[AISWorld] CFP: The Fifth International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2011)

[Michael Sheng]

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 applicationsInnovative RFID-enabled 
applicationsRFID and physical user interfacesRFID and Internet of 
ThingsSecurity/privacy and RFIDRFID and sensor networksWeb services and 
RFIDRFID and semantic WebRFID standardsRFID case studies and field 
trialsRFID middlewareNext generation RFID technologiesCommercial 
experience with RFIDRFID network managementCOTS and Open Source RFID 
infrastructureIntegration of RFID with other applicationsPerformance 
evaluationBusiness process redesign and RFIDIntrusion Detection in RFID 
systemsBehavior analysisSituation 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 IWRT-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 Co-Chair)
College of Information Technology, Zayed University
Po Box 19282, Dubai,U.A.E
Fahim.Akhter at zu.ac.ae

Lina Yao (Publicity Co-Chair)
School of Computer Science
The University of Adelaide
Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
lina.yao at adelaide.edu.au

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: April 14, 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.auWeb site: 
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobiwis-11/