LOCA 2009 - The 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness

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Category LOCA 2009

Deadline: January 16, 2009 | Date: May 07, 2009

Venue/Country: Tokyo, Japan

Updated: 2011-12-09 12:44:46 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

LoCA 2009 - 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness

May 7th-8th, 2009. Tokyo, Japan

Please note the recently revised abstract and full paper submission deadlines.

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We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results.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, Universität 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, TU Darmstadt, 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, Google Research, 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 (revised submission schedule announced Dec 12th 2008)

9 January 2009 Abstract Submission Deadline

16 January 2009 Full paper Submission Deadline

27 February 2009 Author Notifications

6 March 2009 Camera Ready Copy

7-8 May 2009 Symposium (Tokyo, Japan)