Call for Papers

Deadline 15 May 2011

ITU Kaleidoscope academic conference

The fully networked human?

？ Innovations for future networks and services ？

Cape Town, South Africa

12-14 December 2011

Kaleidoscope 2011 The fully networked human? ？ Innovations for future networks and services ？ is the fourth in a series of peer-reviewed academic conferences organized by ITU that brings together a wide range of ideas and views from universities, industry and research institutions of different fields. The previous editions were held in Switzerland, Argentina and India. The aim of Kaleidoscope is to identify emerging developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) at an early stage, to generate successful products and services through the development of international and open standards.ICTs have already changed the way we live, work, learn, think and communicate. Ever smaller and smarter sensors proliferate, wireless networks are omnipresent, and smartphones are abundant. In the future, the impact of ICTs will be further amplified through the increasing deployment of ubiquitous/pervasive/human-centric computing and ambient intelligence. In this environment, the user is placed at the center, and virtualized networks, other IT resources, services and applications are adaptively and automatically configured to support the users in carrying out their everyday life activities.

Besides many technical issues to be addressed, this also raises serious questions about access to ICTs, privacy, interoperability and sustainability. Future technologies should be designed to benefit humans, not the other way round. To address these issues, standards are indispensable. Developing these standards will require concerted efforts by many stakeholders, including relevant UN agencies. This conference shall help to further such collaborations.

The fully networked human? ？ Innovations for future networks and services is calling for original academic papers offering innovative and bold approaches in research and development to integrate the real and the digital worlds.

Audience

Kaleidoscope 2011 is targeted at all specialists with a role in the field, including researchers, academics, students, engineers, policy-makers and regulators, innovators and futurists from all over the world.

Date and venue

12-14 December 2011, Cape Town, South Africa

Submission of papers

Prospective authors, from countries that are members of ITU, are invited to submit complete, original papers with a maximum length of 4,500 words within eight pages including summary and references, using the template available on the event website. All papers will be reviewed through a double-blind, peer-review process and handled electronically; seehttp://itu-kaleidoscope.org/2011for the online submission (EDAS).

Deadlines

Submission of full paper proposals: 15 May 2011

Notification of paper acceptance: 30 July 2011

Submission of camera-ready accepted papers: 10 September 2011

Publication and presentation

Accepted papers will be presented during the event, published in the proceedings and in IEEE Xplore. The best papers will be evaluated for potential publication in IEEE Communications Magazine. In addition, selected papers will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Technology Marketing or the International Journal of IT Standards & Standardization Research.

Awards

Awards of USD 5k, 3k and 2k will be granted to selected best papers, as judged by the organizing and programme committees. In addition, young authors presenting accepted papers will receive a Young Author Recognition certificate.

General Chair

Mostafa Hashem Sherif (AT&T, US)

Organizing Committee

Chairman: Mostafa Hashem Sherif (AT&T, USA)

- Tohru Asami (University of Tokyo, Japan)

- Ashok Chandra (Ministry of Communications & I.T., India)

- Christoph Dosch (IRT GmbH, Germany)

- Linda Garcia (Georgetown University, USA)

- Yoshikazu Ikeda (Otani University, Japan)

- Chae-Sub Lee (ETRI, Korea)

- Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

- Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, Japan)

- Yushi Naito (Mitsubishi Electric, Japan)

- Ramjee Prasad (Aalborg University, Denmark)

- Felipe Rudge Barbosa (University of Campinas, Brazil)

- Helmut Schink (Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany)

- Alfredo Terzoli (Rhodes University, South Africa)

- Daniele Trinchero (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Programme Committee

Chairman: Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

(please see below for a list of members of the programme committee)

Keywords

Information and communication technologies (ICTs), human-centric design, technological innovation, standardization, ambient intelligence, ubiquitous networks, internet of things, e-applications, information society.

For additional information

Additional information is available on the conference website:http://itu-kaleidoscope.org/2011.

Inquiries should be addressed tokaleidoscope@itu.int.

