Building Real Security with Virtual Worlds
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=2029

Regards,

- Fawad Nazir
http://member.acm.org/~fawad.nazir

(Apologies if you have received this more than once)

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5th International Workshop on
Content Delivery Networks (CDN 2010)
to take place during
10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010)
17-20 May 2010, Melbourne, Australia
URL: http://www.cloudbus.org/cdn/2010
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*** Papers Due: 5th December 2009 ***

We are in the midst of an Internet computing revolution. One vision of
21st century computing is that users will access
Internet services and ?resource-hungry" applications (e.g., gaming,
streaming media etc.) over lightweight portable devices
rather than through some descendant of the traditional desktop PCs. In
this context, distributing and processing
Internet-based data in an efficient and cost-effective manner is a
challenging issue in Internet technology.
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have emerged to address this challenge
by offering infrastructure and mechanisms
to deliver content and services in a scalable manner. Nevertheless,
modern applications do not just perform retrieval
or access operation on content, but also create, modify and manage
content, and actively place them at appropriate locations.
To deal with such new requirements, more general Content Networks (CNs)
are being introduced. Design and implementation of
robust and efficient CNs in large-scale computing environments demand
for the use of emerging paradigms and software
technologies, such as Peer-to-Peer, Grid and the latest IT trend?Cloud
computing. The integration of these emerging
technologies in content delivery opens new perspectives in Internet
technologies, raising new issues in the architecture,
design and implementation of existing CDNs.

Areas of interest
CDN 2010 is intended as a forum for lively discussion of aggressively
innovative and potentially disruptive ideas
in all aspects of CDNs. The main theme of this full day workshop is
"Content Delivery in the Cloud".
CDN 2010 will capture new research trends and results in terms of
design, architecture,
and applications for content and service delivery in the Internet and
Clouds;
optimization for Cloud-based content delivery; and performance
measurement methodologies.
Position papers will be strongly favored.
Specifically, the areas of interest are the following (but are not limited):

* Cloud/Grid/P2P/Agent-based Content delivery and management on the
Internet
* Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications
* Service-Level Agreements (SLAs), business models and service pricing
* Content distribution internetworking scenarios, architectures and
methodologies
* Cross-platform interoperability
* Performance of application and service delivery in the Cloud
* Scalable, self-managing and autonomic Content Delivery Clouds
* Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues

Program Chairs
* Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy, g.fortino@...
* George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, gpallis@...
* Mukaddim Pathan, University of Melbourne, Australia,
apathan@...
* Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Amazon.com, Inc., USA, swami@...

Local Chair
* Mukaddim Pathan, University of Melbourne, Australia

Publicity Chairs
* George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
* Mukaddim Pathan, University of Melbourne, Australia

International Program Committee
* Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia
* Arthur Berger, Akamai Technologies and MIT, USA
* James Broberg, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Nicolas Christin, Carnegie Melon University, USA
* Marios D. Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
* Zongming Fei, University of Kentucky, USA
* Demetrios Katsaros, University of Thessaly, Greece
* Ignacio M. Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
* Misha Rabinovich, Case Western Reserve University, USA
* Thomas Repantis, Akamai Technologies, USA
* Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
* Ramesh Sitaraman, University of Massachusetts, USA
* Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA
* Spyros Voulgaris, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
* Norihiko Yoshida, Saitama University, Japan
* Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Advisory Committee
* Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
* Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy
* Carlos E. Palau, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
* George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
* Mukaddim Pathan, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Guillaume Pierre, Vrije University, the Netherlands
* Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Amazon.com, Inc., USA
* Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Web Site and contact email for inquiries
* http://www.cloudbus.org/cdn/2010
* e-mail: cdn2010@...

Submission Guidelines
Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be
considered.
Please submit full papers: 6 pages maximum in IEEE CS proceedings style.
Papers can be electronically submitted using the link specified in the
workshop site.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program
Committee.

Publication
The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE/ACM and distributed
at the CCGrid 2010 conference.

Journal Special Issue
Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of an international
journal.

Media Sponsor
HPCwire is serving as the Media Sponsor for CDN 2010. For each
registered attendees of CDN 2010, a complimentary 1-year subscription to
HPCwire will be provided.

Important Dates
5 December 2009: Submission of Papers
11 January 2010: Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection
25 January 2010: Submission of Camera-Ready Copies
17 May 2010: Workshop Takes Place

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Mukaddim Pathan
Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne
Room # 5.30a, ICT Building, 111 Barry Street
Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria 3053, Australia.
Contact: +61-3-8344 1355 (Lab); +61-433349410 (Cell)
URL: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~apathan
E-mail: apathan@...

http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1002219


SC09 redux

Last week, about 11,000 people flooded Portland, Oregon to discuss the latest developments in supercomputing at SC09.

For the opening keynote, Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner introduced attendees to the 3D web. “It’s time to apply all of our High Performance Computing skills to the development, standardization and use of the 3D web,” said Rattner. “Nothing is more important to the long-term health of the HPC industry.”

