Annual Congress of the Geo-Institute of ASCE

Annual Congress of the Geo-Institute of ASCE - On March 9-12, 2008, in New Orleans, Louisiana, US, the Geo-Institute of ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) will be held under the heading “The challenge of sustainability in the geoenvironment” ─devoted to discuss the current trends and the role of geoengineers and geoscientists in protecting and preserving the environment, the scientific advances and technologies to solve problems in the field, and the expansive and increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the geoenvironmental scenario. One of the issues to be discussed is the mitigation of natural and manmade hazards. There also are concurrent technical sessions that contemplate the application of advanced technologies to the natural hazards scenario; in particular, track 1 is devoted to geo-hazards and mitigation where breakthrough technologies in soft and unstable soil improvement, as well as landslides, earthquakes, blasting and tsunami among other related topics will be discussed. Also, in track 3 devoted to testing, characterization and monitoring, the advances in sensor technologies for detection and monitoring of geo-hazard indicators in subsurface will be treated; and in track 4 there is a specific chapter devoted to emerging technologies for geo-hazards assessments. Landslides are also a topic within concurrent sessions. To learn more please consult www.geocongress.org.

Call for Papers – IASTED International Conference on Sensor Networks. - Papers are solicited (deadline May 1, 2008) for IASTED International Conference on Sensor Networks that will be held in Crete, Greece from September 29 to October 1, 2008. Broad areas to be addressed within the field include algorithm and protocol, system, security, hardware & software, performance evaluation, and applications. Applications topics include real life WSN applications, potential application areas, demos and prototype testing, application requirements, and application evaluation and comparison. The conference will be held in conjunction with the IASTED International Conferences on CATE 2008 ─ Computers and Advanced Technology in Education and NANA 2008 ─Nanotechnology and Applications. IASTED is the International Association of Science and Technology Development, a non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of technical information. To learn more please visit: www.iasted.org.

IPSN 2008 – International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks. - IPSN will be held on April 22-24, 2008, in St. Louis, Missouri, US, co-located with IEEE Real Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS’08) and International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC’08). The coverage includes both theoretical and experimental research upon sensor networks in a broad range of disciplines including signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases and information management, distributed algorithms, networks and protocols, wireless communications, machine learning, and embedded systems design. The conference is organized around two strands: Information Processing track that focus on algorithms, systems, and theory pertaining to information processing using networks of embedded sensors and Sensor Platforms, Tools and Design Methods track that focus on platforms and tools designed for networked embedded sensors. Also, two workshops are included in the conference ─the international Workshop on Mobile Device and Urban Sensing, and the workshop on Adaptive Sensing and Monitoring. To learn more please visit: ipsn.acm.org/2008.

WCNC-2008. From 31 March to 3 April, 2008 it will be held the IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference in Las Vegas, US, and co-located with CTIA Wireless 2008. Apart from peer-reviewed papers and tutorials, the program includes technology/business application panels focusing on technologies, its applications, market trends and its business implications. The area of wireless sensor networks will be discussed in the fourth tracks ─ PHY, MAC, Networks and Services & Applications. The specific field of wireless emergency and security systems is contemplated within track fourth of Services & Applications, and also other related fields as cognitive radio and sensor based applications, context and location-aware wireless services & applications, intelligent transportation systems, emerging wireless/mobile applications, as well as regulations, standards, and spectrum management. To learn more visit: www.ieee-wcnc.org/2008.

IEEE INFOCOM 2008. - On 13-19 April, 2008, the 26 th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, US. The conference is addressed to the broad area of computer communications and networking, but emergent hot topics in wireless communications receive particular attention, in particular ad-hoc networks; cooperative ad hoc networking; ad hoc networks security; sensor networks; multi-hop/mesh wireless networks; sensor security; sensor networks connectivity; sensor network routing; energy efficiency in ad hoc networks; scheduling in ad hoc networks. Also, there is a workshop devoted to mission critical networking ─ networking for application domains where life or livelihood may be at risk as for example, critical infrastructure protection, emergency, and crisis intervention. This increasingly important sector relies on advances in pervasive computing, wireless communication, ad hoc and mesh networking as well as networked sensor systems ─ the final challenging objective is to deploy, in a rapid way, communication networks that are dependable, autonomic, and secure, in complex/heterogeneous scenarios with associated uncertainty. To learn more please visit: www.ieee-infocom.org/2008.