Pop Cultures, Centre for Culture and Technology Editor, Media International Australia WA Young Tall Poppy / The Australian Top 40 Early Career Researchers / ABC Top 5 / Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia / Pacific Standard 30 Under 30

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14 Feb '23

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