The International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces is a premier Sensors and Interface design Workshop aimed at bridging the gap between electronic design and integrated circuit technologies, processes, and manufacturing to achieve design quality in sensors developments and in electronic interfaces. The conference provides a network to present and exchange ideas, promoting research, development, and applications in a wide range of sensor and interface fields. The workshop theme spans from biomedical, chemical, high-energy physics and space/automotive sensors to their interfaces in harsh and heterogeneous environments and sensor networks.
The 6th edition specially focuses on healthcare applications and on the wide range of neuromorphic and neuro-inspired monitoring areas, including neural wireless sensor networks architectures, and software design for neural-networks modeling. In this frame, several technological challenges are still waiting to be overcome. Examples include ultra-low-power and low-noise solutions, real-time signal processing, big data management, energy harvesting and formal neural-network models. The impact of these innovations on the society is staggering, considering the wide range of potential applications: from prosthesis/artificial limbs control, fall prevention/detection systems and feeling awareness to learning machines and Brain Machine Interfaces.

The 6th IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces aims to provide a forum for experiences and knowledge sharing among international experts actively involved in research, development and experimentation of novel concepts, theoretical methods/models and experimental analysis, as well as in testing techniques for micro- and nano-sensor systems, and in the wide field of neuroelectronics and neurocomputing.

TOPICS:
Papers are solicited – but are not limited - in the following and related topics:
• Sensor networks in biomedical, biotelemetrical and environmental applications
• Novel health-care systems and applications
• New materials and new technologies for sensors
• Printed, flexible, biodegradable and biocompatible electronics
• Novel testing and modeling techniques for sensors systems
• Sensors for aerospace and automotive applications
• High Energy Physics Experiments
• Neuro-inspired electronics and neural system architectures for brain activity monitoring
• Predictive study of neural signals related to subjects’ activity
• Brain computer interface-oriented software tools and architectures
• Formal neural-network models
• Big data management
• Simulation Infrastructures in neurocomputing
• Bio-signals real time post-processing: tools, methods and experimental results
• Noise and artifacts rejection techniques in hardware design and signal processing

The accepted papers will be included in the IEEE proceedings and available on IEEEXplore. A selection of papers will be invited to be re-submitted for a special issue of the IEEE Sensors Journal.
PAPER SUBMISSION :
The IWASI 2015 workshop will allow only electronic submission of papers in PDF. Papers must be submitted in their final version following the IEEE format. They must be double column and should not exceed six A4 pages with all illustrations and references included. The size of the submitted PDF files must not exceed 2 MBytes. Manuscript guidelines as well as instructions on how to submit electronically are available on the conference web site.
- Paper submission deadline: April 10, 2015
- Author Notification: May 08, 2015
- Final Paper Submission deadline: May 29, 2015
The complete workshop program will be published on the conference web site within May 2015



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General Chair:
D. De Venuto (Politecnico di Bari and INFN Bari - Italy)

Steering Committee:
B. Courtois (CMP Grenoble-France)
E. Di Sciascio (Politecnico di Bari – Italy)
G. Gielen (Univ. Leuven-Belgium)
K. Makinwa (Delft University of Technology-The Netherlands)
J. Rabaey (University of California at Berkeley, US)
C. Van Hoof (IMEC Leuven-Belgium)

Program Committee:
L. Benini (Univ. di Bologna-Italy)
E. Cantatore (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology-The Netherlands)
S. Carrara (EPFL Lausanne-Switzerland)
H. Casier (AMI Semiconductors, Bruxelles-Belgium)
D.R.S. Cumming (The University of Glasgow, UK)
F. Docchio (Univ. of Brescia, Italy)
G. De Cesare (Univ. La Sapienza Roma-Italy)
D. Demarchi ( Politecnico di Torino, & IIT - Italy)
M. De Palma (INFN Bari - Italy)
L. Dilillo (LIRMM – France)
M. Kayal (EPFL Lausanne-Switzerland)
M. Magno ( ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
L. Milor (Georgia Inst. of Technology US)
E. Nappi (INFN Bari -Italy)
M. J. Ohletz (ZMD AG-Germany)
J. Ohta (NAIST – Japan)
K. B. Ozanyan (Manchester University, UK)
E. Popovici (University College Cork Ireland)
L. Rufer (TIMA Grenoble-France)
M. Ruta (Politecnico di Bari – Italy)
M. Savino (Politecnico di Bari - Italy)
P. Siciliano (IMM-CNR Lecce-Italy)
R. Thewes (TU Berlin - Germany)
L. Torsi (Univ. di Bari - Italy)
B. Vigna (ST Microelectronics - Italy)

Local Committee:
V. F. Annese (Politecnico di Bari - Italy)
M. De Palma (INFN Bari - Italy)
F. Scioscia (Politecnico di Bari - Italy)
G. Loseto (Politecnico di Bari - Italy)

Contacts:
valeriofrancesco.annese@poliba.it
daniela.devenuto@poliba.it