========================================= IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems June 18 - 20, 2006 San Francisco, California, USA =========================================

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The 2006 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '06) will take place in San Francisco during June 18 - 20, 2006. DCOSS '06 will represent a merger of the DCOSS conference series and the IEEE International Workshops on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (WMAN). The first DCOSS conference, held at Marina del Rey on June 30-July 1, 2005, featured high quality research papers and interesting invited and contributed poster/presentation sessions. DCOSS '06 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 2006. Check http://www.dcoss.org/ for updated information.

IMPORTANT DATES (firm deadlines)

February 08, 2006 Paper Abstract Submission Due February 15, 2006 Paper Submission Due March 15, 2006 Poster Abstract Submission Due April 01, 2006 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection April 16, 2006 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 15, 2006, by 5 p.m. U.S. Pacific Coast Time. This is a final deadline; to ensure fairness, no extensions will be given. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by April 1, 2006. Camera-ready papers will be due April 16, 2006.

DCOSS '06 Proceedings will be distributed at the Conference.

PROGRAM CHAIR

Phil Gibbons Intel Research / Carnegie Mellon University USA

PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS

Algorithms: James Aspnes, Yale University, USA

Applications: Ramesh Rao, UCSD/Calit2, USA

Systems: Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC, 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. A 2-page extended abstract will also appear in the conference proceedings. Select invited presentations and posters from industry and academia will also be included in this session.

Poster abstracts must be received by March 15, 2006. Submission details will be available at the DCOSS website.

POSTER CHAIR

Jim Reich Palo Alto Research Center 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 '06 ORGANIZATION =================================

GENERAL CHAIR

Viktor K. Prasanna University of Southern California USA

VICE GENERAL CHAIR

Jie Wu Florida Atlantic University USA

PROGRAM CHAIR

Phil Gibbons Intel Research / Carnegie Mellon University USA

WORKSHOPS CHAIR

Sotiris Nikoletseas University of Patras and CTI Greece

POSTER CHAIR

Jim Reich Palo Alto Research Center USA

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR

Yang Yu Motorola Labs USA

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS CHAIR

Loren Schweibert Wayne State University USA

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS

Wendi Heinzelman University of Rochester USA

Amol Bakshi University of Southern California USA

FINANCE CHAIR

Germaine Gusthiot University of Geneva Switzerland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Algorithms: Costas Busch, RPI Bogdan Chlebus, CU Denver Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion U. Jennifer Hou, UIUC Dariusz Kowalski, U. Liverpool Rajeev Motwani, Stanford Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. Patras Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel-Aviv U. Pino Persiano, Salerno U. Andrea Richa, Arizona State U. Christian Scheideler, TU Munich Maria Jose Serna, UPC Barcelona Devavrat Shah, MIT Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich Yinyu Ye, Stanford

Applications: Edgar Chavez, U. Michoacana, Mexico Alfredo Ferro, U. Catania Stefan Fischer, U. Luebeck Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State U. Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC Julia Liu, PARC Chenyang Lu, Washington U. in St. Louis C. Siva Ram Murthy, IIT Madras, India Andreas Savvides, Yale Vikram Srinivasan, NUS Ivan Stojmenovic, U. Ottawa Gaurav Sukhatme, USC Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State U. Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UC Irvine

Systems: Mohamed Gouda, U. Texas Tian He, U. Minnesota Wendi Heinzelman, U. Rochester Phil Levis, Stanford Jie Liu, Microsoft Research Haiyun Luo, UIUC Radhika Nagpal, Harvard Suman Nath, Microsoft Research John Regehr, U. Utah Kurt Rothermel, Stuttgart Mani Srivastava, UCLA Jack Stankovic, U. Virginia Chieh-Yih Wan, Intel Stephen Wicker, Cornell Ying Zhang, PARC

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)