[agents] CFP - The Third International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT

Sun Jan 4 22:03:29 EST 2009

The Third International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT'09)
6-7 May 2009, Milan, Italy
http://www.iceis.org/Workshops/iwrt/iwrt2009-cfp.htm

In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'09)

Workshop Background and Goals
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are emerging as one of the most pervasive computing technologies due to their low cost and their broad applicability. RFID systems consist of tiny integrated circuits equipped with antennas (RFID tags) that communicate with their reading devices (RFID readers) using radio-frequency waves without line of sight. This creates tremendous opportunities for linking various objects from real world. These objects are numbered, identified, cataloged, and tracked. RFID systems present many advantages and features that cannot be found in other ubiquitous computing environments. RFID communication is fast, convenient and its application can substantially save time, improve services, reduce labor cost, thwart product counterfeiting and theft, increase productivity gains and maintain quality standards. Common applications range from highway toll collection, supply chain management, public transportation,controlling building access, animal tracking, developing smart home appliances and remote keyless entry for automobiles to locating children. 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. 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, RFID systems present a number of inherent vulnerabilities with serious potential security implications. Indeed, 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. RFID systems are vulnerable to a broad range of malicious attacks ranging from passive eavesdropping to active interference. RFID privacy and security are stimulating research areas that involve rich interplay among many disciplines, such as 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
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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
Intrusion Detection in RFID systems
Behavior analysis
Situation awareness 

Submission and Review of Papers
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All papers must be written in English. 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 invited to supply a response to the reviewers' comments. The paper selection will be based on both reviewers' comments and authors' responses. 

Format of the Workshop
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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
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Best papers of the workshop will be considered for further publication in a forthcoming Special issue of a well-known international journal planned shortly after the workshop.

Workshop Co-Chairs
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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, USA
szeadally at udc.edu

Dr. Katerina Mitrokotsa
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
A.Mitrokotsa at TUDelft.nl

Workshop Publicity Chair
Yanbo Wu, The University of Adelaide, Australia

Workshop Program Committee
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Thierry Bodhuin, University of Sannio, Italy
Leonid Bolotnyy, University of Virginia, USA
Mike Burmester, Florida State University, USA
Mark Cameron, CSIRO ICT Center, Australia
Hesham El-Sayed, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Rajit Gadh, UCLA, USA
Sozo Inoue, Kyushu University, Japan
Behnam Jamali, Auto-ID Lab, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Roger Jiao, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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
Tom Karygiannis, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
John Mo, RMIT University, Australia
Jukka Riekki, University of Oulu, Finland
Nicolas Sklavos, University of Patras, Greece
Fusheng Wang, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK
Holger Ziekow, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany

Important Dates
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Paper Submission: February 6, 2009
Author Notification: March 6, 2009
Camera-Ready and Registration: March 17, 2009

Workshop Venue
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The workshop will be held in conjunction of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise 
Information Systems (ICEIS 2009) in Milan, Italy.

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 2009 Secretariat - The Third International Workshop on RFID Technology (IWRT 2009)
E-mail: workshops at iceis.org
Web site: http://www.iceis.org 