2nd international workshop on blending physical 
and digital Spaces on the Internet (CHANGE: half day)

Workshop Organizers: 
Vlad Tanasescu | The University of Edinburgh (UK)  
Pierre Grenon |KMi and The Open University (UK) 
Arno Scharl | MODUL University Vienna (AT)
Erik Wilde |UC Berkeley (USA)

homepage: http://onespace.ace.ed.ac.uk/2009/

Important Dates:
Workshop paper submission deadline: August 7, 2009
Notification of acceptance: August 17, 2009
Camera ready proceedings: August 24, 2009
Workshop day: September 1, 2009

The Internet and the Web are reshaping our conception of space and place in multiple ways: a blending occurs in which the physical and digital elements become more difficult to isolate, as they are both contributing to each other's sense of space. With the multiplication of network accesses, and therefore of links from physical to digital environments, human activities and processes become often part physical and digital. This trend has to be studied specifically, as it is representative of a radical change in society, initiated and alleviated by the Internet.

Embedded Web Services for Pervasive Devices (half day)

Workshop Organizers:
Dr. Vania Conan | Thales Communications (FR)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Wietfeld | CNI University of Dortmund (DE)
Prof. Dr. rer.-nat Peter Marwedel | ES University of Dortmund (DE)

homepage: http://www.fits2009.ist-more.org

Important Dates:
Workshop paper submission deadline: August 10, 2009
Notification of acceptance: August 17, 2009
Camera ready proceedings: August 25, 2009
Workshop day: September 1, 2009

The Future Internet of Things aims at increasing the pervasiveness of the Internet by integrating every day objects for interaction via embedded systems. Typically this leads to a highly distributed network of devices, which need to communicate with human beings as well as with other devices. With the increase of heterogeneity, it has became very difficult to insure interactions with devices on a unified manner. Enabling easy convergence, and interoperability of heterogeneous devices to the Internet will be the key to the success of the Future Internet of Things. Moreover, Future Internetrequirements for intelligent interaction with the environment led to the emergence of wireless sensor networks connected to the Internet. There is a need forthose networks to provide their information in an interpretable form and to reduce the complexity of accessing sensor services for applications or other systems.