Call For Papers
During the last decade, the continuous improvement and miniaturization of integrated circuits has led to new types of computing systems. An emerging trend is the collaboration of miniature devices to achieve a common goal. Representative examples include wireless sensor networks, pervasive computing and embedded systems.
Along with this trend, the notion of Cooperating Objects (COs) collectively refers to embedded computing devices equipped with communication as well as sensing or actuation capabilities, able to cooperate and organize themselves autonomously into networks to achieve a common task. As such, COs envision a single, coherent system formed by a wide range of devices. The complexity germane to the interaction inside and across networks of COs presents a rich set of research questions, and entails a wide range of scientific disciplines, such as networking, software engineering, and control theory.
CONET 2012 will provide a discussion forum for researchers, aimed at fostering synergy and convergence of complementary areas towards the vision of networks of COs. Work-in-progress systems, provocative ideas, and position papers paving the road towards such synergy and convergence are particularly welcome.
Topics of interest
Authors are invited to submit papers for presentation at the workshop. The topics of interest include theoretical and empirical work in, but not limited to:
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Resource management of COs
Quality-of-Service in networks of COs
Hardware platforms for COs
Mobile and distributed sensing
Hybrid cooperation of static and mobile nodes
Communication and control of mobile COs
Distributed control and estimation over networks
Decentralized algorithms for control over wireless sensor networks
Decentralized, distributed, and cooperative optimization
Applications of control of COs
Real-time aspects of COs
System software for COs
Communication support for COs
Real-world deployments of COs
Applications of COs to body area networks
COs in Complex Systems
Security and Privacy in COs
Enterprise Integration of COs
Application of wireless sensor networks on Pervasive computing
Closed-loop applications of pervasive computing