[AISWorld] Fifth International Workshop on RFID Technology - Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 19-21, 2011

Sat Feb 5 23:28:54 EST 2011

The Fifth International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts,
Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2011)

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 19-21, 2011

http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~iwrt2011

In conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Mobile Web
Information Systems (MobiWIS 2011)

Workshop Background and Goals

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are emerging as one of the
most pervasive computing technologies due to their low cost and their broad
applicability. RFID systems consist of tiny integrated circuits equipped
with antennas (RFID tags) that communicate with their reading devices (RFID
readers) using radio-frequency waves without line of sight. This creates
tremendous opportunities for linking various objects from real world. These
objects are numbered, identified, cataloged, and tracked. RFID systems
present many advantages and features that cannot be found in other
ubiquitous computing environments. RFID communication is fast, convenient
and its application can substantially save time, improve services, reduce
labor cost, thwart product counterfeiting and theft, increase productivity
gains and maintain quality standards. Common applications range from highway
toll collection, supply chain management, public transportation,controlling
building access, animal tracking, developing smart home appliances and
remote keyless entry for automobiles to locating children. In addition, RFID
technology also offers a viable approach to implement physical user
interfaces. The services available in the local environment are advertised
by RFID tags. Users browse the services and activate the desired service by
simply touching the corresponding tag with a mobile terminal that is
equipped with an RFID reader. In the near future, these user interfaces
would introduce RFID tags into our everyday lives.

While RFID provides promising benefits such as inventory visibility and
business process automation, some significant challenges need to be overcome
before these benefits can be realized. One important issue is how to process
and manage RFID data, which is typically in large volume, noisy and
unreliable, time-dependent, dynamically changing, and of varying ownership.
Another issue is how to seamlessly  integrate low-level RFID data into
(existing) enterprise information infrastructures (e.g., upper-level
business processes). Finally, RFID systems present a number of inherent
vulnerabilities with serious potential security implications. Indeed, given
the ability of inexpensively tagging and thus monitoring a large number of
items and/or people, RFID raises some serious security and privacy concerns.
RFID systems are vulnerable to a broad range of malicious attacks ranging
from passive eavesdropping to active interference. RFID privacy and security
are stimulating research areas that involve rich interplay among many
disciplines, such as signal processing, hardware design, supply-chain
logistics, privacy rights, and cryptography.

The workshop's objective is to provide a forum for researchers,
practitioners, and users to exchange new ideas, developments, and experience
on issues related to this emerging field.

Topics of Interest

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We welcome papers that focus on novel RFID technologies and applications.
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

Data management issues in RFID applications

Innovative RFID-enabled applications

RFID and physical user interfaces

RFID and Internet of Things

Security/privacy and RFID

RFID and sensor networks

Web services and RFID

RFID and semantic Web

RFID standards

RFID case studies and field trials

RFID middleware

Next generation RFID technologies

Commercial experience with RFID

RFID network management

COTS and Open Source RFID infrastructure

Integration of RFID with other applications

Performance evaluation

Business process redesign and RFID

Intrusion Detection in RFID systems

Behavior analysis

Situation awareness

Submission and Review of Papers

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All papers must be written in English. Papers should be prepared in
postscript, PDF, or Word and should be submitted electronically using the
online conference management system (
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwrt2011) in PDF format.

All the submitted papers will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. We will
also implement a rebuttal phase during the paper selection process. Authors
will be invited to supply a response to the reviewers' comments. The paper
selection will be based on both reviewers' comments and authors' responses.

Format of the Workshop

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The workshop will consist of oral presentations. All MobiWIS-2011 accepted
papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier
Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and
CD). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on
Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be
freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by
Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (
www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (
www.ei.org/compendex).

Journal Publication

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Best papers of the workshop will be considered for further publication in a
forthcoming Special issue of a well-known international journal planned
shortly after the workshop.

Workshop Co-Chairs

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Yanbo Wu

School of Computer Science

The University of Adelaide

Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

yanbo.wu at adelaide.edu.au

Michael Sheng

School of Computer Science

The University of Adelaide

Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

qsheng at cs.adelaide.edu.au

Zakaria Maamar

College of Information Technology

Zayed University

Po Box 19282, Dubai,U.A.E

zakaria.maamar at zu.ac.ae

Sherali Zeadally

Department of Computer Science and Information Technology

University of the District of Columbia, USA

szeadally at udc.edu

Fahim Akhter (Publicity Chair)

College of Information Technology, Zayed University

Po Box 19282, Dubai,U.A.E

Fahim.Akhter at zu.ac.ae

Workshop Program Committee

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Gildas Avoine, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

Thierry Bodhuin, University of Sannio, Italy

Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China

Maria V. Bueno-Delgado, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain

Rajit Gadh, UCLA, USA

Gerhard Hancke, Royal Holloway University of London, UK

Julio Cesar Hernadez-Castro, University of Portsmouth, UK

Ashad Kabir, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Xue Li, The University of Queensland, Australia

Weifa Liang, The Australian National University, Australia

Tomas S. Lopez, University of Cambridge, UK

Kostas Markantonakis, Royal Holloway University of London, UK

John Mo, RMIT University, Australia

Pedro Peris-Lopez, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Jukka Riekki, University of Oulu, Finland

Francesco Rizzo, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy

George Roussos, University of London, UK

Michele Ruta, Technical University of Bari, Italy

Dave Singelee, Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium

Bela Stantic, Griffith University, Australia

Claire Vishik, Intel Corporation, UK

Fusheng Wang, Emory University, USA

Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Holger Ziekow, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA

Important Dates

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Paper Submission: March 31, 2011

Author Notification: May 15, 2011

Registration: May 30, 2011

Final Manuscript Submission: June 15, 2011

Workshop Venue

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The workshop will be held in conjunction of the 8th International Conference
on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2011) in Niagara Falls, Ontario,
Canada.

Registration Information

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At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. The
registration

information can be found from  http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobiwis-11/.

Secretariat

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MobiWIS 2011 Secretariat - The Fifth International Workshop on RFID
Technology (IWRT 2011)

E-mail: yanbo.wu at adelaide.edu.au

Web site: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobiwis-11/
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