Special Issue on: Distributed Intelligence and Data Fusion for Sensor Systems

Call for Papers

Special Issue on:
Distributed Intelligence and Data Fusion for Sensor Systems

in IET Communications (SCI Indexed)
http://scitation.aip.org/IET-COM

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Scope

Use of intelligence, data mining and data fusion has provided new momentum in 
the use of sensors and converted WSNs into a new brand of dynamic, autonomous 
and intelligent Distributed Sensor Systems. These features enable new smart 
sensors to play new roles as intelligent nodes gathering, manipulating and 
decimating data for more reliable and secure communication whilst performing 
more efficiently using less energy and number crunching.

This special issue aims at presenting innovative and signifi cant research 
papers on the design, implementation and evaluation of wireless sensors, 
especially for use of distributed intelligence and data fusion. 



Topics of primaryinterest include, but are not limited to:
 
* applications and deployment of intelligence in sensor systems and distributed 
  data fusion
* sensor networking protocols and algorithms
* sensor network management protocol and systems
* cross-layer design and sensor network management protocols
* security of distributed intelligence in sensor networks
* inter-connection between distributed sensor systems
* testbed, experimental measurements & performance analysis
* systems for context sensing and context awareness
* tools and methodologies for sensory data fusion
* QoS provisioning protocols with data fusion technology
* collaborative in-network processing and data sharing
* use of Intelligence and data in energy harvesting



IMPORTANT DATES

* Deadline for Submission of Paper:   01 July 2010
* Authors to receive a 1st decision:  30 September  2010
* Final notification of acceptance:   31 January 2011
* On-line and print publication:      Q1/Q2 2011



Paper Submission:
All papers must be submitted through the journal's Manuscript Central system:




Guest editors:
 
 Dr. Lei Shu (Corresponding)
 Nishio Lab., Department of Multimedia Engineering
 Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
 Osaka University, Japan
 E-mail: lei.shu@ieee.org
 
 Prof. Jaime Lloret Mauri
 Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
 E-mail: jlloret@dcom.upv.es

 Prof. Joel Rodrigues
 University of Beira Interior, Portugal
 E-mail: joeljr@ieee.org

 Prof. Min Chen
 Seoul National University, Korea
 E-mail: minchen@ieee.org



IET Publishing Dept. contact:
 Paul Rowley
 Editorial Assistant
 IET Communications
 E-mail: prowley@theiet.org
 
 Professor Habib F. Rashvand
 Series Editor
 IET Communications
 E-mail: h.rashvand@warwick.ac.uk

Workshop on Servise-Oriented Computing and Multi-Agent Systems (SOCMAS 2010)

   IEEE 2010 First International Workshop on Servise-Oriented Computing and Multi-Agent Systems (SOCMAS 2010)

Miami, Florida, USA, one day between July 5-10, 2010
in conjunction with SERVICES 2010

Description

The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technologies, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote the cross-fertilization between these research areas. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, flexibility, and adaptability.

List of Topics:

We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Agent Technology, Semantic Web services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems
* Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented software and Semantic Web development
* Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for multi-agent system design, development and integration
* Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes
* Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering
* Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography
* Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and delivery
* Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements
* Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and service-oriented agent systems
* Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and lessons learned
* Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution
* Ontology generation, learning and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents
* Use of agent-based technology in service-oriented computing (applications)

Important Dates

• Submission deadline 15 April 2010
• Acceptance notification April 22 2010
• Camera-ready deadline 30 April 2010
• Workshop held on 5-10 July 2010

 

Paper Submission, Review Process, and Publication

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Please note that the same paper should NOT be submitted to other conferences or events simultaneously. Such duplicate submissions will be rejected without review.

Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings Formatting Information page. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at www.servicescongress.org. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the workshop and present the paper.

Only the accepted and presented papers will appear in the CD proceedings of the workshop. It is intended to publish after workshop proceedings with Springer LNCS. Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for potential publication in the IOS Press International Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems (MAGS).

