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<div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>[Apologies, if you receive multiple copies of this email]</div><div><br></div><div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">*****************************************************</span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; "> CALL FOR PAPERS</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; ">*****************************************************<br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">The Third International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking (MELT 2010)</span></font><br>co-located with The Seventh IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2010)<br>November 8-12, 2010, San Francisco, CA, USA</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Workshop Website: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://meltworks.org">http://meltworks.org</a></span></b></p><div><b>Workshop Date:</b> 8 November, 2010</div><div><br></div><div>Location-awareness is a key component for achieving context-awareness. Recent years have witnessed an increasing trend of location-based</div><div>services and applications. In most cases, however, location information is limited by the accessibility to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), </div><div>largely unavailable for indoor or underground facilities and unreliable in urban environments. Much research has been done, in both the sensor </div><div>network community and the ubiquitous computing community, to provide techniques for localization and tracking in hybrid or GNSS-challenged</div><div>environments. Novel applications based on ad-hoc localization and real-time tracking of mobile entities are growing as a result of these technologies.</div><div>It is time to bring leaders from both the academic and industry research communities to discuss challenging and open problems, to evaluate various</div><div>approaches, to bridge the gap between theory and applications, and to envision new research opportunities in MELT.</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div>After two successful workshops on this topic (MELT '08, ‘09), this workshop will continue to provide a forum for state-of-the-art technologies in mobile</div><div>localization and tracking and novel applications and services based on location tracking. Both theoretical research driven by applications and system</div><div>implementation with theoretical foundations are especially encouraged for this interactive and interdisciplinary workshop. The one-day workshop will have</div><div>a combination of invited talks/panels, technical presentations and discussions.</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</p><div><b>Technology topics:</b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">· <span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span>Algorithms for localization and tracking in GNSS-challenged environments<br>· <span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span>Opportunistic localization (using existing signals in the environment)<br>· <span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span>Environment mapping and map representations<br>· Dynamic/ad-hoc mapping of environments<br>· Alternative sensing for localization and tracking (RF, ultrasound, video, IR, UWB, RFID, etc.)<br>· <span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span>Collaborative localization and data fusion<br>· Hybrid location-determination (e.g., RF+vision)<br>· Location prediction<br>· Location labeling<br>· Localization APIs<br>· Privacy issues in localization and tracking<br>· Calibration</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Application Topics:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">· <span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Search and rescue operations</span><br></span></span></span>· <span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Asset tracking</span><br></span></span></span>· <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Symbol"> </font>Material/in-process flow control<br>· Vehicular tracking in intelligent transportation systems<br>· <span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span>Sports and entertainment<br>· <span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Indoor navigators/activity recommenders</span><br></span></span></span>· Social applications<br>· Cloud computing and LBS<br>· Business services<br>· <span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Location data mining</span><br></span></span></span>· Situation-based services<br>·<span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span>Behavior inferences from tracked data<br>· Location-based advertising</span></b></p><div><b>Important Dates:</b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">· Paper submission deadline: June 18, 2010, 23:59 PST<br>· Author notification: August 13, 2010</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">· Camera ready papers: September 3, 2010 </span></b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Paper submission instructions:</b><br>All paper submissions will be handled electronically via the EDAS system and should conform to the following requirements:<br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Papers are to be submitted in single-spaced, double-column pages using 10 pt size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages in IEEE style format,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">and are limited to a minimum of six (6) and maximum of eight (8) pages, including references. All accepted papers will be included in IEEE MASS proceedings. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b>EDAS submission link</b>: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://edas.info/N9080">http://edas.info/N9080</a></span></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div><b>Organizers:</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">General Co-chairs:</span></div><div>- Mark L. Chang (Olin College of Engineering, USA)</div><div>- Lukas Kencl (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)</div><div><br></div><div><b>Publication </b><b>Chair:</b><br>- Ying Zhang (Palo Alto Research Center, USA)</div><div><br></div><div><b>Publicity </b><b>Chair:</b><br>- Kavitha Muthukrishnan (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)<br><br><b>Industry Sponsorship and Finance Chair:</b><br>- Richard Fuller (Broadcom, USA)<br> </div><div><b>Technical Program Committee:</b></div><div>- Isaac Amundson (Vanderbilt University, USA)</div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">- Philipp Bolliger (ETHZ, Switzerland)</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">- Peter Corke (Queensland University, Australia)</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">- Mark Chang (Olin College of Engineering, USA)</span></b></div><div>- Richard Fuller (Broadcom, USA)</div><div>- Christian Hoene (University of Tuebingen, Germany)</div><div>- Mike Hazas (Lancaster University, UK)</div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">- Lukas Kencl (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">- Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark)</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">- Xenofon Koutsoukos (Vanderbilt University, USA)</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">- Thomas Lang (Vodafone Group R&D, Gemany)</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">- HyungJune Lee (Stanford University, USA)</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">- Juan Liu (Palo Alto Research Center, USA)</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">- Kavitha Muthukrishnan (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)</span></b></div><div>- Bodhi Priyantha (Microsoft Research, USA)</div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">- Ronald Raulefs (German Aerospace Center, Germany)</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">- Zafer Sahinoglu (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)</span></b></div><div>- Vincent Tam (Hongkong University, China)</div><div>- Andy Ward (Ubisense, UK)</div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">- Guang Yang (Nokia Research Center, USA)</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">- Ying Zhang (Palo Alto Research Center, USA)</span></b></div><div><br></div></span></font></div></div></span></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Kavitha Muthukrishnan</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div>Post-doctoral Researcher </div><div>Delft University of Technology<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "></span>Room:09.320, Mekelweg 4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "></span>2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands </div><div>Tel:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> +31 (0)15 27 85781 </div><div>email: <a href="mailto:k.muthukrishnan@tudelft.nl">k.muthukrishnan@tudelft.nl</a><br>url:http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~kavitha/</div><div><br></div></div></span></div></div></body></html>