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LoCA 2009
4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness
May 7th-8th, 2009. Tokyo, Japan
http://loca2009.context-aware.org
Submission deadline: December 18, 2008
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The 2009 Symposium on Location and Context Awareness (LoCA) seeks new
and
significant research on systems, services, and applications to detect,
interpret and use location and other contextual information. Context
includes
physiological, environmental and computational data whether sensed or
inferred.
In addition, context includes users' activities, goals, abilities,
preferences,
interruptibility, affordances, and surroundings. With context, we can
expect
computers to deliver information, services, and entertainment in a way
that
maximizes convenience and minimizes intrusion. Developing awareness
involves
research in sensing, systems, machine learning, human computer
interaction,
and design.
We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished
research
results. We are especially interested in submissions in the following
areas but
welcome submissions from other areas that are relevant to the theme of
the
symposium:
- New hardware platforms for sensing location and context
- Machine learning techniques for inferring user location and context
from
low-level sensor data
- Location and context representation, management, and distribution
- Privacy policies & communication protocols for location & context
information
- User studies of location- and context-aware systems
- Industrial case studies of end-to-end systems
One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program
committee
and is designed to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a
combination of
the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the
recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Both
awards
will be made during the symposium.
Paper Submission Guidelines
All papers will be reviewed by our international program committee.
LoCA 2009
aims to be selective and the committee will favor a technically robust
program.
The ideal LoCA submission should provide an insightful survey of
existing work,
introduce radically new concepts, or present concrete, significant,
transferable
research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working system.
Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the LoCA
Symposium in the
Tokyo. Submissions must be formatted in Springer LNCS style, limited
to 18
pages. Submit papers as Adobe PDF via EDAS at
http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6603.
Preparation of the camera-ready version of accepted papers may be
shepherded
by the program committee.
Best Paper and Presentation Awards
One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program
committee
to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA
program
committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of
the Best
Presentation Award following the symposium.
Symposium Website
http://loca2009.context-aware.org
Program Chairs
Tanzeem Choudhury, Dartmouth College USA,
Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin Ireland
International Program Committee
Hamid Aghajan, University of Stanford, USA
Christian Becker, Universität Mannheim, Germany
Hung Bui, SRI International, USA
Andrew T. Campbell, Dartmouth College, USA
Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland
Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dieter Fox, University of Washington, USA
Mike Hazas, Lancaster University, UK
Jeffrey Hightower, Intel Research Seattle, USA
Johan Hjelm, Ericsson Research Tokyo, Japan
Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA
Minkyong Kim, IBM Research Watson, USA
John Krumm, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Rene Mayrhofer, University of Vienna
Nuria Oliver, Telefonica Research, Spain
Shwetak Patel, Georgia Tech, USA
Matthai Philipose, Intel Research, USA
Matthew Reynolds, Duke University, USA
Bernt Schiele, Darmsadt University of Technology, Germany
Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab, USA
James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Alex Varshavsky, University of Toronto, Canada
Chris Wren, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), USA
Danny Wyatt, University of Washington, USA
Local Chair
Koji Suginuma, Sony Corporation, Japan
General Chair
Thomas Strang, DLR and UIBK
Publicity Chairs
Alex Varshavsky, University of Toronto, Canada
Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA
Important Dates
18 December 2008 Submission Deadline
13 February 2009 Author Notifications
27 February 2009 Camera Ready Copy
7-8 May 2009 Symposium (Tokyo, Japan)
http://loca2009.context-aware.org
Dr. Aaron Quigley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Principal Investigator TRIL Centre, Technology Platform
UCD Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory
School of Computer Science & Informatics
University College Dublin Dublin 4, Ireland
Phone (+353) 1 716 5357
http://casl.ucd.ie/people/aquigley
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