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CALL FOR PAPERS
2009 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UCS 2009)
August 17-19, 2009 (tentative)
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
http://ucs2009.csie.ntu.edu.tw/
Organized by IICM(Taiwan) and IPSJ-SIGUBI(Japan)
Co-located with 15th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and
Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2009)
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THEME FOR UCS 2009:
Computing devices are now popularly used by untrained users and are
embedded in the environment to provide the best services for human and
society using the sensors. However, most modern computing system design
including hardware and software aims on trained users and lead to the
machine-centric systems. When such systems are used by untrained users,
many errors occur. To allow the untrained users to safely operate the
system and to compute the work, the design for ubiquitous systems should
be designed with users in mind. The new use scenario brings grand
challenges to several research communities including embedded system
design, computer networks, hardware sensor design, machine-human
interactions, security, and software architecture.
We invite researchers, practitioners, educators and students, and
others interested in ubiquitous computing to participate in the Fifth
International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UCS 2009) held
in Beijing, China in August, 2009. UCS 2009 is an interdisciplinary
field of study that includes pervasive, wireless, embedded, wearable
and/or mobile technologies that bridge the gaps between the digital and
physical worlds, practical applications that incorporate these
technologies, infrastructures that effectively support them, human
activities and experiences these technologies facilitate, and conceptual
overviews that help us understand or challenge our understanding of the
impact of these technologies. The aim of the symposium is to stimulate
interactions between participants through them. UCS 2009 focuses on the
emerging area of ubiquitous computing. This emergence is an outcome of
the rapid evolution in smart appliances and devices, as well as
tremendous advances in wireless networks and mobile computing. The
symposium offers the opportunity for in-depth exploration of the most
recent research and development findings in the field of ubiquitous
computing.
This time UCS 2009 will be co-located with RTCSA 2009 (the 15th IEEE
International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and
Applications). We expect much discussion can be made on the area of
embedded system design, hardware sensor design, machine-human
interactions as well as security in Ubiquitous computing.
AREAS OF INTEREST:
Areas of interest include, but not limited to:
- Interface Design for elderly
- User-Centeric Design Methodology
- Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Computing
- Study on social impacts for Ubiquitous Computing
- Robots, users, and intelligent appliance
- Gaming applications for ubiquitous computing environment
- Infrastructure for ubiquitous computing
- Enabling Technologies for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
- User-centric Design Methodology for Ubiquitous Computing
- Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing
- Intelligent Home and Office Appliances
- Portable Devices and Wearable Computers
- Wireless Networks, Home Network and Ubiquitous Networks
- Smart Sensors and Sensor Networks
- Passive, Active, and Smart Tags for Ubiquitous Computing
- Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Computing
- Social Solutions for Ubiquitous Computing
- Software Architecture for Home/Smart Appliances
- Location-dependent and Context-aware Computing
- Human Computer Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing
- Gaming Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
- Modeling and Inference
- Domestic Environments and Health Care
- Study on social impacts for Ubiquitous Computing
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2009
Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2009
Camera Ready Submission: June 15, 2009
IMPORTANT FOR AUTHORS:
The UCS 2009 proceedings are scheduled to be published in Springer's
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Technical papers for
UCS 2009 must not exceed 16 pages (but we explicitly welcome shorter
papers) and include an abstract of 100-150 words. The submitted paper
must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS,
http://www.springer.com/. Authors are invited to submit papers
electronically through EDAS Conference Manager, http://edas.info/.
Further information will be available on the conference website.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Hee Yong Youn, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Shi Yuanchun, Tsinghua University, China
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Chi-Sheng Shih, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Masayoshi Ohashi, ATR, Japan
Yu Chen, Tsinghua University, China
PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
Matthias Kranz, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Masayuki Iwai, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
FINANCE CO-CHAIRS
Zili Shao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Weikang Yang, China
Kazushige Ouchi, Toshiba, Japan
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