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Fourth International Workshop on
Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks

A L G O S E N S O R S 2 0 0 8

July 12, 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland
To be held in conjunction with ICALP 2008.
http://www.algosensors.org

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F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S

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SCOPE

Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks have recently become a very active
research subject due to their high potential of providing diverse
services to numerous important applications, including remote
monitoring and tracking in environmental applications and low
maintenance ambient intelligence in everyday life. The effective and
efficient realization of such large scale, complex ad-hoc networking
environments requires intensive, coordinated technical research and
development efforts, especially in power aware, scalable, robust
wireless distributed protocols, due to the unusual application
requirements and the severe resource constraints of the sensor devices.

On the other hand, a solid foundational background seems necessary for
sensor networks to achieve their full potential. It is a challenge for
abstract modeling, algorithmic design and analysis to achieve provably
efficient, scalable and fault-tolerant realizations of such huge,
highly-dynamic, complex, non-conventional networks. Features including
the extremely large number of sensor devices in the network, the
severe power, computing and memory limitations, their dense, random
deployment and frequent failures, pose new interesting abstract
modeling, algorithmic design, analysis and implementation challenges
of great practical impact.

This Workshop aims to bring together research contributions related
to diverse algorithmic and complexity theoretic aspects of wireless
sensor networks. This is the fourth event in the series. ALGOSENSORS
2004 was held in Turku, Finland, ALGOSENSORS 2006 was held in Venice,
Italy, ALGOSENSORS 2007 was held in Wroclaw, Poland. Since its beginning
ALGOSENSORS is collocated with ICALP. Previous proceedings have appeared
in the Springer LNCS series: #3121 (2004), #4240 (2006), #4837 (2007).

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TOPICS

Contributions solicited cover the algorithmic issues in a variety of
topics including (but not limited to):

* Abstract models of sensor networks
* Methods for ad-hoc deployment/topology control
* Energy management
* Data propagation and routing
* Infrastructure discovery
* Opportunistic Networking / DTN
* Localization
* Self-organization
* Tracking
* Data aggregation/data compression
* Obstacle avoidance
* Power saving schemes
* Communication protocols
* Medium access control
* Fault tolerance and dependability
* Security and trust
* Time synchronization
* Distributed computing issues

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WORKSHOP CHAIR

* Sandor Fekete, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Michael Beigl, TU Braunschweig, Germany
* Michael Bender, Stony Brook University, USA
* Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
* Josep Diaz, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain
* Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion U., Israel
* Alon Efrat , University of Arizona, USA
* Michael Elkin , Ben Gurion University, Israel
* Sandor P. Fekete, TU Braunschweig, Germany (chair)
* Stefan Fischer, U. of Luebeck, Germany
* Stefan Funke, Univ. Greifswald, Germany
* Jie Gao , Stony Brook University, USA
* Magnus Halldorson, Reykjav?k University, Iceland
* Riko Jacob, TU Munich, Germany
* Alexander Kroeller, TU Braunschweig, Germany
* Fabian Kuhn, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
* Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
* Alberto Marchetti Spaccamela, U. of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
* Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide , Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
* Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research, USA
* David Peleg, Weizmann Institute, Israel
* Dennis Pfisterer, U. of Luebeck, Germany
* Andrea Richa, Arizona State University, USA
* Paolo Santi , CNR - Pisa, Italy
* Christian Scheideler, TU Munich, Germany
* Subhash Suri, Univ. California - Santa Barbara, USA
* Dorothea Wagner, K.I.T., Karlsruhe, Germany
* Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

STEERING COMMITTEE

* Josep Diaz, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
* Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
* Sotiris Nikoletseas (Chair), University of Patras and CTI,
Greece
* Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland
* Paul Spirakis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece

INVITED SPEAKER

* Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

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PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be published in hardcopy Proceedings, which
will appear in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Series of Springer Verlag.

We are going to have post-proceedings, i.e., authors will have the
opportunity to revise their papers in the light of the discussion at
the event and then submit their camera ready files by the end of
August.

TCS JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

As in previous years, it is planned that selected high-quality papers
will be considered for publication in a Special Issue on Algorithmic
Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS).

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PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original research
in the topics related to the workshop. Simultaneous submission to
other conferences is not allowed.

Papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages of text using at least 11
point size type, including references, figures, tables, etc.,
preferably formated in the LNCS style. Additional material may be
added at a clearly marked Appendix to be read at the discretion of
the Program Committee Members.

Authors must submit their papers electronically via Web page:
http://www.algosensors.org

The submission server is at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algosensors2008

All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to
the authors.

Authors need to make sure that for each accepted paper at least one
author will attend the workshop.

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IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission Deadline: April 30, 2008
* Author Notification: May 30, 2008
* Workshop: July 12, 2008

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SPONSORS

* coalesenses GmBH
* EU: FP7, FET ICT-215270

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CONTACT

* web: http://www.algosensors.org
* email: s.fekete@tu-bs.de
* fax: +49-531-391-3109
* phone: +49-531-391-3111

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