--- C A L L F O R P A P E R S --- 6th International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN'09) To be held in conjunction with VLDB 2009 August 24, 2009, Lyon, FRANCE http://dmsn09.inf.ethz.ch/ WORKSHOP AIM The DMSN Workshop covers 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. 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, and 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 - data stream management - complex event detection and processing - systems issues as they relate to the main topics of the workshop 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. Besides regular paper submissions, DMSN 2009 also welcomes the submission of software demonstration proposals, to foster interaction on hot topics and ongoing work. Questions about the workshop scope should be directed to the program committee chairs at dmsn09@inf.ethz.ch. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: Fri, May 15, 2009 (5pm PT) Notification: Fri, Jul 3, 2009 Camera-ready copy due: Fri, Jul 13, 2009 Workshop: Mon, Aug 24, 2009 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 DMSN'09 web site: http://dmsn09.inf.ethz.ch/ Full papers and demo proposals in PDF format must be submitted by May 15th, 2009. Papers should be in the ACM Proceedings camera-ready format and must be at most 6 pages long for regular papers, and at most 2 pages long for demo proposals. Demonstration proposals should outline the context and highlights of the software to be presented, and briefly describe the demo scenario. We encourage the joint submission of research papers describing new concepts and fundamental results and of demo proposals of software developed based on those new concepts. Questions about the submission process should be directed to the program co-chairs at: dmsn09@inf.ethz.ch. 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 an interactive demo session. ORGANIZATION General Chairs: Yanlei Diao University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Christian S. Jensen Aalborg University, Denmark Program Committee Chairs: Mario A. Nascimento University of Alberta, Canada Nesime Tatbul ETH Zurich, Switzerland Steering Committee: Magdalena Balazinska University of Washington, USA Amol Deshpande University of Maryland College Park, USA Alexandros Labrinidis University of Pittsburgh, USA Samuel R. Madden Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Jun Yang Duke University, USA Program Committee: Karl Aberer EPF Lausanne, Switzerland Klemens Boehm University of Karlsruhe, Germany Angelo Brayner University de Fortaleza, Brazil K. Selcuk Candan Arizona State University, USA Lei Chen HKUST, Hong Kong Amol Deshpande University of Maryland College Park, USA Alvaro Fernandes University of Manchester, UK Hong Gao Harbin Institute of Technology, China Minos Garofalakis Technical University of Crete, Greece Bugra Gedik IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Wei Hong Arch Rock Corporation, USA Jeong-Hyon Hwang State University of New York Albany, USA Dimitrios Katsaros University of Thessaly, Greece Wang-Chien Lee Pennsylvania State University, USA Qiong Luo HKUST, Hong Kong Rene Muller ETH Zurich, Switzerland Daniela Nicklas University of Oldenburg, Germany Ioanis Nikolaidis University of Alberta, Canada Silvia Nittel University of Maine, USA Olga Papaemmanouil Brandeis University, USA Adam Silberstein Yahoo! Research, USA Goce Trajcevski Northwestern University, USA Kristin Tufte Portland State University, USA Kui Wu University of Victoria, Canada Demetris Zeinalipour-Yazti University of Cyprus, Cyprus