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New Deadline: Submission until Dec. 10, 2007

ARCS 2008 February 25-28, Dresden (Germany)

ARCS 2008 - Architecture of Computing Systems 1st GI/ITG FG APS+PC Workshop Ambient Assisted Living - Human centric Assistance Systems

February 26, 2008

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The demographic change of most Industrial Communities is still in progress. Caused by an increasing life expectancy, aging of the baby boom generation and low actual birthrates it is assumed that the number of elderly people will be doubled in 2050. Especially the number of the 80+ people will have been tripled since today. Regarding actual social trends the proportion of elderly people living alone will increase highly. On the other hand the demographic change will be a chance for the European Community and its economy. More and more elderly people will need and buy goods, services and appropriate technologies in order to participate in social life.

The demographic change will be a challenge for the European Community in terms of social impacts and public finances. It is not possible to increase the public institutional care systems in the same way due to incurring unacceptable costs. Hence transition of elderly people into institutional care has to be delayed. Many individual persons need support and help by innovative technologies to stay as long as possible in their own living environment independently.

On the part of medicine general practitioners home visits play the main role in developing diagnosis and treatment concepts for the elderly people. As a consequence of the demographic change much more home visits will be required. Critical questions arise at this point. Is it possible to reduce the amount of visits by using appropriate technologies?

What would be the social impacts? Would it be possible to economize home visits, e.g. by using remote vital data sensing technologies?

On the part of technology Ambient Intelligence is one of the key words. Computational power embedded into buildings sensors, actors and devices in day-to-day usages give chances for seamless integration of mobile users into wireless networking environments offering cooperative services for independent living and social participation anywhere. Accurate context recognition and data mining in mobile and highly dynamic ad hoc peer-to-peer environments are basic prerequisites for useful services. Middleware based convergence of environmental network services, local area and internet services involve ontologies for sharing context informations across the networks.

Focus of the Workshop: Human centric Assistance Systems Ambient Assisted Living is an interdisciplinary approach. Medical, social, ethical and commercial aspects are as important for systemic solutions as technological aspects. The GI/ITG FG APS+PC is soliciting contributions dealing with topics of human centric assistance systems. Social, medical and technological aspects of highly deterministic scenarios like e.g. vital data sensing, processing and communications are as welcome as non deterministic scenarios like e.g. community building for social participation introducing knowledge based methods.

Technological Aspects · Pervasive Computing, Ambient Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Ambient Intelligence

· Smart environments, sensor networks, integrated building technologies, home platforms

· Wearable Computing Systems, Wireless Communications, Mobile Computing

· User Interfaces

· UWB Technologies, UWB Communications, UWB Remote Sensing

· Technologies for vital data sensing

· Position tracking, inertial sensors

· Knowledge based Methods

· Middleware

· Context-aware Smart Products, locations based Services

· Convergence of Environmental Networks, Local Area Networks and Internet

· Adaptive and learning capable systems, SELF-X

· Trust

· System on Chip platforms

· Method, tools and reference architectures for AAL Solutions

· Service oriented platforms

Medical and Social Aspects · Vital data and sensing methods

· Modelling of medical and psychological situations, basic disease pattern and appropriate health care, individualization of models

· Ethical and social aspects of AAL Systems

· Social preferences of eldery people

· Parameters of acceptance

· AAL scenarios

Ambient Assisted Living Solutions · Social Integration

· E-Health, E-Care

· Decentralized Communications Support

· Autonomous Intelligent Systems

Sustainability of AAL Solutions

Deadlines Submission until Dec. 10, 2007 Notification of acceptance Jan. 10, 2008 Final version until Jan. 21, 2008

ARCS 2008 - Architecture of Computing Systems

___________________________________________________ Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralph Welge

welge@uni-lueneburg.de Forschungsgruppe VauST

(Verteilte autonome Systeme und Technologien) Universitaet Lueneburg Fakultaet Umwelt und Technik

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