Presentation slides now available in the Programme section
Description
One of the major technological trends is to embed sensing, communication, computation and actuation in physical artefacts leading to the creation of smart objects. Current industrial and academic research indicates that smart objects might soon become an integral part of our daily lives with applications in economically important areas such as retail, supply chain management, asset management, safety critical situations in work places and healthcare.
Smart objects will be an important building block to bridge the gap between the physical and digital world by providing information about aspects of their physical environment. While systems of smart objects clearly will need to build on emerging technologies such as RFID and wireless sensor networks, the envisioned ubiquity of smart objects raises important questions about the digital representation of physical artefacts, their cooperation paradigms, integration into backend infrastructures and the applications that will benefit and influence their design and development.
The workshop is intended as a forum for
exchanging ideas, experiences and research results related to smart
object systems. In particular, we hope to contribute to establishing a
multi-faceted research community in this area.
Concrete expected outcomes are:
- Survey of state-of-the-art work on smart object systems. This includes an overview of applications, a classification of smart object systems, and a survey of suitable enabling technologies.
- Identify future research directions. This includes the identification of important research challenges and open questions and will contribute to developing a research agenda for smart object systems.
Goals and Topics
The intention of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines with the goal to discuss and identify issues surrounding the challenge of building scalable smart object systems. The immediate goal will be to investigate the relevant issues from a variety of angles influenced by the background of the participants. The ultimate goal will be to define a research agenda for smart object systems and to stimulate further research. While the workshop will seek to include all the topics listed below, a specific focus will be on system aspects that derive their requirements from real world applications. Concrete topics include but are not limited to:
- Applications and Scenarios
- Smart Object Models and Digital Representations
- Cooperation Models between Smart Objects
- Services Provided by and Offered to Smart Objects
- Programming Paradigms for Developers and End Users
- Simulation of Large Scale Smart Object Systems
- Enabling Technologies for Instrumenting Physical Artefacts
Format and Submission Guidelines
The workshop will be highly interactive to maximize information exchange and foster collaborations. Major workshop activities will take place in small discussion groups of 3-4 following presentations of invited workshop participants. Selection of workshop participants is based on submitted papers describing ongoing research and experiences. We encourage submissions from researchers, practitioners and students from academia as well as industry. Submitted papers must be formatted in Springer LNCS format and should not exceed a maximum length of 8 pages. We also welcome shorter position papers that report about ongoing work of the authors. All submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and additional experts. Submissions should be sent by eMail (Subject: "UbiComp 2005 Workshop submission") and no later than June 17, 2005 to
Martin Strohbach (strohbach@comp.lancs.ac.uk)
Proceedings
The workshop proceedings will be distributed to the workshop participants. They will also be available in the Programme Section on this website.
Selected papers will be recommended for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI).
Important Dates
| Submission Deadline | June 17, 2005 June 25, 2005 |
| Acceptance Notification | July 25, 2005 |
| Final Version | August 8, 2005 |
| Workshop Date | September 11, 2005 |
Organizers
Gerd Kortuem (Lancaster University, UK)
Matthias Lampe (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Pedro Jose Marron (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Martin Strohbach (Lancaster University, UK)
Tsutomu Terada (Osaka University, Japan)
Program Committee
Michael Beigl (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Alois Ferscha (University of Linz, Austria)
Hans Gellersen (Lancaster University, UK)
Friedemann Mattern (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Masateru Minami (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan)
David DeRoure (University of Southampton, UK)
Bernt Schiele (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Contact Details
Martin Strohbach
Computing Department
InfoLab 21
Lancaster University,
Lancaster LA1 4WA, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1524 510369
Email: strohbach@comp.lancs.ac.uk
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~strohbach