Suggested (non-exclusive) list of topics

Track 1: Technology and architecture evolution

Vice-Chair: Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, Japan)

- Human-centric, cognitive and context-aware systems

- System integration

- Body-area networks

- Near-field communications

- Environmental and biometric actuators and sensors

- Robotics and humanoids

- Embedded systems and real time systems

- Privacy-enhancing technologies

- Ambient intelligence

- Smartphones, handsets, appliances and terminals

- Interface technologies

- Pervasive and trusted network and service infrastructure

- Mobility and nomadicity

Track 2: Applications and services

Vice-Chair: Alfredo Terzoli (Rhodes University, South Africa)

- e-government and e-democracy

- e-learning and e-science

- e-agriculture

- e-health and telemedicine

- Ageing and ambient assistive living

- Smart cities: utilities, transport, buildings and homes

- Innovative applications and content delivery (IPTV, games, etc.)

- Virtual communities, lifelogs and social networking services

- Mobile payment and money transfer

- Augmented reality and technology intelligence

- Location-based services

- Digital rights and identity management

- User-centric data mining

- Open Service Interfaces

- XaaS (Anything as a Service)

Track 3: Social, economic and policy aspects of human-centric systems

Vice-Chair: Linda Garcia (Georgetown University, USA)

- Societal impact

- Legislative and regulatory frameworks

- Security, confidentiality and privacy

- Innovative key management and identification schemes

- Accessibility and usability

- Business models (including accounting, billing and charging)

- Prospective roles for ITU and other intergovernmental organizations

- Standardization models

- The role of conformance and interoperability

- New approaches to innovation

- Network neutrality

- Inclusiveness, affordability and equal access

- Internationalization and localization

- Environmental sustainability

Members of the Programme Committee:

Finn Aagesen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Marcelo F. Abbade (Pontifical Catholic University in Campinas, Brazil)

Ahmad Zaki Abu Bakar (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia)

Artem Adzhemov (Moscow Technical University, Russia)

Johnson Agbinya (La Trobe University, Australia)

Syed Ahson (Patna University, India)

Altay Aitmagambetov (Kazakh Academy of Transport and Comm., Kazakhstan)

Koichi Asatani (Kogakuin University, Japan)

Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy)

Pierre-Jean Benghozi (Ecole polytechnique - CNRS, France)

Vitor Bernardo (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Jose Everardo Bessa Maia (State University of Ceará, Brazil)

Shiddhartha Bhandari (Institut Telecom SudParis, France)

Mauro Biagi (University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Italy)

Knut Blind (Berlin University of Technology, Germany)

Niklas Blum (Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany)

Luiz Henrique Bonani (Federal University of ABC - UFABC, Brazil)

Dario Bottazzi (Gugliemo Marconi Labs, Italy)

Michael Bove (MIT, USA)

Oliver Brenninkmeijer (University of Business and International Studies, Switzerland)

Niels Brunsson (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Cagatay Buyukkoc (AT&T, USA)

Marco Carugi (ZTE Corporation, China)

Marcelo Carvalho (University of Brasilia, Brazil)

Vicente Casares-Giner (Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

Piero Castoldi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)

Isabella Cerutti (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)

Donggeun Choi (Korean Standards Association, Korea)

Jaeho Choi (Chonbuk National University, Korea)

Jun Kyun Choi (Information and Communications University, Korea)

Young Choi (Regent University, USA)

Antonio Corradi (University of Bologna, Italy)

Noel Crespi (GET-INT Institut National des Télécommunications, France)

Marilia Curado (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Amilton da Costa Lamas (CPqD, Brazil)

Marc De Leenheer (Ghent University, Belgium)

Giancarlo De Marchis (Tiscali, Italy)

Alvaro Augusto de Medeiros (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil)

Ugo Dias (University of Brasilia, Brazil)

Tineke Egyedi (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Tamer ElBatt (Nile University, Egypt)

Mahmoud T. El-Hadidi (Cairo University, Egypt)

Khalil El-Khatib (University of Ontario, Canada)

Khaled Elsayed (Cairo University, Egypt)

Dmitry Epstein (Cornell University, USA)

Luis Carlos Erpen de Bona (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil)

Mario Fanelli (University of Bologna, Italy)

José Ewerton Farias (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)

Armando Ferro Vázquez (ETSI de Bilbao, Spain)

Erwin J.A. Folmer (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy)

Miguel Franklin de Castro (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)

Eduardo Gabelloni (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, Argentina)

Ivan Gaboli (Italtel SpA, Italy)

Alex Galis (University College London, United Kingdom)