Highlights of Rattner’s talk included an introduction to OpenSimulator and ScienceSim. OpenSimulator is an application server for 3D environments, and ScienceSim is a grid running OpenSimulator, dedicated to scientific applications. To demonstrate how these Second Life-like simulations could be scientifically useful, Rattner showed the audience FernLand. Conceived by Utah State University graduate student Aaron Duffy, FernLand is an attempt to simulate both the lifecycle and population genetics of ferns.

Other demos during Rattner’s keynote included a discussion of 3D fashion simulations, accurate simulations of the draping of cloth, and an audiovisual simulation of a babbling brook, generated using computational physics.

Although Rattner put on a good show, audience reaction was mixed. Twitter user simonmcs’ question, “Am I the only one who’s not convinced the ‘3D web’ is the next HPC killer app?” prompted several audience members to pipe up with their own doubts.

The Wednesday plenary was given by Lee Hood from the Institute for Systems Biology, who spoke on the emergence of predictive, personalized, preventive and participatory (P4) medicine, which is closely coupled with high-performance and high-throughput computing.

In spite of Hood’s status as a plenary speaker, his talk was somewhat anticlimactic in the face of the previous days’ Masterworks session, which featured Deepak Singh of Amazon and David Haussler from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Singh gave a summary of the computing needs of biology – and what they could mean for the future of medicine. Haussler addressed the potential of high-performance computing to reconstruct our evolutionary history.

The final keynote was given by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, on the topic of computing, energy and climate change. Audience response was largely positive. Cameron Kiddle, from the University of Calgary, the Grid Research Center, and WestGrid, wrote on Twitter, “Enjoyed the keynote by Al Gore at #SC09. He is a very good speaker – humorous at times and serious at times.”

There were, inevitably, a few naysayers. Twitter user Supercomputin09 wrote, “Whew. So, Al gives us a one and a half hour advertisement for his business mixed with weak jokes and vague aphorisms.”

As always, the exhibition floor was a colorful display of the latest in supercomputing and related fields -- more than we can tell in this space. If you want more on SuperComputing, then check out our SC09 event page, or visit the SC10 page to get a head start on planning for next year’s conference.

—Miriam Boon, iSGTW

** Please distribute the CFP widely **
** Apologies for possible cross-postings **

Call for papers
5th International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic
Engineering (SADFE)
Oakland, CA, USA
20 May 2010

** Paper submission Due: January 16, 2010 **

http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/sadfe/sadfe10/
or contact Dr. Endicott-Popovsky at endicott@... for
additional information.

The SADFE (Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering)
International Workshop promotes systematic approaches to computer
investigations, by furthering the advancement of digital forensic
engineering as a disciplined science and practice.

Workshop and Paper Topics

To advance the field, SADFE-2010 solicits broad-based, innovative
approaches to digital forensic engineering in the following four areas:

Digital Data and Evidence Management: advanced digital evidence
discovery, collection, and storage
? Identification, authentication and collection of digital
evidence
? Post-collection handling of evidence and the preservation of
data integrity and admissibility
? Evidence preservation, archiving and storage
? Forensic ready and compliance ready architectures and processes,
including network processes
? Managing geographically, politically and/or jurisdictionally
dispersed data artifacts
? Data and web mining systems for identification and
authentication of relevant data
? Botnet forensics
Scientific Principle-based Digital Forensic Processes: systematic
engineering processes supporting digital evidence management which are
sound on scientific, technical and legal grounds
? Legal and technical aspects of admissibility and evidence tests

? Examination environments for digital data
? Courtroom expert witness and case presentation
? Case studies illustrating privacy, legal and legislative issues

? Forensic tool validation: legal implications and issues
? Legal and privacy implications for digital and computational
forensic analysis
? Handling increasing volumes of digital discovery

Digital Evidence Analytics: advanced digital evidence analysis,
correlation, and presentation
? Advanced search, analysis, and presentation of digital evidence

? Cyber crime scenario analysis and reconstruction technologies
? Legal case construction & digital evidence support
? Cyber-crime strategy analysis & modeling
? Combining digital and non-digital evidence
? Supporting qualitative or statistical evidence
? Computational systems and computational forensic analysis

Forensic-support technologies: forensic-enabled and proactive
monitoring/response
? Forensics of embedded or non-traditional devices (e.g. digicams,
cell phones, SCADA)
? Innovative forensic engineering tools and applications
? Proactive forensic-enabled support for incident response
? Forensic tool validation: methodologies and principles
? Legal and technical collaboration
? Digital forensics surveillance technology and procedures
? "Honeypot" and other target systems for data collection and
monitoring
? Quantitative attack impact assessment

Instructions for Paper and Panel Submissions

The SADFE-2010 Program Committee invites three types of submissions:
Full papers
Full papers present mature research results. Papers accepted for
presentation at the Workshop will be included in the SADFE-2010
proceedings, which we anticipate will be published by IEEE Press.
"Work-in-Progress" short papers
These shorter papers should describe interesting developing work or
concepts in the field of digital forensic engineering. These papers
should emphasize the nature of the problem they present, potential
solution and implications/impacts to the field, in such a way that it
will engender community discussion

Posters
Describing work in progress and/or specific tools available without
charge to the research community (ie, no vendor posters should be
submitted).

