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WORKSHOPS
8th IEEE
International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
PerCom 2010
Mannheim, Germany, March 29 - April 2, 2010
We are happy to announce the following 14 workshops that complement the
main conference as well provide a forum for researchers to discuss
special interest areas within pervasive computing and communications.
7th IEEE PerCom Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea '10)
Organizers: Jadwiga Indulska, Daniela Nicklas, Anand Ranganathan, and Matthias Wieland
URL:
http://www.nexus.uni-stuttgart.de/COMOREA
Context information is a key issue in building pervasive and adaptive applications. This workshop's aim is to advance the state of the art in context modeling and reasoning and also discuss fundamental issues in context processing and management. The goal is to identify concepts, theories and methods applicable to context modeling and context reasoning as well as system-oriented issues related to the design and implementation of context-aware systems. CoMoRea will provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss recent research results and ongoing work. We also include open discussion rounds in our program.
7th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2010)
Organizers: Declan O'Sullivan, Tom Pfeifer, and Burkhard Stiller
URL:
http://ubiquitous-management.org/mucs/2010/index.php
Ubiquitous Communications and Services, as evidenced in pervasive computing
and smart space applications, present significant management challenges for
successful delivery of highly adaptive services across heterogeneous networks,
mobile networks, ad-hoc networks, middleware, applications and devices. Such
challenges include: managing user centric services and context services,
extreme distribution and scalability, extensive system & network & semantic
heterogeneity, ad hoc formation and disassociation of systems and services,
intelligent support for user centric applications. Today's management systems
need to keep pace with the complexity, heterogeneity and automation required
by the pervasive computing vision. The MUCS workshop provides a forum for researchers and
practitioners to explore the theoretic, technological and organizational
challenges, and to present advances in management techniques and
technologies, for pervasive computing and smart space applications.
1st IEEE PerCom Workshop on Smart Environments (SmartE 2010)
Organizers: Diane Cook and Michael Weber
URL:
http://smarte.eecs.wsu.edu
The IEEE PerCom Workshop on Smart Environments (SmartE) is a forum
for researchers and developers in the area of smart environments to
present results and discuss ways to advance the field. This
workshop will focus on the theme of smart environments, in which
smart homes, smart workplaces, and other spaces with which humans
interact take on the role of intelligent agents. Smart environments
inherently integrate ideas, tools, and expertise from a variety of
disciplines including ambient intelligence, middleware, wearable
sensors, human-computer interaction, machine learning, and social
computing. We will provide an opportunity for researchers to
discuss ideas from diverse perspectives in order to more greatly
enhance future work in the area.
6th IEEE International Workshop on PervasivE Learning (PerEL 2010)
Organizers: Djamshid Tavangarian and Ulrike Lucke
URL:
http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/perel2010/
The workshop series on PervasivE Learning (PerEL) aims to address
technologies, tools, and architectures for pervasive computing in
combination with new types and methodologies of learning, teaching and
working. Pervasive learning is a key technology for the e-knowledge
society. PerEL 2010 covers both the technical as well as the
non-technical aspects of pervasive learning forcing innovative learning
environments. Its intension is to assemble outstanding work in order to
enable improved pervasive learning arrangements. PerEL 2010 is going to
address technologies, algorithms, tools, architectures, and applications
as well as pedagogical models and prerequisitions of pervasive learning.
We are looking for results of theoretical, empirical, and practical
studies. Topics of interest are all aspects of pervasive learning.
6th IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems
for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS 2010)
Organizers: Giuseppe Anatasi, Silvia Giordano, and Daniele Puccinelli
URL:
http://www2.ing.unipi.it/persens/
Wireless sensor networks collect sensing measurements or detect
special events, perform node-level processing, and export the combined
data from their sensing nodes to the outside world.
Sensing, processing and communication are three key elements whose
combination in one small device gives rise to countless applications.
The focus of this workshop is on how sensor networks can be employed
to achieve the vision of pervasive computing, and our goal is to
provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share
experiences among researchers and professionals from industry and
academia.
