Symposium on Middleware for Sensor Systems (MiSS'09)
Co-chairs: Mohan Kumar (The University of Texas, Arlington, USA), Jadwiga Indulska (The University of Queensland, Australia)
E-mail: mkumar@uta.edu
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 facilitate seamless adaptation of sensor systems
to meet application requirements and 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'09 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
- Cyber Physical 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
- Opportunistic communication and computing in sensor systems
- Context-aware computing and services in sensor systems
Paper Submission:
MiSS'09 invites authors to submit original and unpublished
work. Papers must be written in English and must not
exceed 6 pages. Please click here
for further instructions related to paper submissions.
Accepted conference papers will be published in IEEE
Xplore.
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Symposium on Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks
Co-chairs: Paul Havinga (University of Twente)
Organizing committee: Supriyo Chatterjea, Ozlem Durmaz Incel, Raluca Marin-Perianu
E-mail: havinga@cs.utwente.nl
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Research in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)
has come a long way since it began around a decade ago.
While there have been numerous small-scale WSN test bed
implementations by the research community, large-scale
implementations, involving hundreds or even thousands of
nodes which are static or mobile are still unheard of.
This symposium focuses on the theoretical and practical
challenges faced when dealing with large-scale wireless
sensor networks involving static and/or mobile nodes.
Networks which scale thousands of static and/or mobile
nodes need to possess a number of inherent characteristics
in order to function properly. For example, scalability
and distributed operation are essential characteristics
for any large scale deployment. WSNs will only be widely
adopted, if end-users are given guarantees about the
operation of the system. Thus providing QoS guarantees is
very important. However, providing such guarantees can be
very difficult especially when one considers the
unreliability of wireless links in WSNs. As resources such
as energy, bandwidth, memory and computational power are
highly constrained, novel techniques are required to
manage the resources by maximizing the usage of
cross-layer information, in order to guarantee the
operation of the network in accordance with the end-user's
requirements. The fact that manually administering every
node individually is impossible, makes it vital for the
system to have self-organizing and self-learning
capabilities in every section of the protocol stack.
Heterogeneity is another characteristic that makes the
overall network architecture more robust and
efficient.
This symposium seeks papers that present novel solutions
to the problems listed above. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to, the following:
- Networking protocols (MAC, Routing, Transport, Time synchronization, QoS, Mobility support)
- Sensor information processing (Calibration, Adaptive sampling, Signal processing)
- Distributed algorithms for data management (Querying, Data aggregation, Coding, Storage)
- Theoretical and simulation-based modelling (Mobility models, Fundamental bounds and formulations)
- In-network data interpretation (Event detection and classification, Context-awareness, Adaptive recognition algorithms, On-line training and learning)
- Sensor-actuator coordination (Heterogeneous architectures, Distributed control)
- System support (Operating systems, Network monitoring and management, Network reprogramming, Simulation and debugging tools)
- Services (Service-oriented architectures, Service discovery, Localization and tracking, Security)
- Real-world experiences (Novel applications, Deployments, Experimental testbeds, Measurements)
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Symposium on Adaptive Sensing, Control and Optimization in Sensor Networks
Co-chairs: I-Jeng Wang (Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Lab)
E-mail: I-Jeng.Wang@jhuapl.edu
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This symposium addresses the dynamic control and
optimization of sensing strategies in sensor networks.
Examples of sensing controls under consideration include
the optimization of sampling mechanisms, dynamic
scheduling of active sensors, and the control of mobile
sensor platforms. In particular, we would like to focus on
adaptive approaches that exploit both prior knowledge and
the real-time feedback to efficiently optimize
system-level performance. Original papers focused on
either theoretical or application results within the
above-mentioned scope are welcome. Specific topics of
interest include but are not limited to:
- Compressive sensing techniques for sensor networks
- Multi-sensor and distributed compressive sensing
- Distributed detection and estimation exploiting spatial sparsity
- Dynamic waveform optimization in active sensors
- Radar waveform optimization
- Dynamic waveform selection for active sonar sensors
- Sensor scheduling to optimize detection and tracking performance
- Sensor scheduling in multi-static sensor networks
- POMDP-based sensor scheduling with energy constraint
- Dynamic optimization of sensor configuration to maximize information gain
- Dynamic control of PTZ camera sensor networks
- Information theoretic approach to scalable sensor management
- Cooperative control of mobile sensor platforms to optimize sensing performance
- Coordinated guidance of UAV for multiple target tracking
- Decentralized control of robotic vehicles for coordinated sensing
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Symposium on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology
Co-chairs: Robin Doss (Deakin University, Australia)
E-mail: robin.doss@deakin.edu.au
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology enables
the non-contact, automatic and unique identification of
objects and people using radio waves. As the need for auto
identification (auto-ID) systems becomes increasingly
common place in many economic sectors, potential RFID
applications include homeland security (RFID enabled
passports), e-business (RFID enabled credit cards),
e-cash (RFID enabled bank notes) and automated supply
chain management. It is estimated that the RFID market in
the United States alone, including systems and services
will be worth US$3 billion in 2010 increasing to around
US$26.9 billion by 2015. However, there are significant
research challenges that still need to be addressed before
the widespread adoption of RFID technology.
The main purpose of this symposium is to serve as a forum
that brings together RFID researchers and practitioners
from academia, industry and government to discuss recent
developments in RFID systems and technology. This platform
will serve to identify key research challenges in the
design, operation, analysis, practical application and
optimization of RFID systems that are relevant from an
industry-oriented perspective.
Topics covered will include but are not limited to:
- Novel/Innovative RFID applications
- RFID systems and architectures
- Next Generation RFID Technologies
- Performance evaluation of RFID systems/protocols
- RFID system management
- RFID data management
- Risk management and RFID
- RFID-enabled intelligence
- Data mining and RFID
- RFID security and privacy
- RFID middleware
- RFID standardisation
- Prototype implementations of RFID systems
- Frameworks for ROI analysis for RFID systems
- Real-world case studies of RFID deployments
- Human/Business factors related to RFID adoption
- RFID challenges and opportunities
- RFID in human identification and tracking
- Safety and health aspects of RFID
- RFID in home automation
- Integration of RFID with other systems (including sensors, GPS, Wi-Fi etc.)
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Symposium on Multimedia Processing on Sensor Networks.
Co-chairs: Tim Wark (CSIRO), Branislav Kusy (Stanford)
E-mail: tim.wark@csiro.au, branislav.kusy@gmail.com
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Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have attracted increasing
interest over the last few years, driven by theoretical
and practical problems in embedded operating systems,
network protocols, wireless communications and distributed
signal processing. To date the focus has been largely on
simple scalar sensors such as light level, temperature,
humidity etc, to bring these various topics together. The
commoditization of colour CMOS imaging sensors, DSP chips
and audio codecs however, has meant that more capable
multimedia nodes operating in a low power mode are now
starting to emerge in WSN applications. Sensors such as
microphones and cameras can provide rich information about
the environment, but also have the disadvantage of
generating very large quantities of data, processing of
which typically requires consuming large amounts of energy.
The symposium will explore emerging research questions
around the area of multimedia sensor networks where the
amount data produced by sensors (e.g. audio or image
samples) exceeds the typical available bandwidth, and
where energy resources necessary for continuous processing
is typically not available. Topics include (but are not
limited to):
- Design of new/emerging hardware platforms and low power multimedia sensors
- Distributed algorithms for audio/video event detection
- In-situ feature extraction from audio/video samples
- Distributed compression and efficient storage of high sample-rate data
- Integration of mobile camera phones or PDAs with traditional sensor networks
- System architectures and management of multimedia data
The symposium would aim to have 6-8 papers, ideally
covering a range of styles from theoretical contributions
through to practical deployment reports. Each paper would
have a presentation of around 15 minutes with an extended
period of 10 minutes for questions/discussion around the
topic. The intention will be to invite a keynote speaker
who can not only present interesting results around their
own work, but also help stimulate discussions about
potential directions for this whole sub-field.
