Symposium on Middleware for Sensor Systems (MiSS'07)

Introduction

Sensor networks enable us to observe and interact with physical phenomena in real time and allow users to monitor the environment and take appropriate actions. Such pervasive instrumentation will be of great value in a range of applications- security, telemedicine, transportation, crisis management etc. Sensor networks readily extend to monitoring interactions among hardware and software entities in ubiquitous computing environments. The sensor nodes and their network are expected to provide sensory services to applications/users continually and autonomously for long periods. Middleware services are expected to facilitate seamless adaptation of sensor systems to meet application requirements. Middleware services can be deployed to enhance the usability of sensors and extend their life time. Such services utilize available computing and communicating resources and provide a consistent and uniform view of available resources and distributed services to sensors and applications executing on them.

MiSS 07 will provide a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas, and research results about the role of middleware in sensor systems. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

• Information fusion in sensor systems.
• Knowledge discovery and decision making mechanisms.
• Resource allocation and scheduling.
• Middleware support for making sensor systems available and accessible.
• Service creation, composition and maintenance.
• Energy conservation.
• Distributed algorithms.
• Synchronization and coordination.
• Sensor selection, placement and localization.
• Parallel and distributed processing in sensor systems.

Paper Submission

Paper submissions are open here.

Chair:

• Mohan Kumar (The University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
  

Program Comittee:

• Christian Becker (University of Mannheim)
• Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
• Jorg Hahner (University of Hannover, Germany)
• Jadwiga Indulska (University of Queensland, Australia)
• Swaroop Kalasapur (Samsung Research, USA)
• Mijeom Kim (Korea Telecom, South Korea)
• Cheng-Zhong Xu (Wayne State University, USA)
• Cecilia Mascolo (University College London, UK)
• Max Ott (NICTA, Australia)
• Ricky Robinson (NICTA, Australia)
• Zhijun Wang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
• Wendong Xiao (I2R, Singapore)
• Daqing Zhang (I2R, Singapore)