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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2007 (ISWPC 2007) 5-7 February 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA http://www.iswpc.org/2007/

Technically Sponsored By IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society

Hosted By University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

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SCOPE

Wireless pervasive computing is a rapidly growing area that has attracted significant attention due to its potential impact on the quality of lifestyles of individuals. To enable wireless pervasive computing, it is necessary to integrate technologies from the fields of communications, signal processing, distributed computing, and numerous other fields. The aim of this symposium is to provide a platform for researchers in the area of wireless pervasive computing and related areas to showcase their results, launch new ideas, as well as to interact with colleagues from these areas.

The scope of the symposium covers all enabling technologies of wireless pervasive computing. This includes a huge variety of topics ranging from wireless communications and networking to services and applications of pervasive computing. A series of panel and tutorials will also seek to inform and invoke interaction among researchers which are interested in this area.

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KEYNOTES

Wireless Networks Work - What's Next? Dr Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research

RF Localization and the Internet of Things Professor Kaveh Pahlavan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Context Modelng in Smart Environments: A Perspective from Pervasive Computing Professor Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington

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WORKSHOP ON WIRELESS NETWORKING, AUTOMATED INFORMATION PROCESSING, AND WEB & GRID SERVICES

The workshop will be hold on 4th Feb 2007 and is free to all registered participants of ISWPC 2007.

SCOPE This workshop intends to serve as a forum for the exchange of new ideas, concepts, and results associated with three specific areas showing a degree of convergence: Wireless Networking (WN), Grid and Web Services (GWS), and Automated Information Processing (AIP). AIP is serving as a bridge between WN and GWS and in this context is bringing out new exciting and challenging issues. The workshop is addressing issues along the following lines through a set of thought-provoking questions:

Grid and Web Services Grid Computing: a new technology or a cheaper alternative? What are the financial and technological benefits of grid computing versus cluster computing? What markets stand to benefit the most from grid computing? Does wireless access to computing grids open up new application/ service markets? Which ones? Do projected trends for future data processing needs align favorably with the capabilities of computing grids?

Wireless Networking How wireless sensor networks (WSN) integrate with wireless networking in general? How can WSNs characterize smart environments in our automated society? How to manage uncertainty due inhabitants' contexts in smart environments? What significant automated information processing issues need to be addressed for context-aware resource management in smart environments? Beyond mere wireless access to grids: are there any wireless-specific services or applications that may benefit from grid computing?

Automated Information Processing What information processing applications are good and poor matches for grids? What is automated in automated information processing? How to integrate syntactic and semantic issues in automated information processing? How AIP is serving as a bridge between grid and web services and wireless networking? What role plays signal processing in automated information processing and smart environments?

TOPICS Wireless Networking Web and Grid Services Sensor and Mobile Databases Collaborative Signal Processing Sensor Metadata Interoperability and Management Secure Wireless Sensor Networks Signal-based Automated Information Processing Sensor Grids and Sensor Registry Environmental Surveillance Monitoring

SPEAKERS Ian Foster - http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/%7Efoster/ Sajal Das - http://ranger.uta.edu/%7Edas/ Sandra Thuel - http://www.bell-labs.com/user/thuel/

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PANAL SESSION ON RFID Fulfilling the promise of RFID: Applications, Case Studies and Future Research

SCOPE Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) will certainly be an integral part of most supply chains in 10 to 20 years' time. Up to now, however, RFID has failed to live up to its promise, remaining hurdled by limited implementation and applications, and has yet to be considered a mainstream technology on its own. A range of technologies, from WiFi to Sensor Networks to RFID, is being explored for asset management to "smart" shelving - but what combination of technologies solves the right sets of problems? How does one identify the problems to solve? What are the capabilities of each technology to solve them in differing use scenarios? Where can WiFi be more useful vs. RFID or EPC (Electronic Product Codes) in other situations? In this panel, we will discuss these questions, current and potential future applications, and possibilities for further research and study.

PANELISTS Dr. Rajit Gadh, UCLA Dr. Salil Pradhan, CTO, HP RFID Program Dr. Dario Sassi Thober, Wernher Von Braun Center for Advanced Research, Campinas, Brazil Marcelo de Carvalho Pandini, Manager, RFID & Business Development, Hewlett-Packard Brazil Martina Y. Trucco, University Relations Latin America, Hewlett-Packard Labs