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Call for Papers
SENSORNETS is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
Scope

Current developments show that in the near future the wide availability of low cost, short range radio technology, along with advances in wireless networking, will enable wireless adhoc sensor networks to become commonly deployed. In these networks, each node may be equipped with a variety of sensors, such as acoustic, seismic, infrared, motion, biomedical and chemical sensors with higher level of information inference associated with identification, embedded signal processing and networking of the data. This conference intends to be the meeting point of researchers and practitioners share experience and ideas on innovative developments in any aspect of sensor networks, including Hardware of Sensor Networks, Wireless Communication Protocols, Sensor Networks Software and Architectures, Wireless Information Networks, Data Manipulation, Signal Processing, Localization and Object Tracking through Sensor Networks, Obstacles, Applications and Uses.
Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the proceedings of SENSORNETS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in presenting a demo or lecturing a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat.

Conference Areas

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. SENSOR NETWORKS SOFTWARE AND ARCHITECTURES
2. WIRELESS INFORMATION NETWORKS
3. HARDWARE
4. DATA MANIPULATION
5. SIGNAL PROCESSING
6. OBSTACLES
7. APPLICATIONS AND USES


AREA 1: SENSOR NETWORKS SOFTWARE AND ARCHITECTURES

  • Internet of Things
  • Interoperability
  • Agent-based Simulation
  • Decision Support
  • Platforms and Operating Systems
  • Programming and Middleware
  • Connectivity and Communication
  • Scheduling, Tasking and Control
AREA 2: WIRELESS INFORMATION NETWORKS

  • Technologies and Standards
  • WiFi, ZigBee, WiMax, Bluetooth
  • Wireless Network Protocols
  • Routing Techniques
  • Network Architecture
  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Hierarchical Networks
  • Wireless Mesh Networks
  • Network Performance
  • Power Management
  • Remote Sensing and Telemetry
  • Ubiquitous Computing
AREA 3: HARDWARE

  • Hardware Design, Fabrication Techniques
  • Packaging, Testing and Reliability
  • Electronic Interfaces
  • RFID Readers and Tags
  • MEMS
  • Swarm Sensors
  • Cooperating Objects
  • Sensor Types for Chemical and Biomedical Applications
  • Electronic Nose
  • Electronic Tongue
AREA 4: DATA MANIPULATION

  • Sensor Data Fusion
  • Data Visualization
  • Multi-sensor Data Processing
  • Aggregation, Classification and Tracking
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Reasoning on Sensor Data
  • Indexing and Publishing
  • Data Quality and Integrity
AREA 5: SIGNAL PROCESSING

  • Statistical and Adaptive Signal Processing
  • Sparse Signal Processing
  • Multimedia/Audio Signal Processing
  • Coding and Compression
  • Distributed and Collaborative Signal Processing
  • Array Processing of Nonstationary Signals
  • Neural Networks
  • DNA Computing
  • Data Mining
  • Fault Detection
AREA 6: OBSTACLES

  • Security: Vulnerability and Privacy
  • Authentication
  • Data Overload
  • Real-time Constraints
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Fault Tolerance and Diagnosis
  • Environmental Impact Reduction
  • Self-healing
  • Infrastructure Reliability
AREA 7: APPLICATIONS AND USES

  • Smart Grids and Energy Control Systems
  • Industrial and Structural Monitoring
  • Environment Monitoring
  • Gas Analysis and Sensing
  • Measurement and Control of Water
  • Well-being and Well-working
  • Smart Buildings and Smart Cities
  • Home Monitoring and Assisted Living Applications
  • Healthcare
  • Medical Imaging
  • Wireless Surveillance
  • Defense and Security
  • Vehicular Networks
  • Aeronautical
  • Sport and Leisure
  • Smart Fabrics and Wearables
Keynote Speakers
Joseph Sifakis, Verimag, France
Paul Lencioni, Cutthroat Communications / Crimson Consulting Group, United States
Pedro José Marrón, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Kin K. Leung, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Juan C. Augusto, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, United Kingdom
Paper Submission

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:

  • Regular Paper Submission
    A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

  • Position Paper Submission
    A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".


Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. Authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.

Publications

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).

Important Dates

Conference Date: 24 - 26 February, 2012

Regular Paper Submission: October 13, 2011 (expired)
Authors Notification (regular papers): November 21, 2011 (expired)
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: December 5, 2011 (expired)

Position Paper Submission: November 23, 2011 (expired)
Authors Notification (position papers): December 15, 2011 (expired)
Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: January 10, 2012 (expired)
Secretariat

SENSORNETS Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +20 3014 9464
e-mail: sensornets.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.sensornets.org

Venue

The Meliá Roma Aurelia Antica is a magnificent modern building surrounded by 10 hectares of Mediterranean forest in a quiet area near the airport Fiumicino and just a few kilometers away from Vatican City.
Rome is one of Europe's leading business travel destinations and one of the most attractive destinations in the world for congresses, meetings and incentives.

Conference Chair

César Benavente-Peces,  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands
Octavian Postolache, Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal

Program Committee

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
Kevin Almeroth, University of California Santa Barbara, United States
Fernando Boavida, CISUC - Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
Erik Buchmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Universität Karlsruhe), Germany
Luca Caviglione, CNR - ISSIA (Genoa Branch), Italy
Richard Cernosek, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Karthik Dantu, Harvard University, United States
Rodrigo de Lamare, University of York, United Kingdom
Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan
Christos Efstratiou, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Daniel Fernandes Macedo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Athanasios Gkelias, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Paul Grace, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Alasdair Gray, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Mesut Günes, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Houcine Hassan, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Yuan He, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Jeroen Hoebeke, UGent-IBCN, Belgium
Francois Ingelrest, Sensorscope Sàrl, Switzerland
Arshad Jhumka, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Kemiao Jia, Freescale Semiconductor, United States
Rajgopal  Kannan, Louisiana State University, United States
Abdelmajid Khelil, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Evangelos  Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada
Ioannis Krontiris, Institute of Business Informatics, Germany
Walter Lang, University of Bremen, Germany
Sookyoung Lee, University of Maryland, United States
Pierre Leone, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Antonio Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Daniel Lucani, Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Gianfranco Manes, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Andrew Markham, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Francisco Martins, University of Lisbon, Portugal
René Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Florian Michahelles, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Emiliano Miluzzo, AT&T Labs Research, United States
Parag Mogre, Siemens AG, Germany
Eric  Msechu, University of Minnesota, United States
Edith Ngai, Uppsala University / Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada
Andriy Nikolov, Open University, United Kingdom
Animesh Pathak, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique INRIA, France
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Patrick Pons, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systèmes, France
Nick R Harris, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Richard  R. Brooks, Clemson University, United States
Matthias R. Brust, University of Central Florida, United States
Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Jorge Sá Silva, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Xu Shao , Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan
Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, United States
Sabrina Sicari, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
Pietro Siciliano, National Research Council, Italy
Weilian Su, Naval Postgraduate School, United States
Kerry Taylor, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia
Sameer Tilak, University of California San Diego, United States
Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, United States
Jo Ueyama, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Kristof Van Laerhoven, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Lei Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Wenwu Wang, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Wei Wei, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Andreas Willig, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Hui Wu, University of New South Wales, Australia
Xiuchao Wu, University College Cork, Ireland
Wendong Xiao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Yong Xu, Wayne State University, United States
Shuhui Yang, Purdue University, United States
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh , United States
Anatolij Zubow, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany