MC3 2012 - MC3 - 2012 International Workshop on Mobility and Communication for Cooperation and Coordination

MC3
- 2012
Mobility and Communication for Cooperation and Coordination
in conjunction with
The International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications
(ICNC 2012)
Maui, Hawaii, USA
January 30 - February 2, 2012
Scope
Networks of devices that are able to control and use their motion and communication capabilities
constitute a new remarkable perspective for the cooperation and coordination of groups of
heterogeneous devices in order to accomplish task oriented applications.
To date, the networking community has addressed the inclusion of some control mechanisms,
especially for energy consumption and mobility control, inside the classical ISO/OSI stack.
However, this approach introduced very limited results and innovations whereas the inclusion of
mechanisms such as optimization, evolution, coordination and cooperation directly among the
network primitives would offer a totally new perspective.
On the other hand, the robotics community has used communications among the agents for
coordination, but it completely neglects or merely focuses partially on the possibilities given by the
consideration of motion and communication aspects and issues in the direct control of the devices,
both singularly and seen as a whole.
Mobile wireless sensors and actuators, robots and drones represent the basic entities of Wireless
Networked Robotics (WRN). Wireless networked robotics proposes to bridge the gap between
objectives and methodologies of wireless networking and robotics research communities, laying the
pathway toward information-centric design of cooperative, autonomous and self-organized
networks. A broad multidisciplinary approach is needed to lead this pathway that involves, besides
networking and robotics also optimization, machine learning, swarm intelligence, adaptive systems
and often draws inspiration from natural and biological systems.
This workshop aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on the design and
implementation of architectures, algorithms and protocols for current and future applications of
wireless networked robotics. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of this
discipline.
Several of the best papers from MC
3
, related to the main topics of Elsevier Swarm and
Evolutionary Computation, will be included in a special issue of this journal on Wireless
Networked Robotics. Topics of Interest
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
− communication and motion aware protocols for coordination and cooperation of group of
heterogeneous devices
− communication approaches for machine-to-machine wireless communications
− modelisation, simulation and evaluation of coordination and cooperation schemes in wireless
networked robotics
− impact and optimization of network performance through mobility and communication control
of the devices
− task profiling, assigning and scheduling in groups of cooperative devices
− machine learning schemes in communication and motion aware algorithms for wireless
networked robotics
− bio-inspired algorithms for cooperation and coordination in wireless networked robotics
− self-organization in wireless networked robotics
− swarm intelligence and swarm robotics algorithms in wireless networked robotics
− cognitive radio and wireless networked robotics
− use cases and applications for wireless networked robotics
− experiences with testbeds of wireless networked robotics
Important dates:
Paper submission: August 31, 2011
Paper acceptance: September 30, 2011
Camera-ready paper: October 20, 2011
Submission Instructions:
For authors: Please follow the author instructions at http://www.conf-icnc.org/author.htm.
For submission: Workshop papers should be submitted via EDAS at the conference page:
http://edas.info/N10993.
TPC:
Jan Carlo Barca, Monash University, Australia
Gianni Di Caro, IDSIA, Switzerland
Frederick Ducatelle, IDSIA, Switzerland
Oswald Jumira, MIH Media Lab, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Valeria Loscrì, University of Calabria, Italy
Enrico Natalizio, INRIA Lille ? Nord Europe, France
Dario Pompili, Rutgers University ? United States
Tahiry Razafindralambo, INRIA Lille ? Nord Europe, France
Ahmet Sekercioglu, Monash University, Australia
Evsen Yanmaz, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Contacts:
Enrico Natalizio: enrico.natalizio-AT-inria.fr
Tahiry Razafindralambo: tahiry.razafindralambo-AT-inria.fr