[ecoop-info] BASNet-2014: Call for papers

Zahoor Khan Zahoor.Khan at dal.ca
Sat Jan 4 05:47:11 CET 2014


The 2nd International Workshop on Body Area Sensor Networks (BASNet-2014)

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The 2nd International Workshop on Body Area Sensor Networks (BASNet-2014)
provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in
the field of Body Area Networks (BANs). BASNet-2014 will be held in Hasselt,
Belgium (2-5 June 2014) in conjunction with the 5th International Conference
on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT-2014). 

 

Workshop Website: www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan/BASNet-2014/
<http://www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan/BASNet-2014/> 

 

SCOPE

The workshop provides a multi-disciplinary collaborative forum for
researchers and practitioners to submit papers with novel ideas, innovative
solutions, and research results related to the field of the Body Area Sensor
Networks. The workshop also invites researchers to submit original work on
sensors communication in Body Area Networks.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Wearable and implantable sensors

* Bio-sensors communication

* Sensors communication in Body Area Networks

* Body Area Networks in Hospital environment

* Body Area Networks for Medical Applications

* Routing Layer protocols for Body Area Networks

* MAC Layer protocols for Body Area Networks

* Cross layer routing protocols for Body Area Networks

* Body Area Networks and cloud computing

* RFID tags for Body Area Networks

* Security protocols for Body Area Networks

* E-Health wireless applications

* Body Area Networks used for patient health monitoring

 

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission due: 10 January, 2014. 

* Notification of acceptance: 15 March, 2014. 

* Camera-ready due: 4 April, 2014. 

* Workshop: 2-5 June, 2014.

 

SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS

All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2014
proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow
Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2014 website
(http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/). The number of pages for workshop
papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors should submit their contributions
electronically in PDF format at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=basnet2014.

The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used
this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is
your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by
clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of
registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are
ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to
the system by the submission due date.

All BASNet-2014 accepted papers will be printed in the conference
proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia
Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on
www.Elsevier.com <http://www.Elsevier.com>  and on Elsevier content platform
ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available
worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters'
Conference Proceeding Citation Index
http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers
will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You
will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your
conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will
also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).

The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further
revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues at
ANT'14.

 

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Bill Robertson (General Chair), Dalhousie University (Canada) 

* Zahoor Khan (Chair and organizer), Dalhousie University (Canada) 

* Nadeem Javaid (Chair and organizer), COMSATS IIT (Pakistan) 

* Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia (USA) 

* William Phillips, Dalhousie University (Canada) 

* Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University (Belgium) 

* Saad Qaiser, NUST (Pakistan) 

* Mohammad Nisar, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) 

* Ashfaq Ahmad, COMSATS IIT (Pakistan) 

* Shyamala Sivakumar, Saint Mary's University (Canada) 

* Muhammad Imran, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) 

* Anzar Mehmood, COMSATS IIT (Pakistan) 

* Umar Qasim, University of Alberta (Canada) 

* Hasan Mehmood, Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan) 

* Kashif Saleem , King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) 

 

If you have any further questions please send email to
basnet.workshop at gmail.com <mailto:basnet.workshop at gmail.com> .

 

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Zahoor Khan, PhD, MCSc, MSc (Computer Engineering), MSc (Electronics), BSc,
MCSE

Assistant Professor (PT) & Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University

Halifax, NS Canada

Phone: +1-(902)-494-1876

 <http://www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan> www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan

 <mailto:Zahoor.Khan at Dal.ca> Zahoor.Khan at Dal.ca

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Part-time Faculty of Computing & Information Systems
Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University
Halifax, NS Canada
 <mailto:Zahoor.Khan at smu.ca> Zahoor.Khan at smu.ca

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