Hong Kong SAR, China, May 2008 Call for Papers Important Dates Committees Paper Submission Advance Program (new) Registration Events

The First ACM International Workshop on Heterogeneous Sensor and Actor Networks HeterSanet 2008 Hong Kong SAR, China, May 27, 2008 (co-located with ACM MobiHoc) Call for Papers The advent of nano-technology and advances in communications has made it technologically feasible and economically viable to develop low-power devices that integrate general-purpose computing with multi-purpose sensing and wireless communications capabilities. It is expected that sensor networks will have a significant impact on a wide array of applications ranging from military, to scientific, to industrial, to health-care, to domestic, to environmental, establishing ubiquitous wireless sensor networks that redefines the way in which we live and work. Recent years have witnessed an increasing availability of heterogeneous sensor networks that integrate sensor networks with actuators/actors and existing infrastructure networks. Such integration provides several key technical advantages including significant improvement of sensor networks' capacity/coverage, ubiquitous access of physical information and involvement of people (e.g., mobile phone users) in the process of information gathering and sharing. As a result, a range of new context and location-aware pervasive computing applications will be enabled. Actuators are simple devices programmed to take immediate, one-shot, action in response to sensory input. Actors are more sophisticated entities that, in addition to actuating can provide a meaningful, long-term, interaction with the environment. This long-term interaction presupposes intelligent coordination with both the sensory data but also with anticipated changes in the environment. The resulting augmented version of sensor networks is commonly referred to as Sensor Actor Networks (SANET). A technical trend is to integrate SANETs with existing infrastructure networks like wired networks, wireless local/wide-area networks and cellular networks. For instance, mobile phones in urban environments can serve as sensors and collect image, audio, video and location information, which is used to control actuators/actors in a context-aware manner. New business models and incentives should be sought to allow mobile phone users to participate in the creation and provision of sensor and actuators/actors based services. The workshop seeks to provide a forum for the presentation of research results on the heterogeneous sensor and actor networks. Possible topics of interests include, but are not limited to: Autonomous sensor networks Communication protocols for swarms of mobile actors Biologically inspired communication and ecological sensor/actor systems Sensor-actor and actor-actor coordination Integration of sensor/actor networks with the future Internet architecture Network support for creation and deployment of sensor/actor based services Interconnection between sensor/actor networks and 3G networks Multimedia (audio/video) sensor and actor networks Delay-tolerant sensor and actor networks Sensor database systems and operating systems Addressing, position determination, service and location discovery Sensor area coverage, data-centric operations Data communication, routing and broadcasting protocols Traffic engineering and multimedia, Quality of Service (QoS) Resource management and scheduling Application of RFID in sensor/actor networks Security for integrated and heterogeneous sensor/actor network systems Performance evaluation, testbeds, modeling and simulation. Important Dates Submission deadline (extended): March. 6, 2008 Acceptance notification: March 20, 2008 Workshop: May 27, 2008 Submission Details Papers should be submitted in PDF format via email. Submissions must be correctly formatted to fit on no more than 8 U.S. "Letter" pages (8.5 inches wide by 11 inches tall). The margin is at least 1 inch on all edges (top, bottom, left, and right) of each page. The size of font should be at least 10 point. Organization Committee General Co-chair: Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong General Co-chair: Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Swittzerland Program Co-Chair: Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain Program Co-Chair: Guoliang Xing, City University of Hong Kong Program Co-Chair: Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Steering Committee Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Swittzerland Srdjan Krco, Ericsson Ireland David Simplot-Ryl, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France Technical Program Committee Hady AbdelSalam, Old Dominion University, USA Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Alan Bertossi, University of Bologna, Italy  Levente Buttyan, Budapest Univ. of Tech. & Economics, Hungary Tiziana Calamoneri, University of Rome, Italy Guillaume Chelius, INRIA, France Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales Marco Conti, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, CNR Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington Mischa Dohler, France Telecom Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA Hannes Frey, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Science SUPSI Alexandar Gluhak, Ericsson Ireland Research Centre Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Michaël Hauspie, University of Lille 1, France Qingfeng Huang, PARC Inc. François Ingelrest, EPFL, Switzerland Kennie Jones, NASA Langley, USA Raja Jurdak, UCD Ireland Thomas Kunz, Carleton University Miguel A. Labrador, Univ. of South Florida Benyuan Liu, University of Massachusetts Lowell Hai Liu, Univ. of Ottawa Pedro M. Ruiz Martinez, Universidad de Murcia, Spain Nathalie Mitton, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France Amy Murphy, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST Muhammad Farukh Munir, Eurecom, France Sotiris Nikoletseas, CTI Patras, Greece Andrea Passarella IIT-CNR, Italy Dirk Pesch, CIT Cork Cristina Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy Neeli Prasad, Aalborg University Koichi Wada, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Dan Wang, HK Polytechnic Univ. Jianping Wang, City Univ. of HK Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University and NSF, USA Juan A. Sanchez, Univ. of Murcia Leo Selavo, University of Latvia Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork John Stankovic, University of Virginia David Symplot, Univ. of Murcia Vlasios Tsiatsis, Ericsson Research Sweden Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland, USA Gang Zhou, College of William and Marry Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh, USA