LoCA 2009 - The 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness

CALL FOR PAPERS
LoCA 2009 - 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness
May 7th-8th, 2009. Tokyo, Japan
Please note the recently revised abstract and full paper submission deadlines.
The 2009 Symposium on Location and Context Awareness (LoCA) seeks new and significant research on systems, services, and applications to detect, interpret and use location and other contextual information. Context includes physiological, environmental and computational data whether sensed or inferred. In addition, context includes users¡¯ activities, goals, abilities, preferences, interruptibility, affordances, and surroundings. With context, we can expect computers to deliver information, services, and entertainment in a way that maximizes convenience and minimizes intrusion. Developing awareness involves research in sensing, systems, machine learning, human computer interaction, and design.
We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. We are especially interested in submissions in the following areas but welcome submissions from other areas that are relevant to the theme of the symposium:
New hardware platforms for sensing location and context
Machine learning techniques for inferring user location and context from low-level sensor data
Location and context representation, management, and distribution
Privacy policies and communication protocols for location and context information
User studies of location- and context-aware systems
Industrial case studies of end-to-end systems
One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee and is designed to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Both awards will be made during the symposium.
Paper Submission Guidelines
All papers will be reviewed by our international program committee. LoCA 2009 aims to be selective and the committee will favor a technically robust program. The ideal LoCA submission should provide an insightful survey of existing work, introduce a radically new concept, or present concrete, significant, transferable research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working system.
All accepted papers will be contained in the symposium proceedings which will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. Therefore submissions must conform to the LNCS LaTeX stylesheets. We solicit papers of up to 18 pages in LNCS style but explicitly welcome shorter papers for presentation of pointed results. All paper submissions will be treated as full papers but it is important that their length is appropriate for their content.
Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the LoCA Symposium in the Tokyo. Submit papers as Adobe PDF via EDAS at http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6603. Preparation of the camera-ready version of accepted papers may be shepherded by the program committee.
Best Paper and Presentation Awards
One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium.
Symposium Website
http://loca2009.context-aware.org
Program Chairs
Tanzeem Choudhury, Dartmouth College USA,
Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin Ireland
International Program Committee
Hamid Aghajan, Stanford University, USA
Christian Becker, Universität Mannheim, Germany
Hung Bui, SRI International, USA
Andrew T. Campbell, Dartmouth College, USA
Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland
Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dieter Fox, University of Washington, USA
Mike Hazas, Lancaster University, UK
Jeffrey Hightower, Intel Research Seattle, USA
Johan Hjelm, Ericsson Research Tokyo, Japan
Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA
Minkyong Kim, IBM Research Watson, USA
John Krumm, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Rene Mayrhofer, University of Vienna
Nuria Oliver, Telefonica Research, Spain
Shwetak Patel, University of Washington, USA
Matthai Philipose, Intel Research, USA
Matthew Reynolds, Duke University, USA
Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab, USA
James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Alex Varshavsky, AT&T Research Labs, USA
Chris Wren, Google Research, USA
Danny Wyatt, University of Washington, USA
Local Chair
Koji Suginuma, Sony Corporation, Japan
General Chair
Thomas Strang, DLR and UIBK
Publicity Chairs
Alex Varshavsky, AT&T Research Labs, USA
Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA
Important Dates (revised submission schedule announced Dec 12th 2008)
9 January 2009 Abstract Submission Deadline
16 January 2009 Full paper Submission Deadline
27 February 2009 Author Notifications
6 March 2009 Camera Ready Copy
7-8 May 2009 Symposium (Tokyo, Japan)