to the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
to be held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa
Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

March 8 - 12, 2009

sponsored by
The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

hosted by
University of Hawaii at Manoa
and
Chaminade University of Honolulu

For the past twenty three years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2009 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is hosted by the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Chaminade University of Honolulu.

SAC is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

There is an increasing emphasis for future processing and communication requirements to be met by embedded devices. As devices become ever smaller, cheaper and better provisioned, the visions of smart dust, intelligent environments and ambient computing become more realistic. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) also bring specific research challenges – especially in terms of automated discovery, configuration and cooperation to optimise services and message routing over the network.

WSN are at a critical point in their evolution. On one hand, they are already established as a key technology supporting an alternative distributed computing paradigm for embedding computing within the fabric of our environment, whilst on the other hand they have huge unexplored potential to solve a plethora of challenging and urgent problems across almost all aspects of human activity.
The ACM SAC 2009 Track on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) welcomes paper submissions on all types of research and applications with emphasis on those describing research producing decentralised or emergent solutions, or where the authors have experience moving theoretical work to the practical arena. Possible paper areas include, but are not restricted to:

• Evaluation and qualitative assessment of decentralised techniques in comparison to traditional fixed/centralised deployment.
• Power-aware Protocol Design
• Data Aggregation and Data Fusion
• Localization and Time Synchronization
• Data Querying and Data Dissemination
• Robustness and dependability of self-* WSN systems
• Approaches to engineering self-* WSN systems
• Operating Systems/WSN systems support
• Quality-of-Service/Context
• Applications and experiences of Bio-organisation
• Bio-inspired or Emergent algorithms, techniques and tools for self-organisation of WSNs
• Dynamics of emergent properties
• WSN Topology control and network organization
• Decentralised Localization, synchronization and data propagation
• Adaptive models for mobility in WSNs
• Adaptive and evolving protection mechanisms
  

The WSN Track will particularly welcome practical results, description and analysis of user experiments and demonstrations and simulations or proofs-of-concept of WSN computing applications.

Submissions will be in electronic format, via the website: eCMS site. Submissions must follow the template reported here.

The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information.

For any problems with the system you can contact Julie McCann or Richard Anthony (jamm@doc.ic.ac.uk, R.J.Anthony@gre.ac.uk)

Papers must be formatted according to the template which can be now downloaded from the SAC 2009 website, and their size should be limited to around 4000 words. The total number of pages per paper is five pages. A maximum of three additional pages may be included for an additional fee. Please note that more than 5 pages in the camera ready version will be charged with 80USD per extra page.

August   23, 2008:       Submission of papers (strict deadline)
October 11, 2008:       Notification of acceptance / rejection
October 25, 2008:       Camera-Ready copies of accepted papers

Please note that a paper cannot be submitted to more than one track.