MobiQuitous 2005 Call for Papers

Dear Colleague, Enclosed below please find a Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers for the Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, to be held in San Diego, California from July 17-21, 2005. For complete information about the upcoming conference, please visit: http://www.mobiquitous.org/ A printer friendly version of this CFP is available at: http://www.mobiquitous.org/MQ2005-CFP.pdf (PDF) We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. Best regards, Mobiquitous 2005 Organizing Committee *********************************************************************** MobiQuitous 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services http://www.mobiquitous.org July 17-21, 2005, San Diego, California PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 2, 2005 Sponsored by: CreateNet (www.create-net.it) and ICST Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (Pending) Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (Pending) In Cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE (Pending) Technically Co-Sponsored by AAAI (Pending) Proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and to be made available on IEEE Explore **************************************** 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 second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: networking and services (Mobiquitous-05) will cover all these aspects, representing 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, knowledge management and databases. 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 and services. Technical works 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: * Ubiquitous architectures and systems * Wearable computing and personal area network * Wireless technologies for mobile and ubiquitous (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi) * Incentive-based deployment of ad hoc networks * Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless network * 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 knowledge management * Emerging industrial/business scenarios * Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile) * Smart spaces * Ad hoc and sensor networking * Localization and tracking * Context and location aware application * Multimedia encoding and transcoding * Middleware services * Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, andmobile systems * Hardware and software platforms for ubiquitous systems, and testbeds * User interfaces * Toolkits, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing * Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) or postscript 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 registering the title and the abstract of the paper with our electronic submission system is February 2, 2005. The deadline for submitting the actual paper is February 9, 2005. All deadlines are 11:59PM PST. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in a ACM/Kluwer MONET special issue. WORKSHOPS: Proposals for one-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include the workshop name, its scope and a list of topic of interests. Proposals should be submitted to both the Workshop co-Chairs by December 17 2004. DEMOS: Proposals for research and industrial demos are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include a description of the demo and needed resources from the conference organizers. Proposals should be submitted to Dr. Ramiro Liscano (Demo Chair) rliscano(a)ieee.org by May 29th, 2005. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration deadline: February 2, 2005 Full paper submission deadline: February 9, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 29, 2005 Camera-ready version due: May 15, 2005 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Ramesh Rao (Univ. of California, San Diego) General Co-Vice-Chairs: Chiara Petrioli (Universit di Roma La Sapienza) Krishna Sivalingam (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Networking: Suresh Singh (Portland State University) Philippe Bonnet (University of Copenhagen) Services/Knowledge Management: Anupam Joshi (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Ryusuke Masuoka (Fujitsu Labs of America) Publicity Co-Chairs: Andreas Savvides (Yale University) and Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Panels Chairs: TBA Workshop Chairs: Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University) Prithwish Basu (BBN Technologies) Demos Chair: Ramiro Liscano (University of Ottawa) Publications Chair: Antonis Kalis (Athens Information Technology) Local Arrangements Chair: Kang Wang, Qualcomm Inc. Finance Chair: Karen Decker (ICST Texas,USA) Accommodations Chair: Kathy Kunz (ICST California,USA) Registration Chair: Vishal Anand, SUNY College at Brockport Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac (CreateNet, Inc.), Chair Michele Zorzi (Universita di Padova)