BROADENED SCOPE. Starting from 2011, ALGOSENSORS broadens its thematic scope, keeping its focus on sensor networks, but also
including other related types of ad hoc wireless networks, such as mobile networks, radio networks and distributed systems of robots.

KEY FEATURES:

- 2 Tracks (NEW from 2011):

• Track A: Sensor Networks
• Track B: Ad hoc Wireless and Mobile Systems
  
  - 2 days event duration
  
  - Proceedings by Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
  
  - Special Issue on best papers by the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Journal

   

  PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Chair:   Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
    Track A Chair: Pekka Orponen, Aalto University, Finland
    Track B Chair: Thomas Erlebach, U. of Leicester, UK
  

   

  TRACK A: Sensor Networks

    Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic U., USA
    Tassos Dimitriou, Athens Information Technology, Greece
    Shlomi Dolev, Ben Gurion U., Israel
    Alon Efrat, U. Arizona, USA
    Jie Gao, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
    Aubin Jarry, U. of Geneva, Switzerland
    Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton U., Canada
    Alexander Kröller, TU Braunschweig, Germany
    Fabian Kuhn, U. Lugano, Switzerland
    Mingyan Liu, U. Michigan, USA
    Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
    Pekka Orponen (Chair), Aalto U., Finland
    Michael Rabbat, McGill U., Canada
    Elad Schiller, Chalmers, Sweden
    Christian Schindelhauer, U. Freiburg. Germany
    Stefan Schmid, T-Labs/TU Berlin, Germany
    Jukka Suomela, U. Helsinki, Finland
    Subhash Suri, UCSB, USA
    Sebastien Tixeuil, U. Paris 6, France
    Dorothea Wagner, Karlsruhe Inst. Tech., Germany
  

   

  TRACK B: Ad hoc Wireless and Mobile Systems

    Matthew Andrews, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA
    Costas Busch, Louisiana State U., USA
    Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist U., Hong Kong
    Thomas Erlebach (Chair), U. of Leicester, UK
    Stefan Funke, U. of Stuttgart, Germany
    Magnus Halldorsson, Reykjavik U., Iceland
    David Ilcinkas, CNRS and Bordeaux U., France
    Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan U., USA
    Erik Jan van Leeuwen, U. of Bergen, Norway
    Xiang-Yang Li, Illinois Inst. Tech., USA
    Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
    Sriram Pemmaraju, U. of Iowa, USA
    Cristina M. Pinotti, U. di Perugia, Italy
    Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern U., USA
    Dror Rawitz, Tel-Aviv U., Israel
    Nicola Santoro, Carleton U., Canada
    My T Thai, U. of Florida, USA
    Anil Vullikanti, Virginia Tech, USA
    Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    Prudence Wong, U. of Liverpool, UK
  

   

  STEERING COMMITTEE

   Josep Diaz, U.P. Catalunya
   Bhaskar Krishnamachari, U. of Southern California, USA
   P.R. Kumar, Texas A&M University, USA
   Jan van Leeuwen, U. of Utrecht, The Netherlands
   Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
   Jose Rolim, U. of Geneva
   Paul Spirakis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
  

   

  PUBLICITY CHAIR

   Constantinos Marios Angelopoulos, U. of Patras and CTI
  

   

  IMPORTANT DATES
  
  
• Paper submission: June 27, 2011 (Extended!)
• Notification: July 29, 2011
• Preliminary version for USB pre-proceedings: August 4, 2011
• Symposium: September 8-9, 2011
• Camera-ready copy for post-proceedings: October 10, 2011

  PROCEEDINGS: Accepted papers will be published in full text in hardcopy post-proceedings, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series of Springer Verlag. Submissions may be considered for a two-page brief announcement in case not accepted as a full text; authors who wish their paper to be considered for both full paper and brief announcement tracks should indicate this fact on the front page.

  TCS JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE: As in previous years, selected high-quality papers will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Journal.

  SCOPE AND TOPICS: Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks have recently become a very active research subject due to their high potential of providing diverse services to numerous important applications, including remote monitoring and tracking in environmental applications and low maintenance ambient intelligence in everyday life. The effective and efficient realization of such large scale, complex ad-hoc networking environments requires intensive, coordinated technical research and development efforts, especially in power aware, scalable, robust wireless distributed protocols, due to the unusual application requirements and the severe resource constraints of the sensor devices. On the other hand, a solid foundational background seems necessary for sensor networks to achieve their full potential. It is a challenge for abstract modeling, algorithmic design and analysis to achieve provably efficient, scalable and fault-tolerant realizations of such huge, highly-dynamic, complex, non-conventional networks. Features including the extremely large number of sensor devices in the network, the severe power, computing and memory limitations, their dense, random deployment and frequent failures, pose new interesting abstract modeling, algorithmic design, analysis and implementation challenges of great practical impact. ALGOSENSORS aims to bring together research contributions related to diverse algorithmic and complexity theoretic aspects of wireless sensor networks.

  Starting from 2011, ALGOSENSORS broadens its thematic scope, keeping its focus on sensor networks, but also including other related types of ad hoc wireless networks, such as mobile networks, radio networks and distributed systems of robots.

  Contributions solicited cover the algorithmic issues in a variety of topics including, but not limited to:
  
  

• Wireless Network Models
• Virtual Infrastructures
• Data Propagation and Routing
• Multicast and Broadcast
• Obstacle Avoidance
• Infrastructure Discovery
• Ad-hoc Deployment/Topology Control
• Fault Tolerance and Dependability
• Multi-hop Throughput Optimization
• Scheduling and Load Balancing
• Energy Management and Power Saving Schemes
• Dynamic Networks
• Adaptiveness and Self-organization
• Resource-efficient Distributed Computing
• Communication Protocols
• Medium Access Control
• Localization and Location Tracking
• Mobile Robotic Systems and Autonomous Agents
• Game Theoretic Aspects
• Cryptography, Security and Trust

  PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original research in the topics related to the Symposium. The Track the paper is submitted to should be clearly identified at the front page. Authors should select a Track based on the type of network that is studied in the paper or for which the results in the paper are most relevant. The Program Committee reserves the right to move papers between Tracks in order to ensure a fair evaluation. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is not allowed.

  Papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages of text using at least 11 point size type, including references, figures, tables, etc., preferably formatted in the LNCS style. Additional material may be added in a clearly marked Appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee Members.

  Authors must submit their papers electronically via: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algosensors2011 . All papers will be peer reviewed, and comments will be provided to the authors. Authors need to ensure that for each accepted paper at least one author will attend the symposium.