Extended deadline for paper submissions: 09/11/2008

CALL FOR PAPERS: First Workshop on Global Sensor Networks (GSN 09) Collocated with KiVS 09 in Kassel, Germany http://ipvs.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/vs/gsn09 March 6th, 2009

WORKSHOP SCOPE

Global sensor networks (GSN) are an emergent research area aiming to offer applications easy and efficient access to sensor data at the scale of billions of sensing devices. While a single sensor network typically provides access to information of a limited geographical area and selected types of sensor data, a GSN provides an application with uniform and transparent access to a multitude of individual sensor networks that may be geographically dispersed, aggregating and correlating different types of data as appropriate for the application. The challenges imposed by global sensor networks are relevant to many fields in computer communications and distributed systems such as sensor networks, complex event and stream processing, pervasive computing, and P2P overlays. This workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners working in relevant fields in order to share ideas, challenges and visions on Global Sensor Networks as well as to foster new cooperation.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

GSN’09 is looking for contributions related but not limited to the following list of topics in the domain of Global Sensor Networks: - Sensor network protocols - Complex event processing - Distributed stream processing - P2P overlays - Middleware - Security - Query processing and optimization - Quality of service - Applications

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers should be submitted in PDF format via the workshop page. Contributions may present i) novel and possibly preliminary research results (full papers 12 pages, short papers 6 pages) , ii) position papers describing major challenges (6 pages), iii) new trends from the industry (2 pages). Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the program committee and are selected according to their originality, quality, and relevance to the workshop topics. Accepted papers will appear in the KIVS Workshop proceedings. For accepted papers at least one author must register with the workshop and give a presentation at the workshop. Submissions must follow the KIVS formatting guidelines and must not exceed the given page limits. Note that contributions in English as well as in German are welcome.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline (extended): 09/11/2008 Author Notification: 30/11/2008 Camera Ready: 27/12/2008

ORAGNIZATION

Co-Chairs Klaus Herrmann, Universität Stuttgart Boris Koldehofe, Universität Stuttgart

Program Committee Falko Dressler (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) Wilfried Elmenreich (Universität Klagenfurt) Christof Fetzer (Universität Dresden) Stefan Fischer (Universität Lübeck) Thomas Fuhrmann (TU München) Marcus Handte (Universität Bonn) Holger Karl (Universität Paderborn) Pedro Marron (Universität Bonn) Hartmut Ritter (ScatterWeb GmbH) Kay Römer (ETH Zürich) Jochen Schiller (FU Berlin) Stefan Weber (Trinity College, Dublin) Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen)