DEADLINE EXTENSION!
Paper submission deadline: August 15th 2010
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Call For Papers
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M-MPAC 2010
Second International Workshop on
Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing
http://www.smartlab.cis.strath.ac.uk/M-MPAC
A Workshop of Middleware 2010
Bangalore, India
November 29 - December 3, 2010
Problem Space
Building on the success of M-MPAC 2009 (that combined the previous
editions of MPAC and MobMid), this event aims to carry on development of
a research roadmap on essential middleware abstractions, platforms and
applications for pervasive mobile and embedded systems.
This year is marked by the resurgence of tablet devices (e.g. iPad and a
myriad of competing products) that aim to combine the performance of PCs
with the portability and freedom of PDAs. This trend drives an increase
in the popularity of pervasive mobile and embedded computing. Recent
years have also witnessed the rise (and sometimes resurgence) of
relatively powerful mobile communication devices such as mobile phones,
mobile Internet devices and netbooks, as well as several embedded
devices, like TV set-top boxes, portable media players (e.g. iPods),
eReaders (e.g. Kindle), etc. These devices have enabled a wide spectrum
of novel pervasive applications, such as healthcare monitoring, enhanced
shopping applications/environments, ad-hoc gaming, sport tracking,
street navigation and observation, context-aware collaborative
computing, etc. Moreover, with the rise of cloud computing
infrastructures developers have also started exploring the possibility
of empowering resource-constrained mobile devices with such
infrastructures offering unlimited storage and computing resources.
Developing practical applications for this kind of devices is still in
most cases a complex and time-consuming process. Many of the existing
applications have been built in an ad-hoc manner and without any
possibility for code reuse. As the number and type of mobile and
embedded devices, and pervasive applications increases, so does the need
to enable interoperability among them. Identifying appropriate
middleware abstractions and organizing successfully used protocols,
algorithms, and software modules into generic middleware platforms can
facilitate application development, foster software reuse, and enable
rapid prototyping of pervasive applications.
It is unclear and in many respects still an unexplored research area to
what extent traditional middleware services can be provided on these
devices. Porting existing middleware architectures to these new
computing platforms turns out to be often infeasible. Instead, a
thorough reconsideration of middleware abstractions and their supporting
infrastructure is needed to allow applications to make effective use of
the available computational power, memory, communication technologies,
integrated sensors, etc. An ideal middleware platform should be capable
of handling the resource constraints of these devices but at the same
time exploit their unique features such as availability of location
information, embedded sensors, mobility, spontaneous interaction,
context-awareness, etc.
Topics
The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
* Device platforms
Virtualization technologies and applications
Distributed Ensembles
Interaction paradigms and protocols
Emerging mobile platforms (e.g. Android)
Virtual machines
* Networking
Emerging wireless technologies and platforms
Experiences or case studies with new technologies (WiMax, WiBree,
LTE, etc)
and devices (MIP, UMPC, wearables, etc)
Multi-link scenarios: WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular network
Quality of service and network selection
* Data issues
Data formats and encoding
Availability and durability of data in personal networks
Synchronization of personal devices with other consumer electronics
(e.g. cameras, iPods, etc)
Data portability
* Adaptability
Context-awareness, location monitoring
Resource management, cyber foraging, and energy-awareness
Using cloud infrastructures for computing-intensive tasks and data
storage
Autonomics and self-* properties
* Security and Privacy
Privacy preservation and identity management for device-to-device
interactions
Security architectures balancing risk and utility
Trust management in device ensembles
Mobile device data security
Identity federation
* Mobile and Social Web
Web architectures (REST, Ajax) for 3-screen usage in pervasive computing
Context and content adaptation and management in pervasive computing
Mobile web scalability and reliability in access
Content adaptation on mobile devices
Collaborative search
* Applications
Healthcare, entertainment, games, mobile TV, smart spaces, shopping,
street navigation, etc.
Mobile phones in sensor and ad hoc networks
Application development on mobile and embedded devices
Programming models
* Experiences and case studies
Lessons from deployments
User experiences
Performance studies
Submission
Submissions should not exceed 8 pages and should be formatted using the
ACM proceeding style (see
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).
Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and
present the paper. Please submit your paper in PDF at
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/m-mpac2010/openconf/.
Papers should present a view of the state of the art in a particular
sub-problem area, identify specific middleware challenges, and suggest
potential avenues for exploration by proposing models, abstractions and
infrastructure components addressing these challenges. Approximately two
thirds of the workshop will be devoted to the presentation and
discussion of these papers, while the remaining third of the time will
be devoted to the development of the research roadmap.
Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the programme
committee. The review process will be based upon identifying the
relevance and potential of the position statement to contribute to the
elaboration of the roadmap and to stimulate discussion.
All accepted papers will appear in a special workshop proceedings volume
in the ACM Digital Library. The publication of the best workshop
submissions and the research roadmap is under investigation.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: August 15th 2010 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: September 15th 2010
Workshop papers camera-ready: October 1st 2010
Workshop date: November 29th or 30th 2010
Programme Committee
Paolo Bellavista, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Dan Chalmers, University of Sussex, UK
Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy
Didier Donsez, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I, France
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
Paul Grace, Lancaster University, UK
Rene Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, CNRS Lyon, France
Sougata Mukherjea, IBM Research, India
Shrikant Naidu, Motorola India Lab, India
Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan
Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola Labs, US
Aaron Quigley, HILT Lab, University of Tasmania, Australia
Oriana Riva, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Luis Rodrigues, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Romain Rouvoy, Universite Lille 1, France
Patrick Stuedi, Microsoft Research, US
Francois Taiani, Lancaster University, UK
Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK (Workshop Co-Chair)
Venu Vasudevan, Motorola Labs, US
Luis Veiga, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (Workshop Co-Chair)
Ian Wakeman, University of Sussex, UK
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Dr Sotirios Terzis, PhD, MSc, BSc(Hons), MBCS, CITP, FHEA
Director MSc in Forensic Informatics
Lecturer
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Strathclyde
mail: Computer and Information Sciences Dept.
Livingstone Tower
26 Richmond Street
Glasgow, G1 1XH
Scotland.
email: Sotirios.Terzis@cis.strath.ac.uk
phone: +44.141.5483839
fax: +44.141.5484523
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Scotland, with registration number SC015263.
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