Call for Papers

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Track "Data and Information Processing and Management in Sensor Networks"
(http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/DISN2012/) of the 24th IEEE
International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligent (ICTAI
2012)(http://ictai12.unipi.gr/), November 7-9, 2012, Athens, Greece.

 

Selected papers from the session will be invited for submission to a special
issue of a top quality international journal. Selected paper from the
previous edition have been invited to a special issue of Journal of Network
and Computer Applications (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jnca), Elsevier
(http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home).

 

Aim and Scope

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Sensor networks represent emerging contexts for a plethora of
next-generation application scenarios, and involve both theoretical and
practical research challenges beyond fundamental issues and well-known
paradigms of traditional wired and wireless network settings. Various
research perspectives play significant roles in sensor networks research,
from distributed algorithms and reasoning to fault tolerance and
identification issues, and from sensor network programming models and
languages to security issues. Among these, a vibrant role is played by the
fundamental issue represented by data and information processing and
management in sensor networks, which concerns with the problem of (i)
effectively and efficiently processing data and knowledge across sensor
networks, with the goal of extracting useful information and novel knowledge
from data and knowledge bases dislocated across sensor networks, as well as
(ii) effectively and efficiently processing "inside-information and
-knowledge" kept in the core layer of sensor networks, such as topological
information, link-based hidden relations, node-camouflaged
surprising/interesting knowledge. 

 

As strictly regards methodological issues, a critical drawback is
represented by the fact that it is not possible to directly apply
state-of-the-art data and information processing and management techniques
and algorithms developed in the context of traditional centralized (e.g.,
stand-alone data and knowledge bases) and distributed (e.g., network data
and knowledge bases) settings to sensor networks, due to inherent properties
and characteristics of these networks, such as possibilities of faults,
heterogeneities of platforms/architectures/protocols, changing topologies,
heterogeneous data models and query languages, streaming environments,
intermittent/discontinuous information handling, and so forth. As a
consequence, it is not possible to simply re-adapt traditional data and
information processing and management techniques and algorithms to sensor
networks, but rather it is necessary to devise new paradigms and innovative
solutions that are able to comply with these novel requirements and
applicative settings, perhaps inspired by well-consolidated foundations and
cognitive patterns developed in the context of conventional data and
knowledge base management systems. 

 

Data and information processing and management in sensor networks is
"naturally" an inter-topic, inter-disciplinary and multi-aspect research
challenge, as many sides must be touched when dealing with such a scientific
field. Among these aspects, some relevant ones are the followings: 

 

Fundamentals of Data and Information Processing and Management in Sensor
Networks; Models and Paradigms for Data and Information Processing and
Management in Sensor Networks; Data and Information Processing and
Management in Sensor Networks Algorithms; Data and Information Processing
and Management in Sensor Networks Architectures; Distributed Data and
Information Processing and Management over Sensor Networks; Parallel Data
and Information Processing and Management over Sensor Networks; Real-Time
Data and Information Processing and Management over Sensor Networks;
In-Network Data and Information Processing and Management over Sensor
Networks; Data Mining over Sensor Networks; Classification over Sensor
Networks; Clustering over Sensor Networks; Patterns Extraction from Sensor
Networks; Association Rule Discovery from Sensor Networks; Knowledge
Discovery from Sensor Networks; Machine Learning Algorithms over Networks;
Data Warehousing over Sensor Networks; OLAP over Sensor Networks;
Information Filtering and Retrieval from Sensor Networks; Collaborative
Approaches to Data and Information Processing and Management in Sensor
Networks; Uncertain and Imprecise Data and Information Processing and
Management in Sensor Networks; Probabilistic Data and Information Processing
and Management in Sensor Networks; Security Aspects of Data and Information
Processing and Management in Sensor Networks; Privacy Preserving Issues of
Data and Information Processing and Management in Sensor Networks;
Interactive Exploration of Data and Knowledge Bases over Sensor Networks;
Reliability and Fault-Recovery Aspects of Data and Knowledge Bases over
Sensor Networks; Replication and Fragmentation of Data and Knowledge Bases
over Sensor Networks; Visualization Issues of Data and Information
Processing and Management in Sensor Networks 

 

With these goals in mind, and following the successful event represented by
the special session Data and Information Processing and Management in Sensor
Networks (http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/QSHINE2009/) of the 6th ICST
International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality,
Reliability, Security and Robustness
(http://www.qshine.org/2009/index.shtml), held in Canary Islands, Spain,
during November 25-29, 2009, the special session Data and Information
Processing and Management in Sensor Networks of the 24th IEEE International
Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (http://ictai12.unipi.gr/),
to be held in Athens, Greece, during November 7-9, 2012,will cover
theoretical as well as practical aspects of data and information processing
and management in sensor networks, thus constituting a milestone in sensor
networks research with a rare multi-aspect research vision spanning from
elegant model formalisms to effective and comprehensive methodologies and
efficient algorithms.

 

Conference Location

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Coral Hotel Athens (http://www.coralhotel.gr/en), Paleo Faliro, Athens,
Greece.

 

Submission Guidelines and Instructions

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Contributions are invited from prospective authors with interests in the
indicated session topics and related areas of application. All contributions
should be high quality, original and not published elsewhere or submitted
for publication during the review period.

 

Submitted papers should strictly follow the IEEE CS Conference Paper
Formatting Instructions and Templates
(http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/confer
enceTemplates.html). Maximum regular camera-ready paper length allowed is 8
pages. Submitted papers will be thoroughly reviewed by members of the Track
Program Committee for quality, correctness, originality and relevance.
Submitted papers may be accepted as communications in additional local
proceedings. Notification and reviews will be communicated via e-mail. All
accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors, who must register. 

 

Abstracts (deadline June 11, 2012) should be sent by e-mail (preferably in
an enclosed PDF file) to the Program Chair Alfredo Cuzzocrea
(http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/) at cuzzocrea@si.deis.unical.it.
Abstracts must include paper title, abstract, list of keywords, and list of
authors with full names and affiliations. One of the authors must be
designated as the primary contact point to receive notification and reviews.


 

Papers (deadline June 18, 2012) should be submitted by e-mail in PDF format
to the Program Chair Alfredo Cuzzocrea
(http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/) at cuzzocrea@si.deis.unical.it.

 

Paper Publication

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Accepted papers will appear in the ICTAI 2012 (http://ictai12.unipi.gr/)
proceedings, published by IEEE Computer Society (http://www.computer.org/).

 

Authors of selected papers from the track will be invited to submit an
extended version of their paper to a special issue of a top-quality
international journal. Selected papers from the previous edition have been
invited to a special issue of Journal of Network and Computer Applications
(http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jnca), Elsevier
(http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home).

 

Important Dates

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Abstract submission: June 11, 2012

Paper submission: June 18, 2012

Notification of acceptance: August 6, 2012

Camera-ready paper due: August 27, 2012

Conference: November 7-9, 2012

 

Program Committee Chair

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Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR & University of Calabria, Italy
(http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/)

 

Program Committee

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TBA

 

For more information and any inquire, please contact Alfredo Cuzzocrea
(http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/) at cuzzocrea@si.deis.unical.it