December 2003 SIGMOD Record CFP

Sensor Network Technology
Infrastructure, Security, Data processing, and Deployment

SIGMOD record Issue of December 2003.
Guest Editor:  Vijay Kumar.

The growing popularity and near ubiquitous deployment of sensors has 
significantly impacted the field of information processing, data management, 
and system and application security at all levels.  These sensors; mobile and 
static, have the ability to gather massive
amount of spatial as well as temporally dense data over vast geographical 
areas.  The overall potential of sensor network  in terms of data collection 
and dissemination is being exploited by a number of other disciplines. In 
particular, its potential for managing security in communication and 
information management and its deployment in biological sciences for capturing, 
analyzing, and processing
information have become important areas of research and development.  In fact 
this technology is redefining database architecture and data processing to 
integrate them seamlessly to nearly all other disciplines.  Its use in 
Bioinformatics provides an effective way of
understanding biological activities.  It is also an effective resource for 
capturing information about the environment it is deployed and for managing 
security.

Embedded sensor networks are massively distributed systems consisting of a 
large numbers of autonomous, interconnected sensory nodes, which can 
continuously sense data of locally occurring phenomena.  They can be deployed 
on a large scale in resource-limited and harsh environments such as seismic 
zones, ecological contamination sites or battlefields, etc.  Each sensor of a 
sensor network can be 
programmed to perform specific function to complement other sensors operations. 
 However, sensors networks are relatively more insecure 
repository and routers of data, which raises the need or new security schemes.  
Their deployment in environments disaster areas, 
earthquake/rubble zones or in military battlegrounds can be seriously affected 
by any kind of sensor failure or malicious attack/security 
threats from an enemy.

The sensors have another serious problem, which is related to their power 
source.  A sensor needs power to function.  Its power requirement 
is satisfied by low capacity and low power battery.  This constraint demands 
that software modules must not only be efficient but energy efficient as well, 
which requires new programming approaches.

This issue of SIGMOD record is devoted to research work in sensor system 
infrastructure, security, data processing (data capture, validation and 
consistency preservation), and biosensor technology.  It aims to unify 
multi-discipline sensor technology research and development through the unique 
link, which is clearly visible when seen but invisible when not seen.  The 
following list provides an introduction to a part of the scope of the record.

1. Sensor network security
2. Sensor mining and sensor data mining
3. Stream data processing and information management
4. Sensor mobility
5. Ad-hoc Sensor network
6. Distributed Sensor Network Architecture
7. Sensor data capture and validation
8. Distributed sensor system reliability and recovery
9. Sensor deployment
10. Sensor system management

You are invited to submit your work for publication.  The submission 
information is as follows.  Please note that these are hard deadlines.

Paper submission deadline: Monday, September 15, 2003.
Paper acceptance notification:  Monday, October 6, 2003.
Camera ready submission: Monday, October 13, 2003.

Paper format
Submitted articles are limited to 6 pages, however, under some cases, this 
limit may be relaxed.  Papers should be submitted electronically in Postscript, 
PDF or MS Word format.  The font size should be 10 point, single-space, 
2-column, 8.5'' by 1'' page size with '' margins and no page numbers.

Papers should be sent to: KUMARV-yfksYLgKiJw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Vijay Kumar
SICE, Computer Networking
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110, USA
Voice:  (816) 235 2366
Fax:     (816) 235 5159
www.sice.umkc.edu/~kumarv
 
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