Message from the UbiSafe-09 Chairs

Abstract

Computers are now available anytime, anywhere, by different means, and distributed unobtrusively throughout the everyday environments in which physical objects/artifacts embedded with invisible computers are sensible and networked locally and globally. Such any computers open tremendous opportunities to provide numerous novel services/applications in both real world and cyber spaces, and exist ubiquitously in our daily life, working, learning, traveling, entertainment, medicine, etc. Although it is yet unclear what exactly the real-cyber integrated worlds would be, there is no doubt that they must be safe. UbiSafe emphasizes the SAFE aspects for all kinds of computing paradigms, such as ubiquitous, pervasive, AmI, mobile, universal, embedded, wearable, augmented, invisible, hidden, contextaware, sentient, proactive, and autonomic computing. The UbiSafe-09 Symposium provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address all safety related challenges including technical, social, legal and ethical issues on all aspects of Ubisafe Computing. Each paper submitted to Ubisafe-09 underwent a rigorous review process. All papers received at least 3 independent reviews. The selected papers span a broad range of research themes in Ubisafe Computing areas, including security and safety issues in ubiquitous environments, sensor networks, web services, and virtual machines; authentication; and trusted and dependable computing. This event and program would not have been possible without the dedicated efforts of many people. We would like to thank all authors for submitting their high quality research papers, and the members of the technical program committee and reviewers for the time and effort they dedicated to the review process. We also thank the program vice chair and the publicity chairs for their efforts in advertising the symposium. Special gratitude and appreciation is due to the steering committee members of Ubisafe-09, the general chair of DASC 2009: Yuanshun Dai, and the program chair of DASC 2009: Bo Yang, for their support and guidance for the symposium. We also gratefully acknowledge the IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) for sponsoring the symposium.