[Mycolleagues] CFP: TridentCom Workshop on Pervasive Computing

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  The First International Workshop on Pervasive Computing Systems
                    and Infrastructures (PCSI)

Workshop Highlights
   * Held in conjunction with TridentCom 2009, April, Washington DC, USA
   * Selected outstanding papers in the workshop will be published in a
     special issue in International Journal of Sensor Networks!!!
   * papers accepted will be included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library and
     indexed by EI

Description:
   Pervasive Computing (or Ubiquitous Computing) is an information
   model that enables data to be accessed and processed anytime and
   anywhere. Basically, various practical issues such as physical
   limitation and cost-benefit tradeoffs make pervasive computing
   model  a  natural  choice  for implementation of complicated
   applications.  These  applications usually involve computing
   facilities  and  network devices with dramatically different
   processing power, energy constraints, and networking technologies,
   thereby demanding seamless integration of various domains in an
   efficient manner. A typical example is wireless Internet access
   from mobile users. Recent demand for pervasive computing includes
   body sensor networks that enable remote health monitoring of
   patients.

   While many pervasive computing models and protocols have been
   proposed  to enable the integration of various computing and
   networking domains, a much less attention is given on the design
   and implementation of such systems and infrastructures in real
   applications. Without real implementation, it is difficult to
   evaluate the performance of existing models and protocols and
   discover further issues for additional improvement.

   This workshop features all recent advances in pervasive computing
   systems and tools, with an focus on building and performance
   evaluation of infrastructures and testbeds. We would like solicit
   original papers from both academia and industry on the following
   (but not limited to) topics:
     * Pervasive Computing Infrastructures and Testbeds
     * Pervasive Wireless Networking Infrastructures
     * Pervasive Multimedia System Infrastructures
     * Pervasive Wireless Mesh Network Infrastructures
     * Pervasive Sensor Network (especially RFID and Body Sensor
       Networks) Infrastructures
     * Pervasive Healthcare and Telemedicine Infrastructures

Tentative Schedule
  Workshop papers due: December 15, 2008
  Workshop papers notification: January 15, 2009
  Submission of camera-ready papers:     February 15, 2009

General Chairs
   [1]Victor Leung, University of British Columbia
   [2]B. Prabhakaran, The University of Texas at Dallas
   [3]Yang Xiao, University of Alabama

TPC Co-Chairs
   [4]Hui Chen, Virginia State University
   [5]Min Chen, University of British Columbia
   [6]Jun Kong, North Dakota State University
   [7]Ming Li, California State University, Fresno
   [8]Weiyi Zhang, North Dakota State University

Publicity Chair
   [4]Hui Chen, Virginia State University, hchen@ vsu.edu

TPC Members
   Habib Ammari, Hofstra University
   Ilangko  Balasingham,  Norwegian University of Science and
     Technology, Norway
   Yu Cao, California State University, Fresno
   Guanlin Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell
   Hui Chen, Virginia State University
   Hong Chen, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
   Min Chen, University of British Columbia
   Xiao Chen, Texas State University
   Xiaojiang Du, North Dakota State University
   Xuming Fang, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
   Tao Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
   Jun Kong, North Dakota State University
   Hui Li, Ask.com
   Ming Li, California State University, Fresno
   Jie Liang,  Simon Fraser University, Canada
   Xuedong Liang, University of Oslo, Norway
   Alex Liu, California State University, Fresno
   Sangheon Pack, Korea University
   Bin Tang, Wichita State University
   Yongning Tang, Illinois State University
   Tie Wang, Senior Technical Yahoo!
   Gang Wei, South China University of Technology, China
   Weiyi Zhang, North Dakota State University
   Xin Zhang, Cisco Systems Inc.
   Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway


Publication
   All accepted and presented papers will be included in the PCSI
   2009  Proceedings,  published  as  CDROMs, made available in
   IEEExplore  Digital Library, and then indexed by Engineering
   Information (EI).

   Selected outstanding papers will be considered for publication in
   a  special issue of International Journal of Sensor Networks
   (IJSNET).

Submission
   Authors  are invited to submit Full Papers of up to 6 pages,
   including  references,  figures and tables. For paper format
   guidelines, please click [10]here.
   PCSI 2009 will use COCUS for paper submission and management. To
   submit your paper:
     * Go to the [11]COCUS login page.
     * If you have a COCUS account, you can log in by clicking the
       "Login" link at the upper right corner. Otherwise, click the
       "Register" link in the page to create your COCUS account.
     * After logging in, click the "Submit paper" tab on the top.
     * Find the "PCSI 2009" row, and click the "Submit a paper" link
       in that row.
     * In the next page, you will see the conference information.
       Click the "Submit a paper" link.
     * Choose one of the following three categories for your paper:
       Full Paper, Short Paper, and Invited Paper.
     * Enter the title, abstract and topic information for your
       paper, and click "Next."  Please choose one Primary Topic and
       one or two Secondary Topics for your paper. These topics will
       help us to assign your paper to the TPC member with the right
       expertise and interest.
     * On the next page you will see the information you have just
       entered. Verify it, and if correct, click "Submit." If the
       information is not correct, click on the Back button of your
       browser and go back to the previous screen.
     * You can then upload your paper and modify the details of your
       submission if needed.

References
   1. http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~vleung/
   2. http://utdallas.edu/~praba/
   3. http://cs.ua.edu/~yangxiao/
   4. http://sest.vsu.edu/~hchen/
   5. http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~minchen/
   6. http://cs.ndsu.edu/~jkong/
   7. http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~mingli/
   8. http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~wzhang/
   9. http://sest.vsu.edu/~hchen/
  10. http://www.tridentcom.org/authorskit.htm