S-Cube

Call for Papers The 3rd International ICST Conference on Sensor Systems and Software, S-CUBE Lisbon, Portugal Workshop date: 4 June, 2012 Conference dates: 5 – 6 June 2012 Lisbon, Portugal http://www.s-cubeconference.org/

Please join our International forum on Sensor Systems and Software. The conference provides an ideal venue to address the research challenges facing system development and software support for wireless sensor network-based systems that have the potential to impact society in many ways. Currently, wireless sensor networks enable innovative and interesting application scenarios that may support a large amount of different applications including environmental monitoring, seismic sensing, smart-homes, disaster prevention, building automation, object tracking, nuclear reactor control, fire detection, agriculture, healthcare, utility infrastructure monitoring, and traffic monitoring.

The widespread acceptance of these new services can be improved with the definition of new programming languages, frameworks, and architectures that have the potential to radically simplify software development for wireless sensor network based applications. The aim of these new architectures is to support flexible, scalable programming of applications based on adaptive middleware, and agile hardware. Moreover the design of new complex systems, characterized by the interaction of different and heterogeneous resources, requires the development of innovative applications to meet high performance quality of service demands. Hence, WSNs will benefit from contributions from many fields such as embedded systems, distributed systems, real-time data acquisition and data fusion, wireless protocols, and system security.

The aim of the conference is to create a forum in which researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, business leaders, intellectual property experts, and venture capitalists may work together in order to compare and debate different innovative solutions.

The conference will feature a highly selective technical program consisting of regular research papers, short papers, and posters as well as specialized tracks at the intersection of business and technology.

IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: 27 January 2012 Notification deadline: 16 March 2012 Camera-ready submission deadline: 03 April 2012 PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in Springer's LNICST series and will appear in the SpringerLink, one of the largest digital libraries online that covers a variety of scientific disciplines, as well as in the ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). Extended versions of selected best papers will be published in a Special Issue of Emerging Internet Infrastructures.

Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. The specific topics of the conference, related to wireless sensor networks and wireless multimedia sensor networks, include but are not limited to:

Sensor Application Programming Paradigms; Sensor Application Development Support Systems; Sensor Network Middleware; Sensor Web Integration; Novel Sensor Applications; Sensor Prototypes & Testbed Deployments Underwater, Underground, and Airborne Wireless Sensor Networking; Cooperative Sensing; Capacity Planning and Admission Control, Especially for Multimedia Sensor Networks; Resource Management and QoS Provisioning; Resource and Service Discovery; Sensor Energy Management; Self-Organization and Network Management; Security, Privacy & Trust; P2P, Overlay, and Content Distribution Architectures for Sensor Networks; Mobile Sensor Networking, Vehicular Sensor Networks and Protocols Pervasive/Embedded Solutions Data Models Oriented to Wireless Distributed Applications Distributed Coordination Algorithms Including Clustering and Topology Control Localization, Time Synchronization, Coverage, Connectivity and Deployment Issues Wireless Sensor Network Management and Monitoring Modeling, Analysis, and Performance Evaluation Mesh Networking Connectivity to Sensor Networks Learning from Sensor Data For submission details, please visit: http://s-cubeconference.org/2012/show/initial-submission

COMMITTEES

Organising Committee

General Chair: Francisco Martins, University of Lisbon, Portugal Technical Programme: Luís Lopes, University of Porto, Portugal Local Chair: Hervé Paulino, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Web Chairs: Ana Lúcia Rodrigues, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal Rúben Quintas, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal

Steering Committee:

Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy Sabrina Sicari Università degli studi dell'Insubria, Italy Stephen Hailes University College of London, UK

Programme Committee:

Alberto Coen Porisini, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy Alicia Asín Pérez, Libelium, Spain Ana Aguiar, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Animesh Pathak, INRIA, France Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK Eli Katsiri, Birkbeck College University of London, UK Fausto Vieira, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal Francisco Martins, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK Hervé Paulino, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal JeongGil Ko, Johns Hopkins University, USA João Gama, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Luís Lopes, University of Porto, Portugal Mattia Monga, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Ming Zhao, Florida International University, USA Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham, UK Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Philip Morrow, University of Ulster, UK Sabrina Sicari, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy Stephen Hailes, University College of London, UK Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Traian Abrudan, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

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