[AISWorld] CfP - ITU Kaleidoscope 2011

[Kai Jakobs]

******with apologies for cross-posting******


Dear All,

The ITU Kaleidoscope conferences are unique in that they bring together
academics and practitioners from the telecommunication world, from both
the technical and the socio-economic field. Moreover, they are co-
located with major ITU-T meetings, in order to better facilitate the
interaction between academics and practitioners. 

The 2011 conference will take place on 12 - 14 December, in Cape Town,
South Africa. The CfP is enclosed below. Information about previous
Kaleidoscope conferences may be found at <http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/uni/>.


Cheers,
Kai.



Call for Papers

The fully networked human?
- Innovations for future networks and services -
An ITU Kaleidoscope academic conference

Cape Town, South Africa
12-14 December 2011

Paper submission deadline: 15 May 2011


Kaleidoscope 2011 The fully networked human? - Innovations for future
networks and services - is the fourth in a series of peer-reviewed
academic conferences organized by ITU that brings together a wide range
of ideas and views from universities, industry and research institutions
of different fields. The previous editions were held in Switzerland,
Argentina and India. The aim of Kaleidoscope is to identify emerging
developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) at an
early stage, to generate successful products and services through the
development of international and open standards.

ICTs have already changed the way we live, work, learn, think and
communicate. Ever smaller and smarter sensors proliferate, wireless
networks are omnipresent, and smartphones are abundant. In the future,
the impact of ICTs will be further amplified through the increasing
deployment of ubiquitous/pervasive/human-centric computing and ambient
intelligence. In this environment, the user is placed at the center, and
virtualized networks, other IT resources, services and applications are
adaptively and automatically configured to support the users in carrying
out their everyday life activities.

Besides many technical issues to be addressed, this also raises serious
questions about access to ICTs, privacy, interoperability and
sustainability. Future technologies should be designed to benefit
humans, not the other way round. To address these issues, standards are
indispensable. Developing these standards will require concerted efforts
by many stakeholders, including relevant UN agencies. This conference
shall help to further such collaborations.

The fully networked human? - Innovations for future networks and
services - is calling for original academic papers offering innovative
and bold approaches in research and development to integrate the real
and the digital worlds.


Audience
Kaleidoscope 2011 is targeted at all specialists with a role in the
field, including researchers, academics, students, engineers, policy-
makers and regulators, innovators and futurists from all over the world.


Date and venue
12-14 December 2011, Cape Town, South Africa


Submission of papers
Prospective authors, from countries that are members of ITU, are invited
to submit complete, original papers with a maximum length of 4,500 words
within eight pages including summary and references, using the template
available on the event website. All papers will be reviewed through a
double-blind, peer-review process and handled electronically;
see http://itu-kaleidoscope.org/2011 for the online submission (EDAS).


Deadlines
Submission of full paper proposals: 15 May 2011
Notification of paper acceptance: 30 July 2011
Submission of camera-ready accepted papers: 10 September 2011


Publication and presentation
Accepted papers will be presented during the event, published in the
proceedings and in IEEE Xplore. The best papers will be evaluated for
potential publication in IEEE Communications Magazine.


Awards
Awards of USD 5k, 3k and 2k will be granted to selected best papers, as
judged by the organizing and programme committees. In addition, young
authors presenting accepted papers will receive a Young Author
Recognition certificate.


General Chair
Mostafa Hashem Sherif (AT&T, US)

Organizing Committee
Chairman: Mostafa Hashem Sherif (AT&T, US)
- Tohru Asami (University of Tokyo, JP)
- Ashok Chandra (Ministry of Communications & IT, IN)
- Christoph Dosch (IRT, DE)
- Linda Garcia (Georgetown University, US)
- Yoshikazu Ikeda (Otani University, JP)
- Chae-Sub Lee (ETRI, KR)
- Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen University, DE)
- Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, JP)
- Yushi Naito (Mitsubishi Electric, JP)
- Ramjee Prasad (Aalborg University, DK)
- Felipe Rudge Barbosa (University of Campinas, BR)
- Helmut Schink (Nokia Siemens Networks, DE)
- Alfredo Terzoli (Rhodes University, ZA)
- Daniele Trinchero (Politecnico di Torino, IT)

Programme Committee
Chairman: Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen University, DE)
The Programme Committee is composed of over 100 subject matter experts
worldwide. Details are available on the conference website.


Keywords
Information and communication technologies (ICTs), human-centric design,
technological innovation, standardization, ambient intelligence,
ubiquitous networks, internet of things, e-applications, information society.


For additional information
Additional information is available on the conference website: http://
itu-kaleidoscope.org/2011.
Inquiries should be addressed to kaleidoscope at itu.int.


Suggested (non-exclusive) list of topics

Track 1: Technology and architecture evolution
- Human-centric, cognitive and context-aware systems
- System integration
- Body-area networks
- Near-field communications
- Environmental and biometric actuators and sensors
- Robotics and humanoids
- Embedded systems and real time systems
- Privacy-enhancing technologies
- Ambient intelligence
- Smartphones, handsets, appliances and terminals
- Interface technologies
- Pervasive and trusted network and service infrastructure
- Mobility and nomadicity

Track 2: Applications and services
- e-government and e-democracy
- e-learning and e-science
- e-agriculture
- e-health and telemedicine
- Ageing and ambient assistive living
- Smart cities: utilities, transport, buildings and homes
- Innovative applications and content delivery (IPTV, games, etc.)
- Virtual communities, lifelogs and social networking services
- Mobile payment and money transfer
- Augmented reality and technology intelligence
- Location-based services
- Digital rights and identity management
- User-centric data mining
- Open Service Interfaces
- XaaS (Anything as a Service)

Track 3: Social, economic and policy aspects of human-centric systems
- Societal impact
- Legislative and regulatory frameworks
- Security, confidentiality and privacy
- Innovative key management and identification schemes
- Accessibility and usability
- Business models (including accounting, billing and charging)
- Prospective roles for ITU and other intergovernmental organizations
- Standardization models
- The role of conformance and interoperability
- New approaches to innovation
- Network neutrality
- Inclusiveness, affordability and equal access
- Internationalization and localization
- Environmental sustainability




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Kai Jakobs

RWTH Aachen University
Computer Science Department
Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems)
Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
Tel.: +49-241-80-21405
Fax:  +49-241-80-22220
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