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International Symposium on Integration of the Digital and Physical World in the Network of the Future.
Co-chairs: Srdjan Krco (Ericson), Lareunt Herault (CEA-LETI, France), Alex Gluhak (University of Surrey)
E-mail: Srdjan.krco@ericsson.com, Laurent.herault@cea.fr
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Recently, Future Internet research has attracted a lot of
attention across the globe with a number of initiatives
such as the Future Internet Assembly in Europe, GENI in
the US and AKARI in Japan. A common theme is the
requirement to adopt an all encompassing approach taking
into account requirements and views from a number of
angles: networking protocols, socio-economics, services,
security, etc.
An important aspect of the network of the future is
provision of support for integration of the physical world
into the global network and making the physical world
"clickable".
Sensors and actuators located in open space or attached to
existing objects, RFID enabled items, and generally many
heterogeneous devices with communication and computational
capabilities will be integrated into the fabric of the
Internet, providing an accurate reflection of the real
world, delivering fine-grained information and enabling
almost real time interaction between the virtual world and
real world.
The goal of the symposium is to bring together researchers
and practitioners to exchange ideas and results from
different national and regional initiatives (in particular
Europe and Australasia) addressing the real world aspect
of the Future Internet.
The main topics of interest include the following:
Architecture for a real world internet, semantic sensor
web and the internet of things, including design
principles, rules and guidelines for real world
integration, system concepts and protocol architectures.
Context management system and context information
infrastructures, including context perception and
acquisition, context modelling and representation,
context processing and reasoning, context diffusion and
dissemination.
Discovery services, resolution infrastructures and
lookup services for the real world internet and the
internet of things.
Integration of real world information and interaction
capabilities into enterprise system architectures,
including cross-layer collaboration and interaction
between web services and resources of the internet of
things.
Studies considering traffic patterns of large scale
sensor network interaction and M2M communication
evaluating their impact on existing/future fixed and
mobile network infrastructures.
Socio-economic considerations for a Real World Internet
and the Internet of Things, including business models,
concepts for information ownership and enforcement,
models for de-centralised governance of the
infrastructure for the real world internet and the
Internet of Things.
Large scale testbeds and experimental facilities for the
real world internet and the Internet of Things including
planned national and international initiatives.
A one day symposium is envisaged with a combination of
invited talks and talks accepted from the open call.
Approximately 8-10 papers/presentations are expected with
a knowledge cafe session organized at the end to discuss a
selected few topics.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: 21 August, 2009
- Acceptance notification: 14 September, 2009
- Camera ready papers: 05 October, 2009
Submission Details
Papers of up to 6 pages and formatted according to the
ISSNIP guidelines should be submitted via the online
submission system here.
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Symposium on Information Processing and Sensor Technologies in Healthcare.
Co-chairs: Rezaul Begg (Victoria University), Daniel T. H. Lai (Victoria University)
E-mail: rezaul.begg@vu.edu.au, daniel.lai@vu.edu.au
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The symposium on "Sensor Technologies and Information
Processing in Healthcare" will be held in conjunction with
the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors,
Sensor Networks and Information Processing - 2009 (ISSNIP
2009), Melbourne, Australia during December 7-10, 2009.
The symposium will focus specifically on sensors, signal
processing and smart systems for healthcare applications
ranging from biomedical diagnostics to online patient
monitoring.
The convergence of biomedical sensors, sensor networks and
information processing creates exciting opportunities for
solving a variety of complex problems in healthcare.
Healthcare sensor networks are an emerging paradigm
consisting of body sensor networks and in-situ monitoring
sensors. The program committee is soliciting papers in the
following (but not limited) areas, intelligent signal
processing algorithms, healthcare sensor network
architectures including body sensor networks, intelligent
sensors and algorithms for monitoring human health and
locomotion, security and privacy issues and real-world
user applications.
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Symposium on Autonomous Systems.
Co-chairs: Jaime Valls Miro (Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems, University of Technology, Sydney), Alen Alempijevic (Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems, University of Technology, Sydney)
E-mail:javalls@eng.uts.edu.au, alalemp@eng.uts.edu.au
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Despite all the advances exhibited by robotic platforms in
making seemingly intelligent decisions when it comes to
planning their motions, the theme of long-term reliable
autonomy is still an elusive one. Many advances are being
reported in the scientific literature, yet achieving
realistic, independent, continuous operation even within
the boundaries of specific application domains is still an
aspiration in accomplishing effective autonomous robot
navigation for many real world problems. Limitations in
the physics of the sensorial devices, computational
issues, intelligent data fusion and many other factors
play an important role in hampering further advances.
The symposium will focus on techniques for extracting and
relating information from sensors for the purpose of
persistent robot autonomy in the widely varied settings
that these platforms are designed to operate in:
indoors-outdoors, known-unknown environments,
static-dynamic problems, highly structured-unstructured
scenarios, human-aware or fully-remote applications. While
the areas are wide and varied, an underlying current flows
through all these themes: no sensing capability or
technique will be able to afford success unless working in
cooperation with others and intelligently exploiting the
combined sensor strengths. The aim of this symposium is to
bring together researchers who are working in the area of
multi-sensor fusion integration techniques to solve real
world problems where longer autonomous operation is key in
the success of the application. Areas such as autonomous
driving on roads, navigating on unknown (and more often
than not harsh) environments such as those encountered
during planetary exploration or post-disaster affected
areas, airborne surveillance, multi-robot cooperative
planning or unsupervised cognitive robots working with
humans on a daily basis are but a few token examples.
The symposium will seek original research work on all of
aspects of sensor integration and fusion algorithms for
long-term autonomous operation, with a distinct emphasis
on learning how the proposed multi-source aspects of the
proposed analytical solutions have been applied to solve
real world problems. Topics include, but are not limited
to:
- Managing ever expanding world models for motion planning
- Large-scale SLAM
- Exteroceptive perception for improved odometry
- Driver assistance systems
- Integrity self-monitoring for continuous operation
- Centralised/Decentralised intelligent decision making
- Autonomous navigation in open and dynamic environments
- Novel sensors and techniques which are equally applicable to seemingly contrasting fields (e.g. mining, home, underwater, hospitals ...)
- Data association concepts of sensor integration
- Sensory-oriented fault tolerant robotic architectures for long-term operation
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Symposium on Sensor Network Security.
Co-chairs: Yee Wei Law (The University of Melbourne)
E-mail: ywlaw@unimelb.edu.au
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Security is a major concern for most wireless sensor
network (WSN) applications. Numerous WSN protocols, even
nowadays, are designed based on the assumption that nodes
cooperate fully with each other. Despite advances in
identifying potential attacks against these protocols, it
is foreseen that new security weaknesses will continue to
be found. What is lacking is a systematic approach to
finding security vulnerabilities. There has been early
work on specifying MANET routing protocols using formal
methods, and thereby discovering security vulnerabilities
that had never been discovered before. Such approach is
however lacking in the area of WSN protocols.
There is also a lack of work on comparing different
security approaches systematically. For example, there are
numerous trust/reputation-based frameworks in the
literature, but there is rarely any data that shows one
framework is superior to the other and the circumstances
under which that is true. For another example, security
routing continues to be a hot topic, but between different
variants of secure routing protocols, there is no
practical indicator based on which one can choose one
protocol over the other in real-world implementations. In
the area of cryptographic protocol design, rigorous formal
verification continues to be overlooked. There are
instances where these protocols seemingly 'make sense' in
the literature but turn out to be flawed upon closer
inspection or upon formal verification.
