-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers - PERVASIVE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - EDBT-Workshop 2004 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:51:44 +0100 From: Can Türker tuerker@INF.ETHZ.CH Reply-To: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" KUVS-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de To: KUVS-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de

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PERVASIVE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

International Workshop held in conjunction with EDBT 2004 March 18, 2004, Heraklion - Crete, Greece

http://www.dbs.ethz.ch/~tuerker/edbtpim/

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Wireless connectivity along with increasingly small and powerful mobile devices and sensors enables a wide range of new applications that will radically change the way information is managed and processed today. Information becomes ubiquitous, highly distributed and at the same time accessible from everywhere at any time. Information access takes place in highly dynamic and instable networks. Nevertheless, users and application developers will expect information processing to continue under similar guarantees as those offered by today's stationary and more or less centralized systems, even if some nodes of the pervasive information network are (temporarily) disconnected and/or are in motion. Examples for these guarantees are the ones given by database management systems, e.g., consistency and durability of data. Additional challenges stem from the fact that mobile devices, in particular embedded devices and sensors, are less powerful than their stationary counterparts; they are smaller (resulting, e.g., in smaller in- and output devices and less available storage), have restricted energy supplies and communicate via expensive and unreliable wireless communication media.

This workshop aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing ideas, challenges, and opportunities for data management and data access technology in pervasive information systems. New and existing concepts and techniques shall be considered in the light of the rapidly increasing mobility of users and the great advances in system infrastructures, mobile devices, and sensor technologies. Research papers presenting theoretical results, perspective solutions, and practical developments are welcome. Position papers are also welcome and encouraged.

TOPICS

- Modelling location and mobility semantics - Infrastructure support for mobility - Mobility awareness and adaptability - Location-dependent, context-based querying - Designing location-aware, context-aware services - Discovery and composition of ubiquitous services - Tracking moving objects and mobile users - Mobile sensor and stream data management - Continuous querying and data stream processing - Mobile data dissemination and delivery - Mobile data replication and synchronization - Self-organizing, self-tuning components - Information usage in ad-hoc networks - Pervasive transactional / workflow processing - Quality of service for pervasive computing systems - Mobile access and advanced user interfaces - Security and privacy in ubiquitous systems

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not exceed 12 pages strictly following Springer's LNCS style. LNCS formatting guidelines and templates can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Authors shall submit their papers electronically to tuerker@inf.ethz.ch before January 9, 2004. PDF format is preferred, but postscript format is also acceptable. Accepted papers will be published in the informal workshop proceedings. Selected papers will appear in the post-proceedings, which most probably will be published in the LNCS series of Springer. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop to present their work.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: January 9, 2004 Notification of Acceptance: February 6, 2004 Camera-Ready Copy: February 27, 2004

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Karl Aberer (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) - Michel E. Adiba (Université de Grenoble, France) - Christoph Gollmick, (University of Jena, Germany) - Hagen Höpfner (University of Magdeburg, Germany) - Valérie Issarny (INRIA, France) - Christian Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Birgitta König-Ries (TU München, Germany, co-chair) - Sanjay Kumar Madria (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA) - Rainer Malaka (EML Heidelberg, Germany) - Kia Makki (Florida International University, USA) - Eduardo Mena (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) - Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece) - George Samaras (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) - Kai-Uwe Sattler (University of Ilmenau, Germany) - Heiko Schuldt (UMIT Innsbruck, Austria) - Can Türker (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, chair) - Özgür Ulusoy (Bilkent University, Turkey) - Jari Veijalainen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) - Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois, USA)

ORGANIZERS

Can Türker Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich Institute of Information Systems ETH Zentrum, IFW C47.2 CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland Email: tuerker@inf.ethz.ch

Birgitta König-Ries Technische Universität München Faculty for Computer Science I 3 Boltzmannstr. 3 D-85747 Garching, Germany Email: koenigri@in.tum.de