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************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The International Workshop on Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks (RoboSense 2012) http://www.coins-lab.org/events/RoboSense12/ **************************************************************************

Springer Special Edition

Best selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the special edition of Springer Book “Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks” under the book series “Studies in Computational Intelligence”.

Overview

Wireless connected robots and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have enabled great potentials and a large space for ubiquitous and pervasive applications. Robotics and WSNs have mostly been considered as separate research fields and little work has investigated the marriage between these two technologies. However, these two technologies share several features, enable common cyber-physical applications and provide complementary support to each other.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia, and industry working in to both robotics and sensor networks areas to present and discuss recent advances and innovative ideas pertaining to these fields. Papers dealing with the coupling between robots and sensor networks are particularly sought. The workshop also looks for contributions about cyber-physical applications based on robotics and sensor networks, such as intelligent transportation systems, healthcare monitoring, industrial automation, etc.

The workshop will provide a relaxed forum to present and discuss new ideas, new research directions and to review current trends in these areas. The workshop will be based on short presentations that should encourage discussions among the attendees. Statements which are innovative, controversial or that present new approaches are specially sought.

Workshop Chairs

Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam Mohamed bin Saud University (Saudi Arabia)/CISTER Research Unit, Portugal. Abdelmajid Khelil, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Important Dates

Paper Submission: February 20, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2012 Authors Registration Due: May 10, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: May 10, 2012

Call for Papers

The workshop is seeking original research and position papers dealing with hot topics in mobile robots and sensor networks. Innovative and/or controversial ideas are specially sought. Papers presenting integration between sensor networks and robotics fields will be particularly appreciated. The workshop welcomes papers in three main tracks:

Wireless Sensor Networks Track Communication and Network Protocols (MAC and Network Layers issues) Wireless Technologies (IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, RPL, WiMax, UWB) Localization and Tracking Link Quality Estimation Fundamental Theoretical Limits and Algorithms Performance Evaluation, Simulation and Modelling Tools Measurement and Experimental Tools Security and Privacy Programming Models and Languages Operating Systems Service-Oriented Architecture Hardware Design and Implementation Mobile Robots Track Path Planning Multi-Robot Task Allocation Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) Coordination and Cooperation Autonomous Navigation Robot Localization Swarm Intelligence Multi-robot systems Unmanned vehicle systems Learning for control Bio-inspired robotic Probabilistic Exploration and Coverage Object Detection & Collision Avoidance Motion estimation Cyber-Physical Applications Intelligent Transportation Systems Vehicular Networks Health-Care Monitoring Surveillance Smart Home Industrial Automation Internet-of-Things Case Studies

TPC Members (in progress)

Adel Alimi, National School of Engineering of Sfax, Tunisia Luis Almeida, University of Aveiro, Portugal Mário Alves, CISTER Research Unit, Portugal Raul Aquino, University of Colima, Mexico Adel Ben Mnaouer, Dar Al-Uloom University, Saudi Arabia Xianghui Cao, Zhejiang University, China Michel Devy, LAAS/CNRS Group, France José Ramiro Martínez de Dios, University of Seville, Spain Fakir Dawood, Yanbu University College, Saudi Arabia Bernardine Dias, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Rüdiger Dillmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Mohamed Elarbi, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia Joerg Haehner, University of Hannover, Germany Tian Huang, University of Warwick, UK Geoffrey A. Hollinger, University of Southern California, USA Jiong Jin, University of Melbourne, Australia Omar Lengerke, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil Xu Li, University of Waterloo, Canada, Canada Rongxing Lu, University of Waterloo, Canada Daniel Mosse, University of Pittsburgh, USA Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy Carlos Sagues, University of Zaragoza, Spain Silvia Santini, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Ye-Qiong Song, IINPL / INRIA Lorraine, France Yuuichi Teranishi, University of Osaka, Japan Takashi Tsubouchi, University of Tsukuba, Japan Naoki Wakamiya, University of Osaka, Japan Andreas Willig, Canterbury University, New Zealand Habib Youssef, University of Sousse, Tunisia Andrea Zanella, University of Padova, Italy Fumin Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Marco Zuniga, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

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Dr. Abdelmajid Khelil khelil(at)informatik.tu-darmstadt.de TU Darmstadt - CS Department DEEDS Group Hochschulstr. 10 S2:02 E219 D-64289 Darmstadt, GER Tel. +49-6151-16-3414 Fax. +49-6151-16-4310 http://www.deeds.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/khelil/index.html _____________________________________________