-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [kuvs-lg] CfP: LoCA 2005 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:54:22 +0100 From: Claudia Linnhoff-Popien linnhoff@ifi.lmu.de Reply-To: kuvs-lg@server01.comsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de To: fp6_qoc_mangement@ee.ucl.ac.uk, kuvs-lg@server01.comsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de

International Workshop on

Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2005) in cooperation with Pervasive 2005

May 12-13, 2005 Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany

http://loca2005.context-aware.org

Call for Papers:

The goal of this workshop is to address and discuss the technical challenges, ideas, views, and research results in sensing, fusing and distributing location information as well as providing location- and context-awareness to applications and services such as navigation in pervasive systems.

The workshop is a platform to propose new positioning algorithms and location sensing techniques, including new techniques and studies into the properties of existing technologies. This includes enhancements of singular systems (e.g. positioning in cellular telephone networks such as GSM; positioning in WLAN environments; etc.) as well as hybrid systems (e.g. integration of Global Navigation Satellite Systems with Inertial Position Systems). Improvements in sensor technology, integration and sensor fusion may be addressed either on a theoretical or on an implementation level.

The genesis of nearly all kinds of dynamic location information is mobility. Mobility - in all its facets (user mobility, device mobility, session mobility etc.) - requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, as well as discovery and execution frameworks for location-aware services. Thus we invite you to submit proposals and/or experience papers in the area of mobility and its mentioned adjacencies.

Location is also one of the primary aspects (such as time, identity and activity) of all major context models. Context-awareness, a generalization of location-awareness, is another driver of the pervasive computing paradigm. Well designed context modeling and context retrieval approaches are key accessors to the context in any context-aware system. Thus we emphatically invite submissions dealing with issues of modeling and retrieval of context.

This may also include integration aspects into service platforms and frameworks to provide location- and context-awareness to services.

Personal and confidential data such as the location of the user stored on mobile devices and the location of the mobile device itself have profound implications for personal information privacy. Thus the area of protecting privacy, privacy-oriented location-aware systems, and how privacy affects the feasibility and usefulness of systems may be addressed. Example topics include privacy enablers in pervasive surveillance and sensing environments or location anonymity techniques.

Scenarios and applications for location-aware computing may be surveyed and evaluated, including existing applications and aiming forwards future applications, to facilitate the deployment and everyday use of location-aware computing systems in workplaces, homes and public spaces.

Submission Guidelines:

Authors are requested to submit full papers in Adobe PDF format. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the international program committee and additional expert reviewers from relevant research communities.

All paper submissions will be handled eletronically by the EDAS system. Note that submission is a two stage process - you will need to register your paper first and then submit the final manuscript. Authors without EDAS user names will be required to register with the system using the same link as above. The site will close for submissions at 03:00 EDT on 18 December 2004.

All accepted papers will be contained in the workshop proceedings which will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. Therefore submissions must conform to the LNCS LaTeX stylesheets.

We solicit papers of up to 12 pages in LNCS style but explicitly welcome shorter papers for presentation of pointed results. All paper submissions will be treated as full papers but it is important that their length is appropriate for their content.

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: 17 December 2004 Notification: 31 January 2005 Camera ready deadline: 28 February 2005 Workshop date: 12-13 May 2005

Workshop Chairs: Thomas Strang

Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Technical Program Committee Members:

Alessandro Acquisti, CMU (USA) Victor Bahl, Microsoft (USA) Christian Becker, Stuttgart University (Germany) Anind K. Dey, UC Berkeley (USA) Thomas Engel, Uni Luxemburg (Luxemburg) Dieter Fensel, DERI Innsbruck (Austria) Jens Grossklags, UC Berkeley (USA) Mike Hazas, Lancaster University (UK) Jeffrey R. Hightower, Intel (USA) Jaga Indulska, UQ (Australia) John Krumm, Microsoft (USA) Axel Kuepper, LMU Munich (Germany) Gerard Lachapelle, Univ. of Calcary (Canada) Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) Jussi Myllymaki, IBM Almaden (USA) Harlan Onsrud, University of Maine (USA) Aaron Quigley, USYD (Australia) Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) Albrecht Schmidt, LMU Munich (Germany) Stefan Schulz, Carleton University (Canada) Frank Stajano, University of Cambridge (UK) _______________________________________________ kuvs-lg mailing list kuvs-lg@server01.comsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de http://lists.comsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/mailman/listinfo/kuvs-lg