[agents] CFP - IWRT'2008 - New Submission Deadline March 14

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IWRT'2008 - New Submission Deadline March 14

The Second International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts,
Applications, Challenges (IWRT'08)
12-13 June 2008, Barcelona, Spain

http://www.iceis.org/workshops/iwrt/iwrt2008-cfp.html

In conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Enterprise
Information Systems (ICEIS'08)

***The workshop papers will be indexed in DBLP and the selected best
papers will be invited to publish an extended version in a Special issue
of Information Systems Frontiers (Springer, to be approved).

Workshop Background and Goals
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a wireless communication
technology that uses radio-frequency waves 
to transfer information between tagged objects and readers without line
of sight. This creates tremendous opportunities 
for linking various objects from real world. These objects are numbered,
identified, catalogued, and tracked. 
In recent years, RFID has gained a significant momentum and is emerging
as an important technology for revolutionizing 
a wide range of applications including supply chain management, retail,
aircraft maintenance, anti-counterfeiting, 
baggage handling, healthcare, just to cite some. In addition, RFID
technology also offers a viable approach to implement physical user
interfaces. The services available in the local environment are
advertised by RFID tags. The users browse the services and activate the
desired service by simply touching the corresponding tag with a mobile
terminal that is equipped with an RFID reader. In the near future, these
user interfaces would introduce RFID tags into our everyday lives. 

While RFID provides promising benefits such as inventory visibility and
business process automation, some significant challenges need to be
overcome before these benefits can be realized. One important issue is
how to process and manage RFID data, which is typically in large volume,
noisy and unreliable, time-dependent, dynamically changing, and of
varying ownership. Another issue is how to seamlessly  integrate
low-level RFID data into (existing) enterprise information
infrastructures (e.g., upper-level business processes). Finally, given
the ability of inexpensively tagging and thus monitoring a large number
of items and/or people, RFID raises some serious security and privacy
concerns. Indeed, RFID privacy and security are stimulating research
areas that involve rich interplay among many disciplines, like signal 
processing, hardware design, supply-chain logistics, privacy rights, and
cryptography.

The workshop's objective is to provide a forum for researchers,
practitioners, and users to exchange new ideas, developments, and
experience on issues related to this emerging field.

Topics of Interest
----------------------
We welcome papers that focus on novel RFID technologies and
applications. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

• Data management issues in RFID applications
• Innovative RFID-enabled applications
• RFID and physical user interfaces
• Security/privacy and RFID
• RFID and sensor networks
• Web services and RFID
• RFID and semantic Web
• RFID standards
• RFID case studies and field trials
• RFID middleware
• Next generation RFID technologies
• Commercial experience with RFID
• RFID network management
• COTS and Open Source RFID infrastructure
• Integration of RFID with other applications
• Performance evaluation
• Business process redesign and RFID

Submission and Review of Papers
--------------------------------
All papers must be written in English. There will be two types of
papers: long (approx. 5000 words) and short (approx. 2000 words). Papers
should be prepared in postscript, PDF, or Word and should be submitted
through ICEIS web-based paper submission system.

All the submitted papers will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. We
will also implement a rebuttal phase during the paper selection process.
Authors will be The paper selection will be based on both reviewers' comments and
authors' responses. 

Format of the Workshop
------------------------
The workshop will consist of oral presentations. The proceedings of the
workshop will be published in the form of a book by INSTICC Press and
indexed in DBLP.

Journal Publication
--------------------
A Special issue of the International Journal of Internet Protocol
Technology containing selected best papers of the previous workshop
(IWRT'07) was published
(http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=144&year=2007&vol=2&issue=3/4).
We plan to publish extended versions of selected best papers of IWRT'08
in a special issue of Information Systems Frontiers (Springer, to be
approved). 

Workshop Co-Chairs
-------------------------
Dr. Michael Sheng
School of Computer Science
The University of Adelaide
Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
qsheng at cs.adelaide.edu.au

Dr. Zakaria Maamar
College of Information Technology 
Zayed University
Po Box 19282, Dubai,U.A.E
Zakaria.Maamar at zu.ac.ae

Dr. Sherali Zeadally
Department of Computer Science and Information Technology
University of the District of Columbia 
Washington DC, USA
E-mail: szeadally at udc.edu

Dr. Mark Cameron
Information Engineering Lab
CSIRO ICT Center
Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Mark.Cameron at csiro.au

Workshop Program Committee
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Zaheer Asif, Temple University, USA
Thierry Bodhuin, University of Sannio, Italy
Leonid Bolotnyy, University of Virginia, USA
Paul Brebner, National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA), Australia
Mark Cameron, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Hesham El-Sayed, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Rajit Gadh, UCLA, USA
Sozo Inoue, Kyushu University, Japan
Roger Jiao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mohamed Latrach, ESEO, France
Xue Li, The University of Queensland, Australia
Weifa Liang, The Australian National University, Australia
Tao Lin, SAP Research, USA
Zongwei Luo, University of Hong Kong, China
Paris Kitsos, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Abdelhamid Mellouk, University Paris XII, France
John Mo, RMIT University, Australia
Damith Ranasinghe, Auto-ID Lab, University of Cambridge, UK
Melanie Rieback, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jukka Riekki, University of Oulu, Finland
Quan Z. Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Nicolas Sklavos, University of Patras, Greece
Fusheng Wang, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK
Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA
Holger Ziekow, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany

Important Dates
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Paper Submission: March 3, 2008
Author Notification: April 7, 2008
Final Camera-Ready and Registration: April 17, 2008

Workshop Venue
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The workshop will be held in conjunction of the 10th International
Conference on Enterprise 
Information Systems (ICEIS 2008) in Barcelona, Spain.

Registration Information
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At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop.
The registration 
information can be found from  http://www.iceis.org

Secretariat
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ICEIS 2008 Secretariat - The Second International Workshop on RFID
Technology (IWRT 2008)
E-mail: workshops at iceis.org
Web site: http://www.iceis.org 