UbiCoNet 2011 - WORKSHOP ON UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING AND NETWORKS (UbiCoNet) - 2011

WORKSHOP ON UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING AND NETWORKS (UbiCoNet) - 2011

December 9th 2011, Houston, USA

Call for Papers

The second Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and Networks (UbiCoNet 2011) will be held in conjunction with IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2011) in December 9th, 2011 at Houston, TX, USA.
Generally known as Ubiquitous Computing (UbiCo), the vision of UbiCo is to push computing out of conventional desktop computers into environments characterized by embedded computers and transparent forms of interactivity. Considerable reductions in prices of devices and network usage are finally making ubiquitous computing a reality.
Ubiquitous computing and networks have received a significant and sustained research interest in terms of designing
and deploying novel services and applications. The UbiCoNet workshop aims to provide researchers who share similar research interests to meet and address new research challenges and initiatives related to Ubiquitous Computing (UbiCo) and Networks (Net). The workshop program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives, and will allow authors to present new and emerging trends in ubiquitous computing and networks to dedicated audiences.

Topics of interest

The workshop focuses on presenting state of the art and emerging research, as well as experience reports, in the following topics, but are not limited to:

1. Ubiquitous applications and services
2. Ubiquitous Communications
3. Multimedia networks and services
4. Peer-to-Peer Computing
5. Human-Computer Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing
6. Wireless Communication & Networks
7. Mobile Ad-Hoc networks (MANETs)
8. Wireless Sensor Networks
9. Mobile Computing
10. Agents and Distributed Computing
11. User Centered Design in Ubiquitous computing
12. Location-dependent and Context-aware Computing
13. Mobile Augmented Reality
14. Mobile Social Communications

Organizing Committee

General Chair
Pablo Cesar, CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica), The Netherlands

Program Co-Chairs
Xabiel Garcia, University of Oviedo, Spain
Alexander Garcia Davalos, Universidad Autonoma de Occidente, Colombia

Program Committee

Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada
Michiharu Takemoto, NTT Labs, Japan
Yuusuke Nakano, NTT Labs, Japan
Andres Navarro C., Universidad ICESI, Colombia
Fang Zhu, Verizon, USA
Fabio Verdi, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brasil
Jose Luis Arciniegas, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
Giuseppe Rafa, Intel Corporation, USA
Diego Martinez, Universidad Autonoma de Occidente, Colombia
Vassilis Kostakos, University of Madeira, Portugal
Fabio Guerrero, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
Apolinar Gonzalez, Universidad de Colima, Mexico
Yuuichi Teranishi, Osaka University, Japan
Mathieu Boussard, Alcatel-Lucent, Paris, France
Cristian Hesselman, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands
Andres Millan, Universidad Santiago de Cali, Colombia
Eduard Babulak, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Juan Carlos Corrales, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
Enrique Stevens-Navarro, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Konstantinos P. Ferentinos, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Andres Kwasinski, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Ralf Kernchen, University of Surrey, UK
Karim Seada, Nokia Research Center, USA

Paper submission guidelines

Only original, previously unpublished papers will be accepted. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit an IEEE conference style paper up to 5 pages long (including all text, figures, and references), but one additional page will be allowed with additional publication fee (USD100 if paper is accepted). Papers will be
submitted through EDAS submission system (http://www.edas.info).

Publication

An accepted paper must be registered before the registration deadline and must be presented at the UbiCoNet 2011
workshop. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop
proceedings and the program. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 proceedings
and IEEE Digital Library. GLOBECOM has the right to remove an accepted and registered but not presented paper from
the IEEE Digital Library.

Important dates

Submission due: July 17, 2011
Accept notification: August 15, 2011
Camera Ready: August 31, 2011
Workshop: December 9, 2011

web page: http://turing.uao.edu.co/UbiCoNet2011/