CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Track on Mobile Grid Computing for Smart Health and Well Being (mGrid4SHB)
Paper submission due: June 1, 2013 Conference dates: September 30, 2013 (Mon) - October 2, 2013 (Wed) Boston, MA Body Area Networks (BANs) have gained immense popularity in recent years due to the advances in sensing, microprocessor, storage, and wireless technologies. In BANs, wearable sensors capable of collecting biomedical, kinematic, and environmental data wirelessly communicate the raw data to hand-held mobile devices like smart phones, tablets, laptops, and netbooks so to generate real-time information about a person's health and well being. Information from raw data may be obtained either through manual inspection of visualized data (e.g., vital signs such as electroencephalogram, electrocardiogram, electrical conductance, photoplethysmogram) or through automated analysis of features extracted from raw data (e.g., power spectral density, heart rate variability, sweating, hemoglobin saturation) to obtain actionable knowledge about a person's psycho-physiological condition (e.g., sleep quality, cardiac health, stress level, O2 and CO2 levels). However, computational models used for feature extraction, analysis, and automated diagnosis require computational capabilities that often exceed those of portable devices. In addition, the amount of data to be processed from multiple sensors on multiple individuals (in applications that are interested in the psycho-physiological analysis of a group of individuals) can be humongous and the communication cost of offloading data to the cloud for real-time feedback can be prohibitive. In such cases, trusted mobile computing devices in the vicinity can be used to form a federated mobile computing grid for generating actionable knowledge regarding the health and well-being of an individual or a group in real time and in situ. TOPICS OF INTEREST The purpose of this special session is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines to share, present, and discuss recent experiences and advances in broad area of (cloud-assisted) mobile grid computing for smart health and well being. Regular paper, short paper, and poster submissions are welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to: · Body area networks · Mobile computing · Modeling · Energy efficiency · Cloud-assist for mobile computing · Computation off-loading · Personal area networks · Autonomic computing · Applications and experience IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2013 Notification deadline: June 30, 2013 Camera ready deadline: July 31, 2013 PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit regular papers (up to 7 pages each) or short papers (up to 4 pages each) in the ACM proceedings format. Up to two extra pages are allowed for each paper with extra page charges. See http://bodynets.org/2013/show/initial-submission for more details. PUBLICATION Selected papers will be invited to: · IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics · IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management · ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications · Springer Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing · Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal · Elsevier Information Sciences TRACK CO-CHAIRS Dr. Dario Pompili Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Site Co-Director of the NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ Email: pompili at cac.rutgers.edu Dr. Renato J. Figueiredo Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Site Co-Director of the NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Email: renato at acis.ufl.edu _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
