The 4th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks 2011 (SSN11)

 

NEW: SSN will be at ISWC 2012 in Boston http://knoesis.org/ssn2012/

NEW: Workshop proceedings are published as CEUR vol-839 here

NEW:  Best Paper Award  sponsored by European project Spitfire, funded by EU under contract no. 2588, was presented to

 Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Hoyoung Jeung, Oscar Corcho and Karl Aberer, 
Semantic Sensor Data Search in a Large-Scale Federated Sensor Network                      

The keynote speaker was  Michael Compton, editor of the W3C  SSN-XG SSN Ontology, on

           " What now and where next for the W3C Semantic Sensor Networks Incubator Group sensor ontology"

Semantic technologies are often proposed as important components of complex, cross-jurisdictional, heterogeneous, dynamic information systems. The needs and opportunities arising from the rapidly growing capabilities of networked sensing devices are a challenging case.

 It is estimated that today there are 4 billion mobile devices that can act as sensors, including active and passive RFID tags. This is complemented by an even larger number of fixed sensors recording observations of a wide variety of modalities. Geographically distributed sensor nodes are capable of forming ad hoc networking topologies, with nodes expected to be dynamically inserted and removed from a network. The sensors are increasingly being connected with Web infrastructure, and the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standard developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium is widely being adopted in industry, government and academia alike.  While such frameworks provide some interoperability, semantics is increasingly seen as key enabler for integration of sensor data and broader Web information systems. Analytical and reasoning capabilities afforded by Semantic Web standards and technologies are considered important for developing advanced applications that go from capturing observations to recognition of events and ultimately developing comprehensive situational awareness. Defence, transportation, global enterprise, and natural resource management industries are leading the rapid emergence of applications in commercial, civic, and scientific operations that involve sensors, web, services and semantics.

Programme Committee

Chairs:

Kerry Taylor, CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra, Australia
Arun Ayyagari, The Boeing Company, Seattle, USA
David De Roure, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

Advisors:

Amit Sheth, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton OH, USA
Manfred Hauswirth, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Technical Program:

Thomas Meyer, Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa
Mark Cameron, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany
Kevin Page, University of Oxford, UK
Michael Compton, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Cory Henson, Wright State University, USA
Luis Bermudez, Open Geospatial Consortium, USA
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada
Ralf Denzer, Saarland University of Applied Sciences,  Germany
Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, UK
Ingo Simonis, Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa
Sascha Schlobinski, Cismet GmbH, Germany
Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University
Josiane Parreira, DERI, Ireland
Yong Liu, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Peter Edwards, University of Aberdeen, UK
Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK
Alasdair Gray, University of Manchester, UK
Laurent Lefort, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Publicity:
Kevin Page, University of Oxford, UK                                                                                               

Other links

Please see http://www.ict.csiro.au/ssn06/ ,  http://research.ict.csiro.au/conferences/ssn/ssn09/  and http://research.ict.csiro.au/conferences/ssn/ssn10  for earlier workshops in the series.

Please see http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/ for information about the main ISWC conference, including registration, travel and accommodation information.