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5th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing Columbus, Ohio, USA June 10, 2005

Held in conjuction with IEEE 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2005). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.teco.edu/iwsawc05/

PURPOSE & SCOPE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We invite researchers, practitioners, educators, students, and others interested in smart appliances, devices and sensors to the 5th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC 2004). This workshop serves as a forum for the exchange of new findings in collaborative technologies for smart and wearable devices and smart appliances deployed in both lab and real world environments. It further offers an opportunity for in-depth 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 smart appliances and collaborative technologies are solicited for oral presentation at IWSAWC 2005. 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 Appliances in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing - Collaboration concepts and techniques for smart devices - Infrastructure components for Ubiquitous Computing - Home and Office Appliances - Portable Devices and Smart Sensors - Wireless-phone Computing - Home Networks and Wearable Networks - Networks for Ubiquitous Computing - Security and Privacy Aspects for Ubiquitous Computing - Wearable Computers and PDAs - Software and Service Architectures for Home/Smart Appliances - Location-dependent and context-aware Computing

IMPORTANT DATES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submission deadline: November 15, 2004 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2005 Camera-ready papers: March 1, 2005

Paper Submission ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IWSAWC invites both long technical papers and short work-in-progress reports. Long papers must not exceed 6 pages in two-column format while short reports must be less than 3 pages in two-column format. Both must include an abstract of 100-150 words. Accepted paper will be included in the IEEE proceedings of the hosting ICDCS. Authors are invited to submit papers electronically on the workshop website. For more details check the website http://www.teco.edu/iwsawc05

Poster and Demonstration Sessions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submissions are invited to present recent results in posters and demonstrations. Further information will be available from the conference website http://www.teco.edu/iwsawc05.

CONTACT ~~~~~~~ Christian Decker, TecO, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (cdecker@teco.edu)

Tsutomu Terada, Osaka University, Japan (tsutomu@cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp)

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Organizing Committee

Christian Decker, TecO, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Tsutomu Terada, Osaka University, Japan Jalal Al-Muhtadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Albert Krohn, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Kazunori Takashio, Keio University, Japan Khai N. Truong, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Program Committee

Jalal Al-Muhtadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Wei Hong, Intel Research Berkeley, USA Yasuyuki Kono, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan Albert Krohn, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Uwe Kubach, Campus Engineering Center SAP AG Karlsruhe, Germany Kristof Van Laerhoven, Lancaster University, UK Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich, Germany Bernt Schiele, University of Darmstadt, Germany Kazunori Takashio, Keio University, Japan Tsutomu Terada, Osaka University, Japan Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University, Japan Khai N. Truong, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Simon Tsang, Telcordia Technologies, USA Lars Wolf, University of Braunschweig, Germany