Re: UIC-07 2nd Round Publication

["Evi Syukur" <evi.syukur [at] gmail.com>]

********************* UIC-07 Call For Papers *************************

 

       The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence

                    and Computing (UIC-07)

         - Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces -

 

               http://www.uic-conference.org/2007/

                http://ehpclab.stfx.ca/~uic07/

 

     Organized by Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

         In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society

          Hong Kong, China, July 11-13, 2007

*********************************************************************

 

Ubiquitous computers, networks and information are paving a road towards a

smart world (SW) in which computational intelligence is distributed

throughout the physical environment to provide trustworthy and relevant

services to people. This ubiquitous intelligence (UI) will change the

computing landscape because it will enable new breeds of applications and

systems to be developed; the realm of computing possibilities will be

significantly extended. By embedding digital intelligence in everyday objects,

our workplaces, our homes and even ourselves, many tasks and processes could

be simplified, made more efficient, safer and more enjoyable. Ubiquitous

computing, or pervasive computing, composes these many "smart things/u-things"

to create the environments that underpin the smart world.

 

A smart thing can be endowed with different levels of intelligence, and may

be context-aware, active, interactive, reactive, proactive, assistive,

adaptive, automated, sentient, perceptual, cognitive, autonomic and/or

thinking. Intelligent/smart things is an emerging research field covering

many disciplines. A series of grand challenges exist to move from the world

of ubiquitous computing with universal services of any means/place/time to

the smart world of trustworthy services with the right means/place/time.

UIC-07 is a successor of the 1st Int'l Workshop on Ubiquitous Smart Worlds

(USW-05, Taipei, Mar. 2005), the 2nd Int'l Symposium on Ubiquitous

Intelligence, Smart Worlds (UISW-05, Japan, Dec. 2005) and the 3rd Int'l

Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-06, Three Gorges,

China , Sept. 2006). It offers a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and

experiences in developing intelligent/smart objects, environments, and

systems as well as discuss various personal/social/physical issues faced by

UI and smart worlds.

 

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

 

1. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Objects

 * Electronic Labels, Cards, E-Tags and RFID

 * Embedded Chips, Sensors & Actuators

 * MEMS, NEMS, Micro & Biometric Devices

 * Everyday Goods, Artifacts, Robots, etc.

 * Smart Appliances and Wearable Devices

 * Material, Textile, Cloth, Furniture, etc.

 * Emerging Intelligent/Smart Objects

 * Embedded Software and Agents

 

2. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Environments

 * Room, Home, Office, Laboratory, etc.

 * Building, Library, School, Campus, etc.

 * Shop, Clinic, Hospital and Health Care

 * Street, Yard, Park, Ground, City, etc.

 * Vehicle, Road, Traffic & Transportation

 * Land, Pool, Space and Hyperspace

 * Learning, Sport, Entertainment, etc.

 * Novel Intelligent/Smart Applications

 

3. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Systems

 * Sensor, Ad Hoc & Intelligent Networks

 * Knowledge Representation and Ontology

 * Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems

 * OS, Middleware and Intelligent Platforms

 * Intelligent Service Association and Architecture

 * Massive Agents, Swarm/Amorphous Systems

 * Context-aware, Sentient and Proactive Systems

 * Novel Intelligent/Smart Systems

 

4. Personal/Social/Physical Aspects

 * Real/Cyber World Modeling and Semantics

 * End-User Interface, Control & Programming

 * Social/Natural/Physical Model of UI & SW

 * User/Object Identity and Activity Recognition

 * Security, Privacy, Safety and Legal/Policy Issues

 * Emotional, Ethical and Psychological Factors

 * Implication and Impact of UI and SW

 * Relations between Real and Cyber Worlds

 

== IMPORTANT DATES ==

 

Submission Deadline:    January 15,  2007

Authors Notification:   March 15, 2007

Final Manuscript Due:   April 15, 2007

 

== ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION ==

 

Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file.

Submit your paper(s) at the UIC-07 submission site:

http://ehpclab.stfx.ca/~uic07/sub/

 

== PAPER PUBLICATION ==

 

Accepted papers will be published by Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS).

Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register

and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be

removed from the digital library after the conference.

 

Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special

issues of the Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI), and

the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC). A

set of high quality papers of the conference, after further revisions, also

will be published in an edited book published by Springer, Germany.

 

== Organizing Committees ==

 

General Chairs

Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

Emile Aarts, Philips, Netherlands

 

Program Chairs

Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia

Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy

Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

 

Program Vice Chairs

Daqing Zhang, Inst. for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Antonio Mana Gomez, University of Malaga, Spain

Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

Marius Portmann, University of Queensland, Australia

 

Steering Committee

Jianhua Ma (chair), Hosei University, Japan

Laurence T. Yang (chair), St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada

Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Sci. & Tech., China

Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany

 

International Advisory Committee

Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Keith Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA

Ali R. Hurson, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan

Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland

Moon Hae Kim, Konkuk University, Korea

Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy

Christian Muller-Schloer, University of Hannover, Germany

Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Norio Shiratori, Tohoku University, Japan

Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, Canada

Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Jhing-Fa Wang, Nat. Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

Xingshe Zhou, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China

 

Publicity Chairs

Jiang (Linda) Xie, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Evi Syukur, Monash University, Australia

Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Sci. & Tech., China

Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan

 

International Liaison Chairs

Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy

Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada

Jong Hyuk Park, Hanwha S&C, Korea

Akira Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan

 

Publication Chairs

Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Sci. & Tech., China

Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia

 

Award Chairs

Vipin Chaudhary, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA

David Simplot-Ryl, University Lille 1, France

Thanos Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

 

Panel Chairs

Victor Callaghan, University of Essex, UK

 

Financial Chair

Lin Chen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

 

Web Administration Chair

Tony Li Xu, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

 

Local Arrangement Chairs

Bin Xiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

Wei Lou, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

Kang Ying Allan Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., HK

 

Program Committee

See UIC-07 web site: http://www.uic-conference.org/2007/

or http://ehpclab.stfx.ca/~uic07/

 

Further questions, please contact with

UIC07 Secretariat uic07 [at] googlegroups.com

 

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