+-------------------------------------------------------------+ Call for Papers SensorFusion?7 October 12, 2007, Pisa, Italy Website - http://cs.acadiau.ca/~shussain/sensorfusion+-------------------------------------------------------------+SensorFusion'07 is the Second International Workshop on Information Fusion and Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks, which is organized in conjunction with the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems,http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mass2007/. ------------- Description-------------The convergence of the Internet, wireless communications, and information processing technologies with techniques for miniaturization has opened up new vistas of research for sensor networks. Emerging technologies for sensing and pervasive computing haveplaced sensor networks at the threshold of a period of major growth. It has extended information fusion and dissemination in sensor networks from data aggregation, association and monitoring of interactions among hardware and software entities in ubiquitous computing environments to intelligent information processing for the next generation wireless internet. For the emerging hybrid sensor networks, information fusion can help in the seamless integration of smart sensors and actuators, devices and capabilities, software and hardware agents, sensor network applications and sensor nodes, distributed and collaborative algorithms, different communication technologies, different networking architectures, etc., all over wireless or wire-line backbones. The aim of this workshop is to provide a focal point for recent advances in this foundational area of information fusion and dissemination for sensor networks across different paradigms, disciplines and technologies. ---------- Topics----------Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Programmable architectures and infrastructures - Scalable, adaptive, self-organizing and self-healing architectures - Multi-sensor, multi-source information networking architectures - Intelligent, autonomous, seamless, pervasive, multi-sensor information processing - Information fusion and dissemination in mesh networks - Data collection, compression/decompression and mining - Distributed database processing in sensor networks - In-network processing, aggregation and data association - Protocol development for information fusion - Cross Layer Protocol design using Information Fusion - Energy and mobility management algorithms - Node localization in sensor networks - Information Fusion for Resource Allocation - Quality of Service in sensor networks - Integration of fusion and learning in sensor networks - Integration of software and hardware agents - Service discovery, creation and provisioning - Authentication and secure communication and data fusion - Integrated test-beds, experiments, algorithms and measurements - Real-world sensor applications addressing information fusion ----------------- Important Dates -----------------May 6, 2007 Abstract Registration May 13, 2007 Submission deadline Jul 15, 2007 Authors Notification August 10, 2007 Final Manuscript October 12, 2007 Workshop Day -------------------- Paper Submission-------------------All papers accepted for SensorFusion'07 will be included in the main IEEE MASS'07 proceedings, and published by the IEEE Computer Society. Authors are invited to submit original papers that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, including web publication. Papers should be submitted in PDF. Submissions must conform to IEEE Computer Society format (two columns, letter size 8.5"x11") and should not exceed 6 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). All submissions will be refereed by at least 2 reviewers, and will be handled electronically through the EDAS system (http://www.edas.info). --------- JOURNAL---------The extended version of selective papers could be submitted for potential inclusion in a special issue of a Journal (TBA). --------------- Organization---------------** General Chairs **Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, lyang [at] stfx.ca Pratik K. Biswas, Avaya Labs, NJ, USA, pbiswas [at] optonline.net Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada, sajid.hussain [at] acadiau.ca ** Steering Committee **Buyurman Baykal, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, buyurman [at] metu.edu.tr Pratik K. Biswas, Avaya Labs, NJ, USA, pbiswas [at] optonline.net ** Program Chairs **Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada, sajid.hussain [at] acadiau.ca Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan, yu [at] ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp ** Program Committee (partial list) **Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University, USA Nauman Chaudhry, University of New Orleans, USA Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Suprakash Datta, York University, Canada Hakan Duman, University of Essex, UK Rasit Eskicioglu, University of Manitoba, Canada Jocelyne Fayn, INSERM ERM107, Lyon, France Javier Garcia-Villalba, University of Madrid, Spain Peter Graham, University of Manitoba, Canada Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong Uni. of Science and Tech., China Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Frederique Laforest, LIRIS Lab., Lyon, FranceZhigang Li, Northwestern Polytechnic. Uni., China Antonio Liotta, University of Essex, UK, Michael Marschollek, Technical University, Germany Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster, UK Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Lab., Switzerland Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung Uni., Taiwan Hairong Qi, University of Tennessee, USALimin Sun, Chinese Academy of Science, ChinaHaipeng Wang, Northwestern Polytechnic. Uni., China Yuni Xia, Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. Indianapolis, USA Naixue Xiong, JAIST, Japan --------------------------- Dr. Zhiwen YU Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan TEL/FAX: (+81)075-753-7480 Email: yu@ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp http://www.ulan.jp/~zhiwen/ ---------------------------