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Call for Papers:

4th Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mobile Ubiquitous Systems

ADAMUS 2010

In conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS'10), to be held in Berlin, Germany, July 13-16, 2010

ICPS '10 web site : http://www.dai-labor.de/icps/

ADAMUS web site : http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/

ADAMUS 2010 Best Papers will be invited to extend for possible publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS, www.igi-global.com/IJARAS)

WORKSHOP SCOPE __________________________________________________________________

The vision of mobile and ubiquitous systems is becoming a reality thanks to the recent advances in wireless communication and device miniaturization. The wide-spread industrial uptake of these sy- stems is however compromised by the abrupt changes and challenging dependability requirements imposed by the highly error-prone and heterogeneous mobile provisioning environment.

To overcome the intrinsic limitations of mobile devices and envi- ronments, a variety of research studies have produced supporting methods, proof-of-concept prototypes, and disciplines. However, it is still unclear whether current solutions can satisfy the chal- lenging adaptability and dependability requirements of the emer- ging mobile ubiquitous services, such as mobile social networks, smart urban mobility, wireless control of robots, and healthcare.

The ambition and mission of ADAMUS is to put on the foreground all above issues and to foster the exchange of ideas and lively discussion in order: to propose mechanisms to model, design, and develop mobile ubiquitous systems; to devise conceptual models and paradigms for change tolerance; to provide analytical and simula- tion tools to measure system ability to withstand faults and to optimally re-adjust to new environments; to develop scalable, maintainable, cost-effective middleware infrastructures able to support and ease the development of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous services.

Building on the success of the last three editions, ADAMUS 2010 aims at serving as a meeting ground and common platform of discus- sion for research and industrial bodies in the field of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous systems.

Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to participate with high quality papers able to identify open issues, to discuss the limits and/or advantages of existing solutions, or to propose ori- ginal and innovative techniques for adaptive and dependable appli- cations over mobile environments. The main topics of the Workshop include, but are not limited to the following:

- Dependability & adaptation requirements, and open issues for mobile ubiquitous systems; - Design principles, models, and techniques for realizing dependa- ble and adaptive mobile ubiquitous systems; - Context data provisioning and modelling, and context-based in- frastructures; - Context-aware service adaptation for mobile clients; - Frameworks and techniques enabling advanced/demanding applica- tions on mobile ubiquitous systems; - Human-machine interaction and usability; - Multi-device and highly heterogeneous ubiquitous systems; - Cross-layer adaptation techniques; - End-to-end approaches to the quality of experience of mobile services; - Autonomous systems for adaptation and dependability; - Mobile-enabled middleware architectures and mechanisms for heterogeneous wireless networks; - Dependability and scalability of web technologies to ubiquitous systems; - Architectures for resource and network monitoring and adaptation to networks conditions; - Dependability measurement of mobile systems and services; - Experience on real-world applications or prototypes of mobile ubiquitous systems.

PAPER SUBMISSION __________________________________________________________________

ADAMUS 2010 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in ACM double-column proceedings style. Authors should sub- mit a PostScript or PDF file via e-mail to workshop organizers (macinque@unina.it and tim.stevens@intec.ugent.be). Acceptance implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper. The selection process will involve peer reviews and reviews by program committee members. All papers will be selected for the workshop based upon their originality, techni- cal soundness, and relevance to the field of adaptive and dependa- ble mobile ubiquitous systems.

All Accepted papers will appear in the ICPS'10 proceedings publi- shed on CD by the ACM and in the ACM Portal.

Contacts are in progress with the International Journal of Adapti- ve, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS) to invite ADAMUS 2010 Best Papers authors to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of IJARAS. (www.igi-global.com/IJARAS)

IMPORTANT DATES: __________________________________________________________________

* Paper submission deadline: May 1, 2010 * Notification of acceptance: May 28, 2010 * Final camera-ready manuscripts due: June 11, 2010

COMMITTEES __________________________________________________________________

Workshop Co-Chairs: - Tim Stevens, University of Ghent, Belgium - Marcello Cinque, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy

Workshop Co-Organisers: - Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Filip De Turck, University of Ghent, Belgium - Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland - Vincenzo De Florio, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Luca Foschini, Universita' di Bologna, Italy

Technical Program Committee: - Gabriella Caporaletti, EICAS s.p.a., Italy (pending) - Domenico Cotroneo, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Bart Dhoedt, Ghent University -IBBT, Belgium - Stephane Frenot, INRIA, France - Ibrahim Habib, CCNY, USA - Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France - Eija Kaasinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - Konrad Klockner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany (pending) - Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (pending) - Gianluca Mazzini, Universita' di Ferrara, Italy (pending) - Ali Abu-Rgheff Mosa, School of Computing, Communications and Electronics, Plymouth, UK (pending) - Hamid Mukhtar, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan - Eric Pardede, Latrobe University, Australia - Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (pending) - Massimiliano Rak, Seconda Universita' di Napoli, Italy - Augusto C. Redolfi, IMEC, Belgium (pending) - Oriana Riva, Nokia Research Center, Finland - Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, Scotland - Francisco Valera, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain - Michael Voorhaen, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Katarzyna Wac, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Xinheng Henry Wang, Swasea University, UK

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