WTA 2012 Call for Papers

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The 8th International Symposium on Wireless sensor network Technologies
and Applications for Smart Space (WTA 2012)


Jeju, Korea, November 22-25, 2012


http://www.ftrai.org/wcc2012/wta
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***Important Notice***

[Important Date]
Submission due: May 20, 2012 (Extended)

[Special Issues]
The final versions of ALL accepted papers in the conference/workshop will be included in the special issue of SCI/E indexed international journal for full papers and
LNEE, HCIS, IJITCC, JIPS, JoC for regular papers.

Full Paper :
* INFORMATION - International Information Institute (SCIE)

Regular Paper :
* Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer
* Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer
* International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - InderScience
* Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) - Korea Information Processing Society
* Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA Publishing
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Introduction
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The 8th International Symposium on Wireless sensor network Technologies and Applications for Smart Space (WTA 2012) will be held in Jeju, Korea, November 22-25, 2012. Smart Spaces (SS) represents an advanced communication environment featuring daily-life objects that continuously involve and are focused on final non-expert users. SS has rapidly emerged as an exciting new paradigm that tends to include different active research fields such as ubiquitous, grid, and P2P computing. SS environments have recently raised tremendous interests in both the academic and the industrial research communities as one of the most promising application fields for pervasive computing services. The WTA 2012 aims to address system and network issues for SS communications. It will solicit both original research papers and review articles that enhance the state-of-the-art in these fields, including topics like effective context extraction and representation, context-based service discovery, context-based service composition, integration of legacy systems and services, security theory, business models, and novel applications that are associated with SS utilization. The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three independent reviewers and will be selected on the basis of their quality and relevance to the theme of this conference. WTA 2012 is the next event in a series of highly successful symposium on wireless sensor network technologies and applications for SS (WTA), previously held as WTA-11 (Jeju, Korea, Dec 2010), WTA-10 (Gwangju, Korea, Dec 2010), SH-10 (Busan, Korea, May 2010), SH-09
(Toronto, Canada, July 2009), SH-08 (Hainan, China, Dec. 2008), SH-07 (Jeju, Korea, Dec. 2007), IWSH-06 (Jeju, Korea, Nov. 2006).

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Topics
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Original contributions, not currently under review to another journal or conference, are solicited in relevant areas including, but not limited to, the following:
- Wearable intelligence in SS
- Wireless sensor networks (WSN) / RFID application for SS
- Network Middleware and protocols for SS
- WSN and Context awareness model for SS
- Smart and Personal Devices for SS
- Embedded hardware and software for SS
- Real-time OS for SS
- Power-aware Computing for SS
- Smart building applications and services
- Multimedia security and services in SS
- Authentication, access control, and privacy protection for SS
- Commercial and industrial applications for SS
- Grid and Cloud Computing
- Green Computing

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Organization
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Steering Chairs
James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea
Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan

General Chairs
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea
Sajid Hussain, Fisk University, USA Sajid.Hussain@acadiau.ca
Sangjin Lee, Korea University, Korea

Program Chairs
Changhoon Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea
Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Yu Chen, State University of New York - Binghamton, USA
Jen Juan Li, North Dakota State University, USA
Hongxue (Harris) Wang, Athabasca University, Canada

Publicity Chair
Young-Gab Kim, Korea University, Korea
Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia
Jose Neuman de Souza, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Brazil

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Important Dates
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Step 1: Conference Process

Paper submission due: May 20, 2012 (Extended)
1st Author notification: June 10, 2012
Revised paper due: June 30, 2012
2nd Author notification: July 15, 2012
Registration Due: July 30, 2012
Presentation Material due: July 30, 2012
Conference days: Nov. 22-25, 2012


Step 2: Journal Process

Final notification due: Dec. 15, 2012
Camera-ready paper due: Dec. 30, 2012
Journal Publication: 2nd or 3rd Quarter, 2013 (Tentative)

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Submission
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Submission Guidelines :
All submissions must be written in English. They must contain no information identifying the author(s) or their affiliation(s).
All papers must be submitted in an electronic format which conforms to the workshop proceedings style and submitted as DOC or PDF files.
Papers must strictly adhere to page limits (8-10 pages for Full Papers, 4-5 pages for Regular Papers).
Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.

As you can see the CFP, final version of all accepted and presented papers in this conference will be included in the special issue of the following international journal indexed by SCI/E and KCIE.
We are planning to accept about many high quality papers for the this Symposium, and all of them, after presentation at the symposium, will be included in these special issues.

Full Paper :
* INFORMATION - International Information Institute (SCIE)

Regular Paper :
* Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer
* Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer
* International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - InderScience
* Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) - Korea Information Processing Society
* Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA Publishing


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Contact
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If you have any questions about the CFPs and papers submission, please email to
Dr. Kitae Jeong (kite.jeong@gmail.com) or Prof. Changhoon Lee(changhoon.ftrai@gmail.com)