MiSeNet 2015 - Fourth IEEE Annual International Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networking (?IEEE ?MiSeNet 201?5?)

The Fourth IEEE Annual International Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor
Networking (?IEEE ?MiSeNet 201?5?)
In conjunction with IEEE MASS? 2015, Dallas, Texas, USA, October? 19-22, 201?5.?
http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~hammari/I...
Call for Papers
Scope and Aim of MiSeNet 201?5?
Mission-oriented sensor networks are next-generation time-varying systems
composed of both humans and mobile sensors (e.g., vehicle-mounted,
human-operated, or integrated with mobile robots or UAVs) that collaborate
and coordinate to successfully accomplish complex real-time missions under
uncertainty. A major challenge in the design of mission-oriented sensor
networks arises in supporting dynamic topology and disruption-tolerant
architecture, caused by mobility, which has significant impact on
performance in terms of sensing coverage, network connectivity, and
information quality. In such dynamic environments, sensors should
self-organize and reason in a distributed manner about resource allocation,
scheduling, forwarding, caching, and in-network storage to accomplish
specific missions, while extending the operational network lifetime.
Another major challenge lies in accommodating human input. Humans are the
ultimate sensors. They are well-equipped to monitor and report situations
that would be very difficult for machine sensors to understand. They also
come with their own challenges including imperfect reliability, bias, and
lack of predictability. The design of mission-oriented sensor networks,
where humans and sensors collaborate, should account for trade-offs between
several attributes such as energy consumption, reliability,
fault-tolerance, data collection latency, and quality of information (such
as video resolution, picture quality, type of content, degree of
redundancy, and level of summarization), and their impact on mission
objectives. It should accommodate human-centric sensing modalities such as
free-form text, pictures, sound, and video, and should include mechanisms
to handle unpredictability, uncertainty, human error, and noise. Finally,
it should account for ways to specify mission goals and requirements.
MiSeNet 201?5? aims to provide a forum for participants from academia and
industry to discuss topics in mission-oriented sensor network research and
practice. MiSeNet 201?5? serves as incubator for scientific communities that
share a particular research agenda in this area. It will provide
opportunities to understand the major technical and application challenges
as well as exchange ideas related to architecture, protocols, algorithms,
and application design, at a stage before they have matured to warrant
conference/journal publications.
MiSeNet 201?5? seeks papers that present novel theoretical and practical
ideas as well as work in-progress, which will lead to the development of
solid foundations for the design, analysis, and implementation of
energy-efficient, reliable, and secure mission-oriented networked sensing
applications.
The topics of interest to MiSeNet 201?5? workshop include, but are not
limited to, the following:
- Theoretical foundations of mission-oriented networked sensing
- Modeling and analysis of mission-oriented sensor networks
- System design, implementation, and evaluation
- Medium access control and scheduling
- Human factors, data cleaning, and noise
- Human-centric sensing modalities and quality of information
- Cross-layer design
- Software architectures for mission-oriented sensing
- Self-organization, self-configuration, and energy efficiency
- Coverage and connectivity issues
- Collaboration of humans and sensors
- Deployment and localization
- Uncertainty, opportunistic communication, and data fusion
- Topology control and fault-tolerance
- Routing and data dissemination
- In-network data storage and processing
- Sensor database management and spatio-temporal data
- Target detection and tracking
- Privacy and security
- Testbed design and real-world applications
- Mission goal and requirement specifications
General Chair
- ?Jie Wu (?Temple University, USA)
Program Chair
- ?Benyan Liu (University? of Massachusetts Lowell?, USA)
Steering Committee
- T?h?om?as? La Porta (Chair) (Penn State University, USA)
- Tarek F. Abdelzaher (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA)
- Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
- Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
- Xiuzhen Cheng (The George Washington University, USA)
- Sajal K. Das (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
- Zygmunt J. Haas (Cornell University, USA)
- David B. Johnson (Rice University, USA)
- Thomas F. La Porta (Penn State University, USA)
- Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA)
- Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)
- Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA)
- Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
Publicity Chair
- Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
Web Chair
- Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
Submission Guidelines
MiSeNet 201?5? Workshop will consider only original papers that are not
currently under review by other workshops, conferences, or journals, and
have not been published. All papers submitted to MiSeNet 201?5? will be
peer-reviewed and evaluated based on their suitability (i.e., within the
workshop scope), novelty, and merit. Submitted papers are limited to 6
pages.
All submissions should be formatted in standard IEEE conference style for
publication in the conference Proceedings. They must be single-spaced,
double-column, with each column 9.25" by 3.33", 0.33" space between
columns, use at least a 10pt font, and be correctly formatted to be printed
on Letter-sized (8.5" by 11") paper. It is required that at least one
author of each accepted paper register and attend the MiSeNet 201?5? workshop
to present their work to ensure its publication in the IEEE MASS 201?5?
workshop Proceedings.
We strongly encourage people from both of the industry and academia to
submit their fine work to MiSeNet 201?5?.
To submit your paper to MiSeNet 201?5?, please visit the submission website? at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=misenet201...?
Thank you for submitting your paper to MiSeNet 201?5?!
Important Dates
- Paper Submission Deadline: ?June 2?6, 201?5?
- Paper Notification Deadline: ? July 31, 201?5?
- Camera-ready: August ?7?, 201?5?
For More Information
For questions about the MiSeNet'1?5? Workshop regarding the paper submission
and review process, please contact the Program Chair at? bliu-AT-cs.uml.edu?.