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From: "Mitchell, Keith" k.mitchell@lancaster.ac.uk To: wmcsa-announce@comp.lancs.ac.uk Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:07:02 +0100 Subject: [WMCSA-Announce] CFP for 6th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA 2004)

Call for Papers 6th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

2-3 December 2004, English Lake District, UK

http://wmcsa2004.lancs.ac.uk/

The Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications continues the series of high-quality, interactive workshops focused on mobile and ubiquitous applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies.

We solicit submissions that concentrate primarily on applications, systems, and environments. Submissions describing new lower-level technologies are welcome if they focus on how the technology is being used or integrated into a system or application.

WMCSA's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches.

We are particularly interested in the following topic areas:

* Operating system and distributed systems support for mobile and pervasive computing

* Novel applications and environments for mobile and pervasive computing

* Coordination, aggregation, and spontaneous interaction of devices and applications

* Security and privacy in mobile and pervasive systems

* Management, ease of use, availability and complexity in mobile and pervasive systems

* Other challenges unique to or exacerbated by mobility and pervasive computing

Papers should be 10 US letter pages or less, and should describe either completed or ongoing work (please see the web site for details on paper submission). The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE, and we hope to publish a digest of the workshop in a relevant journal. As is customary, papers must not have been published elsewhere and may not be simultaneously under submission at another venue.

To encourage an interactive atmosphere, attendance will be limited to approximately 70 attendees. Authors of submitted papers and accepted demo proposals will be given first preference, with others able to register on a space-available basis.

A small number of graduate students will be granted a waiver of the registration fee. Waiver proposal submission instructions will be posted when available on the web site.

Demos:

To further stimulate discussion, we welcome researchers who would like to demonstrate working prototypes of their systems. Instructions for submitting demo proposals will be posted when available on the web site.

Important Dates:

Hard Submission Deadline: 15 June 2004 (no exceptions!) Notification to Authors: 11 August 2004 Camera-ready Deadline: 10 September 2004

Organizing Committee:

Adrian Friday, Lancaster University, General Chair Mary Baker, HP Labs, Program Chair Nigel Davies, Lancaster University and University of Arizona, Finance Chair Joe Finney, Lancaster University, Local Arrangements Chair Keith Mitchell, Lancaster University, Publicity Chair Christian Becker, University of Stuttgart, Demo Chair

Program Committee:

Elizabeth Belding-Royer - University of California at Santa Barbara Lawrence Brakmo - DoCoMo USA Labs Andrew Campbell - Columbia University Maria Ebling - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Hans Gellersen - Lancaster University Yih-Chun Hu - University of California at Berkeley Eyal de Lara - University of Toronto Hui Lei - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Brian Noble - University of Michigan Trevor Pering - Intel Research Tom Rodden - University of Nottingham Bill Schilit - Intel Research Seattle Mirjana Spasojevic - HP Labs Dan Wallach - Rice University

Steering Committee:

Ramon Caceres - IBM Research Nigel Davies - Lancaster University and University of Arizona Armando Fox - Stanford University Tim Kindberg - HP Labs Robin Kravets - University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign Darrell Long - University of California at Santa Cruz M. Satyanarayanan - Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Research Dennis G. Shea - IBM Research

With generous support from:

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on the Internet (TCI) and Technical Committee on Operating Systems (TCOS) USENIX Intel Research HP Labs IBM Research Microsoft Research Lancaster University

In cooperation with:

ACM SIGMOBILE (pending)

A poster version of this CFP is also available at http://wmcsa2004.lancs.ac.uk/callpapers.shtml

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