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========================================= IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems June 18 - 20, 2007 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA =========================================

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The 2007 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '07) will take place in Santa Fe during June 18 - 20, 2007. The first and second DCOSS conferences, held at Marina Del Rey and San Francisco respectively, featured high quality research papers and interesting invited and contributed poster/presentation sessions. DCOSS '07 is intended to cover several aspects of distributed computing in sensor systems such as high level abstractions, computational models, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, analysis and applications. The conference will be co-located with several closely related workshops, and will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their contributions related to the above high-level aspects of distributed sensor systems. In addition to contributed papers, the meeting will also include keynote addresses by leading researchers, a panel discussion, and a poster/presentation session.

SPONSORED BY

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)

Held in co-operation with

ACM SIGARCH ACM SIGBED European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) IFIP WG 10.3

MEETING INFORMATION

The advance program will be available in April 2007. Check http://www.dcoss.org/ for updated information.

IMPORTANT DATES

Monday February 5, 2007 Paper Submission Due Monday April 2, 2007 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection Monday April 16, 2007 Camera-Ready Paper Due

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities. Such systems allow intelligent dense monitoring of physical environments, which makes them immensely useful for data collection and analysis. While much ongoing research has addressed networking, communication and low-level self-configuration issues in such systems, there are also significant challenges pertaining to systematic design, algorithm development and analysis, and abstract modeling in order to achieve efficient and robust realizations of large-scale distributed sensor systems. The large number of sensor devices involved, severe power, computational and memory limitations, resource heterogeneity, dense deployment and frequent failures pose novel challenges to design, algorithms, analysis and implementation.

The focus of the conference is on distributed computing issues in large-scale networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications, and systematic design techniques and tools), but networking-related contributions that support high level abstractions are also welcome. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Computation and programming models - Energy models, minimization, awareness - Distributed algorithms for collaborative information processing - Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability, fault-tolerance - Abstractions for modular design - Languages, operating systems - Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration - Dynamic resource management - Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) - Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives - Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation - Design automation and application synthesis techniques - Case studies: lessons from real world deployments

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 12 single-spaced pages using 12-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures and tables. References may be included in addition to the 12 pages. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference or a journal. Submission procedures will be available via Web access at http://www.dcoss.org/

All manuscripts will be reviewed. Manuscripts must be received by February 5, 2007, by 5 p.m. U.S. Pacific Coast Time. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by April 2, 2007. Camera-ready papers will be due April 16, 2007.

DCOSS '07 Proceedings will be distributed at the Conference.

PROGRAM CHAIR

James Aspnes Yale University USA

PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS

Algorithms: Christian Scheideler, TU Munich, Germany

Applications: Anish Arora, Ohio State Univ., USA

Systems: Samuel Madden, MIT, USA

POSTER/PRESENTATION SESSION

The conference will include a poster session for researchers and practitioners to present novel on-going work-in-progress and to obtain feedback from conference attendees in an informal setting. Authors of accepted posters will have an opportunity to briefly present their work in this session. Select invited presentations and posters from industry and academia may also be included in this session.

Submission details and deadlines will be available at the DCOSS website.

POSTER CHAIR

Wendi Heinzelman Univ. of Rochester USA

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Awards will be given for one best paper in each of the three conference technical tracks: algorithms, applications, and systems.

================================= DCOSS '07 ORGANIZATION =================================

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

Sotiris Nikoletseas University of Patras and CTI Greece

Viktor K. Prasanna University of Southern California USA

VICE GENERAL CHAIR

Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa Canada

PROGRAM CHAIR

James Aspnes Yale University USA

WORKSHOPS CHAIR

Jim Reich Palo Alto Research Center USA

POSTER CHAIR

Wendi Heinzelman University of Rochester USA

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR

Yang Yu Motorola Labs USA

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS

Amol Bakshi University of Southern California USA

Sanjay Jha University of New South Wales Australia

Christian Schindelhauer University of Freiburg Germany

FINANCE CHAIR

Germaine Gusthiot University of Geneva Switzerland

STEERING COMMITTEE Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Josep Diaz, UPC Barcelona, Spain Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley, USA Kris Pister, University of California, Berkeley, and Dust, Inc., USA Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland (CHAIR)

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