The First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Smart Worlds

    @Tamkang University, Taipei, March 28-30, 2005@ USW2005

    in conjunction with the 19th IEEE International Conference of AINA2005

    !! The paper submission deadline is extended to October 20 !!

    THEMES
    We are stepping into a post-PC era, in which a huge number and great variety of computers with different shapes, sizes and functions will be everywhere, so ubiquitous around us and pervasive in our environment. Such vision was first depicted by Mark Weiser, and associated technologies and applications were called ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp or Ubicom) by him around 1990 and later called pervasive computing (Percom) by IBM in 1999. Although many new terms of computing, e.g., invisible computing, disappearing computing, proactive computing, autonomic computing, everyday computing, sentient computing, amorphous computing, ambient intelligence, palpable computing and so on, have appeared since 2000, they can be regarded as something driven from ubicom with some special emphasis on or extensions of some aspects in the broad 'ubiquitous' frontier.

    Cyberworld brings us to the computerized digital virtual world. Ubicom, in contrast, brings computers to the physical real world including everyday environments and ourselves. Following ubiquitous computers (UC) and ubiquitous networks (UN), is a road towards ubiquitous intelligence (UI) or a smart world (SW). This is a graceful integration of the physical world and the cyberworld, in which ambient smart environments including smart objects embedded or attached with small or tiny networked computers/processors can greet us, remind us, advise us, and help us perform many jobs automatically, precisely, promptly, trustworthily, reliably, comfortably and politely. At the same time, the resulting integration is knowing and adapting to the rich dynamic contexts of our human, social, physical environment and digital world. This workshop offers a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in developing smart objects/materials, smart spaces/environments, and related networking/middleware technologies as well as discuss personal and social issues faced by the smart world.

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

    1. Smart Object/Material

    • Smart Label, E-Tag and RFID
    • Smart Embedded Sensor and Actuator
    • Smart MEMS, NEMS & Biometric Device
    • Smart Card and Everyday Object
    • Smart Appliance and Wearable Device
    • Smart Material and Structure
    • Smart Textile, Cloth, Furniture, etc.
    • Smart Object OS and Software
    2. Smart Space/Environment
    • Smart Home, Office and School
    • Smart Library, Laboratory and Factory
    • Smart Clinic, Hospital and Health Care
    • Smart Shop, Building, Street, Park and City
    • Smart Car, Traffic and Transportation
    • Smart Space Integration and Hyperspace
    • Smart Unobtrusive and Palpable Interface
    • Smart Applications and Systems
    3. Smart Networking/Middleware
    • Power/Context Aware & Intelligent Network
    • Wearable, Personal and Body Area Network
    • Network Embedded Chip and Space Network
    • Heterogeneous Service/Media Management
    • Context Framework, Database & Middleware
    • Universal Agent and Collaboration Platform
    • Autonomic Space Management/Maintenance
    • Proactive Mechanism and Middleware
    4. Personal and Social Aspects
    • Space and Environment Modeling
    • User Identity and Activity Recognition
    • Security Framework and Policy
    • Privacy, Trust and Politeness
    • Psychological and Physiologic Factors
    • Emotional, Ethical and Legal Issues
    • Bright & Dark Sides of Smart Environment
    • Relations between Real and Cyber Worlds

    IMPORTANT DATES  
      Submission Deadline:    October 20, 2004 (Extended)
      Authors Notification:    November 16, 2004
      Final Manuscript Due:   January 1, 2005

    ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION
    Submit a full paper not more than 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts: two column, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE CS proceedings Manuscripts at the following web page: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.

    Contact author must input the following information at the USW2005 web site: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author, about 200 word abstract, and five keywords. Prepare your paper in PDF file (Adobe format), and send it to our web site.
    http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/usw/2005

    SUBMISSION NOTIFICATION
    When you submit a paper, please send an e-mail to jianhua@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 "USW2005 paper submission".

    Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance.

    PAPER PUBLICATION
    Accepted papers will be published as proceedings by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished papers will be revised and published in the International Journal of Mobile Multimedia (JMM) and International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC).

