-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [CFP] 3rd International Workshops on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-hoc Computing Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 11:17:21 +0200 From: Christian Becker christian.becker@INFORMATIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE Reply-To: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE To: KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE

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CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd International Workshops on Middleware for

Pervasive and Ad-hoc Computing

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

A Workshop of Middleware 2005

Grenoble, France November 28th - December 2nd, 2005

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Workshop papers submission deadline: August 26th, 2005

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Problem Space -------------

Building on the success of the 2003 and 2004 workshops, this workshop seeks to build on the results presented in a special issue of the Journal for Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, and to develop a roadmap for research on the essential middleware abstractions and infrastructures for ad-hoc and pervasive computing in general, and sensor-based services in particular.

A synthesis of the discussion that took place in the MPAC 2003 and 2004 workshops has led to the identification of the following areas where pervasive and ad-hoc environments challenge existing middleware:

1. Middleware support for programming adaptation and the associated decision making process.

2. Security, privacy and trust in pervasive environments and ad-hoc communities. 3. Benchmarks and frameworks for the comparative evaluation of middleware approaches for pervasive and ad-hoc computing.

4. Middleware abstraction and infrastructures for sensor based services.

Although, the above challenges form a set of potential themes for the workshop, this list is by no means exhaustive. Consequently, the workshop seeks papers on the areas, but not limited to, listed below:

. Sensor networks: applications, infrastructure, middleware support and emerging standards (OMG DDS, IEEE/NIST 1451.x, OSGi WireAdmin, JSR256 & 257 .);

. Calculi for sensor data, and middleware support for their processing and distribution;

. Sensor data mining;

. Component-based and service-oriented architectures, and design patterns for sensor based services;

. Theoretical foundations and middleware support for context based adaptation for mobile pervasive systems, and sensor-based services;

. New notations for specifying context-sensitive systems;

. Ad-hoc communities: applications, infrastructure and middleware support;

. Roles and responsibilities in ad-hoc communities;

. Group management and communication support for ad-hoc communities;

. Ad-hoc network communications, quality of service, management and middleware support;

. Service-connection middleware and architectures;

. Support for zero configuration;

. Middleware for self-assembly, self-configuration, self-distribution and autonomic computing in general;

. Data management infrastructures for ad hoc and pervasive systems;

. Trust, security, and privacy for pervasive systems and sensor based services;

. Reliability and availability in pervasive systems and sensor based services;

. Technology trade-offs (agent infrastructures, mobile code systems, event based middleware);

. Resource discovery and management;

. Implications of heterogeneity (addressing needs for protocol interaction across technologies).

Submission ----------

The workshop format will be focused around submission of position papers of no more than 8 pages. Please submit your papers in PS or PDF using the ACM proceeding format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) to the web site http://www-adele.imag.fr/mpac05/ocs.

Papers are solicited that 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 2 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 the ACM Digital Library as well as in a hard-copy companion proceedings issued to the workshop participants.

Appropriate publication of extended versions of workshop submissions and the

research roadmap along similar lines to the forthcoming special issue on middleware and systems software for pervasive computing of the Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous, is being investigated.

Important Dates ---------------

Workshop papers submission: August 26th, 2005

Workshop paper notification of acceptance: September 23rd, 2005

Workshop papers camera-ready: October 14th, 2005

Workshop dates: November 28th - 29th, 2005

Programme Committee -------------------

Roland Balter, Scalagent, FR Christian Becker, University of Stuttgart, DE Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, IE Dan Chalmers, University of Sussex, UK Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, IT Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, IE Didier Donsez, University Grenoble 1, FR [co-chair] Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, BR Daniel Hagimont, INRIA, FR Valerie Issarny, INRIA, FR Marc-Olivier Killijian, LAAS-CNRS, FR Philippe Lalanda, University Grenoble 1, FR Spyros Lalis, University of Thessaly, GR Paul Marrow, BT Pervasive ICT Centre, UK Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola Labs, US Paddy Nixon, University College Dublin, IE Vincent Olive, France Telecom RD, FR Pierre Paradinas, CNAM, FR Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK [co-chair] Ian Wakeman, University of Sussex, UK Virginie Watine, THALES, FR

-- PD Dr. Christian Becker - IPVS - Universitaet Stuttgart http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/vs/de/people/beckercn/