-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing (M-MPAC 2010) Datum: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:40:39 +0100 Von: Sotirios Terzis Sotirios.Terzis@cis.strath.ac.uk An: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

Call For Papers ---------------

M-MPAC 2010

Second International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing

http://www.smartlab.cis.strath.ac.uk/M-MPAC

A Workshop of Middleware 2010 Bangalore, India November 29 - December 3, 2010

Problem Space

Building on the success of M-MPAC 2009 (that combined the previous editions of MPAC and MobMid), this event aims to carry on development of a research roadmap on essential middleware abstractions, platforms and applications for pervasive mobile and embedded systems.

This year is marked by the resurgence of tablet devices (e.g. iPad and a myriad of competing products) that aim to combine the performance of PCs with the portability and freedom of PDAs. This trend drives an increase in the popularity of pervasive mobile and embedded computing. Recent years have also witnessed the rise (and sometimes resurgence) of relatively powerful mobile communication devices such as mobile phones, mobile Internet devices and netbooks, as well as several embedded devices, like TV set-top boxes, portable media players (e.g. iPods), eReaders (e.g. Kindle), etc. These devices have enabled a wide spectrum of novel pervasive applications, such as healthcare monitoring, enhanced shopping applications/environments, ad-hoc gaming, sport tracking, street navigation and observation, context-aware collaborative computing, etc. Moreover, with the rise of cloud computing infrastructures developers have also started exploring the possibility of empowering resource-constrained mobile devices with such infrastructures offering unlimited storage and computing resources.

Developing practical applications for this kind of devices is still in most cases a complex and time-consuming process. Many of the existing applications have been built in an ad-hoc manner and without any possibility for code reuse. As the number and type of mobile and embedded devices, and pervasive applications increases, so does the need to enable interoperability among them. Identifying appropriate middleware abstractions and organizing successfully used protocols, algorithms, and software modules into generic middleware platforms can facilitate application development, foster software reuse, and enable rapid prototyping of pervasive applications.

It is unclear and in many respects still an unexplored research area to what extent traditional middleware services can be provided on these devices. Porting existing middleware architectures to these new computing platforms turns out to be often infeasible. Instead, a thorough reconsideration of middleware abstractions and their supporting infrastructure is needed to allow applications to make effective use of the available computational power, memory, communication technologies, integrated sensors, etc. An ideal middleware platform should be capable of handling the resource constraints of these devices but at the same time exploit their unique features such as availability of location information, embedded sensors, mobility, spontaneous interaction, context-awareness, etc.

Topics

The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Device platforms

Virtualization technologies and applications Distributed Ensembles Interaction paradigms and protocols Emerging mobile platforms (e.g. Android) Virtual machines

* Networking

Emerging wireless technologies and platforms Experiences or case studies with new technologies (WiMax, WiBree, LTE, etc) and devices (MIP, UMPC, wearables, etc) Multi-link scenarios: WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular network Quality of service and network selection

* Data issues

Data formats and encoding Availability and durability of data in personal networks Synchronization of personal devices with other consumer electronics (e.g. cameras, iPods, etc) Data portability

* Adaptability

Context-awareness, location monitoring Resource management, cyber foraging, and energy-awareness Using cloud infrastructures for computing-intensive tasks and data storage Autonomics and self-* properties

* Security and Privacy

Privacy preservation and identity management for device-to-device interactions Security architectures balancing risk and utility Trust management in device ensembles Mobile device data security Identity federation

* Mobile and Social Web

Web architectures (REST, Ajax) for 3-screen usage in pervasive computing Context and content adaptation and management in pervasive computing Mobile web scalability and reliability in access Content adaptation on mobile devices Collaborative search

* Applications

Healthcare, entertainment, games, mobile TV, smart spaces, shopping, street navigation, etc. Mobile phones in sensor and ad hoc networks Application development on mobile and embedded devices Programming models

* Experiences and case studies

Lessons from deployments User experiences Performance studies

Submission

Submissions should not exceed 8 pages and should be formatted using the ACM proceeding style (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper. Please submit your paper in PDF at http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/m-mpac2010/openconf/.

Papers should present a view of the state of the art in a particular sub-problem area, identify specific middleware challenges, and suggest potential avenues for exploration by proposing models, abstractions and infrastructure components addressing these challenges. Approximately two thirds of the workshop will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of these papers, while the remaining third of the time will be devoted to the development of the research roadmap.

Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the programme committee. The review process will be based upon identifying the relevance and potential of the position statement to contribute to the elaboration of the roadmap and to stimulate discussion.

All accepted papers will appear in a special workshop proceedings volume in the ACM Digital Library. The publication of the best workshop submissions and the research roadmap is under investigation.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: August 1st 2010 Notification of acceptance: September 15th 2010 Workshop papers camera-ready: October 1st 2010 Workshop date: November 29th or 30th 2010

Programme Committee

Paolo Bellavista, Universita di Bologna, Italy Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio, Brazil Dan Chalmers, University of Sussex, UK Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy Didier Donsez, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I, France Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France Paul Grace, Lancaster University, UK Rene Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Sonia Ben Mokhtar, CNRS Lyon, France Sougata Mukherjea, IBM Research, India Shrikant Naidu, Motorola India Lab, India Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola Labs, US Aaron Quigley, HILT Lab, University of Tasmania, Australia Oriana Riva, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Luis Rodrigues, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Romain Rouvoy, Universite Lille 1, France Patrick Stuedi, Microsoft Research, US Francois Taiani, Lancaster University, UK Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK (Workshop Co-Chair) Venu Vasudevan, Motorola Labs, US Luis Veiga, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (Workshop Co-Chair) Ian Wakeman, University of Sussex, UK