July 4-th to July 6-th, 2012, Sanpaolo Palace Hotel, Palermo, Italy
Track Areas Chairs
List of Tracks
- Smart Spaces and Intelligent Environments
- Embedded Systems and Wearable Computers
- Context and Location-aware Computing
- Data Management in Pervasive systems
- Security, Trust and Privacy
- Energy Aware Pervasive Systems
- Knowledge Cities and Disaster Recovery
- Smartphone Applications for UPC
- Modeling, Simulation and Performance in UPC
- Internet, Wireless and Mobile Networks for UPC
- Distributed System and Cloud Computing
- Social Network Services
- Selected Areas in UPC
Track 1: Smart Spaces and Intelligent Environments
Chairs
Mauro Migliardi, University of Padova, Italy
mauro.migliardi at unipd.it
Luigi Benedicenti, University of Regina, Canada
Luigi.Benedicenti at uregina.caPC Members
Andrea Brogni, IIT, Italy
Cory Butz, University of Regina, China
Christine Chan, University of Regina, China
Simon Courtenage, University of Westminster, UK
Krzysztof Dyczkowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Witcha Feungchan, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Peter Galambos, Sztaki, Hungary
Giovanni Pilato, CNR-ICAR, Italy
Xue-Dong Yang, University of Regina, ChinaTopics:
- Context management
- HCI modeling for UPC
- Context computing
- Intelligent HCI
- Sensor networks
- Smart room
- Intelligent room
- Smart city
- Ambient intelligence
- Location-awareness
Track 2: Embedded Systems and Wearable Computers
Chairs
Scott Wills, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
scott.wills at ece.gatech.edu
Linda Wills, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
linda.wills at ece.gatech.edu
Sek Chai, Sarnoff, USA
schai at sarnoff.comPC Members
Vincenzo Conti, University of Palermo, Italy
Abelardo Lopez-Lagunas, ITESM, Mexico
William H. Robinson, Vanderbilt University, USA
Antonella Santangelo, InformAmuse, Italy
Salvatore Sorce, University of Palermo, ItalyTopics:
- Wearable and smart sensors
- Biometric authentication services
- Embedded intensive systems
- Embedded systems for healthcare and/or disabled aid and assistance
- Biologically-inspired vision and embedded systems
- Social networking computer vision applications
- Educational methods for computer vision
- Embedded computer vision for robotics
- Wearable devices for ubiquitous computing
- Applications of wearable systems
Track 3: Context and Location-aware Computing
Chairs
Mye M. Sohn, Sungkyungkwan University, Korea
myesohn at skku.edu
Jung-Min Kim, Daejin University, Korea
jmkim at daejin.ac.krPC Members
Hyunsook Chung, Chosun University, Korea
Huiduk Yang, Chosun University, Korea
Yunseok Chang, Daejin University, Korea
Panseop Shin, Daejin University, Korea
Jenq-Muh Hsu, National Chiayi University, TaiwanTopics:
- Context data integration and evaluation
- Context-aware architectures and applications
- Context recognition
- Context-based retrieval and reasoning
- Sensor networks and sensing systems
- Location-based services and systems
- Location-sensitive application for daily usage
- Ontology and location-aware learning
Track 4: Data Management in Pervasive systems
Chairs
Yongwei Wu, Tsinghua University, China
wuyw at tsinghua.edu.cn
Lidia Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
logiela at agh.edu.plPC Members
Tomasz Hachaj, Pedagogical University, Poland
Marcin Piekarczyk, Pedagogical University, Poland
Miroslaw Trzupek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Li Cha, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Wei Li, Victoria University, New Zealand
Michael Liu, HSBC Bank Inc., Canada
Kosuke Takano, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Yi Yang, Lanzhou University, China
Martine Wedlake, IBM, USA
Song Wu, Huanzhong University of Science and Technology, China
Weiguo Wu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, ChinaTopics:
- Data mining
- Database memory systems
- Database security
- Distributed data management
- Distributed database
- Mobile database
- Object storage
- Recommender systems
Track 5: Security, Trust and Privacy
Chairs
Alfredo De Santis, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
ads at dia.unisa.it
Kangbin Yim, Soonchunhyang University, Korea
yim at sch.ac.krPC Members
Giuseppe Cattaneo, University of Salerno, Italy
Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China
Gerardo Costabile, IISFA Italian Chapter President and Head of Information Security at Italian Post, Italy
Christian Czosseck, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Estonia
Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI, Japan
Dong Seong Kim, Duke University, USA
Der-Chyuan Lou, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan
Giovanni Motta, Google Inc, Mountain View, USA
Francesco Palmieri, Second University of Naples, Italy
Dongwan Shin, New Mexico Tech, USA
Masakazu Soshi, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Toshihiro Yamauchi, Okayama University, JapanTopics:
- Membership and access control
- Identity management
- Privacy and anonymity technologies
