PoCa 2009 - International Conference on Positioning and Context-awareness: PoCa 2009

= International Conference on Positioning and Context-awareness: PoCa 2009 =
May, 28th, 2009 -- Antwerp, Belgium
http://poca.e-lab.be/


Scope of the conference

The PoCa-2009 conference seeks new and significant research on systems, services, and all kind of applications to detect, interpret and use of location information in combination with context information. Context information is related to the activity and goals of users and the movement of assets in a typical or changing environment.

Referenced applications could be (but are not limited to)
* Real Time Location Systems
* Asset tracking and people monitoring
* Supply Chain Management
* Smart Home Automation
* Elderly and disabled daily life assistance
* Pervasive computing and gaming
* Traffic control and car-2-car communication
* Smart dust technology

Referenced technologies could be (but are not limited to)
* Wireless standards (WiFi, Zigbee, UWB, etc)
* RFID
* NFC
* Sensor fusion, WSN, MEMS
* Software defined radio (SDR)
* GPS, Galileo

Important dates :
* paper submission December 5th, 2008
* paper acceptance February 6th, 2009
* camera ready submission March 13th, 2009
* conference May 28th, 2009

Location : Antwerp, Belgium

General Chair:
Luc Pieters, Artesis University College of Antwerp, Belgium

The conference will be organized by the e-lab research group of the Electronic-ICT department of the faculty of Applied Engineering, Artesis University College of Antwerp, Belgium.

e-mail contact: filip.vanderschueren-AT-artesis.be