[Mip4] CFP: UbiSafe 2009

[Ping Yang <pyang at cs.binghamton.edu>]

The 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Ubisafe Computing (UbiSafe-09)
            Chengdu, China, December 12-14, 2009
             http://cs.okstate.edu/ubisafe09/
                Sponsored by IEEE CS TCSC

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
    Submission Deadline:    Aug. 15, 2009
    Author Notification:    Sep. 30, 2009
    Final Manuscript Due:   Oct. 15, 2009

SYMPOSIUM INFORMATION:

Computers are now available anytime, anywhere, by different means, and
distributed unobtrusively throughout the everyday environments in which
physical objects/artifacts embedded with invisible computers are
sensible and networked locally and globally. Such "any" computers open
tremendous opportunities to provide numerous novel services/applications
in both real world and cyber spaces, and exist ubiquitously in our daily
life, working, learning, traveling, entertainment, medicine, etc.
Although it is yet unclear what exactly the real-cyber integrated worlds
would be, there is no doubt that they must be safe.

UbiSafe emphasizes the SAFE aspects for ubiquitous, pervasive, AmI,
mobile, universal, embedded, wearable, augmented, invisible, hidden,
context-aware, sentient, proactive, autonomic, or whatever it is called,
computing. UbiSafe computing is focused on theories and technologies for
ubiquitous artifacts to function safely for different purposes; for
ubiquitous systems to work safely in various situations; and for
ubiquitous environments to behave safely with all people. A series of
challenges exist to let people benefit from ubiquitous services, and
simultaneously guarantee their safety in making ubiquitous safe
artifacts, systems, and environments.

Following the great success of UbiSafe-07 held at Niagara Falls, Canada,
2007, the UbiSafe-09 Symposium provides a forum for engineers and
scientists in academia, industry, and government to address all safety
related profound challenges including technical, social, legal and
ethical issues, and to present and discuss their ideas, theories,
technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and
experience on all aspects of UbiSafe computing.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

* Fundamentals
 - UbiSafe concepts, definitions, basic elements, models, frameworks and
methodologies, human-centric paradigms,
multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary/trans-disciplinary approaches,
semantics, ontologies, UbiSafe requirements and formal specifications
and validations, information assurance, etc.

* Technologies
 - Security and privacy protection, reliability and fault tolerance,
risk analysis, uncertainty and exception handling, socially intelligent
agents, intuitive/natural user interface, interaction design,
context-awareness, intelligent computing, service-oriented computing,
hardware, software, middleware, etc.

* Systems
 - Embedded systems, wearable systems, augmented systems, context-based
systems, communication systems, safety-critical systems, survivable
systems, persistent systems, autonomous/autonomic systems, proactive
systems, network infrastructure, sensor networks, etc.

* Applications
 - Smart objects, smart environments, information appliance and
artifacts, everyday gadgets, robots, safety care, healthcare, medical
care and services, working, learning, traveling, entertainment, case
studies, etc.

* Measures and Assessments
 - UbiSafe attributes and measures for safety, trust, faith, amenity,
easiness, comfort, satisfaction and worryness, UbiSafe levels and
relations, UbiSafe quality, assessment criteria and authority,
subjective and objective assessment standards, evaluation methodologies,
testing, measuring and monitoring tools, etc.

* Human Factors and Social Issues
 - Human and social aspects of UbiSafe, UbiSafe sources and factors,
social rules, regulations and laws, human factors, human behavior
analysis, modeling of human feelings, traditional and cultural issues,
ethical issues, etc.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

Submit full papers not exceeding 8 pages in PDF format (IEEE Computer Society 
Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures 
and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can download the IEEE 
CS Proceedings Author Guidelines from the following web site 
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/. UbiSafe-09 submission 
web site is at http://cse.stfx.ca/~ubisafe09/sub.

PAPER PUBLICATION:

Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines on preparing and
submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of
acceptance. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society
Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are required
to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their
papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference.
Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in one
of the following journals: Security and Communication Networks (SCN),
Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing (JoATC), and the Journal of
Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI).

GENERAL INFORMATION:

 GENERAL CHAIRS
 Xiaolin (Andy) Li, Oklahoma State University, USA
 Guojun Wang, Central South University, China
 Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia

 PROGRAM CHAIRS
 Ping Yang, SUNY Binghamton, USA
 Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytech Univ., China
 Fabrizio Baiardi, University of Pisa, Italy

 PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS
 Bo Chen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

 STEERING COMMITTEE
 Vipin Chaudhary, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
 Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan
 Thomas Grill, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz, Austria
 Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan
 Ismail Khalil, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz, Austria
 Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
 Xiaolin (Andy) Li, Oklahoma State University, USA
 Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
 Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
 Qiangfu Zhao, The University of Aizu, Japan

 PUBLICITY CHAIRS
 Xiaole Bai, Ohio State University, USA
 Emmanuelle Anceaume, IRISA, France
 Ming Sun, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
See UbiSafe-09 web site: http://cs.okstate.edu/ubisafe09/

For further information please email to: ubisafe09 at googlegroups.com