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-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC 2006)

http://www.ing.unipi.it/mdc06/

June 26, 2006 Niagara Falls/Buffalo, NY, USA

In conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2006 (http://ieee-wowmom.cse.buffalo.edu/) --------------------------------------------------------------------------

******* SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 6, 2006 *******

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CALL FOR PAPERS

With the advance in mobile wireless communication technology, research in distributed computing is beginning to extend its scope to address problems relevant to mobile environments. Mobile distributed computing has emerged as a discipline of distributed systems research and practice toward support for mobility. It is concerned with creating solutions using mobile communication networks and mobile computing devices to enable the sharing of distributed resources/services and to facilitate remote collaborations while people work away from the fixed, wired facilities.

MDC 2006 is the fourth in series. Following the success of the first three editions -- MDC 2003 in Rhode Island, USA, MDC 2004 in Tokyo, Japan, and MDC 2005 in Columbus, USA -- MDC 2006 provides a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of mobile distributed computing.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

- Architectures and systems for mobile distributed computing - Distributed applications in mobile environments - Distributed algorithms for mobile computing - Synchronization and coordination in mobile environments - Networking protocols for mobile distributed computing - Cooperating mobile agents - Environments, middleware and tools for mobile distributed computing - Operating system support for mobile distributed computing - Fault tolerance and security in mobile distributed environments - Real-time issues in mobile distributed computing - Context-aware services and applications - Sensor networks and RFIDs for mobile distributed computing - Mobile cluster computing - Mobile Peer-to-Peer computing - Resource/service sharing and management in mobile environments - Mobile distributed transactions - Modelling and performance evaluation of mobile distributed systems

PAPER SUBMISSION

MDC 2006 invites authors to submit original and unpublished works. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE proceedings style. Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer by e-mail to mdc06@ing.unipi.it. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined IEEE WoWMoM 2006 Workshops proceedings. Distinguished papers will be considered for publication in a high quality journal.

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers due ------------------------ Jan. 6, 2006 Notification of acceptance -------- Feb. 22, 2006 Camera-ready papers due ----------- Mar. 17, 2006

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Co-chairs Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Program Chair Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy

Vice Program Chair Andrea Passarella, University of Cambridge, UK

Publicity Co-chairs Hui Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Mario Di Francesco, University of Pisa, Italy Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK Alberto Bartoli, University of Trieste, Italy Christian Becker, Technical University Stuttgart, Germany Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Cristian Borcea, NJ Institute of Technology, USA Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University, USA Dipanjan Chakraborty, IBM India Research, India Keith Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Franca Delmastro, National Research Council, Italy Kent Fuchs, Cornell University, USA Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, USA Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Jadwiga Indulska, The University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, HK Vana Kalogeraki, University of California at Riverside, USA Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan Jian Lu, Nanjing University, China Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky, USA Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota, USA Xingwei Wang, Northeastern University, China Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA Jian-liang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jingyuan Zhang, University of Alabama, USA Jun Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University of China Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA