Today, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) enjoys an enormous interest as
the first widely deployed pervasive technology — not only from the standpoint
of research but also from corporate practice.
Near-field communication (NFC) is going be the first widely deployment
technology enabling humans to communicate with physical objects.

The scope of this workshop is supposed to be rather broad and includes not
only technical aspects but also the business impact of RFID (e.g. process
efficiency, anti-counterfeiting) and its public perception in the context of
current retailer mandates in the US and Europe. Furthermore, another focus will
be on future evolution of RFID beyond goods identification, such as NFC,
sensors, location sensing, and the role of standards.

While, for example, both RFID and sensor networks have large research
communities, there is only little overlap to date between these two streams of
science. Workshop submissions should reflect the convergence of these two
fields and discuss emerging technical challenges and deployment issues.

We invite submissions that report on real world experience and new findings on the
following topics:

• Empirical research
  • Case studies on real-world deployments
  • User studies on technology perception and acceptance
• Hardware components
  • Tag and antenna design
  • RF protocol issues
  • Energy harvesting for active tags
  • Combination of RFID with sensor and location technologies
  • Combinations of RFID with mobile devices
• IS integration and data management
  • Data collection and filtering techniques
  • Dealing with failure, partial operation and uncertainty
• Emerging applications and interaction paradigms
  • new role of mobile phones
  • emerging services and applications
• Near-field Communication (NFC)
  • human-RFID interaction
  • new applications: embedding information into objects
• Possibilities and limitations of standards
• Security and privacy
  
  
  

The workshop will collect a set of case studies and findings related to the use of
RFID. This will be available to the community and beyond in electronic form. We also
plan to create a written record of the outcome of the workshop for a journal or
magazine. Of similar importance we want to foster a community that spans research
and industry in the area of pervasive computing.

There has also been published a workshop report in the IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazin, July 2007 (Vol. 6, No. 3)   pp. 94-96:

Pervasive RFID and Near Field Communication Technology

Florian Michahelles, ETH Zurich
Frederic Thiesse, University of St. Gallen
Albrecht Schmidt, Fraunhofer IAIS and B-IT University of Bonn
John R. Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DOI Bookmark: doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MPRV.2007.64