[ecoop-info] ALGOSENSORS - Final Call for Papers

[Ioannis Chatzigiannakis]

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     Fourth International Workshop on
     Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks

                        A L G O S E N S O R S   2 0 0 8


     July 12, 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland
     To be held in conjunction with ICALP 2008.
     http://www.algosensors.org

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               F I N A L   C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S

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     SCOPE

     Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks have recently become a very active
     research subject due to their high potential of providing diverse
     services to numerous important applications, including remote
     monitoring and tracking in environmental applications and low
     maintenance ambient intelligence in everyday life. The effective and
     efficient realization of such large scale, complex ad-hoc networking
     environments requires intensive, coordinated technical research and
     development efforts, especially in power aware, scalable, robust
     wireless distributed protocols, due to the unusual application
     requirements and the severe resource constraints of the sensor devices.

     On the other hand, a solid foundational background seems necessary for
     sensor networks to achieve their full potential. It is a challenge for
     abstract modeling, algorithmic design and analysis to achieve provably
     efficient, scalable and fault-tolerant realizations of such huge,
     highly-dynamic, complex, non-conventional networks. Features including
     the extremely large number of sensor devices in the network, the
     severe power, computing and memory limitations, their dense, random
     deployment and frequent failures, pose new interesting abstract
     modeling, algorithmic design, analysis and implementation challenges
     of great practical impact.

     This Workshop aims to bring together research contributions related
     to diverse algorithmic and complexity theoretic aspects of wireless
     sensor networks. This is the fourth event in the series. ALGOSENSORS
     2004 was held in Turku, Finland, ALGOSENSORS 2006 was held in Venice,
     Italy, ALGOSENSORS 2007 was held in Wroclaw, Poland. Since its beginning
     ALGOSENSORS is collocated with ICALP. Previous proceedings have appeared
     in the Springer LNCS series: #3121 (2004), #4240 (2006), #4837 (2007).

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     TOPICS

     Contributions solicited cover the algorithmic issues in a variety of
     topics including (but not limited to):

       * Abstract models of sensor networks
       * Methods for ad-hoc deployment/topology control
       * Energy management
       * Data propagation and routing
       * Infrastructure discovery
       * Opportunistic Networking / DTN
       * Localization
       * Self-organization
       * Tracking
       * Data aggregation/data compression
       * Obstacle avoidance
       * Power saving schemes
       * Communication protocols
       * Medium access control
       * Fault tolerance and dependability
       * Security and trust
       * Time synchronization
       * Distributed computing issues

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     WORKSHOP CHAIR

       * Sandor Fekete, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany

     PROGRAM COMMITTEE

       * Michael Beigl, TU Braunschweig, Germany
       * Michael Bender, Stony Brook University, USA
       * Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
       * Josep Diaz, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain
       * Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion U., Israel
       * Alon Efrat , University of Arizona, USA
       * Michael Elkin , Ben Gurion University, Israel
       * Sandor P. Fekete, TU Braunschweig, Germany (chair)
       * Stefan Fischer, U. of Luebeck, Germany
       * Stefan Funke, Univ. Greifswald, Germany
       * Jie Gao , Stony Brook University, USA
       * Magnus Halldorson, ReykjavΓ­k University, Iceland
       * Riko Jacob, TU Munich, Germany
       * Alexander Kroeller, TU Braunschweig, Germany
       * Fabian Kuhn, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
       * Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
       * Alberto Marchetti Spaccamela, U. of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
       * Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide , Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
       * Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research, USA
       * David Peleg, Weizmann Institute, Israel
       * Dennis Pfisterer, U. of Luebeck, Germany
       * Andrea Richa, Arizona State University, USA
       * Paolo Santi , CNR - Pisa, Italy
       * Christian Scheideler, TU Munich, Germany
       * Subhash Suri, Univ. California - Santa Barbara, USA
       * Dorothea Wagner, K.I.T., Karlsruhe, Germany
       * Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


     STEERING COMMITTEE

       * Josep Diaz, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
       * Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
       * Sotiris Nikoletseas (Chair), University of Patras and CTI,
         Greece
       * Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland
       * Paul Spirakis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece

     INVITED SPEAKER

       * Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

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     PROCEEDINGS

     Accepted papers will be published in hardcopy Proceedings, which
     will appear in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
     Series of Springer Verlag.

     We are going to have post-proceedings, i.e., authors will have the
     opportunity to revise their papers in the light of the discussion at
     the event and then submit their camera ready files by the end of
     August.

     TCS JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

     As in previous years, it is planned that selected high-quality papers
     will be considered for publication in a Special Issue on Algorithmic
     Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks of Theoretical Computer Science 
(TCS).

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     PAPER SUBMISSION

     Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original research
     in the topics related to the workshop. Simultaneous submission to
     other conferences is not allowed.

     Papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages of text using at least 11
     point size type, including references, figures, tables, etc.,
     preferably formated in the LNCS style. Additional material may be
     added at a clearly marked Appendix to be read at the discretion of
     the Program Committee Members.

     Authors must submit their papers electronically via Web page:
     http://www.algosensors.org

     The submission server is at:
     http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algosensors2008

     All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to
     the authors.

     Authors need to make sure that for each accepted paper at least one
     author will attend the workshop.

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     IMPORTANT DATES

       * Submission Deadline: April 30, 2008
       * Author Notification: May 30,   2008
       * Workshop:            July 12,  2008

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     SPONSORS

       * coalesenses GmBH
       * EU: FP7, FET ICT-215270

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     CONTACT

       * web: http://www.algosensors.org
       * email: s.fekete at tu-bs.de
       * fax:   +49-531-391-3109
       * phone: +49-531-391-3111

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