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******* CALL FOR PAPERS *******
******* The 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on *******
******* DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING IN SENSOR SYSTEMS (DCOSS) *******
******* June 7 - 10, 2009, *******
******* Marina Del Rey, USA *******
******* http://www.dcoss.org *******
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: 11:59PM EST Feb 2, 2009
*This is an extension from the original Jan 25 deadline*
Notification: March 24, 2009
Camera Ready: March 31, 2009

OVERVIEW
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. The focus
of this conference is on distributed computing issues in large-scale
networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications, systematic
design techniques and tools, and in-network signal and information
processing).

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that
demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed
sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Computation and programming models
* Energy models, minimization, awareness
* Distributed collaborative information processing
* Detection and tracking
* Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability
* Abstractions for modular design
* Fault tolerance and security
* 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
* closed-loop control for sensing and actuation
* Case studies: lessons from real world deployments
* Network coding and compression

Detailed submission guidelines coming soon on http://www.dcoss.org

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Viktor K. Prasanna, Univ. of Southern California, USA
Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA

VICE GENERAL CHAIR
Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada

PROGRAM CHAIR
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Univ. of Southern California, USA

PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS
Subhash Suri (Algorithms and Performance Analysis), Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Wendi Heinzelman (Systems and Applications), Univ. of Rochester, USA
Urbashi Mitra (Signal Processing and Information Theory), Univ. of Southern California, USA


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (ALGORITHMS AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS)
* Pankaj Agarwal, Duke University, USA
* Jim Aspnes, Yale University, USA
* Jit Bose, Carleton University, Canada
* Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Amazon, USA
* Carla Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
* Sandor Fekete, Braunschweig, Germany
* Jie Gao, Stony Brook, USA
* Martin Haenggi, Univ. of Notre Dame, USA
* Ravi Kannan, Microsoft, India
* Sameer Khuller, Univ. of Maryland, USA
* Steve LaValle, UIUC, USA
* Mingyan Liu, Univ. of Michigan, USA
* Paolo Santi, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
* Sanjay Shakkottai, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
* Peter Widmayer, ETH, Switzerland
* Michele Zorzi, Univ. of Padova, Italy
* Gil Zussman, Columbia University, USA


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS)
* Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC, USA
* Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, SUNY Binghamton, USA
* Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA
* Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State University, USA
* Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA
* Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth College, USA
* Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, USA
* Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
* Salil Kanhere, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia
* Holger Karl, Univ. of Paderborn, Germany
* Dilip Krishnaswamy, Qualcomm, USA
* Cecilia Mascolo, Cambridge University, UK
* Chiara Petrioli, Univ. of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
* Joe Polastre, Sentilla, USA
* Andreas Savvides, Yale University, USA
* Curt Schurgers, UCSD, USA
* Rajeev Shorey, GM Research, India
* Krishna Sivalingam, UMBC, USA
* Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA
* Sameer Tilak, San Diego Supercomputer, UCSD, USA
* Cedric Westphal, DoCoMo Labs, USA
* Ying Zhang, Xerox PARC, USA


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (SIGNAL PROCESSING AND INFORMATION THEORY)
* Jean Francois Chamberland, Texas A&M University, USA
* Alex Dimakis, California Institute of Technology, USA
* Stark Draper, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
* Emre Ertin, Ohio State University, USA
* John Fisher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
* Massimo Francheschetti, Univ. of California, San Diego, USA
* Michael Gastpar, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA
* Dennis Goeckel, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
* Prakash Ishwar, Boston University, USA
* Tom Luo, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
* Ivana Maric, Stanford University, USA
* Rob Nowak, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
* Antonio Ortega, Univ. of Southern California, USA
* Ashu Sabharwal, Rice University, USA
* Anna Scaglione, Univ. of California, Davis, USA
* Aaron Wagner, Cornell University, USA
* Qing Zhao, Univ. of California, Davis, USA


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) and IFIP WG 10.3.