International Workshop on the Web of Things
The official workshop website is now available here!
Where: Mannheim, Germany, collocated with Percom 2010.
When: March 29 – April 2, 2010
For who: Mainly researchers from the Ubicomp, Pervasive, WSN and Web communities.
Organisers:
Dominique Guinard (ETH Zurich), Erik Wilde (UC Berkeley) and Vlad Trifa (ETH Zurich)
The WoT workshop aims at extending the Internet of Things to the Web of Things, which means to looks beyond establishing mere connectivity by seamlessly integrating things (e.g sensor/actuator networks, embedded devices, consumer electronics, RFID enhanced objects, etc.) to the Web.
We especially encourage participants to look at the specific issues of loose coupling, massive scale, interoperability, heterogeneity and applications in the context of pervasive computing. Specifically, the goal of the workshop is to look at the problems and research issues that can be identified when thinking out of the box of most pervasive computing applications, which often assume a homogeneous and centrally managed infrastructure that supports some specific applications scenario. Looking at the Web level, it becomes necessary to consider new constraints and design issues, and while certain scenarios might not map well to Web concepts, the opportunities and economies of scale available at Web scale make it very interesting to carefully examine how to eventually get to a “Web of Things”.
Find out more here!
