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Note: The IPSN submission deadline is one month away!

* IPSN Paper abstracts are due  November  4, 2005 (midnight PST)
* IPSN Full manuscript are due  November 11, 2005 (midnight PST)
* SPOTS Paper abstracts are due November 11, 2005 (midnight PST)
* SPOTS Full manuscript are due November 15, 2005 (midnight PST)

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             Call for Papers

   The Fifth International Conference on
Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'06)

   April 19-21, 2006 - Nashville, TN, USA
     http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~ipsn06/

The Fifth International Conference on Information
Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2006) will continue the
success of the previous four 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 data bases and information
management.

Due to their success, the 2006 IPSN will continue to feature:

* Special track on Platform Tools and Design Methods for
Network Embedded Sensors (SPOTS) will present demonstrable
advances in components, tools, platforms as well as
applications for networked sensor systems.

* Works-in-Progress (WIP) Session. The aim of the shorter,
less formal WIP Abstract submission is to facilitate
collaborations and to encourage new people to get into the
field.

Topics covered in technical 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 service
* Energy and resource management
* Programming models and languages
* Real-time scheduling
* Security
* Applications & demonstrations of sensor networks

IMPORTANT DATES:

[IPSN Papers]
Abstract Registration:   November  4, 2005
Full Manuscript Due:     November 11, 2005
Acceptance Notification: January  27, 2006
Camera-ready copy:       February 17, 2006

[SPOTS Special Track Papers]
Abstract Registration:   November 11, 2005
Full Manuscript Due:     November 15, 2005
Acceptance Notification: January  27, 2006
Camera-ready copy:       February 17, 2006

[Research Demos]
Abstract due date:       February  3, 2006
Notification:            March     3, 2006
Two-Page Web Abstracts:  March    27, 2006

[Work-in-Progress (WIP)]
Abstract due date:       February 24, 2006
Notification:            March    10, 2006
Two-Page Web Abstracts:  March    27, 2006

SUBMISSION GUIDELINE:

All papers will be submitted electronically,
in Portable Document Format (PDF) format.
Instructions for submission are available at
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/IPSN06/ .

Submissions 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 8 pages in IEEE two-column format
for conferences.

Each paper will be reviewed by the Program
Committee. Accepted papers will
appear in the conference proceedings.

ORGANIZATION:

[IPSN'06 Steering Committee]
Feng Zhao, (Chair) Microsoft Research
John Cozzens, National Science Foundation
Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles
Leo Guibas, Stanford University
P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Sri Kumar, DARPA
Jose' Moura, (IEEE SPS Representative) CMU
Janos Sztipanovits, (ACM SIGBED Rep.) Vanderbilt University

[IPSN'06 Organization Committee]
General Chair: John Stankovic, University of Virginia
Program Co-chairs: Phillip Gibbons Intel Research and Stephen Wicker
Cornell Univ.
SPOTS Program Chair: Joe Paradiso, MIT
Demos Chair: Andreas Savvides, Yale University
Poster Session: Chair Anna Scaglione, Cornell University
Finance Chair: Tarek F. Abdelzaher, University of Virginia
Local Arrangement Chair: Xenofon Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt Univ.
Local Arrangement Chair: Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt Univ.
Industrial Relations Chair: D. Ganesan, Univ. of Massachusetts
Publicity Chair: Tian He, University of Minnesota
Publications Chair: R. Han, University of Colorado

[IPSN'06 Technical Program Committee]
Jonathan Agre, Fujitsu Labs of America
Richard Baraniuk, Rice University
Baltasar Beferull-Lozano,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Mark Coates, McGill University
Hugh Durrant-Whyte, University of Sydney
Deepak Ganesan, UCLA
Michael Gastpar, University of California, Berkeley
Phillip Gibbons, Intel Research
Ramesh Govindan, USC
Carlos Guestrin, Carnegie Mellon University
Richard Han, University of Colorado
Prakash Ishwar, Boston University
Nihar Jindal, University of Minnesota
Brad Karp, University College London
Phil Levis, Stanford University
Jie Liu, Microsoft Research
Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan
Chenyang Lu, Washington University in St. Louis
Sam Madden, MIT
Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California
Randy Moses, The Ohio State University
Arye Nehorai, Univ. Illinois at Chicago
Radha Poovendran, University of Washington
Curt Schurgers, University of California, San Diego
Sergio Servetto, Cornell University
Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles
Eva Tardos, Cornell University
Lang Tong, Cornell University
Matt Welsh, Harvard
Kung Yao, UCLA

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IPSN'06 Publicity Chair 
Tian He
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota
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