[agents] [CFP] CitiSen 2012 @ ECAI

[Daniel Villatoro]

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             Call for Papers: CitiSen 2012
       Workshop on Citizen Sensor Networks
       http://sites.google.com/site/citisen2012
27th or 28th of August, 2012, Montpellier/France
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In conjunction with the 20th European Conference on Artificial 
Intelligence (ECAI) 2012

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline:  May 28th, 2012
Notification of acceptance: June 28th, 2012
Camera ready versions due: July 12nd, 2012
Workshop: August 27th, 2012

PRESENTATION:

The meeting of researchers from sensor networks, distributed 
intelligence and the social, economic or organizational sciences is of 
crucial importance for the future of citizen sensor networks. The 
multidisciplinary interactions for this area of research are extensively 
recognized for its role in cross-fertilization, and it has undoubtedly 
been an important source of inspiration for the body of knowledge that 
has been produced in the distributed artificial intelligence. The 
Citizen Sensor Network workshop is born with the goal of bringing 
together researchers interested in distributed engineering, with 
researchers focused on finding efficient solutions to problems where the 
data acquisition is produced in a decentralized manner, representing 
complex social systems.
In several areas of research (such areas as economics, management, 
organizational, telecommunications and social sciences),  sensor 
networks have converged with social systems becoming a innovative area 
of study, that will allow to the behavioral explanation and prediction 
of such systems, and allowing the development and construction of better 
designs and systems.

Topics of interest include everything involving Citizen Sensor Networks. 
Some examples are the following:

standards for CSN
methodologies and simulation languages for CSN
simulation platforms and tools for CSN
visualization and analytic tools
approaches for large-scale CSN
scalability and robustness in CSN
crowdsourcing and 'the wisdom of the crowd'
Multimedia information management in CSN
Privacy technologies in CSN
Data mining algorithms for CSN
Uncertainty and incomplete information management in CSN
CSN in environmental modeling
CSN in geo-localization tools
CSN in web services

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Long papers must not exceed SIX (6) pages in camera-ready format for 
CITI-SEN. Over-length submissions will be rejected without review. 
Papers for CitiSen 2012 should be submitted using the ECAI formatting 
style; details of the style are available at:

http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/$\sim$luc.deraedt/ecai2012-style.zip

This file unpacks to a directory "ecai2012", and contains LaTeX and 
other style files. The file "ecai2012.tex" is an example paper in LaTeX 
  format  using  the appropriate styles, and can be used as a template 
for CitiSen 2012 submissions. A Microsoft Word template is also available.

Reviewing for CitiSen 2012 will be blind: reviewers will not be 
presented with the identity of paper authors. To allow for blind review, 
author names in a submitted paper should be replaced by the unique 
tracking number assigned by the conference website at the submission of 
an electronic abstract. Authors should avoid writing anything that makes 
their identity obvious in the text.

Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously 
have been formally published. (Any publication venue with an ISBN or 
ISSN number counts as a formal publication; this includes LNCS/LNAI 
volumes, for example.) Submissions should not be submitted elsewhere 
during the CITI-SEN 2012 review phase.

In addition we intend to publish the accepted papers, after a further 
reviewing process, in Springer-Verlag's LNAI, with the title "Citizen 
Sensor Networks, 1st International Workshop, Montpellier, France, August 
2012, Revised Papers". The preliminary schedule for the post-proceedings 
process will be announced soon.

SUPPORT FOR PARTICIPANTS COMING FROM TRANSITION COUNTRIES

Thanks to support from the UNESCO Chair in Data 
Privacy({http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/), we are able to
offer grants to offset some of the costs associated with attending the
CITI-SEN 2012 workshop for participants coming from "transition 
countries". Interested participants
please send a mail with your vitae to nin at ac.upc.edu. Further 
information at http://sites.google.com/site/citisen2012/

Further information at http://sites.google.com/site/citisen2012

We hope you can participate in this event!

Best regards,

Jordi Nin
Daniel Villatoro
Chairmen of the Organizing Committee