UCLA-WINMEC RFID Leaders Program organizes a special forum to support submissions to A Special Issue of Proceedings of the IEEE

UCLA-WINMEC RFID Research Program is organizing a special forum to invite the RFID research community to present their research with the intent of submitting to the Proceedings of the IEEE. This forum will bring together academics, researchers, industry technologists/practitioners and business/I.T. personnel who are working on research and innovative ideas today that will impact the field of RFID tomorrow. Advanced topics that will further the technology (hardware/middleware/software) and its applications will be presented at this forum. Detailed list of topics is as below.

Potential presenters at this forum will need to apply by sending in a title of their talk, their bio and an abstract to the following email address RFIDForum@winmec.ucla.edu. This forum is to support the Proceedings of the IEEE (http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/proceedings/index.html) whereby authors of select abstracts presented at this forum will be recommended to submit their complete papers for a special issue of Proceedings of the IEEE on RFID. The title of the special issue will be called "RFID - A Unique Radio Innovation for the 21st Century."

The schedule for paper submissions/review is available at http://winmec.ucla.edu/ieeeproceedings/.

For the forum itself, an on-line proceedings will be created. Accepted speakers will need to register for this forum. Registration is at http://www.winmec.ucla.edu/rfid/ResearchForum/2009/registration.asp

Topics include, but not limited to:

Reader Technology and Research   Hardware design Protocols Antenna systems System on a Chip (SOC) Design of stationery, mobile, personal and handheld readers Tag Technology and Research   Intelligent tags Security and encryption Power efficiency Antenna design Protocols of communication High memory tags Tag-to-tag communications Tag storage Communication speed and tag data download rates Low cost developments Miniaturization and materials innovations Active, semi-active, semi-passive and passive technologies RFID Middleware technology   RFID Middleware Architecture Security Database integration Speed issues in data movement Integration with ERP, SCM and MRP Web services SOA (Services oriented architecture) Enterprise I.T. architecture and middleware touch points

Technological and system issues   How it affects WLAN, WWAN, PAN, and other wireless networks Infrastructure management Impact on enterprise security Wireless interference Effect on physical products containing liquids and metal RF modeling and simulation of reader-tag systems System design, prototyping and scaling Applications/Industries   Inventory Management Asset Management Retail Manufacturing Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals Healthcare/Medicine/Biotech/Biology Aerospace / Airlines / Airport and baggage management Automotive Shipbuilding, Entertainment/Media Financial / Mobile Payments Security and access Business Issues of RFID   ROI analysis at unit and enterprise levels Revenue models in RFID services Effect of RFID on process improvement for the enterprise Impact on the CIO/I.T. office Legal issues in RFID Business versus consumer applications

Other Forums
RFID Hands on Workshop- http://www.winmec.ucla.edu/rfid/experience/Feb2009/index.asp - February 24, 2009
CIO Impacts Forum - http://www.cio-conference.ucla.edu/2009/ - February 25, 2009