<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Call for Papers: The 2nd Int. Workshop on
Robotic Sensor Networks</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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April 2015</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> Seattle
Washington, USA</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/kdantu/rsn15/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://www.cse.<WBR>buffalo.edu/faculty/kdantu/<WBR>rsn15/</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Recent developments in sensing and actuation
technology, along with the miniaturization of computing and communication, have
led to the development of commodity robot technology such as hobby drones and
robot toolkits. These platforms are bringing sensing and actuation at places
where traditional technology does not reach; for example, for aerial pollution
monitoring or for disaster management in remote areas. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">This novel class of cyber-physical systems (CPS)
take many of the design, implementation, and validation issues of traditional
CPSs to an extreme. Control, sensing, estimation, and algorithms for
localization, mapping, navigation, and exploration of individual robots are
needed to govern their movements. The timing aspects of vehicle operation are
key to provide run-time guarantees about performance. The software design and
implementation must lead to provably correct execution. Noisy or inaccurate
information sensed by the robots must be properly handled to ensure an accurate
understanding of the environment. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Research efforts to address the issues above,
while related, have previously progressed independently with little
cross-fertilization across diverse disciplines such as robotics, real-time
systems, signal processing, and software development. The goal of this workshop
is to create a platform where researchers from different communities can get
together to better understand the latest developments in these related fields
as well as to establish connections for future interdisciplinary work. The
workshop intends to provide a platform to enable such cross-fertilization, to
ultimately speed up the development of the field and to foster rich interdisciplinary
work in the future. Particularly, co-location with the Cyber-Physical Systems
week will be an asset in this regard. CPSWEEK is the premiere CPS event that
brings together five top conferences from complementary areas such as Embedded
Systems, Real-time Systems, Sensor Networks, Hybrid Systems, and Networked
Systems.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">This will be the second edition of this
workshop. The proceedings of the first edition are available at (<a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/kdantu/rsn14/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/<WBR>faculty/kdantu/rsn14/index.<WBR>html</a>).
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">To build the needed interdisciplinary work
ultimately necessary to the development of the field, the workshop seeks
technical contributions describing original, previously unpublished results in
all topics related to the design of robotic sensor networks, including works
across two or more of the following topic areas:</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">• Programming of robot swarms </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">• Low-power communication in robot networks </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">• Sensing coverage using robotic swarms </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">• Task allocation </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">• Distributed sensing </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">• Distributed control </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">• Coordination in robotic swarms </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">• Verification and validation </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">• Distributed planning and navigation </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">• Novel applications </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">• Experience reports</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Important dates:</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Submission deadline: Jan 26,, 2015.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Notifications : Feb 9, 2015.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Camera ready : Feb 16, 2015.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Workshop : Apr 13, 2015.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Submission Guidelines:</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We invite to submit papers in PDF format, of at
most 6 pages in length including figures, tables, and references, in two-column
format, and using a minimum of 10-pt font. Please refer to the webpage for more
details. Accepted submissions will be distributed along with the other
workshops' proceedings via a USB key to the attendees. The papers will also be
digitally archived via the ACM Digital
Library.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Workshop Organizers:</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Karthik Dantu, University at Buffalo, USA </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano and SICS
Swedish ICT </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p></div>