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                     IEEE International Conference on
                 Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
                        June 30 - July 1, 2005
                    Marina del Rey, California, USA
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                               WWW.DCOSS.ORG
 
The 2005 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
(DCOSS '05) will take place in Marina del Rey during June 30 - July 1, 2005.
DCOSS is motivated by the successful ALGOSENSORS '04 (Algorithmic aspects of
wireless sensor networks) workshop, which was colocated with ICALP and LICS 
in Finland on 16 July, 2004.  While the scope of ALGOSENSORS was focussed on 
algorithms for wireless sensor networks, DCOSS '05 is intended to cover
several aspects of distributed computing in sensor systems such as
high level abstractions, computational models, systematic design 
methodologies, algorithms, analysis and applications.  The conference will
provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their 
contributions related to the above high-level aspects of distributed sensor
systems.  In addition to contributed papers, the meeting will also include 
keynote addresses by leading researchers, a panel discussion, and a 
poster/presentation session.

Located in Marina del Rey, a beach side community that is the home of the 
world's largest man-made harbor,  the meeting venue can be easily reached 
from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).  Most of the world famous 
attractions of the greater Los Angeles area - including the Santa Monica 
mountains, the Getty Center, Hollywood, Venice Beach, Disneyland, and
Universal Studios can be easily reached from the Marina.


SPONSORED BY

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)

Held in co-operation with

ACM SIGARCH 
ACM SIGBED
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
IFIP WG 10.3


MEETING INFORMATION
 
The advance program will be available in April 2005. 
Check http://www.dcoss.org/ for updated information. 


IMPORTANT DATES

January   10, 2005              Conference Submission Due  
March     15, 2005              Notification of Acceptance/Rejection 
April     15, 2005              Camera-Ready Paper Due 
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                          CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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CALL FOR PAPERS 

Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due 
to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities.  Such systems 
allow intelligent dense monitoring of physical environments, which makes 
them immensely useful for data collection and analysis.  While much 
ongoing research has addressed networking, communication and low-level 
self-configuration issues in such systems, there are also significant 
challenges pertaining to systematic design, algorithm development and 
analysis, and abstract modeling in order to achieve efficient and robust 
realizations of large-scale distributed sensor systems.  The large number 
of sensor devices involved, severe power, computational and memory 
limitations, resource heterogeneity, dense deployment and frequent
failures pose novel challenges to design, algorithms, analysis and 
implementation.

The focus of the conference is on distributed computing issues in 
large-scale networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications,
and systematic design techniques and tools), but networking-related 
contributions that support high level abstractions are also welcome.
Topics of interest  include but are not limited to: 

       - Computation and programming models
       - Energy models, minimization, awareness
       - Distributed algorithms for collaborative information processing
       - Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, 
              scalability, fault-tolerance
       - Abstractions for modular design
       - Languages, operating systems
       - Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration
       - Dynamic resource management
       - Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level)
       - Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives
       - Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment 
              and operation
       - Design automation and application synthesis techniques
       - Case studies: lessons from real world deployments

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that 
demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed 
sensor systems.  Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 14 single-spaced 
pages using 12-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures 
and tables.  References may be included in addition to the 14 pages.
Authors need to make sure that the electronically submitted files are 
formatted for 8.5x11 inch paper.  Submissions will be judged on correctness,
originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and
interest and relevance to the conference attendees.  Submitted papers 
may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference
or a journal. 

Submission procedures are available via Web access at http://www.dcoss.org/

All manuscripts will be reviewed.  Manuscripts must be received by
January 10, 2005, by 5 p.m. U.S. Pacific Coast Time.
Notification of review decisions will be mailed by March 15, 2005.
Camera-ready papers will be due April 15, 2005.

DCOSS '05 Proceedings will be distributed at the Conference.



PROGRAM CHAIR
 
Viktor K. Prasanna
University of Southern California
USA

PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS 

Algorithms:
Paul Spirakis, CTI and University of Patras, Greece

Applications:
Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA

Systems:
Matt Welsh, Harvard University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Virginia, USA
Micah Adler, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, USA
Prathima Agrawal, Auburn University, USA
James Aspnes, Yale University, USA
N. Balakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, India
Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
Richard Brooks, Clemson University, USA
John Byers, Boston University, USA
Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University, USA
David Culler, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Kevin A. Delin, NASA/JPL, USA
Josep Diaz, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Jeremy Elson, Microsoft Research, USA
Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Deepak Ganesan, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, USA
Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA
Ashish Goel, Stanford University, USA
Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA
Jennifer Hou, University of Illionois, Urbana Champaign, USA
R. Kannan, Louisiana State University, USA
Elias Koutsoupias, University of Athens, Greece
Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada
P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University, USA
Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA
Badri Nath, Rutgers University, USA
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
David Peleg, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
S. Phoha, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Cristina Pinotti, University of Trento, Italy
Kris Pister, University of California, Berkeley, and Dust, Inc., USA
S. V. N. Rao, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
Satish Rao, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Jim Reich, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Shivakumar Sastry, University of Akron, USA
Christian Scheideler, Johns Hopkins University, USA
John A. Stankovic, University of Virginia, USA
Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University, USA
Bhavani Thuraisingham, National Science Foundation, USA
Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Jay Warrior, Agilent Labs, USA
Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research, USA


POSTER/PRESENTATION SESSION

The conference will also include a special plenary session with
select presentations and posters from industry and academia. 
The focus of this session will be on practical applications of 
sensor systems and experience with real deployments. This will 
include a short overview talk, followed by audience interactions 
with the speakers in a "walk-up-and-talk" setting. Participation
in this session is primarily by invitation, but interested 
parties are encouraged to contact the poster/presentation
chair.


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                          DCOSS '05 ORGANIZATION
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GENERAL CHAIR
Jose Rolim
University of Geneva
Switzerland

VICE GENERAL CHAIR
Sotiris Nikoletseas
University of Patras and CTI
Greece

PROGRAM CHAIR
Viktor K. Prasanna
University of Southern California
USA

POSTER/PRESENTATION CHAIR
Bhaskar Krishnamachari
University of Southern California
USA

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR
Pierre Leone
EIG Switzerland

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS CHAIR
Loren Schwiebert
Wayne State University
USA

PUBLICITY CHAIR 
Wendi Heinzelman
University of Rochester
USA

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
Erdal Cayirci
  Yeditepe University and Istanbul Technical University
  Turkey
Sanjay Jha
  Univeristy of New South Wales
  Australia

FINANCE CHAIR
Germaine Gusthiot
University of Geneva
Switzerland

STEERING COMMITTEE
Josep Diaz, UPC Barcelona, Spain
Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA
Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece
Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Kris Pister, University of California, Berkeley, and Dust, Inc., USA
Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland (CHAIR)