Call for papers

Dear Colleagues,

We are thrilled to announce that WUWNet 2024 will be held in Šibenik, Croatia, on October 28-31, 2024.
Sibenik's area encompasses all of Croatia's Dalmatian and Mediterranean charms, with crystal waters, green heights, shiny beaches, and breathtaking views all around you.
The conference aims to bring together leading contributors from academia and industry working in diverse areas of underwater systems engineering. The general theme this year is "Dive into cutting-edge connectivity".

We invite contributions within a broad range of topics relevant to underwater systems, ranging from sensing, communication and networking to security, robotics, vision and system integration. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

• Underwater network (all layers) and system architectures
• Underwater communications and signal processing (including acoustic, optical, MI, RF, and wired)
• Underwater channel modeling and signal processing
• Cooperative underwater systems and learning
• Underwater network security protocols
• Networked underwater robotics and systems, including human-in-the-loop
• Energy harvesting for underwater networks and systems
• Energy-efficient algorithms and protocol design
• Underwater signal/image processing and communication systems
• Operating system and middleware support
• Applications for underwater networks and systems, including autonomous vehicles
• Modeling, simulation, testbeds, and standardization for underwater systems and platforms
• Community data infrastructure and public datasets
• Experimental results, including extreme environments
• Underwater application requirements presented by end users
• Interaction and integration of underwater, terrestrial and aerial systems
• Ocean observation architectures, platforms, systems, and instrumentation
• Underwater sonar signal and image processing
• Underwater remote sensing

The conference accepts contributions in the form of long papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 5 pages) and extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) in the official ACM SIG Proceedings Template (2-column, single-spaced) conference format. For reference you can consult the official ACM web site, the acmart LaTeX class on CTAN, or templates found on popular cloud LaTeX typesetting services such as Overleaf.
All submissions will be managed through EDAS.

Please share this announcement with your colleagues and students. We look forward to seeing you in beautiful Šibenik!

Roee Diamant and Paolo Casari
General Chairs