Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement (SWE)

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc’s Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards enable developers to make all types of sensors, transducers, and sensor data repositories discoverable, accessible, and useable via the Web. The SWE effort involves OGC members in developing the global framework of standards and best practices that make linking diverse sensor related technologies fast and practical. Standards make it possible for users to assemble sensor systems and components together efficiently; protect investments; reduce likelihood of dead-end technologies, products or approaches; allow for future expansion and encourage collaboration between Sensor Web components and users.

The first elements of the standards began to appear about four years ago in 2005. While the standards have continued to evolve and mature as they make their way through the OGC process, various user communities have applied the standards with and without open source implementations. The purpose of this special session is to take a broad review of the SWE standards, as well as exchange experiences, present results and concepts on how the standards might be utilized to develop robust, collaborative systems of sensor systems.

Topics include: SWE applications; environments; sensor types; usage techniques; implementations including private, commercial, and open source; goals; results; use of newer technologies (e.g., semantic SOA, semantic web); enhancements and extensions (including use of ontologies, support for semantic annotations, Semantic Sensor Web or Semantic Sensor Networks) experiences and potential future directions for this exciting collaboration standard.

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original papers to the special session organizer by January 15, 2009. Electronic (pdf) submissions are encouraged and should be sent to allenk@saic.com. For other review electronic formats, please check with the organizer. Papers submitted for review should not exceed 10 pages in IEEE single-spaced, double-column format. Include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 350 words. Submissions should also include the title, authors name, affiliation, e-mail address, fax number and postal address. In case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence should also be included. If accepted, the final manuscript will follow the CTS 2009 format that is available on the conference Web site at http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/09/main/callForPapers.jsp.

Consistent with standard practice, each submitted paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Initial selection will be based on full papers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, once accepted. All accepted papers are required to be presented and will be included in the conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the CTS 2009 Symposium web site later. Proceedings and its papers will be cataloged in IEEE Digital Library.