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Call for Papers<br>
First International Workshop on Semantic Interoperability for Smart
Spaces (SISS 2010)<br><br>
organized in association with the <br>
IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2010)<br>
22 June 2010, Riccione, Italy -
<a href="http://www.ieee-iscc.org/2010/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ieee-iscc.org/2010/<br><br>
</a>Deadline for paper submission: February 28, 2010<br><br>
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Smart spaces will play a crucial role in the market of devices, services,
and applications for the next years and in the everyday users' experience
with the personal, home, and urban environments where citizens work and
live. The effective design, implementation, and run-time support of smart
applications in wide-scale pervasive environments are considered still
very open challenges nowadays. Currently, the high costs still associated
with the development of these smart applications are limiting their
widespread adoption and their potential impact on the mass market of
final users. Costs relevantly derive from the complexity of integrating
already deployed heterogeneous systems, from differentiated sensors
providing data in different formats via heterogeneous wireless
technologies, and from nodes with differentiated capabilities/resources
to highly heterogeneous legacy services. <br>
The First International Workshop on Semantic Interoperability for Smart
Spaces (SISS 2010) aims at soliciting and promoting the discussion among
academic/industrial researchers, practitioners in the field, and most
relevant industry players about the above issue of cost reduction via
interoperability, with the primary guideline of addressing
interoperability of heterogeneous devices and systems via the adoption of
proper semantic solutions for open smart spaces. The focus will be on
novel and open innovation platforms for the effective sharing of
interoperable information in smart environments: smart applications
should have the possibility to effectively and easily access to highly
interoperable and shared information spaces that maintain data/metadata
of common interest (sensed monitored data, information about currently
available resources/services, …). Contributions to SISS 2010 should
address the technical challenges arising from emerging smart spaces,
capable of openly including new devices, systems, applications, and final
users, and to properly scale up to the challenging size of urban-wide
scenarios. Visionary and early-stage work that is rigorously presented
and can steer discussion to new topics is particularly welcome, as well
as more solid and extensively evaluated work that reports practical and
industrial experience in the field. The SISS 2010 workshop is organized
by academic experts and industrial players also collaborating in a joint
research project called Smart Objects for Intelligent Applications (SOFIA
- http://www.sofia-project.eu), funded through the European Artemis
programme. <br><br>
SISS 2010 topics of interest include but are not limited to the
following:<br>
* Semantic interoperability of smart spaces;<br>
* Requirements of open innovation platforms;<br>
* Architectures and systems for interoperability in open smart
environments;<br>
* Software engineering for reusability of interoperable information in
smart environments;<br>
* Middleware for open smart spaces;<br>
* Semantic technologies and techniques for of interoperable information
in smart environments;<br>
* Application design/deployment and development supports for open smart
spaces;<br>
* User-to-device and device-to-device interaction models for smart
environments;<br>
* Context abstraction and usability for smart environment
applications;<br>
* Practical experiences and experimental evaluations of testbeds and
field trials for open smart spaces;<br>
* Industrial reports about the exploitation of information
interoperability solutions for open smart spaces; <br>
* Smart personal spaces;<br>
* Smart spaces for the house of the future;<br>
* Smart spaces for future cities. <br><br>
<u>Paper Submission <br>
</u>Papers should be written in English. They should not exceed six (6)
pages in length in IEEE double column proceedings format, including all
figures, tables, and references (papers exceeding this limit will not be
reviewed). Papers meeting these requirements will be peer-reviewed by
three independent reviewers, including at least two TPC members. Papers
must present original and unpublished work and should not be currently
under review by any other conference or journal. Papers should be
submitted via email to the Workshop Chairs
(<a href="mailto:paolo.bellavista@unibo.it">paolo.bellavista@unibo.it</a>
, <a href="mailto:eila.ovaska@vtt.fi">eila.ovaska@vtt.fi</a>). <br>
All accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2010 Workshops
Proceedings, will be available on IEEE Xplore, and will be professionally
indexed by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Service.
<br><br>
<u>Important dates <br>
</u>Paper submission
due:<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
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</x-tab>February 28,
2010<br>
Notification of paper acceptance:
<x-tab> </x-tab>March 20, 2010<br>
Submission of camera-ready papers:
<x-tab> </x-tab>April 13, 2010<br>
Workshop
date:
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2010<br><br>
For any additional information/clarification needed and for paper
submission, please contact the Workshop Chairs below via email.<br><br>
Workshop Chairs<br>
- Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy<br>
Email: paolo.bellavista@unibo.it; homepage:
<a href="http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/" eudora="autourl">
http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/<br>
</a>- Eila Ovaska, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland <br>
Email: eila.ovaska@vtt.fi; homepage:
<a href="http://www.vtt.fi/people/eila_ovaska.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.vtt.fi/people/eila_ovaska.pdf<br>
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Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D.<br>
<font size=2>Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering<br>
EB Member of IEEE Communications, IEEE T. Services Computing,<br>
Elsevier Pervasive Computing, and Springer J. Network Systems Mgmt.<br>
DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna<br>
Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY)<br>
Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073<br>
Email: paolo.bellavista@unibo.it<br>
Web:
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