PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

8th IEEE International Conference on
Pervasive Computing and Communications
PerCom 2010
Mannheim, Germany, March 29 - April 2, 2010

Monday, March 29, 2010

7:30-17:00 Pre-Conference Workshops

IEEE PerCom Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea 2010)
http://www.nexus.uni-stuttgart.de/COMOREA

International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2010)
http://www.iq2s.org

International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2010)
http://ubiquitous-management.org/mucs/2010/index.php

IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Healthcare (PerHealth 2010)
http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/perhealth2010

IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS 2010)
http://www2.ing.unipi.it/persens/

SECurity and SOCial Networking (SESOC 2010)
http://www.sesoc.org

IEEE PerCom Workshop on Smart Environments (SmartE 2010)
http://smarte.eecs.wsu.edu

International Workshop on the Web of Things (WoT 2010)
http://www.webofthings.com/wot/

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

8:30-8:45 Opening Remarks

8:45-10:00 Keynote Speech

Large-scale Context Management
Kurt Rothermel (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Session 1: Pervasive and Mobile Applications

Local Map Generation using Position and Communication History of Mobile Nodes
Shinichi Minamimoto (Osaka University, JP); Sae Fujii (Osaka University, JP); Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, JP); Teruo Higashino (Osaka University, JP)

Interactive Streaming of Structured Data
Justin Mazzola Paluska (MIT, US); Hubert Pham (MIT, US)

Opportunistic Web Access via WLAN Hotspots
Mikko J. Pitkanen (Helsinki Institute of Physics, FI); Teemu Kärkkäinen (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Joerg Ott (Helsinki University of Technology, FI)

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-15:30 Session 2: WSNs in Pervasive Systems

Engineering Energy-Efficient Target Detection Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks
Paolo Medagliani (University of Parma, IT); Jeremie Leguay (Thales Communications, FR); Gay (Thales Communications, FR); Mario Lopez-Ramos (Thales Communications France, FR); Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, IT)

Blurring Snapshots: Temporal Inference of Missing and Uncertain Data
Vasanth Rajamani (University of Texas, Austin, US); Christine Julien (The University of Texas at Austin, US)

Adaptive Deployment for Pervasive Data Gathering in Connectivity-Challenged Environments
Tahiry Razafindralambo (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, FR); Nathalie Mitton (INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, CNRS UMR 8022, IRCICA, USTL, FR); Aline Carneiro Viana (INRIA, FR); Marcelo Dias de Amorim (UPMC Paris Universitas, FR); Katia Obraczka (University of California, Santa Cruz, US)

Sell Your Experiences: A Market Mechanism based Incentive for Participatory Sensing
Juong-Sik Lee (Nokia Research Center, US); Baik Hoh (Nokia Research Center, US)

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-18:30 Demonstrations/WiP (in parallel)

16:30-18:30 Reception (in parallel with Demo/WIP sessions)

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

8:45-10:00 Keynote Speech

Ten Views to Context Awareness
Pertti Huuskonen (Nokia Research Center, Finland)

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Session 3: Best Paper Award Candidates

Decomposing Power Measurements for Mobile Devices
Andrew Colin Rice (University of Cambridge, UK); Simon Hay (University of Cambridge, UK)

An Integrated Network of Roadside Sensors and Vehicles for Driving Safety: Concept, Design and Experiments
Hua Qin (Iowa State University, US); Zi Li (Iowa State University, US); Yanfei Wang (Iowa State University, US); Xuejia Lu (Iowa State University, US); Guiling Wang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US); Wensheng Zhang (Iowa State University, US)

Negotiate Power and Performance in the Reality of RFID Systems
Xunteng XU (City University of Hong Kong, HK); Lin Gu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Jianping Wang (City University of Hong Kong, HK); Guoliang Xing (Michigan State University, US)

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-15:00 Parallel Sessions

Session 4A: Human Activity Recognition

An Event-based Approach to Multi-modal Activity Modeling and Recognition
Marten Pijl (Philips Research, NL); Steven van de Par (Philips Research, NL); Caifeng Shan (Philips Research, NL)

Capture, Recognition, and Visualization of Human Semantic Interactions in Meetings
Zhiwen Yu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, CN); Zhiyong Yu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, CN); Hideki Aoyama (Kyoto University, JP); Motoyuki Ozeki (Kyoto Institute of Technology, JP); Yuichi Nakamura (Kyoto University, JP)

AutoGait: A Mobile Platform that Accurately Estimates the Distance Walked
Dae-Ki Cho (University of California, Los Angeles, US); Min Mun (UCLA, US); Uichin Lee (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US); Williams J. Kaiser (University of California, Los Angeles, US), Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, US)

Session 4B: Middleware for Pervasive Applications

MediAlly: A Provenance-Aware Remote Health Monitoring Middleware
Atanu Roy Chowdhury (Harvard University, US); Ben Falchuk (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., US); Archan Misra (Telcordia Technologies, US)

