The Fourth IASTED International Conference on
Advances in Computer Science and Technology
~ACST 2008~
April 2 – 4, 2008
Langkawi, Malaysia
SPECIAL SESSION
Ubiquitous Computing: Futuristic and Emerging Computing Paradigm
Abstract
The essence of the vision of ubiquitous computing is to create environments saturated with computing and communication capability, yet gracefully integrated with human users.
Motivation for Ubiquitous computing is to develop systems that adapt to people, as opposed to people adapting to systems. The system needs to evolve from explicit (computer-directed) to implicit (activity-driven) interaction between people and systems with ability for observation of human activity.
Ubiquitous computing is a multi-disciplinary area of research. Some of the technical problems in ubiquitous computing correspond to problems already identified and studied earlier in fields such as Distributed computing , mobile computing etc. Area of ubiquitous computing offers many new problems that were not studied by earlier researchers. Further, these areas of research have to be dealt using new strategies suitable for ubiquitous computing environments. Some of the focus areas for special session will include:
- RFID and Sensor networks
- Smart Spaces
- Context Aware Systems
- Ambient intelligence
- HCI for Ubiquitous devices
- Metadata, context, and information systems issues in Ubiquitous computing
- Description, discovery and composition of services and/or devices
- Semantic and Ubiquitous web
- Ubiquitous applications for daily life
- Visionary Future Scenarios
This special session is seeking contributions from researchers, academicians, industry professionals to submit technical papers on research issues related to Ubiquitous computing. The purpose of special session is to share experiences, to foster research communities, to learn from each other and to envision future directions.
Biography of the Organizers
Dr George Varkey has more than 33 years experience and has worked with organizations such as Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, KELTRON, ERDCI, Trivandrum, now CDAC. Presently Dr. Varkey is officiating as Executive Director of the CDAC Noida, India. He has worked on number of specialized projects such as Intelligent Work Station, Message Switching System for DoT, The Sanchar Network for the Indian Navy, the Neutron Spectrometer Control System for BARC. He has headed the Special Systems Group in C-DAC(T) which developed products like Low Cost PC motherboards using the specially developed Arjun/Krishna Chipset, flash memory boards, Industrial Grade PC platforms, Text Reading System for Malayalam, etc. He conceived and developed the Acoustic Emission Data Acquisition Analysis and Presentation System in association with Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum. Dr Varkey was instrumental in conceptualizing the OncoNet India project involving interlinking of the Regional Cancer Centers along with their distant peripheral centers spread across the country into a single Virtual hospital. He has also worked for first underwater over-run ranges in the whole of south-east Asia and it was a significant achievement in ensuring combat-worthiness of Indian Naval vessels.
His areas of interest include Parallel Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Image Processing, Speech Processing, Embedded Systems, Underwater Electronics, Sonar, Mathematical Modeling and Simulation.
Dr P R Gupta has about 20 years experience in academics and research. She has M.Tech from IIT Delhi and Ph.D. in Computer Sc & Engg from KNIT, Sultanpur. Presently, she is working as Associate Professor at CDAC, Noida, India. A localized live CD version of Linux namely Abhigyan has been developed by her team for indian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and Punjabi. Her group is also working for developing tools for training and supproting physically challenged people.
Her research interest include Artificial Intelligence, Open Source Systems, localization, e-governance and Ubiquitous computing
Please email all submisssions to acst2008@cdacnoida.in or acst2008@gmail.com by December 7, 2007.
Important Deadlines
| Submissions due | December 7, 2007 |
| Notification of acceptance | January 15, 2007 |
| Final manuscripts due | February 11, 2008 |
| Registration deadline | February 25, 2008 |
