Second Annual Ph.D. Forum on Pervasive Computing and Communication

7th IEEE International Conference on
Pervasive Computing and Communications
PerCom 2009
Galveston, Texas, March 9-13, 2009

"Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: the DHT paradigm", Marcello Caleffi, University of Naples 'Federico II' , Italy

"QoS-Aware Data Report Scheduling in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks", Hyun Jung Choe, University of Texas at Arlington , USA

"A Logic-based Formalism for Pervasive Workflow", Sourish Dasgupta, University of Missouri-Kansas City , USA

"SmarTV - A Multi-Person User's Behaviour Analysis and Program Recommendation System with iTV", Aislan Foina, Sao Paulo University, Brazil

"Positioning for Herd Management", Torben Godsk, Aarhus University , Denmark

"Zone-Based Trust Management in Sensor Networks", Jun-Won Ho, University of Texas at Arlington , USA

"Parasitic Tracking: Enabling Ubiquitous Tracking through existing Infrastructure", Manuel Huber, Technische Universität München , Germany

"Towards Shrink-Wrapped Security: A Taxonomy of Security-Relevant Context (Extended Abstract of Work in Progess)", Gleneesha Johnson, University of Maryland, College Park , USA

"Energy optimized fault tolerance for pervasive communication spaces", Jens Kamenik, OFFIS (Oldenburg Research and Development Institute for Information Technology Tools and Systems) , Germany

"Improving the Performance of Packet Reception in High Traffic Sensor Networks via a Receive Buffer", Hui Kang, Stony Brook University , USA

"Trust and Security in Dynamic Systems", Brent Lagesse, University of Texas at Arlington , USA

"Towards an Open Ubiquitous Computing Environment", Yong Liu, Indiana University , USA

"Pebbles and Urns: A Tangible, Presence-Based Messaging Service", William Plymale, Virginia Tech , USA

"Efficient and Fault Tolerant Service Discovery in MANET using Quorum-based Selective Replication", Vaskar Raychoudhury, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Hong Kong

"Multi-Event Handlers for Sensor-Driven Ubiquitous Computing Applications", Sean Reilly, Trinity College Dublin , Ireland

"Quality-of-Inference (QoINF)-Aware Context Determination in Pervasive Care Environments", Nirmalya Roy, University of Texas-Austin, USA

"Exploiting Semantics for Event Detection Systems", Ronen Vaisenberg, University of California, Irvine, USA

"Asynchronous Computing and Communication Architecture Toward Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks", Jing Wang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

"Ubiquitous Human Motion Capture using Wearable Micro-sensors", Zhiqiang Zhang, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , China

Call For Submissions:

Call For PhD Forum Submissions

Ph.D. Forum Chair

Prof. Scott F. Midkiff (midkiff@vt.edu)
Virginia Tech and the U.S. National Science Foundation

Ph.D. Forum Committee

Rahul Banerjee, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (India)
Michele Battelli, Google
Kai Chen, Google
Vincent Stanford, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Michael Thompson, Bucknell University

Corporate Sponsor

Google, Inc.

 

Sponsored by
 IEEE Computer Society, The University of Texas at Arlington

 

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