========================================= IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems June 30 - July 1, 2005 Marina del Rey, California, USA ========================================= WWW.DCOSS.ORG The 2005 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '05) will take place in Marina del Rey during June 30 - July 1, 2005. DCOSS is motivated by the successful ALGOSENSORS '04 (Algorithmic aspects of wireless sensor networks) workshop, which was co-located with ICALP and LICS in Finland on 16 July, 2004. While the scope of ALGOSENSORS was focused on algorithms for wireless sensor networks, DCOSS '05 is intended to cover several aspects of distributed computing in sensor systems such as high level abstractions, computational models, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, analysis and applications. The conference will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their contributions related to the above high-level aspects of distributed sensor systems. In addition to contributed papers, the meeting will also include keynote addresses by leading researchers, a panel discussion, and a poster/presentation session. Located in Marina del Rey, a beach side community that is the home of the world's largest man-made harbor, the meeting venue can be easily reached from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Most of the world famous attractions of the greater Los Angeles area - including the Santa Monica mountains, the Getty Center, Hollywood, Venice Beach, Disneyland, and Universal Studios can be easily reached from the Marina. SPONSORED BY IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) Held in co-operation with ACM SIGARCH ACM SIGBED European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) IFIP WG 10.3 MEETING INFORMATION The advance program will be available in April 2005. Check http://www.dcoss.org/ for updated information. IMPORTANT DATES January 10, 2005 Conference Submission Due March 15, 2005 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection April 15, 2005 Camera-Ready Paper Due ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ============================== CALL FOR PAPERS Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities. Such systems allow intelligent dense monitoring of physical environments, which makes them immensely useful for data collection and analysis. While much ongoing research has addressed networking, communication and low-level self-configuration issues in such systems, there are also significant challenges pertaining to systematic design, algorithm development and analysis, and abstract modeling in order to achieve efficient and robust realizations of large-scale distributed sensor systems. The large number of sensor devices involved, severe power, computational and memory limitations, resource heterogeneity, dense deployment and frequent failures pose novel challenges to design, algorithms, analysis and implementation. The focus of the conference is on distributed computing issues in large-scale networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications, and systematic design techniques and tools), but networking-related contributions that support high level abstractions are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Computation and programming models - Energy models, minimization, awareness - Distributed algorithms for collaborative information processing - Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability, fault-tolerance - Abstractions for modular design - Languages, operating systems - Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration - Dynamic resource management - Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) - Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives - Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation - Design automation and application synthesis techniques - Case studies: lessons from real world deployments Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 14 single-spaced pages using 12-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures and tables. References may be included in addition to the 14 pages. Authors need to make sure that the electronically submitted files are formatted for 8.5x11 inch paper. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference or a journal. Submission procedures are available via Web access at http://www.dcoss.org/ All manuscripts will be reviewed. Manuscripts must be received by January 10, 2005, by 5 p.m. U.S. Pacific Coast Time. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by March 15, 2005. Camera-ready papers will be due April 15, 2005. DCOSS '05 Proceedings will be distributed at the Conference. PROGRAM CHAIR Viktor K. Prasanna University of Southern California USA PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS Algorithms: Paul Spirakis, CTI and University of Patras, Greece Applications: Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA Systems: Matt Welsh, Harvard University, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Virginia, USA Micah Adler, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Prathima Agrawal, Auburn University, USA James Aspnes, Yale University, USA N. Balakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, India Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Richard Brooks, Clemson University, USA John Byers, Boston University, USA Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University, USA David Culler, University of California, Berkeley, USA Kevin A. Delin, NASA/JPL, USA Josep Diaz, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Jeremy Elson, Microsoft Research, USA Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Deepak Ganesan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA Ashish Goel, Stanford University, USA Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA Jennifer Hou, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA R. Kannan, Louisiana State University, USA Elias Koutsoupias, University of Athens, Greece Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University, USA Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA Badri Nath, Rutgers University, USA Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA David Peleg, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel S. Phoha, Pennsylvania State University, USA Cristina Pinotti, University of Trento, Italy Kris Pister, University of California, Berkeley, and Dust, Inc., USA S. V. N. Rao, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA Satish Rao, University of California, Berkeley, USA Jim Reich, Palo Alto Research Center, USA Shivakumar Sastry, University of Akron, USA Christian Scheideler, Johns Hopkins University, USA John A. Stankovic, University of Virginia, USA Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham, National Science Foundation, USA Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Jay Warrior, Agilent Labs, USA Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research, USA POSTER/PRESENTATION SESSION The conference will also include a special plenary session with select presentations and posters from industry and academia. The focus of this session will be on practical applications of sensor systems and experience with real deployments. This will include a short overview talk, followed by audience interactions with the speakers in a "walk-up-and-talk" setting. Participation in this session is primarily by invitation, but interested parties are encouraged to contact the poster/presentation chair. ================================= DCOSS '05 ORGANIZATION ================================= GENERAL CHAIR Jose Rolim University of Geneva Switzerland VICE GENERAL CHAIR Sotiris Nikoletseas University of Patras and CTI Greece PROGRAM CHAIR Viktor K. Prasanna University of Southern California USA POSTER/PRESENTATION CHAIR Bhaskar Krishnamachari University of Southern California USA PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Pierre Leone EIG Switzerland STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS CHAIR Loren Schwiebert Wayne State University USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Wendi Heinzelman University of Rochester USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Erdal Cayirci Yeditepe University and Istanbul Technical University Turkey Sanjay Jha University of New South Wales Australia FINANCE CHAIR Germaine Gusthiot University of Geneva Switzerland STEERING COMMITTEE Josep Diaz, UPC Barcelona, Spain Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley, USA Kris Pister, University of California, Berkeley, and Dust, Inc., USA Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland (CHAIR) ---------------------------------------------------------- Wendi B. Heinzelman Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Rochester P.O. Box 270126, Hopeman Building, Room 307 Rochester, NY 14627-0126 Phone: 585-275-4053 Fax: 585-273-4919 http://www.ece.rochester.edu/~wheinzel ----------------------------------------------------------