MC3: Mobility and Communication for Cooperation and Coordination
in conjunction with The International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2012)
Maui, Hawaii, USA, January 30 - February 2, 2012
Scope of the Workshop
Networks of devices that are able to control and use their motion and communication capabilities constitute a new remarkable perspective for the cooperation and coordination of groups of heterogeneous devices in order to accomplish task oriented applications.
To date, the networking community has addressed the inclusion of a wide range of control mechanisms, especially for energy consumption and mobility control, inside the classical ISO/OSI stack. However, this approach has so far produced very limited useful results and innovations whereas the inclusion of mechanisms such as optimization, evolution, coordination and cooperation directly among the network primitives has great potential and would offer a totally new perspective.
On the other hand, the robotics community has being using communications among the agents for coordination, but it either completely ignores or partially focuses on the possibilities offered by the consideration of motion and communication aspects into the solution space and issues in the direct control of the devices, either individually or seen as a whole.
Mobile wireless sensors and actuators, robots and drones represent the basic building blocks of Wireless Networked Robotics (WNR). Wireless networked robotics research proposes to bridge the gap between objectives and methodologies of wireless networking and robotics research communities, laying the pathway toward information-centric design of cooperative, autonomous and self-organized networks. A broad multidisciplinary approach is needed to lead this pathway that involves, besides networking and robotics also optimization, machine learning, swarm intelligence, adaptive systems and often draws inspiration from natural and biological systems.
This workshop aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on the design and implementation of architectures, algorithms and protocols for current and future applications of wireless networked robotics. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of this discipline.
Topics of Interests
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Related Journal Special Issue
Independently from the MC3 workshop, we are organizing a special issue on ”Theory, Algorithms and Applications of Wireless Networked Robotics” in the Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks. A full description can be found at the following address: http://titan.deis.unical.it/Titan/files/enrico/SIAHN-WNR.pdf.
Both the MC3 workshop and the special issue focus on similar topics. Therefore, the participants of the workshop will also have the opportunity to submit a revised and extended (30% and above new material) version of their work to the special issue.
Submission Instructions
For authors:
Please follow the author instructions at http://www.conf-icnc.org/author.htm.
For submission: Workshop papers should be submitted via EDAS at the conference page: http://edas.info/N10993.
Important Dates
Paper submission: September 10, 2011
Paper acceptance: September 30, 2011
Camera-ready paper: October 20, 2011
Program Committee
Jan Carlo Barca, Monash University, Australia
Gianni Di Caro, IDSIA, Switzerland
Frederick Ducatelle, IDSIA, Switzerland
Oswald Jumira, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Valeria Loscrì, University of Calabria, Italy
Enrico Natalizio, INRIA Lille, France
Dario Pompili, Rutgers University, United States
Tahiry Razafindralambo, INRIA Lille, France
Ahmet Sekercioglu, Monash University, Australia
Evsen Yanmaz, University of Klagenfurt, Austria