[agents] Third International Workshop on Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks

[Anis Koubaa (COINS)]

Call for Papers
RoboSense 2014
The Third International Workshop on Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks
Hasselt, Belgium, June 2 - 5, 2014.

http://robosense.coins-lab.org <http://robosense.coins-lab.org>

Highlight: Best selected papers will be invited to submit an extended
version of their papers to the special edition of Springer Book on
³Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks².

Overview
Mobile robots and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have enabled great
potentials and a large space for ubiquitous and pervasive applications.
Robotics and WSNs have mostly been considered as separate research fields
and little work has investigated the marriage between these two
technologies. However, these two technologies share several features, enable
common cyber-physical applications and provide complementary support to each
other. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from
academia, and industry working in to both robotics and sensor networks areas
to present and discuss recent advances and innovative ideas pertaining to
these fields. Papers dealing with the coupling between robots and sensor
networks are particularly sought.
The workshop also looks for contributions about cyber-physical applications
based on robotics and sensor networks, such as intelligent transportation
systems, healthcare monitoring, industrial automation, etc. The workshop
will provide a relaxed forum to present and discuss new ideas, new research
directions and to review current trends in these areas.
The workshop will be based on short presentations that should encourage
discussions among the attendees. Statements which are innovative,
controversial or that present new approaches are specially sought.

RoboSense 2014 will be held in conjunction with the 5th International
Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2014
<http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/> ) in Hasselt, Belgium, June
02-05, 2014.

Important Dates
* Paper Submission: Janurary 28, 2014
* Notification of Acceptance: February 28, 2014
* Final Manuscript: March 28, 2013


Springer Special Edition
Best selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their
papers to the special edition of Springer Book on ³Cooperative Robots and
Sensor Networks²(Third Edition). Publication of the Springer book is
expected to be on Dec 2014.
The first edition of the special issue on Cooperative Robots and Sensor
Networks book is already published by Springer in 2013.

Publication 
 
All workshops accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings
published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science
series.

Program Committee (in progress)
Kemal Akkaya (Southern Illinois University, USA)
Hachemi Bennaceur (Al-Imam Mohamed bin Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Omar Cheikhrouhou (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Alaa Khamis (German University in Cairo, Egypt/Vestec, Inc. Waterloo,
Canada)
Alessandro Renzaglia (University of Minnesota, USA)
Stefano Tennina (CISTER Research Unit, Portugal)
Fumin Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)