Santander on FIRE

The Fed4FIRE project (www.fed4fire.eu) is launching its first open call at FIA Dublin. In order to provide more information, there is a special session on Tuesday afternoon 7 May at the FIA in Dublin (www.fi-dublin.eu) to explain the open call and to provide information about the testbeds available for innovative experiments and about the way new testbeds could join the Fed4FIRE project. Both the innovative experiments and the new testbeds could apply for funding of 80 k€, resp. 100 k€. Please register at www.fi-dublin.eu/pre-fia-workshop-list.   Basic information about the open call (see attachment): Information workshop: 7 May 2013, Dublin (see below) Closed: 31 July 2013 Budget for innovative experiments: 600 k€ (maximum of 80 k€/experiment) Budget for new testbeds: 300 k€ (maximum of 100 k€/testbed) Available testbeds for innovative experiments: 13 Detailed information: www.fed4fire.eu/

Hybrid City II, May 2013, Athens, http://uranus.media.uoa.gr/hc2/   What: Hybrid City is an international biennial event dedicated to exploring the emergent character of the city and the potential transformative shift of the urban condition, as a result of ongoing developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and of their integration in the urban physical context. After the successfulhomonymous symposium in 2011, the second edition of Hybrid City has grown into a peer reviewed conference, aiming to promote dialogue and knowledge exchange among experts drawn from academia, as well as artists, designers, researchers, advocates, stakeholders and decision makers, actively involved in addressing questions on the nature of the technologically mediated urban activity and experience. The Hybrid City 2013 events also include an online exhibition and workshops, relevant to the theme When: Hybrid City Conference 2013: Subtle rEvolutions will take place on 23-25 of May 2013. Where: The Hybrid City II events will take place at the central building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Intelligent Environments, July 2013, Athens, www.intenv.org   Intelligent Environments (IE) refer to physical spaces in which IT and other pervasive computing technology are woven and used to achieve specific goals for the user, the environment or both. IE promote the efficiency of transactions and activities, facilitate presence and participation, improve user experience, protect users and enable better or new lifestyles for people. The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'13) will be held at the city of Athens (Greece). IE13 is the ninth edition in a series of highly successful conferences that were previously organized in Colchester (UK), Athens (Greece), Ulm (Germany), Seattle (USA), Barcelona (Spain), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Nottingham (UK), and Guanajuato (Mexico).

Special Session on Internet of Things in Smart Cities Global Wireless Summit (GWS’13) Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA June 24 – 27, 2013   Recent studies have predicted that by 2050 seventy percent of the world population will live in urban areas, while more than a half of the world’s population already lives in cities. Different urban-environment stakeholders (technicians, city planners, politicians, researchers, etc.) are urged take measures aimed at guaranteeing the fulfilment of some key quality criteria related to the sustainability and efficiency in the city domain. From a pure engineering approach the city represents a unique ecosystem for testing and assessing new services and technologies, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in particular. The fact that cities represent a strategic meeting point between the citizens (urban society) and the technology provides us with an additional dimension that can be exploited for continuous crowd-sourced creativity scenarios. From the technology standpoint, fuelled by the recent emerging of a variety of enabling device technologies on the market, such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Near Field Communication (NFC) and embedded sensor and actuator nodes, the Internet of Things (IoT) has stepped out of its infancy and is at the verge of becoming the next major extension to the current fixed and mobile networking infrastructures and an integral part of the Smart City scenario. If such a scenario unfolds, it is not hard to conclude that the design of the IoT and its architecture will be strongly influenced by the requirements of the Future…

Call for Papers - 5th International Conference on Mobile Networks And Management MONAMI 2013 23-25 September 2013 Clarion Hotel Cork Cork, Ireland www.mon-ami.org   HIGHLIGHTS - The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT - All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries - Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more AIM AND SCOPE MONAMI 2013 aims at bringing together top researchers, academics and practitioners specializing in the area of Mobile Network Management, Service Management, Virtualization and Object Management. Multiaccess and resource management, mobility management, and network management have emerged as core topics in the design, deployment and operation of current and future networks. Yet, they are treated as separate, isolated domains with very little interaction between the experts in these fields and lack cross-pollination. Recently, new avant-garde techniques and solutions have emerged; besides, other novel techniques, such as virtualization and the cloud paradigm, have taken roots. All in all, these bring about new requirements and scientific challenges. MONAMI 2013 offers the opportunity to leading researchers, industry professionals and academics around the world to meet and discuss the latest advances in these areas and present results related to technologies for true plug-and-play networking, efficient use of all infrastructure investments, and access competition. The aim of the forum is to disseminate…

