ICWN'10: July 12, 2010 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  REGISTRATION (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'10 Opening Remarks - July 12, Monday:
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:40am:  Keynote Lecture - July 12, Monday:
                  Computing With Words and Perceptions - A Paradigm Shift
                  Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
                  Professor EECS & Director BISC; Member, National Academy of
                  Engineering; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, AAAS, AAAI, and IFSA;
                  University of California, Berkeley, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:45 - 10:40am:  Keynote Lecture - July 12, Monday:
                  Search for Life in the Universe
                  Dr. Firouz Naderi
                  Associate Director, Project Formulation and Strategy, Jet
                  Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech/NASA; Head, NASA Mars Exploration
                  Program (2000-2005); Fellow, AIAA; Recipient of NASA's
                  Outstanding Leadership Medal & Space Technology Hall of Fame
                  Medal & NASA's highest award, the Distinguished Service Medal.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:45 - 11:35am:  Keynote Lecture - July 12, Monday:
                  Looking Ahead at Heterogeneous Systems: A Suppliers Perspective
                  Jon Huppenthal
                  President and Chief Executive Officer, SRC Computers, LLC
                  Co-Founder (with Late Seymour Cray)
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:40a - 12:20p:  Keynote Lecture - July 12, Monday:
                  Cloud Computing: The Next Revolution in Information Technology
                  Prof. Rajkumar Buyya
                  Director, CLOUDS Lab, The University of Melbourne, Australia;
                  CEO, Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia; Recipient of the
                  2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing;
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:20 - 01:20pm   LUNCH (On Your Own)


01:20 - 03:20pm   During this period, ICWN'10 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to PDPTA'10, GCA'10, ICOMP'10, SWWS'10,
                  SAM'10, ESA'10, & FECS'10. These sessions discuss topics that
                  significantly overlap the scope of ICWN'10.


SESSION 1-ICWN:   WIRELESS NETWORKS AND NOVEL METHODOLOGIES
                  Chair: Prof. Srinivas Sampalli, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
                  July 12, 2010 (Monday); 03:20pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 7)

03:20 - 03:40pm:  Analysis of Energy Harvesting for Vibration-Motivated Wireless
                  Sensor Networks
                  Sunho Lim, Jung-Han Kimn, Hyeoungwoo Kim
                  Texas Tech University, Texas, USA;
                  South Dakota State University, South Dakota, USA;
                  Advanced Cerametrics, Inc., New Jersey, USA

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Fault Recovery in Self Training Wireless Sensor Networks
                  Kevin M. Somervill and Lee A. Belfore II
                  Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm:  User-Centric Resource Management in Next Generation Wireless Networks
                  Gulfem Alptekin and S. Emre Alptekin
                  Galatasaray University, Istanbul, Turkey

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Wind Shear Detection with 802.11s Wireless Mesh Networking
                  Bhuiyan Muhaimeen and Ronald W. Mehler
                  California State University Northridge, California, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Sustainable Wireless Sensing Technologies for Imported Foods Inspection
                  Xianghe Yan, Li Bai, Saroj Biswas, Lihan Huang
                  USDA Agricultural Research Service, Wyndmoor, PA, USA;
                  Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Distributed Information Filtering for Wireless Positioning in
                  Correlated Measurement Noises
                  Chin-Der Wann and Chien-Wen Chen
                  National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan

05:20 - 05:40pm:  An Enhanced HCCA Based Adaptive Scheduler for Multimedia Traffic
                  in IEEE 802.11e Wireless LAN
                  Shaik Madhar Saheb, A. K. Bhattacharjee, A. Vallavaraj
                  Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman;
                  National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India

05:40 - 06:00pm:  A Wireless Data Collection and Integrity Assurance System for
                  Wetland Monitoring Projects
                  Anton Riedl, Brian Lamprecht, Rob Atkinson
                  Christopher Newport University, Virginia, USA


06:00 - 09:00pm:  KEYNOTE & INVITED PRESENTATIONS + TUTORIALS
                  (Please see the lists at the begining of this booklet)


09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER / SOCIAL
                  July 12 - Monday; 9:00pm - 11:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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