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

[Fahim Akhter]

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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