This session has been organized by ISTEC- R&D through RITCod () with the objective to present technologies, applications and the results of research projects in areas related to Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks has been transformed into one of the most active areas of research as a result of its potential to provide diverse services to a wide range of applications, not only in science and engineering, but also within the protection of critical infrastructure, security, health care, the environment, agriculture, energy, food security and the potential impact on total quality of life.

This session will serve as a forum for exchanging ideas between researchers from academia, industry professionals, researchers, and policy makers.

Participants:

Teachers, researchers, graduate students and engineers with related research and development in wireless sensor networks.

Language:
English and Spanish

Important Deadlines:

Paper Submission: Until August 17^th, 2009

Notification of Acceptance: September 8^th, 2009

Early Registration: Until midnight October 5th, 2009 (MST)

Event: October 27 and 28, 2009

Registration:

To participate in this session interested parties must register for the Ibero-American Conference on Trends in Engineering Education and Collaboration.

Ibero-American Conference on Trends in Engineering Education and Collaboration

* Valid for ISTEC member institutions which are up to date with membership payments to the year 2009.

Place:

Rooms: Ballroom B and Scholars

SUB (Student Union Building)

Main Campus

University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM – USA

United States

Related Events:

• Ibero-American Conference on Trends in Engineering Education and Collaboration

• National Instruments Workshop on Instrumentation and Control

Contact:

If you have any questions please contact us at rdlabs@istec.org

Topics of interest, although not exclusive, are:

• Applications in: robotics, the environment, industry, medicine, agriculture, zoology, etc.
• Node architecture.
• Communication protocols.
• Energy conservation.
• Localization and synchronization algorithms.
• Security.
• Operating systems and Middleware.

SESSION AGENDA

Committee President

Rafael Fierro
University of New Mexico – United States

Committee Members

Alfonso Crespo
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia – Spain

José Simó
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia – Spain

Francisco Blanes
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia – Spain

Apolinar González
Universidad de Colima – Mexico

Raúl Aquino
Universidad de Colima – Mexico

Carlos Eduardo Pereira
Universidad Federal du Rio Grande du Sul – Brazil

Luis Villaseñor
CICESE – Mexico

Pablo Alvarado
Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica – Costa Rica

José Édinson Aedo
Universidad de Antioquia – Colombia

Donald W. Carr
Universidad de Guadalajara – Mexico

José Cárdenas
Universidad de Málaga – Spain

Miguel Labrador
Universidad del Sur de la Florida – United States

Wilfrido Moreno
Universidad del Sur de la Florida – United States

Information for Authors

Selected papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.  The best will be published in the Springer Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems

If you wish for your paper to be considered for publication in the journal

• Send your article in English.

• Conduct an oral presentation of the article during the Ibero-American Conference on Trends in Engineering Education and Collaboration

Upon acceptance for the Journal additional information about your paper, such as an extended version, will be requested, at no additional cost.

Article Submission Standards:

• Must be submitted using our online system which can be found at this link.  Registration within the system is required for article submission.

• PDF files are the only accepted format.

• Can be submitted in English or Spanish.  For consideration for inclusion in the Springer Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, send your article in English.
•  Article should not exceed 8 pages.  From the seventh page, participants will be charged $25 (American dollars) for each extra page.

• Article acceptance is dependent on the Technical Committee, also those to be published in the Journal

• If article is accepted, at least one author must attend the conference for an oral presentation in agreement with the program agenda created by the Technical Committee.

• The author or authors, who will present, must register for the Ibero-American Conference on Trends in Engineering Education and Collaboration before the 21^st of September for inclusion in the Agenda.

All submitted articles must follow the two column IEEE format which is specified below.  An example in word format can be found at this link.

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* This information has been translated to Spanish with authorization of IEEE.

Deana Pennington

Deana is an interdisciplinary scientist with background that includes a PhD in Physical Geography and Geotechniques, a Masters in Geology, and post-PhD coursework in Organizational Learning.  Her work revolves around collaborative development of eScience and Informatics methods and tools for study of climate change impacts on natural systems.  Her research focuses on understanding collaborative processes as dynamic knowledge ecosystems, and development of models of cross-disciplinary collaboration.  She is PI on the National Science Foundation funded Cyberinfrastruture Team Project:  Advancing Cyberinfrastructure-Based Science through Education, Training, and Mentoring of Science Communities.

Johann van Reenen

Johann van Reenen is the Associate Dean for Research, Science and International Initiatives at the University Libraries. He is a Professor of Librarianship and Adjunct Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico.   Johann has more than 55 publications, including four Monographs and Proceedings and  six Chapters in books. Recent research and grant topics include: Enhancing communication and knowledge discovery among KARST scientists, collaborative work-spaces for analyzing and annotating scientific data sets, the future of science and technology collection development; the benefits of and systems providing open access, Web-based enabling of education and research,  distributed learning objects and metadata harvesting,  and a 12 year project on consortial support for digital library initiatives and information technology manpower development in Latin America. He currently is PI and co-PI respectively on two large grants, the Latin American Knowledge Harvester and IDEC: the Imagery Data Extraction Collaborative.

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