UIC2006CFP

[Qun Jin <jin [at] waseda.jp>]

[Apologies if you receive this CFP more than once]

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        The 3rd International Conference on
   Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-06)
 - Building Smart Worlds on Real and Cyber Spaces -

         http://grid.hust.edu.cn/uic06/
  Organized by Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech. (HUST)
  Co-Sponsored by HUST, NSFC, 863, ChinaGrid, IFIP
  In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society (Applying)

    Wuhan and Three Gorges, China, September 3-6, 2006
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Following ubiquitous computers, networks, information, 
services, etc., is a road towards a smart world (SW) 
created on both real and cyber spaces. A SW is mainly 
characterized by ubiquitous intelligence (UI) or 
computational intelligence pervasive in the physical world, 
filled with ubiquitous intelligent or smart things, 
that are capable of computing, communicating, and behaving 
smartly with some intelligence. One of the profound implications 
of such ubiquitous smart things is that various kinds and 
levels of intelligence will exist ubiquitously in 
everyday objects, environments, systems and even ourselves, 
and possibly be extended from man-made to natural things. 
"Ubicomp" or "percomp"  can be regarded as the computing of 
all these intelligent/smart things/u-things, that are 
essential elements and components of the SW.

A smart thing can be endowed with different levels of 
intelligence, and may be context-aware, active, interactive, 
reactive, proactive, assistive, adaptive, automated, sentient, 
perceptual, cognitive, autonomic and/or thinking. 
Intelligent/smart things is an emerging research field 
covering many disciplines. A series of grand challenges exist 
to move from the ubiquitous world with universal services of 
any means/place/time to the SW of trustworthy services with the 
right means/place/time. UIC-06 is a successor of the 2nd Int'l 
Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart Worlds (UISW2005, 
Japan, Dec. 2005) which succeeds the 1st Int'l Workshop on 
Ubiquitous Smart Worlds (USW2005,Taipei, Mar. 2005). It offers 
a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in 
developing intelligent/smart objects, environments, and systems 
as well as discuss various personal/social/physical issues 
faced by UI and SWs. 

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

1. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Objects
  * Electronic Label, Card, E-Tag and RFID
  * Embedded Chips, Sensor & Actuator
  * MEMS, NEMS, Mote & Biometric Device
  * Everyday Good, Artifact, Robot, etc.
  * Smart Appliance and Wearable Device
  * Material, Textile, Cloth, Furniture, etc.
  * Emerging Intelligent/Smart Objects
  * Embedded Software and Agents

2. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Environments 
  * Room, Home, Office, Laboratory, etc.
  * Building, Library, School, Campus, etc.
  * Shop, Clinic, Hospital and Health Care 
  * Street, Yard, Park, Ground, City, etc.
  * Vehicle, Road, Traffic & Transportation
  * Land, Pool, Space and Hyperspace
  * Learning, Sport, Entertainment, etc. 
  * Novel Intelligent/Smart Applications

3. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Systems
  * Sensor, Ad Hoc & Intelligent Networks
  * Knowledge Representation and Ontology
  * Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems
  * OS, Middleware and Intelligent Association
  * Intelligent Service Architecture, Grid & Mesh
  * Massive Agents, Swarm/Amorphous Systems
  * Proactive, Autonomic and Organic Systems
  * Novel Intelligent/Smart Systems 

4. Personal/Social/Physical Aspects
  * Real/Cyber World Modeling and Semantics
  * End-User Interface, Control & Programming
  * Social/Natural/Physical Model of UI & SW
  * User/Object Identity and Activity Recognition
  * Security, Privacy, Trust and Legal/Policy Issues
  * Emotional, Ethical and Psychological Factors
  * Implication and Impact of UI and SW
  * Relations between Real and Cyber Worlds

==IMPORTANT DATES==
Submission Deadline: 	March 10,  2006 
Authors Notification: 	May   10,  2006 
Final Manuscript Due: 	June  10,  2006 

==ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION==
Prepare your paper  with free styles not more than 15 pages 
in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) at the UIC-06 web site: 
http://grid.hust.edu.cn/uic06

==PAPER PUBLICATION==
Accepted papers will be published by IEEE CS Proceedings 
to be indexed by SCI and EI. Distinguished papers, after 
further revisions, will be published in special issues of 
the international Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and 
Intelligence (JUCI), and the International Journal of 
Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC).

==Organizing Committees==

Honorary Chairs
Horio Shiratori, Tohoku University, Japan
Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

General Chairs 
Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 
Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

Program Committee Chairs 
Victor Callaghan, University of Essex, UK
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

International Advisory Committee 
Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan
Marios C. Angelides, Brunel University, UK
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan
Ali R. Hurson, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Haruhisa Ichikawa, NTT Network Innovation Lab., Japan
Moon Hae Kim, Konkuk University, Korea
Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy
Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, Canada
Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Jhing-Fa Wang, Nat. Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

Steering Committee Chairs
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Publicity Chairs
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Hani A. K. Hagras, University of Essex, UK
Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan

International Liaison Chairs
Vipin Chaudhary, Wayne State University, USA
Ismail K. Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia

Publication Chairs
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Thomas Noel, University Louis Pasteur, France
Jon (Jong-Hoon) Youn, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

Award Chairs
Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA
Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Panel Chair
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

Financial Chair
Xin Li, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China

Web Administration Chair
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China

Local Arrangement Chair
Xia Xie, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China

Program Committee 
See UIC-06 web site: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/uic06/

Further questions, please contact with
UIC06 Secretariat: <uic06 [at] hust.edu.cn>
Or PC Chairs
Prof. Hai Jin <hjin [at] hust.edu.cn>
Prof. Laurence T. Yang <lyang [at] stfx.ca>
Prof. Victor Callaghan <vic [at] essex.ac.uk>

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Qun Jin, Ph.D.
Professor 
Department of Human Informatics and Cognitive Sciences 
Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University
2-579-15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa-shi, Saitama 359-1192, Japan
Phone/Fax: +81-4-2947-6906   E-mail: jin [at] waseda.jp
http://www.f.waseda.jp/jin/  http://jinlab.human.waseda.ac.jp/