SensorKDD 2012 - The 6th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (SensorKDD-2012)

Wide-area sensor infrastructures, remote sensors, RFIDs, phasor measurements, and wireless sensor networks yield massive volumes of disparate, dynamic, and geographically distributed data. With the recent proliferation of smart-phones and similar GPS enabled mobile devices with several onboard sensors, collection of sensor data is no longer limited to scientific communities, but has reached general public. As such sensors are becoming ubiquitous, a set of broad requirements is beginning to emerge across high-priority applications including adaptability to national or homeland security, critical infrastructures monitoring, smart grids, disaster preparedness and management, greenhouse emissions and climate change, and transportation. The raw data from sensors need to be efficiently managed and transformed to usable information through data fusion, which in turn must be converted to predictive insights via knowledge discovery, ultimately facilitating automated or human-induced tactical decisions or strategic policy based on decision sciences and decision support systems.