Workshop on Mobile Location-Aware Sensor Networks
May 13, 2006, Nara, Japan
in conjunction with MDM 2006 Conference
Aim of the workshop
The aim of this one-day workshop is to discuss novel approaches between leading researchers in the area of mobile location-aware sensor networks.Mobile location-aware sensor networks are rapidly emerging as the next ubiquitous technology for a wide range of applications. Applications include: systems that route traffic using real-time data monitored by sensor-enabled cars; emergency management systems that can be used in disasters such as bush fires; support systems that can inform hikers about areas with a high risk of land slides due to recent weather conditions; health systems that can alert people suffering from asthma or pollen allergies nearing a region of currently high pollen density; and guidance systems warning travelers visiting a city about areas with a documented record of crime at a given time of the day.
Timely location information is becoming one of the key features in
these
systems. This workshop aims to address the main challenges in mobile
location-aware sensor networks, such as efficient location-aware data
and query dissemination algorithms, update strategies for
disseminating relevant information under space-time constraints, local
data aggregation methods at sensor instead of gateway level,
localized decision making mechanisms for data and query dissemination,
distributed indexing, techniques for exploring spatio-temporal data
streams, and algorithms for safeguarding location privacy.
Scope
The scope of this workshop includes but is not limited to the
following topics:
- Location tracking
- Location-aware dissemination algorithms
- In-network query processing
- Location-aware query optimization
- Location-aware distributed indexing
- Spatially-enabled data mining techniques
- Spatio-temporal query languages
- Privacy algorithms for sensor networks
- Visualization of mobile sensor data
- Software architectures for mobile sensor networks
Program Chairs
- Silvia Nittel, University of Maine (nittel at spatial.maine.edu)
- Lars Kulik, University of Melbourne (lars at csse.unimelb.edu.au)
- Egemen Tanin, University of Melbourne (egemen at csse.unimelb.edu.au)
Program Committee
- Amr El Abbadi, University of California at Santa Barbara
- Demet Aksoy, University of California at Davis
- Walid Aref, Purdue University
- Kasim Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University
- Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University
- Matt Duckham, University of Melbourne
- Max Egenhofer, University of Maine
- Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University
- Ralf Hartmut Güting, Fernuniversität Hagen
- Vana Kalogeraki, University of California at Riverside
- Rao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne
- Alex Labrinidis, University of Pittsburg
- Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore
- Dieter Pfoser, Computer Technology Institute, Athens
- Hanan Samet, University of Maryland at College Park
- Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California
- Yoh Shiraishi, University of Tokyo
- Agnes Voisard, Fraunhofer ISST, Berlin
- Stephan Winter, University of Melbourne
- Mike Worboys, University of Maine
- Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University
- Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland
Paper Submissions
All submissions must be original unpublished work written in English that is currently not under review at another venue. We are interested in two types of submissions: full papers of approximately 5000 words and short papers of approximately 1000 words. Short papers can be work-in-progress as well as position statements. All papers must be submitted in PDF format as an email to mlasn06 at csse.unimelb.edu.au. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and selected papers will be considered for a special issue of GeoInformatica.Important Dates
| Submission deadline: | February 17, 2006 |
| Notifications: | March 24, 2006 |
| Camera-ready papers: | April 9, 2006 |
| Workshop date: | May 13, 2006 |