Scope

Current developments show that in the near future the wide availability of low cost, short range radio technology, along with advances in wireless networking, will enable wireless adhoc sensor networks to become commonly deployed. In these networks, each node may be equipped with a variety of sensors, such as acoustic, seismic, infrared, motion, biomedical and chemical sensors with higher level of information inference associated with identification, embedded signal processing and networking of the data. This conference intends to be the meeting point of researchers and practitioners share experience and ideas on innovative developments in any aspect of sensor networks, including Hardware of Sensor Networks, Wireless Communication Protocols, Sensor Networks Software and Architectures, Wireless Information Networks, Data Manipulation, Signal Processing, Localization and Object Tracking through Sensor Networks, Obstacles, Applications and Uses.
Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the proceedings of SENSORNETS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in presenting a demo or lecturing a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat.

Conference Areas

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:
1. SENSOR NETWORKS SOFTWARE AND ARCHITECTURES
2. WIRELESS INFORMATION NETWORKS
3. HARDWARE
4. DATA MANIPULATION
5. SIGNAL PROCESSING
6. OBSTACLES
7. APPLICATIONS AND USES


AREA 1: SENSOR NETWORKS SOFTWARE AND ARCHITECTURES

Internet of Things
Interoperability
Agent-based Simulation
Decision Support
Platforms and Operating Systems
Programming and Middleware
Connectivity and Communication
Scheduling, Tasking and Control

AREA 2: WIRELESS INFORMATION NETWORKS

Technologies and Standards
WiFi, ZigBee, WiMax, Bluetooth
Wireless Network Protocols
Routing Techniques
Network Architecture
Ad Hoc Networks
Hierarchical Networks
Wireless Mesh Networks
Network Performance
Power Management
Remote Sensing and Telemetry
Ubiquitous Computing

AREA 3: HARDWARE

Hardware Design, Fabrication Techniques
Packaging, Testing and Reliability
Electronic Interfaces
RFID Readers and Tags
MEMS
Swarm Sensors
Cooperating Objects
Sensor Types for Chemical and Biomedical Applications
Electronic Nose
Electronic Tongue

AREA 4: DATA MANIPULATION

Sensor Data Fusion
Data Visualization
Multi-sensor Data Processing
Aggregation, Classification and Tracking
Pattern Recognition
Reasoning on Sensor Data
Indexing and Publishing
Data Quality and Integrity

AREA 5: SIGNAL PROCESSING

Statistical and Adaptive Signal Processing
Sparse Signal Processing
Multimedia/Audio Signal Processing
Coding, and Compression
Distributed and Collaborative Signal Processing
Array Processing of Nonstationary Signals
Neural Networks
DNA Computing
Data Mining
Fault Detection

AREA 6: OBSTACLES

Security: Vulnerability and Privacy
Authentication
Data Overload
Real-time Constraints
Energy Efficiency
Fault Tolerance and Diagnosis
Environmental Impact Reduction
Self-healing
Infrastructure Reliability

AREA 7: APPLICATIONS AND USES

Smart Grids and Energy Control Systems
Industrial and Structural Monitoring
Environment Monitoring
Gas Analysis and Sensing
Measurement and Control of Water
Well-being and Well-working
Smart Buildings and Smart Cities
Home Monitoring and Assisted Living Applications
Healthcare
Medical Imaging
Wireless Surveillance
Defense and Security
Vehicular Networks
Aeronautical
Sport and Leisure
Smart Fabrics and Wearables

Paper Submission

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:

Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".



Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. Authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.

Publications

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).
Important Dates

Conference Date: 19 - 21 February, 2013
Regular Paper Submission: July 27, 2012
Authors Notification (regular papers): October 30, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: November 21, 2012
Secretariat

SENSORNETS Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +20 3014 9464
e-mail: sensornets.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.sensornets.org
Venue

The conference will be held at the Barceló Sants Hotel Barcelona, Spain.
The new Barceló Sants hotel is now taking off. Get ready to enjoy a unique trip in our completely renovated Orbital Rooms.
Located just on top of “Sants Estation” (now Sants Orbital Station), it has direct access to AVE (high speed train), metro and train network.

Conference Chair

César Benavente-Peces, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands
Octavian Postolache, Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal
Program Committee

Available soon.