*Please note that the submission format for the full paper is:* *ACM SIG (two column, 9pt)* *URL: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html* Details of the submission are available at IPSN07 Website: http://www.cse.wustl.edu/ipsn07.html -Ying ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The Sixth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN’07) April 25 - 27, 2007 – Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA The sixth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2007) will continue the success of previous five symposia to bring together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent work in sensor network research and applications. IPSN draws upon many disciplines including signal and image processing, information and coding theory, networking and protocols, distributed algorithms, wireless communications, machine learning, embedded systems design, and databases and information management. To further foster the collaboration between theory and practice, this conference will feature two interleaving tracks: IPSN, focusing more on information processing algorithms,and SPOTS, focusing on platform tools and design methods for network embedded sensors. In addition, IPSN'07 will feature a competition; details for rules and participation will be announced in the IPSN'07 competition website http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~whitehouse/ipsn07competition/. Topics covered in IPSN sessions include, but are not limited to, the following: - Distributed & collaborative signal processing - Network protocols for sensor networks - Coding, compression & information theory - Distributed query processing - Detection, classification, estimation, tracking - Sensor tasking and control - Networked sensing and control - In-network processing and aggregation - Distributed control & actuation - Distributed inference & fusion - Fault tolerance - Network coverage, connectivity & longevity - Data storage in sensor networks - Location and time services - Energy and resource management - Programming models and languages - Real-time scheduling - Security - Application & demonstration of sensor networks Topics covered in SPOTS sessions include, but are not limited to, the following: - Embedded networked sensor system platforms, platform modeling and analysis tools - Architectural design, modeling and optimization tools for sensor nodes and networks - Sensor node components and interfaces, middleware and system services - Applications of embedded networked sensing with actual field deployments that highlight new themes in the design and operation of these complete systems. Organization Committee General Chair: Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), IPSN co-Chairs: Leo Guibas (Stanford University) and Matt Welsh (Harvard University), SPOTS co-Chairs: Bill Kaiser (University of California at Los Angles) and Ralph Kling (Crossbow), Competition Chair: Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia), Demos Chair: Phil Levis (Stanford University), Finance Chair: John Heidemann (University of Southern California), Industry Sponsorship Chair: Joe Hellerstein (University of California at Berkeley), Local Arrangements: Seth Teller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Poster Chair: Haiyun Luo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Publications Chair: Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California), Publicity Chair: Ying Zhang (Palo Alto Research Center), Registration Chair: Jie Liu (Microsoft Research), Web Chair: Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis) Location: Cambridge, MA (MIT Campus) Important Dates: Abstracts Due: Mon, Nov 6th, 2006 Papers Due: Mon, Nov 13th, 2006 Acceptance Decision: Mon, Jan 29th, 2007 Camera Ready: Fri, Feb 23rd, 2007 Conference: Wed-Fri, Apr. 25-27th, 2007 Website: http://www.cse.wustl.edu/ipsn07.html Submission Guidelines: All papers will be submitted electronically, in Portable Document Format (PDF). Instructions for submission will be available at IPSN'07 website: http://www.cse.wustl.edu/ipsn07.html. Submission must meet the following criteria: - A paper must be original material that has not been previously published nor is currently under review by another conference or journal. - Submitted papers should be no longer than 10 pages in ACM two- column format for conferences. Each paper will be reviewed by the Technical Programming Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. Following the IPSN tradition, an accepted paper will be presented either in the single-track session, or in the poster session, depending on its content not its quality.