[dbjapan] CFP WiSARN 2010

[Nathalie Mitton <nathalie.mitton [at] inria.fr>]

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          Call for Papers for the 1st International Workshop on
          Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN-2010)
          http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~xuli/WiSARN2010/

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To be held in conjunction with the
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and 
Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2010)
June 14-17, 2010, Montreal, Canada.

Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSAN) are the confluence point where 
the traditional fields of wireless sensor networks (WSN), robot networks 
and control theory meet. In WSAN, nodes collaborate to accomplish 
distributed sensing and actuation tasks. Leveraged by the control and 
mobility of actors, the networking process and applications embrace a 
whole new set of possibilities. Actors may deploy, repair and relocate 
sensors to improve coverage, build routes and fix network partition to 
ensure data communication, change network topology to shape routing 
patterns and balance energy consumption, and respond to reported events 
in a timely and effective manner. The benefits are limited only by 
imagination. As an emerging field, WSAN are in need of new networking 
techniques, by which they can fully exploit their particularities and 
potentials. WiSARN aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions 
on the design, specification and implementation of architectures, 
algorithms and protocols for current and future applications of WSAN.
Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in ALL aspects of 
WSAN, WSN, robot networks, and robotics and automation. Possible topics 
include, but are not limited to: *  Autonomous sensor networks
*  Emergent behavior in WSAN
*  Modeling and simulation of WSAN *  WSAN architectural and operational 
models
*  Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication *  
Sensor-actor (robot) and actor-actor coordination *  Energy-efficient 
and real-time communication protocols
*  Bandwidth-efficient and delay-tolerant communication protocols *  
Distributed control and management in WSAN
*  Neighborhood discovery and mobility management
*  Communication protocols for swarms of mobile actors (robots)
*  Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots
*  Actor (robot) task assignment
*  Biologically inspired communication *  Ecological systems *  
Architectures and topology control *  Localization in WSAN
*  Probabilistic integration in WSAN
*  Quality of service, security and robustness issues
*  Applications and prototypes *  Hybrid networks and wireless Internet
*  Data management, gathering, aggregation and query processing

Accepted papers with a FULL registration to the main conference will be 
included in the conference proceedings. No-shows of accepted papers at 
the workshop will result in those papers NOT being included in the IEEE 
Digital Library. Selected best papers will be invited to a special issue 
of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks: an international journal.

Important dates
Paper submission:          Feb. 15, 2010
Author notification:       Mar. 25, 2010
Camera ready:              Apr. 10, 2010


General Chair
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada

Program Co-Chairs
Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China
Hannes Frey, Univerity of Paderburn, Germany
Xu Li, University of Ottawa, Canada

Publicity Co-Chairs
Nathalie Mitton, INRIA, France
Ling Shi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Submission Chair
Rafael Falcon, University of Ottawa, Canada

Technical Program Committee
Kemal Akkaya, Southern Illinois University, USA
Matthias R. Brust, Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Brazil
Cailian Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Dimos Dimarogonas, MIT, USA
Yongchun Fang, Nankai University, China
Francois Ingelrest, EPFL, Switzerland
Nathalie Mitton, INRIA, France
Amiya Nayak, University of Ottawa, Canada
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
Jianping Pan, University of Victoria, Canada
Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Nicola Santoro, Carleton University, Canada
Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada
Wei Shi, University of Onatrio Institute of Technology, Canada
David Simplot, INRIA, France
Yeqiong Song, INRIA-LORIA, France
Rong Xiong, Zhejiang University, China
Guanhong Yang, Northeast University, China
Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland, USA
Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

For further information, please refer to the above WiSARN 2010 website, 
or contact the program co-chairs: Dr. Jiming Chen at jmchen.zju [at] gmail.com
Dr. Hannes Frey at hannes.frey [at] uni-paderborn.de
Dr. Xu Li at xuli [at] site.uottawa.ca
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