Gold Sponsors:
Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces
Technically Sponsored by IEEE Task Force on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
Ubiquitous sensors, devices, networks and information are paving the way towards a smart world in which computational intelligence is distributed throughout the physical environment to provide reliable and relevant services to people. This ubiquitous intelligence will change the computing landscape because it will enable new breeds of applications and systems to be developed and the realm of computing possibilities will be significantly extended. By enhancing everyday objects with intelligence, many tasks and processes could be simplified, the physical spaces where people interact like the workplaces and homes, could become more efficient, safer and more enjoyable. Ubiquitous computing, or pervasive computing, uses these many “smart things/u-things” to create smart environments.
A smart thing can be endowed with different levels of intelligence, and may be context-aware, active, interactive, reactive, proactive, assistive, adaptive, automated, sentient, perceptual, cognitive, autonomic and/or thinking. Research on ubiquitous intelligence is an emerging research field covering many disciplines. A series of grand challenges exist to move from the current level of computing services to the smart world of adaptive and intelligent services. Started in 2005, the series of UIC conferences has been held in Taipei, Nagasaki, Three Gorges (China), Hong Kong and Oslo. UIC-09 will include a highly selective program of technical papers, accompanied by workshops, panel discussions and keynote speeches.
UIC-09 offers a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in developing intelligent/smart objects, environments and systems.
The topics covered at the conference will include, but are not limited to, the following:
| Papers due | 19 January 2009 |
| Notification of acceptance | 16 March 2009 |
| Camera-ready papers due | 13 April 2009 |
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For more information please contact the Conference General Co-Chair
Jadwiga Indulska