CfP: 3rd International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2007)

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                      LoCA 2007 Call for Papers

      3rd International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness

                      September 20th-21st, 2007
                Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany

                  http://loca2007.context-aware.org


The 2007 Symposium on Location and Context Awareness seeks new and 
significant research on systems, services, and applications to detect,
interpret and use of location and other contextual information.  
Context includes users’ activities, goals, abilities, preferences, 
interruptibility, affordances, and surroundings. With context, we can 
expect computers to deliver information, services, and entertainment 
in a way that maximizes convenience and minimizes intrusion. 
Developing awareness involves research in sensing, inference, data 
representation, and design.

Topic Areas:
We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished 
research results.  Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Sensing location and context
- Inference techniques for context from low-level sensor data
- Privacy and sharing of location and context information
- User studies of location- and context-aware systems

Dates:
Submission Deadline:    May  29, 2007
Author Notification:    July  3, 2007
Camera-Ready Version:   July 10, 2007
Symposium:              Sept. 20-21, 2007

Paper Submission Guidelines:
All papers will be reviewed by an international program committee with 
appropriate expertise. LoCA 2007 aims to be selective and the committee
will favor a technically robust program. The ideal LoCA submission 
should provide an insightful survey of existing work, introduce a 
radically new concept, or present concrete, significant, transferable 
research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working system.

Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the LoCA Symposium 
near Munich and published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer 
Science. Submissions must be formatted in Springer LNCS style, limited 
to 18 pages. Submit papers via http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=4899.  
Preparation of the camera-ready version of accepted papers may be 
shepherded by the program committee.

Demonstration Submission Guidelines - New this year!
New this year, we will have a demonstration session. We solicit 
proposals for demos of location and context technologies or 
applications. Demo proposals should include a brief 2-3 page 
description of the demo and describe the key research results or 
innovation. Demo submissions will follow the same review timeline as 
the papers.

Best Paper and Presentation Awards:
One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program 
committee. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and
all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the 
Best Presentation Award following the symposium.


General Chair: 
Thomas Strang, DLR and UIBK

Program Co-Chairs:
Jeffrey Hightower, Intel Research
Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt

Program Comittee:
Gregory Abowd, Georgia Tech
Witold Abramowicz, Poznan Univ. of Econ.
Alessandro Acquisti, CMU
Michael Beigl, TU Braunschweig
Carlos Bento, Univ. of Coimbra
Gaetano Borriello, Univ. of Washington
Jim Crowley, INRIA, France
Eyal de Lara, Univ. of Toronto
Anind Dey, CMU
Alois Ferscha, Univ. Linz
Hans Gellersen, Lancaster Univ.
Robert Harle, Univ. of Cambridge
Mike Hazas, Lancaster Univ.
Jaga Indulska, Univ. of Queensland
Minkyong Kim, Dartmouth
John Krumm, Microsoft Research
Anthony LaMarca, Intel Research
Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, LMU Munich
Paul Lukowicz, Univ. of Passau
Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt
Kurt Partridge, PARC
Shwetak Patel, Georgia Tech
Alex Pentland, MIT
Matt Reynolds, ThingMagic Inc.
Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich
Chris Schmandt, MIT
Albrecht Schmidt, LMU Munich
Tim Sohn, UC San Diego
Hiroyuki Tarumi, Kagawa University
Andy Wilson, Microsoft Research

Local Demo Arrangements:
Kai Wendlandt, DLR



A PDF version of this call is available at: 
http://loca2007.context-aware.org/LoCA2007-cfp-v7.pdf

Received on Friday, 12 January 2007 17:23:41 UTC