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[Tccc] CFP: Ubiquitous Deployments of Body Sensor Networks (IJAACS)
by lei shu 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1254 Special Issue on: "Ubiquitous Deployments of Body Sensor Networks" The rapid growth in medical sensing technologies with low power requirements and wireless data transmission has led to ubiquitous deployments of body sensor networks (BSNs), i.e. networks of sensors worn on or implanted in a person, sensing vital readings and transmitting these (wirelessly) to a base station. Applications are often in the healthcare domain, for keeping an eye on one’s health status or for monitoring chronic conditions (diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular issues). This data can then be forwarded to clinicians, carers or hospitals in real time (especially important for alerts). In the past, existing wireless sensor networks (WSN) have been modified as BSNs for usage in biomedical applications. However, traditional WSNs suffer from various limitations when they are deployed in such applications, including restricted bandwidth capabilities and limits in terms of computational power (especially considering the amount of data that is being read, processed and streamed or transmitted). Therefore, modified WSN frameworks alone are often deemed to be infeasible for BSN applications, and substantial research is required to overcome these and other limitations by taking into account the requirements for biomedical sensing applications. As these BSNs become ubiquitous - monitoring not just chronic conditions but a person’s everyday health - new challenges in terms of secure communications, interoperability and device size become evident. This special issue will publish high-quality papers that describe how various issues in the deployment of ubiquitous body sensor networks have been addressed by researchers and practitioners in this domain. Distinguished papers accepted and presented at UBSN 2010, after further revisions, will also be included in the issue. Subject Coverage: Some of the topics that may be described include but are not limited to: * Interoperability o BSN systems must ensure seamless data transfer across standards such as Bluetooth or ZigBee to encourage information exchange, plug-and-play device interaction, etc. The definition of standards for data exchange may be required. * Scalability o Systems should be scalable, ensuring efficient migration for a patient or person across networks and offering uninterrupted connectivity for those both wearing and monitoring UBSNs. * Privacy o Transmission of data within UBSNs and between UBSNs and other networks must be both secure and precise, e.g. to avoid a patient’s data being corrupted or accidentally including another patient’s readings. * Security o Some consider BSN technologies as a potential threat to their privacy (or even safety), if applications could be tampered with beyond their intended exclusive medical usage. Social acceptance is key to UBSNs finding wider application, but extensive testing and reviews can aid with such reassurances. * Devices o The sensors used in UBSNs should be light, low in complexity, have reduced form factors, and be easily reconfigurable. * Storage o Storage devices are needed to facilitate remote storage and viewing of patient data via the Internet, as well as allowing access to background processing algorithms and analysis tools. Important Dates Manuscript submission deadline: 20 November, 2009 Notification of acceptance: 20 January, 2010 Submission of final revised paper: 20 March 2010 Notes for Prospective Authors Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page. All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to Online Submissions of Papers. If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact submissions(a)inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. (Please include in your email the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor). Guest Editors: John Breslin, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland E-mail: john.breslin(a)nuigalway.ie Min Chen, Seoul National University, Korea E-mail: minchen(a)ece.ubc.ca Wen Ji, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Lei Shu, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland E-mail: lei.shu(a)ieee.org _________________________________________________________________ Get 30 Free Emoticons for your Windows Live Messenger http://www.livemessenger-emoticons.com/funfamily/en-ie/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: BodyNets 2010]
by Lars Wolf 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: BodyNets 2010 Datum: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 06:52:56 +0000 Von: lei shu <lei.shu(a)live.ie> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> [We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message] ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================ BodyNets 2010 The 5th Annual International Conference on Body Area Networks September 10-12, 2010, Corfu Island, Greece. http://www.bodynets.org/index.shtml Submission deadline: March 10, 2010 ============================================================ ACM MONET special issue on "Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks". http://www.bodynets.org/docs/MONET-SI-UBSN-CFP.pdf ============================================================ OVERVIEW: Recent advances in the field of wireless sensor networks have moved them beyond their traditional areas of application in monitoring of remote and mobile environments. Sensor networks are increasingly being deployed within and around the human body to form Body Area Networks (BodyNets). In addition to monitoring focused applications BodyNets allow also for closed loop systems incorporating actuators. They can be utilized in diverse applications such as physiological monitoring, human computer interactions, education and entertainment through interactive games. This conference will explore and explain the scope and challenges of designing, building, and deploying BodyNets. In this regard, the conference aims to establish a forum to bring together research professionals from diverse fields including computer science, biomedical engineering and medicine in both academia and industry to address the technical, social, system and application issues related to BodyNets. TOPICS: The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to: 1 Communications and Networking: * In-body, on-body, and around body networks * Communication techniques and protocols for BodyNets * Scalable, flexible network architectures & deployments * Networking and security issues for BodyNets * Advanced propagation and channel model for BodyNets 2 Medical applications: * Pervasive health care and patient monitoring * Integrating