[ecoop-info] Call for Papers - The 2nd International Workshop on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things (IUPT'12)

[Lina Yao]

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                 The 2nd International Workshop on
   Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things (IUPT'12)

                   In conjunction with ANT 2012
                      27-29 August, 2012
                 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

     Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/iupt-12/

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission:        Feb. 10, 2012
Author Notification:     April 10, 2012
Final Manuscript:        May 10, 2012


The new developments in this area raise many research questions including
interaction, security, collaboration, context, discovery, and privacy of
physical things in the virtual world. Despite the tremendous progress in
Internet technologies the research community continues to wrestle with some
of these questions. This workshop focuses on disseminating novel ideas and
research directions in this fast emerging area of the Internet of Things.
This workshop also aims to bring together academics and practitioners in an
effort to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the issues and
opportunities to explore new research directions and develop new ideas for
the Internet of Things. The workshop will be platform to provide
opportunities for researchers from academia and industry to join hands,
exchange ideas and focus on solutions that will enhance the life of the
growing population on the Internet. It will lead to identifying new
directions and setting the scope for developments in this area. The
participants will be enlightened with intellectual discussions,
highlighting the advances in technology that bridges the physical world and
the digital world.

This workshop aims at gathering researchers from the fields of wireless
networking and Internet applications to discuss new opportunities and
hurdles to leverage the possibilities of new applications and services for
the Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things.

The 2nd International Workshop on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive
Things will take place in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference
on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2012), Niagara Falls,
Ontario, Canada in August 27-29, 2012.

Specific topics of interest include (but not limited to):

 - Communication systems and architectures for the Internet of Things
 - Robustness of environmental management with the Internet of Things
 - Future technologies bridging the physical and virtual worlds
 - Business models and processes for the Internet of Things
 - Impacts on the security, privacy and risks on the physical world
 - Applications and interaction for social networking
 - Location and discovery of things on the Internet
 - Web of Things
 - Smart Objects
 - Case studies in areas of Healthcare, Agriculture, Logistics and Transport
 - Green Internet of Things
 - Mobile Internet of Things
 - Internet of Services
 - Sensor Webs
 - Semantic Web of Things


PAPER SUBMISSION
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All accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the
open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). All papers
in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) and
Engineering Village (Ei) (http://www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes
EI Compendex (http://www.ei.org/compendex). The submitted paper must be
formatted according to the guidelines
of guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex,
Elsevier.

Authors should submit paper with no more than 6 pages length using the
Easychair submission system,
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iupt12
Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two members of
the workshop Program Committee.

The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further
revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues.


ORGANIZATION
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General Chair
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE

Program Chairs
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Sujith Samuel Mathew, United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Steering Committee Chair
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

Publicity Chair
Lina Yao, University of Adelaide, Australia

Program Committee

    * Philippe Thiran, Namur University, Belgium
    * Andrew C Smith, IoTEG - CSIR Meraka Institute, South Africa
    * Viorel Milea, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    * Rodrigo Roman, University of Malaga, Spain
    * M. Victoria Bueno-Delgado, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain
    * Rajit Gadh, UCLA, USA
    * Gerhard Hancke, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
    * Weifa Liang, The Australian National University, Australia
    * Konstantinos Markantonakis, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
    * Michele Ruta, Technical University of Bari, Italy
    * Dave Singelee, Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium
    * Claire Vishik, Intel Corporation, UK
    * Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
    * Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
    * Shibo He, Zhejiang university, China
    * Rodrigo Roman, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
    * Yanbo Wu, The University of Adelaide, Australia
    * Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
    * Hong Liu, Beihang University, China
    * Lei Qian, Fisk Univeristy, USA
    * Yu Zhang, Orange Labs, Beijing, China
    * Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan
    * Stephane Lavirotte, University of Nice, France
    * Alessio Vecchio, University of Pisa, Italy
    * Amir Qayyum, M. A. Jinnah University, Pakistan
    * Jean Carle, Université Lille 1, France
    * Farrukh Khan, NUCES, Pakistan
    * Federica Paganelli, University of Florence, Italy
    * Peter Graham, University of Manitoba, Canada
    * Kewei Sha, Oklahoma City University, USA
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