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        Call for Papers: CitiSen 2012
  Workshop on Citizen Sensor Networks
  http://sites.google.com/site/citisen2012
27th or 28th of August, 2012, Montpellier/France
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In conjunction with the 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) 2012

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline:  May 28th, 2012
Notification of acceptance: June 28th, 2012
Camera ready versions due: July 12th, 2012
Workshop: August 27th, 2012

PRESENTATION:

The meeting of researchers from sensor networks, distributed intelligence and the social, economic or organizational sciences is of crucial importance for the future of citizen sensor networks. The multidisciplinary interactions for this area of research are extensively recognized for its role in cross-fertilization, and it has undoubtedly been an important source of inspiration for the body of knowledge that has been produced in the distributed artificial intelligence. The Citizen Sensor Network workshop is born with the goal of bringing together researchers interested in distributed engineering, with researchers focused on finding efficient solutions to problems where the data acquisition is produced in a decentralized manner, representing complex social systems.
In several areas of research (such areas as economics, management, organizational, telecommunications and social sciences),  sensor networks have converged with social systems becoming a innovative area of study, that will allow to the behavioral explanation and prediction of such systems, and allowing the development and construction of better designs and systems.

Topics of interest include everything involving Citizen Sensor Networks. Some examples are the following:

standards for CSN
methodologies and simulation languages for CSN
simulation platforms and tools for CSN
visualization and analytic tools
approaches for large-scale CSN
scalability and robustness in CSN
crowdsourcing and 'the wisdom of the crowd'
Multimedia information management in CSN
Privacy technologies in CSN
Data mining algorithms for CSN
Uncertainty and incomplete information management in CSN
CSN in environmental modeling
CSN in geo-localization tools
CSN in web services

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Long papers must not exceed SIX (6) pages in camera-ready format for CITI-SEN. Over-length submissions will be rejected without review. Papers forCitiSen 2012 should be submitted using the ECAI formatting style; details of the style are available at:

http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~luc.deraedt/ecai2012-style.zip

This file unpacks to a directory "ecai2012", and contains LaTeX and other style files. The file "ecai2012.tex" is an example paper in LaTeX  format  using  the appropriate styles, and can be used as a template for CitiSen 2012 submissions. A Microsoft Word template is also available.

Reviewing for CitiSen 2012 will be blind: reviewers will not be presented with the identity of paper authors. To allow for blind review, author names in a submitted paper should be replaced by the unique tracking number assigned by the conference website at the submission of an electronic abstract. Authors should avoid writing anything that makes their identity obvious in the text.

Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously have been formally published. (Any publication venue with an ISBN or ISSN number counts as a formal publication; this includes LNCS/LNAI volumes, for example.) Submissions should not be submitted elsewhere during the CITI-SEN 2012 review phase.

All accepted papers, after a further reviewing process, will be in Springer-Verlag's LNAI, with the title "Citizen Sensor Networks, 1st International Workshop, Montpellier, France, August 2012, Revised Papers".
Additionally, a selection of the best papers presented at theWorkshop will be considered for publishing in the Advanced Complex SystemJournal (SCI index (2010): 1.213). Note that, such publication in ACS will require additional effort regarding accessibility and originality. (see http://www.worldscinet.com/acs for more details).

SUPPORT FOR PARTICIPANTS COMING FROM TRANSITION COUNTRIES

Thanks to support from the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy({http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/), we are able to
offer grants to offset some of the costs associated with attending the
CITI-SEN 2012 workshop for participants coming from "transition countries". Interested participants
please send a mail with your vitae to [log in to unmask] Further information at http://sites.google.com/site/citisen2012/

Further information at http://sites.google.com/site/citisen2012

We hope you can participate in this event!

Best regards,

Jordi Nin
Daniel Villatoro
Chairmen of the Organizing Committee