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CALL
FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline: May 25, 2012
The 2012 International Conference on
Wireless Networks
ICWN'12
July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
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INVITATION:
You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings
(ISBN) and will also be made available online. Abstract submissions
(one/two-page) will be considered for poster presentations and one/two-page
publication in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be made
available in printed book as well as online. The proceedings will be indexed in
science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper.
The proceedings of the congress that ICWN is part of enjoys a high number of
citations; about 26,000 citations have been made (so far) to papers published
in the proceedings. The conference is co-sponsored by various associations and
groups as well as centers and large labs affiliated with University of Iowa,
George Mason University, Texas A&M University, Harvard University and MIT,
and many others.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This announcement is ONLY for those who MISSED the
opportunity to submit their papers in response to earlier "Call For
Papers". Therefore, authors who have already submitted papers in response
to earlier "Call For Papers"
should IGNORE this announcement. (Those who have been
notified that their papers have been accepted, MUST still follow the
instructions that were emailed to them; including meeting the deadlines
mentioned in the notifications that were sent to them).
IMPORTANT DATES:
May 25, 2012:
Submission of papers for evaluation
June 6, 2012:
Notification of acceptance/not-acceptance
June 19, 2012:
Registration
July 16-19, 2012:
The 2012 International Conference on Wireless Networks
(ICWN'12)
July 30, 2012:
Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication
(papers submitted and accepted in response to this announcement
will be published in the Final Edition of the proceedings which
will go to press soon after the
conference.)
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to, the following:
O Ad hoc networks
O Power management
and control, low-power protocols O
Wireless applications, mobile e-commerce, multimedia O Satellite-based systems O Broadcast networks O High altitude platforms O GPS, location-based service and mobile
devices O Mobile agents O Wireless and mobile applications O Routing, multicasting, multiplexing, ...
O Resource
management, wireless QoS
O Mobile internet
O Wireless network
architectures
O Mobile computing
O Wireless
security
O Modeling,
simulation, ...
O Novel
technologies that enhance wireless systems and standards O Personal area networks, body wireless
networks, Bluetooth O Wireless sensor
and actuator networks O Error detection
and correction in sensor networks O
Mobile sensor networks O
Underwater sensor networks O
Imaging sensor networks O
Agent-based sensor networks O
Efficient and reliable MAC protocols for sensor networks O Node placement and topology control issues
O Coding and modulation O Multi-user detection O Performance analysis and evaluation O Mobile wireless QoS, radio resource
management O Heterogeneous wireless
networks, radio access networks O Software-defined
radio, reconfigurable radio networks O
Wireless IP networks, interworking O
Wireless multimedia, QoS adaptation O
WAP, mobile e-commerce O
Disruption tolerant networks and applications O Cellular networks and technologies O Distributed algorithms for wireless networks
O Autonomous Mobile Sensor Networks
O Emerging technologies and related
issues
O Workshop on
Pervasive Systems and Ubiquitous Computing:
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Location-dependent/personalized applications
- Hardware
support pervasive computing and communications
- Software
infrastructures for pervasive systems
- System
architectures and platforms
- Embedded
computing with applications
- Low power,
energy-aware pervasive computing
- Smart devices,
spaces and objects
- Service
discovery mechanisms and protocols
- Middleware
services and agent technologies
- Positioning
and tracking technologies
- Integration of
wired and wireless networks
- Personal area
networks
- Intelligent
devices and environments
- Context and
location awareness, context based and implicit computing
- Speech and
language processing
- User
interfaces and interaction models
- Wearable
computers and technologies
- Resource
management in pervasive platforms
- Security and
privacy issues for pervasive systems
- New products,
standards, tools and best practices
- Embodied
agents
- Interactive
workspace
- Secure
collaboration in uncertain environments
- Biometric
methods for pervasive computing
- Applications
and case studies
- Emerging
topics in pervasive systems
- Ubiquitous
computing:
Novel devices,
designs, deployment, evaluation, architecture, ambient
intelligence,
novel applications and emerging tools.
SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS AND INDEXING INFORMATION:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them to the evaluation web site at:
http://world-comp.org Submissions
must be uploaded by May 25, 2012 and must be in either MS doc or pdf formats
(about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and references - single space,
font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable
(later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular
typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must
not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper,
name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first
page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5
topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. The name
of the conference that the paper is being submitted for consideration must be
stated on the first page of the paper (ie, ICWN) as well as a 100 to 150-word
abstract. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if
accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style)
pages.
Authors whose papers are ACCEPTED will be instructed to
upload their papers to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded
papers to the publication web site will only be checked for correct
typesetting.
The proceedings will be published in printed conference
books (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be
indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for
each published paper (science citation databases such as: Inspec / IET / The
Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for
Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core scientific
literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals; only about 9% are
proceedings; the set of proceedings that ICWN is part of has been selected to
be among the 9% - accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID,
Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others.
Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings will
also be included in EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the proceedings
that ICWN was part of were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also
be sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier.
In addition to the publication of the proceedings,
selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers
for publication in a number of research books contracted with various
publishers. These books will be composed after the conference. Also, many
chairs of tracks will be forming journal special issues to be published after
the conference.
Note that authors who submit papers in response to this
announcement, will have their papers evaluated for publication consideration in
the Final Edition of the conference proceedings which will go to press soon
after the conference (the conference would then make the necessary arrangements
to ship the printed proceedings/books to such authors). The Final Edition of
the conference proceedings will be identical to earlier edition except for a
number of sections/chapters appended to the proceedings/book. 4043
Submission of Poster Papers:
Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow
the same instructions that appear above. On the first page, the author should
state that "This paper is being submitted as a poster for ICWN".
Poster papers (if accepted) will be published if and only if the author of the
accepted poster wishes to have his/her poster published as a 2-page extended
abstract.)
GENERAL INFORMATION:
ICWN conference is being held jointly (same location and
dates) with a number of other federated research conferences (World Congress in
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing). This federated
congress is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science,
computer engineering and applied computing. The congress will be composed of
research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials,
panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past,
keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer,
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father
of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic
Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid
Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe
(Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man,
developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of
Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director,
U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California),
Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu
(pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
(Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration
Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy,
Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration),
Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH
Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H.
Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr.
Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about
the conferences'
atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606
An important mission of the congress is "Providing a
unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars,
researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes
concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and
research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts to
connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission
with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their
main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and
geography diversity objectives."
One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum
of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a
coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This
model facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress
also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives;
ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across
sub-disciplines.
The list of co-sponsors of 2012 meeting is Currently
being prepared; for the 2011 list of sponsors, refer to:
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:
The congress proceedings enjoy a high number of
citations. In total, over
25,600 citations have been made (so far) to papers
published in the proceedings of the federated congress. The link below contains
the url's to the citation data for each track (each link is a live search and
so it may take a few seconds for the data to pull up):
USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. ICWN 2012 web site:
2. To see the caliber of the past offering of worldcomp,
see the 2011 congress web site:
3. The 2011 delegates photos are available at:
CONTACT:
Any inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org
