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************************************************************************************************************** The 9th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'08) April 27-30, 2008, Beijing, China http://idke.ruc.edu.cn/mdm2008/ *************************************************************************************************************** The significant advances in wireless communications, the ever increasing availability of mobile multi-purpose devices, and the fast growth in sensors and actuators have created a global computing infrastructure that is profoundly changing the way people live and work. People interact with themselves, the physical world, and information services using a wide range of devices connected together via a variety of networks, enabling computing and communication at an unprecedented scale and density.

This new infrastructure presents a number of challenges especially when it comes to data-intensive applications: enormous scale, varying and intermittent connectivity, location dependence and context awareness, limited bandwidth and power capacity, small device size, and multimedia delivery across hybrid networks.

Conventional issues in data management have to be considered and evaluated anew in this rapidly changing environment. Non-traditional issues including mobility, data semantics, context modeling, broadcast and multicast delivery, data availability, trust and privacy must also be addressed effectively.

The latest of a successful series, MDM 2008 provides a high-quality forum for the presentation of research results on data management issues in the evolving world of mobile, wireless, and pervasive computing.

Topics of Interests Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. - Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing - Moving objects management - Data placement, replication and relocation to support mobility - Data broadcasting/dissemination in mobile environments - Data presentation, scripting and exchange languages - Data management for pervasive computing - Data management in sensor and mobile ad hoc networks - Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks - Resource advertising and discovery techniques - Metadata management and exchanges - Query processing and optimization for mobile users - Uncertainty data management - Transactions and workflows in mobile environments - Location privacy - Mobile access to the Web - Context-aware computing and location-based services - Security and privacy issues for ubiquitous systems - Location tracking of vehicles and moving objects - Quality of service issues for data-intensive services - Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems - Data mining for mobile applications - Publish-subscribe approach in mobile computing - Outsourcing databases

Paper Submission The conference invites original, unpublished submissions not exceeding 8 pages in the camera-ready IEEE style. Submissions in PDF format must be uploaded to the conference web-based submission system at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MDM2008/Default.aspx.

Industrial/experience papers as well as proposals for panels, demos, seminars, and workshops are also sought. Submission instructions will be made available on the conference homepage. Industrial/experience papers are expected to discuss novel aspects of deployed applications or prototypes as well as experiences and standards.

Important Dates

Abstract submission: 11/9/2007 Paper submission: 11/16/2007 Notification: 1/25/2008 Camera ready: 2/15/2008

Organization Committee

General Co-Chairs: Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, China Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Timos Sellis, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece

PC Co-Chairs: Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin Univ. of China, China Hui Lei, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA Stephane Grumbach, INRIA, France

Workshop Chair: Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Seminars Co-Chairs: Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece

Panel Chair: Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia

Demonstration Chair: Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia , China

Publicity Co-Chair: Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Publication Chair: Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Financial/Registration Chair: Zhiming Ding, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Local Organizing Committee: Jidong Cheng, Renmin University of China, China

Program Committee (More to be added):

Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Ahmed Amer, University of Pittsburgh, USA Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia Philippe Bonnet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Luc Bouganim, INRIA-Rocquencourt, France Guohong Cao, Penn State University, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Edward P.F. Chan, University of Waterloo, Canada Ming-Syan Chen, Taiwan University, Taiwan Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA Bin Cui, Peking University, China Zhiming Ding, Institute of Software, CAS, China Le Gruenwald, NSF, USA Ralf Hartmut Güting, Fernuniversit?t Hagen, Germany Rick Han, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Kien Hua, University of Central Florida, USA Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Ning Jing, National University of Defance Technology, China Anupam Joshi, UMBC, USA Yutaka Kidawara , NICT, Japan Hiroyuki Kitagawa,University of Tsukuba, Japan Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State University, USA Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, Korea Yushen Liu, Huazhong UST, China Qiong Luo, HKUST, China Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, China Pedro Jose Marron, University of Bonn, Germany Mihhail Matskin, KTH, Stockholm, sweden

Eduardo Mena, University of Zaragossa, Spain Gail Mitchell, BBN, USA Mohamed F. Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University, Japan Boris Novikov, Saint Petersburg University, Russia Dimitris Papadias, HKUST, China Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Dieter Pfoser, CTI, Greece Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Philippe Pucheral, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Anand Ranganathan, IBM Research, USA George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA Timos Sellis, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece Jianwen Su, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Kare Synnes, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Fabrice Valois, INRIA ARES / CITI, INSA Lyon, France Agnès Voisard, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Ouri Wolfson , University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University, USA Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia

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