ruSMART 2011 - The 4th conference on Smart Spaces ruSMART 2011

The 4th conference on Smart Spaces ruSMART 2011

August 22-23, 2011. St.-Petersburg, Russia
http://rusmart.e-werest.org/2011.html

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About the Conference

Nowadays we see strong demand for development of robust infrastructure

for retrieving, storing and processing information of various types,

which is obtained from and delivered to the broad spectrum of different

user devices. This is especially critical when the volume of information

increases as rapidly as its value. As a consequence the methods and

solutions for efficient processing, reusing and reasoning over user's

data has gained a lot of attention in the last years and became the key

aspect of application design. Further developments in this field creates

a lot of opportunities to apply new business models and is a key enabler

for the concept of pro-active service.

The wireless solutions have moved beyond their traditional areas of

application and today we can talk about a space where users can access

a number of wireless technologies and interact with various services.

Similarly, existent and future services cover the wide range of user

demands, ranging from searching and browsing contents to interactive

context and location aware solution that explore advanced multimedia

capabilities of the surrounding devices. These layers form a smart

environment that harmonizes a number of technologies and provides the

best possible personalized user experience. Also it helps to address

a number of challenges of the modern society, starting from efficient

indoor use of energy and to smart logistics and broad-scope deployment

of the green principles and technologies.

This conference will explore and explain the scope and challenges of

smart space technologies and solutions. In this regard, the conference

aims to bring together research professionals from diverse fields

including but not limited to wireless communication, ubiquitous networks,

software development, multimedia, services, and business in both academia

and industry. Conference proceedings will be published in LNCS, Springer

(confirmed) and indexed by relevant databases.

The ruSMART 2011 will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia - the meeting

point of East and West. Through its stunning architecture and wonderful

art galleries and museums, among a number of other attractions, the

wealth of history of East and West can be seen and felt in this

beautiful city.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Wireless technologies for smart spaces

- Architecture and platforms for smart spaces, Smart-M3

- Heterogeneous communication technologies for smart spaces

- Role of cloud computing in smart spaces

- Semantic web, distributed information management and processing

- Personal and body networks, wearable computing

- Distributed and pervasive services, pro-active service provision

- Service discovery and composition in smart environments

- Convergence of technologies for smart space

- Smart environments for house/office/shop/city/transport/hospital/etc

- Business models and breakthrough use cases for smart spaces

- Social and economic aspects of smart space development

- Tools for modeling and prototyping smart spaces

- Smart Logistics and smart spaces for going 'Green'

- Heterogeneous sensor information fusion in smart space

- Decision fusion in smart spaces

- Ubiquitous computing and ubiquitous communication within smart space

and with external environment

- Intelligent multi-modal user interface and impact of combined use of

various human-computer interface modalities

- Smart space and ambient intelligence

- Learning technologies in smart spaces

Selected authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended

versions of their papers to be published in a special issue of a journal

Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220; CODEN: SENSC9) - Impact Factor: 1.821 (2009);

5-Year Impact Factor: 1.903 (2009)

Paper submission

The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original,

previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review

by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research

and development in all areas of computer networking and data

communications. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will

appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in

the LNCS series. Papers must be submitted electronically in the

conference site. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words

including tables and figures. Please adhere to the formatting standard

for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must

contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and

affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail

and postal address. Selected best papers will appear in a journal

special issue.

Important dates

Paper submission April 8, 2011

Notification of acceptance May 20, 2011

Camera ready version May 30, 2011

For further and up-to-date information please visit official web page
of the Conference http://rusmart.e-werest.org/cfp.html