The Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor
                             Networks (IPSN'05)
                                    and
 Workshop on Platform Tools and Design Methods for Network Embedded Sensors
                                  (SPOTS)

  (pending) Sponsorship by ACM SIGBED, and IEEE Signal Processing Society
           (pending) partial financial support by NSF, and DARPA
           April 24-27, 2005, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
                 http://www.ece.wisc.edu/~ipsn05/index.html
                 * Submission Deadline: November 5, 2004 *


   The Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in
   Sensor Networks (IPSN 2005) will continue the success of the previous
   three conferences to bring together researchers from academia,
   industry, and government to present and discuss recent work in this
   emerging field. IPSN draws upon many disciplines including signal and
   image processing, information and coding theory, networking and
   protocols, distributed algorithms, wireless communications, machine
   learning, embedded systems design, and data bases and information
   management.

   Topics covered in technical sessions include, but are not limited to,
   the following:
     * Distributed & collaborative signal processing
     * Network protocols for sensor networks
     * Coding, compression, and information theory
     * Distributed query processing
     * Detection, classification, estimation, tracking
     * Sensor tasking and control
     * Networked sensing and control
     * Distributed control and actuation
     * In-network processing and aggregation
     * Distributed inference and fusion
     * Fault tolerance
     * Network coverage, connectivity & longevity
     * Data storage in sensor networks
     * Location and time service
     * Energy and resource management
     * Programming models and languages
     * Real-time scheduling
     * Security
     * Simulation tools and environments
     * Embedded architectures and tools
     * Applications and demonstrations of sensor networks

   The 2005 IPSN features two new components:

   - Works-in-Progress (WIP) Session. The aim of the shorter, less formal
   WIP  Abstract  submissions  is  to  facilitate  collaborations  and to
   encourage new people to get into the field. WIP has a later submission
   date to accomodate latest results.

   -  Workshop  on Platform Tools and Design Methods for Network Embedded
   Sensors  (SPOTS),  on  April 27, the day following the Conference. The
   Workshop  aims  to  bring  together  platform  developers  and  sensor
   networking  researchers.  Topics  to  be covered in this workshop will
   include:
     * Embedded system platforms, platform modeling and analysis tools
     * Architectural  design,  modeling,  optimization  tools  for sensor
       nodes
     * Experiences,  successes  and failures in the design and deployment
       of embedded system platforms.

   Existence  of  an actual platform, device and/or tool, as appropriate,
   is required for a contribution to be considered in SPOTS.

                           SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

   Instructions for submission will be available shortly at this page.

                                 KEY DATES

IPSN and SPOTS papers
      Abstract Registration:           Nov. 5, 2004
      Full Manuscript Due:             Nov. 12, 2004
      Acceptance Notification:         Jan. 28, 2005
      Camera-ready copy:               Feb. 25, 2005

Demo  Proposal Due Date:               Jan. 28, 2005
      Notification:                    March 4, 2005
      Two-Page Web Abstracts           April 1, 2005

Work-in-Progress (WIP) Abstract:       March 4, 2005
      Notification:                    March 18, 2005
      Two-Page Web Abstracts           April 1, 2005

IPSN Conference:                       April 24-26, 2005
SPOTS Workshop:                        April 27, 2005