Message from the IPSN 2020 Organizers

Welcome to the 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2020), a premiere event on embedded sensing and networked systems that brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government. We are proud to see the continuing trend of increased interest in IPSN in recent years. A substantial 30% year-to-year increase in the number of submissions allowed us to share with you a particularly strong program this year. However, it is with mixed feelings that we write this message. We have all seen the world come to an abrupt stop in the last few weeks due to the spread of COVID-19 virus and will sadly not see you in the beautiful Darling Harbour in Sydney. Instead, the conference will happen in an entirely virtual format that will be split equally across three major world regions. This will inevitably harm the traditional cross-collaborative spirit of the Cyber- Physical Systems week, an event that brings together researchers across diverse fields, including Embedded, Hybrid, and Real-Time Systems. The inability to travel and exchange ideas face-to-face is a challenge, but also a wonderful opportunity to reach a wider global audience and we are determined to capitalize on the advantages and make the virtual IPSN a success. Testimony to the high quality of our program is the incredible work of our authors and organizers. Following the tradition in IPSN, our technical program committee brought together 27 distinguished experts covering the wide breadth of IPSN topics. The committee has collectively reviewed 124 submissions, providing a minimum of 3 high-quality reviews to each author. The top 50 of these submissions received additional 2 reviews and were discussed in person at the program committee meeting in St. Louis. We accepted 27 papers and followed a robust shepherding process to address the reviews prior to publication. We are proud of the authors and would like to thank them for striving to achieve the highest quality. We want to thank the program committee for their many hours of reviewing and discussion that made the program come together.