[PlanetKR] CFP - IEEE SRDS 2012 Workshop - Smart Apps and Ambient Intelligence for Rapid Response to Events (SAAIRRE)

[Lee, Yugyung]

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1st International Workshop on
Smart Apps and Ambient Intelligence for Rapid Response to Events (SAAIRRE), 8th October 2012
Workshop web site: https://sites.google.com/site/saairre2012/
In Conjunction with the 31th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (IEEE SRDS 2012),
October 8-11, 2012, Irvine, California.
Conference web site: http://web.mst.edu/~cswebdb/srds2012/


IMPORTANT DATES (Tentative)
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Full paper submission: May 20th , 2012
Author notification: June 30th , 2012
Camera ready: July 16th, 2012
Workshop date (tentative): October 8th,  2012
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WSAAIRE 2012 calls for paper submission on distributed intelligence, pervasive computing and ambient intelligence, related, but not limited to the following topics of interest


Workshop Goal

Technology and devices have become an integral part of our lives. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a new paradigm that aims to connect our daily activities including (un)anticipated events in our daily lives and disastrous situations (natural and man-made) to the Internet for rapid response. Rapid response to these events requires availability, reliability, and access to information and services through the connectivity of heterogeneous devices.

For effective rapid response using diverse low-end devices (e.g., handheld and mobile devices, robots, sensors, and wearable computers), we would like to take into consideration the emergence of the area of ambient intelligence aiming at utilizing context aware, personalized, adaptive and anticipatory services with the required devices. Smart Apps will also play a central role in enabling the connectivity and the cooperation among the devices in an intelligent manner. The key technical challenges in the development of Smart Apps are: i) Availability of apps on devices with limited resources, ii) Remote sensing capability around the user's context, iii) Ability to analyze and interpret the contextual data, iv) Real-time adaptation toward dynamic environments, v) Scalability and performance.

We clearly need a new computation model for developing real-time Smart Apps. Cloud computing promises a highly desirable (efficient and flexible) service platform with large-scale parallel and distributed computing resources (e.g., servers, storage). Smart Apps may work in collaboration with cloud platforms depending on the application domain. This hybrid model introduces new challenges and opportunities in application design and systems' research.

The Smart Apps environments and the domains of interest range from Smart Life (e.g., Smart Energy, Smart Home, Smart Health) to disaster response. Users should have seamless access to just-in-time information and Smart Apps should enable rapid response when needed. To address these emerging requirements, we are looking for original, unpublished research papers that focus on novel applications and systems, which can dynamically cope with evolving context of diverse users in a distributed manner.

Topics of Interest

The major areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
*Investigation into Smart Apps design, development, and deployment
*Cloud computing, mobile computing and distributed computing platform for Smart life
*Intelligent network
*Information and network security
*Intelligent data dissemination on mobile, wired, and wireless networks
*Context-aware data processing
*Self healing, self configuring, self adaptive software systems
*Smart homes through smart sensing
*Smart energy and contextual modeling
*Smart Apps for disaster handling
*Smart devices/Smart Apps and their deployment

Paper Review
Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers expert in the area of the paper.

Invited Papers
We plan to include one or two invited papers in the workshop.

Workshop Proceedings
Workshop papers will appear in the conference proceedings.


Workshop Co-Chairs
*Cory Beard, Vijay Kumar (University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, USA)

Program Co-Chairs
* Yugyung Lee,  Praveen Rao,  Daniel Leon-Salas (University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, USA)

Program Committee
*Debopam Acharya, NIIT University, India
*Fahd Albinali, EveryFit, USA
*Lalit Awasthi, National Institute of Technology, India
*Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
*Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
*Sourish Dasgupta, DAII-CT University, India
*Ankur Gupta, Model Inst. of Eng. & Technology, India
*Sitharam Iyengar, Florida International University, USA
*Dongwon Lee, Penn State University, USA
*Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State University, USA
*Bongki Moon, University of Arizona, USA
*Somasundaram Perianayagam, Amazon.com, USA
*Jungwoo Ryoo, Penn State University, Altoona, USA
*Peter Scheuremann, Northwestern University, USA
*Mao Ye, Penn State University, USA
*Arkady Zaslavasky, Australian National University, Australia


Web Co-Chairs
* Swati Soni,  Rajasekar Rajendran,  Dipali Pal (University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, USA)

Workshop Organization
This will be a one-day workshop.


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