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Note: The IPSN submission deadline is half month away!

* IPSN Paper abstracts are due November 4, 2005 (midnight PST) * IPSN Full manuscript are due November 11, 2005 (midnight PST) * SPOTS Paper abstracts are due November 11, 2005 (midnight PST) * SPOTS Full manuscript are due November 15, 2005 (midnight PST)

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The Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'06)

April 19-21, 2006 - Nashville, TN, USA http://www.cs.virginia.edu/%7Eipsn06/

The Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2006) will continue the success of the previous four symposia to bring together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent work in sensor network research and applications. IPSN draws upon many disciplines including signal and image processing, information and coding theory, networking and protocols, distributed algorithms, wireless communications, machine learning, embedded systems design, and data bases and information management.

Due to their success, the 2006 IPSN will continue to feature:

* Special track on Platform Tools and Design Methods for Network Embedded Sensors (SPOTS) will present demonstrable advances in components, tools, platforms as well as applications for networked sensor systems.

* Works-in-Progress (WIP) Session. The aim of the shorter, less formal WIP Abstract submission is to facilitate collaborations and to encourage new people to get into the field.

Topics covered in technical sessions include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Distributed & collaborative signal processing * Network protocols for sensor networks * Coding, compression & Information theory * Distributed query processing * Detection, classification, estimation, tracking * Sensor tasking and control * Networked sensing and control * In-network processing and aggregation * Distributed control & actuation * Distributed inference & fusion * Fault tolerance * Network coverage, connectivity & longevity * Data storage in sensor networks * Location and time service * Energy and resource management * Programming models and languages * Real-time scheduling * Security * Applications & demonstrations of sensor networks

IMPORTANT DATES:

[IPSN Papers] Abstract Registration: November 4, 2005 Full Manuscript Due: November 11, 2005 Acceptance Notification: January 27, 2006 Camera-ready copy: February 17, 2006

[SPOTS Special Track Papers] Abstract Registration: November 11, 2005 Full Manuscript Due: November 15, 2005 Acceptance Notification: January 27, 2006 Camera-ready copy: February 17, 2006

[Research Demos] Abstract due date: February 3, 2006 Notification: March 3, 2006 Two-Page Web Abstracts: March 27, 2006

[Work-in-Progress (WIP)] Abstract due date: February 24, 2006 Notification: March 10, 2006 Two-Page Web Abstracts: March 27, 2006

SUBMISSION GUIDELINE:

All papers will be submitted electronically, in Portable Document Format (PDF) format. Instructions for submission are available at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/IPSN06/.

Submissions must meet the following criteria: * A paper must be original material that has not been previously published nor is currently under review by another conference or journal. * Submitted papers should be no longer than 8 pages in IEEE two-column format for conferences.

Each paper will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings.

ORGANIZATION:

[IPSN'06 Steering Committee] Feng Zhao, (Chair) Microsoft Research John Cozzens, National Science Foundation Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles Leo Guibas, Stanford University P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Sri Kumar, DARPA Jose' Moura, (IEEE SPS Representative) CMU Janos Sztipanovits, (ACM SIGBED Rep.) Vanderbilt University

[IPSN'06 Organization Committee] General Chair: John Stankovic, University of Virginia

Program Co-chairs: Phillip Gibbons Intel Research, Stephen Wicker Cornell Univ. SPOTS Program Chair: Joe Paradiso, MIT

Demos Chair: Andreas Savvides, Yale University Poster Session: Chair Anna Scaglione, Cornell University Finance Chair: Tarek F. Abdelzaher, University of Virginia Local Arrangement Chair: Xenofon Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt Univ. Local Arrangement Chair: Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt Univ. Industrial Relations Chair: D. Ganesan, Univ. of Massachusetts Publicity Chair: Tian He, University of Minnesota Publications Chair: R. Han, University of Colorado

[IPSN'06 Technical Program Committee] Jonathan Agre, Fujitsu Labs of America Richard Baraniuk, Rice University Baltasar Beferull-Lozano, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) Mark Coates, McGill University Hugh Durrant-Whyte, University of Sydney Deepak Ganesan, UCLA Michael Gastpar, University of California, Berkeley Phillip Gibbons, Intel Research Ramesh Govindan, USC Carlos Guestrin, Carnegie Mellon University Richard Han, University of Colorado Prakash Ishwar, Boston University Nihar Jindal, University of Minnesota Brad Karp, University College London Phil Levis, Stanford University Jie Liu, Microsoft Research Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan Chenyang Lu, Washington University in St. Louis Sam Madden, MIT Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California Randy Moses, The Ohio State University Arye Nehorai, Univ. Illinois at Chicago Radha Poovendran, University of Washington Curt Schurgers, University of California, San Diego Sergio Servetto, Cornell University Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles Eva Tardos, Cornell University Lang Tong, Cornell University Matt Welsh, Harvard Kung Yao, UCLA