- Secure distributed storage
- Security issues in vehicular networks (VANETs)
- Integrating security in protocols
- Assessment of information security
- Computer forensics
- Security and privacy in virtualization/cloud computing
- Security and privacy in wireless ad hoc, mesh, sensor networks
- Security and privacy in smart phone
- Intrusion/virus/malware detection and countermeasure
- Security modeling and analysis
Track 6: Energy Aware Pervasive Systems
Chairs
Yan Yang, University of Maryland, USA
yanyang818 at gmail.com
Zhengwei Qi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
qizhwei at sjtu.edu.cnPC Members
Yin Wang, HP Lab, USA
Liang Liu, IBM CRL, China
Kai Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Yuting Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Gang Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Yaozu Dong, Intel lab shanghai, China
Guangtao Xue, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Hanh Le, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Vidyasagar Potdar, Curtin Business School, Austrilia
Yosuke Kurihara, Seikei University, JapanTopics:
- Power reduction techniques in distributed system, wireless sensor network (WSN)
- Energy aware platform architecture
- Energy efficient network
- Low power component design in the view of logic, circuit, process technology
- Power aware high performance computing and applications
- Energy efficient network infrastructures and protocols
- Energy efficient network services and applications
- Standards and metrics for green computing and communications
- Energy aware large scale distributed systems, such as data center, Grids, and Clouds
- Green computing methodologies and paradigms
- Energy awareness in network equipment and operations
Track 7: Knowledge Cities and Disaster Recovery
Chairs
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
N.Bessis at derby.ac.uk
Tim French, University of Bedfordshire, UK
tim.french at beds.ac.ukPC Members
Jaime Santos-Reyes, SEPI-ESIME, IPN, Mexico
Stelios Sotiriadis, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Peter Norringhton, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Chimay Anumba, The Penn State University, USA
Stathes Hadjiefthymiades, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Odysseas Sekkas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, Ireland
Paul Mc Kevitt, University of Ulster, IrelandTopics:
- Applications and simulations
- Computational systems and social networking
- Context-aware services and ambient intelligence
- Crowd monitoring systems
- Data integration and visualization, data mashups
- Data management, storage and retrieval
- Disaster information and monitoring systems
- Disaster modelling and workflows
- Disaster recovery and urban planning
- Early warning systems
- Embedded and wearable systems
- Energy aware infrastructures, systems and networks
- Geo privacy, security and trust
- GIS, geotagging, geolocation
- GPRS, wireless communications
- Intelligence for climate change and disaster recovery
- Intelligent recommender systems
- Knowledge-based globalized communities
- Knowledge-based urban-planning
- Lessons learned form past disasters in urban environments
- Localization and location based services
- MANET, VANET, ad-hoc networks
- Mobile terminals for emergency use
- Pervasive computing and intelligent environments
- Sensors, smart objects, RFID and inter-cooperativity
- Smart cities towards sustainable development
- Smart interfaces
- Smart spaces, cities and resilience
Track 8: Smartphone Applications for UPC
Chairs
Tobias Hossfeld, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
hossfeld at informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Shih-Hao Hung, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
hungsh at csie.ntu.edu.twPC Members
Barbara Staehle, Fraunhofer IIS, Nuremberg, Germany
Davide Carboni, CRS4, Pula, Italy
Dirk Trossen, Universtiy of Cambridge, UK
Florian Zeiger, AGT Group (R&D), Darmstadt, Germany
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey
Hao Shi, Victoria University Melbourne, Australia
Murat Demirbas, University at Buffalo Ubiquitous Computing lab, UK
Nguyen Chan Hung, Hanoi University of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Raimund Schatz, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna – FTW, Austria
Sebastian Egger, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna – FTW, Austria
Simon Oechsner, UPF Barcelona, Spain
Chi‐Sheng Daniel Shih, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Yen‐Yan Michael Chen, National Taiwan University, TaiwanTopics:
- Applications and services utilizing smartphones for data collection, participatory sensing
- Services connecting mobile sensor data within communities, social networks
- Mobile crowdsourcing, crowd-sourced sensing using smartphones
- Mobile terminals for emergency use, disaster information systems
- Traffic monitoring on roads, predicting traffic jams, responding to traffic accidents
- Environmental monitoring like pollution, noise, etc.
