WrapUp:

We had a very successfull LoCA 2005, and we would like to thank everyone who contributed to this success! Here is some wrap-up information which we would like to point you to:

• LoCA 2005 proceedings are published as LNCS 3479 and are also available online.
• Selected authors will be invited to resubmit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of the journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.
• You can find some photos of the workshop sessions and the social event on the Pervasive 2005 website.
• The abstract of the keynote given by Vidal Ashkenazi can be found here.

In the meantime we also decided on how to continue with LoCA:

• LoCA 2006 will be in Dublin/Ireland, co-located with Pervasive 2006
• LoCA 2007 will be at the German Aerospace Center again!

Program and Registration:

The TPC has accepted 33 papers (26 full papers, 7 short papers) out of 84 submissions for the workshop.

The workshop will last for two full days (Thursday and Friday) containing single sessions and parallel sessions. There will be a social event on Thursday evening. The final workshop program contains the assignment of presentations to sessions. Here you can see an overview of the programme:

For those who arrive already on Wednesday we offer a free-of-charge tour through the German Aerospace Center on Wednesday afternoon. Please see the english description or the german description for more information.

Registration is closed. Please download either the DOC template or the PDF template of the registration form, fill in all the required information (please, write clearly) and fax it back to our workshop secretary.

The workshop is open for anyone to attend, but the number of attendees is limited due to the room capacities. Registrations will be handled in a first-come first-serve manner (authors of accepted papers will be given priority). We are currently close to the maximum number of attendees due to room size limits, so register soon. We cannot guarantee that there will be free seats which we can offer through on site registration!

Please find here a description how to reach us. The workshop will take place in building 124 in the presentation rooms on the second floor, signs will guide you there after passing the main entrance.
 

Call for Papers:

The goal of this workshop is to address and discuss the technical challenges, ideas, views, and research results in sensing, fusing and distributing location information as well as providing location- and context-awareness to applications and services such as navigation in pervasive systems.

The workshop is a platform to propose new positioning algorithms and location sensing techniques, including new techniques and studies into the properties of existing technologies. This includes enhancements of singular systems (e.g. positioning in cellular telephone networks such as GSM; positioning in WLAN environments; etc.) as well as hybrid systems (e.g. integration of Global Navigation Satellite Systems with Inertial Positioning Systems). Improvements in sensor technology, integration and sensor fusion may be addressed either on a theoretical or on an implementation level.

The genesis of nearly all kinds of dynamic location information is mobility. Mobility - in all its facets (user mobility, device mobility, session mobility etc.) - requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, as well as discovery and execution frameworks for location-aware services. Thus we invite you to submit proposals and/or experience papers in the area of mobility and its mentioned adjacencies.

Location is also one of the primary aspects (such as time, identity and activity) of all major context models. Context-awareness, a generalization of location-awareness, is another driver of the pervasive computing paradigm. Well designed context modelling and context retrieval approaches are key accessors to the context in any context-aware system. Thus we emphatically invite submissions dealing with issues of modelling and retrieval of context. This may also include integration aspects into service platforms and frameworks to provide location- and context-awareness to services.

Personal and confidential data such as the location of the user stored on mobile devices and the location of the mobile device itself have profound implications for personal information privacy. Thus the area of protecting privacy, privacy-oriented location-aware systems, and how privacy affects the feasibility and usefulness of systems may be addressed. Example topics include privacy enablers in pervasive surveillance and sensing environments or location anonymity techniques.

Scenarios and applications for location-aware computing may be surveyed and evaluated, including existing applications and aiming forwards future applications, to facilitate the deployment and everyday use of location-aware computing systems in workplaces, homes and public spaces.

Submission Guidelines:

Authors are requested to submit full papers in Adobe PDF format. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the international program committee and additional expert reviewers from relevant research communities.

All paper submissions will be handled electronically by the EDAS system. Note that submission is a two stage process - you will need to register your paper first and then submit the final manuscript. Authors without EDAS user names will be required to register with the system using the same link as above. The site will close for submissions at 03:00 EDT on 18 December 2004.

All accepted papers will be contained in the workshop proceedings which will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. Therefore submissions must conform to the LNCS LaTeX stylesheets.

We solicit papers of up to 12 pages in LNCS style but explicitly welcome shorter papers for presentation of pointed results. All paper submissions will be treated as full papers but it is important that their length is appropriate for their content.

After the workshop you are also able to order the proceedings directly from Springer or through your favorite book store. It is referred to as LNCS 3479, ISBN 3-540-25896-5.

Important Dates:

Workshop Chairs:

Thomas Strang Systems Department Institute of Communications and Navigation (KN) German Aerospace Center (DLR) D-82234 Wessling/Oberpfaffenhofen  Germany  Tel.: +49 8153 28 1354  Fax: +49 8153 28 1871 Email: Thomas.Strang@dlr.de

Claudia Linnhoff-Popien Mobile and Distributed Systems Group Institute for Informatics (IFI) University of Munich (LMU)  D-80538 Munich  Germany  Tel.: +49 89 2180 9146  Fax: +49 89 2180 9147 Email: Claudia.Linnhoff-Popien@ifi.lmu.de

Technical Program Committee Members:

Accommodation:

We have reserved a contingent of single and double rooms at hotels with good access to public transport in the vicinity of the workshop venue. Be aware of the fact that this is a recreational region which is usually booked out very fast.

You may claim a room out of the contingent by referring to DLR LoCA while doing your reservation with the hotel. Please note, that you have to arrange and pay your accommodation yourself, and that the rooms are served on a first come / first serve base.

If you are going to attend both Pervasive and LoCA, you may either stay at your hotel at or near the Pervasive venue or change to a hotel closer to the LoCA venue, where the distance between them is about 30 minutes using a public transport train which commutes every 20 minutes.