BodyNets into the healthcare system * Novel closed-loop applications of BodyNets 3 Systems and Technology: * System design issues, and performance modeling * Signal processing, reliability and fault-tolerance issues * Emerging self-powered BodyNets * Novel wireless communication technologies 4 Wearable computing: * Wearable system design issues * Entertainment and lifestyle applications * Assistive technologies for independent aging * Interactive Arts PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages, short papers of up to 4 pages, and poster paper up to 2 pages, in ACM conference proceeding format through ASSYST (http://assyst-online.org/submission/login/loadHome.do.php). If you have problems in accessing the ASSYST system, please contact the Conference Coordinator (Maria Morozova) at: maria.morozova at icst.org. Detailed Instructions for ASSYST submission can be found from: http://manual.icst.org/uploads/Submission%20instructions/Submission%20in structions%20ASSYST%2027012009.doc PUBLICATION: Distinguished papers accepted and presented in BodyNets-10, after further revisions, will be published in International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS), http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1254 and ACM MONET special issue on "Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks". http://www.bodynets.org/docs/MONET-SI-UBSN-CFP.pdf IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Due: March 10, 2010 by 11:59pm PDT Full Paper Due: March 22, 2010 by 11:59pm PDT Notification of Acceptance: May 21, 2010 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: June 21, 2010 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIRS Victor C.M. Leung University of British Columbia, Canada Athanasios V. Vasilakos University of Western Macedonia, Greece TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS Thomas Falck Philips Research, Switzerland Karim Qayumi University of British Columbia, Canada Xinbing Wang Shanghai Jiaotong University, China PROGRAM TRACK CHAIRS Yan Zhang Simula Research Lab, Norway Min Chen University of British Columbia, Canada Hassan Ghasemzadeh Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA Jelena Misic Ryerson University, Canada INDUSTRY CHAIRS David M. Davenport GE Global Research, USA Panos Nasiopoulos University of British Columbia, Canada CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Gergely Nagy ICST PUBLICITY CHAIRs Andreas Bulling ETH Zurich, Switzerland Lei Shu Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland PUBLICATION CHAIR Foad Dabiri University of California Los Angeles STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Imrich Chlamtac Create-Net, Italy WEB CHAIR Min Chen University of British Columbia, Canada Details please see: http://www.bodynets.org/orgncomm.shtml _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Make it easier for your friends to see what you’re up to on Facebook. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-networ… _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: UBSN 2010
by lei shu 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

[We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message] -------------------------------------------------------------- 2010 International Workshop on Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks (UBSN 2010) http://sites.google.com/site/ubsn2010 In conjunction with The 5th International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2010) http://www.wicon.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: 15 Oct 2009 OVERVIEW: Recently, there has been increased investigation into new types of wireless sensor networks located on or around the human body, which are generally known as body sensor networks (BSNs). Following continuous advances in wireless communication technologies, there has been growing interest in the design, development and deployment of BSN systems in applications for improving people's daily life, which has led to an increased demand for interconnecting BSNs with other emerging wireless technologies, such as RFID technology, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Zigbee, Bluetooth, WiBree, video surveillance systems, WPAN, WLAN, the Internet, and cellular networks. With BSNs being incorporated into these technologies, BSNs have become ubiquitous. As a result of this, and due to an increased demand for advanced e-healthcare management systems in recent years, the marketing opportunities for advanced consumer electronics and related services have greatly increased. More and more autonomous and intelligent applications which are closely integrated with a person's everyday life are being generated. For example, by using BSNs to collect patient information, and by deploying diverse wireless networking systems for enhanced diagnostic assistance and action handling, better e-healthcare management systems can be designed for providing more desirable services. In this workshop, we solicit research papers (regular papers and posters) on hardware for body sensors, system architectures, networking and communication protocols, applications, testbeds and prototypes, biomedical sensor data processing and sensor data management. In particular, we are interested in the following communication issues: * Intra-BSN Communication: The term "intra-BSN communication" defines communications directly related to the user (within radio coverage of about 2 meters), which consists of two categories: (1) the communications amongst the body sensors, which are deployed strategically on the human body, implanted inside the body, or attached within in the person's clothing; (2) the communication between the body sensors and the portable personal server, which typically can be a cell phone, PDA or headset. * Inter-BSN communication: The term "inter-BSN communication" defines communications between the personal server and one or more access points. The access point can be deployed as a part of a home or work infrastructure, or strategically placed within a dynamic environment for handling emergency situations. Inter-BSN communications will interconnect BSNs with the wide range of networks which are easily accessible in daily life. * Beyond-BSN communication: Beyond-BSN communication is used to interconnect a BSN with the outside world, which enhances the application possibilities and brings the coverage / range of body sensor systems a step further via pervasive communication technologies, such as the Internet and cellular networks. The objective of this workshop is to bring together state-of-the-art research contributions, tutorials, and position papers that address these key aspects of Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks. Original papers describing completed and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference/workshop