Call for Papers (PDF, Text )

SmarTel'09 is the Second International Workshop on Smart Homes for Tele-Health, which is organized in conjunction with the 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom-09), http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~ydai/Picom09/, December 12-14, 2009, Chengdu, China.

 

Description

Due to recent advancement in electronics industry, our homes can be equipped with smart devices that can monitor a patient’s vital signs and other useful information. The patient information can be locally processed and automatically transmitted to the relevant health-care staff, or they can be handled locally in the homes. These smart devices can assist in knowledge extraction and filtering the unwanted data. The quality of current health care system can be significantly improved by using these smart devices.

 

Paper Submission

Only original papers will be considered that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, including web publication. The papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. All submissions will be handled electronically. Please submit the paper using the following link, http://cse.stfx.ca/~smartel09/sub/. Authors can submit a PDF or MS-Word file of their paper following the IEEE single-space, two-column format. Papers must not exceed 15 pages. Check the IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates,

http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html, for more information.

 

Topics

The main themes include, but not limited to:

· Smart home applications for tele-health

· Ubiquitous and pervasive healthcare services

· Privacy, trust, and security in tele-health

· Sensor network management for tele-health

· Body sensor networks

· Energy efficient communication protocols

· Energy efficient data management

· Monitoring vital signs

· Monitoring elderly and congestive heart failure patients

· Monitoring chronic medical conditions

· Integration of smart applications in healthcare system

· Intelligent agent architectures

 

Journal

We plan to submit extended versions of selected papers that appear at the workshop for consideration as a special issue in an international journal (TBA).

 

Important Dates

Submission deadline       August 30, 2009

Authors Notification       September 30, 2009

Final Manuscript            October 15, 2009

 

General Co-Chairs

Laurence T. Yang,

St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

lyang@stfx.ca

 

Rasit Eskicioglu, University of Manitoba, Canada

rasit@cs.umanitoba.ca

 

Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada
dr.sajid.hussain@gmail.com

 

 

Program Co-Chairs

Nauman Aslam, Dalhousie University, Canada

nauman.aslam@dal.ca

 

Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical. University, China

zhiwenyu@nwpu.edu.cn

 

Ankur M. Teredesai, University of Washington, USA

ankurt@u.washington.edu

 

Publicity Chair

Haipeng Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

haipeng@nwpu.edu.cn

 

 

Technical Program Committee and Reviewers

Raza Abidi, Dalhousie University, Canada

Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster, UK

Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Nauman Chaudhry, University of New Orleans, USA

Andrei Doncescu, LAAS CNRS, France

Hakan Duman, Essex University, UK

Sheng Fang, Shandong University of Science & Tech., China

Jocelyne Fayn, INSERM ERM107, Lyon, France

Javier Garcia-Villalba, University of Madrid, Spain

Sylvain Giroux, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada

Peter Graham, University of Manitoba, Canada

Mario Rosario Guarracino, National Research Council, Italy

Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK

Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan

Frederique Laforest, LIRIS Lab., Lyon, France

Wenjun Li, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Artur R. Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Michael Marschollek, Technical University, Germany

Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster, UK

Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

Jong Hyuk Park, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea

Golden G. Richard, University of New Orleans, USA

Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China

Evi Syukur, Monash University, Australia

Zartash Uzmi, LUMS, Pakistan

Christine Verdier, University of Grenoble, France

Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Inst. Infocomm Res. (I2R), Singapore

Guojun Wang, Central South University, China

Yuni Xia, Indiana University - Purdue Uni. Indianapolis, USA

Second International Workshop on Smart Homes for Tele-Health

Held in Conjunction with PICom-09, Chengdu, China, December 12-14, 2009