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Mukaddim Pathan
Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne
Room # 5.30a, ICT Building, 111 Barry Street
Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria 3053, Australia.
Contact: +61-3-8344 1355 (Lab); +61-433349410 (Cell)
URL: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~apathan
E-mail: apathan@...

Dear All,

I am attending Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, OR. How many of you are here?

I would like to propose a PakGrid members get together in Portland.
Please respond.

Best Regards,

- Fawad Nazir
http://member.acm.org/~fawad.nazir

A number of PhD scholarships are available for studies at the Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology, DTU Nanotech, beginning in spring 2010. The subject of the PhD project must be within one of the main research areas of the institute:

Cleanroom based micro- and nanofabrication

Polymer micro- and nanoengineering

Synthesis and self assembly of nanostructures

Lab-on-a-chip technology

Miniaturised sensor and energy technology

Nanobiotechnology

Theory of micro- and nanosystems

Qualifications

Candidates should have (or soon obtain) a master's degree in engineering or a similar degree with an equivalent academic level. Candidates may apply prior to ob­tai­ning their master's degree, but cannot begin the PhD education before having received the grade.

Approval and Enrolment

The scholarships for the PhD degree are subject to academic approval and the candi­dates will be enrolled in one of the PhD programmes at DTU. For information about the general requirements for enrolment and the general planning of the scholarship studies, please see the DTU PhD Guide.

Salary and appoint­­ment terms

The salary and appoint­­ment terms are consistent with the current rules for PhD students at DTU. The position is available for a period of 3 years.

DTU needs diver­sity and supports equal opportunities irrespective of gender, age, and ethnic back­ground.

Application

We must have your online application by 18 November 2009 at the latest. Please open the link "apply for this job online", fill in the application form and attach all of the following documents:

Curriculum vitae of the applicant including a list of publications (guidelines)

A letter motivating the application (guidelines)

Grade transcripts and BSc/MSc diploma

Conversion of grade averages to Danish grades (guidelines and excel spreadsheet for the conversion)

Description of the proposed research project (guidelines) (to be attached under “Attach other relevant file”)

Endorsement by the Nanotech supervisor (guidelines) (to be attached under “Attach other relevant file”)

Further information

Further information is available at the URL www.nanotech.dtu.dk/English/Education/PhD.aspx or by contacting Education Coordinator Pernille Broen Larsen, building 345 East, room 054, phone +45 45255712, e-mail Pernille.Broen.Larsen@....

Dear All


KIndly refer my previous correspondence on E-Village Project. After very
successful E-Village Conferences in NWFP and PUNJAB in which  relevent
stakeholders from public/private organizations and specially individuals
working in Agri and livestocks business also participated. Now first SINDH
conference of E-Village has been Scheduled on 22nd November at Sheraton
Karachi.In December 2009 same conference would be held at Quetta to invite
stakeholders from Baluchistan. Followed by these four regional
conferences, an International conference on ICT for Development would be
held in Islamabad during April 2010.

For Karachi Conference on 22nd November in sheraton Karachi, participation
is strictly by invitation to persons belonging to Sinhd and Invitations
would be issued after receipt of information from interested person(s).


Conference would start at 10 AM and likely to continue upto 5 PM.
Agenda points are being prepared, any suggestion would be welcomed.
General points would be as under:-

    a) Introduction of Participants.

    b) Presentation(s) on ICT for development.

    c) Film show on some efforts in pakistan and abroad regarding
       development in rural areas through technology.

    d) Introducing "E-Village" Project.

    e) Personal experiences/ contributions of all participants.

    f) Suggestions/recommendations for economic empowerment of our rural
       population and take the power of knowledge & services at their door
       step through use of technology.

    g) Selection of Ten Members Taskforce to implement E-Village Project in
       Sindh.


    g) Declaration of Way Forward.......


In order to get registered for the Conference you are requested to provide
the following information by mail ( Ammar@... )
latest by 15th November 2009.


   1) Name

   2) Postal address

   3) cell number

   4) Email address

   5) Area of speciality/Interest.


Concept paper of the project is attached. For any
information/assistance/support kindly contact me personally.



Regards,

Ammar Jaffri
cell 0300-8551479
Ammar@...

Macquarie University PhD Research Excellence Scholarships (MQRES) - Wireless Research

Macquarie University offers competitive PhD scholarships to eligible domestic and international applicants. Eligible candidates will receive a full fee scholarship and a living allowance of around AU$20,000 per year.