Call for Participation - PerCom'13, San Diego, March 18-22, 2013

[Chiara Boldrini <chiara.boldrini [at] iit.cnr.it>]

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                         CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 
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Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
 
                               PerCom 2013
                           http://www.percom.org
                             San Diego, USA
                             March 18 - 22, 2013
 
Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, University of Texas at Arlington
Technically co-sponsored by: IEEE TCCC, IEEE TCPP
Industry Sponsors: Qualcomm, NICTA, IBM Research
Other Sponsors: National Science Foundation, Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (ELSEVIER)
 
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          *** Early Registration Deadline: February 26, 2013 ***
                 http://percom.org/?q=registration
 
 
Main Features:
*** Two keynote speeches - see http://www.percom.org/?q=keynote
*** 19 Full Papers and 8 Concise Contributions - see below
*** Panel on "Intelligent Devices and Smart Spaces"
*** Best Papers Session  
*** Work-in-Progress Session - see http://www.percom.org/?q=wip
*** Demonstration Session - see http://www.percom.org/?q=demos
*** PhD Forum - see http://www.percom.org/?q=phdforum
*** 12 Workshops - see http://www.percom.org/?q=listofworkshops
 
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                       Preliminary Program Outline
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March 18: Pre-conference Workshops
March 19-21: Main Conference
March 19-20: Keynotes
March 19: Demo and WiP sessions
March 19: Welcome Reception
March 20: Best Papers Session, PhD Forum
March 20: Conference Banquet
March 21: Panel
March 22: Post Conference Workshops
 
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                             Keynote Speakers  
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          Dr Roy Want, Research Scientist, Google Inc., USA
              "The Golden Age of Pervasive Computing"
 
Prof. David Culler, Howard Friesen Chair and Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Electrical  Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA
"Pervasive Communication and Interaction to make the Built Environment Better and more Sustainable"

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                                          Panel
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                              Panel topic:
               "Intelligent Devices and Smart Spaces"
                               Panel Chair:
                          Peter Marx, Qualcomm, USA
 
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                                        Program   
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                               FULL PAPERS
 
* Supero: A Sensor System for Unsupervised Residential Power Usage Monitoring, Dennis Phillips (Michigan State University, USA); Rui Tan (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore); Mohammad Mahdi Moazzami (Michigan State University, Iran);  Guoliang Xing (Michigan State University, USA); Jinzhu Chen (Michigan State University, USA); David Yau (Advanced Digital  Sciences Center, Singapore)
* Scheduling Sensors for Monitoring Sentient Spaces using an Approximate POMDP Policy, Ronen Vaisenberg (University of California - Irvine, USA); Alessio Della Motta (University of California, Irvine, USA); Sharad Mehrotra (University of California, Irvine, USA); Deva Ramanan (University of California - Irvine, USA)
* Providing Privacy-Aware Incentives for Mobile Sensing, Qinghua Li (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Guohong Cao (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
* Where Has My Battery Gone? Finding Sensor Related Energy Black Holes in Smartphone Applications, Yepang Liu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Chang Xu (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Shing-Chi Cheung (The  Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
* PIKE: Enabling Secure Interaction with PIggybacked Key-Exchange, Wolfgang Apolinarski (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Marcus Handte (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Umer Iqbal (Universität Duisburg-Essen Germany, Germany);  Pedro Jose Marrón (University of Duisburg-Essen and Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany)
* Effective Routine Behavior Pattern Discovery from Sparse Mobile Phone Data via Collaborative Filtering, Jiangchuan Zheng  (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Siyuan Liu (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Lionel Ni (Hong  Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
* METIS: Exploring mobile phone sensing offloading for efficiently supporting social sensing applications, Kiran K. Rachuri  (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Christos Efstratiou (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Ilias Leontiadis (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Peter Rentfrow  (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
* WizNet: A ZigBee-based Sensor System for Distributed Wireless LAN Performance Monitoring, Ruogu Zhou (Michigan State  University, USA); Guoliang Xing (Michigan State University, USA); Xunteng Xu (HP Labs, P.R. China); Jianping Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Lin Gu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
* Idetic: A High-level Synthesis Approach for Enabling Long Computations on Transiently-powered ASICs, Azalia Mirhoseini (Rice University, USA); Ebrahim M. Songhori (Rice University, USA); Farinaz Koushanfar (Rice University, USA)
* Fast Dynamic Execution Offloading for Efficient Mobile Cloud Computing, Seungjun Yang (Seoul National University, Korea); Yongin Kwon (Seoul National University, Korea); Yeongpil Cho (Seoul National University, Korea); Jonghee Youn (Gangneung-wonju National University, Korea); Yunheung Paek (Seoul National University, Korea)
* Extraction of Latent Patterns and Contexts from Social Honest Signals Using Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes, Thuong C. Nguyen (Deakin University, Australia); Dinh Q. Phung (Deakin University, Australia); Sunil Gupta (Deakin University, Australia); Svetha Venkatesh (Deakin University, Australia)
* Time-lag Method for Detecting Following and Leadership Behavior of Pedestrians from Mobile Sensing Data, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark); Henrik Blunck (Aarhus University, Denmark); Martin Wirz (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Markus Wüstenberg (Aarhus University, Denmark); Daniel Roggen (ETH Zürich, Switzerland); Gerhard Tröster (Wearable Computing Lab ETH Zürich, Switzerland); Kaj Grønbæk (Aarhus University, Denmark)
* COMITY: Coordinated Application Adaptation in Multi-Platform Pervasive Systems, Verena Majuntke (University of Mannheim, Germany); Sebastian VanSyckel (University of Mannheim, Germany); Dominik Schäfer (University of Mannheim, Germany); Christian Krupitzer (University of Mannheim, Germany); Christian Becker (Universität Mannheim, Germany)
* Privacy Preservation for Participatory Sensing Data, Ioannis Boutsis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece); Vana Kalogeraki (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
* A Dense Pressure Sensitive Bedsheet Design for Unobtrusive Sleep Posture Monitoring,         Jason Liu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Wenyao Xu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Ming-Chun Huang (UCLA, USA); Nabil Alshurafa (UCLA, USA); Majid Sarrafzadeh (UCLA, USA)
* Probabilistic Registration for Large-Scale Mobile Participatory Sensing, Sara Hachem (Inria, France); Animesh Pathak (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France); Valerie Issarny (INRIA, France)
* B-Planner: Night Bus Route Planning using Large-scale Taxi GPS Traces, Chao Chen (Institut TELECOM & Management SudParis, France); Daqing Zhang (Institut Télécom, Télécom SudParis, France); Shijian Li (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
* RF-Beep: A light ranging scheme for smart devices,     Mostafa Abdulla Uddin (Old Dominion University, USA); Tamer Nadeem (Old Dominion University, USA)
* Infrastructure-Assisted Smartphone-based ADL Recognition in Multi-Inhabitant Smart Environments, Nirmalya Roy (Washington State University, USA); Archan Misra (Singapore Management University, Singapore); Diane J. Cook (Washington State University, USA)
 