Workshop Organizers

Rainer Unland (primary contact), University of Duisburg-Essen,
Email: Rainer.Unland   at  icb.uni-due.de
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology

The 8th International Workshop on SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING (SOCASE)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 8th International Workshop on

SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING (SOCASE)

http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2010/

to be held at the 9th International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND

MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2009) Toronto Canada, May 10-14 2010,

(http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/)

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Please realize that we had to shorten the submission deadline by a week. For those who cannot make it till the 28 February we will still accept the paper till 7 March as long as we are informed about the possible paper submission till 28 February. The problem is that the AAMAS organizers need the final version of the papers by 28 February. Moreover, the deadline for early registration will end on 12 March. We will try our best to inform you about the outcome of our review process by 11 March but cannot guarantee that, especially not if we get the paper pretty late. Thus, be prepared to have to pay a slightly higher fee if you don't want to register for the workshop and AAMAS without knowing the result of the review process for your paper. Also, make sure that you can revise your paper till 28 March. This deadline cannot be extended any further.

 

Submission Deadline Acceptance Notification Final Version Submission Deadline Workshop held

28 Feb 2010 (7 March 2010 (see above)) 20 March 2010 27 March 2010 11 May 2010

 

DESCRIPTION

The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technology, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, and adaptability.

The Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE) workshop continues the theme of the previous SOCASE workshops successfully held at AAMAS’09, AAMAS’08 and AAMAS’07, the SOCABE workshops held at AAMAS’06, AAMAS’05 and the WSABE workshops held at AAMAS’04 and AAMAS’03, with an expanded theme reflecting the wide spectrum of issues of the cross section between agent-based and service-oriented paradigms.

 

TOPICS

We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Agent Technology, Semantic Web Services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems

* Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented software and

Semantic Web development

* Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for multi-agent system design, development, and integration

* Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes

* Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering

* Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography

* Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and delivery

* Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements

* Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and service-oriented agent systems

* Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and lessons learned

* Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution

* Ontology generation, hearing and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents

 

SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION

Submission is to be done electronically. The detailed instructions are provided at the SOCASE'10 web page https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=socase10.

Contact Zakaria Maamar (Zakaria.Maamar@zu.ac.ae) for help if required.

Submitted papers have a page limit of 15 pages and should be formatted according to LNCS specification. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format. Instructions and templates can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include:

Relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics. Since this is associated with the AAMAS conference, accepted papers must be of real relevance to the multi-agent research community. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Similarly to the previous years the SOCASE 2010 post-proceedings will be published with Springer’s LNCS, subject to an appropriate number and quality of submissions. A selection of best papers will also be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of the papers to a special issue of a major international journal.

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

* Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

  (point of contact: rainer.unland@icb.uni-due.de)

* Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University, Australia

* Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA

* Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE

* Quoc Bao Vo, Swinburne University, Australia

* Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Swinburne University, Australia

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

* Taleb Bendiab, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

* M. Brian Blake, University of Notre Dame, USA

* Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

* Cherif Branki, University of West Scotland - Paisley, UK

* Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

* Owen Cliffe, University of Bath, UK

* Christian Derksen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

* Frank Dignum, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

* Virginia Dignum, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

* Antonio Garcia Dominguez, University of Cadiz,

* Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany

* Christian Guttmann, Monash University, Australia

* Benjamin Hirsch, Berlin University of Technology, Germany

* Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany

* Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany

* Tim Lessner, University of Scotland - Paisley, UK

* Wathiq Mansoor, American University of Dubai, Dubai

* Lars Moench, University of Hagen, Germany

* Ganna Monakova, University of Stuttgart, Germany

* Volker Nissen, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany

* Andreas Oberweis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

* Guadalupe Ortiz-Bellot, University of Cadiz, Spain

* Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, Span

* Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK

* Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

* Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania

* Thomas Quillinan, Thales Netherlands, Netherlands

* Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA

* Sebastian Stein, University of Southampton, UK

* Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

* Ingo Timm, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

* Alexander Walz, University of Stuttgart, Germany

* Danny Weyns, K.U. Lueven, Belgium

* Franco Zambonelli, Universita' di Modena e Reggiio Emilia, Italy