** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement ** ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** ************************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * For the First International Workshop on * * * * AAL SERVICE PLATFORMS (WASP 2010) * * * * A One-day Workshop to be Held at IEEE Healthcom 2010 * * Lyon, France, July 2, 2010 * ************************************************************** Web site: ************************************************************** **** !! Submission deadline moved to 8 April !! **** ************************************************************** OBJECTIVES ========== As the European population ages, more support is needed with fewer hands to cater for their needs. There is a significant market potential for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions, but adoption is limited because they require significant resources for implementation. This fact gives rise to a stringent need for an open technological platform supporting a wide range of diverse stakeholders (including end users, developers, service providers, public and private care providers). Such a platform would provide a standardised approach to the development of AAL services, thus making it technically feasible and economically viable to develop AAL solutions. The realization of such a platform can be achieved by mixing new development and consolidation of state-of-the-art results from existing initiatives. This approach not only poses technical challenges but also raises issues regarding adoption and uptake. For such an approach to be successful, the establishment of a sustainable community is mandatory. This workshop is intended as a first step in this direction. It will provide a forum in which the technical challenges related to the development of such a platform, the establishment of a AAL community, and the tools and methods to sustain such community will be discussed by the interested stakeholders. WASP 2010 is promoted and supported by the EU FP7 universAAL project (http://www.universaal.org) whose mandate is to build such community and platform. The workshop is held in conjunction with the IEEE 12th International Conference of E-Health, Networking, Applications & Services (IEEE HealthCom 2010). We encourage researchers and practitioners within the field of AAL, smart environments, and distributed systems to attend the workshop and to discuss first-hand-experiences with other experts. Workshop Topics Include but are not limited to: - Experiences and lessons learned from open consolidation processes on use cases, requirements, architectures, standards, and software modules - Experiences and lessons learned in building open platforms and standard integration - Experiences and lessons learned in open innovation processes - Experiences and lessons learned in building developer and user communities in support of open platforms - Experiences in developing and deploying AAL services using platforms - Business models and stakeholder analysis in the AAL domain - Boundary conditions an open AAL platform needs to adhere to Submission Guidelines ===================== 1) Paper submission: Workshop submissions will be electronic, in pdf format only. The submission system is available on the workshop website. All papers that have been accepted will have to be presented by at least one of the authors. Without registration and payment, the paper will not be included in the conference proceedings. 2) Author instructions The paper, initial submission as well as camera-ready papers, must comply with the IEEE format (see IEEE template at ): double column, must not exceed 6 pages including all diagrams and references. All submissions must have names, affiliations and full contact details (including email addresses) of all authors. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore and EI indexed as part of the conference proceedings. Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: April 8, 2010 Acceptance notification: April 22, 2010 Camera ready version: May 1, 2010 Deadline for author registration: May 15, 2010 General Chair Francesco Furfari, CNR Italy Program Committee Chair: Saied Tazari, Fraunhofer Germany Program Committee: Ivan Benc, Ericsson Nikola Tesla Croatia Jesus Bermejo, Telvent Spain Stefano Chessa, CNR Italy Marco Eichelberg, OFFIS e.V. Germany Francesco Furfari, CNR Italy Anastasia Garbi, Exodus S.A. Greece Sergio Guillen, ITACA-UPV Spain Kai Hackbarth, ProSyst Germany Sten Hanke, AIT Austria Michael Hellenschmidt, Fraunhofer Germany Juan Pablo Lazaro-Ramos, TSB Spain François Letellier, OW2 France Marius Mikalsen, SINTEF Norway Ralph Mueller, Eclipse Foundation Europe Juan Carlos Naranjo, ITACA-UPV Spain Yardena Peres, IBM Research Haifa Milan Petkovic, Philips Netherlands Francesco Potortì, CNR Italy Saied Tazari, Fraunhofer Germany Ståle Walderhaug, SINTEF Norway Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer Germany