<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">Dear colleagues,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">We kindly invite you to consider
submitting a paper to the IST-AWSN 2013 : 8th International Symposium on
Intelligent Techniques for Ad hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks, and/or forward
to the appropriate groups. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">ist-awsn
2013 : 8th International Symposium on Intelligent Techniques for Ad hoc and
Wireless Sensor Networks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">25-28
June, 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Canada</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">Symposium
Website: <a href="http://lissi.fr/ist-awsn13">http://lissi.fr/ist-awsn13</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">- Abstract registration due: December 1,
2012 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">- Full Paper Submission:<span style> </span>December 8, 2012</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">- Acceptance Notification:<span style> </span>February 8, 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">- Camera-Ready Submission:<span style> </span>March 8, 2013</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">Call For Papers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">IST-AWSN'13 will be held in conjunction
with the 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and
Technologies (ANT-2013) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 25-28, 2013. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">Recent developments of low-cost,
low-power, multifunctional wireless sensors and smart devices have enabled the
fast growth of Ad-hoc and Wireless Sensor Network (AWSN) applications. AWSNs
consist of numerous small battery powered nodes. A combination of the dense deployment
of numerous smart sensors, actuators and smart mobiles nodes, AI techniques,
and intelligent agents can provide pervasive services, enabling users to satisfy
their needs anytime anywhere. Different problems rise at different level from
protocol specification and verification, simulation and performance evaluation
to distributed intelligent software specification and design. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">This symposium aims to bring together
researchers and practitioners working on different aspects of ad-hoc and
wireless sensor networks and software agent technology in an effort to
highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the challenges and opportunities to
explore new research directions. We strongly welcome submissions that include
results which advance the state of the art relating to the theme of the
symposium. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">The main topics to be addressed include
(but not limited to): </span></p>
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Adaptive agents in AWSN </span></p>
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Security and trust in AWSNs </span></p>
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Agent-based architectures and middleware for AWSNs </span></p>
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Agents design issues dealing with reliability, efficiency, and fault tolerance </span></p>
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Context and situation awareness </span></p>
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Distributed management systems for AWSNs </span></p>
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Future Internet of Things </span></p>
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Intelligent data fusion and aggregation </span></p>
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Intelligent query and data dissemination </span></p>
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Intelligent systems for AWSNs </span></p>
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Simulation Tools and Methods </span></p>
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M2M communication protocols for sensors networks </span></p>
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Mobile Peer-to-Peer systems for AWSNs </span></p>
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Power management and energy-efficient protocols </span></p>
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QoS, performance evaluation and simulation </span></p>
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Routing protocols for AWSNs </span></p>
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Self-organization of AWSNs </span></p>
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Sensors and actuators infrastructures for ubiquitous robotics applications </span></p>
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Knowledge Modeling and reasoning with Uncertainty </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">Publication </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">Only original papers will be considered
that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere,
including web publication. All submissions will be handled electronically. The
length of the paper is limited to 6 pages. All papers will be reviewed by at
least two independent reviewers. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">Accepted papers will be printed in the
conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access
Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). Procedia Computer Sciences
is hosted on <a href="http://www.Elsevier.com">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect
(<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com">www.sciencedirect.com</a>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in
Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com">www.scopus.com</a>) and Engineering
Village (Ei) (<a href="http://www.engineeringvillage.com">www.engineeringvillage.com</a>). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA"><span style> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">This includes EI Compendex
(<a href="http://www.ei.org/compendex">www.ei.org/compendex</a>). 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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-ZA">Authors of high quality papers presented
in the symposium will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for
publication in international journal special issues.</span></p>
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