======================================================== Call For Papers: Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement 2011 (SWE 2011)
http://sensorweb.geomatics.ucalgary.ca/swe2011 Twitter: @swe2011 As part of The 2011 Cybera Summit on Data For All - Opening up the Cloud The Banff Centre October 6th and 7th, 2011 Banff, Alberta, Canada You are invited to participate in the SWE 2011 Workshop as part of the Cybera Summit 2011 for two days of presentations, discussion and networking to be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The SWE 2011 workshop will host 4 sessions exclusively to sensor web topics such as best practices, demos, platform applications, and the future of sensor web. Participants are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on the above and other topics related to sensor web platforms and open data topics. In addition, this year SWE 2011 joins the Cybera Summit 2011 conference (http://www.cybera.ca/summit2011/schedule). The Summit Program will cover the evolution of the cloud and open data applications, and how those developments are driving technological and cultural change in both business and academia. Participants and speakers will explore how open, shared and cloud technologies are helping to connect people and resources like never before. Call For Papers The programme of the two-day conference will include fully refereed paper presentations, short paper presentations, panels, and demos. Accepted refereed papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of an international journal (pending) to be published in 2012. Important Dates Abstract due: July 15th 2011 Full Paper due: July 30th 2011 Notification and Acceptance: August 22nd 2011 Registration and Camera Ready due: September 9th 2011 Background Distributed sensor networks are attracting more and more interest in applications for large-scale monitoring of the environment, civil structures, roadways, natural landscapes, and wildlife habitats, etc. With the rapidly increasing number of large-scale sensor network deployments, the vision of a World-Wide Sensor Web (WSW) is becoming a reality. Similar to the World-Wide Web (WWW), which acts essentially as a "World-Wide Computer", the Sensor Web can be considered as a "World-Wide Sensor" or a "cyberinfrastructure" that instruments and monitors the physical world at temporal and spatial scales that was previously impossible. The WSW will generate tremendous volumes of priceless data, enabling scientists to observe previously unobservable phenomena. Sensor web examples include US’s National Ecological Observatory Networks (NEON), Canada’s NEPTUNE and GeoCENS, Korea’s Ubiquitous City (uCity), EU’s EuroGEOSS, etc. In addition, we are also seeing the emergence of citizen sensing systems that use the ubiquitous and location-enabled nature of mobile phones to build large-scale urban sensing systems that using the phones as mobile sensor nodes. Such citizen sensing systems include the Mobile Millennium project, the CycleSense project, and TrafficPulse, etc. Scope and Objectives Similar to the W3C Web standards enabling the WWW, the Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards enable researchers and developers to make sensing resources (including both observations made by sensors and sensors’ remote control capabilities) discoverable, accessible, and re-useable via the Web. The first version of the SWE standards was made available by OGC in 2005, and the second version was released in 2011. While the standards continue to evolve, it is evidenced that government agencies, industry and academia are realizing the World-Wide Sensor Web vision by adopting the SWE standards. The SWE workshop aims to bring together sensor web experts to present and discuss the latest ideas about the Sensor Web, its infrastructure, relevant algorithms and new innovative applications. The SWE workshop also aims to serve as a forum for Sensor Web users, developers and researchers to debate and discuss the current state-of-the-art and to shape the future of the Sensor Web. We especially welcome real world results and deployments of the sensor web system. Workshop topics include (but not limited to): o Sensor Web platforms and tools o Sensor Web applications, deployments, and best practices o Sensor Web standards and standard implementations o Convergence of GeoWeb, sensor web, social web, and semantic web o SWE Applications o SWE Environments o Usage Techniques o SWE Standards and Implementations including Private, Commercial, and Open Source o Sensor Web Data Visualization o Sensor Web Data Uncertainty Management o Sensor Web Data Management (e.g., Indexing, Caching, Query Processing) o Sensor Web Data Discovery and Search o SWE Deployment and Real-world Applications o SWE Implementations Benchmarks o SWE Enhancements and Extensions (including use of ontologies, support for semantic annotations, semantic sensor Web or semantic sensor networks, smart sensing, peer-to-peer computing, virtual sensors and cloud computing for SWE) o Workflow Integration and Provenance Management with SWE o Interoperable Middleware Architectures for heterogeneous Sensor Networks/Sensor Web o Programming Abstraction of Sensor Network Mapping to Complex Scientific Modeling Domains o Experiences and Potential Future Directions for this Collaboration Standard o Sensor Web security Submission Instructions https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swe2011 Workshop Organizers General and Local Chair: Steve Liang, University of Calgary Programme Chair: Yong Liu, NCSA Publicity Chair: Yan Xu, Microsoft Research Technical Programme Committee All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special workshop technical program committee members. # Payam M. Barnaghi, University of Surrey, UK # Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia # Yong Chen, University of Iowa, USA # Kenneth Chiu, SUNY Binghamton, USA # Joe Futrelle, WHOI, USA # Jason O. Hallstrom, Clemson University, USA # Xinrong Li, University of North Texas, USA # Steve Liang, University of Calgary, CAN # Yong Liu, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA # Christian Michl, KISTERS, Australia # Bernd Resch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA # Arjmand Samuel, Microsoft Research, USA # Ingo Simonis, GSRS, Germany # Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan # Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA # Yang Yue, Wuhan University, China # Chenyang Zhang, TeraData Corporation, USA For information or questions about the workshop and the paper submission procedure, please contact the Workshop organizers. For information or questions about the full Symposium's program, travel, accommodations and registration please consult the Summit 2011 website at http://www.cybera.ca/summit2011. -- Dr. Steve H.L. Liang, Ph.D. P.Eng. Assistant Professor AITF-Microsoft Scholar in Open Sensor Web Department of Geomatics Engineering Schulich School of Engineering University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Tel: (403)220-4703 Fax: (403)284-1980 http://sensorweb.geomatics.ucalgary.ca http://www.geocens.ca Twitter: @steveliang _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
