<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">The Fifth International Workshop on RFID Technology -
Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2011)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 19-21, 2011</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~iwrt2011">http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~iwrt2011</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In conjunction with the 8th International Conference on
Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2011)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop Background and Goals</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Topics of Interest</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We welcome papers that focus on novel RFID technologies and
applications. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Data management issues in RFID applications</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Innovative RFID-enabled applications</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RFID and physical user interfaces</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RFID and Internet of Things</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Security/privacy and RFID</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RFID and sensor networks</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Web services and RFID</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RFID and semantic Web</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RFID standards</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RFID case studies and field trials</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RFID middleware</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Next generation RFID technologies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Commercial experience with RFID</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RFID network management</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">COTS and Open Source RFID infrastructure</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Integration of RFID with other applications</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Performance evaluation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Business process redesign and RFID</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Intrusion Detection in RFID systems</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Behavior analysis</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Situation awareness </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Submission and Review of Papers</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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 (<a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwrt2011">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwrt2011</a>)
in PDF format.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Format of the Workshop</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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 <a href="http://www.Elsevier.com">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on Elsevier content
platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com">www.sciencedirect.com</a>),
and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be
indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com">www.scopus.com</a>) and
Engineering Village (Ei) (<a href="http://www.engineeringvillage.com">www.engineeringvillage.com</a>).
This includes EI Compendex (<a href="http://www.ei.org/compendex">www.ei.org/compendex</a>).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Journal Publication</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop Co-Chairs</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yanbo Wu</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">School of Computer Science</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The University of Adelaide</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:yanbo.wu@adelaide.edu.au">yanbo.wu@adelaide.edu.au</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Michael Sheng</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">School of Computer Science</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The University of Adelaide</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:qsheng@cs.adelaide.edu.au">qsheng@cs.adelaide.edu.au</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Zakaria Maamar</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">College of Information Technology</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Zayed University</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Po Box 19282, Dubai,U.A.E</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae">zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sherali Zeadally</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Computer Science and Information Technology</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of the District of Columbia, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:szeadally@udc.edu">szeadally@udc.edu</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Fahim Akhter (Publicity Chair)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">College of Information Technology, Zayed University</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Po Box 19282, Dubai,U.A.E</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Fahim.Akhter@zu.ac.ae">Fahim.Akhter@zu.ac.ae</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop Program Committee</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gildas Avoine, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thierry Bodhuin, University of Sannio, Italy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Maria V. Bueno-Delgado, Polytechnic University of Cartagena,
Spain</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rajit Gadh, UCLA, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gerhard Hancke, Royal Holloway University of London, UK</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Julio Cesar Hernadez-Castro, University of Portsmouth, UK</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ashad Kabir, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Xue Li, The University of Queensland, Australia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Weifa Liang, The Australian National University, Australia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tomas S. Lopez, University of Cambridge, UK</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kostas Markantonakis, Royal Holloway University of London,
UK</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John Mo, RMIT University, Australia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pedro Peris-Lopez, Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jukka Riekki, University of Oulu, Finland</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Francesco Rizzo, Joint Research Centre of the European
Commission, Italy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">George Roussos, University of London, UK</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michele Ruta, Technical University of Bari, Italy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dave Singelee, Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bela Stantic, Griffith University, Australia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Claire Vishik, Intel Corporation, UK</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fusheng Wang, Emory University, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Holger Ziekow, International Computer Science Institute,
Berkeley, USA</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Important Dates</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paper Submission: March 31, 2011</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Author Notification: May 15, 2011</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Registration: May 30, 2011</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Final Manuscript Submission: June 15, 2011</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop Venue</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop will be held in conjunction of the 8th
International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2011) in
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Registration Information</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At least one author of an accepted paper must register for
the workshop. The registration </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">information can be found from <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobiwis-11/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobiwis-11/</a>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Secretariat</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">MobiWIS 2011 Secretariat - The Fifth International Workshop
on RFID Technology (IWRT 2011)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">E-mail: <a href="mailto:yanbo.wu@adelaide.edu.au">yanbo.wu@adelaide.edu.au</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Web site: <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobiwis-11/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobiwis-11/</a></p></div>