[Tccc] [CFP] Workshop on AAL service platforms (WASP 2010)

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* CALL FOR PAPERS *
* For the First International Workshop on *
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* AAL SERVICE PLATFORMS (WASP 2010) *
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* A One-day Workshop to be Held at IEEE Healthcom 2010 *
* (http://wasp2010.isti.cnr.it) *
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* Lyon, France, July 2, 2010 *
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OBJECTIVES
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As the European population ages, more support is needed with fewer
hands to cater for their needs. There is a significant market
potential for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions, but adoption is
limited because they require significant resources for implementation.

This fact gives rise to a stringent need for an open technological
platform supporting a wide range of diverse stakeholders (including
end users, developers, service providers, public and private care
providers). Such a platform would provide a standardised approach to
the development of AAL services, thus making it technically feasible
and economically viable to develop AAL solutions.

The realization of such a platform can be achieved by mixing new
development and consolidation of state-of-the-art results from
existing initiatives. This approach not only poses technical
challenges but also raises issues regarding adoption and uptake. For
such an approach to be successful, the establishment of a sustainable
community is mandatory. This workshop is intended as a first step in
this direction. It will provide a forum in which the technical
challenges related to the development of such a platform, the
establishment of a AAL community, and the tools and methods to sustain
such community will be discussed by the interested stakeholders.

WASP 2010 is promoted and supported by the EU FP7 universAAL project
(http://www.universaal.org) whose mandate is to build such community
and platform. The workshop is held in conjunction with the IEEE 12th
International Conference of E-Health, Networking, Applications &
Services (IEEE HealthCom 2010).

We encourage researchers and practitioners within the field of AAL,
smart environments, and distributed systems to attend the workshop and
to discuss first-hand-experiences with other experts.

Workshop Topics Include but are not limited to:

- Experiences and lessons learned from open consolidation processes
on use cases, requirements, architectures, standards, and software
modules
- Experiences and lessons learned in building open platforms and
standard integration
- Experiences and lessons learned in open innovation processes
- Experiences and lessons learned in building developer and user
communities in support of open platforms
- Experiences in developing and deploying AAL services using platforms
- Business models and stakeholder analysis in the AAL domain
- Boundary conditions an open AAL platform needs to adhere to

Submission Guidelines
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1) Paper submission:

Workshop submissions will be electronic, in pdf format only. The
submission system is available on the workshop website.
All papers that have been accepted will have to be presented by at
least one of the authors.
Without registration and payment, the paper will not be included in
the conference proceedings.

2) Author instructions

The paper, initial submission as well as camera-ready papers, must
comply with the IEEE format (see IEEE template at <http://www.ieee.org/web/
publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html>):
double column, must not exceed 6 pages including all diagrams and
references. All submissions must have names, affiliations and full
contact details (including email addresses) of all authors.

Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore and EI indexed as
part of the conference proceedings.

Important Dates
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Submission deadline: April 1, 2010
Acceptance notification: April 15, 2010
Camera ready version: May 1, 2010
Deadline for author registration: May 15, 2010

General Chair
Francesco Furfari, CNR Italy

Program Committee Chair:
Saied Tazari, Fraunhofer Germany

Program Committee:
Ivan Benc, Ericsson Nikola Tesla Croatia
Jesus Bermejo, Telvent Spain
Stefano Chessa, CNR Italy
Marco Eichelberg, OFFIS e.V. Germany
Francesco Furfari, CNR Italy
Anastasia Garbi, Exodus S.A. Greece
Sergio Guillen, ITACA-UPV Spain
Kai Hackbarth, ProSyst Germany
Sten Hanke, AIT Austria
Michael Hellenschmidt, Fraunhofer Germany
Juan Pablo Lazaro-Ramos, TSB Spain
François Letellier, OW2 France
Marius Mikalsen, SINTEF Norway
Ralph Mueller, Eclipse Foundation Europe
Juan Carlos Naranjo, ITACA-UPV Spain
Yardena Peres, IBM Research Haifa
Milan Petkovic, Philips Netherlands
Francesco Potortì, CNR Italy
Saied Tazari, Fraunhofer Germany
Ståle Walderhaug, SINTEF Norway
Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer Germany

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