-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tcgn] CFP: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2004) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:04:18 -0500 From: Hui Lei hlei@us.ibm.com Reply-To: tcgn@majordomo.ieee.org To: tccc@computer.org, tcgn@majordomo.ieee.org

Call for Papers MDM 2004

2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management January 19-22, 2004 Berkeley, CA, USA http://www.cs.duke.edu/mdm2004/

Submission deadline June 10, 2003 Notification of acceptance September 10, 2003 Camera ready due October 24, 2003

We are rapidly heading towards a world in which the computing infrastructure will contain billions of devices, which will interact with other computing/communications devices that are carried or worn by users as they go through their daily routines. Such devices provide data access to mobile users as they move within buildings, cities, or across the globe. This new infrastructure presents tremendous challenges for data management technology including: huge scale; variable and intermittent connectivity; location-centric and location-dependent applications; bandwidth, power, and device size limitations; and multimedia data delivery across hybrid networks and systems. Traditional data management technologies such as query processing, transaction management, workflow, business process management and metadata management must all be re-evaluated in this emerging environment. Furthermore, non-traditional issues such as semantics of mobile data, location-dependent querying, broadcast and multicast delivery and caching/pre-fetching techniques must all be addressed. The ability to track/monitor people raises serious issue of security and privacy. This conference aims to investigate these and other issues, focusing on the challenges and opportunities for data management and data access technology in the rapidly evolving world of mobile, pervasive, ubiquitous, invisible and wearable computing.

Conference Topics

* Theoretical foundations of mobility * Modeling location and mobility semantics * Data management for ubiquitous computing * Metadata management and exchanges * Query processing and optimization for mobile users * Data placement, caching, replication and relocation to support mobility * Resource advertising and discovery techniques to support mobility * Mobile transaction management * Multimedia in a mobile environment * Mobile web access and internet applications * Context aware adaptation of user interface and content * Data mining for mobile application * Mobile aware/adaptive/agent applications * Mobile agent platforms * Middleware support for mobility * Data presentation, scripting and exchange languages * Mobile and ubiquitous computing applications and systems * Workflow management for mobile environments * Operating system and network support for ubiquitous mobile computing * Security and privacy issues for ubiquitous systems * Location dependent user and vehicle tracking * Quality of service management for mobile systems * Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems * Data broadcasting in mobile environments

Submission Information

Both research and industrial papers are solicited. Research papers must be unpublished and not exceed 12 single-spaced pages. Industrial papers must not exceed 6 single-spaced pages and should describe interesting technical aspects of industrial applications, prototypes, experiences, and standards; performance and design details are encouraged and papers only describing high-level system designs are discouraged. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically through the conference Web site at http://www.cs.duke.edu/mdm2004/ on or before June 10, 2003. PDF format is preferred but postscript format is acceptable. Conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. We also solicit proposals for panels and tutorials. Proposals must be emailed to the respective chairs by June 10, 2003.

Organizing Committee

* Conference Co-Chairs Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Hui Lei, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA * Program Committee Co-Chairs Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Richard Muntz, UCLA, USA * Industry Track Chair Ravi Jain, DoCoMo USA Labs, USA * Panels Chair George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus * Tutorials Chair Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA * Local Arrangements Chair Jussi Myllymaki, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA * Publicity Chair Jun Yang, Duke University, USA * Finance Chair Helen Wang, Microsoft Research, USA * Registration Chair Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA

Program Committee

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Elisa Bertino, University of Milano, Italy Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA Dan Chalmers, Imperial College London, UK Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ying Chen, IBM China Research Laboratory, China Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA Norman Cohen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK Alex Delis, Polytechnic University, USA Maggie Dunham, Southern Methodist University, USA Adrian Friday, Lancaster University, UK Akira Fukuda, Kyushu University, Japan Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France Ravi Jain, DoCoMo USA Labs, USA Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Hyunchul Kang, Chung-Ang University, Korea Roger Kermode, Motorola Research, Australia Myoung Ho Kim, KAIST, Korea Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan George Kollios, Boston University, USA Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Chiang Lee, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan Dik L. Lee, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Guanling Lee, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong-Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Vincenzo Liberatore, Case Western Reserve University, USA Seng Wai Loke, Monash University, Australia Sanjay Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Mihhail Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Sharad Mehrotra, UC Irvine, USA Eduardo Mena, University of Zaragoza, Spain Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China Rebecca Montanari, University of Bologna, Italy Badri Nath, Rutgers University, USA Jignesh M. Patel, University of Michigan, USA Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany Apratim Purakayastha, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts, USA Morris Sloman, Imperial College London, UK S. Sloman, I.I.T. Bombay, India Kian Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Doug Terry, Microsoft Research, USA Helen Thomas, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyvaskyla / Waseda University, Finland/Japan Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia

Industry Track Committee (preliminary)

Sujata Banerjee, HP Labs, USA Jussi Myllamaki, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Yannis Labrou, Fujistsu Labs of America, USA