    Workshop Co-Chairs

      Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
      Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
      David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

    Advisory Co-Chairs

      Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
      Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
      Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
      Jhing-Fa Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

    Advisory and Technical Committee

      Peter Altenbernd, Darmstadt Univ. of Applied Sci., Germany
      Marios C. Angelides, Brunel University, UK
      Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
      Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
      Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong
      Stuart J. Barnes, Vic. Univ. of Wellington, New Zealand
      Eugen Borcoci, Univ. Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
      Chih-Yung Chang, Tamkang University, Taiwan
      Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK
      Vipin Chaudhary, Wayne State University, USA
      Herng-Yow Chen, Nat. Chi-Nan University, Taiwan
      Wenxi Chen, The University of Aizu, Japan
      Zied Choukair, ENST Bretagne, France
      William C. Chu, Tung-Hai University, Taiwan
      Po-Jen Chuang, Tamkang University, Taiwan
      Christos E. Constantinou, Stanford University, USA
      Michael Ditze, University of Paderborn, Germany
      Chyi-Ren Dow, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
      Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA
      Tomoya Enokido, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
      Frank Golatowski, University of Rostock, Germany
      Minyi Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan
      Jairo Gutierrez, University of Auckland, New Zealand
      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, National Sun Yat-sen Univ., Taiwan
      Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
      Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Sci. and Tech., China
      Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
      Sherif Kamel, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
      Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
      Choonhwa Lee, Hanyang University, Korea
      Wonjun Lee, Korea University, Korea
      Sheng-Tun Li, Nat. Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
      Jiandong Li, Xidian University, China
      Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore
      Kevin Liu, T-Mobile, USA
      Zhen Liu, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Japan
      Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
      Sanjay Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, USA
      Qusay H. Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada
      Beniamino Di Martino, Second Univ. of Naples, Italy
      Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia
      Max Mühlhäuser, Darmstadt Univ. of Tech., Germany
      Satoshi Nishiyama, YRP Ubiquitous Networking Lab., Japan
      Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
      Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal Univ., Brazil
      Satao Omata, Nihon University, Japan
      Yi Pan, George State University, USA
      Aaron J. Quigley, University College Dublin, Ireland
      Jae-cheol Ryou, Chungnam National University, Korea
      Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
      Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz, Austria
      Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
      Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
      Dongkyoo Shin, Sejong University, Korea
      David Simplot-Ryl, Univ. Lille 1, France
      Simon So, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
      Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, Canada
      Phillip Tse, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
      Javier García Villalba, Complutense Univ. of Madri, Spain
      Cho-li Wang, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
      Chun-Chia Wang, Kuang Wu Inst. of Tech., Taiwan
      Hui Wang, University of Aizu, Japan
      Jidong Wang, RMIT University, Australia
      Ying-Hong Wang, Tamkang University, Taiwan
      Daming Wei, The University of Aizu, Japan
      Chaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China
      Jie Wu, Florida Altanlic University, USA
      Zheng Da Wu, Bond University, Australia
      Bin Xiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
      Li Xiao, Michigan State University, USA
      David Yang, Nat. Kaohsiung Normal Univ., Taiwan
      George Yee, National Research Council, Canada
      Chi-hsiang Yeh, Queen's University, Canada
      Muhammed Younas, Coventry University, UK
      Allan Zhang, Microsoft, USA
      Jingyuan Zhang, University of Alabama, USA
      Qiangfu Zhao, The University of Aizu, Japan
      Bingbing Zhou, University of Sydney, Australia
      Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

    For further questions please contact:

      Jianhua Ma, Professor
      Faculty of Computer & Information Sciences
      Hosei University
      3-7-2, Kajino-cho, Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-8584, Japan
      Tel: +81-42-387-4540
      Fax: +81-42-387-6028
      Email: jianhua@k.hosei.ac.jp or usw2005@takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp
      or
      Katsuhiro Takata
      USW2005 Secretary
      Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences
      Hosei University, Tokyo 184-8584, Japan
      Email: takata@st0.k.hosei.ac.jp