8th Summer School on Applications of IoT and Wireless Sensor Networks senZations'13 ==============================­­­============================­=­=­============= September 2 - September 6, 2013, Palic lake, Serbia http://www.senzations.net   Design and deploy your own IoT solutions in the beautiful environment of Palic Lake, run experiments on the SmartSantander framework and learn how to use WSN in environments like Donana natural reserve! Learn about the latest achievements in the field of IoT from the experts coming from the EU FP7 projects SmartSantander, Planet, IoT6 and SocIoTal! Join us, have fun, meet peers and experienced researchers, expand your network of contacts.   The senZations summer school has become an annual event on the agenda of young researchers in Europe. Covering a range of novel topics from wireless sensor networks to M2M to Internet of Things and their applications with support of excellent lecturers and senior researchers from academy and industry, the senZations have attracted more than 350 students during the past seven events. The aim of the summer school is to: * Provide access to the latest results, trends, activities and applications in the IoT domain * Run experiments on the SmartSantander facility or build your own live testbed deployment at Palic * Identify novel research opportunities, important challenges and research directions * Demonstrate existing prototypes and demos - and implement new ones! * Interact with experienced researchers and establish new contacts * Have fun and enjoy the beauty of the Serbian mountains while acquiring new skills and expertise   PROGRAM The summer school will last for…

URBAN COMPUTING & MODERN CITIES (UCMC 2013) Int. Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2013 - http://iisa2013.unipi.gr/) 10-12 July 2013, Piraeus, Greece http://collectivecitymemory.net/ucmc2013 http://iisa2013.unipi.gr/tci/256 Poster - http://collectivecitymemory.net/ucmc2013/files/2013/02/CFPPosterUCMC2013.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: Sunday, 24 March 2013 Author notification: Tuesday, 30 April 2013 Camera-ready due: Wednesday, 15 May 2013 Conference Dates: 10-12 July 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIM & SCOPE The diffusion of ubiquitous computing into modern cities and the massive use of mobile devices have shifted researchers vision to explore new ideas about the modern cities. Many paradigms are presented applying ubiquitous and pervasive computing to urban spaces focusing on developing city network infrastructures, optimising traffic and transportation flows, lowering energy consumption, etc. Numerous new services are provided to citizens enhancing their daily routine. However, a city is not just infrastructure and services; a city is the people, the place and their interactions. Urban computing lies on the intersection of architecture, social interaction and design of computer systems for use in urban areas. The focus of this workshop is on the future of modern cities exploiting urban computing. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers, practitioners and cities’ stakeholders to discuss and share their ideas and contributions in diffusing urban computing into modern cities and to present their visions and set future directions for transforming modern cities into smart cities. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following aspects: -Middleware for urban computing -Context-aware systems for urban space…

1st CFP - Sociable Smart City Int. Workshop @ IE'13 CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------- SOCIABLE SMART CITY Int. Workshop at the Symposium on Smart Cities during the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments IE'13 (http://www.intenv.org/), July 16-19, 2013, Athens, Greece http://collectivecitymemory.net/sociable2013 Poster - http://collectivecitymemory.net/sociable2013/files/2013/02/CFPSociable2013.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: Sunday, 24 April 2013 Author notification: Tuesday, 15 May 2013 Camera-ready due: Wednesday, 30 May 2013 Conference Dates: 16-17 July 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIM & SCOPE The diffusion of ubiquitous computing into modern cities and the massive use of mobile devices have shifted researchers vision to explore ideas about the cities of tomorrow; terms as “smarter cities”, “iphone city”, “sentient city”, “digital cities” have emerged. There is a wealth of paradigms applying ubiquitous and pervasive computing to urban spaces focusing on developing city network infrastructures, optimising traffic and transportation flows, lowering energy consumption, etc. These works emphasise on providing new services to citizens and enhancing their daily routine. However, a city is not just infrastructure and services; all modern cities share the same infrastructure and offer similar facilities, still, each and every one has evolved a unique character, depicted in every neighborhood’s architecture and monuments. Cities are the people that inhabit them, their memories, stories, concerns and the culture that develops through their social interaction. As urban computing lies on the intersection of architecture, social interaction and design of computer systems for use in urban areas, it does not plan the city of the future but it allows people to interact…

GWS 2013 Call for Papers -- Special Session on Internet of Things in Smart Cities Special Session on Internet of Things in Smart Cities Global Wireless Summit (GWS’13) Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA June 24 – 27, 2013 Recent studies have predicted that by 2050 seventy percent of the world population will live in urban areas, while more than a half of the world’s population already lives in cities. Different urban-environment stakeholders (technicians, city planners, politicians, researchers, etc.) are urged take measures aimed at guaranteeing the fulfillment of some key quality criteria related to the sustainability and efficiency in the city domain. From a pure engineering approach the city represents a unique ecosystem for testing and assessing new services and technologies, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in particular. The fact that cities represent a strategic meeting point between the citizens (urban society) and the technology provides us with an additional dimension that can be exploited for continuous crowd-sourced creativity scenarios. From the technology standpoint, fuelled by the recent emerging of a variety of enabling device technologies on the market, such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Near Field Communication (NFC) and embedded sensor and actuator nodes, the Internet of Things (IoT) has stepped out of its infancy and is at the verge of becoming the next major extension to the current fixed and mobile networking infrastructures and an integral part of the Smart City scenario. If such a scenario unfolds, it is not hard to conclude that the design of the…

See the photos from the Aarhus SmartSantander Meeting March 2013