INTELLIGENT SENSOR NETWORKS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
special track at the 7th
International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems, INCoS-2015
Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan September 2 – 4, 2015
http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/incos/2015/


TRACK CO-CHAIRS
Petr Musilek, University of Alberta, Canada
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, University of Alberta, Canada

TPC MEMBERS
Tim Brown, Australia National University
Mario Marcos do Espirito Santo, Universidad Stadual de Montes Claros, Brazil
Jana Heckenbergerova University Pardubice, Czech Republic
Zdenek Matej, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Michal Musilek, University Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
Michal Prauzek, VSB-TU OStrava, Czech Republic
Vaclav Prenosil, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Alvin C. Valera, National University of Singapore
Nasem Badr El Din, University of Alberta, Canada
Emil Pelikan, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

TRACK SCOPE
INCoS-2015 track on Intelligent Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring covers the latest advances in intelligent and adaptive solutions for environmental monitoring networks and collaborative systems. The ultimate aim is to stimulate research that will lead to the creation of autonomous, adaptive, secure, and intelligent systems for environmental monitoring.
This track seeks original contributions in all relevant areas, including but not limited to:
- Wireless sensor devices and networks
- Intelligent routing and wake-up scheduling techniques
- Energy harvesting for environmental monitoring systems
- Embedded systems for environmental monitoring
- Biologically-inspired methods for monitoring applications
- Soft computing techniques for design of intelligent monitoring systems
- Techniques of global and local optimization of monitoring networks
- Security, privacy and anonymity in monitoring systems
- Modeling, simulation and performance analysis of environmental monitoring systems
- Storage and management of environmental data
- Geospatial modelling and simulation
- E-science, big data and data analytics

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: April 10, 2015
Authors Notification: May 25, 2015
Author Registration: June 25, 2015
Final Manuscript: June 25, 2015
Conference Dates: September 2 - 4, 2015

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All submissions should be prepared according to Conference Proceedings Manuscript guidelines. Submission can be in one of the following categories:
Regular paper (8 pages), Short paper (4 pages), Poster paper (2 pages). All papers (including short and poster papers) will be published in the Conference proceedings. You can find instructions to format the Proceedings Manuscript, at the following web page:
http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/authors
Prepare your paper in PDF file (Adobe format), and submit it electronically to the INCoS-2015 submission system (see conference web page for instructions). Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance.

SPECIAL ISSUES
Papers presented at INCoS-2015 will be considered for publication in several Special Issues of International Journals.