-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers

4th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing IWSAWC 2004 http://www.unl.im.dendai.ac.jp/IWSAWC/

Workshop at the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2004), March 23-26, 2004, Tokyo, Japan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This workshop is the fourth of an annual series of international workshops in conjunction with ICDCS.

Technological development has brought about a rapid maturity in smart appliances and devices, over the last few years, adding to the potential for the emergence of a variety of systems, personal computers and applications. Further enabling software and hardware for building and supporting such applications is still required. These include new kinds of embedded devices, networks, infrastructure, software architectures and models.

Collaborative sharing and distribution of information and functionality between participating appliances, heightens the utility of such new technologies as the user works with applications, devices and environments seamlessly. This workshop provides a forum for the exchange of findings into seamlessly collaborating appliances, environments and devices. In addition, it provides an opportunity for further exploration of selected topics and for the presentation of the most recent research and development findings in these rapidly changing fields.

TOPICS

Technical papers on such smart appliances and devices are solicited for oral presentation at IWSAWC 2004. Papers reporting new developments in computing with smart devices such as PDAs, wearable computers, and cellular phones, including but not limited to those listed below, are invited.

- Enabling Technologies for Appliance, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing - Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing - Home and Office Appliances - Portable Devices and Smart Sensors - Wireless-phone Computing - Home Networks and Wearable Networks - Networks for Ubiquitous Computing - Passive, Active, and Smart Tags for Ubiquitous Computing - Security and Privacy Aspects for Ubiquitous Computing - Wearable Computers and PDAs - Software Architecture for Home/Smart Appliances - Location-dependent and context-aware Computing

SUBMISSION

IWSAWC invites the submission of both "long" technical papers and "short" work-in-progress reports. Long papers must be no more than 6 two-column pages long and must include an abstract of 100 - 150 words. Short work-in-progress reports must be less than 3 two-column pages long. Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through the conference Web site at http://www.unl.im.dendai.ac.jp/IWSAWC/ after September 10, 2003. PDF format is preferred but PostScript format is acceptable. Conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. We will also solicit poster demonstrations in November.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: October 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2003 Camera ready papers: December 20, 2003

WORKSHOP COMMITTEE

Steering Committee Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University, Japan Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Program Chair Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Program Committee Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA David J Greaves, University of Cambridge, UK Hiroki Horiuchi, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan Markus Lauff, SAP AG, Germany Mike Little, Telcordia, USA Jin Nakazawa, Keio University, Japan Daniel Salber, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Bernt Schiele, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland Albrecht Schmidt, the University of Munich, Germany Tsutomu Terada, Osaka University, Japan Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University, Japan Lars Wolf, University of Braunschweig, Germany

CONTACT & INFORMATION Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan e-mail: ytobe@acm.org