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CALL FOR PAPER

The development and deployment of sensor networking technologies brought the emergence of Internet-wide infrastructure for networked sensing systems and a collection of heterogeneous sensor networks. In this situation, a sensor network or a collection of distributed sensor networks is one of tremendous information resources on the Internet. This SensorWeb can provide real-time and historical information representing situations, contexts and changes in the real world. It is essential to tap this information resource in order to make networked sensing systems accessible and useable in a large variety of applications.

Sensor networks may be virtually regarded as an enormous database that can provide dynamic real-world information. There are great potentials in all areas of life, if people are able to query and search such information resources as they do it nowadays on the world-wide-web. In addition, the searched results should be provided in an understandable and potentially machine re-usable form. For instance, aggregated, summarized or symbolized sensor information is more useful for understanding complex phenomena than raw sensor information. Such information integration will be brought by novel methods for data mining and information extraction specifically tailored to networked sensing systems.

In addition, information integration utilizing the world-wide-web may allow to combine sensor-specific querying techniques, e.g. according to geographic location, and web search engines, e.g. focusing on content, in order to approach an integrated real world search engine. In order to realize such real-world searching on networked sensing systems, some technologies from different research fields are required:
a) network technologies to integrate and overlay heterogeneous sensor networks,
b) database technologies to manage and search spatial and temporal information,
c) mining technologies to extract useful information from sensor databases and other related resources.

This workshop aims to bring together technical papers about networks, databases and data mining for spatial and temporal information and discuss technical issues on integrating sensor networks, databases and Internet technologies. This workshop will open-up a novel and interdisciplinary research area for networked sensing systems covering different research fields such as networks and SensorWebs, databases, information integration and web engineering. It provides the opportunity to discuss key technologies for searching the real-world information provided by networked sensing systems.

Our workshop will focus on data-driven and data-centric aspects of networked sensing systems rather than sensor devices and hardware architecture for networked sensing systems. Original papers on database and network technologies for spatial and temporal information (e.g. sensor data, stream data, time-series data, geographic information and web information) are welcome.

Topics of this workshop are the following (but are not limited):

• Sensor databases: managing, archiving and searching sensing data
• Spatial and temporal databases for networked sensing system
• Query processing architecture for spatial and temporal data
• Mining, aggregation and integration of spatial and temporal data
• Stream data processing and mining
• Data representation and query description language for networked sensing system
• Overlay network and P2P technologies for networked sensing system
• Integration of heterogeneous sensor networks
• Software architectures for sensor networks and databases
• Networked sensing system for mobile and ubiquitous computing
• Text mining, language processing, information extraction on the Web
• Sensor data integration, mapping and visualization
• Sensor web enablement and standardization
• Location-based services and geographic information systems (SensorGIS)
• Experiences on the deployment and experiments of sensor networks

IMPORTANT DATES FOR AUTHORS

PAPER SUBMISSION

Workshop papers should be within 4 pages, no extra page is allowed. The Proceedings of the Symposium and the Workshops will be published, in separated volumes, by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Please mail your submission to <swdmnss2008@osoite.jp>

ORGANIZER

• Yoh Shiraishi, University of Tokyo
• Christian Decker, University of Karlsruhe
• Susanna Pirttikangas, University of Oulu
• Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Michael Beigl, Technical University of Braunschweig
• Tapio Frantti, VTT
• Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Chulalongkorn University
• Takeshi Iwamoto, KDDI Labs
• Aman Kansal, Microsoft Research
• Hideyuki Kawashima, Tsukuba University
• Markus Koskela, Helsinki University of Technology
• Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich
• Perttu Laurinen, University of Oulu
• Silvia Nittel, University of Maine
• Joe Paradiso, MIT
• Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, Prague
• Hiroki Saito, Tokyo Denki University
• Akio Sashima, AIST
• Kazunori Takashio, Keio University
• Yosuke Tamura, Fixstars
• Tomoki Yoshihisa, Kyoto University