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Call for papers: Special Session on Urban Sensing at the 26th
International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS
2011)
The 26th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences
(ISCIS 2011) will be held in London at the Royal Society, on September
26-28, 2011 and is organised by Imperial College.
We are calling for papers on a special session focusing on urban sensing.
The emergence of the smartphones as a multi-purpose computing platform has been one of the most exciting technological developments of recent years.
These devices have a computing power which several years ago was associated with desktop computers, and have a collection of integrated sensors ranging from cameras and arrays of microphones to GPS,
accelerometers and gyroscopes. They often maintain a permanent
infrastructure-based internet connection, but they can also participate in peer-to-peer communication using WiFi in infrastructure or ad-hoc mode, Bluetooth and near-field communication. The always on
/ always available usage pattern of these devices ensures that their penetration and mobility follows that of their users, providing full coverage of the urban areas of the developed world, and rapidly expanding to the developing countries.
Urban sensing is an emergent field of computing which takes advantage of these capabilities to develop applications with high social and economic value.
We are requesting high quality, research or applications papers on topics associated with urban sensing. Papers which dealing with the following aspects are especially encouraged:
The sensing aspect: What type of observations can the sensor make and how can the data be collected and validated? How can we draw inferences, make predictions and take actions based on the collected data? Distributed approaches which store and process the data in-network are of a special interest.
The social aspect: What is the relationship of the owner of the smartphone to the data and to the other participants? How are the interests of the providers of the services and beneficiaries of the services reconciled? Approaches based on both altruistic (e.g. citizen computing) and self-interested (e.g. market based) models are of interest. What is the relationship between the collaboration implied by urban sensing to the social networks of the participants? Agent based models of the social and cultural aspects of urban sensing are of special interest.
The networking aspect: What are the networking architecture
implications of urban sensing? What are the relative benefits of peer to peer vs. infrastructure based communication? Investigations into
non-traditional communication technologies - such as proximity based or opportunistic communication are especially encouraged.
The security and privacy aspect: What are the security and privacy risks associated by participating in urban sensing? What attack scenarios can a malicious participant use to falsify the resulting data and how can the system defend against such attacks? How can we negotiate the trade-off between the privacy cost and societal benefits of applications?
Authors are invited to submit original research papers that have not been published or submitted elsewhere. All papers will be peer reviewed and evaluated on the basis of technical quality, relevance,
significance, and clarity. The Proceedings of ISCIS 2011 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes notes on Electrical
Engineering, known as LNEE. Also, an extended and revised version of the best papers will be considered for publication in The Computer
Journal.
Please submit your paper via Easy Chair at the following web address:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iscis2011
The authors should add the keyword "Urban sensing" to the submission.
Session Organizers: Ladislau Bölöni and Damla Turgut
IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications
(TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication.
Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu
https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc