[ecoop-info] [2nd Call for Papers] MELT 2010- Third International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking, co-located with IEEE MASS 2010

[Kavitha Muthukrishnan]

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The Third International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking (MELT 2010)
co-located with The Seventh IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2010)
November 8-12, 2010, San Francisco, CA, USA
Workshop Website:  http://meltworks.org

Workshop Date: 8 November, 2010

Location-awareness is a key component for achieving context-awareness. Recent years have witnessed an increasing trend of location-based services and applications. In most cases, however, location information is limited by the accessibility to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), largely unavailable for indoor or underground facilities and unreliable in urban environments. Much research has been done, in both the sensor network community and the ubiquitous computing community, to provide techniques for localization and tracking in hybrid or GNSS-challenged environments. Novel applications based on ad-hoc localization and real-time tracking of mobile entities are growing as a result of these technologies. It is time to bring leaders from both the academic and industry research communities to discuss challenging and open problems, to evaluate various approaches, to bridge the gap between theory and applications, and to envision new research opportunities in MELT.
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 localization and tracking and novel applications and services based on location tracking. Both theoretical research driven by applications and system implementation with theoretical foundations are especially encouraged for this interactive and interdisciplinary workshop. The one-day workshop will have a combination of invited talks/panels, technical presentations and discussions.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Technology topics:
·     Algorithms for localization and tracking in GNSS-challenged environments
·     Opportunistic localization (using existing signals in the environment)
·     Environment mapping and map representations
·     Dynamic/ad-hoc mapping of environments
·     Alternative sensing for localization and tracking (RF, ultrasound, video, IR, UWB, RFID, etc.)
·     Collaborative localization and data fusion
·     Hybrid location-determination (e.g., RF+vision)
·     Location prediction
·     Location labeling
·      Localization APIs
·     Privacy issues in localization and tracking
·     Calibration

Application Topics:

·     Search and rescue operations
·     Asset tracking
·     Material/in-process flow control
·     Vehicular tracking in intelligent transportation systems
·      Sports and entertainment
·      Indoor navigators/activity recommenders
·     Social applications
·     Cloud computing and LBS
·     Business services
·     Location data mining
·     Situation-based services
·       Behavior inferences from tracked data
·     Location-based advertising

Important Dates:
·     Paper submission deadline: June 18, 2010, 23:59 PST
·     Author notification: August 13, 2010
·     Camera ready papers: September 3, 2010      

Paper submission instructions:
All paper submissions will be handled electronically via the EDAS system and should conform to the following requirements:
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, 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. 
EDAS submission link:  http://edas.info/N9080


Organizers:
General Co-chairs:
·        Mark L. Chang (Olin College of Engineering, USA)
·        Lukas Kencl (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)

Publication Chair:
·        Ying Zhang (Palo Alto Research Center, USA)

Publicity Chair:
·        Kavitha Muthukrishnan (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)

Industry Sponsorship and Finance Chair:
·        Richard Fuller (Broadcom, USA)
                
Technical Program Committee:
- Isaac Amundson (Vanderbilt University, USA)
- Philipp Bolliger (ETHZ, Switzerland)
- Peter Corke (Queensland University, Australia)
- Mark Chang (Olin College of Engineering, USA)
- Richard Fuller (Broadcom, USA)
- Christian Hoene (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
- Robert Harle (Cambridge University, UK)
- Mike Hazas (Lancaster University, UK)
- Lukas Kencl (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
- Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Xenofon Koutsoukos (Vanderbilt University, USA)
- Thomas Lang (Vodafone Group R&D, Gemany)
- HyungJune Lee (Stanford University, USA)
- Juan Liu (Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
- Kavitha Muthukrishnan (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
- Bodhi Priyantha (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Ronald Raulefs (German Aerospace Center, Germany)
- Zafer Sahinoglu (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)
- Vincent Tam (Hongkong University, China)
- Andy Ward (Ubisense, UK)
- Guang Yang (Nokia Research Center, USA)
- Ying Zhang (Palo Alto Research Center, USA)


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Kavitha Muthukrishnan

Post-doctoral Researcher 
Delft University of Technology	
Room:09.320, Mekelweg 4	
2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands 
Tel:	 +31 (0)15 27 85781 
email: k.muthukrishnan at tudelft.nl
url:http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~kavitha/

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