IQ2S 2012

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

in Conjunction with   IEEE PERCOM 2012
Lugano, Switzerland, March 19, 2012

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Past IQ2Ss:

     IQ2S 2011

     IQ2S 2010

     IQ2S 2009
 

 



TECHNICAL PROGRAM


8:45  Opening Remarks

9:00  Section 1: Keynote Talk (Chair: Sajal Das)
Open Sensor Networks for Air Quality Monitoring
Karl Aberer (APFL)

10:00 Break

10:30 Section 2: Network QoI (Chair: Chatschik Bisdikian)

Quality of Information Functions for Networked Applications
Ahmed Bahjat (Penn State University, USA); Yurong Jiang (University of Southern California, USA); Trevor J. Cook (Army Research Lab, USA); Tom La Porta (Penn State University, USA)

Maximizing Credibility-based Network Utility via Power Allocation
Ertugrul Ciftcioglu (PSU), Aylin Yener (PSU)

Transient Traffic Congestion Control with Traveling Auctions
Syed Yousaf Shah (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Boleslaw K Szymanski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Distributed Graph Query Processing in Dynamic Networks
Mudhakar Srivatsa (IBM Research), Vikas Kawadia (BBN), Shengqi Yang (UCSB)

12:00  Lunch

13:30 Session 3: Sensor Networks and Pervasive Environments (Chair: Boleslaw Szymanski)

The Bus goes Wireless: Routing-Free Data Collection with QoS Guarantees in Sensor Networks
Federico Ferrari (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Marco Zimmerling (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Lothar Thiele (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Luca Mottola (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)

Energy-Balanced Sensor Selection for Social Context Detection
Viet Nguyen (University of Oslo, Norway), Ellen Munthe-Kaas (University of Oslo, Norway), Thomas Plagemann (University of Oslo, Norway)

Quality-of-Information Aware Data Collection for Mobile Sensor Networks
Edith Ngai (Uppsala University, Sweden), Per Gunningberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Trust and Obfuscation Principles for Quality of Information in Emerging Pervasive Environments
Chatschik Bisdikian (IBM Research, USA), Murat Sensoy (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom), Timothy J Norman (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom), Mani B. Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

15:00 Break

15:30 Session 4: Keynote Talk (Chair: Tarek Abdelzaher)

Are we Ready to Go Large-Scale? Challenges in the Deployment and Maintenance of Heterogeneous Networks of Cooperating Objects
Pedro Marron (University of Duisburg-Essen)

16:30 Session 5: Session 5: Information Processing (Chair: Per Gunningberg)

Information Processing and Quality Evaluations
Trevor J. Cook (Army Research Lab, USA), Andrew Toth (US Army Research Laboratory, USA)

Preserving Quality of Information by using Semantic Relationships
Prithwish Basu (BBN Technologies, USA); Jie Bao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA); Mike Dean (BBN Technologies, USA); James A. Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)

17:15 Wrap-up Discussion (Moderators: Ramesh Govindan and Tarek Abdelzaher)

17:45 Adjourn