- Cloud applications running on smartphones for business usage or personal usage like cloud gaming or 3D video
- Smartphone platforms and middleware for UPC, novel UPC frameworks
- Multi-technology connectivity via cellular networks or WiFi, resource allocation and management, scheduling
- Energy efficient mechanisms coping with limited battery capacity in contrast to QoS or QoE requirements
- Security and reliability issues, privacy and trust
- Performance studies based on simulations or theoretical models considering QoS and QoE
- Measurements, field trials, experiment results with prototypes
- Future challenges and trends
Track 9: Modeling, Simulation and Performance in UPC
Chairs
Kin Fun Li, University of Victoria, Canada
kinli at uvic.caPC Members
Watheq El-Kharashi, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Wei Li, Telus Communications, Canada
Wei Lu, Keene University, USA
Michael McGuire, University of Victoria, Canada
Kosuke Takano, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, JapanTopics:
- Simulation Tools and Testbeds
- Algorithms and Protocols
- Emerging Services and Models
- Wireless Measurement Tools
- Parallel and Distributed Simulation
- Embedded Systems in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
- Analytical Models
Track 10: Internet, Wireless and Mobile Networks for UPC
Chairs
Maria Calderon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
maria at it.uc3m.es
Jian Yuan, Tsinghua University, China
jyuan at tsinghua.edu.cnPC Members
Paolo Bellavista, Università di Bologna, Italy
Noel Crespi, Institut Telecom, Telecom Sud, France
Marek Dąbrowski, Telekomunikacja Polska, Poland
Georgios Kambourakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Hamid Menouar, QU Wireless Innovations Center, Qatar
Shanmugasundaram Hariharan, Pavendar Bharathidasan College of Engineering and Technology, India
Franceschinis Mirko, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Torino, Italy
Sheng Wang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Fangwei Li, Changqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Depeng Jin, Tsinghua University, China
Wei Chen, Tsinghua University, ChinaTopics:
- Mobile Internet and mobile management
- Security and private issues for UPC
- Service discovery
- Emerging standards and technology for UPC
- Mobile/wireless computing systems and services
- Sensors and RFIDs in UPC
- Adaptive, autonomic and context-aware computing
- Mobile ad hoc networking for UPC
- Future Internet management and control
- Performance, scalability, architectures, efficiency, platforms
Track 11: Distributed System and Cloud Computing
Chairs
Linpeng Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
huang-lp at cs.sjtu.edu.cn
Zhuzhong Qian, Nanjing University, China
qzz at nju.edu.cnPC Members
Weiqing Tong, Shanghai University, P.R.China
Huirong Yang, Beijing University of Technology, P.R.China
Shi Zhang, Fujian Normal University, P.R.China
Yang Wang, Donghua University, P.R.China
Jiehan Zhou, University of Oulu, Finland
Song Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan
Shanmugasundaram Hariharan, Pavendar Bharathidasan College of Engineering and Technology, India
James She, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong P.R.China
Lei Xie, Nanjing University, P.R.ChinaTopics:
- Cloud architecture
- Autonomic Computing
- Distributed and Parallel Query Processing
- Energy-aware modeling and optimizations
- Resource management and Performance
- Virtualization technologies
- Peer to peer computing
- Web/cloud services
- Storage architectures
- Large scale cloud applications
- Security and privacy
- High availability, reliability and scalability
- Service level agreements
- Auditing, monitoring and scheduling
Track 12: Social Network Services
Chairs
Goreti Marreiros, GECAD/ISEP/IPP, Portugal
mgt at isep.ipp.pt
Hoon Ko, GECAD/ISEP/IPP, Portugal
hko at isep.ipp.ptPC Members
Carlos Ramos, Institute of Engineering-Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Marek Ogiela, Computer Science and Electronics Insitute of Automatics, Poland
Martin Drahansky, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
KyungJin An, PinkMode Limited/IUrCRG, United Kingdom
Jeong Seok Oh, Korea GAS Safety, Korea
Yonghoon Jung, Soongsil University, Korea
Jongmyung Choi, Mokpo National UniversityTopics:
- Analysis from spatial/temporal features in users location
- Set SNS based on spatial features in users location
- Set SNS based on temporal features in users location
- Context-classification SNS
- Security & privacy
- Framework & structure
- Services for multiple SN
- Self-growing smart object(service modules) for SNS
Track 13: Selected Areas in UPC
Chairs
Massimo Cafaro, Universita’ del Salento, Italy
massimo.cafaro at unisalento.it
Costantino Granà, Universita’ di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
costantino.grana at unimore.itPC Members
Jemal Aabawaij, Deakin University, Australia
Stefano Zanero, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Gregory Heileman, University of New Mexico, USA
Giancarlo Ruffo, Università di Torino, ItalyTopics:
- Green, energy-efficient UPC hardware and applications
- P2P UPC applications
- Data management issues in UPC
- Distributed computing issues in UPC
- Self-healing in UPC applications
- Middleware for UPC applications
- Security, privacy and trust in UPC applications and environments
- Interoperating UPC applications and environments
- Models of context-aware UPC applications
- Design and implementation of innovative UPC games