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