(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this) ********************* SmarTel'07 Call For Papers ************************* Call for Papers (SmarTel'07) First International Workshop on Smart Homes for Tele-Health May 21, 2007, Niagara Falls, Canada Website - http://cs.acadiau.ca/~shussain/smartel SmarTel'07 is the First International Workshop on Smart Homes for Tele-Health, which is organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA?7, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007. ** Description ** Due to recent advancement in electronics industry, our homes can be equipped with smart devices that can monitor a patient�s vital signs and other useful information. The patient information can be locally processed and automatically transmitted to the relevant health-care staff, or they can be handled locally in the homes. These smart devices can assist in knowledge extraction and filtering the unwanted data. The quality of current health care system can be significantly improved by using these smart devices. ** Topics ** The main themes include, but not limited to: - Smart home applications for tele-health - Ubiquitous and pervasive healthcare services - Privacy, trust, and security in tele-health - Sensor network management for tele-health - Body sensor networks - Energy efficient communication protocols - Energy efficient data management - Monitoring of vital signs - Monitoring of elderly and congestive heart failure patients - Monitoring of chronic medical conditions - Integration of smart applications in healthcare system - Intelligent agent architectures ** Important Dates ** Submission deadline December 01, 2006 Authors Notification January 22, 2007 Author Registration February 04, 2007 Final Manuscript February 19, 2007 Workshop date May 21, 2007 ** General Co-Chairs ** Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada lyang@stfx.ca Rasit Eskicioglu, University of Manitoba, Canada rasit@cs.umanitoba.ca ** Program Co-Chairs ** Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada Sajid.Hussain@acadiau.ca Zhiwen Yu, Nagoya University, Japan zhiwen@itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp ** Program Committee (partial list) ** Raza Abidi, Dalhousie University, Canada Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster, UK Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Nauman Chaudhry, University of New Orleans, USA Hune Cho, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea Andrei Doncescu, LAAS CNRS, France Hakan Duman, Essex University, UK Sheng Fang, Shandong University of Science & Tech., China Jocelyne Fayn, INSERM ERM107, Lyon, France Javier Garcia-Villalba, University of Madrid, Spain Sylvain Giroux, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada Peter Graham, University of Manitoba, Canada Mario Rosario Guarracino, National Research Council, Italy Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Tai-hoon Kim, SERSC, Korea Frederique Laforest, LIRIS Lab., Lyon, France Wenjun Li, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA Artur R. Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Michael Marschollek, Technical University, Braunschweig, Germany Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster, UK Tomasz Muldner, Acadia University, Canada Sotiris Nikoletseas, Patras University, Greece Jong Hyuk Park, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea Golden G. Richard, University of New Orleans, USA Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China Evi Syukur, Monash University, Australia Zartash Uzmi, LUMS, Pakistan Christine Verdier, University of Grenoble, France Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Yuni Xia, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, USA Naixue Xiong, JAIST, Japan Daqing Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Xingshe Zhou, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China ** Paper Submission ** IEEE Computer Society format, 6 pages maximum, check the AINA?7 website for more details. The papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. ** Journal ** We plan to submit extended version of submitted papers for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (http://www.juci.org/). --------------------------- Dr. Zhiwen Yu Information Technology Center, Nagoya University Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan Tel: (+81)052-789-5910 Mobile: (+81)090-9891-1552 Email: zhiwen@itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp http://www.ulan.jp/~zhiwen/ ---------------------------