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Call for Papers
SENSORNETS is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
Scope

Current developments show that in the near future the wide availability of low cost, short range radio technology, along with advances in wireless networking, will enable wireless adhoc sensor networks to become commonly deployed. In these networks, each node may be equipped with a variety of sensors, such as acoustic, seismic, infrared, motion, biomedical and chemical sensors with higher level of information inference associated with identification, embedded signal processing and networking of the data. This conference intends to be the meeting point of researchers and practitioners share experience and ideas on innovative developments in any aspect of sensor networks, including Hardware of Sensor Networks, Wireless Communication Protocols, Sensor Networks Software and Architectures, Wireless Information Networks, Data Manipulation, Signal Processing, Localization and Object Tracking through Sensor Networks, Obstacles, Applications and Uses.
Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the proceedings of SENSORNETS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in presenting a demo or lecturing a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat.

Conference Areas

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. SENSOR NETWORKS SOFTWARE AND ARCHITECTURES
2. WIRELESS INFORMATION NETWORKS
3. HARDWARE
4. DATA MANIPULATION
5. SIGNAL PROCESSING
6. OBSTACLES
7. APPLICATIONS AND USES


AREA 1: SENSOR NETWORKS SOFTWARE AND ARCHITECTURES

  • Internet of Things
  • Interoperability
  • Agent-based Simulation
  • Decision Support
  • Platforms and Operating Systems
  • Programming and Middleware
  • Connectivity and Communication
  • Scheduling, Tasking and Control
AREA 2: WIRELESS INFORMATION NETWORKS

  • Technologies and Standards
  • WiFi, ZigBee, WiMax, Bluetooth
  • Wireless Network Protocols
  • Routing Techniques
  • Network Architecture
  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Hierarchical Networks
  • Wireless Mesh Networks
  • Network Performance
  • Power Management
  • Remote Sensing and Telemetry
  • Ubiquitous Computing
AREA 3: HARDWARE

  • Hardware Design, Fabrication Techniques
  • Packaging, Testing and Reliability
  • Electronic Interfaces
  • RFID Readers and Tags
  • MEMS
  • Swarm Sensors
  • Cooperating Objects
  • Sensor Types for Chemical and Biomedical Applications
  • Electronic Nose
  • Electronic Tongue
AREA 4: DATA MANIPULATION

  • Sensor Data Fusion
  • Data Visualization
  • Multi-sensor Data Processing
  • Aggregation, Classification and Tracking
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Reasoning on Sensor Data
  • Indexing and Publishing
  • Data Quality and Integrity
AREA 5: SIGNAL PROCESSING

  • Statistical and Adaptive Signal Processing
  • Sparse Signal Processing
  • Multimedia/Audio Signal Processing
  • Coding, and Compression
  • Distributed and Collaborative Signal Processing
  • Array Processing of Nonstationary Signals
  • Neural Networks
  • DNA Computing
  • Data Mining
  • Fault Detection
AREA 6: OBSTACLES

  • Security: Vulnerability and Privacy
  • Authentication
  • Data Overload
  • Real-time Constraints
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Fault Tolerance and Diagnosis
  • Environmental Impact Reduction
  • Self-healing
  • Infrastructure Reliability
AREA 7: APPLICATIONS AND USES

  • Smart Grids and Energy Control Systems
  • Industrial and Structural Monitoring
  • Environment Monitoring
  • Gas Analysis and Sensing
  • Measurement and Control of Water
  • Well-being and Well-working
  • Smart Buildings and Smart Cities
  • Home Monitoring and Assisted Living Applications
  • Healthcare
  • Medical Imaging
  • Wireless Surveillance
  • Defense and Security
  • Vehicular Networks
  • Aeronautical
  • Sport and Leisure
  • Smart Fabrics and Wearables
Keynote Speakers
Stephen Fairclough, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Pasquale Daponte, University of Sannio, Italy
Sandro Carrara, EPFL, Switzerland
Paper Submission

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

Publications

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library .
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).

Secretariat

SENSORNETS Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8813
e-mail: sensornets.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.sensornets.org

Venue

The Sana Lisbon Hotel is situated in the Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo (close to Marquês de Pombal), within walking distance of Lisbon historical center and easily reached from Lisbon International Airport or Santa Apolónia and Gare do Oriente Train Stations.

The hotel has eleven meeting rooms which are easily transformed for either small meetings or conferences for up to 900 people.

The modern and elegant decoration of all areas of the hotel have been conceived to create an atmosphere of comfort and tranquility to all guests.

Sana Lisbon Hotel's central location and good access routes are ideal for conferences, business meetings, social events and to explore the best that Lisbon has to offer.

Conference Chair

César Benavente-Peces, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Octavian Postolache, Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands
Falah Ali, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Program Committee

David Bell, Brunel University, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Borycki, University of Victoria, Canada
Erik Buchmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Universität Karlsruhe), Germany
Marius Calin Silaghi, Florida Institute of Technology, United States
Damiano Carra, University of Verona, Italy
Luca Caviglione, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Sungrae Cho, Chung-Ang University, Korea, Republic of
Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of
Zygmunt Ciota, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Karthik Dantu, Harvard University, United States
Ilker Demirkol, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Daniel Fernandes Macedo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Athanasios Gkelias, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Paul Grace, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Yuan He, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China
Jeroen Hoebeke, UGent-IBCN, Belgium
Wei-Chiang Hong, Oriental Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Abdelmajid Khelil, Huawei Research, Germany
Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
Evangelos  Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada
Torsten Kroeger, Stanford University, United States
Walter Lang, University of Bremen, Germany
Pierre Leone, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Errol Lloyd, University of Delaware, United States
Anita Lloyd Spetz, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
Gianfranco Manes, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Andrew Markham, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Francisco Martins, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
René Meier, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Florian Michahelles, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Saurabh Mittal, Dunip Technologies, United States
Nathalie Mitton, INRIA Lille Nord Europe, France
Parag Mogre, Siemens AG, Germany
Eric  Msechu, University of Minnesota , United States
Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada
Chris Nugent, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Cyril Onwubiko, Research Series Ltd, United Kingdom
Vasile Palade, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Animesh Pathak, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique INRIA, France
Edzer Pebesma, University of Münster, Germany
Parag Pendharkar , Pennsylvania State University, United States
Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Patrick Pons, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systèmes, France
Jorge Sá Silva, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Rik Sarkar, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jurek Sasiadek, Carleton University, Canada
Michael Segal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Sabrina Sicari, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi, Babes-Bolyai University , Romania
Ingo Simonis, International Geospatial Services Institute Ltd, Germany
Elvino Silveira Medina De Sousa, University of Toronto, Canada
Mu-Chun Su, National Central University, Taiwan
Petr  Svenda, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Jo Ueyama, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
B. V. Babu , JK Lakshmipat University (JKLU), Jaipur, India, India
Rolland Vida, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Lei Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Wenwu Wang, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Denis Fernando Wolf, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Lawrence Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Xiuchao Wu, University College Cork, Ireland
Hui Wu, University of New South Wales, Australia
Wang Zhi,  Zhejiang University, China

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