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MobiCASE 2009

The International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services http://www.mobicase.org

October 26-29, 2009 San Diego, California, USA

Sponsored by ICST Technically co-sponsored by Create-Net

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Researchers and engineers face new challenges stemming from consumer habits that continue to shift to encompass both a desktop-centric work environment as well as a smartphone-centric lifestyle. MobiCASE, the International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services, will allow scientists and practitioners from both academia and industry to highlight their best work in mobile wireless applications and service provisioning.

MobiCASE is specifically focused on application-layer research and development in mobile computing: applications, application management, and application services.

We seek novel submissions in mobile applications and systems research in domain topics above the OSI transport layer with an emphasis on complete end-to-end systems and their components. The conference will be organized into two broad categories, with topics of interest including, but not limited to:

Mobile applications: * Mobile social networking, such as crowd-sourcing or twittering * Healthcare, such as emergency notification or body monitoring systems * Transportation, such as nav-sat systems or traffic congestion management * Personalization * Context-aware applications * Online mobile targeted advertising * Novel user experience and interfaces * Mobile Web 2.0 and mobile web application frameworks (such as Mobile Ajax, Mobile Flash, J2ME, and others) * Supporting development toolkits, programming languages, or libraries * Use of hardware features such as accelerometers, touch sensing, and GPS * Applications for enterprise environments

Service provisioning for mobile users: * Application lifecycle management and distribution models * Application management * Smartphone platforms (Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android, and others) * Adaptive, self-configuring applications * Context-modeling and ontologies * Support for large-scale, scalable messaging and event processing * End-user network monitoring and management * Middleware and distributed systems in support of mobile applications

In addition to scientific research papers, MobiCASE will also host an industry paper track where industry product groups in the mobile computing space can share best practices, real-world observations, and projected near- and long-term expectations that will hopefully help guide and focus all attending researchers and practitioners.

Selected papers will be considered for publication in the ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal.

Research papers should focus on the design, implementation, and evaluation of complete systems and components. Papers will be limited to 10 single-spaced, double-column, 8.5" x 11" pages with 10-point font. Industry papers are limited to 8 pages. MobiCASE requires that all papers (both research and industry) describe novel, unpublished work, not concurrently under review elsewhere.

PANELS/WORKSHOPS: We are soliciting proposals for panels/workshops. Interested parties are encouraged to submit a proposal to the workshop chair. Please see the MobiCASE webpage (www.mobicase.org) for further information.

IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract due: May 1, 2009 Full papers due: May 8, 2009 Acceptance notification: June 29, 2009 Camera-ready version due: August 1, 2009

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Co-General Chair: Rebecca Montanari, University of Bologna, Italy Co-General Chair: Petros Zerfos, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Technical Program Chair: Thomas Phan, Microsoft Corporation, USA Industry Track Chair: Jatinder Pal Singh, Deutsche Telekom, Inc. and Stanford University, USA Demo/poster Chair: Angela Dalton, Johns Hopkins University, USA Workshop Chair: Benjamin Greenstein, Intel Research, USA Web and Publicity Chair: Alessandra Toninelli, University of Bologna, Italy

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