The purpose of this symposium is to bring together
researchers and practitioners of the field with the goals
of publishing quality work on solving the abovementioned
problems, amongst a host of other major issues in WSN
security; and to promote discussion and collaboration. We
are inviting contributions addressing the topics of
interest, which include but are not limited to:
- Access control
- Intrusion detection and response
- Key management
- Secure localization
- Secure routing/MAC
- Secure clock synchronization
- Trust management
- Secure network reprogramming
- Steganography
- Security applications
- Privacy and anonymity
- Cryptographic protocol (design & verification)
- SCADA security
- Security policy and enforcement issues
- Cryptographic primitives (theory & implementation)
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Symposium on Information Driven Spatial Representations.
Co-chairs: Pubudu N. Pathirana (Deakin University), Adrian N. Bishop (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden)
E-mail: pubudu.pathirana@deakin.edu.au, adrian.bishop@ieee.org
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The Symposium on Information Driven Spatial
Representations will be held in conjunction with the 5th
International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor
Networks, and Information Processing (ISSNIP), in
Melbourne, Australia during 7th‐10th of December,
2009. This symposium will focus on novel representations
and uses of space in wireless sensor networks and
autonomous systems.
Wireless sensor networks and autonomous systems are
naturally spatially aware systems. That is, the functions
performed by such systems inherently require the system to
maintain some form of spatial representation. The manner
in which space is represented, and used, can drastically
affect the functional performance of any spatially aware
system. The purpose of this symposium is to highlight
novel research related to spatially aware systems. In
particular, we invite contributions on topics including,
but not limited to:
- Geometric localization and tracking methods
- Sensor placement and movement strategies to improve localization performance
- Stochastic geometry and property analysis of random sensor networks
- Novel spatial representations and mapping algorithms for autonomous systems
- Efficient spatial representations for large-scale and 3D mapping
- Spatial representations for cognitive robotics, human-robot interaction and spatial reasoning
- Novel coordinate representations or coordinate transforms for spatially aware systems
- Sensor array configuration optimization for enhanced sensing
- Control and planning on spatially interesting manifolds
- Novel spatial representations for (distributed) geometric control of mobile multi-agent systems.
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Special Sessions
Control theory and optimization applied to mobile ad hoc and sensor networks.
Co-chairs: Stuart Milner(University of Maryland), Sylvie Perreau (University of South Australia)
E-mail: milner@umd.edu, Sylvie.Perreau@unisa.edu.au
Many design issues in sensor networks are formulated as
optimization and control theory problems. To name a few,
power control, resource allocation, routing as well as
data fusion problems have been addressed by control theory
and optimization techniques. The key problem associated
with these methods when they are applied to sensor network
design problem is the need to formulate them into robust
decentralized and fully distributed problems. The focus of
this symposium is to study the advancement of research in
this challenging area of dynamic mobile ad hoc and sensor
networks.
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Workshops
CREON one day workshop on the application of sensor networks to Coral Reef Systems: towards an International system of systems.
Organiser: Scott Bainbridge (Australian Institute of Marine Science)
E-mail: s.bainbridge@aims.gov.au
Program: available here.
There are a small number of groups working on deploying coral
reef sensor networks. The initial focus has been on getting
systems deployed and getting the reef based equipment operational.
We are now in the position where a number of these projects have
operational systems, the next phase is to look at how these can
be brought together into a single network that allows parameters
at various sites to be co-mapped and analysed.
The workshop will focus on three aspects: firstly on what has been
done and what lessons or best practise we can gather from that,
secondly, what it would take to integrate these systems into a
common 'view' or portal (i.e. what an integrated system would look
like). The final aspect is how the emerging 'smart' sensor systems
underpinned by the OGC and IEEE sets of standards, can be deployed
within a coral reef 'use-case'.
One part of the workshop will be an in-depth look at how the smart
controllers and systems currently being developed can be applied to
real-world networks such as the existing or developing coral reef
sensor networks and what type of new information would such a system
provide. The intention is that this meeting may be a lead up to a
further meeting in San Diego in March.
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