-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] BASNet-2014: Call for papers Datum: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 22:38:02 -0400 Von: Zahoor Khan Zahoor.Khan@DAL.CA Antwort an: Zahoor Khan Zahoor.Khan@DAL.CA An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG
The 2nd International Workshop on Body Area Sensor Networks (BASNet-2014)
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2nd International Workshop on Body Area Sensor Networks (BASNet-2014) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of Body Area Networks (BANs). BASNet-2014 will be held in Hasselt, Belgium (2-5 June 2014) in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT-2014).
Workshop Website: www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan/BASNet-2014/ http://www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan/BASNet-2014/
SCOPE
The workshop provides a multi-disciplinary collaborative forum for researchers and practitioners to submit papers with novel ideas, innovative solutions, and research results related to the field of the Body Area Sensor Networks. The workshop also invites researchers to submit original work on sensors communication in Body Area Networks.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Wearable and implantable sensors
* Bio-sensors communication
* Sensors communication in Body Area Networks
* Body Area Networks in Hospital environment
* Body Area Networks for Medical Applications
* Routing Layer protocols for Body Area Networks
* MAC Layer protocols for Body Area Networks
* Cross layer routing protocols for Body Area Networks
* Body Area Networks and cloud computing
* RFID tags for Body Area Networks
* Security protocols for Body Area Networks
* E-Health wireless applications
* Body Area Networks used for patient health monitoring
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission due: 31 January, 2014 (Extended).
* Notification of acceptance: 15 March, 2014.
* Camera-ready due: 4 April, 2014.
* Workshop: 2-5 June, 2014.
SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2014 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2014 website (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/). The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=basnet2014.
The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date.
All BASNet-2014 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com http://www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).
The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues at ANT'14.
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Bill Robertson (General Chair), Dalhousie University (Canada)
* Zahoor Khan (Chair and organizer), Dalhousie University (Canada)
* Nadeem Javaid (Chair and organizer), COMSATS IIT (Pakistan)
* Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia (USA)
* William Phillips, Dalhousie University (Canada)
* Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University (Belgium)
* Saad Qaiser, NUST (Pakistan)
* Mohammad Nisar, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia)
* Ashfaq Ahmad, COMSATS IIT (Pakistan)
* Shyamala Sivakumar, Saint Mary's University (Canada)
* Muhammad Imran, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia)
* Anzar Mehmood, COMSATS IIT (Pakistan)
* Umar Qasim, University of Alberta (Canada)
* Hasan Mehmood, Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan)
* Kashif Saleem , King Saud University (Saudi Arabia)
If you have any further questions please contact workshop organizers or send email to basnet.workshop@gmail.com mailto:basnet.workshop@gmail.com .
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Zahoor Khan, PhD, MCSc, MSc (Computer Engineering), MSc (Electronics), BSc, MCSE
Assistant Professor (PT) & Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS Canada
Phone: +1-(902)-494-1876
http://www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan
mailto:Zahoor.Khan@Dal.ca Zahoor.Khan@Dal.ca
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Part-time Faculty of Computing & Information Systems Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University Halifax, NS Canada mailto:Zahoor.Khan@smu.ca Zahoor.Khan@smu.ca
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