[agents] RSC-2015 CFPs: The 2nd International Workshop on Robots and Sensor Clouds

[Elhadi Shakshuki]

Call for Papers
RSC 2015: The 2nd International Workshop on Robots and Sensor Clouds
August 17-20, 2015, Belfort, France.

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

Overview
In the evolving world of wireless technology and computing, there are many levels of technologies being introduced to the web. With the recent development and progress of cloud computing field, it is possible for users and machines to utilize and to share several services. The current power of robots, communication, storage, fast progress of wireless techniques, enhanced and different types of sensors, robots and sensor networks are able to take advantage of these services and provide influential solutions.

In the age of cloud computing, cloud robotics and sensor clouds are two promising paradigms. Recently, they are increasingly evolving and are likely to be the most effective way to create and monitor robotic and sensor networks applications, in particular for service robots and monitoring applications. Indeed, on the one hand, cloud robotics allow the robots to go beyond their limited processing capabilities and benefit from Internet computing resources. On the other hand, robots can be accessed from anywhere and at anytime through Web interfaces. In the same way, sensor clouds allow to access, use, monitor and interact with sensor nodes seamlessly through the Internet. Although there are several solutions already in place, many challenges remain to be investigated and tackled. RSC 2015 will be held in conjunction with the Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) Concference (MOBISPC-2015) in Belfort, France, August 17-20, 2015.

This workshop is seeking original research and position papers dealing with different aspects and issues with robots and sensor networks in cloud computing. Also, in an effort to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the challenges and opportunities to explore new research directions.
We strongly welcome submissions that include results, which advance the state-of-the-art relating to the themes of the workshop. We consider two main tracks in this workshop: Cloud Robotics and Sensor Clouds. Papers dealing with both robots and sensor networks clouds are also sought.

Important Dates

   * Paper Submission: May 1, 2015
   * Notification of Acceptance: May 16, 2016
   * Final Manuscript: June 12, 2015

Publication

All MobSPC 2015 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/procedia-computer-science> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770509>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<http://www.scopus.com/>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/<http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/procedia/procedia5.html#ShakshukiY11>).