[agents] DroNet 2015 (co-located with MobiSys 2015) - NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE (March 10, 2015)

[Karin Anna Hummel]

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*                          Call for Papers
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*                            DroNet 2015
*                          1st Workshop on
*       Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications
*                         for Civilian Use
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*         http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015/workshops/DroNet/
*           (organized in conjunction with ACM MobiSys 2015)
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*                          Florence, Italy
*                            May 18, 2015
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*               Submissions due (NEW DEADLINE): March 10, 2015
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*               Please register submissions before due date!
*              Paper authors may update papers until due date!
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OVERVIEW
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Micro and nano aerial vehicles (MAVs and NAVs), often referred to as 
drones, are unmanned aerial vehicles of various forms, such as small 
quadrocopters, airplanes, balloons, or tiny flapping wing vehicles. They 
are novel mobile unmanned systems currently investigated in various 
mission-oriented civilian applications. Recent popular applications 
employing MAVs are 3D-mapping, search and rescue, surveillance, farmland 
and construction monitoring, delivery of light-weight objects and 
products (e.g., Amazon has recently advertised their new drone delivery 
system), or video taking during sports events. Such drones are 
autonomous systems with a good awareness of their environment, provided 
by rich on board sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, lasers, 
GPS units and cameras, and embedded image processing. Nevertheless, all 
useful applications require a reliable communication link, or even rely 
on fleets of MAVs that need to coordinate their activities.

DroNet welcomes contributions dealing with communication aspects of 
micro aerial vehicles, theoretical studies, algorithm and protocol 
design for flexible aerial networks, as well as mission-oriented 
contributions dealing with requirements, constraints, safety issues, and 
regulation. We are particularly looking for papers reporting on system 
aspects and experimental results, summaries of challenges or 
advancements, measurements, or innovative applications. The program 
seeks original work of potentially interdisciplinary teams to present 
robotic work or applications focusing on the communication challenges or 
requirements to the audience.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Drone ad-hoc networks
- Micro flying systems
- Aerial communication protocol design (requirements and challenges)
- MAC and routing protocols for MAV fleets
- Theoretical analysis and models for drone networks
- Solutions for sparse and dense fleets of MAVs
- Spectrum and regulatory issues
- Mission and context-aware solutions
- Communication for drone coordination
- Mobility-aware and 3D communication
- Delay-tolerant aerial networks and ferrying approaches
- Energy-efficient operation and energy harvesting of MAVs
- Integration of MAVs in mobile, pervasive systems
- MAV-based sensor networks
- Positioning and localization
- Swarm movement, coordination, and behavior
- Autonomous flight
- Artificial intelligence techniques for drones
- Vision and object tracking
- Automated map generation
- Game, entertainment, and multimedia drone applications
- Smart cities and urban applications of MAVs
- Social good applications
- Emergency applications
- Human drone interaction
- Cooperative surveillance, smart cameras and sensors
- Acceptance, security, and privacy aspects
- Experimental results of aerial communication testbeds.

DroNet invites submission of original work not previously published or 
under review at another conference
or journal. The workshop will accept full paper, poster, and demo 
submissions. Full papers must be no longer
than 6 pages, poster and demonstration papers are limited to 2 pages. 
DroNet follows a single-blind review
process. Submissions must be submitted in PDF format and follow the 
formatting guidelines provided
at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015. The proceedings will contain 
full papers as well as poster and
demo submissions and will be published by ACM. All accepted full papers 
will be considered for the
Best Paper Award.


WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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- Kuan-Ta Chen (Academia Sinica)
- Mario Gerla (UCLA)
- Karin Anna Hummel (ETH Zurich)
- Claudio E. Palazzi (University of Padua)
- Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven)
- James J.P. Sterbenz (University of Kansas)


DEMO AND POSTER CHAIRS
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- Domenico Giustiniano (IMDEA Networks Institute)
- Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven)


TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (preliminary)
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Maha Abdallah, Pierre and Marie Curie University
Christian Bettstetter, Univ. of Klagenfurt and Lakeside Labs
Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna
Torsten Braun, University of Berne
Juan Carlos Cano, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Serge Chaumette, University of Bordeaux
Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica
Gianni Di Caro, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Guido de Croon, TU Delft
Domenico Giustiniano, IMDEA Networks Institute
Cheng Hsin Hsu, National Tsing Hua University
Dario Maggiorini, University of Milan
Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Lorenzo Marconi, University of Bologna
Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano and SICS
Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham
Kamesh Namuduri, University of North Texas
Enrico Natalizio, University of Technology of Compiègne
Elena Pagani, University of Milan
Gerard Parr, University of Ulster
Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna
Michele Rossi, Università degli Studi di Padova
Angela Schoellig, Univ. of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig
Evsen Yanmaz, Lakeside Labs


IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission deadline (paper, demo, poster): March 10, 2015 (EXTENDED)
- Notification date: March 23, 2015 (EXTENDED)
- Camera-ready due: April 2, 2015 (FIRM)
- Workshop date: May 18th, 2015
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  Karin Anna Hummel, Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.

  Communication Systems Group
  ETH Zurich

  email: karin.hummel at tik.ee.ethz.ch
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