Event:PERCOM 2009

IEEE PerCom, now in its seventh year, is the premier scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications, which aim at providing a ubiquitous platform for supporting exciting anytime and anyplace services paradigms. Pervasive computing and communications is a natural outcome of the tremendous advances of a broad spectrum of technologies including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, and agent technologies. PerCom 2009 will provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers and engineers alike to present state-of-the-art research in the respective fields of pervasive computing and communications. The conference will feature a diverse mixture of presentation forums including core technical sessions, several targeted workshops, demonstrations, keynote speeches and panel discussions from domain experts. The conference will take place in Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, one of the leading technology centers of the United States.

Sponsored by

• IEEE, IEEE Computer Society
• The University of Texas at Arlington
• IEEE TCPP, IEEE TCCC

Topics of Interest

Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including:

• Ad hoc networks for pervasive communications
• Autonomic computing and communications
• Context-aware computing
• Enabling technologies (e.g., wireless BAN, PAN)
• Low power and green pervasive computing
• Middleware services and agent technologies
• Mobile/Wireless computing systems and services in pervasive computing
• Novel/innovative pervasive computing applications
• Pervasive computing and communication architectures
• Pervasive computing in the automotive domain
• Pervasive opportunistic communications and applications
• Pervasive sensing, perception and semantic interpretation
• Positioning and tracking technologies
• Programming paradigms for pervasive systems
• Quality of information (QoI) in sensor-enabled pervasive environments
• Sensors and RFID in pervasive systems
• Smart devices and intelligent environments
• Trust, security and privacy issues in pervasive systems
• User interfaces and interaction models
• Virtual immersive communications
• Wearable computers

Workshops and affiliated events

Many workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom. As in the past, PerCom 2009 will also feature a PhD Forum, Demonstrations and a Work-in-Progress Session.

PerCom 2009 Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must be original and unpublished or under consideration elsewhere for publication. Papers must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and networking. Only electronic submissions in PDF will be considered. The page limit is 9 pages (at least 10pt font, 2-column pages, including references, figures and tables); link to formatting templates can be found at: http://www.percom.org/submissionguidelines.html. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process managed by the technical program committee. IEEE Press will publish the conference proceedings. The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser best paper award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal.

Important Dates

• Paper registration: September 15, 2008
• Paper submission: September 22, 2008 (firm deadline!)
• Workshop proposal: May 23, 2008
• Author notification: December 12, 2008,
• Camera-ready due: January 7, 2009

Please check the conference Web-site (http://www.percom.org) frequently for more details. For further information, please contact: zaruba@uta.edu.

Organizing Committee

• General Chair: Klara Nahrstedt, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• General Vice-chair: Gergely Zaruba, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Program Chair: User:Curator 83atschik Bisdikian, IBM Research, USA
• Program Vice-chairs:
  • Silvia Giordano, SUSPI, Switzerland
  • User:Curator 83andra Narayanaswami, IBM Research, USA
  • Albrecht Schmidt, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Workshops Co-chairs:
  • Ben Lee, Oregon State Univ., USA
  • Hao Chu, National Taiwan Univ.
• Panels Chair: User:Curator 83ristian Becker, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany
• Keynotes Chair: Marco Conti, CNR, Italy
• Ph.D. Forum: Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech, and NSF, USA
• Steering Committee Chair: Mohan Kumar, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA

To see all committee members please visit the main conference web site.

Technical Program Committee

• Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
• Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy
• Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA
• User:Curator 83ristian Becker, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany
• Joel Branch, IBM Research, USA
• Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University, USA
• Tiziana Calamoneri, University of Rome "Sapienza", Italy
• Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
• Paul Castro, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
• Mun Choon Chan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Hao-hua Chu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy
• Diane Cook, Washington State University, USA
• Sajal Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK
• Luca Delgrossi, Mercedes-Benz Research and Development, USA
• Jonathan Engelsma, Motorola, Inc., USA
• Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria
• Morten Fjeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Eric Fleury, ENS Lyon / INRIA, France
• User:Curator 83ristian Floerkemeier, MIT, USA
• Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University, UK
• Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
• Tao Gu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University, USA
• Jonna Hakkila, Nokia, Finland
• Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA
• Robert Harle, University of Cambridge, UK
• Seongsoo Hong, Seoul National University, Korea
• Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
• Yu Jiao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, Riverside, USA
• Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany
• Sneha Kasera, University of Utah, USA
• Timo Kosch, BMW, Germany
• Polychronis Koutsakis, McMaster University, Canada
• Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA
• Mohan Kumar, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Rodger Lea, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Ben Lee, Oregon State University, USA
• Dongman Lee, Information and Communications University, Korea
• Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• Paul Lukowicz, University of Passau, Germany
• Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK
• Martin Mauve, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany
• Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech, USA
• Archan Misra, IBM Research, USA
• Matt Mutka, Michigan State University, USA
• Tamer Nadeem, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., USA
• Daniela Nicklas, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany
• Joerg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
• Max Ott, NICTA, Australia
• Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
• Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
• Giovanni Pau, University of California Los Angeles, USA
• User:Curator 83iara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
• Tom Pfeifer, Waterford Institute of Technology, TSSG, Ireland
• Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy
• Gopal Pingali, IBM Research, USA
• Claudio Pinhanez, IBM Research, USA
• Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Mandayam Raghunath, Google, India
• Nishkam Ravi, Intel, Santa Clara, USA
• Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Michael Rohs, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany
• Kurt Rothermel, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
• Antony Rowstron, Microsoft Research, UK
• Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK
• Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Gregor Schiele, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany
• James Scott, Microsoft Research, UK
• Mitali Singh, University of Southern California, USA
• Wen-Zhan Song, Washington State University, Vancouver, USA
• Danny Soroker, IBM Research, USA
• Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• Vincent Stanford, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
• Ioannis Stavrakakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Thomas Strang, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
• Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA
• Sameer Tilak, University of California at San Diego, USA
• Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota, USA
• Gerhard Troester, Wearable Computing Lab ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
• Kristof Van Laerhoven, TU Darmstadt, Germany
• Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
• Li Xiao, Michigan State University, USA
• David Yates, Bentley College, USA
• Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Gergely Zaruba, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Daqing Zhang, GET/INT-National Institute of Telecommunications, France