The Second International Symposium on
Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart Worlds (UISW2005)

Nagasaki, Japan, December 6-7, 2005

in conjunction with the IFIP International Conference on Embedded And Ubiquitous Computing (EUC'2005)

** The 175 submissions  were received from 20 countries **

THEMES
Following ubiquitous computers, networks, information, services, etc., is a road towards a smart world (SW) created on both cyberspaces and real spaces. A SW is mainly characterized by ubiquitous intelligence (UI) or computational intelligence pervasive in the physical world, filled with ubiquitous intelligent or smart real things, that are capable of computing, communicating, and behaving smartly with some intelligence. One of the profound implications of such ubiquitous smart things is that various kinds and levels of intelligence will exist ubiquitously in everyday objects, environments, systems and even ourselves, and possibly be extended from man-made to natural things. "Ubicomp" or "percomp" can be regarded as the computing of all these intelligent/smart real things, i.e., u-things, that are essential elements and components of the SW.

A smart thing can be endowed with different levels of intelligence, and may be context-aware, active, interactive, reactive, proactive, assistive, adaptive, automated, sentient, perceptual, cognitive, autonomic and/or thinking. Intelligent/smart things is an emerging research field covering many disciplines. A series of grand challenges exist to move from the ubiquitous world with universal services of any means/place/time to the SW of trustworthy services with the right means/place/time. UISW2005 is a successor of the 1st International Workshop on Ubiquitous Smart Worlds (USW2005) held at Taipei in March, and offers a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in developing intelligent/smart objects, environments, and systems as well as discuss various personal/social/physical issues faced by UI and SWs.

TOPICS
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

1. Intelligent/Smart Objects

• Electronic Label, Card, E-Tag and RFID
• Embedded Chips, Sensor & Actuator
• MEMS, NEMS, Mote & Biometric Device
• Everyday Goods, Artifacts, Robot, etc.
• Smart Appliance and Wearable Device
• Material, Textile, Cloth, Furniture, etc.
• Emerging Intelligent/Smart Objects
• Embedded Software and Agents

2. Intelligent/Smart Environments

• Room, Home, Office, Laboratory, etc.
• Building, Library, School, Campus, etc.
• Shop, Clinic, Hospital and Health Care
• Street, Yard, Park, Ground, City, etc.
• Vehicle, Road, Traffic & Transportation
• Land, Pool, Space and Hyperspacs
• Learning, Sport, Entertainment, etc.
• Novel Intelligent/Smart Applications

3. Intelligent/Smart Systems

• Sensor, Ad Hoc & Intelligent Network
• Knowledge Representation and Ontology
• Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems
• OS, Middleware and Intelligent Association
• Intelligent Service Architecture, Grid & Mesh
• Massive Agents, Amorphous/Spray Systems
• Proactive, Autonomic and Organic Systems
• Novel Intelligent/Smart Systems

4. Personal/Social/Physical Aspects

• Real/Cyber World Modeling and Semantics
• End-User Interface, Control & Programming
• Social/Natural/Physical Model of UI & SW
• User/Object Identity and Activity Recognition
• Security, Privacy, Trust and Legal Issues
• Emotional, Ethical and Psychological Factors
• Implication and Impact of UI and SW
• Relations between Real and Cyber Worlds

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline:   June 20,  July 4, 2005
Authors Notification:    August 15, 2005
Final Manuscript Due:  September 15, 2005

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION
Submission of a paper should be regarded as assurance that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the work. Prepare your paper not more than 12 pages in PDF file (Adobe format) with using Springer-Verlag LNCS style (instructions and templates are available here). Send your paper to our web site:

http://www.ubiquitous-intelligence.org/conf/uisw2005
or
http://cis.k.hosei.ac.jp/~jianhua/conf/uisw2005

SUBMISSION NOTIFICATION
When you submit a paper, please send an e-mail to uisw2005@malab.k.hosei.ac.jp with the following information: paper ID number (assigned by the online submission system), paper title, author's name, postal address, email address, abstract, and keywords. Please specify your email subject as "UISW2005 paper submission".

