CALL FOR SPECIAL TRACK PAPERS

In addition to the regular track that covers general/mainstream topics, BodyNets 2013 features the following special tracks that focus on specific, emerging or underrepresented topics. All special tack papers will be peer-reviewed with the same criteria and quality standard used in the regular track. All accepted special track papers will be included as conference papers in the proceedings.

• Antennas for Body Area Networks (ABAN)

  Chaired by Dirk Plettemeier (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)



• Body Area Networks for Sports Applications and Systems (BANS)

  Co-Chaired by Shaoen Wu (University of Southern Mississippi, USA) and Qing Yang (Montana State University, USA)



• Body Area Networks with Social Networks (BANSN): CANCELED

  Co-Chaired by Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA), Tigang Jiang (University of Electronic, Science and Technology of China) and Hong Liu (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA)



• Brain and Body Computing based on Embodied Knowledge (BBC)

  Co-Chaired by Isao Hayashi (Kansai University, Japan), Yinlai Jiang (Kochi University of Technology, Japan) and Shuoyu Wang (Kochi University of Technology, Japan)



• Cloud-assisted Cyber-Physical Systems (CCPS)

  Co-Chaired by Jun Suzuki (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA), Shan Lin (Temple University, USA), My Thai (University of Florida, USA), Bo Sheng (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA), Sana Ullah (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia), and Giancarlo Fortino (University of Calabria, Italy)



• Computer Vision for Human Sensing (CVHS): CANCELED

  Co-Chaired by Hao Jiang (Boston College, USA) and Jianxiong Xiao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)



• Energy Harvesting in Body Area Networks (EHBAN)

  Co-Chaired by Gill Tsouri (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) and Aravind Kailas (University of North Calorina, Charlotte, USA)



• Healthcare Applications and Challenges of Body Area Networks (HACBAN)

  Co-chaired by Dalei Wu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Zhengbo Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Thomas Brennan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)



• Human Body Communications (HBC)

  Co-Chaired by Yuichi Kado (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan) and Jianqing Wang (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)



• Mobile Grid Computing for Smart Health and Well Being (mGrid4SHB): CANCELED

  Chaired by Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA) and Renato Figueiredo (University of Florida, USA)



• Nano-scale Communications and Networking (NCN)

  Co-Chaired by Tadashi Nakano (Osaka University, Japan) and Michael Moore (Penn State University, USA)



• Privacy, Security and Trust in Body Area Networks (PSTBAN)

  Co-Chaired by Shucheng Yu (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA) and Xiaodong Lin (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)



• Smart Health and Big Data (SHBD): CANCELED

  Chaired by Hua Fang (UMass Medical School, USA)