-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] SAINT 2006 Workshop CFP: Next Generation Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems (SPMS 2006) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:09:59 +0200 From: Kellerer, Wolfgang kellerer@docomolab-euro.com To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu, wg2@wireless-world-research.org, wg3@wireless-world-research.org, p2prg@irtf.org, sig3@wireless-world-research.org CC: uesugi.mitsuru@jp.panasonic.com, arbanowski@fokus.fraunhofer.de, ohashi@kddilabs.jp

Second Call for SAINT 2006 workshop papers (please note the updated paper format)

2nd Workshop on Next Generation Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems (SPMS 2006)

(see also: http://www.saintconference.org/, http://infonet.cse.kyutech.ac.jp/conf/saint06/, SAINT 2006: Phoenix, Arizona, USA, January 23-27, 2006)

The enormous success of the Internet results to a large extent from the flexible and easy to use platform it provides to create innovative services and applications that quickly find acceptance and customers. In parallel to the Internet, mobile communications also has evolved to an integral component in our everyday life providing a growing variety of services. Industry is pushing new standards that allow high data rate multimedia applications as well as seamless communication across heterogeneous radio and network technologies. The success of the next generation mobile telecommunication systems will again depend on the services and applications that can be provided. These future systems are expected to integrate the paradigms of traditional mobile telecommunication systems with the Internet protocols and software engineering methods. New paradigms will emerge. For example, the customer acceptance is considered to be widely increased by tailoring services and applications to actual user needs, their preferences and the context a user is in. Ubiquitous services receive increased user acceptance (e.g., Peer-to-Peer). A well engineered next generation service platform should provide all capabilities to allow innovative services to be created and deployed in short time addressing user needs. Third party interfaces allow a chaining of expertise in service provisioning. Semantic technologies may help to structure knowledge about the user environment.

Researchers, practitioners and developers are invited to submit original unpublished papers in the following areas:

* Open Service Architectures (open interfaces, third party providers)

* Mobile Service Platforms (incl. terminal aspects and mobile middleware)

* Service Platforms for ubiquitous communication and P2P

* Capabilities and features for next generation mobile services (context-awareness, personalization/personal agent, high quality multimedia, information distribution, adaptation)

* Service Building Blocks (service modelling, semantic technologies, service creation, service discovery, service composition, service management)

* Privacy and trust as enabling technologies for future service platforms

* Mobile service platform prototypes and evaluation

* Innovative applications and services

This workshop is open to contributions from all experts in service technologies from industry and academia, including bodies such as mITF and WWRF, but not being limited to those. The Mobile IT Forum (mITF) and the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) are both organizations working towards the next generation of mobile communication systems. The two bodies represent each more than 140 member organizations (including companies, universities, and research institutes). Both bodies have dedicated working groups to the architecture/platform challenge. This workshop will be an opportunity to discuss service architecture/platform issues on a highly international level with experts from both bodies.

Submission Guidelines

Page limit: 4 pages in IEEE Conference format. Description: The submitted paper should contain authors names and affiliation and postal address, and fax number Format: Paper should be submitted in .pdf or .ps or .doc.

Papers should be submitted to the workshop organizers. All papers will be reviewed by at least three expert reviewers.

Important dates

Paper submission: Thursday, September 15, 2005. Camera ready due: Tuesday, November 1, 2005.

Workshop organizers

Stefan ARBANOWSKI, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany, WWRF WG2 Service Architecture, Chair, arbanowski@fokus.fraunhofer.de

Wolfgang KELLERER, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany, WWRF WG2, Vice Chair kellerer@docomolab-euro.com

Masayoshi OHASHI, KDDI, Japan, mITF Service Platform WG, Chair ohashi@kddilabs.jp

Mitsuru UESUGI, Panasonic Japan, mITF Service Platform WG, Vice Chair uesugi.mitsuru@jp.panasonic.com

------------------------------------------ Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kellerer Manager Ubiquitous Services Platforms Future Networking Lab

DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany

Tel. +49-89-56824-222 Fax. +49-89-56824-300 E-mail: kellerer@docomolab-euro.com i-mode: kellerer@imail.de http://www.docomolab-euro.com ------------------------------------------

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