CfP: HICSS-37 Minitrack on Mobile Distributed Information Systems

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CALL FOR PAPERS

HICSS-37 Minitrack on MOBILE DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Part of the Software Technology Track at the Thirty-seventh Annual HAWAI'I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES on the Big Island of Hawaii

January 5 - 8, 2004

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Abstracts due: March 31, 2003 Full Papers due: June 1, 2003 Website: http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/mobile/hicss

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In today's mobile society, access to relevant information and to context- specific services "anytime, anywhere" is becoming increasingly important. Mobile users are often particularly interested in information about and services in their immediate vicinity, thus Mobile Distributed Information Systems must address location-dependent distribution of and access to services and information from mobile devices. In addition to location, other environmental aspects, such as the user's current situation, topology and available bandwidth of wireless networks, battery power and characteristics of mobile devices, are also relevant for determining information and service requirements. For mobile applications, a dynamic re-configurable architecture is thus required to support flexible reaction to changing contexts and seamless operation in foreign environments, with little or no need for manual reconfiguration. With mobile devices becoming more and more popular and powerful, communication and cooperation between mobile users in an ad-hoc manner are strongly desired. Consequently, the long-established distinction between clients and servers is blurred, which calls for an extension of the architectural paradigm towards peers or alternating roles.

This Minitrack will address current topics in the field of Mobile Distributed Information Systems, such as:

- Location and Situation Aware Information Services: Modeling, Architectures and Applications - Network Support for Mobile Access to Services and Information - Mobile Ad-hoc Networking and Computing - Provision, Distribution and Management of Services for Mobile Environments - Directory Services, Service Discovery and Service Brokers - Middleware for Mobile Distributed Information Systems - Distributed Databases and Data Management for Mobile Applications - Peer-to-Peer Computing and Cooperation: Scenarios, Platforms and Applications - Self-/Zero-/Auto-Configuration, Dynamic Configuration for Mobile Users - Mobile Multimedia Systems, QoS for Mobile Information Access - Management of Groups of Mobile Users - Mobile Devices: GUIs, Usability and Adaptability - Location Tracking Technologies - Security, Privacy and Billing Issues for Mobile Information and Service Access - Applications and Case Studies of Mobile Distributed Information Systems

MINITRACK CHAIRS

Andreas Meissner Zhou Wang Lars Wolf Fraunhofer IPSI Fraunhofer IPSI TU Braunschweig Dolivostrasse 15 Dolivostrasse 15 Mühlenpfordtstraße 23 64293 Darmstadt 64293 Darmstadt 38106 Braunschweig Germany Germany Germany {Andreas.Meissner, Zhou.Wang}@ipsi.fhg.de wolf@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

The Minitrack Website is http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/mobile/hicss Please email general inquiries to hicss@ipsi.fraunhofer.de

MINITRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Heribert Baldus, Philips Research, Germany Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia Univ, USA Maria F. Costabile, Univ Bari, Italy Carsten Griwodz, Univ Oslo, Norway Junzhong Gu, East China Normal Univ, China Pål Halvorsen, Univ Oslo, Norway Haiming Huang, Broadstorm, USA David Hutchison, Lancaster Univ, UK Jae-Yong Lee, R&D Center of Serome Technology Inc., Korea Bruce McDonald, Northeastern Univ, USA Andreas Meissner, FhG IPSI, Germany Jochen Schiller, Freie Univ Berlin, Germany Jens Schmitt, Tech Univ Darmstadt, Germany Wolfgang Schönfeld, FhG IPSI, Germany Jochen Seitz, Tech Univ Ilmenau, Germany Zhou Wang, FhG IPSI, Germany Lars Wolf, Tech Univ Braunschweig, Germany

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

March 31, 2003 Abstracts submitted for guidance and indication of appropriate content.

June 1, 2003 Full papers submitted.

August 31, 2003 Acceptance notification sent to authors.

October 1, 2003 Accepted manuscripts sent electronically to the publisher of the conference proceedings. Authors must be registered for the conference by this date.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

1. Abstracts may be submitted by email to hicss@ipsi.fraunhofer.de as PDF, Postscript, or RTF documents. Abstracts may also be sent in ASCII format and are expected to be 300-500 words.

2. Full papers should consist of 22-26 double-spaced pages, including diagrams. Papers may be theoretical, conceptual or descriptive in nature. (NOTE: Final papers will be 10 pages, double-column, single-spaced.) Full papers should be submitted electronically. Please see the Minitrack Website (http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/mobile/hicss) for the detailed paper submission instructions.

3. Do not submit the manuscript to individual Minitrack Chairs - use the above alias instead. Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.

4. Each paper must have a title page to include title of the paper, full name of all authors, and complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s), and e-mail address(es).

TRACKS AT HICSS-37

- Collaboration Systems; Co-Chair: Jay Nunamaker; E-mail: nunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu; Co-Chair: Robert O. Briggs; E-mail: bob@GroupSystems.com - Complex Systems; Chair: Robert Thomas; E-mail: rjt1@cornell.edu - Decision Tech. for Management; Chair: Dan Dolk; E-mail: drdolk@nps.navy.mil - Digital Documents; Chair: Michael Shepherd; E-mail: shepherd@cs.cal.ca - Emerging Technologies; Chair: Ralph H. Sprague; E-mail: sprague@hawaii.edu - Information Technology in Health Care; Chair: William Chismar; E-mail: chismar@cba.hawaii.edu; - Internet & the Digital Economy; Co-Chair: David King; E-mail: dave@comshare.com Co-Chair: Alan Dennis; E-mail: ardennis@indiana.edu - Organizational Systems & Tech.; Chair: Hugh Watson; Email: hwatson@terry.uga.edu - Software Technology; Chair: Gul Agha; E-mail: agha@cs.uiuc.edu

HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings (IEEE). Submissions must not have been previously published.

For the latest information visit the HICSS web site at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION

Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair Email: sprague@hawaii.edu Eileen Dennis, Track Administrator Email: eidennis@indiana.edu Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator Email: hicss@hawaii.edu

2004 HICSS-37 CONFERENCE VENUE

Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island of Hawaii 425 Waikoloa Beach Drive Waikoloa, Hawaii 96738 Tel: 1-808-886-1234 Fax: 1-808-886-2900 www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com