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Call for Papers
UCS 2007 Workshops
November 25, 2007
Tokyo Denki University Kanda Campus
<http://www.ht.sfc.keio.ac.jp/ucs2007/>
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Basic Policy about Attending Workshops:
UCS 2007 workshops provide an opportunity to discuss and explore
emerging areas of research in ubiquitous computing systems with a
group of like-minded researchers and practitioners. Workshops may focus
on any aspect of ubiquitous computing systems, established concerns or
new ideas.
The goal of the workshop is to share understandings and experiences, to
foster research communities, to learn from each other and to envision
future directions.
Workshops will be held on Sunday 25 November, the day before the main
conference. Please note that acceptance of submitted position papers
requires registration to UCS 2007
<http://www.ht.sfc.keio.ac.jp/ucs2007/>.
Workshop titles and organizers are listed below. General questions
about the workshops can be addressed to the Workshop Chair
(Masayoshi Ohashi ma-oohashi[AT]kddi.com); specific questions about any
individual workshop should be directed to the organizer(s) of the
workshop.
Submission Deadline (workshop position papers): August 31, 2007
Acceptance Notification (workshop position papers): September 30, 2007
Workshop Final Manuscript: Nov. 1, 2007
List of Workshops
W1: The First Workshop on Community Computing
W2: The Fourth Workshop for Ubiquitous Networking and Enablers
to Context-Aware Services
W3: Dependable Ubiquiotus Nodes (IWDUN)
W4: Int'l Workshop on Real Field Identification (RFId2007)
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W1. The First Workshop on Community Computing
Organizers: Minkoo Kim (Ajou University) and Hideyuki Nakashima (Future
University, Hakodate)
Community computing is a new paradigm for building ubiquitous systems
which can solve problems by the collaboration of entities in ubiquitous
environment. Community computing makes the collaborative and adaptive
service development more intuitive and natural. Many people are
researching various topics for community computing including context
modeling, wireless and sensor networks, and smart objects in the field
of ubiquitous computing. This workshop is intended to act as a focal
point for researchers and practitioners whose works are related to
community computing, to enable them to share their ideas and
experiences.
Topics: Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Models or Studies for cooperation system in Ubiquitous environment
* Smart Object Designs and implementations for Community Computing
* Middleware or infrastructure for Community Computing
* Context Modeling for Community Computing
* Security and Privacy issues in Community Computing
* Case Studies with Community Computing Systems
* Communication issues in Community Computing
* Collaboration with Multi-Agent System
Contact: Minsoo Kim(visual[AT]ajou.ac.kr), Ajou Univ., Korea
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W2. The Fourth Workshop for Ubiquitous Networking and Enablers to
Context-Aware Services
Chair organizer:Shinji Shimojo (Osaka University)
Organizers:
Yuuichi TERANISHI & Kaname HARUMOTO (Osaka University),
Junzo KAMAHARA (Kobe University),
Takeshi OKUDA (Nara Institute of Science and Technology),
Hiroshi SUNAGA & Michiharu TAKEMOTO (NTT).
A "ubiquitous networking" is a federated network technology which
supports various enablers such as 3G mobiles, RFID tags, sensors,
actuators, etc. It has enough capability to deal with huge number of IP
packets generated from enablers. At the same time, a lot of broadband
contents are requested to be delivered with perfectly controlled QoS.
Efficient and scalable routing and transport mechanism for supporting
such various traffics are fundamental requirement on the network.
From a service perspective, a number of context or ambient aware
services are envisaged for "ubiquitous networking." A service platform
will manage and create services based on the context. There should be
discussions how to collect and generate user context, how to create or
synthesize services efficiently, and how to develop such systems using
emerging software and hardware technologies. There could be also
discussions how to control network performance based on user policy or
service level agreement.
Providing robust security over all ubiquitous networks in a simple fashion
is an important issue associated with service provisioning to users.
Keeping privacy in ubiquitous networks is also a big issue.
The other important aspect is enablers or ubiquitous objects themselves
where users are commonly faced with. What is a suitable design and
implementation of such objects? How they could be connected to a
ubiquitous network to provide contexts or how could they communicate
with each other? This Workshop is one of the best opportunities to
address this theme in sufficient depth and breadth, and is intended to
share knowledge and exchange ideas, thereby promoting new studies and
research topics in this area.
Papers should be sent to the Organizers at
"ucs2007-ws-ubiq-nw[AT]lab.ntt.co.jp" no later than 31 Aug., 2007.
Contact: Michiharu TAKEMOTO (takemoto[AT]computer.org), NTT
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W3. Dependable Ubiquiotus Nodes (IWDUN)
Organizers: Hideyuki Tokuda (Keio University), Michael Beigl (TU
Braunschweig),
Kazunori Takashio, Jin Nakazawa and Masayuki Iwai(Keio University)
Recent years have seen a rapid proliferation of micro ubiquitous nodes.
As well as o-the-shelf cellular phones, mobile audio players, and
portable game devices, wireless sensor nodes are of great interest for
researchers especially for devel- oping ubiquitous computing systems.
Among those proposed by the academia, particle nodes and Motes have
been commercialized so that we can deploy them for practical
applications like environmental monitoring, remote health care, and
context captures. Despite the range of development of sensor nodes,
systems support that ensures their dependability has not been
investigated. We believe that the use of such micro ubiquitous nodes in
practical applications necessi-tates the systems support that enables
users to leverage from those applications without being burdened by
malfunction of the nodes, malicious users attacking them, or
inconsistent behaviors of them. The primary motivation of this work-
shop is hence to nding research issues inherent in achieving dependable
micro ubiquitous nodes, looking at existing research on them, and
systems on them.
Topics:
* Application Scenarios Deserving Dependability
* Middleware Support for Dependability.
* Operating Systems Support for Dependability
* Surveys on Dependability for Embedded Systems
* Programming Paradigm
* Operating Systems Model
* Experiences on Dependable Sensor Nodes
* Micro Ubiquitous Nodes
Contact: Jin Nakazawa(jin[AT]ht.sfc.keio.ac.jp), Keio University
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W4. Int'l Workshop on Real Field Identification (RFId2007)
Organizers: Sozo Inoue(Kyusyu University), Mitsuo Tsukada (NTT),
Marc Langheinrich (ETH), George Roussos (Univ. London),
Benessa Defend (UMASS Amherst), Yasunobu Nohara (Kyushu Univ.),
Yuichiro Yamaguchi (Oki Electric), Tomoki Yoshihisa (Kyoto Univ.),
Yutaka Yanagisawa (NTT), Miyako Ohkubo (IPA)
We define RFId (Real Field IDentification) as a technology for
identifying, recognizing, and/or authenticating objects, events,
and/or contexts in the real world. It includes of course RFID
(Radio Frequency IDentification), smart devices as sensors, and/or
various recognition techniques, with a strong tie with platform
software/hardware, and applications. As a result of recent proposals
and trials for the technology, fundamental techniques are facing the
needs to be tried in the real field, and application experiences are
to be fed back to new research challenges. In this workshop, we
encourage contributions for interacting these aspects of RFId
Topics:
RFId as/for
* Identification (with/without new devices)
* Recognition
* Infrastructure
* Location Services
* Security/Privacy
* Data Management
* Scalability
* Deployment
* Real Applications
* Business Models
* Social Acceptance
Contact: Sozo Inoue(sozo[AT]lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp), Kyusyu University
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Workshop Chair Masayoshi Ohashi, KDDI R&D Labs Japan
ma-oohashi[AT]kddi.com
For further information, please visit
<http://http://www.ht.sfc.keio.ac.jp/ucs2007/>
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