7th International Symposium on Algorithms for Sensor Systems, Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Autonomous Mobile Entities
September 8-9, 2011, Saarbruecken, Germany
Scope:
Starting from 2011, ALGOSENSORS broadens its thematic scope, keeping its focus on sensor networks, but also including other related types of ad hoc wireless networks, such as mobile networks, radio networks and distributed systems of robots.
Key Features:
– 2 Tracks (NEW from 2011):
Track A: Sensor Networks
Track B: Ad hoc Wireless and Mobile Systems
– 2 days event duration
– Proceedings by Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
– Special Issue on best papers by the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS)
Journal
Program Committee:
Chair: Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Track A Chair: Pekka Orponen, Aalto U., Finland
Track B Chair: Thomas Erlebach, U. of Leicester, UK
TRACK A (Sensor Networks)
Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic U., USA
Tassos Dimitriou, Athens Information Technology, Greece
Shlomi Dolev, Ben Gurion U., Israel
Alon Efrat, U. Arizona, USA
Jie Gao, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
Aubin Jarry, U. of Geneva, Switzerland
Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton U., Canada
Alexander Kroeller, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Fabian Kuhn, U. Lugano, Italy
Mingyan Liu, U. Michigan, USA
Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Pekka Orponen (Chair), Aalto U., Finland
Michael Rabbat, McGill U., Canada
Elad Schiller, Chalmers, Sweden
Christian Schindelhauer, U. Freiburg, Germany
Stefan Schmid, T-Labs/TU Berlin, Germany
Jukka Suomela, U. Helsinki, Finland
Subhash Suri, UCSB, USA
Sebastien Tixeuil, U. Paris 6, France
Dorothea Wagner, Karlsruhe Inst. Tech., Germany
TRACK B (Ad hoc Wireless and Mobile Systems)
Matthew Andrews, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA
Costas Busch, Louisiana State U., USA
Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist U., Hong Kong
Thomas Erlebach (Chair), U. of Leicester, UK
Stefan Funke, U. of Stuttgart, Germany
Magnus Halldorsson, Reykjavik U., Iceland
David Ilcinkas, CNRS and Bordeaux U., France
Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan U., USA
Erik Jan van Leeuwen, U. of Bergen, Norway
Xiang-Yang Li, Illinois Inst. Tech., USA
Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Sriram Pemmaraju, U. of Iowa, USA
Cristina M. Pinotti, U. di Perugia, Italy
Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern U., USA
Dror Rawitz, Tel-Aviv U., Israel
Nicola Santoro, Carleton U., Canada
My T Thai, U. of Florida, USA
Anil Vullikanti, Virginia Tech, USA
Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prudence Wong, U. of Liverpool, UK
STEERING COMMITTEE
Josep Diaz, U.P. Catalunya, Spain
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, U. of Southern California, USA
P.R. Kumar, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jan van Leeuwen, U. of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece (Chair)
Jose Rolim, U. of Geneva, Switzerland
Paul Spirakis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Important Dates:
Paper submission: June 21, 2011
Notification: July 29, 2011
Camera-ready for pre-proceedings: August 15, 2011
Symposium: September 8-9, 2011
Camera-ready copy for post-proceedings: October 10, 2011
Proceedings:
Accepted papers will be published in full text in hardcopy post-proceedings, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series of Springer Verlag. Submissions may be considered for a two-page brief announcement in case not accepted as a full text; authors who wish their paper to be considered for both full paper and brief announcement tracks should indicate this fact on the front page.
TCS Journal Special Issue:
As in previous years, selected high-quality papers will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Journal.
Scope and Topics:
Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks have recently become a very active research subject due to their high potential of providing diverse services to numerous important applications, including remote monitoring and tracking in environmental applications and low maintenance ambient intelligence in everyday life. The effective and efficient realization of such large scale, complex ad-hoc networking environments requires intensive, coordinated technical research and development efforts, especially in power aware, scalable, robust wireless distributed protocols, due to the unusual application requirements and the severe resource constraints of the sensor devices. On the other hand, a solid foundational background seems necessary for sensor networks to achieve their full potential. It is a challenge for abstract modeling, algorithmic design and analysis to achieve provably efficient, scalable and fault-tolerant realizations of such huge, highly-dynamic, complex, non-conventional networks. Features including the extremely large number of sensor devices in the network, the severe power, computing and memory limitations, their dense, random deployment and frequent failures, pose new interesting abstract modeling, algorithmic design, analysis and implementation challenges of great practical impact. ALGOSENSORS aims to bring together research contributions related to diverse algorithmic and complexity theoretic aspects of wireless sensor networks. Starting from 2011, ALGOSENSORS broadens its thematic scope, keeping its focus on sensor networks, but also including other related types of ad hoc wireless networks, such as mobile networks, radio networks and distributed systems of robots.
Contributions solicited cover the algorithmic issues in a variety of topics including, but not limited to:
– Wireless Network Models
– Virtual Infrastructures
– Data Propagation and Routing
– Multicast and Broadcast
– Obstacle Avoidance
– Infrastructure Discovery
– Ad-hoc Deployment/Topology Control
– Fault Tolerance and Dependability
– Multi-hop Throughput Optimization
– Scheduling and Load Balancing
– Energy Management and Power Saving Schemes
– Dynamic Networks
– Adaptiveness and Self-organization
– Resource-efficient Distributed Computing
– Communication Protocols
– Medium Access Control
– Localization and Location Tracking
– Mobile Robotic Systems and Autonomous Agents
– Game Theoretic Aspects
– Cryptography, Security and Trust