Description

Tagging everyday objects with sensors/actuators and building an instrumented environment are recent practices in industry and academia. In fact, the smart object domain has matured over the years. Several successful prototypes and applications have already been demonstrated and deployed. However there is minimal interoperability among the design practices of these projects and underlying infrastructures can rarely be shared among isolated applications. We believe the primary reason behind this phenomenon is the missing rationale of design and integration of smart artefacts. Now it is the time to focus on current practices and align on some key issues to continue the further progress of smart objects. The primary motivation of this workshop is to look at the existing systems, to extract and extrapolate the best practices, using the lessons learned from those projects to rationalize the design and integration approaches towards smart objects.

Goals and Scope

The intention of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines with the goal to discuss, identify, share experiences and formalize key issues surrounding the challenge of building scalable, interoperable smart object systems. Rather than producing new ideas, we are more interested in extracting the best practices from the existing systems and extrapolating them with collaborative discussions. The immediate goal will be to investigate key issues from a variety of angles influenced by experience and background of the participants. The ultimate goal will be to formalize the design and integration rationale of smart objects and to define agendas to stimulate further research.The workshop will be highly interactive, to maximize information exchange and foster collaborations. Major workshop activities will take place in small discussion groups following the presentations of the workshop participants.

We solicit technical papers describing original, novel and previously unpublished research results. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Application Scenarios with Smart Objects
• Design, Development and Representation of Smart Objects
• Integration and Co-operation Model of Smart Objects
• Programming Paradigm for Smart Object Systems
• User Studies of Smart Object Systems