The 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2011)
- Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces -

http://cse.stfx.ca/~uic2011/

Technically Sponsored by IEEE CS TCSC
Banff, Canada, September 01-04, 2011
Co-located with ATC 2011 and IEEE HPCC 2011


== IMPORTANT DATES ==

Submission Deadline: April 15, 2011
Authors Notification: June 01, 2011
Final Manuscript Due: July 01, 2011


== PAPER SUBMISSION ==

Papers need to be prepared according to the LNCS format, and submitted in PDF format via the UIC 2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~uic2011/sub/

== PAPER PUBLICATION ==

Accepted conference papers are planned to be published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, SCIE and EI indexed). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the conference; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. Selected papers, after further extensions and revisions, will be published in special issues of prestigious journals on pervasive and ubiquitous computing.


The UIC 2011 topics include but are not limited to the following:

1. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Systems
* Sensor, Ad Hoc, Mesh & P2P Networks
* Social Networking and Computing
* Knowledge Representation and Ontology
* Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems
* Middleware and Intelligent Platforms
* Intelligent Services and Architectures
* Agents, Swarm and Context-aware Systems
* Nature-inspired Intelligent Systems

2. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Environments
* Smart Room, Home, Office, Laboratory
* Smart Shop, Hospital, Campus, City, etc.
* Smart Vehicle, Road, Traffic & Transportation
* Healthcare and Elder/Child Care Services
* Pervasive/Ubiquitous Media and Services
* Pervasive Learning, Games, Entertainment
* Other Intelligent/Smart Applications

3. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Objects
* Electronic Labels, Cards, E-Tags and RFID
* Embedded Chips, Sensors & Actuators
* MEMS, NEMS, Micro & Biometric Devices
* Smart Appliances and Wearable Devices
* Material, Textile, Cloth, Furniture, etc.
* Embedded Software and Agents
* Interaction to Smart Objects/Devices
* Smart Object OS and Programming

4. Personal/Social/Physical Aspects
* Real/Cyber World Modeling and Semantics
* User/Object Identity and Activity Recognition
* Adaptive User Interfaces and Tools
* Security, Privacy, Safety and Legal Issues
* Emotional, Ethical and Psychological Factors
* Implication & Impact of Ubiquitous Intelligence
* Relations between Real and Cyber Worlds

== COMMITTEE ==

Honorary Chair
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

General Chairs
M. Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Kay Chen Tan, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Program Chairs
Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Torben Weis, University of Duisburg, Germany
Woontack Woo, GIST, Korea

Program Vice Chairs

Workshop Chairs
Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
Waltenegus Dargie, Tech. Univ. of Dresden, Germany

Advisory Committee
Sumi Helal (Chair), University of Florida, USA
Norio Shiratori, Tohoku University, Japan
Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Max Muehlhaeuser, Darmstadt Univ. of Tech., Germany
Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China
Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China
Xingshe Zhou, Northwest Polytechnic Univ., China
Ahhwee Tan, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore

Steering Committee
Jianhua Ma (chair), Hosei University, Japan
Laurence T. Yang (chair), St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Sci. & Tech., China
Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany
Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
Daqing Zhang, Institute TELECOM SudParis, France

Publicity Chairs
Carlos Westphall, Federal Univ. of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China
Damien Sauveron, University of Limoges, France
Xingang Liu, Yonsei University, Korea
Mianxiong Dong, University of Aizu, Japan
Hao Chen, University of Florida, USA
Jiehan Zhou, University of Toronto, Canada
Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia
Senol Z. Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey

Panel Chairs
Daqing Zhang, Institute TELECOM SudParis, France
Ramiro Liscano, Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Tech., Canada

Demo/Exhibition Chairs
Gang Pan, Zhejiang University, China
Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China

Award Chairs
Judith Symonds, Auckland Univ. of Tech., New Zealand
Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea

Special Track Chairs
Zheng Yan, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia

International Liaison Chairs
Bessam Abdulrazak, Univ. Sherbrooke, Canada
Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo University College, Norway
Marius Portmann, University of Queensland, Australia
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Yo-Ping Huang, National Taipei Univ. of Tech., Taiwan

Industrial Liaison Chairs
Nagula Sangary, RIM, Canada
Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Centre Beijing, China

Local Chairs
Andy Yongwen Pan, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
Alice Ying Huang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
Shizheng Jiang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada

Web Chair
Chunsheng Zhu, St Francis Xavier University, Canada

Program Committee
See UIC 2011 website: http://cse.stfx.ca/~uic2011/