MC3 2012 - MC3 - 2012 International Workshop on Mobility and Communication for Cooperation and Coordination

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Deadline: July 31, 2011 | Date: January 30, 2012-February 02, 2012

Venue/Country: Hawaii, U.S.A

Updated: 2011-06-16 07:40:02 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

- 2012

Mobility and Communication for Cooperation and Coordination

in conjunction with

The International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications

(ICNC 2012)

Maui, Hawaii, USA

January 30 - February 2, 2012

Scope

Networks of devices that are able to control and use their motion and communication capabilities

constitute a new remarkable perspective for the cooperation and coordination of groups of

heterogeneous devices in order to accomplish task oriented applications.

To date, the networking community has addressed the inclusion of some control mechanisms,

especially for energy consumption and mobility control, inside the classical ISO/OSI stack.

However, this approach introduced very limited results and innovations whereas the inclusion of

mechanisms such as optimization, evolution, coordination and cooperation directly among the

network primitives would offer a totally new perspective.

On the other hand, the robotics community has used communications among the agents for

coordination, but it completely neglects or merely focuses partially on the possibilities given by the

consideration of motion and communication aspects and issues in the direct control of the devices,

both singularly and seen as a whole.

Mobile wireless sensors and actuators, robots and drones represent the basic entities of Wireless

Networked Robotics (WRN). Wireless networked robotics proposes to bridge the gap between

objectives and methodologies of wireless networking and robotics research communities, laying the

pathway toward information-centric design of cooperative, autonomous and self-organized

networks. A broad multidisciplinary approach is needed to lead this pathway that involves, besides

networking and robotics also optimization, machine learning, swarm intelligence, adaptive systems

and often draws inspiration from natural and biological systems.

This workshop aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on the design and

implementation of architectures, algorithms and protocols for current and future applications of

wireless networked robotics. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of this

discipline.

Several of the best papers from MC

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, related to the main topics of Elsevier Swarm and

Evolutionary Computation, will be included in a special issue of this journal on Wireless

Networked Robotics. Topics of Interest

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

− communication and motion aware protocols for coordination and cooperation of group of

heterogeneous devices

− communication approaches for machine-to-machine wireless communications

− modelisation, simulation and evaluation of coordination and cooperation schemes in wireless

networked robotics

− impact and optimization of network performance through mobility and communication control

of the devices

− task profiling, assigning and scheduling in groups of cooperative devices

− machine learning schemes in communication and motion aware algorithms for wireless

networked robotics

− bio-inspired algorithms for cooperation and coordination in wireless networked robotics

− self-organization in wireless networked robotics

− swarm intelligence and swarm robotics algorithms in wireless networked robotics

− cognitive radio and wireless networked robotics

− use cases and applications for wireless networked robotics

− experiences with testbeds of wireless networked robotics

Important dates:

Paper submission: August 31, 2011

Paper acceptance: September 30, 2011

Camera-ready paper: October 20, 2011

Submission Instructions:

For authors: Please follow the author instructions at http://www.conf-icnc.org/author.htm.

For submission: Workshop papers should be submitted via EDAS at the conference page:

http://edas.info/N10993.

TPC:

Jan Carlo Barca, Monash University, Australia

Gianni Di Caro, IDSIA, Switzerland

Frederick Ducatelle, IDSIA, Switzerland

Oswald Jumira, MIH Media Lab, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Valeria Loscrì, University of Calabria, Italy

Enrico Natalizio, INRIA Lille ? Nord Europe, France

Dario Pompili, Rutgers University ? United States

Tahiry Razafindralambo, INRIA Lille ? Nord Europe, France

Ahmet Sekercioglu, Monash University, Australia

Evsen Yanmaz, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Contacts:

Enrico Natalizio: enrico.natalizioinria.fr

Tahiry Razafindralambo: tahiry.razafindralamboinria.fr