-- _____________________________________________________ ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** IEEE ETFA 2006 11th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation ** Track on Intelligent Sensors and Sensor Networks ** September 20-22, 2006; Prague, Czech Republic http://www.action-m.com/etfa2006 ________________________________________________ ================================================ Track on Intelligent Sensors and Sensor Networks ================================================ ----------- BACKGROUND: ----------- The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the industry and academia and provide them with a platform to report on recent advances and developments in the newly emerging areas of technology, as well as actual and potential applications to industrial and factory automation. Solicited Papers: Research papers reporting on new developments in technological sciences. Industry and development papers reporting on actual developments of technology, products, systems and solutions. Tutorial and survey papers. Work-in-progress papers. In addition, ETFA 2006 solicits special session proposals to stimulate in-depth discussions in special areas relevant to the conference theme. Please consult the conference web page for more details. ------ SCOPE: ------ The track on **Intelligent Sensors and Sensor Networks** at ETFA 2006 addresses concepts, implementations and applications of sensor network systems from both hardware and software domain. Papers on any of the following and related topics will be considered for the track: - Wireless integrated networked sensors - Localized algorithms and protocols - Energy efficiency; hardware/software - Data integration and fusion algorithms - Topology control and area coverage algorithms - Wideband networked sensors - MEMS sensors - System architecture - Sensing, processing, and communicating on a chip - Power supplies - Positioning systems and algorithms - Communication protocols and algorithms - Communication-computation trade-offs - Design and implementation - Development environments and tools Please refer to the conference web page for topics of other ETFA tracks! ------------- TRACK CHAIRS: ------------- Matthias J. Handy University of Rostock, Germany matthias.handy@uni-rostock.de Pedro M. Ruiz Martinez University of Murcia, Spain pedrom@dif.um.es --------------------- SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: --------------------- The working language of the conference is English. Two types of submissions are solicited. Long Papers – limited to 8 double column pages in a font no smaller than 10-points. Work-in-Progress and Industry practice – limited to 4 double column pages in a font no smaller than 10-points. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format, according to the instructions contained in the conference web page. Best Paper Award: Best paper awards in Factory Automation and Emerging Technologies will be presented at the conference banquet dinner. Authors of outstanding papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their papers for publication in a special section in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. ---------------- IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Deadline for submission of long papers: March 31, 2006 Notification of acceptance of long papers: May 25, 2006 Deadline for submission of work-in-progress papers and Industry practice: June 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance of work-in-progress papers and Industry practice: July 1, 2006 Deadline for submission of final manuscripts: July 1, 2006 -------------------- FURTHER INFORMATION: -------------------- ETFA-06 Conference Secretariat: Czech Technical University in Prague, Zikova 4, 166 36 Prague 6, Czech Republic, Tel: +420-221500201, Email: etfa@labe.felk.cvut.cz, or Ms. Milena Zeithamlova Email: milena@action-m.com Paper Acceptance: Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. The final manuscript must be accompanied by a registration form and a registration fee payment proof. All conference attendees, including authors and session chairpersons, must pay the conference registration fee, and their travel expenses. -------------------- CONFERENCE WEB PAGE: -------------------- http://www.action-m.com/etfa2006