workshop 2009 - 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Collaborative Sensors Networks

2nd International Workshop on Distributed Collaborative Sensors Networks

Submission Deadline(extended): January 30, 2009

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

The 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Collaborative Sensors
Networks aims at providing opportunities to present the most recent
advances and future challenges in the field of distributed, wireless
and mobile communications in sensors networks, as they relate to
collaboration.

Wireless Sensors Networks constitute a significant current technology,
attracting considerable research interest from various disciplines.
Indeed, the wireless sensor technology is employed in emerging areas
with high potential for scientific research, being
used for biomedical,environmental or industrial applications. These
applications generally require intelligent dense environment monitoring
which generates important data volumes.
Data collection and analysis need to deal with cooperation and
coordination topics in order to prolong network lifetime and to provide
useful, synthesized information for automation, decision making and
support. Topology control, by means of clusters or groups, is another
applied technique to overcome these challenging problems.

The 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Collaborative Sensors
Networks will focus on the research of developing collaboration
infrastructures and solutions in the context of
wireless sensors networks, aiming to bring together researchers and
practitioners in these fields. In addition, the workshop will highlight
recent innovative research results which will
strengthen the formal foundation of this emerging area. This workshop
isto be held as part of the 2009 International Symposium on
Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS09).

Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):

? Data and Resource Sharing in Sensors Networks
? Collaborative Data Management on Large Scale
? Distributed Sensors Architectures
? Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
? Interfacing with Wireless/Mobile Systems
? Routing and Data Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks
? Group Collaboration in Sensor Networks
? Visualization Techniques and Visual Languages for Collaborative Sensor
Networks
? Multi-sensor Data Fusion
? Methods for Ad Hoc Deployment
? Algorithms for Sensor Localization and Tracking of Mobile Users
? Energy Issues and In-Situ Calibration Methods
? Performance Evaluation of Distributed Sensor Networks
? Trust and Security Issues in Distributed Collaborative Sensor Systems
? Intelligent Sensor Technologies and Applications
? Applications Enabled by Collaborative Sensor Network Architectures


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

We invite papers reporting original and unpublished research work on
above and any other
related topics from researchers in academia and industry. Submission
should include a cover
page with authors' names, affiliations, addresses, fax and phone
numbers, and email
addresses. Include also an abstract of no more than 300 words along with
a short list of
keywords.

Please submit an electronic copy of your full draft manuscript (not
exceeding 10 pages in
IEEE format, single-spaced, double-column, including figures, tables and
references).
Electronic submissions will be accepted only in PDF format, sent by
email to the organizers.
Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted
on the Symposium's
web site later. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of
the authors to register and
present the paper, if accepted. All accepted papers are required to be
presented and will be
included in the conference proceedings.

All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed by at least
three of the technical
program committee members and the reviewers they invite. Papers will be
selected based on
their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of
presentation. Initial
selection will be based on full papers.

The selected papers will be published in the CTS 2009 proceedings which
is expected to be
included in the IEEE Xplore.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

The technical program committee of DCSN 2009 is co-chaired by

Herve Guyennet
Email: herve dot guyennet at lifc dot univ-fcomte dot fr
LIFC, 16 Route de Gray, 25030 Besan?on, France
Violeta Felea
Email: violeta dot felea at lifc dot univ-fcomte dot fr
LIFC, 16 Route de Gray, 25030 Besan?on, France
David Martins
Email: david dot martins at lifc dot univ-fcomte dot fr
LIFC, 16 Route de Gray, 25030 Besan?on, France

Technical Program Committee

? Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
? Huah Yong Chan, University Sains, Malaysia
? Patrice Clemente, ENSI Bourges, France
? Mohamed Essaaidi, University of Abdelmalek Essaadi, Morocco
? Dan Grigoras, University College Cork, Ireland
? Jean-Christophe Lapayre, LIFC, Besan?on, France
? Vincent Lecuire, CRAN Nancy, France
? Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy
? Vladimir Oleshchuk, Agder University College, Norway
? Congduc Pham, Pau University, France
? Thierry Villemur, LAAS, Toulouse, France

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline(extended) January 30, 2009

Notification of Acceptance February 15, 2009
Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due March 3, 2009

If you have questions regarding workshop paper submission or the
workshop content, please
contact the workshop organizers.

For information or questions about the full Symposium's program,
tutorials, exhibits, demos,
panel and special sessions organization, please consult the conference
web site at URL:
http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/09/ or contact the symposium co-chairs: Bill
McQuay at AFRL/IFSD,
WPAFB (William dot McQuay at wpafb dot af dot mil) or Waleed W. Smari at
the Dept. of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton (Waleed dot
Smari at notes dot
udayton dot edu).