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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Second IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS 2006)

http://www.ing.unipi.it/persens2006/

March 13, 2006 - Pisa, Italy

in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2006 (http://www.percom.org/) ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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 persens2006 at ing.unipi.it. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society in the combined PerCom 2006 workshop proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers due: Sept. 20, 2005 Notification of acceptance: Nov. 22, 2005 Camera-ready papers due: Dec. 19, 2005 PerSeNS Workshop: Mar. 13, 2006

WORKSHOP CO-ORGANIZERS

Raffaele Bruno Inst. of Informatics and Telematics National Research Council Via G. Moruzzi, 1 - 56124 Pisa, Italy E-mail: raffaele.bruno at iit.cnr.it

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

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

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University at Ankara, Turkey Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, USA Levente Buttyan, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Vinny Cahill, Trinity College, Ireland Tiziana Calamoneri, University of Rome ''La Sapienza'', Italy 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 Isabelle Guerin Lassous, INRIA, France Paul Havinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Holger Karl, University Paderborn, Germany Cecilia Mascolo, University of College London, United Kingdom Archan Misra, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA Amy Murphy, University of Lugano, Switzerland Symeon Papavassiliou, NJ Insititute of Technology, USA Maria Giovanna Sami, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mani Srivastava, UCLA, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Laura Vanzago, ST Microelectonics, Italy Lan Wang, Old Dominion University, USA Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland, USA

-------------------------------------------------------------------- Raffaele Bruno, Ph.D., Researcher Pervasive Computing & Networking Lab. (PerLab)

IIT Institute - Italian National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39 050 315 3078 (direct) Fax.: +39 050 315 2593 (institute) Email: raffaele.bruno@iit.cnr.it Website: bruno1.iit.cnr.it/~bruno/