32nd Annual Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
Paderborn | September 15 – 18, 2009

1st International Workshop on
Distributed Computing in Ambient Environments (DiComAe)

Co-located with the 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Paderborn, September 15th, 2009

Workshop Scope

This workshop is looking for papers describing original research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences with existing systems and industrial developments in the field of distributed, ambient computing.

The workshop provides a forum for scientists and engineers from academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas, research results, and products particularly dealing with semantics and knowledge processing for developing smart applications in for instance health care, sustainability or consumer domains.

Topics of Interest

• Distributed algorithms for communication, synchronization and coordination in ambient computing environments
• Environments, middleware and tool support for ambient computing
• Distributed applications
• Fault tolerance and security in ambient distributed environments
• Semantic processing in distributed environments
• Ontologies and security
• Energy-awareness in distributed computing

Submission Guideline

Authors are invited to submit original papers in any of the areas listed above. The length of the paper must not exceed 8 pages. Papers should follow the submission guideline of KI 2009. At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop to present the paper. Please see http://ki2009.uni-paderborn.de for more information on paper submission.

Important Deadlines

Organizing Commitee

Conference Co-Chairs

• André Brinkmann, University of Paderborn - Andre.Brinkmann(at)hni.uni-paderborn.de
• Heinz-Josef Eikerling, Siemens AG - Heinz-Josef.Eikerling(at)c-lab.de
• M. Zaheer Aziz, University of Paderborn - aziz(at)get.uni-paderborn.de

Publication Chair

• Sajjad Mohsin, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology

Program Committee

• Adedayo Adetoye, University of Reading, UK
• Arshad Ali, National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan
• Roger Leslie Anderton Cottrell, Stanford University, USA
• Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK
• Farokh B. Bastani,University of Texas at Dallas, USA
• Koen Bertels, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• Markus Eisenhauer, Fraunhofer Institute for applied Information Technology FIT, Germany
• Klaus Marius Hansen, University of Arhus, Denmark
• Mario Hoffmann, Fraunhofer-Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT, Germany
• Animesh Pathak, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France
• Pablo Antolín Rafael, Telefónica I+D (TID), Spain
• Omer F. Rana, SCS, Cardiff University, Wales
• Daniel Thiemert, University of Reading, UK
• Weishan Zhang, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Others to be confirmed

 Program

The DiComAE program can be found here (pdf).