PAPER PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be published as proceedings by Springer's Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS). Distinguished papers will be revised and published in the International Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI), and the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC).

General Co-Chairs

Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Program Co-Chairs

Victor Callaghan, University of Essex, UK
Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, Japan
Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China

Advisory Committee

Makoto Takizawa (Co-Chair), Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
Moon Hae Kim (Co-Chair), Konkuk University, Korea
Hitoshi Aida, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Tech., Japan
Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan
Minyi Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan
Ali R. Hurson, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Haruhisa Ichikawa, NTT Network Innovation Lab., Japan
Kane Kim, University of California, Irvine, USA
Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores Univ., UK
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Tae-Woo Park, AFOSR/AOARD, USA
Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Jhing-Fa Wang, Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

Program Committee

Marios C. Angelides, Brunel University, UK
Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, UK
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., HK
Genci Capi, Fukuoka Institute of Tech., Japan
Chih-Yung Chang, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Han-Chieh Chao, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK
Vipin Chaudhary, Wayne State University, USA
Zixue Cheng, The University of Aizu, Japan
Ken Jen-Shiun Chiang, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Xavier Defago, JAIST, Japan
Lawrence Y. Deng, St. Jon’s & Mary’s Inst. of Tech., Taiwan
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Marios D. Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Michael Ditze, University of Paderborn, Germany
Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA
Frank Golatowski, University of Rostock, Germany
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Naohiro Hayashibara, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Aiguo He, The University of Aizu, Japan
Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada
Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Chung-Ming Huang, Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan
Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan
Tsung-Chuan Huang, Nat. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Taiwan
Jason C. Hung, Northern Taiwan Inst. of Sci. and Tech., Taiwan
Ren-Hung Hwang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Jadwiga Indulska, Univ. of Queensland, Australia
Xiaohong Jiang, Tohoku University, Japan
Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
Chung-Ta King, National TsingHua University, Taiwan
Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan
Stan Kurkovsky, Columbus State University, USA
Choonhwa Lee, Hanyang University, Korea
Wonjun Lee, Korea University, Korea
Hong-Va Leong, HongKong Polytechnic Univ., HK
Jiandong Li, Xidian University, China
Fuhua Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada
Alex Zhaoyu Liu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Beniamino Di Martino, Second Univ. of Naples, Italy
Geyong Min, University of Bradford, U.K
Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia
Thomas Noel, University Louis Pasteur, France and Keio Univ., Japan
Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
Aaron J. Quigley, University College Dublin, Ireland
Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Jae-cheol Ryou, Chungnam National Univ., Korea
Hiroki Saito, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
David Simplot-Ryl, Univ. Lille 1, France
Alexei Sourin, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, Canada
Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
Tsutomu Terada, Osaka University, Japan
Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense Univ. of Madrid, Spain
Cho-li Wang, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Li-Chun Wang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Ying-Hong Wang, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Chaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China
Jie Wu, Florida Altanlic University, USA
Bin Xiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong
Yang Xiao, University of Memphis, USA
Lu Yan, Turku Centre for Computer Science, Finland
Chu-Sing Yang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
George Yee, National Research Council, Canada
Masao Yokota, Fukuoka Institute of Tech., Japan
Takaichi Yoshida, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Jon (Jong-Hoon) Youn, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Muhammed Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Ming Yu, State Univ. of New York at Binghamton, USA
Salim Zabir, Panasonic R&D, Japan
Guozhen Zhang, Waseda University, Japan
Jingyuan (Alex) Zhang, University of Alabama, USA
Qiangfu Zhao, The University of Aizu, Japan
Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA

For further questions please send your email to

uisw2005@malab.k.hosei.ac.jp

Victor Callaghan (vic@essex.ac.uk)
Tomoya Enokido (eno@ris.ac.jp)
Hai Jin (hjin@hust.edu.cn)
Jianhua Ma (jianhua@k.hosei.ac.jp)
Laurence T. Yang (lyang@stfx.ca)