Description

In the past decade, technological developments have led to research in embedded sensing, computation, communication and actuation in personal and everyday objects, giving them the possibility to create large scale systems of interacting smart appliances, physical objects and wearable computers. This penetration of computation in all aspects of everyday life and work requires thorough exploration to support such scenarios beyond the lab environment.

The diversity of systems, devices, services and applications and their distributed nature raises important questions about collaboration between system components. Appropriate solutions often have to take potential resource limitations of connected devices and appliances into account. Contextual awareness, digital representations of physical system components, as well as access methods and processing of distributed information are of specific importance - especially as smart devices and objects along with their services are seamlessly integrated in the real world to support users in their daily living activities.

IWSAWC is traditionally aimed at bringing together young and budding researchers in a cosy but selective workshop. It serves as a forum for the exchange of new findings in collaborative technologies and smart appliances deployed in real world environments. We intend to bring together practitioners from academia as well as industry to present their most recent research in these rapidly moving fields.

Scope

Technical papers on smart appliances, wearable systems and collaborative technologies are solicited for oral presentation at IWSAWC 2007. Papers reporting new developments in computing with smart devices such as PDAs, wearable computers, and cellular phones as well as new insights in instrumentation of everyday artefacts and their infrastructures will be invited for presentation.

Workshop topics include but are not limited to:

In addition to regular technical presentations, a session of posters accompanied by demonstrations is held for presenting latest developments and active discussions.

Workshop Details and Proceedings

Submissions to IWSAWC are reviewed by the Programme Committee on the basis of originality, soundness and scientific merit of the research goals, as well as the quality of its presentation. Authors of accepted papers, posters and demo abstracts will give a presentation at the workshop, which is scheduled for the 29th of June 2007, as a full-day workshop.

The full-paper submissions that get accepted for inclusion into the IWSAWC 2007 workshop Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as part of the ICDCS Workshop Proceedings. *Please note: Demo and poster abstracts will not be published by IEEE!*