Ivan Ganchev (University of Limerick, Ireland)

Wen Gao (Peking University, China)

Molka Gharbaoui (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)

Carlo Giannelli (University of Bologna, Italy)

Ricardo Goncalves (Universidade Nuova de Lisboa, Portugal)

Anahita Gouya (Institut National de Télécommunications, France)

Victor Govidanswami (Texas A&M University, USA)

Ian Graham (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Adam Grzech (Politechnika Wrocawska, Poland)

Chris Guy (The University of Reading, United Kingdom)

Eva Ibarrola (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

Thusitha Jayawardena (AT&T, USA)

Seong-Ho Jeong (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea)

Nils Joachim (Bamberg University, Germany)

Carlos Juiz (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)

Ved Kafle (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

Farouk Kamoun (ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia)

Kamusisha Kazaoura (Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited, Tanzania)

Tim Kelly (World Bank, USA)

Masafumi Koga (Oita University, Japan)

Andrej Kos (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Katarzyna Kosek-Szott (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)

Ken Krechmer (University of Colorado, USA)

Claude Lamblin (France Telecom, France)

Colin Langtry (ITU-R, Switzerland)

Matti Latva-aho (University of Oulu, Finland)

Gyu Myoung Lee (Institut Telecom SudParis, France)

Heejin Lee (Yonsei University, Japan)

Leo Lehmann (OFCOM, Switzerland)

Fidel Liberal (ETSI de Bilbao, Spain)

Osman Lofty El Sayed (French University of Egypt, Egypt)

Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada)

Waslon Lopes (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)

Jose Giovanny López Perafán (University of Cauca, Colombia)

Kalle Lyytinen (Case Western Reserve University, USA)

Thomas Magedanz (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)

Giovanni Mancilla (Universidad Distrital, Colombia)

Peter Martini (University of Bonn, Germany)

Lorne Mason (McGill University, Canada)

Werner Mohr (Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany)

Antonella Molinaro (Univ. "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, Italy)

Mohammed Nafie (Nile University, Egypt)

Máirtín O’Droma (University of Limerick, Ireland)

Sergio Ochoa (Universidad de Chile, Chile)

Fumitaka Ono (Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan)

David Palma (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Riccardo Passerini (ITU-D, Switzerland)

Rabin Patra (Berkeley University, USA)

Henrique Pequeno (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)

Louis Pouzin (Eurolinc, France)

Abderrezak Rachedi (UPEMLV, France)

Douglas Reeves (North Carolina State University, USA)

Peter Reichl (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria)

Anna Riccioni (University of Bologna, Italy)

Felipe Rudge Barbosa (University of Campinas, Brazil)

Anthony Rutkowski (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Jungwoo Ryoo (The Pennsylvania State University-Altoona, USA)

Kavé Salamatian (Université de Savoie, France)

Chiara Sammarco (Univ. "Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Italy)

Alessandro Santos (Institute for Technological Research - IPT, Brazil)

Diego Santos (S？o Paulo Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, Brazil)

Ulrich Schoen (Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany)

Florian Schreiner (Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany)

Marko Schuba (RWTH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany)

DongBack Seo (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

Jun-Bae Seo (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Riaz A. Shaikh (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada)

Jose Simoes (Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany)

Pierre Siohan (France Telecom, France)

Eva Soderstrom (University of Sk？vde, Sweden)

Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)

Michael Spring (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Rumen Stainov (Fulda University, Germany)

Szymon Szott (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)

Kenzo Takahashi (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

Murli Dhar Tiwari (Indian Institute of Information Technology, India)

Andrea Tonello (University of Udine, Italy)

Karin Torkmen (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)

Ualsher Tukeyev (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan)

Klaus Turowski (University of Augsburg, Germany)

Kurt Tutschku (University of Vienna, Austria)

Hiromi Ueda (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan)

Mehmet Ulema (Manhattan College, USA)

Manuel Urue？a (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Geerten van de Kaa (University of Delft, The Netherlands)

Jari Veijalainen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)

Fabio Violaro (University of Campinas, Brazil)

John Visser (Canada)

Klaus Wehrle (Aagen University, Germany)

Wilson Yamaguti (National Institute for Space Research, Brazil)

Rachid Zagrouba (ENST Bretagne, France)