[ecoop-info] CFP: Second International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing (M-MPAC 2010)

[Sotirios Terzis]

			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

-- 

  Dr Sotirios Terzis, PhD, MSc, BSc(Hons), MBCS, CITP, FHEA

  Director MSc in Forensic Informatics

  Lecturer

  Department of Computer and Information Sciences
  University of Strathclyde

      mail: Computer and Information Sciences Dept.
	   Livingstone Tower
            26 Richmond Street
	   Glasgow, G1 1XH
	   Scotland.
     email: Sotirios.Terzis at cis.strath.ac.uk
     phone: +44.141.5483839
       fax: +44.141.5484523
  web page: http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/~terzis


The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in 
Scotland, with registration number SC015263.