[agents] Call for Participation: IEEE PerCom 2021

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Call for Participation: IEEE PerCom 2021

*** Early registration Deadline is February 21st, 2021 ***

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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The 19th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
PerCom 2021, Kassel, Germany, March 22 - 26, 2021

http://www.percom.org

Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society (IEEE TCCC, IEEE TCPP)

Other Sponsors: National Science Foundation, Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (ELSEVIER),
                University of Kassel

Note: In the light of the international situation of the CoVID-19 pandemic PerCom 2021 will be
held as a virtual conference (synchronous ZOOM meeting supported by GatherTown and Slack).

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*** Early Registration Deadline: February 21, 2021 ***

http://www.percom.org/participant_registration

Main Features:

*** Two keynote speeches

*** 14 Full Papers and 6 Concise Contributions - see below

*** Panel discussion session

*** Best Papers Session

*** Work-in-Progress Session

*** Industry session

*** Demonstration Session

*** PhD Forum

*** 13 Workshops - see http://www.percom.org/list_of_workshops

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Preliminary Program Outline

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March 22: Pre-conference Workshops

March 23-25: Main Conference

March 23-24: Keynotes

March 23 - 25: Industry, Demo and WiP sessions

March 23: Best Papers Session, PhD Forum

March 25: Panel

March 26: Post Conference Workshops

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Keynotes

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Keynote 1: 23 March @15.00 CET

Title; Monitoring People and their Vital Signs Using Radio Signals and Machine Learning
Speaker: Prof. Dina Katabi, MIT, USA.

Keynote 2: 24 March @15.00 CET

Title: Indoor Networks with a 6th Sense
Speaker: Dr Klaus Doppler, Nokia Bell Labs, USA

Visit http://www.percom.org/keynote_speakers  for more details

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Panel, 25 March @15.00 CET

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Panel topic: "Resilience in Urban and Critical Infrastructures: The Role of Pervasive Computing"

Panel Moderator: Prof. Max Muhlhauser, EmergenCity Center, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Panelists:

    - Prof. Christian Oberli, Chile Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN), Santiago de Chile
    - Prof. Moshe Vardi, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
    - Dr. Tina Comez, 4TU Resilience Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands
    - Prof. Christoph Holscher, FRS Future Resilient Systems, ETH Zurich / CREATE Singapore 

Visit   http://www.percom.org/panel for more detail.

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Program

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Session 1 - Pervasive computing at the edge

* MASA: Responsive Multi-DNN Inference on the Edge. B. Cox, J.M. Galjaard,
  A. Ghiassi, R. Birke, L.Y. Chen
* Density-Based Data Selection and Management for Edge Computing. H.
  Oikawa, M. Kondo
* iEdge: An IoT-assisted Edge Computing Framework (concise). H. Lee, S.
  Lee, Y.C. Lee, H. Han, S. Kang

Session 2 - Learning in pervasive environments

* FADACS: A Few-shot Adversarial Domain Adaptation Architecture for
  Context-Aware Parking Availability Sensing. W. Shao, S. Zhao, Z. Zhang,
  S. Wang, M. S. Rahaman, A. Song, F.D. Salim
* A Federated Learning Aggregation Algorithm for Pervasive Computing:
  Evaluation and Comparison. P. Lalanda, F. Portet, G. Vega, S. Ek
* Opportunistic Federated Learning: An Exploration of Egocentric
  Collaboration for Pervasive Computing Applications (concise). S. Lee, X.
  Zheng, J. Hua, H. Vikalo, C. Julien

Session 3 - Data for pervasive computing

* Data Collection Utility Maximization in Wireless Sensor Networks via
  Efficient Determination of UAV Hovering Locations. M. Chen, W. Liang,
  S.K. Das
* Lan: Learning to Augment Noise Tolerance for Self-report Survey Labels.
  S. Lin, L. Faust, N. Chawla

