-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] 1st CFP: IWRT 2008 - International Workshop on RFID Technology Datum: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:47:14 +1100 Von: Mark.Cameron@csiro.au Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com

The Second International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT'08) 12-13 June 2008, Barcelona, Spain

http://www.iceis.org/workshops/iwrt/iwrt2008-cfp.html

In conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'08)

Workshop Background and Goals ----------------------------- Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a wireless communication technology that uses radio-frequency waves to transfer information between tagged objects and readers without line of sight. This creates tremendous opportunities for linking various objects from real world. These objects are numbered, identified, catalogued, and tracked. In recent years, RFID has gained a significant momentum and is emerging as an important technology for revolutionizing a wide range of applications including supply chain management, retail, aircraft maintenance, anti-counterfeiting, baggage handling, healthcare, just to cite some. In addition, RFID technology also offers a viable approach to implement physical user interfaces. The services available in the local environment are advertised by RFID tags. The users browse the services and activate the desired service by simply touching the corresponding tag with a mobile terminal that is equipped with an RFID reader. In the near future, these user interfaces would introduce RFID tags into our everyday lives.

While RFID provides promising benefits such as inventory visibility and business process automation, some significant challenges need to be overcome before these benefits can be realized. One important issue is how to process and manage RFID data, which is typically in large volume, noisy and unreliable, time-dependent, dynamically changing, and of varying ownership. Another issue is how to seamlessly integrate low-level RFID data into (existing) enterprise information infrastructures (e.g., upper-level business processes). Finally, given the ability of inexpensively tagging and thus monitoring a large number of items and/or people, RFID raises some serious security and privacy concerns. Indeed, RFID privacy and security are stimulating research areas that involve rich interplay among many disciplines, like signal processing, hardware design, supply-chain logistics, privacy rights, and cryptography.

The workshop's objective is to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners, and users to exchange new ideas, developments, and experience on issues related to this emerging field.

Topics of Interest ---------------------- We welcome papers that focus on novel RFID technologies and applications. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

* Data management issues in RFID applications * Innovative RFID-enabled applications * RFID and physical user interfaces * Security/privacy and RFID * RFID and sensor networks * Web services and RFID * RFID and semantic Web * RFID standards * RFID case studies and field trials * RFID middleware * Next generation RFID technologies * Commercial experience with RFID * RFID network management * COTS and Open Source RFID infrastructure * Integration of RFID with other applications * Performance evaluation * Business process redesign and RFID

Submission and Review of Papers -------------------------------- All papers must be written in English. There will be two types of papers: long (approx. 5000 words) and short (approx. 2000 words). Papers should be prepared in postscript, PDF, or Word and should be submitted through ICEIS web-based paper submission system.

All the submitted papers will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. We will also implement a rebuttal phase during the paper selection process. Authors will be invited to supply a response to the reviewers' comments. The paper selection will be based on both reviewers' comments and authors' responses.

Format of the Workshop ------------------------ The workshop will consist of oral presentations. The proceedings of the workshop will be published in the form of a book by INSTICC Press and indexed in DBLP.

Journal Publication -------------------- A Special issue of the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology containing selected best papers of the previous workshop (IWRT'07) was published. We plan to publish selected best papers of IWRT'08 in an edited book or a Special issue of another leading international journal.

Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------------- Dr. Michael Sheng School of Computer Science The University of Adelaide Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia qsheng@cs.adelaide.edu.au

Dr. Zakaria Maamar College of Information Systems Zayed University Po Box 19282, Dubai,U.A.E Zakaria.Maamar@zu.ac.ae

Dr. Sherali Zeadally Department of Computer Science and Information Technology University of the District of Columbia Washington DC, USA E-mail: szeadally@udc.edu

Dr. Mark Cameron Information Engineering Lab CSIRO ICT Center Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Mark.Cameron@csiro.au

Workshop Program Committee --------------------------- Zaheer Asif, Temple University, USA Thierry Bodhuin, University of Sannio, Italy Leonid Bolotnyy, University of Virginia, USA Paul Brebner, National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA), Australia Mark Cameron, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Hesham El-Sayed, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Rajit Gadh, UCLA, USA Sozo Inoue, Kyushu University, Japan Roger Jiao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Mohamed Latrach, ESEO, France Xue Li, The University of Queensland, Australia Weifa Liang, The Australian National University, Australia Tao Lin, SAP Research, USA Zongwei Luo, University of Hong Kong, China Paris Kitsos, Hellenic Open University, Greece Abdelhamid Mellouk, University Paris XII, France John Mo, RMIT University, Australia Damith Ranasinghe, Auto-ID Lab, University of Cambridge, UK Melanie Rieback, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jukka Riekki, University of Oulu, Finland Quan Z. Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Nicolas Sklavos, University of Patras, Greece Fusheng Wang, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA Holger Ziekow, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany

Important Dates ----------------- Paper Submission: March 3, 2008 Author Notification: April 7, 2008 Final Camera-Ready and Registration: April 17, 2008

Workshop Venue --------------------- The workshop will be held in conjunction of the 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2008) in Barcelona, Spain.

Registration Information ------------------------- At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. The registration information can be found from http://www.iceis.org

Secretariat ------------------------- ICEIS 2008 Secretariat - The Second International Workshop on RFID Technology (IWRT 2008) E-mail: workshops@iceis.org Web site: http://www.iceis.org

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