EU research funding comes at cost
An interesting article with some thoughts on the funding scheme of EU research framework programs, the people that set the rules and the possible outcomes of the money hunting marathons between research centers, labs, companies and universities. read on
How To: Greek subs in mplayer
In order to be able to use the following solution you should install two packages msttcorefonts and mplayer-fonts. The procedure is applied in Debian and Ubuntu, but with some mods it is applicable to all linux distros.
# aptitude install mplayer-fonts msttcorefonts
The all you have to do is to test using the command line that everything is alright
$ mplayer -subcp ISO-8859-7 movie.avi
Properly, you should be able to see the greek subs. In order to make the changes permanent we now have to edit the config file located usually at $HOME/.mplayer/config.
Just open the file with your favorite editor and append the following
# Write your default config options here!
# Set font encoding.
# Set font.
font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf
# Set font encoding.
subcp=ISO-8859-7
# Set subtitle file encoding.
unicode=yes
utf8=yes
NCSR Demokritos Summer School
NCSR "Demokritos" Summer School is starting tomorrow in NCSR "D" premises.
For more information visit the following link
Download Summer School program here
Anycast DNS
What is Anycast ?
The basic idea is extremely simple, multiple instances of a service share the same IP address. The routing infrastructure directs any packet to the topologically nearest instance of the service. It has been the basis for large-scale content distribution networks since 1995. In the bottom line is just a configuration methodology that is gradually taking over the core of the DNS infrastructure, as much as the edges of the WWW.
The following article is a quick guide on the building of a anycast cluster based on Linux and Quagga routing suite.
IEEE Infocom 2011 CFP
The 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2011)
|
||
| Topics of Interest: Original papers are invited on recent advances in computer communications and networking. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: | ||
|
Paper Submission
| Submitted papers must be unpublished and not currently under review for any other publication.Authors of accepted papers will need to sign an IEEE copyright release form and present their paper at the conference. The Proceedings of the conference will be published by the IEEE Communication Society and distributed at the conference; copies of the Proceedings will also be available for sale after the conference.
All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS via the INFOCOM 2011 submission page. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers should be no longer than 9 pages, size 10 font or greater, and compliant with the margin requirement. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. The deadline for registering the title and the abstract of the paper with our electronic submission system is July 23, 2010, and the deadline for submitting the actual paper is July 30, 2010. All deadlines are 11:59PM PDT and are firm (i.e., no deadline extension will be made). All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members referee all papers and hold a TPC meeting to determine the set of accepted papers. A subset of the accepted papers will be invited to IEEE INFOCOM Mini-conferences and considered for inclusion in the IEEE INFOCOM Proceedings, in the event that the paper cannot be included in the main conference program. |
Important Dates
| Abstract due | Friday, July 23, 2010, 11:59 PM PDT (required) |
| Full paper due | Friday, July 30, 2010, 11:59 PM PDT (firm deadline) |
| Notification of acceptance | Sunday, November 21, 2010 |
| Final version due | TBA |
Estimated impact factor of publication venues in Computer Science
This is a TOP 20 list of the estimated impact factor of conferences and venues in Computer Science. The list has been elaborated by Citeseer and refers to 2003.
1. OSDI: 3.31 (top 0.08%)
2. USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems: 3.23 (top 0.16%)
3. PLDI: 2.89 (top 0.24%)
4. SIGCOMM: 2.79 (top 0.32%)
5. MOBICOM: 2.76 (top 0.40%)
6. ASPLOS: 2.70 (top 0.49%)
7. USENIX Annual Technical Conference: 2.64 (top 0.57%)
8. TOCS: 2.56 (top 0.65%)
9. SIGGRAPH: 2.53 (top 0.73%)
10. JAIR: 2.45 (top 0.81%)
11. SOSP: 2.41 (top 0.90%)
12. MICRO: 2.31 (top 0.98%)
13. POPL: 2.26 (top 1.06%)
14. PPOPP: 2.22 (top 1.14%)
15. Machine Learning: 2.20 (top 1.22%)
16. 25 Years ISCA: Retrospectives and Reprints: 2.19 (top 1.31%)
17. WWW8 / Computer Networks: 2.17 (top 1.39%)
18. Computational Linguistics: 2.16 (top 1.47%)
19. JSSPP: 2.15 (top 1.55%)
20. VVS: 2.14 (top 1.63%)
If you want to see more visit the original page here
Edit your photos online
Sometimes you may fall in a situation where a simple photo editing is needed and you are not in a position to either use your PC or you cannot install any software on the one you are working with.
Well problem solved! Do take a look at Mugtug project that actually offers a suite of photo editing software available on-line over the web.
VP8 the new opensource video standard for web
is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone.
WebM is an open, royalty-free, media file format designed for the web.
WebM defines the file container structure, video and audio formats. WebM files consist of video streams compressed with the VP8 video codec and audio streams compressed with the Vorbis audio codec. The WebM file structure is based on the Matroska container.
This is the Open Source Project supported by Google and many more companies dealing with the development of the VP8 video codec for use in Web. Google is planning on proposing VP8 for HTML5 Video [via].
IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS
===============================================
IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS
===============================================
IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 is the flagship conference of IEEE Communications Society, which is to be held in Miami during Dec 6-10, 2010. GLOBECOM 2010 will hold 23 quality workshops. The workshops aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists, engineers, and users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on important and emergent topics on computer communications and networks.
The proceedings of the workshops program will be published by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Digital Library.
==========================================
Workshops on Dec. 6, 2010 (Monday)
==========================================
M1. HeterWMN: Workshop on Heterogeneous, Multi-Hop, Wireless and Mobile Networks
Workshop web link: http://www.rn.inf.tu-dresden.de/hwn/2010/hwm/index.html
M2. FEMnet: Femtocell Networks
Workshop web link: http://www.docomolabs-usa.com/femnet.html
M3. Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access
Workshop Web link: www.bwaws.org
M4. Workshop on Broadband Single Carrier and Frequency Domain Communications
Workshop web link: http://sites.google.com/site/gc2010bscfdc/
M5. Workshop on Enabling the Future Service-Oriented Internet: Towards Socially-Aware Networks
Workshop web link: http://www.nprg.ncsu.edu/events/EFSOI/workshop10/
M6. PerGroup: Workshop on pervasive group communications
Workshop web link: http://pergroup.realmv6.org/
M7. SaCoNAS: Towards SmArt COmmunications and Network technologies applied on Autonomous Systems
Workshop web link: http://sites.google.com/site/saconasglobecom2010/
M8. Workshop on Wireless Networking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Workshop web link: www.wnuav.org
M9. U-NET: Workshop on User-provided Networking
Workshop web link: http://ian.inescporto.pt/unet2010/
M10. Workshop on Smart Homes for Tele-Health
Workshop web link: http://myweb.dal.ca/naslam/smartel-10/
===========================================
Workshops on Dec. 10, 2010 (Friday)
===========================================
F1. Workshop on Seamless Wireless Mobility
Workshop web link: http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~jxie1/SWM/
F2. ASIT: Workshop on Advanced Sensor Integration Technology
Workshop web link: http://mmlab.snu.ac.kr/~mchen/asit2010/index.html
F3. Workshop on the Network of the Future
Workshop web link: http://exmgaity.sd.tmu.ac.jp/~aida/FutureNet3/
F4. CCNET: Workshop on Complex and Communication Networks
Workshop web link: http://nislab.cs.umb.edu/ccnet2010
F5. MENS: Workshop on Management of Emerging Networks and Services
Workshop web link: http://www.efipsans.org/mens2010
F6. Workshop on Multimedia Communications and Services
Workshop web link: http://sites.google.com/site/globecommcs2010/
F7. OWC: Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications
Workshop web link: http://www.ee.ucr.edu/~dxu/OWC2010.html
F8. MCECN: Workshop on Mobile Computing and Emerging Communication Networks
Workshop web link: http://mcecn.ntua.gr/
F9. Workshop on green communications
Workshop web link: http://www.green-communications.net/globecom10/home.html
F10. Future Seamless Communication (FUSECO): Packet Core Evolution and Seamless Multimedia Application Platforms
Workshop web link: www.fuseco-workshop.org
F11. WPS: Workshop on Web and Pervasive Security
Workshop web link: http://grid.chu.edu.tw/wps2010
F12. UbiCoNet: ubiquitous computing and networks
Workshop web link: http://turing.uao.edu.co/UbiCoNet/
F13. Workshop in Application of Communication Theory to Emerging Memory Technologies
Workshop web link: http://www.stanford.edu/~rajivag/globecom_wkshop.html
===========================================
Submission Guidelines and Publication:
===========================================
GLOBECOM workshops accept only original, previously unpublished papers. Concurrent submission to GLOBECOM and other conferences or journals is not allowed. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers in IEEE conference style up to 5 pages through EDAS submission system (http://www.edas.info), but one additional page is allowed with additional publication fee.
An accepted paper must be registered before the registration deadline. An accepted paper should be presented at the workshop. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. GLOBECOM has the right to remove an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library.
=====================
Important Dates
====================
• Submission due: July 2, 2010 (Friday)
• Decision notification due: August 13, 2010 (Friday)
• Camera-ready and registration due: Aug 31, 2010 (Tuesday)
CFP: Intl. Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS) SPECIAL ISSUE ON Advances in Multimedia Communications
Call for Papers
Intl. Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS)
SPECIAL ISSUE ON
Advances in Multimedia Communications
About Me
George Xilouris is a researcher in the field of Network Management, including IP over Digital Television (DVB), next generation Digital Broadband Satellite Systems and NGN. He has also participated in various research and industry projects offering his technical and management expertise. 
Navigate to posts
Blogroll
MacResearch
MediaNet LaboratoryFellow Researchers
Categories
Archives
- July 2010 (4)
- June 2010 (3)
- May 2010 (2)
- April 2010 (1)
- March 2010 (2)
- February 2010 (6)
- January 2010 (21)
- May 2009 (1)
Site Stats
License
