CoSNPH 2011 - Workshop on Cognitive Sensor Networks for Pervasive Health (CoSNPH-2011)

Workshop on Cognitive Sensor Networks for Pervasive Health (CoSNPH-2011)
Dublin, Ireland

23rd of May 2011

http://trail.ulster.ac.uk/COSNPH/



To be held in conjunction with the 5th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2011

Important Dates
Paper Submission: 25th of February 2011 New Submission deadline is the 9th of March 2011
Author Notification: 25th of March 2011
Camera-Ready Copy: 4th of April 2011
Workshop: 23rd of May 2011

Description
Pervasive and intelligent environments on varying scales and for different purposes are quickly becoming a reality. In the near future, global smart world infrastructures will become a commodity that will support various activities of daily life at different degrees of realism. Such infrastructures have the potential to offer dedicated, context- and situation-aware information and services by simultaneously providing the next-generation of data collection, execution and service provisioning layers. One key aspect of this vision is the correct monitoring and understanding of how people interact with their environment; how they can actually benefit from the added intelligence; and finally how future services can be improved or better personalized to enhance human-environment interaction as a whole. This level of intelligence is of particular relevance in the health and social care domain where person-centric services can be deployed to assist or even enable a person in performing activities of daily living and also to support the coordination and management of caregivers and general management structures. In short, such environments can act as a general safety layer providing various levels of assistance and support to people who receive care as well as to those who provide care. For that, future pervasive infrastructures need to be not just ‘intelligent’ but also cognitive aware so that they are ultimately capable to self-evolve based on their functional and operational parameters as well as based on the way they are used over time. Naturally, this needs to be facilitated autonomously without the need for any user intervention. Such cognitive environments may then have the potential to bridge the gap between current static, maintenance-intensive environments and future self-emerging service infrastructures. The proposed workshop is envisioned to highlight the potential of cognitive sensor networks in the area of pervasive health; to identify key requirements for such a framework in relation to the needs of pervasive health; to identify and evaluate novel ideas and to discuss current and future research directions within this area. Finally, the generation of new research ideas and collaborations form another important aspect of the workshop.

Topics of Interest
The goal of this workshop is to identify the requirements and challenges in this area as well as the potential of cognitive networks within the context of pervasive health and to explore current as well as future research directions. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Requirements, concepts, principles and key properties of cognitive pervasive environments
Architectures, algorithms and languages for cognitive service networks
Self-evolving service and hardware infrastructures
Services and service frameworks for pervasive health
Sensor-based activity recognition and planning
Sensor-based user modelling and supervision
Cognitive decision support systems
Autonomous service composition and adaptation;
Knowledge extraction, organization and adaptation
Human environment interaction
Applications.

Organisation
Local Organising Committee
Dr. Matthias Baumgarten, University of Ulster, UK
Prof. Maurice Mulvenna, Trail Living Lab, UK
Dr. Dewar Finlay, University of Ulster, UK
Dr. Patricia Kearney, University of Ulster, UK
Program Committee
Dr. Peter, Deussen, Fraunhofer Research Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany
Jit Biswas, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Dr. Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, UK
Prof. Franco Zambonelli, Universita’ di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Manzalini Antonio, Telecom Italia, Italy
Moiso Corrado, Telecom Italia, Italy
Dr. Suzanne Martin, University of Ulster, UK
Dr. Huiru Zheng, University of Ulster, UK
Nermin Brgulja, University of Kassel, Germany
Alberto Rosi, Universita’ di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Dr. Patricia Kearney, University of Ulster, UK
Rico Kusber, University of Kassel, Germany
Dr. Kostas Stathis, Royal Holloway University London, UK
Dr. Niall Rooney, University of Ulster, UK
Format
Submitted papers should not be longer than 4 pages in standard IEEE two-column format.

For more detailed formatting instructions please see http://www.pervasivehealth.org/?page_name=author_s....

Accepted papers will be published online in IEEE Xplore Digital Library (to be confirmed)