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-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Healthcare and Assisted Living Environments Datum: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 01:17:25 +0100 (CET) Von: Gaia Maselli maselli@di.uniroma1.it An: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

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Call for Papers

HealthNet 2007

The 1st International Workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Healthcare and Assisted Living Environments

In conjunction with MobiSys 2007

June 11, 2007 Puerto Rico, USA

http://healthnet07.cs.uiuc.edu

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ------------------------------------------------------------ WORKSHOP SCOPE: ================ As the world's population grows older, healthcare and high-tech companies are joining forces. New technologies are being used to provide improved support for elderly and home bound people in their homes and in assisted living environments. The overall goal of these initiatives is to improve the quality of life by providing customized support to people in need of assistance. The main challenge is to provide this support according to the user's own specific situation in a non-intrusive and respectful way. These new technologies enable the automation of the observation and support for elderly and home bound people through the use of sensors, actuators, distributed intelligence, databases, ubiquitous connectivity and friendly adaptive interfaces, all connected mainly via a variety of wireless networking technologies. The ultimate goal is a system that can adapt to the users needs, helping them get through their daily routine in a way that is effective in providing support where needed without making them feel humiliated by excessive attention. To provide such support, it will be necessary to combine efforts from many areas of computer science, including networking, distributed systems, security, data management, HCI, AI and middleware.

Given the inherent use of mobile and wireless communication and the need for comprehensive distributed systems as well as the multi-disciplinary nature of solutions for healthcare and assisted living environments, the goal of HealthNet is to provide a forum for the cross-area interactions that will be necessary for successful systems and applications. The specific focus of HealthNet will be on understanding what it takes to provide effective systems and communication support for healthcare and assisted living environments. Although the systems and networking community is very good at providing effective solutions to satisfying application requirements, they require input from experts in other disciples, including HCI, middleware, security, privacy and social networking, to provide a more accurate understanding of the specific requirements for these environments. Therefore, HealthNet aims to attract researchers working on cross-disciplinary projects, with a focus on understanding and supporting the requirements of these complex applications.

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research related to the support of healthcare and assisted living environments. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Enabling technologies * Service and device discovery * Security and privacy * Reliability and fault tolerance * User and device localization * Resource management architecture * User data management * Middleware for heterogeneous networks * Mobility and connectivity management * Cross-layer system architecture design * Human-centered Computing * Task and behavior analysis * Impact of user interface design on system design and management * Test-beds and simulations environments

IMPORTANT DATES: ================ Paper submission deadline: March 23, 2007 (5PM US EST) Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2007 Camera ready version due: May 17, 2007 Workshop date: June 11, 2007

PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: =============================== All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers must be in PDF format, no longer than 6 pages, double-column, with a font size no smaller than 10 points, and must fit properly on US Letter-sized paper (8.5 inch x 11 inch) with reasonable margins. The first page of each paper should include the names and affiliations of the authors, i.e., the submissions should not be anonymous and reviewing is single-blind. Submissions will be judged on based on technical content and correctness, relevance to the workshop, as well as presentation of the research. Extended versions of selected workshop papers will be considered for fast track publication in a special issue of ACM Monet.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ====================

WORKSHOP Co-Chairs: * Robin Kravets, University of Illinois, USA * Chiara Petrioli, Rome University "La Sapienza," Italy

PUBLICITY Co-Chairs: * Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA * Gaia Maselli, Rome University "La Sapienza," Italy

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Amy Murphy, IRST-ITC * Archan Misra, IBM * Gene Tsudik, ISI * Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University * Henry Kautz, University of Rochester * Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia * Karrie Karahalios, University of Illinois * Kay Connelly, Indiana University * Maria Ebling, IBM * Martha Pollack University of Michigan * Nigel Davies, Lancaster University * Sunny Consolvo, Intel * Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh * Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois * Wendi Heinzelmann, University of Rochester * Yih-Chun Hu, University of Illinois

Please email questions related to paper submission or the technical program to: healthnet07@cs.uiuc.edu.

Organized by UIUC and Rome University "La Sapienza."