See: http://www.kn-s.dlr.de/loca2005/

                         International Workshop on

                Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2005)

                     in cooperation with Pervasive 2005


                              May 12-13, 2005
                   Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany
                     http://loca2005.context-aware.org
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   Call for Papers:

   The goal of this workshop is to address and discuss the technical
   challenges, ideas, views, and research results in sensing, fusing and
   distributing location information as well as providing location- and
   context-awareness to applications and services such as navigation in
   pervasive systems.

   The workshop is a platform to propose new positioning algorithms and
   location sensing techniques, including new techniques and studies into
   the properties of existing technologies. This includes enhancements of
   singular systems (e.g. positioning in cellular telephone networks such
   as GSM; positioning in WLAN environments; etc.) as well as hybrid
   systems (e.g. integration of Global Navigation Satellite Systems with
   Inertial Positioning Systems). Improvements in sensor technology,
   integration and sensor fusion may be addressed either on a theoretical
   or on an implementation level.

   The genesis of nearly all kinds of dynamic location information is
   mobility. Mobility - in all its facets (user mobility, device
   mobility, session mobility etc.) - requires advances in wireless
   network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures
   supporting cognitive environments, as well as discovery and execution
   frameworks for location-aware services. Thus we invite you to submit
   proposals and/or experience papers in the area of mobility and its
   mentioned adjacencies.

   Location is also one of the primary aspects (such as time, identity
   and activity) of all major context models. Context-awareness, a
   generalization of location-awareness, is another driver of the
   pervasive computing paradigm. Well designed context modeling and
   context retrieval approaches are key accessors to the context in any
   context-aware system. Thus we emphatically invite submissions dealing
   with issues of modeling and retrieval of context. This may also
   include integration aspects into service platforms and frameworks to
   provide location- and context-awareness to services.

   Personal and confidential data such as the location of the user stored
   on mobile devices and the location of the mobile device itself have
   profound implications for personal information privacy. Thus the area
   of protecting privacy, privacy-oriented location-aware systems, and
   how privacy affects the feasibility and usefulness of systems may be
   addressed. Example topics include privacy enablers in pervasive
   surveillance and sensing environments or location anonymity
   techniques.

   Scenarios and applications for location-aware computing may be
   surveyed and evaluated, including existing applications and aiming
   forwards future applications, to facilitate the deployment and
   everyday use of location-aware computing systems in workplaces, homes
   and public spaces.
   Authors are requested to submit full papers. All submissions will be
   refereed by the international program committee.
   We intend to publish all accepted papers in workshop proceedings.
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   Important Dates:

   Paper submission deadline: 17 December 2004
   Notification:              31 January 2005
   Camera ready deadline:     28 February 2005
   Workshop date:             12-13 May 2005

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   Workshop Chairs:

   Thomas Strang
   > Systems Department
   Institute of Communications and Navigation (KN)
   German Aerospace Center (DLR)
   D-82234 Wessling/Oberpfaffenhofen
   Germany

   Tel.: +49 8153 28 1354
   Fax: +49 8153 28 1871
   Email: Thomas.Strang@dlr.de
   Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
   > Mobile Systems Group
   Institute for Informatics (IFI)
   University of Munich (LMU)
   D-80538 Munich
   Germany

   Tel.: +49 89 2180 9146
   Fax: +49 89 2180 9147
   Email: Claudia.Linnhoff-Popien@ifi.lmu.de
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   Technical Program Committee Members:

   Alessandro Acquisti, CMU (USA) 
   Christian Becker, Stuttgart University (Germany) 
   Anind K. Dey, UC Berkeley (USA) 
   Thomas Engel, Uni Luxemburg (Luxemburg) 
   Dieter Fensel, DERI Innsbruck (Austria) 
   Jens Grossklags, UC Berkeley (USA) 
   Mike Hazas, Lancaster University (UK) 
   Jeffrey R. Hightower, Intel (USA) 
   Jaga Indulska, UQ (Australia) 
   John Krumm, Microsoft (USA) 
   Axel Kuepper, LMU Munich (Germany) 
   Gerard Lachapelle, Univ. of Calcary (Canada) 
   Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) 
   Jussi Myllymaki, IBM Almaden (USA) 
   Harlan Onsrud, University of Maine (USA) 
   Aaron Quigley, USYD (Australia) 
   Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) 
   Albrecht Schmidt, LMU Munich (Germany) 
   Frank Stajano, Cambridge (UK) 

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   Workshop Secretariat:

   Venue:

   Jutta Uelner
   German Aerospace Center (DLR)
   Institute of Communications and Navigation
   D-82234 Wessling/Oberpfaffenhofen
   Germany

   Tel.: +49 8153 28 2834
   Fax: +49 8153 28 1442
   Email: jutta.uelner@dlr.de