are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * New applications of ubiquitous body-sensor networks, e.g., healthcare and consumer electronics applications * Remote health/fitness monitoring in ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g., location and mobility issues * Ambulatory monitoring (activity monitoring, fall detection, cardiac and wellbeing monitoring) and BSN assisted rehabilitation, bio-motion, wellbeing analysis and clinical applications * Emerging engineering issues and wearable, implantable/ingestible sensor integration and development platforms, e.g., new operating systems, middleware, etc. * Scalable and flexible network architectures and deployments for ubiquitous body sensor networks * Advanced body sensor devices, e.g., novel bioelectrical, biochemical, biophysical, and mechanical sensors * Networking and data transmission issues for ubiquitous body sensor networks * Integrating emerging wireless technologies with ubiquitous body sensor networks * Integration with ambient sensors for personalized smart spaces and applications * Link to environment sensing, smart dwellings, and home monitoring * Standards for light-weight communication protocols and integration with heterogeneous networks * Advanced algorithms for ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g., routing, data processing, packet scheduling * Power efficient issues, e.g., low power RF transceivers, energy scavenging, miniaturization, system integration * Signal processing, context awareness and multi-sensory fusion * MAC Protocols and QoS Designing for Intra-BSN Communication * Mobile and multimedia supported ubiquitous body sensor networks * Server side body sensor networks information processing, data mining, transient pattern recognition, and long-term, predictive trend analysis * Sensor data management issues for ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g., publish-subscribe approach * Query processing and optimization for ubiquitous body sensor networks * Sensor data stream processing in ubiquitous body sensor networks * Semantic Web technology enabled ubiquitous body sensor networks * Adaptability and stability of ubiquitous body sensor networks * Transactions and workflows in ubiquitous body sensor networks * Information support, security, privacy, and fault tolerance issues for ubiquitous body sensor networks Important Dates: * Submission Deadline: October 15, 2009 (EST) * Acceptance Notice: November 15, 2009 * Final Manuscript: November 25, 2009 * Publication Date: March 1-3, 2010 Submission Instructions Please submit your paper(s) in PDF format to: * Min Chen, minchen(a)ece.ubc.ca and Lei Shu, lei.shu(a)ieee.org All submissions will be reviewed by the technical program committee and will be judged by their technical merit and relevance to workshop. For regular paper: The page length limit is 9 pages in IEEE double column format pages (including figures, tables, and references) with font size not smaller than 9 points. For poster paper: The posters may describe work in progress and offers an excellent opportunity for feedback and discussions on early research. A maximum of TWO IEEE double column format pages (including figures, tables, and references) with font size not smaller than 9 points. Publication: Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE/ACM (pending) International Conference Proceedings Series and will be made available in IEEE/ACM (pending) Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI. SPECIAL ISSUES: Selected papers will be published in a SI of International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS) and a SI of International Journal of Sensor Network (IJSNet). WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Thanos Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece * Min Chen, University of British Columbia, Canada * John Breslin, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland PUBLICITY CHAIRs * Lei Shu, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland * Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA Technical Program Committee # Victor C.M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada # Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan # Manfred Hauswirth, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland # Han-Chieh Chao, Ilan University, Taiwan # Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway # Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA # Wenbing Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China # William G. Scanlon, Queen's University, Belfast, UK # Xiaodong Lin, University of Ontario, Canada # Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan # Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA # Tai-hoon Kim, Hannam University, South Korea # Zhangbing Zhou, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Irleand # Liang Zhou, ENSTA, ParisTech, France # Lei Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China # Gearoid O Laighin, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland # Weiwei Fang, Beihang University, China # Xiaolong Jin, University of Bradford, UK # Tomoki Yoshihisa, Osaka University, Japan # Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China # Tianji Li, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland # Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Kyung Hee University, South Korea # James Chang Wu Yu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan # Xiuzhen (Susan) Cheng, The George Washington University, USA # Hung-Min Sun, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan # Yang Hao, Queen Mary University of London, UK # Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada # John Nelson, University of Limerick, Ireland # Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan # Jinlei Jiang, Tsinghua University, China # Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia # Hui Chen, Virginia State University, USA # Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, South Korea # William Zhu, University of Auckland, New Zealand # Choong Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University, South Korea # Jinli Cao, La Trobe University, Australia # Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China # Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China # Senol Zafer Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey # Pilipe Abrantes, Fraunhofer, Portugal # Dermot Diamond, Dublin City University, Ireland # Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China # Georgios Y. Lazarou, Mississippi State University, USA # Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China # Safwan Al-Omari, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan # Naixue Xiong, Georgia State University, USA # Dennis Pfisterer, University of Lubeck, Germany # Sana Ullah, Inha University, South Korea # Paul Breen, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland # Mei Yu, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway/Tianjin University, China _________________________________________________________________ Get 30 Free Emoticons for your Windows Live Messenger http://www.livemessenger-emoticons.com/funfamily/en-ie/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE/ACM IPSN 2010: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE/ACM IPSN 2010: Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:12:31 -0600 Von: Neal Patwari <ipsnpublicity(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Two weeks left until the abstract deadline on Friday, 23 October... