News: the paper submission deadline has been extended to Jan. 17th 2011!

CALL FOR PAPERS  

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Sccopes and Interests

Recent advances in the fields of wireless technology, multimedia communications and intelligent systems have exhibited a strong potential and tendency on improving human life in every facet, including entertainment, socialization, business, healthcare and education. The technology advances should make the city, the planet and the society a healthy, happy place for people to live to learn and to grow. They will not only enhance the quality of life, but  will influence the way we live, work and socialize.
To approach the ultimate goal of building an advanced society, various networking and communications technologies need to be combined to offer different services anytime and anywhere while satisfying the quality requirements of end-users in an elegant, energy-efficient and intelligent fashion. Submitted papers should be original and previously unpublished. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

Topics

The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:

 Track 1: Networking for Advanced Society 

• Wireless sensor networks and ubiquitous networking
• Body area networks and RFID networking
• DTNs, epidemic and social networking
• Networking and security issues for advanced society

Track 2: Communications for Advanced Society

• Machine to machine communications
• P2P and opportunistic communications
• Semantic oriented communications
• Novel wireless communication technologies

Track 3: Systems and Technology

• System design issues, and performance modeling
• Architecture and infrastructure
• Emerging technologies for advanced society
• The Internet of Things
• Technologies to guarantee high quality of life

Track 4: Smart Services for Advanced Society

• Entertainment and lifestyle applications
• RAssistive technologies and healthcare services
• Intelligent services based on Agent technology
• Context-aware services
• Interactive multimedia services

Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original papers of up to 6 pages including figures, tables, and references, in PDF format. Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at the conference. Electronic submission is accepted through the EDAS web site at http://edas.info/N9425

Publications
Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. All accepted and presented papers will be included in ACM/IEEE Digital Libray (pending approval). Authors are invited to subit original papers of up to 6 pages including figures, tables, and references, in PDF format by using online systems for review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, if the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference.

Proceedings and Special Issue

The proceedings of the workshop will be included in ACM/IEEE Digital Libray (pending approval). Distinguished selected papers accepted and presented in NCAS2011, after further extensions, will be published in special issues of the following prestigious Journals:

• Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Wiley
• Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer
• International Journal of Sensor Networks  (IJSNet), Inderscience Publishers
• International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems  (IJAACS), Inderscience Publishers