AASN 2008

First International Workshop on Autonomous and Automated Sensor Networks, AASN

Summary and topics Thanks to technological advances, wired and wireless sensor networks are attracting an increasing attention that promotes their large-scale  deployments in many applications, such as environmental monitoring, military  surveillance, and scientific exploration. Continuous improvements are motivating works in addressing specific sensor network issues spanning  hardware, network protocols, architecture, operating systems, and applications. Furthermore, emergent needs to fulfill a variety of heterogeneous requirements are highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary networks that control  their processing and manage their resources by means of self-organizing  techniques. These techniques particularly require sharing the decision-making process over hundreds of low-power, short lifetimes sensors. The achievement of this goal is still facing an urgent and challenging question on how to provide  these spatially distributed sensors with reasonable autonomy that help them in performing  the right action, at the right time for the sake of fulfilling current  requirements while increasing the lifetime of the entire sensor network and  guaranteeing reliable and enduring pathway communications. Automating the sensor network activities is also an urgent and challenging issue especially  that commonly sensing devices are operating unattended in remote and hostile  areas where manual maintenance is nearly impossible. Since predefined and late decisions do not help much in improving the efficiency of networked sensing  devices, automation and autonomy are very important mechanisms in addressing  upcoming developments that target multi-services, collaborating, or competing  sensor networks. To reach these goals, the first International Workshop on Automated and Autonomous Sensor Networks is seeking novel ideas in the following topics  that include, but not limited to:

Heterogeneous sensor      networks Multi-service sensor      networks Sensor network control Automated sensing      activities Competing sensors or      sensor networks Collaborating sensors and      sensor networks Semantic-based management      of sensor networks Resource management in      sensor networks Context awareness in      sensor networks Self-organization and      self-adaptation in sensor networks New architectures and      protocols for sensor networks New sensor network      applications Sensor network maintenance Intelligent sensors and      sensor networks Data management in sensor      networks Data and resource sharing      in sensor networks

Chairs Nafaâ Jabeur (point of contact) Computer Science Department, Dhofar University Postal Code: 211 Salalah, Sultanate of Oman Email: nafaa_jabeur@du.edu.om Youssef Iraqi Computer Science Department, Dhofar University Postal Code: 211 Salalah, Sultanate of Oman Email: y_iraqi@du.edu.om Technical program committee

Phil Graniero, University of Windsor,   Canada Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Nabil Sahli, Telematica Institute, Netherlands Athanasios Gkelias, Imperial College, UK     Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario  Institute of Technology, Canada Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University, Oman Gregory S. Yovanof, Athens Information Technology, Greece Bernard Moulin, Laval University, Canada Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK Michael Lauer, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany Nafaa Jabeur, Dhofar University, Oman

Submission guidelines This Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF or MS Word files and should be  uploaded using the conference website. Full paper submissions should be in ACM format with a limit of 6 pages. Papers that fail to comply with length  limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3  independent reviewers of the PC. Selection criteria will include:  relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality   of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or  challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author  should attend the workshop to present the paper. The conference  Proceedings will be indexed by ACM Digital Libraries and published with an   ISBN. Important dates

Submission deadline: August 17th 2008 Acceptance notification: September 07th 2008 Camera ready papers: September 17th 2008 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP

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