IEEE PerCom 2015 - Call for Participation

Thirteenth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IEEE PerCom 2015)

http://www.percom.org

St. Louis, Missouri, USA | March 23 - 27, 2015

Sponsored by:

• IEEE Computer Society
• (IEEE TCCC, IEEE TCPP)
• National Science Foundation
• Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier)
• Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, USA      

*** Registration Details ***

http://percom.org/?q=registration

Main Features:

• Three Keynote Speeches - see http://www.percom.org/?q=keynote
• Three NSF Program Directors attending including CISE AD, CPS/CNS Program Directors
• 15 Full Papers (4 Best Paper Candidates) and 14 Concise Contributions - see below
• Panel on “Cyber-Physical Systems and Pervasive Computing: Overlap or Divergent?
• Work-in-Progress Session - see http://www.percom.org/?q=wip
• Demonstration Session - see http://www.percom.org/?q=demos
• PhD Forum - see http://www.percom.org/?q=phdforum
• N2Women Event
• Ten Workshops - see http://www.percom.org/?q=listofworkshops

Preliminary Program Outline

• March 23: Pre-Conference Workshops
• March 23: N2Women Social Event
• March 24-26: Main Conference
• March 24-26: Keynote Talks
• March 24: Demo and Work-in-Progress Sessions
• March 24: Welcome Reception
• March 25: PhD Forum
• March 25: Conference Banquet
• March 26: Panel Discussions
• March 27: Post-Conference Workshops

Keynote Speakers

• Dr. Maja J. Mataric (Professor and Chan Soon-Shiong Chair in Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics, University of Southern California)
  “Socially Assistive Robotics: Personalized Machines that (Provide) Care”
• Dr. Guruduth S. Banavar (Vice President, Cognitive Computing, IBM Watson Research Center)
  “Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing”
• Dr. Jim Kurose (Assistant Director, CISE, National Science Foundation)
  “An Expanding and Expansive View of Computing, and Special Role of Pervasive Computing”

Panel Discussions

Topic: Cyber-Physical Systems and Pervasive Computing: Overlap or Divergent?

Moderators: Chenyang Lu (Washington Univ) and Jianong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ)

Panelists:

• David Corman, National Science Foundation, USA
• Christine Julien, University of Texas Austin, USA
• Lui Sha, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA
• Franco Zambonelli, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Technical Papers

BEST PAPER CANDIDATES

• Attelia: Reducing User's Cognitive Load due to Interruptive Notifications on Smart Phones
  T. Okoshi, H. Nozaki, J. Nakazawa, A. Dey, and H. Tokuda
• Energy Modeling of System Settings: A Crowdsource Approach
  E. Peltonen, E. Lagerspetz, P. Nurmi, and S. Tarkoma
• WiBreathe: Estimating Respiration Rate using Wireless Signals in Natural Settings in the Home
  R. Ravichandran, E. Saba, K.-Y. Chen, M. Goel, S. Gupta, and S. Patel
• Mining Relations and Physical Grouping of Building-embedded Sensors and Actuators
  L. Gonzalez and O. Amft

