9th IEEE International Conference on Distributed in Sensor Systems (IEEE DCoSS) Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 20-23, 2013 www.dcoss.org

General Chair Call for Papers Sajal K. Das (Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA) Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities applications. The focus of IEEE Technical Program Chairs DCOSS conference is on distributed computing issues in large scale networked Tarek F. Abdelzaher sensor systems (including algorithms and applications, systems design (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) techniques and tools, and in-network signal and information processing). The conference normally features three tracks on Algorithms, Systems, and a Signal Habib M. Ammari Processing. In addition, a new “Track of the Year” is introduced. This track (Univ. of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) focuses on emerging topics in sensing. In DCOSS 2013, the focus topic is “Social Networks and Crowdsensing.” Program Vice Chairs (Tracks)

Algorithms: Mingyan Liu Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Systems: Thiemo Voigt • Social networks and crowdsensing (Uppsala Univ., Sweden and SICS) • Sensors for Smart Grid systems, green networks and sustainability Signal Processing: Jean-Francois Chamberland • Computation and programming models (Texas A&M Univ., USA) • Energy models, minimization, awareness • Distributed collaborative information processing Track of the Year • Detection and tracking Social Networks & Crowdsensing: • Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability Bolek Szymanski • Abstractions for modular design (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) • Fault tolerance and security Workshops Chairs • Languages, operating systems • Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration Tommaso Melodia • Dynamic resource management (State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, USA) • Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) Mehmet Can Vuran • Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) • Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation

• Design automation and application synthesis techniques Publicity Chairs • Closed-loop control for sensing and actuation Stefano Basagni • Case studies: lessons from real world deployments (Northeastern Univ., USA) • Network coding and compression

Raffaele Bruno Important Dates (IIT-CNR, Italy) Abstract Registration Deadline: January 31, 2013 (11:59 pm EST) Salil Kanhere Paper Submission Deadline: February 4, 2013 (11:59 pm EST) (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia) Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2013 Camera Ready Submission Deadline: April 8, 2013 (11:59pm EST) Finance Chair Early Registration Deadline: April 29, 2013 (11:59 pm EST) Wenyuan Xu (Univ. of South Carolina, USA) Paper submissions will be via EDAS. See http://www.dcoss.org/dcoss13 for

more information on the conference. The proceedings will be published by the Webmaster IEEE. M.Yousof Naderi (Northeastern Univ., USA) Sponsored by the IEEE Society Technical Committee on Parallel Steering Committee Chair Processing (TCPP) and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Jose Rolim Distributed Processing (TCDP). Held in co-operation with ACM SIGARCH, (Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland) ACM SIGBED, ACM SIGMOBILE, European Association for Theoretical (EATCS), and IFIP WG 10.3.