=========== HICSS 43 CFP =========== Distributed Systems for Ubiquitous Computing Software Technology Track Mini-Track CALL FOR PAPERS Forty-third Annual Hawaii International Conference of Systems Science (HICSS-43) January 5-8, 2010 Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa
Computers of all shapes, sizes, power and functionality are becoming ubiquitous. This ubiquity is an unstoppable market force placing computation in nearly every aspect of our lives, and more and more of these systems have Internet connectivity, and thus, the possibility of communicating with one another. We are standing on a threshold that, when crossed, will leave each of us at least virtually always connected to Internet services, be it our set top box or satellite receiver downloading videos; wearable computers; the alarm systems in our homes sending alerts and streaming video to our preferred hand-held device; an RFID scanner reading our passports, or a chip embedded beneath our skin, and comparing the read data to a global data base. The rapid deployment of ubiquitous systems will surely outpace a careful examination of the effect this deployment may have on nearly all aspects of our everyday lives. Central to these examinations is surely the "Pandora's Box" of an individual's privacy. Whether it's one of Howard Rheingold's smart mobs, a home security system, a sensor network, a RFID based shopping checkout system, city wide video surveillance, or each of us using our personal devices, this is potentially hundreds of millions of devices connected to the Internet. Taking this into account with the vulnerability of even the most secure systems to Internet hackers, and thus, the concomitant magnification of the potential loss of personal information, we can no longer say, deploy it because it is cool technology. Can we design our ubiquitous devices, the networks and the distributed systems that they use to address the above issues? Can, in fact, the Internet transport protocols of the 1970's and 1980's in spite of their evolution still be retrofitted to do the tasks ubiquitous computing will demand of them? How does one guarantee the Quality Assurance of these systems and services, as well as their Quality of Service? Will, in fact, user anonymity be possible, it is always desirable in some cultures, given this ubiquity? Such systems present a formidable challenge and this mini-track will be open to exploring both the research, design and deployment aspects of building systems to meet this challenge. The topics in this mini-track include but are not limited to the following as they apply to Distributed Systems for Ubiquitous Computing: - Securing Distributed Services in the Internet - Identity Management and single-sign-on - Secure Overlay Networks - Secure wireless, Ad-hoc Networks - Platforms for the deployment of ubiquitous Internet services - Autonomic Computing - Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Everyware - Peer-to-peer Computing - Live and On-demand Content Streaming - Sensor networks (Wearable, Ambient, etc.) - Geo-localization, User Presence, Availability, and Locality - Q/A and QoS in large, distributed networks - The Ubiquitous Home and the Internet of Things - The Internet connected automobile - Systems enabling Unified Device-to-Device communication - Ubiquitous Entertainment and Work - Social and Ethical issues - Privacy, Security and Governance Important deadlines: From now to June 1: Prepare Abstracts. Authors may contact mini-track chairs for guidance and appropriateness of content. June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. The review is double-blind; therefore this submission must be without author names. Aug 15: Acceptance notices are emailed to authors by the Review System. (Make sure your server accepts the address.) At least one author of each accepted paper must immediately make plans to attend the conference, including initiating fiscal, visa, or other travel guarantees. Sept 15: Accepted authors submit Final Paper. At least one author of each paper should register by this date. This is the Early Registration fee deadline. New Date! Oct 15: Papers without at least one registered author will be deleted from the Proceedings; authors will be so notified by the Conference Office. Please see the HICSS43 homepage for more information: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS_43/ Note the authors' instructions link on the above home page. Mini-track Chairs: William J. Yeager (Primary Contact) Semi-Retired Formerly of Stanford University and Sun Microsystems Email: byea...@fastmail.fm <mailto:byea...@fastmail.fm> Ali Ghodsi KTH/Royal Institute of Technology and Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) Email: a...@sics.se <mailto:a...@sics.se> Jean-Henry Morin University of Geneva Email: jean-henry.mo...@unige.ch <mailto:jean-henry.mo...@unige.ch> Program Committee (preliminary list) Claudio Sartori, University of Bologna, Italy Sonia Bergamaschi, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Thiemo Voight, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Grece Mark Jelasity, Hungarian Acad. Sci. and University of Szeged, Hungary Zoran Despotovic, Docomo Euro-labs, Germany Janko Mrsic-Flogel, CTO, Mirriad, Ltd, UK Rita Yu Chen, Ventio Technology, USA Luca Cavaglione, CNR, ISSIA, Italy Rolf Stadler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Seif Haridi, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
