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The 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-06) - Building Smart Worlds on Real and Cyber Spaces -

http://grid.hust.edu.cn/uic06/ Organized by Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech. (HUST) Co-Sponsored by HUST, NSFC, 863, ChinaGrid, IFIP In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society (Applying)

Wuhan and Three Gorges, China, September 3-6, 2006 ******************************************************

Following ubiquitous computers, networks, information, services, etc., is a road towards a smart world (SW) created on both real and cyber spaces. A SW is mainly characterized by ubiquitous intelligence (UI) or computational intelligence pervasive in the physical world, filled with ubiquitous intelligent or smart things, that are capable of computing, communicating, and behaving smartly with some intelligence. One of the profound implications of such ubiquitous smart things is that various kinds and levels of intelligence will exist ubiquitously in everyday objects, environments, systems and even ourselves, and possibly be extended from man-made to natural things. "Ubicomp" or "percomp" can be regarded as the computing of all these intelligent/smart things/u-things, that are essential elements and components of the SW.

A smart thing can be endowed with different levels of intelligence, and may be context-aware, active, interactive, reactive, proactive, assistive, adaptive, automated, sentient, perceptual, cognitive, autonomic and/or thinking. Intelligent/smart things is an emerging research field covering many disciplines. A series of grand challenges exist to move from the ubiquitous world with universal services of any means/place/time to the SW of trustworthy services with the right means/place/time. UIC-06 is a successor of the 2nd Int'l Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart Worlds (UISW2005, Japan, Dec. 2005) which succeeds the 1st Int'l Workshop on Ubiquitous Smart Worlds (USW2005,Taipei, Mar. 2005). It offers a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in developing intelligent/smart objects, environments, and systems as well as discuss various personal/social/physical issues faced by UI and SWs.

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

1. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Objects * Electronic Label, Card, E-Tag and RFID * Embedded Chips, Sensor & Actuator * MEMS, NEMS, Mote & Biometric Device * Everyday Good, Artifact, Robot, etc. * Smart Appliance and Wearable Device * Material, Textile, Cloth, Furniture, etc. * Emerging Intelligent/Smart Objects * Embedded Software and Agents

2. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Environments * Room, Home, Office, Laboratory, etc. * Building, Library, School, Campus, etc. * Shop, Clinic, Hospital and Health Care * Street, Yard, Park, Ground, City, etc. * Vehicle, Road, Traffic & Transportation * Land, Pool, Space and Hyperspace * Learning, Sport, Entertainment, etc. * Novel Intelligent/Smart Applications

3. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Systems * Sensor, Ad Hoc & Intelligent Networks * Knowledge Representation and Ontology * Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems * OS, Middleware and Intelligent Association * Intelligent Service Architecture, Grid & Mesh * Massive Agents, Swarm/Amorphous Systems * Proactive, Autonomic and Organic Systems * Novel Intelligent/Smart Systems

4. Personal/Social/Physical Aspects * Real/Cyber World Modeling and Semantics * End-User Interface, Control & Programming * Social/Natural/Physical Model of UI & SW * User/Object Identity and Activity Recognition * Security, Privacy, Trust and Legal/Policy Issues * Emotional, Ethical and Psychological Factors * Implication and Impact of UI and SW * Relations between Real and Cyber Worlds

==IMPORTANT DATES==

Submission Deadline: March 10, 2006 Authors Notification: May 10, 2006 Final Manuscript Due: June 10, 2006

==ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION==

Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) at the UIC-06 web site: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/uic06

==PAPER PUBLICATION==

Accepted papers will be published by IEEE CS Proceedings to be indexed by SCI and EI. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of the international Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI), and the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC).

==Organizing Committees==

Honorary Chairs Horio Shiratori, Tohoku University, Japan Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

General Chairs Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

Program Committee Chairs Victor Callaghan, University of Essex, UK Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

International Advisory Committee Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan Marios C. Angelides, Brunel University, UK Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan Ali R. Hurson, Pennsylvania State University, USA Haruhisa Ichikawa, NTT Network Innovation Lab., Japan Moon Hae Kim, Konkuk University, Korea Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, Canada Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Jhing-Fa Wang, Nat. Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

Steering Committee Chairs Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Publicity Chairs Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Hani A. K. Hagras, University of Essex, UK Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan

International Liaison Chairs Vipin Chaudhary, Wayne State University, USA Ismail K. Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia

Publication Chairs Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China Thomas Noel, University Louis Pasteur, France Jon (Jong-Hoon) Youn, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

Award Chairs Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Panel Chair Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

Financial Chair Xin Li, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China

Web Administration Chair Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China

Local Arrangement Chair Xia Xie, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China

Program Committee See UIC-06 web site: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/uic06/

Further questions, please contact with UIC06 Secretariat: uic06@hust.edu.cn Or PC Chairs Prof. Hai Jin hjin@hust.edu.cn Prof. Laurence T. Yang lyang@stfx.ca Prof. Victor Callaghan vic@essex.ac.uk