Special Session on Green Wireless Sensor Networks (GWSN'12)
http://soco.usal.es/?q=node/50

Under the framework of The 7th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (SOCO'12)
will be held on 5-8th September, 2012 in OSTRAVA, CZECH REPUBLIC
http://soco.usal.es

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= General Information =
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Typically, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) represent a significant technology attracting research interests from various disciplines.
Sensors and sensor networks have an essencial impact in meeting environmental challenges.
Green WSNs decreased energy usage by the overall network as well as its actual application that permits environmental information to be contextually presented and
communicated with concerned urban community as well as decision makers. WSN applications in multiple fields such as environmental monitoring,
smart buildings, ubiquitous living spaces, green technology, telecommunications, and smart industrial process control
significantly contribute to more efficient use of resources.
Generalization of soft computing concept for the embedded, distributed, adaptive systems represented in WSNs plays an essencial role for information
processing in complex wireless sensor environments with uncertain, imprecise, fuzzy measuring data. For example, applying a combination of embedded fuzzy logic
and artificial neural networks models as neuro-fuzzy systems in WSNs for information processing utilizes soft computing
approach to increase performance of WSNs and makes them more intelligent considering cost-effective usage of resources.
The goal of this special session is to gather people from academia and industry for discussing the most emerging issues and
future challenges in the area of WSNs. Moreover, it aims at providing a scientific forum for researchers, engineers, system designers, and students
to present and discuss recent advances in the areas of energy saving, environmental monitoring, intelligent environments, and Soft-computing based green technology.

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= Topics of Interest =
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Submissions are invited in, but not limited to, any of the following areas:

? Soft-computing based environmental monitoring and surveillance systems
? Soft-computing based WSN applications
? Energy conservation techniques for WSNs
? Soft-computing based energy efficient routing and data dissemination in WSNs
? Implanted and Body sensor networks (BSNs)
? Ubiquitous Sensor Networks (USNs)
? Soft-computing based green technology
? Biologically inspired WSNs
? Soft-computing based localization, time-synchronization and positioning algorithms
? Communication techniques and routing protocols
? Scalability, robustness, energy efficiency issues
? Reliability, self-healing and recovery procedures
? Security and privacy issues
? WSN attack analysis
? Soft-computing based cost-effective routing mechanisms
? WSN modeling, Simulation tools, operating systems and middleware
? Prototypes, test-beds and field measurements

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= Submission Guidelines =
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Authors are invited to submit manuscripts written in English. All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field based on originality,
significance, quality and clarity. All contributions must be original, should not have been published elsewhere and should not be intended
to be published elsewhere during the review period. Accepted papers will be included in SOCO 2012 Proceedings that will published by Springer Verlag.

Papers must be prepared according to Springer's templates (MS Word or LaTeX format) for the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
volume series www.springer.com/series/4240. Papers should not exceed 10 pages and must comply with the format of AISC Series
(see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website - Word Template).
NOTICE: All papers for SOCO'12 must be initially submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the SOCO'12 submission system.

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= Important Dates =
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Paper submission deadline: 2-May-2012
Acceptance notification: 20-May-2012
Final camera-ready submission: 30-May-2012

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= Session Chairs =
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Nashwa El-Bendary
Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport
Cairo, Egypt
nashwa.elbendary@ieee.org
nashwa.elbendary@egyptscience.net


Aboul Ella Hassanien
Cairo University
Faculty of Computers and Information
Cairo, Egypt
abo@egyptscience.net