CALL FOR PAPERS

First IPSoN 2011 International Workshop

Integration of Physical and Social-Network Sensing & Mining

 

Co-located with Digital Information and Web Technologies Conference ICADIWT 2011

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA. August 4-6, 2011.

 

Accepted workshop papers will be published in the ICADIWT 2011 proceedings and indexed in IEEE Xplore

 

 

Mobile devices, wearables and wireless sensor networks have been lately used to monitor and sense real world. On one hand, processing of information that has been sensed in the real world is used to detect human activities, environmental and urban state, healthcare conditions, proximity and concentrations of people, epidemic trends, network and routing planning and other natural and human-generated situations describing aspects of the real world. On the other hand, the evolution of the web in terms of user-generated content and the proliferation of online social networks have generated tremendous amount of information, describing dynamic interaction of people with each other, with their surroundings and brought together through their common interests in both, virtual and real worlds.

 

IPSoN Workshop intends to provide a forum for discussions on the topic of Physical and Social-Network Sensing & Mining Integration. The Workshop will explore different challenges involved in the integration of data originated from both sources, physical and online taking into consideration (but not limited) to different research topics such as large scale data integration, participatory sensing from multiple sources, correlation of physical-digital information, geo-located and online social networks correlations, trust and security,

 

 

IPSON Workshop will foster discussions and accept submissions on a comprehensive list of challenges; including, but not limited to:

 

• Mobility and geo-localization and their impact to/from social networks

• Wireless sensor networks, mobile devices and social network sensing

•        • Implications to system design of integrated physical and social network sensing

• Correlation from personal & virtual group spaces and sensors

• Impacts of searching and mining the Internet of things to social networks

• Multi-source information integration

• Search in pervasive social databases

• Models and representations of real-virtual dynamics

• Participatory sensing

• Case studies and applications of mixed sensing and mining

• Content centric networks 

• Social metrics for network operation

• Middleware for mobile, wsn and social networks

• Web dynamics and grid/cloud computing

• Security, privacy, reputation and trust issues

• Users studies and human factors in real-online combined sensing

• Applications of physical-online sensing

 

 

Submissions and Important Dates

 

IPSoN 2011 will accept paper submissions from 6 pages in IEEE format. Authors can find templates in DIWT Conference website in the following link http://www.dirf.org/diwt/submission.asp. All submissions must be sent as pdf documents to omayora  [at]  create-net [dot] org.

 

Accepted contributions will be included in the IEEE proceedings and indexed in IEEE Xplore. Best papers may be invited to a Special Issue on a high impact Journal.

 

Important Dates

 

Paper submissions deadline - March 20, 2011

Notifications    of Acceptance - April 20, 2011

Camera ready and Registration -May 15, 2011

 

 

Workshop Organizers:

 

Oscar Mayora

CREATE-NET, Italy

 

Ryoichi Shinkuma

Kyoto University, Japan

 

Francesco Calabrese

IBM Research, Ireland and MIT, USA

 

Paul Moore

ATOS Research, Spain