[agents] CfP: Special Session on Urban Sensing at ISCIS 2011

[Lotzi Boloni]

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Call for papers: Special Session on Urban Sensing at the 26th
International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS
2011)

The 26th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences
(ISCIS 2011) will be held in London at the Royal Society, on September
26-28, 2011 and is organised by Imperial College.

We are calling for papers on a special session focusing on urban sensing.

The emergence of the smartphones as a multi-purpose computing platform
has been one of the most exciting technological developments of recent
years. These devices have a computing power which several years ago
was associated with desktop computers, and have a collection of
integrated sensors ranging from cameras and arrays of microphones to
GPS, accelerometers and gyroscopes. They often maintain a permanent
infrastructure-based internet connection, but they can also
participate in peer-to-peer communication using WiFi in infrastructure
or ad-hoc mode, Bluetooth and near-field communication. The always on
/ always available usage pattern of these devices ensures that their
penetration and mobility follows that of their users, providing full
coverage of the urban areas of the developed world, and rapidly
expanding to the developing countries.

Urban sensing is an emergent field of computing which takes advantage
of these capabilities to develop applications with high social and
economic value.

We are requesting high quality, research or applications papers on
topics associated with urban sensing. Papers which dealing with the
following aspects are especially encouraged:

The sensing aspect: What type of observations can the sensor make and
how can the data be collected and validated? How can we draw
inferences, make predictions and take actions based on the collected
data? Distributed approaches which store and process the data
in-network are of a special interest.

The social aspect: What is the relationship of the owner of the
smartphone to the data and to the other participants? How are the
interests of the providers of the services and beneficiaries of the
services reconciled? Approaches based on both altruistic (e.g. citizen
computing) and self-interested (e.g. market based) models are of
interest. What is the relationship between the collaboration implied
by urban sensing to the social networks of the participants? Agent
based models of the social and cultural aspects of urban sensing are
of special interest.

The networking aspect: What are the networking architecture
implications of urban sensing? What are the relative benefits of peer
to peer vs. infrastructure based communication? Investigations into
non-traditional communication technologies - such as proximity based
or opportunistic communication are especially encouraged.

The security and privacy aspect: What are the security and privacy
risks associated by participating in urban sensing? What attack
scenarios can a malicious participant use to falsify the resulting
data and how can the system defend against such attacks? How can we
negotiate the trade-off between the privacy cost and societal benefits
of applications?

Authors are invited to submit original research papers that have not
been published or submitted elsewhere. All papers will be peer
reviewed and evaluated on the basis of technical quality, relevance,
significance, and clarity. The Proceedings of ISCIS 2011 will be
published in the Springer Lecture Notes notes on Electrical
Engineering, known as LNEE. Also, an extended and revised version of
the best papers will be considered for publication in The Computer
Journal.

Please submit your paper via Easy Chair at the following web address:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iscis2011


The authors should add the keyword "Urban sensing" to the submission.
Session Organizers: Ladislau Bölöni and Damla Turgut

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Lotzi Bölöni, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of EECS,  University of Central Florida
lboloni at eecs.ucf.edu
http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~lboloni
tel: 1-407-823-2320     fax: 1-407-823-5835