Sponsored by Create-Net and ICST
The Third Annual
International Conference on
Computing,
Networking and Service
In Cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE
Pending
Sponsorship: IEEE Computer Society
The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is
emerging as
a promising new paradigm with the goal to provide
computing and
communication services all the time,
everywhere, transparently
and invisibly to the
user, using devices embedded in
the
surrounding physical environment.
In this context, the
communication
devices, the objects with which they interact, or
both may
be mobile. The implementation of such
a paradigm
requires advances in wireless network
technologies and devices,
development of infrastructures supporting cognitive
environments,
and discovery and
identification of ubiquitous computing
applications
and services. The Third Annual
International
Conference on Mobile and
Ubiquitous Systems: networking and
services (Mobiquitous-06) will
cover all these aspects, providing
a forum where practitioners and
researchers coming from the many
areas involved in ubiquitous solutions
design and deployment will
be able to interact exchanging the cross-layer
experiences needed
to build the overall 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unpublished research, not currently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. The conference
is
interested in contributions addressing all the areas
associated
with mobile and ubiquitous architectures,
infrastructure, data
and services. 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:
* Ubiquitous architectures and
systems
* Wearable computing and
personal area
networks
* Wireless technologies for
mobile and ubiquitous (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x,
WiFi)
* Wireless Internet access
in ubiquitous systems
* Reconfigurability and
personalization of wireless networks
* Service discovery
mechanisms, knowledge discovery, matching and composition
mechanisms
* Wireless/mobile service
management and delivery
* Security, privacy and
social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems
* Peer-to-peer computing
and networking
* Emerging
industrial/business/scientific scenarios
* Multimodal interfaces
(speech, video kinetic, tactile)
* Smart
spaces
* Ad hoc and sensor
networks
* Location-based services
and tracking
* Context and location
aware application
* Multimedia encoding and
transcoding
* Middleware
services
* Agent technologies in
ubiquitous, wearable, and
mobile systems
* Hardware and software
platforms for ubiquitous systems, and testbeds
* Context modeling,
services and frameworks
* Toolkits, development
environments, and languages for ubiquitous
computing
* Rapid prototyping of
ubiquitous applications
* Ontologies for mobile and
ubiquitous computing
* Mobile and ubiquitous
data management
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. The
deadline for submitting the
actual paper is February 20, 2006. All deadlines
are 11:59PM PST.
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. Please see the
web site for more information.
DEMOS: Proposals
for research and industrial
demos are
solicited. A maximum of
3 pages should be submitted which
include a description of
the demo and needed equipment. Proposals
should be submitted to the Demo
Chair by May 1, 2006.
General Co-Chairs
Hamid Ahmadi, IBM,
hahmadi@us.ibm.com
Tom
La Porta, Penn State, tlp@cse.psu.edu
Program Co-Chairs
Ravi Jain, Google,
ravi.jain@acm.org
Asim Smailagic, CMU,
asim@cs.cmu.edu
Arkady Zaslavsky,
Workshop Chair
Kin Leung,
Demo Chair
Sencun Zhu,
Finance Chair
Karen Decker, ICST, karen@icst.org
Local Arrangements Chair
Ulas Kozat, DoCoMo Labs, kozat@docomolabs-usa.com
Publicity Chair
Web Chair
Patrick Traynor,
Conference Coordinator
Anna Rieger, ICST, anna.rieger@icst.org
Steering Committee Chair
Imrich Chlamtac,
Create-Net, imrich.chlamtac@create-net.it