Deadline Extension: Query Processing in Sensor Networks

Dear colleagues,

please note that we have extended our submission deadline to May 14, 2010.
We would appreciate if you consider to contribute and/or forward the call to
interested colleagues. Many thanks, the guest editors.

SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS, DEADLINE EXTENSION

Query Processing in Sensor Networks

Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal
http://www.Springer.com/10619

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) provide a key technology for monitoring and
surveillance, which is being more and more applied in business, industry and
research. WSNs can collect detailed information about objects or
environmental conditions by coordinating fine-grained sensor readings from a
large number of independent nodes. However, querying data collected by and
stored within a WSN is a challenging problem. In particular, due to very
limited resources (energy, wireless network bandwidth, etc.), it is not a
practical option to apply simple strategies like forwarding any sensor value
directly to a more powerful base-station that does the query processing.

In this context, the special issue of the Distributed and Parallel Databases
Journal is about query processing in sensor networks. Although this problem
has received considerable attention in the last years both from industry and
research teams, there are still many issues that need to be solved before
WSN can be used off-the-shelf. Such issues include a declarative query
language that supports a trade-off between energy consumption and result
quality while considering unreliable data sources, in-network optimization
of multiple parallel queries without relying on the state of all sensor
nodes, or query processing across multiple heterogeneous sensor networks
that are connected over the Internet. We seek submissions of papers dealing
with all aspects of query processing in sensor networks, including (but not
limited to):

* Query languages
* Query dissemination and deployment
* Query optimization and indexing techniques
* In-network processing of complex operations
* Multi-query processing and optimization
* Secure or privacy-aware query processing
* Continuous queries and in-network stream processing
* Reliable query processing and consistency guarantees
* Approximation techniques and model-based approaches
* Real-time query processing
* Spatio-temporal queries and event detection
* Fetching methods for sensor data
* Integration of multiple sensor networks
* System models and infrastructure support for query processing

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline:
May 14, 2010

Notification to authors:
August 1, 2010

Camera ready papers:
Beginning of 2011

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has
neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. All
manuscripts selected for publication will be reviewed by at least three
reviewers.

Manuscripts should be submitted at:
http://DAPD.edmgr.com

Please select the article type "Query Processing in Sensor Networks."

The manuscripts should be formatted according to the submission guidelines
that can be found at:
http://www.Springer.com/10619

GUEST EDITORS

Erik Buchmann
erik.buchmann@kit.edu
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Mario Nascimento
mn@cs.ualberta.ca
University of Alberta, Canada

Nesime Tatbul
tatbul@inf.ethz.ch
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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Pr. Dr. Florence Sèdes
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