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Call for Papers SensorFusion-09

July 13-16, Toronto, Canada

Website - http://cs.acadiau.ca/~shussain/sf-09


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SensorFusion'09 is the Third International Workshop on Information Fusion and
Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks, which is organized in conjunction with
the Sixth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems:
Computing, Networking and Services, http://www.mobiquitous.org/.

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Description
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The convergence of the Internet, wireless communications, and information processing
technologies with techniques for miniaturization has opened up new vistas of research
for sensor networks. Emerging technologies for sensing and pervasive computing have
placed sensor networks at the threshold of a period of major growth. It has extended
information fusion and dissemination in sensor networks from data aggregation, association
and monitoring of interactions among hardware and software entities in ubiquitous computing
environments to intelligent information processing for the next generation wireless internet.
For the emerging hybrid sensor networks, information fusion can help in the seamless
integration of smart sensors and actuators, devices and capabilities, software and hardware
agents, sensor network applications and sensor nodes, distributed and collaborative
algorithms, different communication technologies, different networking architectures, etc.,
all over wireless or wire-line backbones.

The aim of this workshop is to provide a focal point for recent advances in this
foundational area of information fusion and dissemination for sensor networks across
different paradigms, disciplines and technologies.

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Topics
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Programmable architectures and infrastructures
- Scalable, adaptive, self-organizing and self-healing architectures
- Multi-sensor, multi-source information networking architectures
- Intelligent, autonomous, seamless, pervasive, multi-sensor information processing
- Information fusion and dissemination in mesh networks
- Data collection, compression/decompression and mining
- Distributed database processing in sensor networks
- In-network processing, aggregation and data association
- Protocol development for information fusion
- Cross Layer Protocol design using Information Fusion
- Energy and mobility management algorithms
- Node localization in sensor networks
- Information Fusion for Resource Allocation
- Quality of Service in sensor networks
- Integration of fusion and learning in sensor networks
- Integration of software and hardware agents
- Service discovery, creation and provisioning
- Authentication and secure communication and data fusion
- Integrated test-beds, experiments, algorithms and measurements
- Real-world sensor applications addressing information fusion

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Important Dates
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Submission of Papers April 15, 2009
Authors Notification May 15, 2009
Final Manuscripts June 1, 2009
Workshop July 13-16, 2009 (specific date TBD)

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Paper Submission
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Authors are invited to submit original papers that have neither been published nor
submitted for publication elsewhere, including web publication. Papers should be
submitted in PDF. All submissions will be refereed by at least 2 reviewers, and will
be handled electronically; check the website for more information. Accepted papers
will be published in the conference proceedings.

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JOURNAL
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The extended version of selective papers could be submitted for potential inclusion in a
special issue of a Journal (TBA).

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Organization
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** General Chairs **

Pratik K. Biswas, Telcordia Research, USA
Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada


** Program Chairs **

Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada
Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

** Publicity Chair **

Senol Z. Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey


** Program Committee (partial list) **

Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University, USA
Nauman Chaudhry, University of New Orleans, USA
Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy
Suprakash Datta, York University, Canada
Hakan Duman, University of Essex, UK
Rasit Eskicioglu, University of Manitoba, Canada
Jocelyne Fayn, INSERM ERM107, Lyon, France
Javier Garcia-Villalba, University of Madrid, Spain
Peter Graham, University of Manitoba, Canada
Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong Uni. of Science and Tech., China
Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada
Frederique Laforest, LIRIS Lab., Lyon, France
Zhigang Li, Northwestern Polytechnic. Uni., China
Antonio Liotta, University of Essex, UK,
Michael Marschollek, Technical University, Germany
Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster, UK
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Lab., Switzerland
Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung Uni., Taiwan
Hairong Qi, University of Tennessee, USA
Limin Sun, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Alessio Vecchio, University of Pisa, Italy
Haipeng Wang, Northwestern Polytechnic. Uni., China
Yuni Xia, Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. Indianapolis, USA
Naixue Xiong, JAIST, Japan