Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement 2010 (SWE2010)
As part of The 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2010)


May 17-21, 2010
The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center
Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/10/main/callForPapers.jsp

Call for Papers
Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement 2010 (SWE2010)

Abstract Submission Deadline: December 18, 2009
Paper Submission Deadline: January 15, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: February 8, 2010
Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 1, 2010

Scope and Objectives

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc's Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards enable developers to make all types of sensors, transducers, and sensor data repositories discoverable, accessible, and useable via the Web. The SWE effort involves OGC members in developing the global framework of standards and best practices that make linking diverse sensor related technologies fast and practical. Standards make it possible for users to assemble sensor systems and components together efficiently; protect investments; reduce likelihood of dead-end technologies, products or approaches; allow for future expansion and encourage collaboration between Sensor Web components and users.

The first elements of the standards began to appear about four years ago in 2005. While the standards have continued to evolve and mature as they make their way through the OGC process, various user communities have applied the standards with and without open source implementations. The purpose of this workshop is to take a broad review of the SWE standards, as well as exchange experiences, present results and concepts on how the standards might be utilized, extended and enhanced to develop robust, collaborative systems of sensor systems.

Workshop topics include (but not limited to):
* SWE Applications
* SWE Environments
* Sensor Types
* Usage Techniques
* SWE Standards and Implementations including Private, Commercial, and Open Source
* SWE Goals
* SWE Results
* Sensor Web Data Visualization
* Sensor Web Data Uncertainty Management
* Sensor Web Data Management (e.g., Indexing, Caching, Query Processing)
* Sensor Web Data Discovery and Search
* SWE Deployment and Real-world Applications
* SWE Implementations Benchmarks
* SWE Enhancements and Extensions (including use of ontologies, support for semantic annotations, semantic sensor Web or semantic sensor networks, smart sensing, peer-to-peer computing)
* Workflow Integration and Provenance Management with SWE
* Convergence of GeoWeb, Sensor Web and Social Web
* Interoperable Middleware Architectures for heterogeneous Sensor Networks/Sensor Web
* Programming Abstraction of Sensor Network Mapping to Complex Scientific Modeling Domains
* Experiences and Potential Future Directions for this Collaboration Standard


Submission Instructions:

You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to sensor Web enablement. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages will be charged at additional fee. Please include page numbers on all submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Please submit your abstract via the Microsoft CMT submission system by December 18, 2009, and upload the full paper by the deadline of January 15, 2010. Electronic (pdf) submissions are encouraged and should be submitted at Microsoft CMT SWE2010 page. If it is impossible to use electronic submission system, send information by email [include in Subject: SWE2010] to allenk@saic.com and beebeb@saic.com.

Consistent with standard practice, each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop.

Accepted papers will be published in the Symposium proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the CTS 2010 Symposium Web site later. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed accordingly.

Workshop Organizers:

Kenneth Ray Allen
SAIC
4031 Col Glenn Highway
Beavercreek, OH 45431
(937) 431-2259
Fax: (937) 431-2297
allenk@saic.com

Yong Liu
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1205 W. Clark St.
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 265-7640
yongliu@ncsa.illinois.edu

Steve Liang
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
(403) 220-4703
Fax: (403) 284-1980
steve.liang@ucalgary.ca

Technical Program Committee:

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special workshop technical program committee members .

* Payam M. Barnaghi, University of Surrey, UK
* Bora Beran, Microsoft Research, USA
* Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia
* Kenneth Chiu, SUNY Binghamton, USA
* Phil Graniero, University of Windsor, Canada
* Siddeswara Mayura Guru, CSIRO, Australia
* Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia
* Nanyan Jiang, Microsoft, USA
* Jong Lee, NCSA, USA
* Xinrong Li, University of North Texas, USA
* Christian Michl, Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute, Germany
* Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, USA
* Alejandro Rodriguez, NCSA, USA
* Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan
* Ingo Simonis, Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa
* Nigamanth Sridhar, Cleveland State University, USA
* Sameer Tilak, Calit2, UCSD, USA
* Yang Yue, Wuhan University, China


Important Dates:

Abstract Submission Deadline: December 18, 2009
Paper Submission Deadline: January 15, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: February 8, 2010
Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 1, 2010

For information or questions about the workshop and the paper submission procedure, please contact the Workshop organizers.

For information or questions about the full Symposium's program, tutorials, exhibits, demos, panel and special sessions organization, please consult the conference Web site at http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/10/main/callForPapers.jsp or contact the symposium co-chairs: Bill McQuay at AFRL/RYT, WPAFB or Waleed W. Smari at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton.