(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Mobile Computing Symposium of The 2008 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC2008) August 6-8, 2008 in Chania Crete Island, Greece

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~kunyang/Services/IWCMC08/MC-IWCMC08.html

Deadline extended to 1st March 2008! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Scope and Topics of Interest ----------------------------------- The IWCMC2008 Mobile Computing Symposium focuses on the recent research results on mobile computer system. Perspective authors are invited to submit full papers presenting original research related to the theory or practice of mobile computing and networking. All submissions must report high-quality and previously unpublished work. Areas of interest mainly focus on mobile computing, including, but are not limited to: * Mobile Computing Infrastructure and Middleware * Adaptive Service Engineering, including Service Creation, Service Composition, Service Adaptation, Service Discovery, Service Deployment, Service Management, etc. * Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing and Service Engineering * Novel Methodologies, Techniques or Toolkits for Pervasive Service Engineering in Mobile Environments * Web caching and services * Context-awareness * Peer-to-peer Networks and Computing * Grid Computing in Mobile Environment * Security Issues in Mobile Computing * Accounting and Pricing * Practical applications However, research papers on mobile networks and wireless communications that underpin the upper layer computing are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Mobile wireless QoS * Mobile wireless Internet, IPv6 * Mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks * 4G, 3.5G, 3G, ... wireless systems * Satellite-based systems * Ultra-wide band communications (UWB) * Routing, multicasting, ... * Location-based service, GPS * Resource management * Heterogeneous wireless networks, radio access networks * Multiple access * Mobile agents * Wireless applications, mobile e-commerce, multimedia * Power aware computation and communication * Multi-user detection * Power management & control, low-power protocols * Transport-layer issues * Wireless security * Distributed algorithms for wireless networks * High altitude platform * Wireless network architectures * Wireless multimedia, QoS adaptation * Wireless communication around human body * Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) * Personal area networks, body wireless networks, Bluetooth * Coding & modulation * MIMO, adaptive antenna * W-CDMA, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA * Software-defined radio, reconfigurable radio networks * Modeling, simulation

Important dates --------------- Full Paper Submission March 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2008 Camera-Ready Version and Copyright Form Submission June 8 Registration Deadline for Authors June 8 Hotel Reservation Deadline July 10

Paper Submission Web Site http://www.edas.info/Conferences.cgi

Submission Guidelines --------------------- For this symposium, authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of mobile computing and networking. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. All papers are limited to six printed pages, including text, figures and references, and must be written in English and follow the standard IEEE double-column format. The font size must be at least 10 points. All submissions will be handled electronically through EDAS system at http://www.edas.info/Conferences.cgi and must be in PDF format. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through a double peer-reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings of IWCMC2008.

Symposium Co-Chairs ------------------- Jie Li: University of Tsukuba, Japan Kun Yang: University of Essex, UK Pingyi Fan: Tsingha University, P. R. China Xiaohua Jia: City University of Hong Kong, Hongkong Changcheng Huang: Carleton University, Canada

Technical Program Committee ------------------------------------- (Listed in the Alphabetic Order of Last Name)

Jiannong Cao Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong Zhining Chen Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Singapore Yen-Wen Chen National Central University Taiwan Komosny Dan Brno University of Technology Czech Republic Ken Guild University of Essex UK Andreas Heiner Nokia Finland Liang Hu Jilin University China Yeonkwon Jeong Information and Communications University Korea Qun Jin Waseda University Japan Chonggun Kim Yeungnam University Korea Laurent Lefevre INRIA RESO - LIP France Minglu Li Shanghai Jiantong University China Wanjiun Liao National Taiwan University Taiwan Geyong Min University of Bradford UK Shumao Ou University of Essex, UK Jianping Pan University of Victoria Canada ChangWoo Pyo National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Japan Yi Qian National Institute of Standards and Technology USA Matthew R McKay Hong Kong University of Science and Technology China Joan Serrat UPC - Bacelona Spain Gangxiang Shen University of Melbourne Australia Liansheng Tan Central China Normal University China Guojun Wang Central South University China Jiahong Wang Iwate Prefectural University Japan Xianbin Wang CRC Canada Kui Wu University of Victoria Canada Jiang (Linda) Xie The University of North Carolina at Charlotte USA Hidetoshi Yokota KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. Japan Tingting Zhang Mid Sweden University Sweden Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory Norway Naor Zohar University of Haifa Israel

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