CFP: UIC-06 deadline only three days away (March 19, 2006)

[Mieso Denko <denko [at] cis.uoguelph.ca>]

The UIC-06 submission deadline has been extended to March 19, 2006.


********************* UIC-06 *************************

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

         http://www.uic-conference.org/2006/
         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
******************************************************

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 --> March 19, 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 Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS).
Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register
and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed
from the digital library after the conference.

Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special
issues of the Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI), and
the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC).
A set of high quality papers of the conference, after further revisions,
also will be published in an edited book published by Springer, Germany,
and in an edited book published by IDEA Publishing Group, USA, respectively.

==Organizing Committees==

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

  General Chairs
  Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, Univ. 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 Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China
  Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada

  International Advisory Committee
  Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan
  Marios C. Angelides, Brunel University, UK
  Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Tech., Japan
  Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan
  Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA
  Ali R. Hurson, Pennsylvania State University, USA
  Haruhisa Ichikawa, NTT Network Innovation Lab., Japan
  Moon Hae Kim, Konkuk University, Korea
  Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
  Beniamino Di Martino, Second Univ. of Naples, Italy
  Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, Canada
  Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
  Jhing-Fa Wang, Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan
  Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
  Xingshe Zhou, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

  Steering Committee Chairs
  Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
  Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., 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 Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China
  Thomas Noel, Univ. Louis Pasteur, France
  Jon (Jong-Hoon) Youn, Univ. 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 Univ., HK

  Financial Chair
  Xin Li, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China

  Web Administration Chair
  Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China
  Tony Li Xu St. Francis Xavier University Canada

  Local Arrangement Chair
  Xia Xie, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China

  Program Committee
  See UIC-06 web site: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/uic06/
                       http://www.uic-conference.org/2006/

  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>