4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness Information

************************ 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ LoCA 2009 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness May 7th-8th, 2009. Tokyo, Japan http://loca2009.context-aware.org Submission deadline: January 9th, 2009 ********************************************************************* The 2009 Symposium on Location and Context Awareness (LoCA) seeks new and significant research on systems, services, and applications to detect, interpret and use location and other contextual information. Context includes physiological, environmental and computational data whether sensed or inferred. In addition, context includes users' activities, goals, abilities, preferences, interruptibility, affordances, and surroundings. With context, we can expect computers to deliver information, services, and entertainment in a way that maximizes convenience and minimizes intrusion. Developing awareness involves research in sensing, systems, machine learning, human computer interaction, and design. We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. We are especially interested in submissions in the following areas but welcome submissions from other areas that are relevant to the theme of the symposium: * New hardware platforms for sensing location and context * Machine learning techniques for inferring user location and context from low-level sensor data * Location and context representation, management, and distribution * Privacy policies and communication protocols for location and context information * User studies of location- and context-aware systems * Industrial case studies of end-to-end systems One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee and is designed to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Both awards will be made during the symposium. Paper Submission Guidelines: All papers will be reviewed by our international program committee. LoCA 2009 aims to be selective and the committee will favor a technically robust program. The ideal LoCA submission should provide an insightful survey of existing work, introduce a radically new concept, or present concrete, significant, transferable research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working system. All accepted papers will be contained in the symposium proceedings which will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. Therefore submissions must conform to the LNCS LaTeX stylesheets. We solicit papers of up to 18 pages in LNCS style but explicitly welcome shorter papers for presentation of pointed results. All paper submissions will be treated as full papers but it is important that their length is appropriate for their content. Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the LoCA Symposium in the Tokyo. Submit papers as Adobe PDF via EDAS at http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6603. Preparation of the camera-ready version of accepted papers may be shepherded by the program committee. Best Paper and Presentation Awards: One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Symposium Website: http://loca2009.context-aware.org Program Chairs: Tanzeem Choudhury, Dartmouth College USA, Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin Ireland International Program Committee: Hamid Aghajan, Stanford University, USA Christian Becker, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Hung Bui, SRI International, USA Andrew T. Campbell, Dartmouth College, USA Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland Dieter Fox, University of Washington, USA Mike Hazas, Lancaster University, UK Jeffrey Hightower, Intel Research Seattle, USA Johan Hjelm, Ericsson Research Tokyo, Japan Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA Minkyong Kim, IBM Research Watson, USA John Krumm, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Rene Mayrhofer, University of Vienna Nuria Oliver, Telefonica Research, Spain Shwetak Patel, University of Washington, USA Matthai Philipose, Intel Research, USA Matthew Reynolds, Duke University, USA Bernt Schiele, Darmsadt University of Technology, Germany Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab, USA James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Alex Varshavsky, AT&T Research Labs, USA Chris Wren, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), USA Danny Wyatt, University of Washington, USA Local Chair: Koji Suginuma, Sony Corporation, Japan General Chair: Thomas Strang, DLR and UIBK Publicity Chairs: Alex Varshavsky, AT&T Research Labs, USA Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA Important Dates: 9 January 2009 Submission Deadline 13 February 2009 Author Notifications 27 February 2009 Camera Ready Copy 7-8 May 2009 Symposium (Tokyo, Japan) Sincerely, Alex Varshavsky LoCA 2009 Publicity Chair