Call for Papers: Second Workshop on Sensor-Enabled SItuational Awareness SESA
2012
in Conjunction with CPS Week, Beijing, China, April 16, 2012
http://cert.ics.uci.edu/sesa2012/index.html
Advances in sensing and multimedia data capture technologies coupled with
mechanisms for low power wireless networking have enabled the possibility of
creating deeply instrumented physical spaces. Embedded sensors and data capture
devices in such environments have potential to capture the state of the
evolving physical systems and processes creating situational awareness of the
activities in the instrumented space. Situational awareness, in a broad sense,
refers to a continuum of knowledge that captures the current state of the
physical environments being observed, to future projected states of these
observed environments. Such situational awareness offers opportunities to
realizing new functionalities and / or bringing transformational improvements
in many application domains.
While the potential of sensor enabled situational awareness is well recognized,
its realization poses numerous challenges which are being actively pursued by
the research communities in different disciplines ranging from embedded
computing, networking, distributed systems, middleware, data management,
software engineering, machine learning, to privacy and security. On the
application side, sensor enabled situational awareness forms a critical core
for several of the emerging applications including environmental monitoring,
Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems. The purpose of this workshop is
to serve as a multidisciplinary forum to bring researchers from diverse
disciplines to discuss the state of the art, identify new emerging challenges
and opportunities. With CPS week hosting several conferences related to the
domain of cyber physical systems, including IPSN and ICCPS, SESA serves as a
fitting venue to discuss the broad challenges in the domain before specific
challenges are addressed in each of these conferences. The workshop will
comprise contributed and invited papers, a keynote and a panel on topics as
outlined below.
List of Topics:
We solicit papers/contributions related (but not limited) to the following
themes:
New sensing modalities - e.g., audio/video sensors, mobile phone based sensing,
human sensors and social networking as information sources.
Novel applications of sensor enabled situational awareness.
Programming methodologies /abstractions that overcome complexities due to
sensor heterogeneity, uncertainty, and errors in sensor data.
Modeling & understanding observed environments.
Context reasoning and aggregation leading to situational awareness.
Scalability and robustness of sensor driven systems that continuously monitor
physical spaces.
Privacy challenges due to fine-grained sensor data capture.
Take advantage of diversity of communication methodologies aware.
Energy aware applications optimizing on limited battery capacity even when it
comes to today's smartphones.
Experiences in building sensor driven situational awareness.
Paper Submission:
A submission should report on original, previously unpublished research that is
not being concurrently considered elsewhere for publication in a journal or
conference. A submission consists of up to 8 single-spaced pages using at least
11-point Times Roman font and one-inch margins on all sides on A4 or letter
sized pages.
The page limit includes title page, references, figures, and tables. Extra
material, such as additional experiments, proofs, and graphs, can be included
in a clearly-marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the
program committee. Submissions deviating from these guidelines will not be
reviewed. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the
workshop and present the paper.
Submissions must be entered online through Easychair following the submissions
link:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sesa2012
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: Jan 30th, 2012
Acceptance Notification: Feb. 22nd 2012
Camera Ready: Mar. 15th, 2012
Workshop Date: Apr. 16th, 2012
Wing C. Lau
Associate Professor
Department of Information Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tel: +852-3943-8356
Fax: +852-2603-5032
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~wclau
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