IEEE Middleware Support for Pervasive Computing Workshop 2010 (PerWare 2010)
Organizers: Gregor Schiele, Anand Ranganathan, Roy Campbell, and Justin Mazzola Paluska
URL:
http://perware.uni-mannheim.de
The scale of pervasive computing in terms of the number of devices and
services, high-levels of dynamism and context-awareness, the frequent
failures, the need for close integration of various technologies,
combined with the lack of a single system administrator require
middleware services capable of evolving and re-organizing themselves.
The goal of this workshop is to invite new innovations in the field of
middleware for pervasive computing, bring together researchers and
foster discussions for new trends in this area. The workshop aims at
addressing issues related to middleware design patterns; middleware for
user-centric computing and mobile computing; middleware support for
novel pervasive computing application models; adaptable, recoverable,
secure and/or fault tolerant middleware platforms, etc.
Pervasive Networks for Emergency Management (PerNEM 2010)
Organizers: Erol Gelenbe, Georgia Sakellari, and Avgoustinos Filippoupolitis
URL:
http://san.ee.ic.ac.uk/pernem2010/
The events that took place on 11 September 2001 have brought to the
forefront the unique challenges that occur during a crisis, which
require effective sensing, communications and decision making with
demanding time constraints in highly dynamic environments. Pervasive
systems address these requirements by providing decision support to
rescuers and evacuees, guaranteeing communications and collecting
information that is vital for planning and organising the emergency
operation. The PerNEM 2010 workshop focuses on pervasive networked
sensing and decision making, both wired and wireless, geared towards
emergency management. The workshop addresses leading edge research in
these areas through the use of sensing, communication, decision support,
simulation tools and modelling methods with focus on system design,
optimisation and experimental evaluation.
SECurity and SOCial Networking (SESOC 2010)
Organizers: Refik Molva, Melek Onen, Thorsten Strufe, and Gene Tsudik
URL:
http://www.sesoc.org
Future pervasive communication systems aim at supporting social and
collaborative communications: the evolving topologies are expected to
resemble the actual social networks of the communicating users and
information on their characteristics can be a powerful aid for any
network operation. New emerging technologies that use information on the
social characteristics of their participants raise entirely new privacy
concerns and require new reflections on security problems such as trust
establishment, cooperation enforcement or key management.
The aim of this workshop is to encompass research advances in all areas
of security, trust and privacy in pervasive communication systems,
integrating the social structure of the network as well.
1st International Workshop on the Web of Things (WoT 2010)
Organizers: Guinard Dominique, Vlad Trifa, and Erik Wilde
URL:
http://www.webofthings.com/wot/
The WoT workshop aims at extending the Internet of Things to the Web of
Things, which means to looks beyond establishing mere connectivity by
seamlessly integrating things (e.g sensor/actuator networks, embedded
devices, consumer electronics, RFID enhanced objects, etc.) to the Web. We
especially encourage participants to look at the specific issues of loose
coupling, massive scale, interoperability and heterogeneity in the context
of pervasive computing. Specifically, the goal of the workshop is to look at
the problems and research issues that can be identified when thinking "out
of the box" of most pervasive computing applications, which often assume a
homogeneous and centrally managed infrastructure that supports some specific
applications scenario. Looking at the Web level, it becomes necessary to
consider new constraints and design issues, and while certain scenarios
might not map well to Web concepts, the opportunities and economies of scale
available at Web scale make it very interesting to carefully examine how to
eventually get to a "Web of Things".
The Sixth International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P 2010)
Organizers: Chih-Lin Hu, Ying Cai, and Hong Va Leong
URL:
http://mpclab.ce.ncu.edu.tw/mp2p2010/
The advance of modern wireless and mobile communications enables mobile users with broadband access to participate in peer-to-peer (P2P) services anywhere and anytime. Mobile networks have special characteristics, such as highly variable connectivity, location-dependency, energy and resource sensitivity, communication asymmetry, high bandwidth expense, and so on. New techniques are required to leverage mobile P2P computing for efficient and reliable applications and services. The MP2P 2010 Workshop, as a continuing forum, is to gather scientists and engineers together to foster collaboration and sparkle discussion on various aspects of mobile P2P, including but not limited to, mobile user scenarios, overlay design, development and deployment, mobile data dissemination, mobile database management, and location-based information services, in various network environments such as Wi-Fi, mobile ad hoc, vehicular, cellular and/or large-scale heterogeneous networks.
First IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Healthcare (PerHealth 2010)
Organizers: Franca Delmastro and Archan Misra
URL:
http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/perhealth2010
While the past few years have witnessed significant technological advances in pervasive and mobile health management, further work is needed to build technologies and system architectures that can improve the Quality of Life of patients and reduce medical errors and costs. Specifically, advances in wearable computing and wireless sensors networks have paved the way to new definitions of e-health systems, moving from telemedicine to the integration of existent specialized medical technologies with pervasive wireless networks. However, to develop efficient, reliable, and complete pervasive healthcare systems, a multi-disciplinary approach is needed to support wearable and mobile technologies, with special attention to medical and patient requirements in terms of accuracy, reliability, non-intrusiveness and user acceptance. These aspects involve many research areas, like wearable computing, ubiquitous connectivity, context-awareness, sensor data fusion, artificial intelligence, expert systems, databases and user-friendly interfaces. PerHealth aims to provide a forum for the interaction of these multiple areas as an important chance to discuss and understand what aspects have to be considered to provide effective pervasive healthcare systems.
Workshop on Communication, Collaboration and Social Networking in Pervasive Computing Environments (PerCol 2010)
Organizers: Markus Endler, Thomas Springer, and Daniel Schuster
URL:
http://www1.inf.tu-dresden.de/~ts2/PerCol/
The rapid rise of online social communities has created a new paradigm
for personal networking. In a logical - and rapid progression - many
social communities are now going mobile, using smart phones or other
wireless devices instead of the PC. A 2006 report from ABI Research
titled Mobile Social Communities says that the mobile social community
numbers around 50 million users globally and that by 2011 the number
will reach 174 million. In combination with pervasive computing
technologies mobile social networks will have a high impact on the way
of communication and collaboration in pervasive computing
environments.
The goal of the PerCol workshop is to present the most recent research
achievements in systems design, experimental evaluations and practical
experiences in the named field. It should provide a forum for
researchers and practitioners to discuss formal aspects, middleware
platforms and services, protocols and mechanisms, applications and
case
studies in the context of communication, collaboration, and social
networking in pervasive computing environments.
The 6th IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Networking (PWN10)
Organizers: Ben Lee, Martin Mauve, and Chansu Yu
URL:
http://academic.csuohio.edu/yuc/PWN10/
Wireless connectivity, mobility support, location awareness, and integration of wireless networks to the Internet are important enabling technologies for pervasive computing and communications. With the advent of inexpensive wireless solutions, such as WiMesh, WiFi, Bluetooth, and ZigBee, a number of challenges arise when these protocols are applied to wireless PAN, home networking, wireless LANs, and wireless sensor and mesh networks. This workshop seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the theory, practice, and evaluation of wireless networks for pervasive computing.
The Second International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2010)
Organizers: Chatschik Bisdikian, Sajal Das, Qi Han, and Holger Karl
URL:
http://www.iq2s.org
Pervasive computing provides an exciting paradigm for supporting anywhere anytime services. It is built on the tremendous advances of a broad spectrum of technologies including wireless communication, wireless and sensor networking, mobile and distributed computing, as well as signal and information processing. Pervasive computing enables computers to interact with the real world in a ubiquitous and natural manner. Quality of service (QoS), related to transmission delay, bandwidth, or packet loss, has been studied in various building blocks in pervasive computing, e.g., different QoS mechanisms are presented for wireless or wired networks; the notion of computational QoS is used for parallel processing. The emerging pervasive computing, however, is application-driven and mission-critical and the existing notions of QoS are not sufficient. Quality of Information (QoI) or Information Quality (IQ) of sensor-originated information relates to the fitness of the information for a sensor-enabled application. Harnessing and optimizing QoI of information derived from sensor networks will be key to bringing together information acquisition and processing systems that support the on-demand information needs of a broad spectrum of smart, sensor-enabled applications such as remote real-time habitat monitoring, utility grid monitoring, environmental control, supply-chain management, health care, machinery control, intelligent highways, military intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR), border control, and hazardous material monitoring, just to mention a few.,
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