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                         WUWNet'14

The 9th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems

		http://wuwnet.acm.org/2014/

              November 12-14, 2014, Rome, Italy

	Co-sponsored by Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
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The oceans cover 71% of the Earth's surface and represent one of the 
least explored frontiers; yet, the oceans are integral to climate 
regulation, nutrient production, oil retrieval, and transportation. 
Also, water systems in general are of vital importance to life on 
Earth and commerce. For these reasons, there is significant interest 
in monitoring aquatic environments for scientific, environmental, 
commercial, safety, and military purposes.  

WUWNet is the premier venue for research and development bringing 
real-time, in-situ sensing and actuation to this aquatic world. 
The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and 
practitioners in areas relevant to underwater networks and systems. 
Thus, many aspects of the networking protocol stack - from the 
physical layer to the application layer and the various system 
issues - will be represented at this conference. The objective 
is to serve as a forum for presenting state-of-the-art research 
and development, for exchanging ideas and experiences, and for 
facilitating interactions and collaborations.

The conference will span three days, including presentations of 
keynote speeches, plenary talks, technical papers, and posters/demos. 
The scope of the WUWNet conference covers a broad range of research 
directions relevant to underwater networks and network-related 
signal processing, communications, systems and robotics, and their applications. 
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

*	Underwater network and system architectures

*	Efficient underwater communications (including acoustic, 
        optical, RF, and wired, etc.), with techniques from the 
        physical layer to the application layer

*	Underwater acoustic modeling and signal processing

*	Cooperative underwater communications, including, PHY, 
        MAC, routing, and data transfer, etc.

*	Networked underwater robotics and systems, such as localization,
	navigation, security, communication & coordination, or human 
	operator interaction.

*	Coordinated energy harvesting systems and power systems 
        for underwater networks and systems

*	Energy-efficient algorithms, and protocol design for 
        underwater networks, as well as signal/image processing 
        and communication systems 

*	Operating system and middleware support for underwater 
        networks and systems

*	Applications that broadly address underwater networks 
        and systems, including coordinated underwater vehicles

*	Modeling, simulation, and testbeds for underwater systems 
        and platforms

*	Experimental results from underwater networking, signal/image 
        processing and communications field trials

*	Application requirements for underwater networks, signal/image 
        processing and communication systems presented by end users


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Submissions for technical papers must describe original research, not 
published or currently under review for other workshops, conferences, 
journals, or magazines.

All papers will be reviewed by the program committee for novelty and 
contribution. The workshop accepts full and short papers. Short papers 
may represent less mature work than full papers, or may contain new 
ideas for future research. Full papers should be more complete in their 
treatment of the topic. Paper submission will be handled electronically. 
Authors should prepare a PDF version of their papers. The page limit 
for full papers is 8 pages, and that for short papers is 5 pages in 
standard ACM conference format. 

In addition, position papers with 2-page extended abstracts (in standard 
ACM conference format) can be submitted for, e.g., interesting intermediate 
results of undergoing research, promising progresses, educational overview 
on the state of the art in this field, and insightful analysis of the 
historical or futuristic developments on various topics. Full and short paper
submissions that are not accepted may be recommended to be accepted as extended 
abstracts. 

Please see the conference website for definitive formatting guidelines 
and sample templates. All accepted papers and extended abstracts are 
subject to the deadlines specified below and will be included in the 
conference proceedings.  


IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper registration:			August 15th, 2014
Paper submission: 			August 15th, 2014
Acceptance notification:		September 5th, 2014
Camera-ready date: 			October   10th, 2014

Extended abstract submission:		Aug 15th, 2014
Acceptance notification:		September 5th, 2014
Camera-ready date:			October   10th, 2014

ORGANIZERS
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General Chairs:
Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy)
Tommaso Melodia, SUNY Buffalo (USA)

Program Committee Chairs: 
Fumin Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
Zhengdao Wang, Iowa State University (USA)
Joao Gomes, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
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