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- IPSN 2010 The 9th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks April 12-16, 2010, Stockholm, Sweden http://ipsn.acm.org Abstract Registration Deadline: October 23rd, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE: The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) is a leading, single-track, annual forum on sensor network research. IPSN brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Its scope includes signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases and information management, distributed algorithms, networks and protocols, wireless communications, machine learning, and embedded systems design. The conference features two interleaved tracks, the Information Processing (IP) track, and the Sensor Platforms, Tools and Design Methods (SPOTS) track. The two tracks have separate program committees to evaluate their submissions. Authors should carefully review the intended foci of these two tracks to decide which track is better suited for their work, and they are encouraged to contact program chairs with questions or clarifications. The Information Processing (IP) track focuses on algorithms, systems, theory for information processing using networks of embedded sensors. Topics covered in this track include, but are not limited to: - Applications and deployment experiences - Coding, compression and information theory - Data processing, storage and management - Detection, classification, and tracking - Distributed algorithms and reasoning - Distributed and collaborative signal processing - Fault tolerance and identification - Fundamental bounds and formulations - Location, time, and other network services - Operating systems and runtime environments - Network health monitoring and management - Network protocols - Programming models and languages - Security - Sensor tasking, control, and actuation - Simulation The Sensor Platforms, Tools, and Design Methods (SPOTS) track focuses on networked embedded sensor platforms and tools. Submissions are expected to refer to specific hardware, software, and implementations. The SPOTS track focuses on new architectures, modeling, evaluation, design methods, implementations, tools, or deployment experiences. Results focused on the analysis and processing aspects of data collected from deployments should be submitted to the IP track, while details on the platforms and tools used in the deployment should be submitted to SPOTS. Topics covered in the SPOTS track include, but are not limited to: - Case studies that describe experiences, highlight challenges, and study/compare the performance of platforms and tools - Novel sensor network components, device platforms and architectures - Embedded software for sensor networks - Design tools and methodologies for sensor networks - System modeling, simulation, measurements, and analysis SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: All papers must be submitted electronically, in Portable Document Format (PDF). Instructions for submission will be available at the IPSN 2010 website: http://ipsn.acm.org/2010/ Submissions must meet the following criteria: - A paper must be original material that has neither been previously published nor is currently under review by another conference or journal, and - Submitted papers should be no longer than 12 pages in ACM 10-point, two-column conference format. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Abstract deadline: Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Full papers due: Friday, October 30th, 2009 Author notification: Friday, January 22, 2010 Camera ready due: Friday, February 19, 2010 Conference: April 12-16, 2010 ORGANIZATION General Chair: Andreas Savvides, Yale Publicity Chair: Neal Patwari, Univ. of Utah Web Chair: Gang Zhou, William & Mary Workshop Chair: Brano Kusy, Stanford Demos and Poster Chair: Vijay Raghunathan, Purdue Publications Chair: Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Microsoft Research IPSN TPC co-chairs * Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC) and Thiemo Voigt (SICS) IPSN TPC: * Anders Ahlen, Uppsala Univ. * Anish Arora, Ohio State Univ. * Qing Cao, Univ. Tennessee * Carlo Fischione, KTH * Ramesh Govindan, USC * Xenofon Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt * Jie Liu, Microsoft Research * Sotiris Nikoletseas, Univ. of Patras and CTI * Andreas Terzis, Johns Hopkins Univ. * Deepak Ganesan, UMass * Phil Gibbons, Intel * Tian He, Univ. Minnesota * Mikael Johansson, KTH, Sweden * Brad Karp, UCL * Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC * Chenyang Lu, Washington Univ. in St. Louis * Miklos Maroti, Univ. Szeged, Hungary * Luca Mottola, SICS * Suman Nath, Microsoft Research * Radha Poovendran, Univ. Washington * Utz Roedig, Univ. of Lancaster * Kay Römer, ETH * Paolo Santi, Pisa * Cormac Sreenan, Univ. College Cork * Jack Stankovic, UVA * Roger Wattenhofer, ETH * Matt Welsh, Harvard SPOTS TPC Chair * Adam Wolisz (TU Berlin) SPOTS TPC: * Jan Beutel, ETH * Prabal Dutta, UC Berkeley, Michigan * Michel Goraczko, Microsoft Research * Ralph Kling, Crossbow * Akos Ledeczi, Vanderbilt * Pedro Jose Marron, Uni Bonn * Joe Polastre, Sentilla * Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin * Kamin Whitehouse, UVA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] INFOCOM 2010 Work in Progress Call for Papers *** NEW DATES]