FULL PAPERS

• We Help You Watch Your Steps: An Unobtrusive Alertness System for Pedestrian Mobile Phone Users
  J. Wen, J. Cao, and X. Liu
• LaneQuest: An Accurate and Energy-efficient Lane Detection System
  H. Aly, A. Basalamah, and M. Youssef
• Placer++: Semantic Place Labels Beyond the Visit
  J. Krumm, D. Rouhana, and M.-W. Chang
• Sensor Use and Usefulness: Trade-offs for Data-driven Authentication on Mobile Devices
  N. Micallef, H. Kayacik, M. Just, L. Baillie, and D. Aspinall
• Sensor Fault Detection in Smart Home Environments
  J. Ye, G. Stevenson, and S. Dobson
• Multiple Model Recognition for Near-realistic Exergaming
  Mortazavi, M. Pourhomayoun, S. Nyamathi, B. Wu, S. Lee, and M. Sarrafzadeh
• Curbing Mobile Malware based on User-transparent Hand Movements
  B. Shrestha, M. Mohamed, A. Borg, N. Saxena, and S. Tamrakar
• Inviz: Low-power Personalized Gesture Recognition using Wearable Textile Capacitive Sensor Arrays
  G. Singh, A. Nelson, R. Robucci, C. Patel, and N. Banerjee
• When to Type, Talk, or Swype: Characterizing Energy Consumption of Mobile Input Modalities
  F. Jiang, E. Zarepour, M. Hassan, A. Seneviratne, and P. Mohapatra
• Understanding the Unobservable Population in Call Detail Records through Analysis of Mobile Phone user Calling Behavior: A Case Study of Greater Dhaka in Bangladesh
  A. Arai, A. Witayangkurn, T. Horanont, X. Shao, and R. Shibasaki
• DOSE: Detecting User-driven Operating States of Electronic Devices from Single Sensing Point
  K.-Y. Chen, S. Gupta, E. Larson, and S. Patel

CONCISE CONTRIBUTIONS

• Targeted Vaccination based on a Wireless Sensor System
  X. Sun, Z. Lu, X. Zhang, M. Salathe, and G. Cao
• FINE: Frequency-divided Instantaneous Neighbors Estimation System in Vehicular Networks
  L. Kong, X. Chen, X. Liu, and L. Rao
• Beyond Location Check-ins: Exploring Physical and Soft Sensing to Augment Social Check-in Apps
  K. Rachuri, T. Hossmann, C. Mascolo, and S. Holden
• Measurement-driven Mobile Data Traffic
  E. Oliveira, A. Viana, N. Purushothama, and C. Sarraute
• Online Unsupervised State Recognition in Sensor Data
  J. Eberle, T. Wijaya, and K. Aberer
• CrowdTaster: Maximizing Coverage Quality in Piggyback Crowdsensing under Budget Constraint
  H. Xiong, D. Zhang, G. Chen, L. Wang, and V. Gauthier
• Joint Segmentation and Activity Discovery using Semantic and Temporal Priors
  J. Seiter, W.-C. Chiu, M. Fritz, O. Amft, and G. Troster
• Smart Table Surface: A Novel Approach to Pervasive Dining Monitoring
  B. Zhou, J. Cheng, M. Sundholm, A. Reiss, W. Huang, O. Amft, and P. Lukowicz
• Pervasive Self-powered Human Activity Recognition without the Accelerometer
  S. Khalifa, M. Hassan, and A. Seneviratne
• Fine-grained Recognition of Abnormal Behaviors for Early Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment
  D. Riboni, C. Bettini, G. Civitarese, Z. Janjua, and R. Helaoui
• Covert Channel Attacks in Pervasive Computing
  N. Tuptuk and S. Hailes
• Acoustic based Appliance State Identifications for Fine Grained Energy Analytics
  N. Pathak, M. Khan, and N. Roy
• DoppelDriver: Counterfactual Actual Travel Times for Alternative Routes
  D. Kwak, D. Kim, R. Liu, B. Nath, and L. Itode
• Towards Fine-grained Activity Sensing: Using Infrastructure-provided Context Filters
  V. Subbaraju, S. Sen, A. Misra, S. Chakrabori, and R. Balan

Workshops - See http://www.percom.org/?q=listofworkshops

Monday, March 23

• CoMoRea: The 11th Workshop on Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition
• IQ2S: The 7th International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing
• MUCS: The 12th IEEE Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services,
• PerCol: The 6th International Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking,
• PerEnergy: The 1st International Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services
• SmartE: The 2nd International Workshop on Smart Environments: Closing the Loop

Friday, March 27

• CASPer: The 2nd International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing Pervasive Systems and Communications (formerly CROWDSENSING)
• PerNEM: The 5th International Workshop on Pervasive Networks for Emergency Management,
• PerMoby: The 4th International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility in Pervasive Systems and Applications
• WristSense: Workshop on Sensing Systems and Applications Using Wrist Worn Smart Devices,