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MOBIQUITOUS 2007 The 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services http://www.mobiquitous.org August 6-10, 2007 - Philadelphia, PA Co-sponsored by Create-Net and ICST In Cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE ========================================================================
The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm. Through the use of mobile devices and devices embedded in the surrounding physical environments, users can be provided transparent computing and communication services at all times and in all places. The complexity of providing such services stems from the fact that the communication devices and the objects with which they interact may both be mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services, and an understanding of the cross-layer interactions between all of these components. The Fourth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous-07) will provide a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions, design and deployment will be able to interact and exchange experiences needed to build successful ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, data management and services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing.
PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. Technical papers clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working solution are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following feature topics as applied to mobile and ubiquitous environments:
- Ubiquitous architectures, systems and applications - Wearable computing and personal area networks - Wireless technologies for mobile and ubiquitous (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi) - Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems - Ad hoc and sensor networks support for ubiquitous computing - Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless networks - Wireless/mobile service management and delivery - Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems - Service and knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms - Location-based services and tracking in ubiquitous environments - Context- and location-aware applications - Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems - Context modeling, services and frameworks - Toolkits, testbeds, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing - Rapid prototyping of ubiquitous applications - Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing - Mobile and ubiquitous data management and processing - Data replication, migration and dissemination in ubiquitous environments - Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile and ubiquitous environments - Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile)
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 8 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points.
PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal.
WORKSHOPS: Four workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related to mobile and ubiquitous systems: computing, networking and services. Proposals for workshops should be at most four pages in length and should be submitted to Dr. Suman Banerjee (suman at cs.wisc.edu) by February 1, 2007.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Workshop Proposal Deadline: February 1, 2007 Paper Registration Deadline: March 13, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 2007 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: June 4, 2007
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
GENERAL CHAIR: Guohong Cao, The Pennsylvania State University
TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR: Robin Kravets, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University Hui Lei, IBM Research
WORKSHOP CHAIR: Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison
DEMO CHAIR: Hao Zhu, Florida International University
POSTER CHAIR: Al Harris, Universita di Padova Dong Xuan, Ohio State University
FINANCE CHAIR: Karen Decker, ICST
PUBLICATION CHAIR: Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue university
PUBLICITY CHAIR: Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano Wensheng Zhang, Iowa State University
LOCAL CHAIR: Zhen Jiang, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
WEB CHAIR: Hui Song, Penn State University
CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Zita Rozsa, ICST
STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net (chair) Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento Tom La Porta, Penn State University Francesco De Pellegrini, Create-Net Chiara Petrioli, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza" Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County Michele Zorzi, Universita di Padova
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: See http://www.mobiquitous.org
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