IEEE International Workshop on
Internet of Things for Ambient Assisted Living (IoTAAL)
In conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2015, San Diego, CA,
USA, Dec 6 - 10, 2015.
MOTIVATION AND SCOPE
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) encompasses technical
systems, infrastructures, and services to support
elderly people in their daily routine, to allow an
independent and safe lifestyle, as long as possible, via
the seamless integration of information and
communication technologies within homes and residences.
Effective AAL solutions require appropriate ICT
algorithms, architectures and platforms, that cannot
leave out of consideration the development of new and
innovative approaches, particularly in the area of
pervasive and mobile systems. The Internet of Things
(IoT) paradigm is leading to smart objects being capable
of identifying, locating, sensing and connecting, and
thus opening possibilities for new forms of
communication between people and things, and things
themselves. This workshop aims to investigate the
potential benefits gained when specializing the IoT for
AAL, to avoid redundancy and leverage the harmonization
of the technological approaches towards an increased
Quality of Life for the current and future ageing
populations.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The focus of this workshop is on proposals of
architectures, methods, techniques, protocols,
components and tools addressing the IoT paradigm to
support the Ambient Assisted Living requirements. These
may include, but are not limited to, the following
topics:
- IoT communications for AAL and Enhanced Living
Environments
- Mobile solutions for AAL
- IoT enabled signal acquisition, analysis, and
processing for activity identification and recognition
in AAL
- Smart Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks
(WSNs) for AAL
- Distributed sensing and alarming technologies for AAL
- IoT devices (smart objects) and cyber-physical systems
for AAL
- E-healthcare, telemedicine and tele-monitoring through
IoT in AAL systems
- AAL networks and systems architectures
- Green networking in IoT for AAL
- Security, privacy, and trustworthiness management in
IoT for AAL
- Information processing for AAL communications
- Interoperability among IoT and AAL platforms
- Cloud and Mobile Cloud for AAL
- Algorithms and techniques for IoT enabled AAL data
analytics
- Big data management in AAL
- IoT applications, systems, and testbeds for AAL
- Standardization activities of IoT for AAL
- Future directions in IoT for AAL
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: July 1, 2015 (strict)
Acceptance/rejection announcement: September 1,
2015
Final workshop papers due: October 1, 2015
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
All final submissions should be written in English with
a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages
(10-point font) including figures without incurring
additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with
over length page charge of USD100 if accepted). Papers
exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted at EDAS. You may
also use one of the following templates for Microsoft
Word: A4, US letter. Only PDF files will be accepted for
the review process, and all submissions must be done
through EDAS (link TBA).
Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX formats are
found at here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
If you have any questions regarding the submission of
manuscripts, please contact the Workshop Program Chairs.
Important IEEE Policy Announcement: The IEEE reserves
the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the
conference (including its removal from IEEE Explore) if
the paper is not presented at the conference.
Plagiarism policy: Papers should not contain plagiarized
material and have not been submitted to any other
conference/workshop at the same time (double
submission). These matters are taken very seriously and
the IEEE Communications society will take action against
any author who engages in either practice. Follow the
link to learn more: http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/Multi_Sub_Guidelines_Intro.html
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Workshop co-chairs:
- Susanna Spinsante (Università Politecnica delle Marche
– ITALY)
- Joel Rodrigues (Instituto de Telecomunicacoes,
University of Beira Interior – PORTUGAL)
Technical program co-chairs:
- Ennio Gambi (Università Politecnica delle Marche –
ITALY)
- Chirag Warty (Intelligent Communication Lab – INDIA)
- Fa-Long Luo (Element CXI – USA)
- Nuno Garcia (University of Beira Interior – PORTUGAL)
Publications chair:
- Chirag Warty (Intelligent Communication Lab – INDIA)
Publicity co-chairs:
- Lambros Lambrinos (Cyprus University of Technology –
CYPRUS)
- Enea Cippitelli, Samuele Gasparrini (Università
Politecnica delle Marche – ITALY)