[Tccc] Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Sensor-Enabled Situational Awareness (SESA), April 2012, Beijing
Pushpendra Singh
psingh
Mon Jan 23 09:41:22 EST 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
Second Workshop on Sensor-Enabled Situational Awareness (SESA
2012)<http://cert.ics.uci.edu/sesa2012/index.html>
In conjunction with CPS Week, Beijing, China, April 16, 2012
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 instructions:
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: January 30, 2012
Acceptance Notification: February 22, 2012
Camera Ready: March 15, 2012
Workshop Date: April 16, 2012
Organizing Committee
General Chairs
Wing Cheong Lau, Chinese University of HK,
China<wclau at ie.cuhk.edu.hk?subject=SESA%202012>
Amarjeet Singh, IIIT New Delhi,
India<amarjeet at iiitd.ac.in?subject=%20SESA%202012>
Program Chairs
Sharad Mehrotra, UC Irvine, USA
Mohan Kumar, UT Arlington, USA
Panel Chair
Krishna Kant,
Publicity Chair:
Pushpendra Singh (IIIT New Delhi,
India)<psingh at iiitd.ac.in?subject=SESA%202012>
International Technical Program Committee:
Umesh Bellur, IIT Bombay, India.
Raffaele Bruno, National Research Council, Italy.
Yong Cui, Tsinghua University, China.
Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA.
Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia.
Sanjay Jha, University of New South Wales, Sydney,Australia.
Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, USA.
Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Krishna Kant, The National Science Foundation, USA.
Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA.
Wing Cheong Lau, Chinese University of HK, China.
Sharad Mehrotra, University of California, Irvine, USA.
Prabhat Ranjan, AAIICT, Gandhinagar, India.
Chinya Ravisankar, University of California, Riverside, USA.
Nirmalya Roy, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore.
Devasenapathi Seetharamakrish, IBM Research India.
Amarjeet Singh, IIIT New Delhi, India.
Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Dan Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China.
Wendong Xiao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore.
Nalini Venkatasubramanian,University of California, Irvine,USA.
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