Orchestrator: A Holistic and Adaptive Resource Orchestration Framework for Mobile Context Monitoring in Sensor-rich Mobile Environments
Seungwoo Kang (KAIST, KR); Chulhong Min (KAIST, KR); Younghyun Ju (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), KR); Youngki Lee (KAIST, KR); Taiwoo Park (KAIST, KR); Jinwon Lee (KAIST, KR); Yunseok Rhee (HUFS, KR); Junehwa Song (KAIST, KR)

Taming Software Adaptability with Architecture-Centric Framework (concise contribution)
Bo Ding (National University of Defense Technology, CN); Huai-min Wang (National University of Defense Technology, CN); Dian-xi Shi (National University of Defense Technology, CN); Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, HK)

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:30 PhD Forum

PhD Forum Program


18:30-22:00 Social Dinner

Thursday, April 1, 2010

8:30-10:00 Panel

Pervasive Computing: What Next?
Organizer and Chair:
Djamshid Tavangarian (University of Rostock, Germany)
Panelists:
Alois Ferscha (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria)
Liviu Iftode (Rutgers University, USA)
Jie Liu (Microsoft Research, USA)
Archan Misra (Telcordia Technologies, USA)

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Session 5: Position and Route Estimation

Tuning to Your Position: FM radio based Indoor Localization with Spontaneous Recalibration
Aleksandar Matic (Create-net, IT); Andrei Papliatseyeu (Create-net, IT); Venet Osmani (Create-Net, IT); Oscar Mayora (CreateNet, IT)

Dead Reckoning from the Pocket - An Experimental Study
Ulrich Steinhoff (TU Darmstadt, DE); Bernt Schiele (TU Darmstadt, DE)

Where You Go and How You Go: Mining to Predict Destination and Future Route
Lv Mingqi (Zhejiang University, CN); Ling Chen (Zhejiang University, CN); Gencai Chen (Zhejiang University, CN)

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-15:00 Parallel Sessions

Session 6A: Pervasive Systems

Collaborative Real-Time Speaker Identification for Wearable Systems
Mirco Rossi (ETH Zurich, CH); Oliver Amft (TU Eindhoven, NL); Martin Kusserow (ETH Zurich, CH); Gerhard Tröster (Wearable Computing Lab ETH Zurich, CH)

Ad-hoc Voice-based Group Communication
Lu Han (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, US); Stephen Smaldone (Rutgers University, US); Pravin Shankar (Rutgers University, US); James Boyce (Rutgers University, US); Liviu Iftode (Rutgers University, US)

Product-Mediated Communication through Digital Object Memories in Heterogeneous Value Chains
Peter Stephan (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DE), Gerrit Meixner (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DE), Holger Kessling (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DE),Florian Floerchinger (Technical University of Kaiserslautern, DE), Lisa Ollinger (Technical University of Kaiserslautern, DE)

Session 6B: Pervasive Applications Development

PerViz: Painkillers for Pervasive Application Debugging
Hubert Pham (MIT, US); Justin Mazzola Paluska (MIT, US)

Scavenger-Transparent Development of Efficient Cyber Foraging Applications
Mads D Kristensen (Aarhus University, DK)

Pervasive Maps: Explore and Interact with Pervasive Environments (concise contribution)
Geert Vanderhulst (Hasselt University, BE); Kris Luyten (Hasselt University, BE); Karin Coninx (Hasselt University, BE)

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 Session 7: Localization and Tracking

A Comparative Study of DECT and WLAN Signals for Indoor Localization
Matthias Kranz (Technische Universität München, DE); Carl Fischer (Lancaster University, UK); Albrecht Schmidt (University of Duisburg-Essen, DE)

Indoor Localization in Multi-Floor Environments with Reduced Effort
Hua-Yan Wang (Stanford University, US); Vincent Wenchen Zheng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Junhui Zhao (NEC Labs, China, CN); Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)

Zero-knowledge Real-time Indoor Tracking via Outdoor Wireless Directional Antennas
Thadpong Pongthawornkamol (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Shameem Ahmed (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Akira Uchiyama (Osaka University, JP); Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)

17:00-18:00 "Town Hall" Meeting

Friday, April 2, 2010

8:30-17:00 Post-Conference Workshops

International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P 2010)
http://mpclab.ce.ncu.edu.tw/mp2p2010/

Workshop on Communication, Collaboration and Social Networking in Pervasive Computing Environments (PerCol 2010)
http://www1.inf.tu-dresden.de/~ts2/PerCol/

IEEE International Workshop on PervasivE Learning (PerEL 2010)
http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/perel2010/

Pervasive Networks for Emergency Management (PerNEM 2010)
http://san.ee.ic.ac.uk/pernem2010/

IEEE Middleware Support for Pervasive Computing Workshop 2010 (PerWare 2010)
http://perware.uni-mannheim.de

IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Networking (PWN10)
http://academic.csuohio.edu/yuc/PWN10/

 

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