RSC 2014 - International Workshop on Robots and Sensor Clouds

This workshop is seeking original research and position papers dealing with different aspects and issues with robots and sensor networks in cloud computing. Also, 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 themes of the workshop.
We consider two main tracks in this workshop: Cloud Robotics and Sensor Clouds. Papers dealing with both robots and sensor networks clouds are also sought.
The main topics to be addressed include (but not limited to):
Cloud Robotics
Virtualization of robots
Computational models for cloud robotics
Middleware for robots and sensor networks
Cloud technologies for robotic services
Service oriented architecture for robots
Web robots
Security in cloud robotics
Collaborative/competitive robots
Design metrics for robots in cloud
Distributed databases for robots
Emergency robots
Intelligent query and data dissemination
Remote access through internet
Robotics for educators and students
Robots for environmental monitoring
Web services for robots
Remote robotic labs and testbeds
Sensor Clouds
Sensor Web technologies
Sensor Cloud architectures
Service-oriented architecture for sensor networks
Web services for sensing applications
Intelligent data fusion and aggregation
Remote sensor networks testbeds
Security in sensor clouds
Sensor clouds applications
Storage management technologies in sensor networks
Protocols and algorithms for sensor clouds
Program Chair
Anis Koubâa
(Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia / CISTER Research Unit, Portugal)
Elhadi Shakshuki
(Acadia University, Canada)
Program Committee
Alper Aydemir
(NASA/JPL, USA)
Filippo Arrichiello
(Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy)
Adel Ben Mnaouer
(Canadian University of Dubai, UAE)
Basit Qureshi
(Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia)
Javier Civera
(Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
Christopher Crick
(Oklahoma State University, USA)
Kathik Dantu
(University at Buffalo, USA)
Luis Ferreira
(CISTER Research Unit, Portugal)
Mohanarajah Gajamohan
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Roch Glitho
(Concordia University, Canada)
Takayuki Kushida
(IBM Research, Japan)
Guoqiang Hu
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Jose Ramiro Martinez de Dios
(University of Seville, Spain)
Shahid Raza
(SICS, Sweden)
Wee Peng Tay
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Farid Touati
(Qatar University, Qatar)
Dan Zhang
(Laval University, Canada)