IQ2S 2010

The Second International Workshop on Information Quality
and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing

in Conjunction with   IEEE PERCOM 2010
Mannheim, Germany, March 29, 2010

Pervasive computing enables computers to interact with the real world in a ubiquitous and natural manner. It is, in its core, an application-driven discipline encompassing the pervasive acquisition, transportation, processing, and consumption of information from diverse sources, including widespread sensor deployments. Thus, the traditional study of QoS in transporting sensory data in pervasive systems ought to be balanced with the study of QoI in delivering sensor-originated information. Quality of Information (QoI) or Information Quality (IQ) relates to information's level of fitness for a purpose, e.g., when contributing to an application's utility. Harnessing and optimizing the QoI derived from sensor networks will be key to bringing together effectively the aforementioned acquisition, transportation, processing, and consumption elements that the broad spectrum of smart, information-intensive, sensor-enabled pervasive applications depend on, such as remote habitat monitoring, utility grid monitoring, environmental control, supply-chain management, healthcare, intelligent transportation systems, military intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR), border control, and hazardous material monitoring, just to mention a few.

The effectiveness of an application's actions using a piece of information serves as the ultimate measure of the information's quality and value-add; an action may be highly effective achieving all its anticipated goals, partially effective, or entirely ineffective. Complementing traditional provisioning of QoS with QoI and action effectiveness for pervasive computing is challenging and difficult due to the resource constrained, dynamic and distributed nature of the sensory systems involved, their security weaknesses, and so on. Novel mechanisms and designs are required which integrate QoI with network and computational QoS that take into account the aforementioned challenges while dealing with different types of sensory resources and their inter-dependencies. It is an objective of this workshop to provide a forum to exchange ideas, present results, share experience, and enhance collaborations among researchers, professionals, and application developers working on QoI and QoS in wireless sensor networks for pervasive computing.

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum to exchange ideas, present results, share experience, and enhance collaborations among researchers, professionals, and application developers in various aspects of QoI and QoS in wireless sensor networks for pervasive computing. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of QoI and QoS provisioning in pervasive computing are solicited. Papers describing experience on real prototype implementations are particularly welcome.

Important Dates

Paper Submission:            November 16, 2009 (Extended)
Acceptance Notification:   January 22, 2010
Camera-Ready Due:         January 29, 2010