. . C A L L F O R P A P E R S ================================ International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN'04) to be held in conjunction with VLDB 2004 August 30, 2004, Toronto, Canada http://db.cs.pitt.edu/dmsn04 Workshop Aim ------------ The workshop will focus on the challenges of data processing and management in networks of remote, wireless, battery-powered sensing devices (sensor networks). The power-constrained, lossy, noisy, distributed, and remote nature of such networks means that traditional data management techniques often cannot be applied without significant re-tooling. Furthermore, new challenges associated with acquisition and processing of live sensor data mean that completely new database techniques must also be developed. Topics of Interest ------------------ We will solicit papers that address all aspects of data management in sensor networks. Particular emphasis will be given to the following topics, as they relate to sensor networks: * data replication and consistency in noisy and lossy environments * database languages for sensor tasking * distributed data storage and indexing * energy-efficient data acquisition and dissemination * in-network query processing * integration of sensor network data into traditional and streaming data management systems * networking support for data processing * techniques for managing loss, uncertainty, and noise * query optimization * privacy protection for sensory data Submitted papers must not have been published or currently be under consideration for publication at another venue. We are primarily interested in position papers, vision papers, system designs and papers that address new challenges for data management in sensor network environments. As such, we expect that the submitted papers will have a strong network component and go beyond traditional database systems. Questions about the conference scope should be directed to the program co-chairs at dmsn04@cs.pitt.edu. Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission: May 10, 2004 (5pm EST) Paper submission: May 17, 2004 (5pm EST) Notification: June 11, 2004 Camera-ready due: June 24, 2004 Submission Instructions ----------------------- All submissions will be handled electronically. More details are posted on the web site, http://db.cs.pitt.edu/dmsn04 The workshop proceedings will be printed and distributed at the workshop. Selected papers will be also published in post-proceedings. For every paper submission, authors must first submit an abstract by May 10th, 2004 (5:00pm Eastern Standard Time). Abstracts should be in plain text (200 words max). Full papers in PDF format must be submitted by May 17th, 2004 (5:00pm Eastern Standard Time). Papers should be in the VLDB camera ready format (double-column, at most 6 pages in 9pt font). The format of your submission must be for US "Letter" size paper (8.5 by 11 inches). Please note that A4 is not equivalent to US "Letter" size. See http://db.cs.pitt.edu/dmsn04 for more details and a link to the VLDB template. Questions about the submission process should be directed to the program co-chairs at dmsn04@cs.pitt.edu. Workshop Format --------------- Since this is the first such workshop, our goal is to fill an important gap in the community by bringing interested database researchers together to identify future research challenges and opportunities. As such, the workshop will be organized in a way to foster interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants. For this reason we expect to have longer than usual Q&A periods after paper presentations and at least one panel discussion. Organizing Committee -------------------- Program Chairs: Alexandros Labrinidis and Samuel R. Madden labrinid@cs.pitt.edu madden@csail.mit.edu CS, U. of Pittsburgh CSAIL, MIT Steering Committee: Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh Mike Franklin, University of California, Berkeley Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University Joe Hellerstein, Intel Research and UC Berkeley Program Committee: * Philippe Bonnet, University of Copenhagen * Luc Bouganim, INRIA * John Byers, Boston University * Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University * Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh * Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago * Michael Franklin, University of California, Berkeley * Minos Garofalakis, Bell Labs * Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University * Phil Gibbons, Intel Research * Ramesh Govindan, University of Southern California * Carlos Guestrin, Intel Research and CMU * Joe Hellerstein, Intel Research and UC Berkeley * Wei Hong, Intel Research * Zachary G. Ives, University of Pennsylvania * Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University * George Kollios, Boston University * Alexandros Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh (co-chair) * Qiong Luo, HKUST * Samuel R. Madden, MIT (co-chair) * Sharad Mehrotra, University of California at Irvine * Silvia Nittel, University of Maine * Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University * Mema Roussopoulos, Harvard University * Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens * Anthony Stefanidis, University of Maine * Matt Welsh, Harvard University * Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin * Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh * Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research