Session 4 - Activity recognition and tracking

* GAZEL: Runtime Gaze Tracking for Smartphones. J. Park, S. Park, H. Cha
* Deep Triplet Networks with Attention for Sensor-based Human Activity
  Recognition. B. Khaertdinov, E. Ghaleb, S. Asteriadis  
* SolAR: Energy Positive Human Activity Recognition using Solar Cells. M.M.
  Sandhu, S. Khalifa, K. Geissdoerfer, R. Jurdak, M. Portmann

Session 5 - Best Paper Candidates

* Voltaire: Precise Energy-Aware Code Offloading Decisions with Machine
  Learning. M. Breitbach, J. Edinger, S. Kaupmees, H. Trotsch, C.
  Krupitzer, C. Becker
* The Feasibility of Dense Indoor LoRaWAN Towards Passively Sensing Human
  Presence. J. Grubel, T. Thrash, D. Helal, R. Sumner, C. Hoelscher, V.
  Schinazi
* Consent-driven data use in crowdsensing platforms: When data reuse meets
  privacy-preservation. M. Brahem, N. Anciaux, V. Issarny, G. Scerri

Session 6 - Sensing

* HandRate: Heart Rate Monitoring while Simply Holding a Smartphone.
  K. Jiokeng, G. Jakllari, A.-L. Beylot 
* Characterizing Everyday Objects using Human Touch: Thermal Dissipation as
  a Sensing Modality (concise). H. Emenike, F. Dar, M. Liyanage, R. Sharma,
  A. Zuniga, M.A. Hoque, M. Radeta, P. Nurmi, H. Flores 
* Enabling In-Ear Magnetic Sensing: Automatic and User Transparent
  Magnetometer Calibration (concise). A. Ferlini, A. Montanari, A.
  Grammenos, R. Harle, C. Mascolo

Session 7 - Applications

* Mobility Improves Accuracy: Precise Robot Manipulation with COTS RFID
  Systems. H. Wang; S. Chen, W. Gong
* MousePath: Enhancing PC Web Pages through Smartphone and Optical Mouse
  (concise)). Z. Wang, Q. Huang, Y. Yan, H. Ren. Y. Zhang, Z. Yang  
* Embracing Self-Powered Wireless Wearables for Smart Healthcare (concise).
  L. Yuan, C. Xiong, S. Chen W. Gong

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Workshops - See http://www.percom.org/list_of_workshops

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ARDUOUS -  https://text2hbm.org/arduous/
5th International Workshop on Annotation of useR Data for UbiquitOUs Systems

CoMoRea - http://www.comorea.org/
17th Workshop on Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition

EmotionAware - http://www.comtec.eecs.uni-kassel.de/emotionaware/
5th Workshop on emotion awareness for pervasive computing beyond traditional approaches

MPAT - https://ewserver.di.unimi.it/mpat/
Mobile and Pervasive Assistive Technologies

PerAwareCity - https://sites.google.com/view/perawarecity2021
6th IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Context-Aware Smart Cities and Intelligent Transport Systems

PerDL - https://sites.google.com/view/perdl2021/homepage
1st International Workshop on Deep Learning in and for Pervasive Computing

PerFlow - http://www.perflow.org/
International Workshop on Pervasive Information Flow

PerHealth - http://perhealth.eecs.wsu.edu/
The 6th IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Health Technologies

PerIoT - https://periot.github.io/2021/
International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things

PerVehicle - http://www.pervehicle.org/
The 3rd International Workshop on Pervasive Computing for Vehicular Systems

SmartEdge - https://musiclab.vcu.edu/SmartEdge/SmartEdge21.html
The Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Smart & Green Edge Computing and Networking

SPT-IoT - https://sites.google.com/view/spt-iot-2021
The Fifth Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust in the Internet of Things

WristSense - https://sites.google.com/view/wristsense2021
Workshop on sensing systems and applications using wrist worn smart devices