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ALGOSENSORS 06

http://ru1.cti.gr/algosensors06/

Date of event: July 15, 2006
Submission deadline: May 2, 2006

ALGOSENSORS 06:

International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks

July 15 2006, Venice, Italy

To be held in conjunction with ICALP 2006

http://ru1.cti.gr/algosensors06/

SCOPE

Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks have recently become a very active
research subject due to their high potential of providing diverse services
to numerous important applications, including remote monitoring and
tracking in environmental applications and low maintenance ambient
intelligence in everyday life. The effective and efficient realization of
such large scale, complex ad-hoc networking environments requires
intensive, coordinated technical research and development efforts,
especially in power aware, scalable, robust wireless distributed
protocols, due to the unusual application requirements and the severe
resource constraints of the sensor devices.

On the other hand, a solid foundational background seems necessary for
sensor networks to achieve their full potential. It is a challenge for
abstract modelling, algorithmic design and analysis to achieve provably
efficient, scalable and fault-tolerant realizations of such huge,
highly-dynamic, complex, non-conventional networks. Features including the
extremely large number of sensor devices in the network, the severe power,
computating and memory limitations, their dense, random deployment and
frequent failures, pose new interesting abstract modeling, algorithmic
design, analysis and implementation challenges.

This Workshop aims to bring together research contributions related to
diverse algorithmic aspects of wireless sensor networks.

TOPICS

Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including (but not
limited to):

Models of sensor networks
Methods for ad hoc deployment/topology control
Energy management
Data propagation and routing
Localization
Tracking
Data aggregation/data compression
Obstacle avoidance
Power saving schemes
Communication protocols
Medium access control
Security and trust
Distributed computing issues

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Prof. P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Jose Rolim, U. of Geneva, Switzerland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Azzedine Boukerche, U. of Ottawa, Canada
Costas Busch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Andrea Clementi, U. of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Josep Diaz, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain
Tassos Dimitriou, Athens Information Technology, Greece
Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion U., Israel
Deborah Estrin, UCLA, USA
Alfredo Ferro, U. of Catania, Italy
Stefan Fischer, U. of Luebeck, Germany
Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS, U. Paris-Sud, France
Jorge Garcia-Vidal, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain
Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Chulalongkorn U., Thailand
Christos Kaklamanis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Jan van Leeuwen, U. of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Alberto Marchetti Spaccamela, U. of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Sotiris Nikoletseas (Co-Chair), U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
Pekka Orponen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Pino Persiano, U. of Salerno, Italy
Jose Rolim (Co-Chair), U. of Geneva, Switzerland
Christian Schindelhauer, U. of Paderborn, Germany
Paul Spirakis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers U., Sweden
Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jiri Wiedermann, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Manos Varvarigos, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Chair, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Athanasios Kinalis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Giorgos Mylonas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be published in a hardcopy Proceedings Volume by the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series of Springer Verlag. The
Volume will be pubished as a Post-Proceedings: authors will have the
opportunity to take advantage of the discussion at the event and
revise/finalize their papers before submitting camera ready versions.

TCS JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

Selected high quality papers will be considered for publication in a
Special Issue on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks of the
Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Journal.

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished
research in the topics related to the workshop. Papers should not exceed
twelve (12) pages of text using at least 11 point size type, including
references, figures, tables, etc. Additional material may be added at a
clearly marked Appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program
Committee Members.

Authors must submit their papers electronically via EDAS
(http://edas.info/).

All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the
authors.

Authors need to make sure that for each accepted paper at least one author
will attend the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Deadline: May 2, 2006
Author Notification: May 30, 2006
Camera Ready Manuscript Due: July 27, 2006