FIRST CALL for PAPERS

ICPS’07: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services July 15-20 2007, Istanbul, Turkey

(www.icpsconference.org)

SCOPE

Pervasive services are emerging as the next paradigm for distributed and mobile computing, in which services built out of pervasive infrastructure and information, and are seamlessly available anywhere, anytime, and in any format. This exciting new paradigm is the result of recent research and technological advances in wireless & sensor networks, distributed systems, Grid computing, mobile & agent computing and autonomic computing & services.

The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS'2007), to be held in The Marmara Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey, provides a forum for researchers, engineers, application & service developers and users to present their latest advances in the field of pervasive services. Use cases and usage models for these pervasive services are of particular interest to the conference.

TOPICS

Original contributions are solicited in all pervasive computing & services research and applications. Contributions for industry and application sessions are also solicited. Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Pervasive and autonomous computing and architectures

* Mobile Computing

* Wearable Computing

* Smart Devices and Networks

* Wireless & Sensor Networks

* Middleware support for pervasive and mobile computing

* Pervasive computing and Management

* Speech processing / advanced computer vision

* User interfaces and interaction model

* Positioning and Tracking Technologies

* Programmable and active networks

* Service dissemination and discovery protocols

* Environments & algorithms for pervasive application development

* Runtime support for intelligent, adaptive agents

* Security services for applications in pervasive environments

* Programming paradigms for pervasive computing applications

* Pervasive computing applications requirements

* Performance measurement and Benchmarking

PAPER SUBMISSION

ICPS’2007 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Please follow the guidelines on conference web site to submit extended abstracts (10 pages maximum in IEEE double-column and PS or PDF format). Questions concerning hardcopy submissions or any other issues may be directed to the Program Co-Chairs. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.

TUTORIALS and WORKSHOPS

Tutorial and workshop proposals are solicited. Further information can be obtained by contacting the Tutorials Chair or the Workshop Chair.

PROCEEDINGS

The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and distributed at the conference. Selected papers of best quality will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC) in 2007.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission deadline: February 4, 2007

* Notification of acceptance: March 26, 2007

* Final Manuscript due: April 30, 2007

* Workshop proposals due: January 14, 2007

* Tutorial proposals due: January 14, 2007

COMMITTEES

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General Co-Chairs

Fusun Ozguner, Ohio State University, USA Buyurman Baykal, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Program Co-Chairs

Ali Akoglu, University of Arizona, USA

Ozgur Ercetin, Sabanci University, Turkey

Steering Committee

Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Mazin Yousif, Intel Corporation, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Jean-Marc Pierson, INSA Lyon, France Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Program Committee

Alex Delis, Univ. of Athens, Greece

Antonio Liotta, University of Essex, UK

Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Augusto Celentano, University Ca'Foscari, Italy Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece Claudia Roncancio, IMAG, France Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, England Gianluca Moro, Universiy of Bologna, Italy Gunter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria Hakan Erdogan, Sabanci University, Turkey Hasan Cam , Arizona State University Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Hongbing Wang, Southeast University, China Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA Jaafar Gaber, UTBM, France Jalal Almhana, University Moncton, Canada Julie Mc Cann, Imperial College, UK Karin Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria Karl Aberer, Ecoles Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, SWI Larry Kerschberg,George Mason University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Marian Scuturici, INSA Lyon, France Martin S. Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa Mine Kalkan, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Nazife Baykal, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Omer Rana, University of Cardiff, UK Osman Balci, Virginia Tech, U.S.A Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Pinar Yolum Birbil Bogaziçi University, Turkey Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", IT Selim Balcisoy Sabanci University, Turkey Simon Dobson, UCD, Dublin Sonia Bergamaschi, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, IT Sylvain Lecomte, University of Valenciennes, France Torsten Eymann ,Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth Ufuk Caglayan, Bogazici University, Turkey Xiaohui Gu, IBM, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs

Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France

Haluk Topcuoglu, Marmara University, Turkey

Yusuf Ozturk, San Diego State University, USA

Publications Chair

Kelly Sutton, University of Arizona

Tutorials Chair

Kun Yang, University of Essex, UK

Workshop Chair

Christos Douligeris, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece

Local Arrangements Chair

Alptekin Temizel, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

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