SmarTel'07 call for papers

["Zhiwen Yu" <zhiwen [at] itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp>]

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********************* SmarTel'07 Call For Papers *************************

Call for Papers (SmarTel'07)    
First International Workshop on Smart Homes for Tele-Health
May 21, 2007, Niagara Falls, Canada
Website - http://cs.acadiau.ca/~shussain/smartel

 

SmarTel'07 is the First International Workshop on Smart Homes for Tele-Health,
which is organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference
on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA?7, Niagara Falls,
Canada, May 21-23, 2007.

 

 

 

** Description **

 

Due to recent advancement in electronics industry, our homes can be equipped
with smart devices that can monitor a patient�s vital signs and other useful
information. The patient information can be locally processed and automatically
transmitted to the relevant health-care staff, or they can be handled locally
in the homes. These smart devices can assist in knowledge extraction and filtering
the unwanted data. The quality of current health care system can be significantly
improved by using these smart devices.

 

 

 

** Topics **

 

The main themes include, but not limited to:
  - Smart home applications for tele-health
  - Ubiquitous and pervasive healthcare services
  - Privacy, trust, and security in tele-health
  - Sensor network management for tele-health
  - Body sensor networks
  - Energy efficient communication protocols
  - Energy efficient data management
  - Monitoring of vital signs
  - Monitoring of elderly and congestive heart failure patients
  - Monitoring of chronic medical conditions
  - Integration of smart applications in healthcare system
  - Intelligent agent architectures

 

 

 

** Important Dates **

 

Submission deadline December 01, 2006
Authors Notification January 22, 2007
Author Registration February 04, 2007
Final Manuscript February 19, 2007
Workshop date  May 21, 2007

 

 

 

** General Co-Chairs **

 

Laurence T. Yang,
St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
lyang [at] stfx.ca

 

Rasit Eskicioglu, University of Manitoba, Canada
rasit [at] cs.umanitoba.ca

 

 

 

** Program Co-Chairs **

 

Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada
Sajid.Hussain [at] acadiau.ca

 

Zhiwen Yu, Nagoya University, Japan
zhiwen [at] itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp

 

 

 

** Program Committee (partial list) **

 

Raza Abidi, Dalhousie University, Canada
Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster, UK
Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Nauman Chaudhry, University of New Orleans, USA
Hune Cho, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
Andrei Doncescu, LAAS CNRS, France
Hakan Duman, Essex University, UK
Sheng Fang, Shandong University of Science & Tech., China
Jocelyne Fayn, INSERM ERM107, Lyon, France
Javier Garcia-Villalba, University of Madrid, Spain
Sylvain Giroux, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada
Peter Graham, University of Manitoba, Canada
Mario Rosario Guarracino, National Research Council, Italy
Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK
Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Tai-hoon Kim, SERSC, Korea
Frederique Laforest, LIRIS Lab., Lyon, France
Wenjun Li, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Artur R. Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Michael Marschollek, Technical University, Braunschweig, Germany
Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster, UK
Tomasz Muldner, Acadia University, Canada
Sotiris Nikoletseas, Patras University, Greece
Jong Hyuk Park, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea
Golden G. Richard, University of New Orleans, USA
Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China
Evi Syukur, Monash University, Australia
Zartash Uzmi, LUMS, Pakistan
Christine Verdier, University of Grenoble, France
Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia
Guojun Wang, Central South University, China
Yuni Xia, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Naixue Xiong, JAIST, Japan
Daqing Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Xingshe Zhou, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

 

** Paper Submission **

 

IEEE Computer Society format, 6 pages maximum, check the AINA?7 website for
more details. The papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

 

** Journal **

 

We plan to submit extended version of submitted papers for publication in a
special issue of the International Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and
Intelligence (http://www.juci.org/).

 

 

 

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Dr. Zhiwen Yu
Information Technology Center, Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
Tel: (+81)052-789-5910
Mobile: (+81)090-9891-1552
Email: zhiwen [at] itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp
http://www.ulan.jp/~zhiwen/
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