<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br>INVITATION:<br><br>=================<br><br>Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICT-SB 2014.<br><br>The submission deadline is January 28, 2014.<br><br>Accepted papers will be published by Elsevier and included in the ANT-2014 proceedings.<br><br>=================<br><br><br>============== ICT-SB 2014 | Call for Papers ===============<br><br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>ICT-SB 2014, International Workshop on Enabling ICT for Smart Buildings will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2014) <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/</a><div><br>June 2 - 5, 2014 - Hasselt, Belgium<br><br><br>General page: <a href="http://ictsb2014.wattict.com">http://ictsb2014.wattict.com</a><br><br><br>Submission deadline: January 28, 2014<br><br><br>The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal.</div><div><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>ICT-SB 2014 Topics</b> (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)</span></div><div><br>- <b>Technologies for integration</b> of embedded computers, wired or wireless sensor networks, every-day appliances, smart gateways, and building network protocols</div><div><br><div>- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Real‐time communication</span> with physical objects (e.g., syndication, streaming, Web push mechanisms)</div><div><br></div><div>- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sensor and actuator resources discovery</span>, search, composition, and physical mashups</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Use of semantic technologies</span> to describe building resources and to facilitate the interaction between sensors and actuators, e.g. ontologies, embedded metadata, microdata, microformats, and context</div><div><br></div><div>- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Security, privacy, access control, and sharing</span> of resources and data inside buildings</div><div><br></div><div>- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Distributed computing and sensing</span> approaches in the context of constrained devices</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Automation of buildings</span> using open and standardized technologies, for example Internet of Things and Web of Things</div><div><br></div><div>- <span style="font-weight: bold;">End user applications, use-cases, deployments, and evaluations</span> of ICT systems in the context of Smart Homes, Smart Buildings and Smart Neighborhood</div><div><br></div><div>- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Modeling technologies</span> for energy efficiency in buildings and indoor environment comfort<div><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>Conference Dates: 2 - 5 June 2014<br><br>Paper Submission Deadline: January 28, 2014<br>Paper Acceptance Notification: March 1st, 2014<br>Camera-Ready Manuscript Deadline: April 1st, 2014</div><div><br>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Gérôme BOVET, Telecom ParisTech, France</div><div>(<a href="mailto:gerome.bovet@telecom-paristech.fr">gerome.bovet@telecom-paristech.fr</a>)</div><div>Jean HENNEBERT, University of Fribourg, Switzerland</div><div>(<a href="mailto:jean.hennebert@unifr.ch">jean.hennebert@unifr.ch</a>)<br><br>================================================</div></div></div></body></html>