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5th International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN'08)

In conjunction with VLDB 2008

Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

http://dmsn08.cs.umass.edu/



WORKSHOP AIM

The scope of the workshop includes all important aspects of sensor data management, including data  
acquisition, processing, and storage in remote wireless networks; the handling of uncertain sensor data; and  
the management of heterogeneous and sometimes sensitive sensor data in databases. The resource-constrained, 
lossy, noisy, distributed, and remote nature of wireless sensor networks implies that traditional database 
techniques often cannot be applied without significant retooling. Challenges associated with acquiring, 
processing, and archiving large-scale, heterogeneous sets of live sensor data also call for novel data 
management techniques. The inherently incomplete and noisy nature of sensor data further calls for 
techniques for data cleaning, inference, approximation. Finally, in many applications, the collecting of 
sensor data raises important privacy and security concerns that require new protection and anonymization 
techniques.



TOPICS OF INTEREST

We solicit papers that address important aspects of sensor data management. 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- database languages for sensor tasking
- distributed sensor data storage and indexing
- data replication and consistency in noisy and lossy sensor networks
- energy-efficient data acquisition and dissemination
- in-network query processing
- networking support for data processing
- model-based sensor data processing
- query optimization and deployment planning in sensor networks
- managing loss, noise, and ambiguity in sensor data streams and sensor databases
- integration of live and stored sensor data
- challenges and techniques for new types of sensor data: e.g., RFID, 
  images and videos, data from scientific and medical instruments
- integration of sensor data of different modalities and from different sources
- personal, ubiquitous applications of sensor-based infrastructures
- techniques for secure sensor data collection and processing
- privacy protection techniques for sensor data
- collecting and publishing of large sensor data sets

Submitted papers must not have been published or currently be under consideration for publication 
at another venue.

We are particularly interested in position papers, vision papers, system designs, and papers that 
address new challenges for sensor data management.

Questions about the workshop scope should be directed to the program committee chairs at 
dmsn08@cs.umass.edu.



IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission:      	Mon, Jun 09, 2008 (5:00 p.m. PST)
Notification:          	Mon, Jul 07, 2008
Camera-ready copy due:  Mon, Jul 21, 2008
Workshop:              	Sun, Aug 24, 2008



SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

All submissions will be handled electronically using the Conference Management System made available to 
us by Microsoft Research. Detailed submission instructions are posted on the DMSNĠ08 web site: 
http://dmsn08.cs.umass.edu/

Full papers in PDF format must be submitted by June 2nd, 2008 (5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time). Papers 
should be in the ACM Proceedings camera-ready format and must be at most 6 pages long.


Questions about the submission process should be directed to the program co-chairs at: 
dmsn08@cs.umass.edu.



WORKSHOP FORMAT

Our goal is to bridge communities by bringing together interested researchers from different communities to 
identify future research challenges and opportunities. As such, the workshop will be organized in a way to 
foster interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants. We expect to have longer than usual 
question-and-answer periods after paper presentations, one keynote speech, and possibly a panel discussion.



ORGANIZATION

General Chairs:
	Magdalena Balazinska	University of Washington 
	Jun Yang		Duke University 


Program Committee Chairs:
	Yanlei Diao		University of Massachusetts Amherst
	Christian S. Jensen	Aalborg University 



Steering Committee:
	Amol Deshpande	  	University of Maryland 
	Alexandros Labrinidis	University of Pittsburgh     
	Qiong Luo		Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology
	Samuel Madden		Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Program Committee:
	K. Selcuk Candan        Arizona State University
	Ugur Cetintemel         Brown University
	Hong Chen               Renmin University
	Amol Deshpande          University of Maryland, College Park
	Deepak Ganesan       	University of Massachusetts Amherst
	Minos Garofalakis       Yahoo! Research
	Zachary Ives            University of Pennsylvania
	Alexandros Labrinidis   University of Pittsburgh
	Jianzhong Li          	Harbin Institute of Technology
	Qiong Luo               Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
	Samuel Madden           Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Pedro Jose Marron       University of Stuttgart
	Kamesh Munagala         Duke University
	Silvia Nittel           University of Maine
	Xueyan Tang           	Nanyang Technological University
	Jianliang Xu            Hong Kong Baptist University
	Jun Yang		Duke University
	Demetris Zeinalipour-Yazti      University of Cyprus