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IFIP International Symposium on Network-Centric Ubiquitous Systems (NCUS 2005) http://www.abo.fi/%7Elyan/conf/ncus05.html

To be held in conjunction with IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2005), Nagasaki, Japan, 6-9 December 2005

[Call for Papers]

Historically, ubiquitous systems have been highly engineered for a particular task, with no spontaneous interactions among devices. Recent advances in wireless communication and sensor and actuator technologies have given rise to a new genre of ubiquitous systems. This new genre is characterized as self-organizing, critically resource constrained, and network-centric. The fundamental change is communication: numerous small devices operating collectively, rather than as stand-alone devices, form a dynamic ambient network that connects each device to more powerful networks and processing resources.

IFIP International Symposium on Network-Centric Ubiquitous Systems (NCUS 2005) is launched to serve as a premier international forum for researchers and practitioners, from both industry and academia to share latest research results and ideas on ubiquitous networking and its applications, thereby promoting research activities in this area. In addition to regular research papers to be selected on standard peer reviewed, the program of the workshop will include invited talks and position papers.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:

* Software Engineering technologies and Formal Techniques for modeling, designing, and testing network-centric ubiquitous systems * Hardware Architectures, Communication Protocols, Human-Computer Interaction and other enabling technologies for network-centric ubiquitous systems * Theoretical foundations and algorithms for ubiquitous networking * Context awareness, adaptation and management in network-centric ubiquitous systems * Peer-to-Peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications in ubiquitous systems * Mobile networks, Sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks, and applications * Web services and Middleware support for ubiquitous networking * Security and Trust management in ubiquitous networks, systems, and applications * Energy management and harvesting for network-centric ubiquitous systems * Simulation, Performance evaluation, Experiments, and trials of ubiquitous networks and applications * Comprehensive survey on timely topics

[Submission]

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit an electronic version of original manuscripts (not being considered for publication elsewhere), not exceeding 18 single-column, single-spaced pages, to lu.yan@ieee.org, with the subject line "Submission to NCUS2005". Submissions should be in PDF. Authors should make sure that the submission can be viewed via Acrobat Reader and printed correctly via standard letter or A4 size paper. We strongly recommend authors to format their submissions in Springer-Verlag LNCS style (instructions and templates are available here).

[Proceedings]

Accepted papers will be published as proceedings by Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer-Verlag. Instructions about the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. Authors of an accepted paper must guarantee that at least one of the authors will attend the symposium and present their paper.

[Important Dates]

Submission Deadline July 10, 2005 Notification of Acceptance August 15, 2005 Final Version Deadline September 15, 2005

[Organizing Committee]

General Co-chair:

Jingyuan (Alex) Zhang, University of Alabama, USA Jon (Jong-Hoon) Youn, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

Steering Co-Chair:

Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Program Co-chair:

Lu Yan, Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), Finland Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain

Program Committee:

Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, SUNY Binghamton, USA Saad Biaz, Auburn University, USA Jacir L. Bordim, University of Brasilia, Brazil Phillip Bradford, University of Alabama, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Guangbin Fan, University of Mississippi, USA Satoshi Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan Xiaoyan Hong, University of Alabama, USA Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, USA Jiageng Li, University of West Georgia, USA Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan Huai-Rong Shao, Samsung, USA Randy Smith, University of Alabama, USA Dajin Wang, Montclair State University, USA Zhijun Wang, University of Alabama, USA Claudia Jacy Barenco Abbas, University of Brasilia, Brazil Qing-An Zeng, University of Cincinnati, USA Ming Yu, SUNY at Binghamton, USA Jiang (Leo) Li, Howard University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Chih-Hung Chang, Tamkang University, Taiwan Chung-Ta King, National TsingHua University, Taiwan Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Xinrong Zhou, Abo Akademi, Finland Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy Chu-Sing Yang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Han-Chieh Chao, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada Hong Shen, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Doo-Hwan Bae, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Jun Pang, INRIA-Futurs, France Rafael Timoteo de Sousa, Universidad de Brasilia, Brazil Ricardo Puttini, Universidad de Brasilia, Brazil Paulo Roberto de Lira Gondim, Universidad de Brasilia, Brazil Mario Dantas, Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Faculdades Barddal, Brazil Alba Melo, Universidad de Brasiliam, Brazil Dan Grigoras, University College Cork, Ireland Ami Marowka, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel Hesham Ali, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Chulho Won, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Hamid Sharif, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA Jitender Deogun, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA Seungjin Park, Michigan Technological University, USA Dana Petcu, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Maria Ganzha, Private Institute of Higher Learning, Poland Kathy Liszka, University of Akron, USA Hyunjeong Lee, University of Nevada, USA Song Ci, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Hyunyoung Lee, University of Denver, USA Guanling Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town, South Africa Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, USA Il Kyeun Ra, University of Colorado at Denver, USA