ist-awsn 2014 - 9th International Symposium on Intelligent Techniques for Ad hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks

ST-AWSN’14 will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2014)
in Hasselt, Belgium, June 2-5, 2014.
Recent developments of low-cost, low-power, multifunctional wireless sensors and smart devices have enabled the fast growth of Ad-hoc and Wireless Sensor Network (AWSN) applications. AWSNs consist of numerous small battery powered nodes. A combination of the dense deployment of numerous smart sensors, actuators and smart mobiles nodes, AI techniques, and intelligent agents can provide pervasive services, enabling users to satisfy their needs any time any where. Different problems rise at different level from protocol specification and verification, simulation and performance evaluation to distributed intelligent software specification and design.
This symposium aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on different aspects of ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks and software agent technology in an effort to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the challenges and opportunities to explore new research directions. We strongly welcome submissions that include results which advance the state of the art relating to the theme of the symposium.
Scope of Contributions
The main topics to be addressed include (but not limited to):
Security and trust in AWSNs
Agent-based architectures and middleware for AWSNs
Agents design issues dealing with reliability, efficiency, and fault tolerance
Context and situation awareness
Distributed management systems for AWSNs
Future Internet of Things
Intelligent data fusion and aggregation
Intelligent query and data dissemination
Intelligent systems for AWSNs
Simulation Tools and Methods
M2M communication protocols for sensors networks
Mobile Peer-to-Peer systems for AWSNs
Power management and energy-efficient protocols
QoS, performance evaluation and simulation
Routing protocols for AWSNs
Self-organization of AWSNs
Sensors and actuators infrastructures for ubiquitous robotics applications
Knowledge Modeling and reasoning with Uncertainty