============================================================================ SSIT 2011 Call for Papers Workshop on Semantic Services for the Internet of Things (SSIT) co-located with the the 17th Conference on "Communication in Distributed Systems 2011" (KiVS’11, Kiel, Germany) Workshop date: 10-11.03.2011 (Thursday afternoon – Friday until lunch) http://www.kivs11.de/lang/en/workshops/workshop-on-semantic-services-for-the... ============================================================================

Today, people perceive the Internet as a system to request information from servers (Web 1.0) or to contribute information (Web 2.0). In the meantime, embedded computing has developed and grown enormously, where tiny autonomous devices, such as wireless sensor nodes, form distributed sensing systems. The next grand challenge is the amalgamation of the Internet and the world of embedded devices to form an Internet of Things (IoT) where all kinds of devices extend the Internet into the physical world.

The advent of an interoperable MAC layer (IEEE 802.15.4) and IPv6 connectivity for resource-constraint devices (6LoWPAN) are essential first steps. However, as the number of IoT devices is envisioned to surpass the number of nodes in the Internet by several orders of magnitude, IP connectivity is just a first milestone on the way of designing and developing IoT applications. Beyond basic networking there is a need for unifying concepts, methods, and software infrastructures that allow the efficient development of robust, interoperable, and scalable IoT applications spanning and integrating the Internet and the embedded world. Open issues include discovery, search, and management of services as well as service invocation on IoT devices in a highly scalable manner.

Another fundamental aspect is the unified description of the semantics of the services provided by the embedded devices. While existing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) are designed for PC class devices, there is a lack of light-weight approaches suitable for the resource constraints of embedded devices. The goal of this workshop is to exchange ideas and first results between experts working in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Algorithms, and Semantics.

Particular topics of interest for papers to be submitted include, but are not limited to:

* Internet of Things / Wireless Sensor Networks * Web-based Architectures * SOAs for Resource-constraint Environments * Interaction Patterns * Application Development * Management and Discovery * Real-World Applications for the Internet of Things * Seamless Integration with the (Future) Internet * Heterogeneity in Large-scale Networks * Light-weight Semantics of Services * Algorithmic Aspects of Large-scale Systems

----------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------- * Paper Submission Due: 31.10.2010 * Notification: 28.11.2010 * Paper-ready version: 19.12.2010 * Workshop: 10-11.03.2011 (Thursday afternoon – Friday until lunch)

----------------------------------------- Technical Program Committee ----------------------------------------- * Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland * Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany * Stefan Fischer, University of Lübeck, Germany * Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ireland * Horst Hellbrück, University of Applied Sciences Lübeck, Germany * Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP Research, Germany * Alexander Kröller, Braunschweig Institute of Technology, Germany * Werner Kuhn, University of Münster, Germany * Pedro Jose Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany * Dennis Pfisterer, University of Lübeck, Germany * Kay Römer, University of Lübeck, Germany * Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany * Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany

----------------------------------------- Submission Instructions ----------------------------------------- Prospective participants are invited to submit papers containing original unpublished material only. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee for quality and relevance. Accepted papers will be published in the Electronic Communications of the EASST (ECEASST), a peer-reviewed, scientific and open access journal. Submissions must conform to the ECEASST submission format and rules and may not exceed 12 pages (for details see http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/index.php/eceasst/about/submissions). PDF files should be submitted via ECEASST’s online submission system https://www.conftool.com/kivs11/.