ACM/SIGMOBILE HEALTHNET 2007: Deadline is fast approaching!
Gaia Maselli <maselli <at> di.uniroma1.it>
2007-04-02 09:10:10 GMT
(Apologies for multiple reception of this CFP)
**** DEADLINE APPROACHING ****
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Call for Papers
ACM/SIGMOBILE HealthNet 2007
The 1st International Workshop on Systems and Networking
Support for Healthcare and Assisted Living Environments
http://healthnet07.cs.uiuc.edu
In conjunction with MobiSys 2007
June 11, 2007
Puerto Rico, USA
EXTENDED DEADLINE: APRIL 6, 2007 (5PM US EST)
Selected papers will be considered for fast track
publication in a special issue of ACM Monet.
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WORKSHOP SCOPE:
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As the world's population grows older, healthcare and
high-tech companies are joining forces. New technologies are
being used to provide improved support for elderly and home
bound people in their homes and in assisted living
environments. The overall goal of these initiatives is to
improve the quality of life by providing customized support
to people in need of assistance. The main challenge is to
provide this support according to the user's own specific
situation in a non-intrusive and respectful way. These new
technologies enable the automation of the observation and
support for elderly and home bound people through the use of
sensors, actuators, distributed intelligence, databases,
ubiquitous connectivity and friendly adaptive interfaces,
all connected mainly via a variety of wireless networking
technologies. The ultimate goal is a system that can adapt
to the users needs, helping them get through their daily
routine in a way that is effective in providing support
where needed without making them feel humiliated by
excessive attention. To provide such support, it will be
necessary to combine efforts from many areas of computer
science, including networking, distributed systems,
security, data management, HCI, AI and middleware.
Given the inherent use of mobile and wireless communication
and the need for comprehensive distributed systems as well
as the multi-disciplinary nature of solutions for healthcare
and assisted living environments, the goal of HealthNet is
to provide a forum for the cross-area interactions that will
be necessary for successful systems and applications. The
specific focus of HealthNet will be on understanding what it
takes to provide effective systems and communication support
for healthcare and assisted living environments. Although
the systems and networking community is very good at
providing effective solutions to satisfying application
requirements, they require input from experts in other
disciples, including HCI, middleware, security, privacy and
social networking, to provide a more accurate understanding
of the specific requirements for these
environments. Therefore, HealthNet aims to attract
researchers working on cross-disciplinary projects, with a
focus on understanding and supporting the requirements of
these complex applications.
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research
related to the support of healthcare and assisted living
environments. All submissions must describe original
research, not published or currently under review for
another workshop, conference, or journal.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Enabling technologies
* Service and device discovery
* Security and privacy
* Reliability and fault tolerance
* User and device localization
* Resource management architecture
* User data management
* Middleware for heterogeneous networks
* Mobility and connectivity management
* Cross-layer system architecture design
* Human-centered Computing
* Task and behavior analysis
* Impact of user interface design on system design and
management
* Test-beds and simulations environments
IMPORTANT DATES:
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Paper submission deadline: March 23, 2007
***** EXTENDED TO APRIL 6, 2007 (5PM US EST) ******
Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2007
Camera ready version due: May 17, 2007
Workshop date: June 11, 2007
PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
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All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers
must be in PDF format, no longer than 6 pages,
double-column, with a font size no smaller than 10 points,
and must fit properly on US Letter-sized paper (8.5 inch x
11 inch) with reasonable margins. The first page of each
paper should include the names and affiliations of the
authors, i.e., the submissions should not be anonymous and
reviewing is single-blind. Submissions will be judged on
based on technical content and correctness, relevance to the
workshop, as well as presentation of the research. Extended
versions of selected workshop papers will be considered for
fast track publication in a special issue of ACM Monet.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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WORKSHOP Co-Chairs:
* Robin Kravets, University of Illinois, USA
* Chiara Petrioli, Rome University "La Sapienza," Italy
PUBLICITY Co-Chairs:
* Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA
* Gaia Maselli, Rome University "La Sapienza," Italy
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Amy Murphy, IRST-ITC
* Archan Misra, IBM
* Gene Tsudik, ISI
* Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University
* Henry Kautz, University of Rochester
* Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia
* Jean-Pierre Ebert, IHP Microelectronics
* Karrie Karahalios, University of Illinois
* Kay Connelly, Indiana University
* Maria Ebling, IBM
* Martha Pollack, University of Michigan
* Nigel Davies, Lancaster University
* Sunny Consolvo, Intel
* Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh
* Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois
* Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester
* Yih-Chun Hu, University of Illinois
Please email questions related to paper submission or the
technical program to: healthnet07 <at> cs.uiuc.edu.
Organized by UIUC and Rome University "La Sapienza".
--
Gaia Maselli, PhD
HealthNet 2007 Publicity Chair
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