[ecoop-info] CFPs: The 3rd International Workshop on Body Area Sensor Networks (BASNet-14)

[Zahoor Khan]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 3rd International Workshop on Body Area Sensor Networks (BASNet-14)
provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in
the field of Body Area Networks (BANs). BASNet-2014 will be held in Halifax,
Canada (22-25 September 2014) in conjunction with the 4th International
Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication
Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH-2014)
<http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/> . 

Workshop Website: www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan/BASNet-14/
<http://www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan/BASNet-14/> 

SCOPE

The workshop provides a multi-disciplinary collaborative forum for
researchers and practitioners to submit papers with novel ideas, innovative
solutions, and research results related to the field of the Body Area Sensor
Networks. The workshop also invites researchers to submit original work on
sensors communication in Body Area Networks.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

*       Wearable and implantable sensors

*       Bio-sensors communication

*       Sensors communication in Body Area Networks

*       Body Area Networks in Hospital environment

*       Body Area Networks for Medical Applications

*       Routing Layer protocols for Body Area Networks

*       MAC Layer protocols for Body Area Networks

*       Cross layer routing protocols for Body Area Networks

*       Body Area Networks and cloud computing

*       RFID tags for Body Area Networks

*       Security protocols for Body Area Networks

*       E-Health wireless applications

*       Body Area Networks used for patient health monitoring

IMPORTANT DATES

*	Submission due: 15 June, 2014 (extended). 
*	Notification of acceptance: 30 June, 2014. 
*	Camera-ready due: 17 July, 2014. 
*	Workshop: 22-25 September, 2014.

SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS

All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ICTH-2014
proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow
Elsevier guidelines as given in ICTH-2014 website
(http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/). The number of pages for
workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors should submit their
contributions electronically in PDF format at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=basnet2014.

The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org
<http://easychair.org> . If you have used this system before, you can use
the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair,
you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair
account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a
notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your
paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the
submission due date.

All BASNet-2014 accepted papers will be printed in the conference
proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia
Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on
www.Elsevier.com <http://www.Elsevier.com>  and on Elsevier content platform
ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available
worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters'
Conference Proceeding Citation Index
http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. 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. All accepted papers will
also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).

The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further
revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues at
ICTH'14.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

*        Bill Robertson, Dalhousie University (Canada) 

*        William Phillips, Dalhousie University (Canada)

*        Shyamala Sivakumar, Saint Mary's University (Canada)

*        Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky (USA)

*        Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University (Belgium)

*        Saad Qaiser, NUST (Pakistan)

*        Farrukh A. Khan, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia)

*        Muhammad Moid Sandhu, COMSATS IIT (Pakistan)

*        Muhammad Imran, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia)

*        Ayesha Hussain Khan, COMSATS IIT (Pakistan)

*        Umar Qasim, University of Alberta (Canada)

*        Hasan Mehmood, Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan)

*        Hai Wang, Saint Mary's University (Canada)

*        Kashif Saleem, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia)

*        Faisal Shaikh, MUET (Pakistan)

*        Amjad Gawanmeh, Concordia University (Canada)

*        Turki Alghamdi, Umm AlQura University (Saudi Arabia)

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

*        Zahoor Khan, Dalhousie University (Canada) 

*        Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS IIT (Pakistan)

 

---------------------------------------------------------

Zahoor Khan, PhD, MCSc, MSc (Computer Engineering), MSc (Electronics), BSc,
MCSE

Faculty/Postdoctoral Fellow, Internetworking Program

Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University

Halifax, NS Canada B3J 1Y9

Phone: +1-(902)-494-3571

 <http://www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan> www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan

 <mailto:Zahoor.Khan at Dal.ca> Zahoor.Khan at Dal.ca

---------------------------------------------------------

Part-time Faculty of Computing & Information Systems
Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University
Halifax, NS Canada B3H 3C3
 <mailto:Zahoor.Khan at smu.ca> Zahoor.Khan at smu.ca

------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://web.satd.uma.es/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20140531/272b2284/attachment.html>