[topicmapmail] CfP: Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2005)

[Stefan Schulz]

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            CfP for the International Workshop on

          Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2005)

              in cooperation with Pervasive 2005

                    May 12-13, 2005
            Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany
              http://loca2005.context-aware.org


     Submission Deadline: December 17th, 2004


LoCA 2005 - Call for Papers
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The goal of this workshop is to address and discuss the technical
challenges, ideas, views, and research results in sensing, fusing
and distributing location information as well as providing location-
and context-awareness to applications and services such as navigation
in pervasive systems.

The workshop is a platform to propose new positioning algorithms and
location sensing techniques, including new techniques and studies
into the properties of existing technologies. This includes enhancements
of singular systems (e.g. positioning in cellular telephone networks
such as GSM; positioning in WLAN environments; etc.) as well as hybrid
systems (e.g. integration of Global Navigation Satellite Systems with
Inertial Positioning Systems). Improvements in sensor technology,
integration and sensor fusion may be addressed either on a theoretical
or on an implementation level.

The genesis of nearly all kinds of dynamic location information is
mobility. Mobility - in all its facets (user mobility, device mobility,
session mobility etc.) - requires advances in wireless network
technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting
cognitive environments, as well as discovery and execution frameworks
for location-aware services. Thus we invite you to submit proposals
and/or experience papers in the area of mobility and its mentioned
adjacencies.

Context-awareness, a generalization of location-awareness, is another
driver of the pervasive computing paradigm. Well designed context
modeling and context retrieval approaches are key accessors to the
context in any context-aware system. Thus we emphatically invite
submissions dealing with issues of modeling and retrieval of context.
This may also include integration aspects into service platforms and
frameworks to provide location- and context-awareness to services.

Personal and confidential data such as the location of the user stored
on mobile devices and the location of the mobile device itself have
profound implications for personal information privacy. Thus the area
of protecting privacy, privacy-oriented location-aware systems, and
how privacy affects the feasibility and usefulness of systems may be
addressed. Example topics include privacy enablers in pervasive
surveillance and sensing environments or location anonymity techniques.

Scenarios and applications for location-aware computing may be surveyed
and evaluated, including existing applications and aiming forwards
future applications, to facilitate the deployment and everyday use of
location-aware computing systems in workplaces, homes and public spaces.


The workshop particularly values practical experience with design,
deployment and use of location- and context-aware systems and
applications, and investigation of exciting and inspiring ideas and
technologies. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Single Sensor Enhancements 	
- Hybrid Sensor Systems and Sensor Fusion 	
- Positioning and Navigation Algorithms 	
- Mobility 	
- Wireless Network Enhancements 	
- Context Modelling and Retrieval
- Context Provisioning Frameworks
- Location and Context Information Distribution 	
- Mobile Devices 	
- Security and Privacy of Location and Context
- Cognitive Environments 	
- Discovery and Execution Frameworks
- Scenarios and Applications

This workshop is co-located with Pervasive 2005 concerning time and
place, see http://www.pervasive2005.org for details.


Paper Submission
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Authors are requested to submit full papers in Adobe PDF format to
the EDAS system: http://edas.info/home.cgi?c=4356
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the international program
committee and additional expert reviewers from relevant research
communities.

All accepted papers will be contained in the workshop proceedings
which will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series by Springer. Therefore submissions must conform to the
LNCS LaTeX stylesheets: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

We solicit papers of up to 12 pages in LNCS style but explicitly
welcome shorter papers for presentation of pointed results. All paper
submissions will be treated as full papers but it is important that
their length is appropriate for their content.


Important Dates
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Paper submissions:     December 17, 2004
Paper notification:    January 31, 2005
Camera-ready Papers:   February 28, 2005
Workshop:              May 12-13, 2005


Workshop Chairs:
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Thomas Strang, DLR (Germany)
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, LMU Munich (Germany)


Program Committee
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Alessandro Acquisti, CMU (USA)
Victor Bahl, Microsoft (USA)
Christian Becker, Stuttgart University (Germany)
Anind K. Dey, UC Berkeley (USA)
Thomas Engel, Uni Luxemburg (Luxemburg)
Dieter Fensel, DERI Innsbruck (Austria)
Jens Grossklags, UC Berkeley (USA)
Mike Hazas, Lancaster University (UK)
Jeffrey R. Hightower, Intel (USA)
Jaga Indulska, UQ (Australia)
John Krumm, Microsoft (USA)
Axel Kuepper, LMU Munich (Germany)
Gerard Lachapelle, Univ. of Calcary (Canada)
Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Jussi Myllymaki, IBM Almaden (USA)
Harlan Onsrud, University of Maine (USA)
Aaron Quigley, USYD (Australia)
Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Albrecht Schmidt, LMU Munich (Germany)
Stefan Schulz, Carleton University (Canada)
Frank Stajano, University of Cambridge (UK)


Contact
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For further information please contact:
Thomas Strang
Institute of Communications and Navigation (KN)
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
D-82234 Wessling/Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Tel: +49 8153 28 1354
Fax: +49 8153 28 1871
Email: Thomas.Strang@dlr.de