-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: ACM MC2R special section on Discovery and Interaction of Mobil eServices Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:44:14 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Qusay H. Mahmoud qmahmoud@cis.uoguelph.ca Organization: University of Guelph To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R)

Special Section on Discovery and Interaction of Mobile Services

With Guest Editor Qusay H. Mahmoud Department of Computing & Information Science University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1 Canada qmahmoud@cis.uoguelph.ca

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 (pull mobile services). In order to use such services, users of wireless devices need to locate them; they can be located on remote servers or even on peers' devices in a mobile ad hoc setting (or MANET). Therefore, one of the fundamental challenges is the discovery of relevant services in mobile ad hoc networks, but more importantly, selecting a suitable service and interacting with it to accomplish a useful task.

Several available service discovery protocols are not suitable for MANETs simply because they have been designed for infrastructure-based networks. In addition, such protocols offer no location-based and context-aware selection mechanisms, and feature minimal interaction models that are not suited for wireless devices with limited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power.

The aim of this special section is to present most recent research findings on "discovery and interaction of mobile services". We are seeking papers that address discovery, selection, and interaction issues of mobile services. Submissions must be original, unpublished and not currently under review by workshops, conferences, or other journals.

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

- Discovery protocols for mobile services - Selection and interaction techniques - Security and privacy issues in discovery protocols - Location-dependent and/or context-aware service discovery mechanisms - XML/SOAP for discovery protocols - Lightweight discovery protocols - Agents-based discovery, selection, and interaction - Performance evaluation of discovery protocols

Publication Schedule -------------------- Papers are due: August 1, 2004 Notifications: October 1, 2004 Final papers: November 15, 2004 Publication: First available issue (January or April 2005)

Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors should email an electronic copy (PDF only) of their papers to Qusay H. Mahmoud, qmahmoud@cis.uoguelph.ca, by August 1, 2004. Submissions should be no longer than 12 pages in MC2R format (two columns, 11pt font). Important author guidelines can be found at this URL: http://www.sigmobile.org/pubs/mc2r/guidelines/author.html.

rgds, Q.

/** * Qusay H. Mahmoud, Ph.D. * Assistant Professor * Dept. of Computing & Information Science * University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1 Canada * Associate Chair * Distributed Computing & Communications Systems Technology Program * University of Guelph-Humber, Toronto, ON, M9W 5L7 Canada * http://www.cis.uoguelph.ca/~qmahmoud */

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