by Lars Wolf 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] INFOCOM 2010 Work in Progress Call for Papers *** NEW DATES Datum: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 21:10:42 -0400 Von: Wendi Heinzelman <wheinzel(a)ece.rochester.edu> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> ***************************** **** IEEE INFOCOM 2010 **** **** **** **** WORK IN PROGRESS **** **** CALL FOR PAPERS **** ***************************** The 29th Annual Conference of the IEEE Communications Society March 14 - 19, 2010 San Diego, California USA http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2010 In 2010, IEEE INFOCOM will experiment with a new track devoted to short papers describing research activities which can be classified as Work-in-Progress (WiP). While traditional INFOCOM submissions are expected to be papers describing in detail a complete piece of research with its final results, WiP papers are expected to report on early research results in particularly interesting and innovative research fields, preferably conducted in cooperation between industry and academia. The main objective of WiP papers is to stimulate interest in new, promising, possibly controversial research fields. WiP paper authors can expect to receive feedback and suggestions from leading researchers in the field as well as attracting the interest of industry and government funding agencies. The topics of interest for WiP papers are identical to those in the main INFOCOM conference. Submissions to the WiP track will be reviewed by a separate Technical Program Committee. WiP paper submissions are strictly limited to a maximum of 5 pages in the usual INFOCOM format; longer submissions will be rejected without review. Presented WiP papers will be included in the IEEE Communications Society digital library, in IEEE Explore, and in the IEEE INFOCOM 2011's CD. Important Dates: *** NEW *** * WiP paper registration on EDAS: October 15, 2009, 11:59 PM PDT (required) * Full WiP paper due: October 24, 2009, 11:59 PM PDT (firm deadline) * Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2010 * Final papers due: March 1, 2010 To submit your paper go to: http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=8137 Policies: All INFOCOM 2010 WiP paper presenters must register at the FULL rate. For authors presenting multiple papers, one FULL registration is valid for up to three papers. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. WiP TPC Chairs: Marco Ajmone-Marsan, Politecnico Torino Dinesh Rajan, Southern Methodist University _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] PerSeNS - call for papers]
by Lars Wolf 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] PerSeNS - call for papers Datum: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:03:32 +0200 Von: Alessio Vecchio <alessio.vecchio(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Sixth IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS 2010) http://www2.ing.unipi.it/persens in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2010 (http://www.percom.org/) March 29-April 2, 2010 Mannheim, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless sensor networks collect sensing measurements or detect special events, perform node-level processing, and export the combined data from their sensing nodes to the outside world. Sensing, processing and communication are three key elements whose combination in one small device is instrumental to pervasive computing and gives rise to countless applications. This workshop will provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers and professionals from industry and academia. Papers describing original research on both theoretical and practical aspects of sensor networks for pervasive computing are solicited. We particularly welcome submissions that present implementation and deployment results. Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Sensor-based systems and applications - Operating systems for Sensor Networks - Middleware and software tools - Networking architectures and protocols - Data gathering, aggregation and dissemination - Topology control - Power Management and energy-efficient design - Time synchronization - Location management - Sensor networks with mobile elements - Cross-layer architectures - Intelligent sensor nodes - Security and dependability issues - Modeling and performance evaluation - Measurements PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines . The link for the templates can be found at: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting All submissions will be handled via EDAS. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined PerCom 2010 Workshops Proceedings and will appear on IEEE Xplore. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. There is no workshop-only registration. An oral presentation at the workshop is strictly required. Failure to present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the Proceedings as well as from IEEE Xplore. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: October 18, 2009 Notification of acceptance: December 21, 2009 Camera-ready papers due: January 29, 2010 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland PROGRAM CHAIR Daniele Puccinelli, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland PUBLICITY CHAIR Alessio Vecchio, University of Pisa, Italy TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Alan Bertossi, University of Bologna, Italy Edoardo Biagioni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Ladislau Boloni, University of Central Florida, USA Eleonora Borgia, Institute of Informatics and Telematics - National Research Council, Italy Raffaele Bruno, Institute of Informatics and Telematics - National Research Council, Italy Levente Buttyan, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Tiziana Calamoneri, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Geoffrey Werner Challen, Harvard University, USA Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Diane J. Cook, Washington State University, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mario Di Francesco, University of Pisa, Italy Tassos Dimitriou, Athens Information Technology, Greece Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA Isabelle Guerin Lassous, INRIA, France Omprakash Gnawali, Stanford University, USA Martin Haenggi, University of Notre Dame, USA Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Vlado Handziski, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany Karl Holger, University of Paderborn, Germany Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Giuseppe Lo Re, University of Palermo, Italy Sanglu Lu, Nanjing University, China Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa, Italy Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK Marcello Mura, University of Lugano, Switzerland Fredrik Osterlind, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Andrea Passarella, Institute of Informatics and Telematics - National Research Council, Italy Cristina Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Alex Rogers, University of Southampton, UK Antonio Ruzzelli, University College Dublin, Ireland Maria Giovanna Sami, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Rahul Shah, Intel Corporation, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Alessio Vecchio, University of Pisa, Italy Kuang-Ching (KC) Wang, Clemson University, USA Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[InternetTC] The Second International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2010) - Deadline extended to Oct. 20!
