Dear All,

I would be most grateful if you would share this announcement with those who may have interest in submitting paper(s) or participating in UbiSafe-07.

Kind regards, /Daniel

---------------- Daniel N. Xiong, Publicity Chair, UbiSafe-07 Japan Advanced Inst. of Science & Technology Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1211, JAPAN ----------------

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Ubisafe Computing (UbiSafe-07) Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007 http://www.ubisafe.org/2007/ or http://www.cs.okstate.edu/ubisafe07 In conjunction with AINA-07: http://www.aina-conference.org/2007/

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:

Submit full papers not exceeding 20 pages in PDF format (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can download the IEEE CS Proceedings Author Guidelines from the following web site ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/. UbiSafe-07 submission web site is at http://ehpclab.stfx.ca/%7Eubisafe07/.

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

For further information please email to: ubisafe07@googlegroups.com