SSIT 2011 - Workshop on Semantic Services for the Internet of Things (SSIT)

Workshop on Semantic Services for the Internet of Things (SSIT)
Motivation

Today, people perceive the Internet as a system to request information from servers (Web 1.0) or to contribute information (Web 2.0). In the meantime, embedded computing has developed and grown enormously, where tiny autonomous devices, such as wireless sensor nodes, form distributed sensing systems. The next grand challenge is the amalgamation of the Internet and the world of embedded devices to form an Internet of Things (IoT) where all kinds of devices extend the Internet into the physical world.
The advent of an interoperable MAC layer (IEEE 802.15.4) and IPv6 connectivity for resource-constraint devices (6LoWPAN) are essential first steps. However, as the number of IoT devices is envisioned to surpass the number of nodes in the Internet by several orders of magnitude, IP connectivity is just a first milestone on the way of designing and developing IoT applications. Beyond basic networking there is a need for unifying concepts, methods, and software infrastructures that allow the efficient development of robust, interoperable, and scalable IoT applications spanning and integrating the Internet and the embedded world. Open issues include discovery, search, and management of services as well as service invocation on IoT devices in a highly scalable manner.
Another fundamental aspect is the unified description of the semantics of the services provided by the embedded devices. While existing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) are designed for PC class devices, there is a lack of light-weight approaches suitable for the resource constraints of embedded devices. The goal of this workshop is to exchange ideas and first results between experts working in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Algorithms, and Semantics.

Topics of Interest

Internet of Things / Wireless Sensor Networks
Web-based Architectures
SOAs for Resource-constraint Environments
Interaction Patterns
Application Development
Management and Discovery
Real-World Applications for the Internet of Things
Seamless Integration with the (Future) Internet
Heterogeneity in Large-scale Networks
Light-weight Semantics of Services
Algorithmic Aspects of Large-scale Systems
Program Committee

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany
Stefan Fischer, University of Lübeck, Germany
Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Horst Hellbrück, University of Applied Sciences Lübeck, Germany
Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP Research, Germany
Alexander Kröller, Braunschweig Institute of Technology, Germany
Werner Kuhn, University of Münster, Germany
Pedro Jose Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Dennis Pfisterer, University of Lübeck, Germany
Kay Römer, University of Lübeck, Germany
Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany

Contact

Dennis Pfisterer
Institute of Telematics, University of Lübeck
Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck
Phone: +49 451 500 ? 5383
Web: http://www.itm.uni-luebeck.de/users/pfisterer/
EMail: pfisterer-AT-itm.uni-luebeck.de

Important Dates

Paper Submission Due: 31.10.2010
Notification: 28.11.2010
Paper-ready version: 19.12.2010
Workshop: 10-11.03.2011 (Thursday afternoon ? Friday until lunch)

Submission Instructions

Prospective participants are invited to submit papers containing original unpublished material only. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee for quality and relevance. Accepted papers will be published in the Electronic Communications of the EASST (ECEASST), a peer-reviewed, scientific and open access journal.
Submissions must conform to the ECEASST submission format and rules (see http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/index.php/eceasst/a...) and may not exceed 12 pages. PDF files should be submitted via ECEASST’s online submission system https://www.conftool.com/kivs11/.