-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers: PERWARE Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:16:52 +0200 From: Christian Becker christian.becker@INFORMATIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE 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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******************************************************* * PERWARE 2004 * * Middleware Support for Pervasive Computing Workshop * * 2nd Conference on Pervasive Computing (PerCom) * * * * http://ciae.cs.uiuc.edu/perware/ * *******************************************************

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers in the field of middleware for pervasive computing to discuss new trends for pervasive computing middleware. The workshop solicits papers addressing the following topics:

1. Middleware design patterns for pervasive computing. 2. Middleware support for novel pervasive computing application models. 3. Middleware support for user-centric computing. 4. Middleware platforms for mobile devices. 5. Adaptable, recoverable, secure and fault tolerant middleware for pervasive computing.

In order to ensure a high quality technical session, submissions must cover one of the topics above, and should not exceed five pages. Furthermore, we will prioritize experience papers describing lessons learnt from built systems, including information about approaches that did and did not work, unexpected results, common abstractions, and metrics for evaluating pervasive computing middleware infrastructures. One of the key issues for debate is the underlying structure of pervasive computing middleware, which includes different possible configurations such as peer-to-peer, location based, server oriented, and hybrid models. The workshop will provide a meeting point and a discussion forum for researchers working in this field.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions of papers are solicited in the IEEE proceedings format.Research papers must be original prior unpublished work and not under review elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed blindly and selected based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop, and will appear in a combined PerCom 04 workshop proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2003. Acceptance Notification: November 15, 2003. Camera Ready Version: December 10, 2003. Workshop Date: March 14, 2004. (at PerCom 2004, Orlando, Florida.)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Manuel Roman, DoCoMo Labs, USA. Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Christian Becker, Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany. Roy Campbell, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Christian Becker, University of Stuttgart (Germany) Peter Sturm, University of Trier (Germany) Gerd Kortuem, University of Lancaster (UK) Max Muhlhauser, Technical University Darmstadt (Germany) Peter Tandler, University of Darmstadt (Germany) Jalal Almuhtadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) Anand Ranganathan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) Philippe Debaty, HP Labs (USA) Kenichi Yamazaki, DoCoMo Labs (Japan) Manuel Roman, DoCoMo Labs (USA)