-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (MobiSys 2004: CALL FOR PAPERS) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:53:47 -0800 From: Geoff Voelker voelker@CS.UCSD.EDU Reply-To: Geoff Voelker voelker@CS.UCSD.EDU To: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE@ACM.ORG

I apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.

Please note: o paper abstracts are due 31 October (midnight PST) o full papers are due 7 November (midnight PST) o web page has link to the submission system o submission system is "open for business" o conference will be held 6-9 June 2004 in Boston, MA, USA

CALL FOR PAPERS: MobiSys 2004

The Second International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

Jointly sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and The USENIX Association In cooperation with ACM SIGOPS

Hyatt Harborside in Boston, Massachusetts, USA June 6-9, 2004

http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2004/

IMPORTANT DATES Paper abstracts due: October 31, 2003 Full papers due: November 7, 2003 Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2004 Poster, Demo, Video Proposal: March 5, 2004 Camera-ready final papers due: April 9, 2004

OVERVIEW

MobiSys 2004 seeks to present innovative, significant research in the area of mobile systems. This will be a 2.5-day conference, featuring refereed paper presentations, tutorials, demos, videos, and poster sessions. This conference builds on the success of the first MobiSys conference held in San Francisco, http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2003/, which featured 23 high caliber research papers and many interesting posters and demonstrations. The conference particularly values the practical experience gained from designing, building and using mobile systems, applications, and services.

TOPICS

The conference addresses broad systems issues in mobile computing. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Design, implementation, and evaluation of mobile systems * Middleware and service architectures for mobile applications * Data management for mobile applications * Disconnected and weakly connected operation * Proxies and data adaptation * Mobile agents * Operating systems for small devices * Infrastructure support for mobility * Security, privacy, authorization, and billing * System-level energy management for mobile devices * Wearable and handheld devices in the context of system design * Personal mobility * Personal-area networks and systems * Resource discovery of mobile services * Systems for location awareness and determination * Application interfaces and services supporting the mobile user * Systems support for mobile robots * Experience with mobile systems

The ideal MobiSys submission should present novel research that has resulted in the implementation or evaluation of running systems. Papers that describe the design of and experience with mobile system architectures are favored over those narrowly focused on low-level components such as the device hardware or the routing, link, or physical network layers. Please feel free to contact the Program Chairs at mobisys_pcchairs@acm.org to determine appropriateness. An award will be given at the conference for the best paper.

WHAT TO SUBMIT

Submissions should be full papers, 12?14 single-spaced 8.5" × 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references, two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted papers may be shepherded through an editorial review process by a member of the program committee.

MobiSys, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers must not be submitted simultaneously to any other conference or publication, that submissions must not be previously published, and that accepted papers must not be subsequently published elsewhere. Papers accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. All submissions will be held in the highest confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings, both as a matter of policy and in accord with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Authors are required to submit a title and abstract on October 31, 2003 (by midnight PST). Full papers are due November 7, 2003 (midnight PST). All submissions to MobiSys 2004 must be electronic, in PDF format. Detailed submission instructions are posted on the conference web site: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2004/.

POSTER, DEMO, AND VIDEO SESSIONS

Do you have interesting work you would like to share, or a cool idea that is not ready to be published? Poster sessions are for you! Poster sessions, scheduled during the technical sessions, introduce new or ongoing work. Demos and videos of working systems and applications are also encouraged. The MobiSys audience will provide valuable discussion and feedback. We are particularly interested in presentations of student work. To submit a poster, demo, or video, please consult the conference web site for instructions. Proposals should be received by March 5, 2004.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

General Co-Chairs: Guruduth S. Banavar, IBM Research Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL

Steering Committee Chair: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research

Program Co-Chairs: Doug Terry, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Roy Want, Intel Research

Program Committee: Gregory Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology Mary Baker, HP Labs Hari Balakrishnan, MIT Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto W. Keith Edwards, Palo Alto Research Center Carla Schlatter Ellis, Duke University Deborah Estrin, UCLA Armando Fox, Stanford University Michael Franklin, UC Berkeley Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University Mik Lamming. HP Labs Brian Noble, University of Michigan Nuno Preguiça, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Jun Rekimoto, Sony Computer Science Laboratories M. Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Research Pittsburgh Leendert van Doorn, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia

Video Demo Chair: Umar Saif, MIT

Treasurer: Manuel Roman, DoCoMo Labs

Webmaster: Rajnish Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology

Publicity Co-Chairs: Maria R. Ebling, IBM Research Matthias Grossglauser, EPFL