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First IEEE PerCom Workshop on
Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS 2005)

http://www.ing.unipi.it/persens2005/

March 8, 2005 - Kauai Island, Hawaii

in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2005 (http://www.percom.org/)
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Wireless sensor networks are expected to be the basic building block of pervasive computing environments. Aggregating sensor nodes into sophisticated sensing, computational and communication infrastructures to form wireless sensor networks will have a significant impact on a wide array of applications ranging from military, to scientific, to industrial, to health-care, to domestic, establishing ubiquitous computing that will pervade society and redefine the way in which we live and work.The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of sensor networks are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment of sensor networks and systems are particularly welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  - Sensor-based systems and applications
  - Operating systems
  - Middleware and software tools
  - Networking architectures and protocols
  - Location and mobility management
  - Topology control and time synchronization
  - Data gathering, aggregation and dissemination
  - Intelligent sensors
  - Power Management and energy-efficient design
  - Cross-layer architectures
  - Security and dependability issues
  - Modeling and performance evaluation
  - Measurements

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 5 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines (ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/INSTRUCT.HTM). All submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a PDF file and submit it to persens2005@ing.unipi.it. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society in the combined PerCom 2005 workshop proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers due                    Sept. 15,  2004 (EXTENDED to OCT. 2, 2004)
Notification of acceptance    Nov.  15,  2004
Camera-ready papers due       Dec.  18,  2004

WORKSHOP CO-ORGANIZERS

Giuseppe Anastasi
  Dept. of Information Engineering
  University of Pisa
  Via Diotisalvi 2, 56122 Pisa - Italy
  E-mail: g.anastasi@iet.unipi.it

Silvia Giordano
  Dept. of Technologies and Innovations
  University of Applied Science – SUPSI
  Galleria 2 - Via Cantonale
  6928 Manno - Switzerland
  Email: silvia.giordano@supsi.ch

Stephan Olariu
  Department of Computer Science
  Old Dominion University
  Norfolk, VA 23529-0162, U.S.A.
  Email: olariu@cs.odu.edu

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ozgur B. Akan, ME Tech. Univ. at Ankara, Turkey
Philippe Bonnet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Levente Buttyan, Budapest University of Tech. and Economics, Hungary
Vinny Cahill, Trinity College, Ireland
Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA
Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA
Paul Havinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Holger Karl, Tech. University of Berlin, Germany
Symeon Papavassiliou, New Jersey Institute of  Tech., USA
Ravi Prakas, University of  Texas at Dallas, USA
Catherine Rosenberg, Purdue University, USA
Maria Giovanna Sami, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ivan Stojmenovic, Univeristy of Ottawa, Canada
Ioannis Stravrakakis, University of  Athens, Greece
Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland, USA

PUBLICITY CHAIR

Raffaele Bruno, National Research Council, Italy