First IFIP International Conference on Wireless Sensor And Actor Networks Embedded Computing
Albacete, Spain, September 24-26, 2007

SCOPE AND INTERESTS

Wireless sensor and actor network (WSAN) is referred to a group of sensors and actors linked by wireless medium to perform sensing and acting tasks. WSAN 2007 provides an international forum for discussions between researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments in wireless sensor networks and actor networks.

WSAN 2007 is the first conference of this series and is sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8, and will be held in Albacete, Spain. The conference will consist of three days of scientific presentations.

The WSAN 2007 technical committee solicits papers describing original, previously unpublished, completed or on-going research. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

> Physical architecture
> Communication Protocols
> Ad-hoc networking
> Real-time communications in actor networks
> Coordination in actor networks
> Robots as actor nodes
> WSAN applications
> Cross-layer optimizations
> Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
> QoS
> Middleware
> Energy-efficient Protocols and Power Management
> Security and Privacy
> AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting)
> Analysis, Simulation and Measurement
> Wireless Multimedia Networking
> Localization and tracking

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers must be submitted electronically. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures, according formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author’s e-mail and postal address. Problems related with paper submission should be reported to wsan2007@dsi.uclm.es.

All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series (pending).

A special issue with selected papers will be published in an international journal (pending).

http://www.i3a.uclm.es/wsan07

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Full Papers Due: April 02, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: May 30, 2007 Final Paper Due: June 10, 2007 Early Registration Deadline: June 30, 2007

COMMITTEES

General Co-Chairs

Luis OROZCO-BARBOSA, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Teresa OLIVARES, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain

Program Chairs

Al Agha KHALDOUN, University of Paris-Sud, France
Otto DUARTE, Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro, Brasil

Steering Committee

Augusto CASACA, INESC, Portugal
Ramón PUIGJANER, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Spain
Al Agha KHALDOUN, University of Paris-Sud, France
Ivan STOJMENOVIC, University of Ottawa, Canada Luis OROZCO-BARBOSA, UCLM, Spain
Guy PUJOLLE, University of Paris 6, France
Otto DUARTE, Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro, Brasil
Teresa OLIVARES, UCLM, Spain Pedro MARRÓN, University of Sttutgart, Germany
Pedro CUENCA, UCLM, Spain

Technical Program Committee

Tarek ABDELZAHER, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Muneeb ALI, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Guillermo BARRENETXEA, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Torsten BRAUN, ETH, Switzerland
M. Ufuk CAGLAYAN, Bogazici University, Turkey
Augusto CASACA, INESC, Portugal
Marco CONTI, National Research Council, Italy
Otto DUARTE, Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro, Brasil
Luigi FRATTA, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Erol GELENBE, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Mario GERLA, UCLA, USA
Lewis GIROD, MIT, USA
Takahiro HARA, Osaka University, Japan
Qingfeng HUANG, ECCA, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Ahmed KAMAL, Iowa State University, USA
Farouk KAMOUN, ENSI, Tunisia
Aman KANSAL, Microsoft Research, USA
Al Agha KHALDOUN, University of Paris-Sud, France
Dongkyun KIM, Kyunpook National University, Korea
Young-Bae KO, Ajou University, Korea
Miguel LOPEZ, UAM-I, Mexico
Pedro MARRÓN, University of Sttutgart, Germany
Ali MIRI, University of Ottawa, Canada
Viktor K. PRASANNA, University of Southern California, USA
Ramón PUIGJANER, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Spain
Guy PUJOLLE, LIP6, France
Hartmut RITTER, ScatterWeb GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Pedro M. RUIZ, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Jaime SANCHEZ, CICESE, Mexico
Ottio SPANIOL, University of Technology of Aechen, Germany
Ivan STOJMENOVIC, University of Ottawa, Canada
Bulent TAVLI, TOBB Economy and Technology University, Turkey
Kamin WHITEHOUSE, University of Virginia, USA
Andreas WILLIG, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Eric M. YEATMAN, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Publications Chair

Rafael CASADO, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain

Publicity Chair

Aurelio BERMÚDEZ, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain

Organizing Committee

Raúl GALINDO, UCLM, Spain
Paz PEDRÓN, UCLM, Spain
Fernando ROYO, UCLM, Spain
José Carlos CASTILLO, UCLM, Spain
Antonio M. ORTIZ, UCLM, Spain
Eva Mª GARCÍA, UCLM, Spain
Francisco Manuel DELICADO, UCLM, Spain
Eduardo CANO, UCLM, Spain
Pedro DIAZ, UCLM, Spain
Carolina GUILLÉN, UCLM, Spain
Fátima REQUENA, UCLM, Spain

CONTACT
For further information, please contact Teresa OLIVARES
Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Albacete-SPAIN
teresa@dsi.uclm.es
http://www.i3a.uclm.es/wsan07