WIMOB 2007 - Special Session

HEALTH CARE & UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING

Call for Papers

WiMob 2007 addresses three main areas : Wireless Communications, Mobile Networking, Ubiquitous Computing and Applications. Indeed nowadays networks, microprocessors, memory chips, smart sensors and actuators are faster, cheaper and smaller than ever. They are becoming available anywhere, anytime. Current advances in such enabling technologies for ubiquitous computing let foresee novel applications and services for improving and making healthcare services available across boundaries in time, organization, and place. This special session will explore the issues related to ubiquitous computing taken in the context of healthcare applications.

• SCOPE

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Health care and ubiquitous computing

Intelligent Environments / Smart Homes
Human-Machine Interface / Ambient Intelligence
Middleware Support for Smart Home and Health Telematics Services
Tele-Assistance and Tele-Rehabilitation
Context Awareness / Autonomous Computing
Wearable Sensors / Home Health Monitoring
Medical Data Collection and Processing
Modeling of Physical and Conceptual Information in Intelligent Environments
Vision / Hearing / Cognitive Devices
Security and Telematics

AUTHOR'S INSTRUCTIONS

Authors must submit original papers, full and unpublished nor submitted for publication elsewhere.

Preferred maximum paper length is 8 printed pages (10-point font) including figures, graphics and tables. However, papers for review of up to 9 pages in length will also be accepted, although accepted papers exceeding 8 pages will be charged an overlength fee of $100 for the 9th page. Under no circumstances may any submission exceed 9 pages. Papers in excess of 9 pages shall not be considered for review nor publication.

• GUIDELINE FOR SUBMISSION

Papers must be written in English and should follow the style described in the template file available in both MS Word (.DOC) format or Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) format. No other formats will be accepted. Your paper must be printable in order to be accepted. The paper's cover page must include the following information:

• Title of paper
• Authors' names and affiliations
• Contact author's name and address (both postal and electronic)
• A short abstract
• Keywords
• Paper topic area

All the submissions must be sent to pierre.busnel@usherbrooke.ca before Thursday May 10, 2007.

  IMPORTANT DATES

Submission due:  May 10, 2007      

Notification of acceptance:  May 20, 2007

Final manuscript due:  June 05, 2007

Registration and full payment due:  June 15, 2007

 

• SESSION COMMITTEES

Program Chair

Sylvain Giroux
Sherbrooke University, Canada

Organising Committee

Pierre Busnel
Sherbrooke University, Canada

Matthieu Castebrunet
Sherbrooke University, Canada

David Pache
Sherbrooke University, Canada

Session Program Committee

Bessam Abdulrazak
University of Florida, US

Juan-Carlos Augusto
University of Ulster, UK

Jeremy Bauchet
Sherbrooke University, Canada

Bruno Bouchard
Sherbrooke University, Canada

Pierre Busnel
Sherbrooke University, Canada

Matthieu Castebrunet
Sherbrooke University, Canada


Luca Compagna
SAP Research, France

Zhang Daqing
Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Sylvain Giroux
Sherbrooke University, Canada

Mounir Mokhtari
Institut national des télécommunications, France

Chris Nugent
University of Ulster, UK

David Pache
Sherbrooke University, Canada

 

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