<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Colleagues, <br>I would like to bring your attention at the ExtremeCom 2014 submission deadline of<br>May 4th, 2014<br><br>******************************************************************<br><br>CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS<br><br>Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing - The Galápagos Expedition<br><br>ExtremeCom 2014<br><br>11-16 August, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador<br><br><<a href="http://www.extremecom.org/">http://www.extremecom.org/</a>> <a href="http://www.extremecom.org/">http://www.extremecom.org/</a><br><br>******************************************************************<br><br>Important dates<br><br>--------------- ----<br><br>Submission deadline: May 4, 2014<br><br>Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2014<br><br>Early registration deadline: June 7, 2014<br><br>Registration deadline: June 15, 2014<br><br>Conference dates: August 11-16, 2014 (tentative dates)<br><br>******************************************<br><br>Scope<br><br>-------<br><br>The Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing (ExtremeCom) brings<br>together researchers and practitioners in areas related to communications in<br>rural, remote or other extreme environments, and computing in extreme<br>operating conditions such as extreme temperatures and energy constraints,<br>extreme quantities ("big data"), extremely large-scale systems, and extreme<br>levels of threat and uncertainty, in order to gain experience and insight<br>into the challenges that such environments pose for the network and the<br>users.<br><br><br><br>We welcome a broad range of topics concerning both technical and economical<br>aspects, for example wireless communication, mobile computing, low power<br>devices and protocols, delay tolerant networks and other networking<br>paradigms, distributed computing paradigms, big data, distributed systems,<br>cloud computing, business and services models, user experiences and web<br>applications. Researches addressing computing challenges in general mobile<br>environments (even not completely extreme) are also welcomed by the<br>conference.<br><br><br><br>Following on from the success of ExtremeCom 2009 - The Midnight Sun<br>Expedition in Laponia, Sweden, ExtremeCom 2010 - The Himalayan Expedition in<br>Dharamsala, India, ExtremeCom 2011 - The Amazon Expedition in Manaus,<br>Brazil, ExtremeCom 2012 - The Swiss Alps Winter Expedition in Zurich,<br>Switzerland, and ExtremeCom 2013 - The Volcanic Expedition in the<br>Eyjafjallajökull Volcano region in Iceland, we present the ExtremeCom 2014<br>edition: The Galápagos Expedition. The conference will start with 3 days of<br>excursions in the amazing nature of the Galápagos Islands. Along the way,<br>participants will get to see and experience the islands and their plant and<br>animal life, both above and beneath the surface of the ocean. The immersion<br>will not only give a better idea of both the technical and user requirements<br>of such a harsh environment, but it will also give many opportunities for<br>informal research discussions between the participants. Participants that<br>have their own software for scenarios like this will also, to as great an<br>extent as possible, be encouraged to test and demonstrate it within this<br>environment. After the excursions, there will be two days of paper<br>presentations and demos. Focus will still be on informal research<br>discussions, with the hope that the field experience will give participants<br>the ability to discuss the topics in a new light.<br><br>*****************<br><br>Submission Guidelines<br><br>---------------------------<br><br>Participants should submit 6 page papers about ideas and visions about the<br>topics of the conference or demo proposals to be shown during the<br>conference. Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to<br>generate much discussion during the conference are especially solicited. The<br>aim of the conference is to maintain an informal environment, where new<br>research ideas can be discussed and developed. We also hope to have a demo<br>session where participants can show their implementations and systems. If<br>you want to show a demo, please submit a 2 page demo proposal using the same<br>submission system as for conference papers. Accepted papers will be<br>published in the ACM Digital Library. A selected set of top submissions will<br>be fast-tracked to a special issue in a reputed SCI/E journal.<br><br><br><br>We only accept PDF files, no greater than 6 pages in length (2 pages for the<br>demos), including text, figures and references. Manuscripts should use the<br>ACM templates (for LaTeX, please use Option 2 files), with 9pt fonts.<br><br><br><br>Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to:<br><br><br><br>Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of moobile communication<br>systems<br><br>Real deployments of networks in extreme environments<br><br>Business and service models for networks in rural, remote, and other<br>challenging environments<br><br>Delay tolerant networking<br><br>User experience research<br><br>Big data research such as mining and modeling of mobility and social network<br><br>Cloud computing for extreme scalability<br><br>Mesh networks and sensor networks<br><br>Low-power and intermittent-power protocols<br><br>Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications<br><br>Distributed computing for mobile environments<br><br>Networked applications and services<br><br>Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking<br><br>Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of extreme communications<br><br>Underwater networking<br><br>Robotic communications and mobile augmented reality<br><br><br><br>Due to logistics, the number of participants will be limited. Priority will<br>be given to authors of papers and those who register first.<br><br>****************************************************************************<br>*<br><br>Organizers<br><br>---------------<br><br>General co-chairs:<br><br>Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany<br><br>Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden<br><br>Local conference operations chair:<br><br>Carlos Herrera, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador<br><br>TPC vice-chairs:<br><br>Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br><br>Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<br><br>Sponsorship co-chairs:<br><br>Filipe Mota Pinto, Instituto Politécnica Leiria, Portugal<br><br>Carlos Egas, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador<br><br>Publicity chair:<br><br>Fernando Ramos, University of Lisbon, Portugal<br><br>Web chair:<br><br>Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden<br><br><br><br>Technical Program Committee:<br><br>Yahel Ben-David, University of California - Berkeley, USA<br><br>Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br><br>Elwyn Davies, Folly Consulting, UK<br><br>Michael Doering, Bosch Research, Germany<br><br>Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland<br><br>Marco Fiore, INSA Lyon/INRIA, France<br><br>Roy Friedman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel<br><br>Paulo Gil, University of New Lisbon, Portugal<br><br>Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA<br><br>Bob Iannucci, Carnegie Mellon University SV, USA<br><br>Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA<br><br>Trevor Pering, Google, USA<br><br>James Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong<br><br>Franck Legendre, Uepaa AG, Switzerland<br><br>Marimuthu Palaniswami, Univ. Melbourne, Australia<br><br>André Rodrigues, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br><br>Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal<br><br>Anthony Rowe, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<br><br>Milan Simek, University of Brno, Czech Republic Jörg Ott, Aalto University,<br>Finland<br><br>Kevin I-Kai Wang, Univ. Auckland, New Zealand<br><br>Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University, Germany<br><br>Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany<br><br>Lin Zhang, University of Tsinghua, China<br><br><br><br>Steering Committee:<br><br>Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK<br><br>Avri Doria, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden<br><br>Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK<br><br>Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany<br><br>Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden<br><br>****************************************************************************</body></html>