CALL FOR PAPERS
IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
Paper Submission: November 30, 2006
Author
Notification: January 22, 2007
Camera-Ready Papers:
February 17, 2007
SYMPOSIUM INFORMATION:
Computers are now available anytime, anywhere, by different means,
and
distributed unobtrusively throughout the everyday environments in
which
physical objects/artifacts embedded with invisible computers are
sensible and
networked locally and globally. Such "any" computers open
tremendous
opportunities to provide numerous novel services/applications in
both real
world and cyber spaces, and exist ubiquitously in our daily life,
working,
learning, traveling, entertainment, medicine, etc. Although it is
yet unclear
what exactly the real-cyber integrated worlds would be, there is
no doubt that
they must be safe.
UbiSafe emphasizes the SAFE aspects for ubiquitous, pervasive, AmI,
mobile,
universal, embedded, wearable, augmented, invisible, hidden,
context-aware,
sentient, proactive, autonomic, or whatever it is called,
computing. UbiSafe
computing is focused on theories and technologies for
ubiquitous artifacts to
function safely for different purposes; for
ubiquitous systems to work safely
in various situations; and for ubiquitous
environments to behave safely with
all people. A series of challenges exist
to let people benefit from ubiquitous
services, and simultaneously guarantee
their safety in making ubiquitous safe
artifacts, systems, and
environments.
The UbiSafe-07 Symposium provides a forum for engineers and scientists
in
academia, industry, and government to address all safety related
profound
challenges including technical, social, legal and ethical
issues, and to
present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies,
systems, tools,
applications, work in progress and experience on all aspects
of UbiSafe
computing.
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
* Fundamentals
- UbiSafe concepts, definitions, basic elements, models,
frameworks and
methodologies, human-centric
paradigms,
multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary/trans-disciplinary
approaches, semantics,
ontologies, UbiSafe requirements and formal
specifications and validations,
information assurance, etc.
* Technologies
- Security and privacy protection, reliability and fault
tolerance, risk
analysis, uncertainty and exception handling, socially
intelligent agents,
intuitive/natural user interface, interaction design,
context-awareness,
intelligent computing, service-oriented computing,
hardware, software,
middleware, etc.
* Systems
- Embedded systems, wearable systems, augmented systems,
context-based systems,
communication systems, safety-critical systems,
survivable systems, persistent
systems, autonomous/autonomic systems,
proactive systems, network
infrastructure, sensor networks, etc.
* Applications
- Smart objects, smart environments, information
appliance and artifacts,
everyday gadgets, robots, safety care, healthcare,
medical care and services,
working, learning, traveling, entertainment, case
studies, etc.
* Measures and Assessments
- UbiSafe attributes and measures for safety,
trust, faith, amenity, easiness,
comfort, satisfaction and worryness, UbiSafe
levels and relations, UbiSafe
quality, assessment criteria and authority,
subjective and objective assessment
standards, evaluation methodologies,
testing, measuring and monitoring tools,
etc.
* Human Factors and Social Issues
- Human and social aspects of UbiSafe,
UbiSafe sources and factors, social
rules, regulations and laws, human
factors, human behavior analysis, modeling
of human feelings, traditional and
cultural issues, ethical issues, etc.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
PAPER PUBLICATION:
Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines on preparing and
submitting
the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of
acceptance. The
proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.
Authors of
accepted papers, or at least one of them, are required to register
and present
their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be
removed from the
digital library after the conference.
Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in the
Journal
of Autonomic and Trusted Computing (JoATC), and the Journal of
Ubiquitous
Computing and Intelligence (JUCI). A set of high quality papers of
the
conference, after further revisions, also will be published in an edited
book
published by IDEA Publishing Group, USA.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
ADVISORY
CHAIRS:
Jingde Cheng, Saitama
University, Japan
Jianhua Ma,
Hosei University, Japan
GENERAL
CHAIRS:
Laurence T. Yang, St.
Francis Xavier University, Canada
Vipin Chaudhary, Wayne State University,
USA
Runhe Huang, Hosei University,
Japan
PROGRAM
CHAIRS:
Qiangfu Zhao, The
University of Aizu, Japan
Qun Jin,
Waseda University, Japan
Xiaolin
(Andy) Li, Oklahoma State University, USA
PROGRAM VICE
CHAIRS:
Evi Syukur, Monash
University, Australia
Geyong Min,
University of Bradford, UK
Zhiwen
Yu, Nagoya University, Japan
PUBLICITY
CHAIRS:
Guojun Wang, Central South
University, China
Daniel N. Xiong,
JAIST, Japan
Weisong Shi, Wayne
State University, USA
Emmanuelle
Anceaume, IRISA, France
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
MEMBERS:
TBD