 
                          CONCISE CONTRIBUTIONS
 
* OpenCapSense: A Rapid Prototyping Toolkit for Pervasive Interaction using Capacitive Sensing, Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research, Germany); Yannick Berghoefer (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany); Andreas Braun (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research, Germany); Raphael Wimmer (University of Regensburg, Germany); Arjan Kuijper (Fraunhofer IGD, Germany)
* Community Detection in Weighted Networks: Algorithms and Applications, Zongqing Lu (Nanyang Technological University,  Singapore); Yonggang Wen(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Guohong Cao (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
* DrOPS: Model-Driven Optimization for Public Sensing Systems, Damian Philipp (Universität Stuttgart, Germany); Jaroslaw Stachowiak (University of Stuttgart, Germany); Patrick Alt (University of Stuttgart, Germany); Frank Dürr (University of Stuttgart, Germany); Kurt Rothermel (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Bichromatic Reverse Nearest Neighbors in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks, Thao Nghiem (Monash University, Australia); Kiki Maulana (Monash University, Australia); Agustinus Borgy Waluyo (Monash University, Australia); David Taniar (Monash University, Australia)
* Human Tracking and Identification using a Sensitive Floor and Wearable Accelerometers, Miguel Sousa (Future-Shape GmbH, Germany); Axel Techmer (Future-Shape GmbH, Germany); Axel Steinhage (Future-Shape GmbH, Germany); Christl Lauterbach (Future-Shape GmbH, Germany); Paul Lukowicz (DFKI and University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
* Bluetooth based Collaborative Crowd Density Estimation with Mobile Phones, Jens Weppner (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany); Paul Lukowicz (DFKI and University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
* CLIPS: Infrastructure-free Collaborative Indoor Positioning Scheme for Time-critical Team Operations, Youngtae Noh (Cisco Systems Inc., USA); Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan); Prerna Vij (University of California Los Angeles, USA); Uichin Lee (KAIST, Korea); Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
* CircleSense: A Pervasive Computing System for Recognizing Social Activities,  Guanqing Liang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, Hong Kong); Weiping Zhu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic  University, Hong Kong)
 
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         Workshops - See http://www.percom.org/?q=listofworkshops
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C3: Workshop on Cognitive Computing and Communications
http://feihu.eng.ua.edu/PerCom_C3.html
 
CoMoRea: Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning
http://nexus.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/COMOREA/2013/index.html
 
IQ2s: Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing
http://www.iq2s.org/
 
MP2P: Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing
http://mpclab.ce.ncu.edu.tw/mp2p2013/
 
MUCS: Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services
http://ubiquitous-management.org/mucs/2013
 
PerCol: Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking
http://percol.inf.tu-dresden.de/
 
PerHot: The 2nd International IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Pervasive Computing and Communication
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/perhot/2013/
 
PerMoby: Workshop on Impact of Human Mobility in Pervasive Systems and Applications
http://vecchio.iet.unipi.it/permoby/
 
PerNEM 2013: Workshop on Pervasive Networks for Emergency Management
http://san.ee.ic.ac.uk/pernem2013/
 
 
PerSeNS: Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing
http://www.dicgim.unipa.it/~networks/persens2013/
 
SeNAmI: 5th International Workshop on Smart Environments and Ambient Intelligence
http://www.grpss.ssr.upm.es/senami2013
 
SESOC: Workshop on Security and Social Networking
http://www.sesoc.org/