-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] ACM/Kluwer MONET Journal: Sp. Issue on Mobile Services Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:26:37 -0400 From: Upkar Varshney uvarshney@gsu.edu To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu CC: uvarshney@gsu.edu

ACM/Kluwer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Special Issue on Mobile Services

With Guest Editors Dr. Qusay H. Mahmoud Dept. of Computing & Information Science University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 Phone: (416) 798-1331 Ext. 6086 Fax: (416) 798-1991 E-mail: qmahmoud@cis.uoguelph.ca

Dr. Upkar Varshney Dept. of Computing Information Systems Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia, USA Phone: (404) 463-9139 Fax: (404) 651-3842 E-mail: uvarshne@cis.gsu.edu

OVERVIEW

The nature of the wireless Internet will be different from simply accessing the Internet wirelessly. Users with handheld wireless devices, being mostly mobile, have different needs, motivations and capabilities from wired users. Mobile services are mobile/wireless computing applications and services that can be either pushed to user's handheld wireless devices (push mobile services) or downloaded and installed, over the air, on handheld wireless devices (pull mobile services). The explosive growth of the handheld wireless devices market, however, is stimulating the computing research community to clone almost any technology developed for desktop networked computers to handheld wireless devices connected to a wireless network. Wireless networks are, however, unreliable and suffer from low bandwidth and have a greater tendency for network errors. In addition, wireless connections can be lost or degraded by mobility. As a result, future intelligent mobile services must be designed from the ground up by taking fully into account the new design dimensions made accessible by the new technologies. This emerging field poses new challenges to the research community such as faster time-to-market, quality of wireless information, security concerns, and others.

The aim of this special issue is to present most recent research findings on mobile services. We are seeking papers that are original, unpublished and not currently under review by workshops, conferences, or other journals.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:

* Novel mobile services and applications * Pull and push mobile services * Analysis and design of mobile services * Security and privacy issues in mobile services * Location-dependent mobile services * Content personalization * Discovery protocols for mobile services * Databases for mobile services * XML for mobile services * Middleware for mobile services * Agents for mobile services * Location and data management PUBLICATION SCHEDULE

MANUSCRIPT DUE: September 15, 2003 ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: December 1, 2003 FINAL MANUSCRIPT DUE: February 1, 2004

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors should email an electronic copy (preferably in PDF format) of their papers to Qusay H. Mahmoud, qmahmoud@cis.uoguelph.ca, by September 15, 2003. Submissions should be limited to 20 double space pages excluding figures, graphs and illustrations. If email submission is impossible then six (6) copies of the paper (double-sided if possible) should be sent by the due date to:

Dr. Qusay H. Mahmoud Dept. of Computing and Information Science University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 Canada

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