AASN 2009 - Second International Workshop on Automated and Autonomous Sensor Networks,AASN 2009

Second International Workshop on Automated and Autonomous Sensor Networks,AASN



http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/09/workshops/AASN09/...



To be held in conjunction with

The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital
EcoSystems (MEDES 2009)

Lyon - France, October 27-30, 2009.





Summary and Topics:

Thanks to technological advances, wired and wireless sensor networks are
attracting an

increasing attention that promotes their large-scale deployments in many
applications,

such as environmental monitoring, military surveillance, and scientific
exploration.

Continuous improvements are motivating works in addressing specific sensor
network issues

spanning hardware, network protocols, architecture, operating systems, and
applications.

Furthermore, emergent needs to fulfill a variety of heterogeneous
requirements are

highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary networks that control their
processing

and manage their resources by means of self-organizing techniques. These
techniques

particularly require sharing the decision-making process over hundreds of
low-power,

short lifetimes sensors. The achievement of this goal is still facing an
urgent and

challenging question on how to provide these spatially distributed sensors
with reasonable

autonomy that help them in performing the right action, at the right time
for the sake of

fulfilling current requirements while increasing the lifetime of the entire
sensor network

and guaranteeing reliable and enduring pathway communications. Automating
the sensor network

activities is also an urgent and challenging issue especially that commonly
sensing devices

are operating unattended in remote and hostile areas where manual
maintenance is nearly

impossible. Since predefined and late decisions do not help much in
improving the

efficiency of networked sensing devices, automation and autonomy are very
important

mechanisms in addressing upcoming developments that target multi-services,
collaborating,

or competing sensor networks. To reach these goals, the second International
Workshop on

Automated and Autonomous Sensor Networks is seeking novel ideas in the
following topics

that include, but not limited to:



- Heterogeneous sensor networks

- Multi-service sensor networks

- Sensor network control

- Automated sensing activities

- Competing sensors or sensor networks

- Collaborating sensors and sensor networks

- Semantic-based management of sensor networks

- Resource management in sensor networks

- Context awareness in sensor networks

- Self-organization and self-adaptation in sensor networks

- New architectures and protocols for sensor networks

- Sensor network maintenance

- Intelligent sensors and sensor networks

- Data management in sensor networks

- Data and resource sharing in sensor networks

- Quality of Service in sensor networks

- Sustainable sensor networks

- Decision Support Systems for Sensor Networks

- Virtual Environment for Supporting Sensor Networks

- Sensor Networks on the Web

- Sensor networks for a sustainable development

- Autonomous/Intelligent social sensor networks

- Autonomous/Intelligent sensor networks for supporting social networks

- Sensor networks for an autonomous/intelligent management of spatial
resources

- Sensor networks for an autonomous/intelligent risk management

- New sensor network applications





Important Dates:

Submission deadline: July 31st 2009

Acceptance notification: September 5th 2009

Camera ready papers: September 15th 2009



Submission Guidelines:

(http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/09/guidelines.php)

Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format. Submissions will be
peer-reviewed

by at least 2 peer reviewers. Selection criteria will include: relevance,
significance,

impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. At
least one author

should attend the conference to present the paper.



Program Co-Chairs:

Nafa? Jabeur, Dhofar University (nafaa_jabeur-AT-du.edu.om)

Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University (y_iraqi-AT-du.edu.om)



Technical Program Committee:

Bernard Moulin, Laval University, Canada

Duc Tran, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Gregory S. Yovanof, Athens Information Technology, Greece

Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy

Hamdi Yahyaoui, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China

Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Michael Lauer, Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt, Germany

Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA

Nabil Sahli, Dhofar University, Oman

Phil Graniero, University of Windsor, Canada

Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy

Vasilis Friderikos, King\'s College London, UK

Zakaria Maamar, Zaid University, UAE