ISSNIP - 04

International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing

14-17 December 2004 Melbourne, Australia


The International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing - 2004 (ISSNIP 2004) will be held in Melbourne, Australia from December 14-17, 2004. The conference concentrates on research areas involving intelligent sensors, sensor networks and information processing. The conference will focus on both theory and applications of intelligent networked sensors and smart systems. In addition to the technical sessions, there will be plenary, invited and tutorial sessions. Visit the website www.issnip.org for author instructions and more information. Topics of the conference include but are not limited to:

Intelligent and Bio Sensors: Nano sensors and actuators, Biosensors, Atmospheric sensing, Earth surface sensing, Optical sensors, Physical, Chemical, Biological, Nano materials, Sensor arrays, Smart sensors, lab-on-chip applications, MEMS, Flexible and intelligent sensors, Devices and processing technologies, packaging, Intelligent biological systems, Biomimetic micro and Nano devices, Smart materials, Artificial muscles, Electronic organs, Nature inspired devices, Theory and Applications.

Sensor Networks: Modeling of specific sensor networks, Methods for ad hoc deployment, Algorithms for sensor localization and tracking of mobile users, Dynamic sensor networks, Hierarchical clustering architectures, Attribute-based named nets, Routing: implosion issues and resource management, Communication protocols, Media access control in sensor networks, Simulators for sensor networks, Sensor architecture, Distributed and collaborative signal processing, In-situ callibration, Energy issues, Applications of sensor networks (e.g., automotive, battlefield, biology, construction, disaster recovery, environmental, medical, security)

Sensor Fusion and Tracking: Multi-sensor fusion, Target detection and tracking, Target recognition and classification, Data association, Sensor registration, Situation assessment, Image or sensor data fusion, Distributed inference and fusion, Sensor tasking and control, Sensor scheduling and optimisation.

Intelligent Information Processing: Adaptive Learning and Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence, Support Vector Machines, Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Hardware Implementations, Genetic algorithms, Coding, compression, and information theory, Machine Intelligence, Hybrid intelligent systems, Knowledge discovery and Data mining, Intelligent agents, Multi-agent systems, Online monitoring, Intelligent control.

End User Applications:
Defense: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Monitoring and surveillance, Remote sensing, Autonomous systems, Micro and Nano robotics
Healthcare: Micro sensors and actuators in biomedical applications, Micro drug delivery systems, Applications of machine learning in biomedical signal and image processing, Biomechanics, Bio-computational devices.
Environment: Habitat and eco-system monitoring, Sensor networks for automated irrigation control, Integrated positioning and mapping, Spatial information system design, Earth observation for renewable natural resource management, Modeling and visualization for spatial decision support.

Paper submission: Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers, up to six pages in length, using electronic submission via the conference web site. Papers will be fully refereed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Visit www.issnip.org for author instructions and more information.

Invited Sessions and Tutorials: The technical program committee is soliciting proposals for special technical sessions focusing on any of the topics covered. Proposals for pre-conference tutorials, to be held on December 14, are also invited on the major themes of the conference.

Workshops: A number of workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference. These include: Biosensing and Biomimetics; Optimization; Signal Processing for Sensor Networks. Additional workshop proposals are also invited. More details can be found on the conference web site.

Important Dates
Deadline of Full Paper submission: August 2nd 2004
Notification of acceptance: August 16th 2004
Submission of camera-ready manuscripts: September 15th 2004

General Chair
M Palaniswami
University of Melbourne, Australia.
palani@unimelb.edu.au

Track Chairs
Erol Harvey, Australia
Suhbash Challa, Australia
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USA

International Liason
Aruna Seveniratne, Australia

Local Organising Committee
Slaven Marusic
Zhenwei Cao
Enn Vinnal
Brian Lithgow
Malin Premaratne
Robert Slaviero
Robert Barnett
Nallasamy Mani

Conference Secretariat
ISSNIP Secretariat
Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
Victoria - 3010, Australia
secretariat@issnip.org
Tel: +61-3-98199400
Fax: +61-3-98183942
www.issnip.org