[ecoop-info] CFP M-MPAC 2009 International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing
Didier Donsez
didier.donsez at imag.fr
Tue Jun 2 21:51:50 CEST 2009
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Call For Papers
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M-MPAC 2009
International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded
Computing
http://www.smartlab.cis.strath.ac.uk/M-MPAC
A Workshop of Middleware 2009
Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA
November 30 - December 4, 2009
Problem Space
Building on the success of the previous editions of MPAC and MobMid,
this event combines the thematic areas of the two workshops and aims to
develop a research roadmap on essential middleware abstractions and
platforms for pervasive mobile and embedded systems.
In recent years, the rise of relatively powerful mobile communication
devices like mobile phones, mobile Internet devices, and netbooks, as
well as several types of embedded devices, like TV set-top boxes, iPods,
Kidle, etc, has enabled a wide spectrum of novel pervasive applications,
such as healthcare monitoring, sport tracking, 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 (J2ME,
.NET, etc.)
* 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
such as 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
* Mobile Web
Web architectures (REST, Ajax) in pervasive computing
Context adaptation and management in pervasive computing
Mobile web scalability and reliability in access
Content adaptation on mobile devices
* Applications
Healthcare, entertainment, games, mobile TV, smart spaces, 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 6 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-mpac2009/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 program 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 in the style of previous events is
under investigation.
Important Dates
* Paper submission deadline: August 1 2009
* Notification of acceptance: September 15 2009
* Final camera ready papers due: October 1 2009
* Workshop date: November 30 2009
Program Committee
Paolo Bellavista, Università di Bologna, Italy
Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK
Cristian Borcea, NJIT, US Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Dan Chalmers, University of Sussex, UK
Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy
Didier Donsez, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I, France (Publicity
Chair)
Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Roy Friedman, Technion, Israel
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
Fabio Kon, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Rene Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan
Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola Labs, US
Oriana Riva, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Workshop Co-Chair)
Luís Rodrigues, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Romain Rouvoy, Université Lille 1, Fance
Patrick Stuedi, Microsoft Research, US Sotirios Terzis, University of
Strathclyde, UK (Workshop Co-Chair)
Venu Vasudevan, Motorola Labs, US
Luis Veiga, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (Proceedings Chair)
Lin Zhong, Rice University, US
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Didier DONSEZ
Laboratoire LIG, Equipe ADELE
Universite Joseph Fourier
Bat. C, 220 rue de la Chimie, Domaine Universitaire
BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Tel : +33 4 76 63 55 49 Fax : +33 4 76 63 55 50
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