Web of Things 2011 (WoT 2011): Call for Papers

Second International Workshop on the Web of Things (WoT 2011)

In conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2011), San Francisco, California

Web site: http://www.webofthings.com/wot/2011/

Paper submission deadline: February 4, 2011
Notification of acceptance: March 11, 2011
Camera-ready papers due: March 21, 2011
Workshop Date: June 12, 2011

The world of embedded devices has experienced radical changes; real-world objects such as home appliances, industrial machines and wireless sensor and actuator networks embed powerful computers which often can connect to the Internet. Likewise, more and more common objects are being tagged with RFID tags or barcodes. Considering the recent progress in mobile communications (increased bandwidth for cell phone networks, as well as urban wireless broadband networks), Internet access will very likely become a commodity accessible from most real-world devices. This convergence of physical computing devices (wireless sensor networks, mobile phones, embedded computers, etc.) and the Internet provides new design opportunities and challenges, as digital communication networks will increasingly not only serve virtual data (images, text, etc.), but also serve access to real objects. While the Internet of Things has become a well-known brand for a set of research issues in the pervasive and ubiquitous computing communities, the main focus of this research theme has been on establishing connectivity in a variety of challenging and constrained networking environments. Our hypothesis is that the Web of Things is the next logical step in the ongoing evolution, enabling new applications and providing new opportunities. The Web of Things takes the next step from establishing connectivity and thus the ability to communicate with Things, to a vision where Things become seamlessly integrated into the Web, not just through Web-based user interfaces of specific applications, but by simply blending into the information and interaction space created by the Web and its architectural principles. The Web of Things workshop solicits contributions in the areas of architectures for a Web of things, decentralization, real-time interactions with things, services for the physical world, Web-scale applications, as well as questions of user interface and interaction design, where a Web of Things requires application designers to think beyond standard Web browsers and embrace alternative clients such as mobile devices or even more constrained environments.

• Decentralized Web architectures fostering the Web of Things
• Real-time communication with the real-world
• Deployments, and evaluation of Web of things systems
• Human-things interaction models and paradigms
• Web composition of the physical world and physical mashups
• Searching and discovering things and their services on the Web
• Security, access control, sharing of physical things on the Web
• Applications of the Web of Things (smart homes/cities/factories)
• Business opportunities for the Web of Things
• Use and developments of latest Web technologies for the physical world (e.g., 6lowpan, HTML5, microformats, REST, cloud and services, social networks, etc.)

In this second edition of the workshop (WoT 2010 took place at PerCom 2010) will will consolidate the community and focus even more on the Web aspect of networking things. We will provide an interactive forum for WoT researchers to learn and discuss about existing efforts to enable cross-fertilization. In order to ensure a high-quality technical session, submissions must cover one of the topics above and should not exceed six (6) ACM SIG Proceedings Template pages. Research papers must be original prior unpublished work and not under review elsewhere as they will be published to the ACM digital library and listed on DBLP. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and selected based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop. Submission requires at least one author to present the paper on-site.

Organizers:

• Dominique Guinard, ETH Zurich and SAP Research Zurich
• Erik Wilde, School of Information, UC Berkeley
• Vlad Trifa, ETH Zurich and SAP Research Zurich

Program Committee:

• Friedemann Mattern, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany
• Cesare Pautasso, Universita della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland
• Adam Dunkels, SICS, Sweden
• Vlad Stirbu, NOKIA, Finland
• Gary Gale, Nokia, Germany
• David Resseguie, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Marc Langheinrich, Universita della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland
• Rosa Alarcon, Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Chile
• Tim Kindberg, matter 2 media, UK
• Florian Michahelles, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Inaki Vazquez, University of Deusto, Spain
• Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK
• Dave Raggett, W3C, UK
• Olivier Liechti, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Switzerland
• Christian Floerkemeier, Auto-ID Labs, MIT, USA
• Artem Katasonov, VTT Labs, Finland
• Liselott Brunnberg, MIT Mobile Experience Lab, USA
• Guido Moritz, University of Rostock, Germany
• Claro Noda, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Masayuki Iwai, University of Toyko, Japan
• Jacques Pasquier, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• Till Riedel, TecO Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Rodger Lea, University of British Columbia, Canada