[Mycolleagues] Call for Papers: 6th IEEE International Workshop onManagement of Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2009)

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6th IEEE International Workshop on
Management of Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2009) -
http://www.ubiquitous-management.org/mucs/index.php

Date and Venue: June 15, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain, as part
of 6th IEEE International Computing and Communications - ICAC 2009.

Submission: February 6th 2009
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Scope of the MUCS Workshop
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Smart space applications, present significant management challenges for
successful delivery of highly adaptive services across heterogeneous
networks, mobile networks, ad-hoc networks, middleware, applications and
devices. Such challenges include: managing user centric services and
context services, extreme distribution and scalability, extensive  
system &
network & semantic heterogeneity, ad hoc formation and disassociation of
systems and services, intelligent support for user centric applications.

To address these issues, new and innovative management solutions need to
be realized. Such approaches need to support greater levels of autonomy
within the management of systems, services and networks. However such
new-style management needs to be informed by and operate within the  
scope
of business, operational and environmental constraints and policies. A  
key
element of greater acceptance and impact of pervasive management across
application domains will be the degree of user empowerment they offer,
balanced against the ever increasing need for greater management
automation.

Since 2003, the MUCS workshop (both independently and aligned with major
conferences) has provided a very successful forum for researchers and
practitioners to explore the theoretic, technological and organizational
challenges, and to present advances in management techniques and
technologies, for pervasive computing and smart space applications.

The workshop provides a single-track scientific programme containing a
blend of keynote presentations from leaders in research in this area,
peer-reviewed papers and a small selection of invited presentations.



Topics
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# Management of Smart Spaces and Applications
# Context Aware Management and Configuration
# Security, Privacy, and Trust Management in
Pervasive Computing/Smart Spaces
# Adaptive technologies and techniques for Services and Management
# Knowledge Representation Techniques and Semantics for Management
# Management and Control of Mobile Ad-hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks
# Distributed Management & Collaborative Governance
# Context Identification, Retrieval, Prediction and Management
# Provisioning and Maintenance of Quality of Service in ubiquitous
computing environments
# User Interaction with Management of UbiComp and Pervasive Systems
# Managing Collaborative Pervasive Computing and smart space
applications
# Policy Based Management
# Autonomic Management of Services and Communications
# Communication & Systems Management
# Wireless and Fixed Network Integrated Management
# Adaptive Service and Network Management
# Content Oriented Network & Service Management
# Service and Network Management for Optimised Personalisation
# Knowledge Representation Techniques and Ontologies for Management
Services
# Bio-inspired management approach



Paper Submission
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Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or
experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from
ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to MUCS 2009.
Authors
are requested to submit either long papers or short papers
(work-in-progress reports), in 10 point following IEEE conference style
(Camera ready formats will be aligned with the host conference
requirements):
# Long papers (up to 8 single-spaced two-column pages, including
figures,
tables, references and annexes, 10pt font)
# Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages, including
figures, tables, references and annexes, 10pt font)

Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be
reviewed
and returned to the authors.  For detailed instructions, please see:
http://ubiquitous-management.org/mucs/submission.php



Proceedings
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# Hardcopy proceedings will be published with Multicon Lecture Notes
series (approved)
# Electronic proceedings will be published with either ACM digital
library or IEEExplore (host conference confirmation pending)



Important Deadlines
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Submission: February 6th 2009
Notification: March 10th 2009
Camera ready: March 31st 2009
Workshop: June 15 2009


Committees
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General Chair
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Tom Pfeifer (WIT, Ireland)


Programme Committee Chairs
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Declan O'Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Sajal Das (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)

 

Steering Committee
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Sven van der Meer (TSSG, Ireland)
Vincent Wade (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Dirk Pesch (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Tom Pfeifer (WIT, Ireland)

 

Technical Programme Committee
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Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA
Victor Villagra, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
John Strassner, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA
Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland
Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, UK
Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Kieran Delaney, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise, France
Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa
Brendan Jennings, Waterford Institute of Technology
Martin Klepal, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
David Lewis, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Archan Misra, IBM, USA
Micheál Ó Foghlú, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Tom Pfeifer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Joan Serrat, Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya, Spain
Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, UK
Lieven Trappeniers, Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium
Sven van der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Vincent Wade, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland