[Sigsti-l] 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Nets (fwd)

[Joe Hourcle]

I know there's a few folks at ASIS&T who work with sensor nets, so I 
thought I'd pass this along.

-Joe


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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:42:03 -0500
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Subject: [ESSI] 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Nets

2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on SEMANTIC SENSOR NETWORKS 2009 (SSN09)
                           26th October 2009
             http://www.ict.csiro.au/conferences/ssn/ssn09

                         First Call for Papers

  A workshop of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2009
                 25-29 October 2009, Washington DC, USA

  Semantic technologies are often proposed as important components of
  complex, cross-jurisdictional, heterogeneous, dynamic information
  systems. The needs and opportunities arising from the rapidly growing
  capabilities of networked sensing devices are a challenging case.

  It is estimated that today there are 4 billion mobile devices that can
  act as sensors, including active and passive RFID tags. This is
  complemented by an even larger number of fixed sensors recording
  observations of a wide variety of modalities. Geographically
  distributed sensor nodes are capable of forming ad hoc networking topologies, with
  nodes expected to be dynamically inserted and removed from a network.
  The sensors are increasingly being connected with Web infrastructure,
  and the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standard developed by the Open GIS
  Consortium is being widely adopted in industry, government and
  academia alike.  While such frameworks provide some interoperability, semantics
  are increasingly seen as a key enabler for integration of sensor data
  and broader Web information systems. Analytical and reasoning
  capabilities afforded by Semantic Web standards and technologies are
  considered important for developing advanced applications that go from
  capturing observations to recognition of events and ultimately
  developing comprehensive situational awareness. Defence,
  transportation, global enterprise, and natural resource management industries are
  leading the rapid emergence of applications in commercial, civic, and
  scientific operations that involve sensors, web, services and
  semantics.

  The goal of the Semantic Sensor Networks workshop is to develop an
  understanding of the ways Semantic Web technologies, including
  ontologies, agent architectures and semantic web services, can
  contribute to the growth, application and deployment of large-scale
  sensor networks and their applications. The workshop provides an
  inter-disciplinary forum to explore and promote these concepts.

  The workshop is now seeking paper submissions.

  Topics include, but are not limited to:
  - Semantic support for Sensor Web Enablement
  - Spatio-temporal reasoning in sensor networks
  - Semantic integration in large-scale heterogeneous sensor networks
  - Reasoning with incomplete or uncertain information in sensor networks
  - Semantic web services architectures for sensor networks
  - Semantic middleware for active and passive sensor networks
  - Semantic algorithms for data fusion and situation awareness
  - Experience in sensor network applications of semantic technologies
  - Rule-based sensor systems
  - Ontologies for sensor and RFID networks
  - Semantic policy management in shared networks
  - Semantic feedback and control
  - Semantic discovery of sensors, sensor data  and services
  - Emergent semantics and ambient intelligence in sensor systems
  - Semantic approaches to status monitoring and configuration of sensor systems
  - Scalability, security, trust and privacy in semantic sensor networks
  - Semantic reasoning for network topology management
  - Semantic web in sensor data mashups
  - Semantic sensor context management and data provenance
  - Citizen sensors, participatory sensing and social sensing

  IMPORTANT DATES

  Paper Submission Deadline: 7th August, 2009
  Notification of Acceptance: 31st August, 2009
  Final Manuscript Deadline: 2nd October, 2009
  Workshop: 26th October, 2009

  PAPER SUBMISSION

  Papers will be reviewed by at least two program committee members for
  their technical merit, originality, significance, and relevance to the
  workshop. The papers must be in good English and will be published
  in a proceedings volume of  CEUR-WS  http://CEUR-WS.org. Instructions for
  submission will be made available at the workshop web site
  http://www.ict.csiro.au/conferences/ssn/ssn09


  COMMITTEE

  Chairs:
  Kerry Taylor, CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra, Australia
  Arun Ayyagari, The Boeing Company, Seattle, USA
  David De Roure, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

  Advisors:
  Amit Sheth, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton OH, USA
  Manfred Hauswirth, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National
  University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

  Technical Program:
  Thomas Meyer, Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa
  Mark Cameron, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
  Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany
  Kevin Page, University of Southampton, UK
  Michael Compton, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
  Cory Henson, Wright State University, USA
  Luis Bermudez, Southeastern Universities Research Association, USA
  Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
  Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada
  Ralf Denzer, University of Applied Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany
  Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, UK
  Ingo Simonis, Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa
  Sascha Schlobinski, cismet GmbH, Germany

  Contact:
  Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au or Arun.Ayyagari at boeing.com or dder at ecs.soton.ac.uk