-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SANET 2007 CFP -- please distribute Datum: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:22:46 -0400 Von: Stephan Olariu olariu@CS.ODU.EDU Antwort an: Stephan Olariu olariu@CS.ODU.EDU An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

Please distribute the attached CFP for SANET 2007 that we organize and run in conjunction with SIGMOBILE MOBICOM 2007

Thanks a lot for your help

Stephan

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====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS

SANET 2007 First ACM Workshop on Sensor Actor Networks http://www.lifl.fr/POPS/SANET2007

Montreal, Canada, Sept. 10, 2007

Organized and run in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2007 http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2007/ ======================================================================

Purpose

The advent of nano-technology and advances in communications has made it technologically feasible and economically viable to develop low-power devices that integrate general-purpose computing with multi-purpose sensing and wireless communications capabilities. It is expected that sensor networks will have a significant impact on a wide array of applications ranging from military, to scientific, to industrial, to health-care, to domestic, to environmental, establishing ubiquitous wireless sensor networks that will pervade society redefining the way in which we live and work.

Recently, in an attempt to integrate sensor networks in the fabric of human activities it has been recognized that it would be beneficial to augment sensor networks by either actuators or actors. Actuators are simple devices programmed to take immediate, one-shot, action in response to sensory input. Actors are more sophisticated entities that, in addition to actuating can provide a meaningful, long-term, interaction with the environment. This long-term interaction presupposes intelligent coordination with both the sensory data but also with anticipated changes in the environment. The resulting augmented version of sensor networks is commonly referred to as Sensor Actor Networks (SANET).

SANET 2007 has for stated goal to be a high-profile workshop that brings together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification, and implementation of architectures and protocols for current and future applications of SANETs.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Autonomous sensor networks * Emergent behavior in SANET * Modeling and simulation of SANET * Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication * Sensor-actor and actor-actor coordination * Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols * Distributed control in sensor-actor networks * Communication protocols for swarms of mobile actors * Biologically inspired communication * Ecological systems * Architectures and topology control * Localization in SANET * Probabilistic integration in SANET * SANET control and management * SANET security and robustness * SANET architectural and operational models * Applications and prototypes

Paper Submission

Submit a full paper of about 8 pages (ACM single-space, double-column format), including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. Accepted papers will be published by published by ACM Press and distributed at the workshop; copies of the Proceedings will also be available for sale from ACM after the workshop. Papers must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission: May 14, 2007, 11:59 GMT Acceptance Notification: June 18, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: July 13, 2007

Program Co-Chairs

Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Swittzerland Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA David Simplot-Ryl, University of Lille, INRIA, France

Program Committee

see web site.