SmarTel'07 Last Call For Papers

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

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

Due to several requests, the submission deadline is extended to December 15. 

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?07, 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 15, 2006
Authors Notification	January 22, 2007
Author Registration	February 04, 2007
Final Manuscript	February 19, 2007
Workshop date		May 21, 2007


** Paper Submission **

IEEE Computer Society format, 6 pages maximum, check the AINA?07 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/).

** 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 
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
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 

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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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