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This year marks the third edition of EuroSSC. It builds on the success of the
past editions, held in Enschede, The Netherlands in 2006, and in Kendal, UK in
2007. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to welcome you to
EuroSSC 2008, in Zurich, Switerland. This volume contains the invited papers
and technical peer-reviewed papers selected for presentation at the conference.
At EuroSSC we aim to explore technologies, algorithms, architectures, protocols,
and user aspects underlying context-aware smart surroundings, cooperating
intelligent objects, and their applications. Since its inception, EuroSSC
has taken a complementary technology-driven and user-driven view to discuss
these aspects. It is one of the particularities of EuroSSC, and the 2008 edition
made no exception. In addition we emphasized aspects related to quality of context
and context-aware feedback by actuator systems. This reflects the growing
importance that context processing in uncertain environments and sensor and
actuator networks take in ambient intelligence environments.
We received 70 paper submissions. They originate from 30 countries of Europe,
the Middle East and Africa (66%), Asia (22%), North America (9%), and
South America (3%). These numbers reflect the European origins of EuroSSC,
but also show that EuroSSC is a recognized and attractive platform for participants
from all regions of the world.
The review process was double-blind. This ensured that the papers were
selected purely on their technical merits. Each paper received a minimum of
two reviews, with most receiving three reviews and some four. On the basis of
the peer reviews, the Program Co-chairs selected 17 papers for publication. The
25% acceptance rate indicates the high quality of the papers included in this
proceedings volume. The papers were selected according to their technical merit
to exemplarily discuss the key themes addressed by EuroSSC: sensors and signal
acquisition; context inference; high-level context processing; and applications
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