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************************ 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ************************

                               LoCA 2009
       4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness
                    May 7th-8th, 2009. Tokyo, Japan

                  http://loca2009.context-aware.org

                 Submission deadline: January 9th, 2009

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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We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research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 and communication protocols for location and 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 a radically new concept, or present concrete, significant,
transferable research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working
system.

All accepted papers will be contained in the symposium 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. We solicit
papers of up to 18 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.

Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the LoCA Symposium in the
Tokyo. 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, Stanford University, USA
Christian Becker, Universitat 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, University of Washington, 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, AT&T Research Labs, USA
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, AT&T Research Labs, USA
Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA

Important Dates:
9 January 2009         Submission Deadline
13 February 2009      Author Notifications
27 February 2009      Camera Ready Copy
7-8 May 2009           Symposium (Tokyo, Japan)

Sincerely,
Alex Varshavsky <[log in to unmask]>
LoCA 2009 Publicity Chair

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