by Habib Ammari 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

The Second International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2010) http://www.iq2s.org in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2010 (http://www.percom.org/) Mannheim, Germany, March 29 - April 2, 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS Pervasive computing enables computers to interact with the real world in a ubiquitous and natural manner. It is, in its core, an application-driven discipline encompassing the pervasive acquisition, transportation, processing, and consumption of information from diverse sources, including widespread sensor deployments. Thus, the traditional study of QoS in transporting sensory data in pervasive systems ought to be balanced with the study of QoI in delivering sensor-originated information. Quality of Information (QoI) or Information Quality (IQ) relates to informationÕs level of fitness for a purpose, e.g., when contributing to an applicationÕs utility. Harnessing and optimizing the QoI derived from sensor networks will be key to bringing together effectively the aforementioned acquisition, transportation, processing, and consumption elements that the broad spectrum of smart, information-intensive, sensor-enabled pervasive applications depend on, such as remote habitat monitoring, utility grid monitoring, environmental control, supply-chain management, healthcare, intelligent transportation systems, military intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR), border control, and hazardous material monitoring, just to mention a few. The effectiveness of an applicationÕs actions using a piece of information serves as the ultimate measure of the informationÕs quality and value-add; an action may be highly effective achieving all its anticipated goals, partially effective, or entirely ineffective. Complementing traditional provisioning of QoS with QoI and action effectiveness for pervasive computing is challenging and difficult due to the resource constrained, dynamic and distributed nature of the sensory systems involved, their security weaknesses, and so on. Novel mechanisms and designs are required which integrate QoI with network and computational QoS that take into account the aforementioned challenges while dealing with different types of sensory resources and their inter-dependencies. It is an objective of this workshop to provide a forum to exchange ideas, present results, share experience, and enhance collaborations among researchers, professionals, and application developers working on QoI and QoS in wireless sensor networks for pervasive computing. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum to exchange ideas, present results, share experience, and enhance collaborations among researchers, professionals, and application developers in various aspects of QoI and QoS in wireless sensor networks for pervasive computing. *******Topics******* Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of QoI and QoS provisioning in pervasive computing are solicited. Papers describing experience on real prototype implementations are particularly welcome. Topics of interest addressing the challenging joint aspects of QoI and QoS include: - Joint QoI- & QoS-driven system design and architectural principles - Network services (time sync, QoS) for target/event detection, localization, tracking - QoI-aware wireless sensor networking - Energy-efficient data fusion, sensor fault analysis, sensor data cleansing - QoS for task mapping and scheduling - Cross-layer, cross-application, and cross-node integration of QoI and QoS - Adaptive QoI and QoS under dynamic environments - Trust, security, privacy, and data provenance issues in QoI and QoS - QoI characterization, representation, performance metrics, and evaluation - QoI and QoS for emerging pervasive computing applications - Value of information and quality of action for sensor/actuator networks - Prototype test-bed design, implementation, and field trials *******Submission Instructions******* Submitted papers should be in the IEEE conference format and no more than 6 pages in length, and should not be previously published or currently under review elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and selected based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined PerCom 2010 workshops proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. Selected papers with high qualities will be invited to submit to a Journal special issue. *******Important Dates:******* Paper submission: October 20, 2009 Author notification: December 23, 2009 Camera-ready due: January 29, 2010 *******Workshop Organization******* General Co-Chairs: Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM Research, USA Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington and NSF, USA TPC Co-Chairs: Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Publicity Co-Chairs: Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Hannes Frey, University of Paderborn, Germany Webmaster: Wendong Xiao, Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore Program Committee: Twan Basten, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Philipe Bonnet, IT University Copenhagen, Denmark Joel Branch, IBM Research, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA Joe Loyall, BBN Technologies, USA Vana Kalogeraki, University of California at Riverside, USA Yonghe Liu , The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Archan Misra, Telcordia, USA Kay Römer, University of Lübeck, Germany Nirmalya Roy, University of Texas at Austin, USA Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Daby Sow, IBM, USA Radu Stoleru, Texas A&M University, USA Andreas Terzis, Johns Hopkins University, USA Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California at Irvine, USA Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen, Germany Wendong Xiao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Andreas Willig, TU Berlin, Germany David Yates, Bentley College, USA

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[Fwd: [Tccc] WiOpt'10: Call for papers]
by Lars Wolf 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] WiOpt'10: Call for papers Datum: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:50:48 +0200 Von: Claudio Cicconetti <c.cicconetti(a)iet.unipi.it> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ============================================================= Our apologies for duplicated copies of this CFP. ============================================================= WiOPT 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS 9th International Symposium on Conference on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks May 31 - June 4, 2010, Avignon, France http://www.wi-opt.org/ Scope This symposium intends to bring together researchers and practitioners working on modeling and optimization of wireless network design and operations. It welcomes original, high-quality works on different perspectives, including performance analysis and simulation, algorithms and protocol design, optimization theory and application, information theoretic analysis including capacity scaling, for all forms of wireless networks: cellular, metropolitan, ad hoc, delay- tolerant, mesh, sensor networks as well as any combination of these. Technical papers describing original, unpublished research, currently not