IPSN 2010

The 9th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks April 12-16, 2010, Stockholm, Sweden
http://ipsn.acm.org/2010/

Extended Early Registration Deadline: March 15, 2010

The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2010) draws upon many disciplines including networking, signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases, information management, distributed algorithms, embedded systems, wireless communications, and machine learning. In addition to full-length technical papers, IPSN is very interested in showcasing demonstrations of novel sensor network technology, applications, and hardware as well as posters showing exiting early work. IPSN encourages both academic and industrial submissions. The poster and demo session does not distinguish between the IP track and the SPOTS track; submissions of interest to both tracks are welcome. Submissions will be evaluated based on technical merit and innovation as well as their potential to stimulate interesting discussions and exchange of ideas at the conference.

Submission Instructions for Posters:

Abstracts of accepted posters will appear in the regular conference proceedings. The content should be a two-page abstract in PDF format that follows the IPSN regular-paper formatting guidelines, please refer to the IPSN regular-paper submission instructions for details. A poster need not describe completed work; it should report on research for which at least preliminary results are available.

Submissions to the poster session are being handled through the submission site:

https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=ipsn10

Submission Instructions for Demonstrations:

Abstracts of accepted demos will appear in the regular conference proceedings. The content should be a two-page abstract in PDF format that follows the IPSN regular-paper formatting guidelines, please refer to the IPSN regular-paper submission instructions for details. Be as specific as possible in describing what you will demonstrate. The demo session will have a table per demo, power, and wireless connectivity available. If a demonstration requires special arrangements in addition to the above, please describe them clearly in the demo abstract submission.

Submissions to the demo session are being handled through the submission site:

https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=ipsn10

Important Dates:

Poster and demo submission deadline: February 12, 2010, 11:59pm (PST)
Notification of acceptance: February 19, 2010
Camera-ready abstracts due: February 26, 2010
Conference dates: April 12-16, 2010

For clarifications, contact the IPSN 2010 posters/demos chair, Vijay Raghunathan (vr@purdue.edu).
For more information, visit http://ipsn.acm.org/2010/demoPoster.html


CONFERENCE SCOPE:

The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) is a leading, single-track, annual forum on sensor network research. IPSN brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Its scope includes signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases and information management, distributed algorithms, networks and protocols, wireless communications, machine learning, and embedded systems design.

The conference features two interleaved tracks, the Information Processing (IP) track, and the Sensor Platforms, Tools and Design Methods (SPOTS) track. The two tracks have separate program committees to evaluate their submissions. Authors should carefully review the intended foci of these two tracks to decide which track is better suited for their work, and they are encouraged to contact program chairs with questions or clarifications.

The Information Processing (IP) track focuses on algorithms, systems, theory for information processing using networks of embedded sensors. Topics covered in this track include, but are not limited to:

- Applications and deployment experiences
- Coding, compression and information theory
- Data processing, storage and management
- Detection, classification, and tracking
- Distributed algorithms and reasoning
- Distributed and collaborative signal processing
- Fault tolerance and identification
- Fundamental bounds and formulations
- Location, time, and other network services
- Operating systems and runtime environments
- Network health monitoring and management
- Network protocols
- Programming models and languages
- Security
- Sensor tasking, control, and actuation
- Simulation

The Sensor Platforms, Tools, and Design Methods (SPOTS) track focuses on networked embedded sensor platforms and tools. Submissions are expected to refer to specific hardware, software, and implementations. The SPOTS track focuses on new architectures, modeling, evaluation, design methods, implementations, tools, or deployment experiences. Results focused on the analysis and processing aspects of data collected from deployments should be submitted to the IP track, while details on the platforms and tools used in the deployment should be submitted to SPOTS. Topics covered in the SPOTS track include, but are not limited to:

- Case studies that describe experiences, highlight challenges, and study/compare the performance of platforms and tools
- Novel sensor network components, device platforms and architectures
- Embedded software for sensor networks
- Design tools and methodologies for sensor networks
- System modeling, simulation, measurements, and analysis


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

All papers must be submitted electronically, in Portable Document Format (PDF). Instructions for submission will be available at the IPSN'08 website (http://ipsn.acm.org/2010/). Submissions must meet the following criteria:

- A paper must be original material that has neither been previously published nor is currently under review by another conference or journal, and
- Submitted papers should be no longer than 12 pages in ACM 10-point, two-column conference format.


IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

Abstract deadline: Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Full papers due: Friday, October 30th, 2009
Author notification: Friday, January 22, 2010
Camera ready due: Friday, February 19, 2010
Extended Early Registration Deadline: March 15, 2010
Conference: April 12-16, 2010


ORGANIZATION

General Chair: Andreas Savvides, Yale
Publicity Chair: Neal Patwari, Univ. of Utah
Workshop Chair: Brano Kusy, Stanford
Demos and Poster Chair: Vijay Raghunathan, Purdue
Publications Chair: Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Microsoft Research


IPSN TPC co-chairs
Tarek Abdezaher (UIUC) and Thiemo Voigt (SICS)

IPSN TPC co-chairs
* Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC) and Thiemo Voigt (SICS)

IPSN TPC:
* Anders Ahlen, Uppsala Univ.
* Anish Arora, Ohio State Univ.
* Qing Cao, Univ. Tennessee
* Carlo Fischione, KTH
* Ramesh Govindan, USC
* Xenofon Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt
* Jie Liu, Microsoft Research
* Sotiris Nikoletseas, Univ. of Patras and CTI
* Andreas Terzis, Johns Hopkins Univ.
* Deepak Ganesan, UMass
* Phil Gibbons, Intel
* Tian He, Univ. Minnesota
* Mikael Johansson, KTH, Sweden
* Brad Karp, UCL
* Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC
* Chenyang Lu, Washington Univ. in St. Louis
* Miklos Maroti, Univ. Szeged, Hungary
* Luca Mottola, SICS
* Suman Nath, Microsoft Research
* Radha Poovendran, Univ. Washington
* Utz Roedig, Univ. of Lancaster
* Kay Römer, ETH
* Paolo Santi, Pisa
* Cormac Sreenan, Univ. College Cork
* Jack Stankovic, UVA
* Roger Wattenhofer, ETH
* Matt Welsh, Harvard


SPOTS TPC Chair
* Adam Wolisz (TU Berlin)

SPOTS TPC:
* Jan Beutel, ETH
* Prabal Dutta, UC Berkeley, Michigan
* Michel Goraczko, Microsoft Research
* Ralph Kling, Crossbow
* Akos Ledeczi, Vanderbilt
* Pedro Jose Marron, Uni Bonn
* Joe Polastre, Sentilla
* Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin
* Kamin Whitehouse, UVA