under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. Topics of relevance include, but are not limited to: - Modeling, simulations and performance analysis - Optimization of network design - Optimal control of network operations - Network protocols design - Mobility modeling and management - Scalability and manageability of network architecture - Game theoretic models, pricing and incentive - Opportunistic and cooperative communication - Network and multi-user information theory - Asymptotic system properties (capacity, connectivity, coverage, delay) - Energy efficiency - Cognitive radio - Routing protocols - Cross layer design and optimization Adjunct Workshops One-day workshops will accompany the main WiOpt symposium: RAWNET 2010: Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks SPASWIN 2010: Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks WiNMee 2010: International Workshop On Wireless Network Measurement WNC3 2010: Wireless Networks:Communication,Cooperation and Competition Important Dates Main symposium: June 01-03, 2010 Adjunct workshops: May 31 and June 04, 2010 Submission deadline: January 8, 2010 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2010 Camera-ready copy: April 01, 2010 Keynote speakers The WiOpt 2010 program will feature keynote addresses by Eytan Modiano (MIT), Shlomo Shamai (Technion), and Jean Walrand (UC Berkeley). Publication in Journals Top-ranking papers will be considered for fast-track publication in Elsevier's Journal of Computer Networks and in a special issue of Elsevier's Performance Evaluation. Submission instructions The submission format for the papers is an extended abstract, up to eight pages long. Please use the IEEE Transactions format, 11 pt character size, one column text, one-and-a-half line spacing, letter paper. This page budget should contain all figures, tables,references, etc. The extended abstract should also include a brief abstract of up to 150 words. The submission will be handled via EDAS system (http://edas.info). Only PDF files are acceptable; please make sure that the paper prints without problems (e.g., embedded fonts). General Chair ------------- Anthony Ephremides, Univ. of Maryland, USA General Co-chairs ----------------- Eitan Altman, INRIA, France Rachid El-Azouzi, Avignon Univ. France Steering Committee ------------------ Eitan Altman, INRIA, France Tamer Basar, UIUC, USA Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy Song Chong, KAIST, Korea Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge Univ., UK Anthony Ephremides, Univ. of Maryland, USA Holger Karl, Univ. of Paderborn, Germany Muriel Medard, MIT, USA Daniele Miorandi, CREATE-NET, Italy Stavros Toumpis, Athens Univ., Greece Roger M. Whitaker, Cardiff Univ. UK Technical Program Chair ----------------------- Ariel Orda, Technion, Israel Technical Program Co-chairs -------------------------- Nidhi Hegde, Orange Labs, France Lavy Libman, Univ. of Sydney, Australia Workshops Chair --------------- David Gesbert, Eurecom, France Publication Chair ----------------- Tijani Chahed, Telecom SudParis, France Publicity Chairs ---------------- Claudio Cicconetti, Univ. Of Pisa, Italy Dinesh Kumar, IBM, USA Nelson Vicuña, Univ. De Oriente, Venezuela Local Arrangements Chair ------------------------ Tania Jiménez, Avignon Univ. France Conference Coordinator ---------------------- Agnes Cortell, INRIA, France _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFPs, Special Issue on "Wireless Sensor Networks: From Theory to Practices and Applications"]
by Lars Wolf 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFPs, Special Issue on "Wireless Sensor Networks: From Theory to Practices and Applications" Datum: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:27:01 +0800 Von: Xiao Wendong <wxiao(a)i2r.a-star.edu.sg> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Call for Papers Journal of Control Theory and Applications (http://www.springer.com/computer/hardware/journal/11768 <http://www.springer.com/computer/hardware/journal/11768> ) Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networks: From Theory to Practices and Applications Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is characterized by the dense deployment of sensor nodes that continuously observe physical phenomenon. The main advantages of WSN include its low cost, rapid deployment, self-organization, and fault tolerance. WSN has received tremendous interests of various research communities, and significant progresses have been made in various aspects including sensor platform development, wireless communication and networking, application signal and information processing, as well as network performance evaluation and design. Such work has established good foundation for WSN research and development. The research and development of WSNs are stimulated by novel exciting applications. For example, WSNs, particularly the wireless body sensor network, make the old people/patient healthcare monitoring possible in smart home environment, where advanced signal processing algorithms are required to extract medical parameters like heart beat rate from raw sensor measurements such as ECG signal, estimation algorithms are required for occupant location and motion tracking, and machine learning algorithms are required for occupant activity recognition. The indoor environment (e.g., temperature and humidity) can be monitored by ambient wireless sensor network, and help design highly efficient distributed air-conditioning control system to improve the energy efficiency and enhance occupant comfort. Such WSN applications must address a number of key technological challenges induced by limited network resources such as node energy and network bandwidth. As a result, the application algorithms should be resource constrained and the network protocols should be application-driven. Advanced closed-loop system can be expected as an integrated system solution to link the application algorithms and the lower layer networking protocols by means of control theoretic or optimization approaches. To be scalable and reliable, such algorithms and protocols should also be distributed in nature via node local processing and collaboration with limited information exchange to achieve complex overall network goal. This special issue is a follow-up of the previous special issue on Networked Sensing, Decision Making and Control in Journal of Control Theory and Applications organized by Lihua Xie and Frank L. Lewis, which received warm responses. Different from that special issue, which mainly addresses the theoretic approaches for WSNs and networked control systems challenged by network uncertainties and limited resources, this special issue will be more focused on novel real WSN applications and application-driven research and development. Papers with real practices on platform development, network deployment, and system operational lessons or experience are particularly welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * WSN theoretic approaches: - Distributed and collaborative signal processing - Target detection, classification, and tracking - Network modeling and optimization - Sensor tasking, control, and actuation - Coverage and topology control - Adaptive and mobile sampling - Consensus estimation and cooperation * WSN applications: - Healthcare monitoring - Environment monitoring - Surveillance system - Networked manufacturing system - Structural health monitoring; - Cognitive sensing and spectrum management - Military and battlefield applications All the submissions will be subject to peer review in accordance with the standard review procedures of the Journal of Control Theory and Applications. Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts in PDF format to one of the guest editors below: Wendong Xiao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, wxiao(a)i2r.a-star.edu.sg Sajal K. Das, the University of Texas at Arlington, USA, das(a)uta.edu Haibin Yu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China, yhb(a)sia.cn Chen Khong Tham, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, cktham(a)i2r.a-star.edu.sg Important Dates 1 March 2010 Deadline for submissions 1 May 2010 Acceptance notification 1 August 2010 Final manuscripts 1 January 2011 Expected publication date ------------------------- Dr. Wendong Xiao Networking Protocols Department Institute for Infocomm Research 1 Fusionopolis Way, #21-01 Connexis Singapore 138632 Email: wxiao(a)i2r.a-star.edu.sg ------------------------- Institute for Infocomm Research disclaimer: "This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately. Please do not copy or use it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you." _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] CFP: MMSJ Special Issue on Interactive Multimedia Computing]
by Lars Wolf 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] CFP: MMSJ Special Issue on Interactive Multimedia Computing Datum: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 05:53:46 +0000 Von: Meng Wang <mengwang(a)MICROSOFT.COM> Antwort an: Meng Wang <mengwang(a)MICROSOFT.COM> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *CALL FOR PAPERS* ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal Special Issue on: *Interactive Multimedia Computing* http://research.microsoft.com/users/mengwang/cfp/MMSJ_CFP_InteractiveMultim… -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- *Guest Editors* ------------------------- * Meng Wang, Microsoft Research Asia, China * Jinhui Tang, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Asia, China * Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore ------------------------- *Important Dates* ------------------------- * February 1, 2010: Manuscript submission deadline * May 31, 2010: First-round acceptance notification * July 15, 2010: Revision submission * September 31, 2010: Final decision * Fall 2010: Publication date ------------------------- *Information for Authors* ------------------------- Submitted papers should follow the guideline on http://www.ifi.uio.no/MMSJ/author.html/. The papers should not be longer than 25-30 pages, single column, double space, 11 or 12 pt font, including figures, tables and references. They must be submitted in the form of PDF file to the submission system https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/IMMC/. Information about the manuscript (title, full list of authors, corresponding author’s contact, abstract, and keywords) should also be sent to the corresponding editor Meng Wang (mengwang(a)microsoft.com). All the papers will be peer-reviewed following the MMSJ reviewing procedures. ------------------------- *Summary* ------------------------- Recent years have witnessed the flourish of multimedia data on the Internet. To facilitate humans in accessing and managing the explosively growing multimedia content, extensive research efforts have been dedicated to automatic multimedia analysis and processing in the last decades, such as categorization, annotation and indexing. However, despite great advances in recent years, several key difficulties still exist, the most important of which is the semantic gap in multimedia modeling. It is evident from recent results that most of the semantic gap problems cannot be solved automatically within the near future and without additional information or resources. On the other hand, we have witnessed the power of collective human efforts in the Web 2.0 era in providing high-quality tags and comments to large amounts of images and videos in sites such as Flickr and YouTube. In fact, a lot more can be accomplished through simple online games such as the ESP. Hence, more and more researchers believe that a possible approach to addressing the semantic gap problem is to incorporate the efforts of humans into the computational process, i.e., by combining human intelligence and automated computer processing to jointly tackle the problems in a collaborative manner. The past decade has witnessed the increase of such efforts, such as relevance feedback in content-based image retrieval, active learning in multimedia modeling, the interactive video search evaluation task in TRECVID, new search and browsing interfaces in VideoOlympics to facilitate humans’ interaction, and the recent human computation efforts such as the ESP game on Google image search website. This special issue aims to bring together the range of research efforts in interactive multimedia computing. The goals of this special issue are threefold: (1) to introduce novel research work and systems in this area; (2) to survey the progress of this direction in the past years; and (3) to discuss new technologies that will be potentially impactful (primary results are needed). The submitted papers will be peer reviewed and selected based on their quality and relevance to the theme of this special issue. ------------------------- *Scope* ------------------------- The scope of this special issue is to cover all aspects that relate to interactive multimedia computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * Interactive multimedia processing, including interactive image/video editing, image segmentation, video summarization, etc. * Interactive multimedia management, including semi-automatic multimedia categorization, clustering, browsing, dataset construction, etc. * Interactive multimedia search, including relevance feedback, query suggestion, image/video recommendation, novel search and browsing interface, etc. * Interactive multimedia modeling, including semi-automatic image/video concept learning and the related techniques such as active learning and on-line learning. * Multimedia tagging, including new tagging interface, tag recommendation, tag classification, tag filtering, etc. * Interactive multimedia knowledge mining, such as semi-automatic lexicon/ontology construction and user interests/trends/relationships mining. * Game-based multimedia applications, including game-based multimedia data collection, labeling, advertising, recommendation, etc. * CAPTCHA-based multimedia applications, including CAPTCHA-based multimedia data collection, labeling, etc. ------------------------- *Contacts* ------------------------- Please address all correspondences regarding this special issue to the Guest Editors Dr. Meng Wang (mengwang(a)microsoft.com <mailto:mengwang@microsoft.com>), Dr. Jinhui Tang (tangjh(a)comp.nus.edu.sg <mailto:tangjh@comp.nus.edu.sg>), Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua (xshua(a)microsoft.com <mailto:xshua@microsoft.com>) and Dr. Tat-Seng Chua (chuats(a)comp.nus.edu.sg <mailto:chuats@comp.nus.edu.sg>). ----------------------------- Best regards, Meng, Jinhui, Xian-Sheng and Tat-Seng

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