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Call For Papers
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M-MPAC 2009
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International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded
Computing
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href="http://www.smartlab.cis.strath.ac.uk/M-MPAC">http://www.smartlab.cis.strath.ac.uk/M-MPAC</a>
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A Workshop of Middleware 2009
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Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA
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November 30 - December 4, 2009
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Problem Space
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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.
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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.
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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. <br>
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. <br>
Topics
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The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
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* Device platforms
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Virtualization technologies and applications
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Distributed ensembles
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Interaction paradigms and protocols
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Emerging mobile platforms (e.g., Android) Virtual machines (J2ME,
.NET, etc.)
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* Networking
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Emerging wireless technologies and platforms
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Experiences or case studies with new technologies (WiMax, WiBree, LTE,
etc) and devices (MIP, UMPC, wearables, etc)
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Multi-link scenarios: WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular network
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Quality of service and network selection
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* Data issues
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Data formats and encoding
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Availability and durability of data in personal networks
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Synchronization of personal devices with other consumer electronics
such as cameras, iPods, etc.
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Data portability
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* Adaptability
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Context-awareness, location monitoring
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Resource management, cyber foraging, and energy-awareness
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Using cloud infrastructures for computing-intensive tasks and data
storage
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Autonomics and self-* properties
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* Security and Privacy
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Privacy preservation and identity management for device-to-device
interactions
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Security architectures balancing risk and utility
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Trust management in device ensembles
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Mobile device data security
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* Mobile Web
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Web architectures (REST, Ajax) in pervasive computing
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Context adaptation and management in pervasive computing
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Mobile web scalability and reliability in access
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Content adaptation on mobile devices
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* Applications
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Healthcare, entertainment, games, mobile TV, smart spaces, etc.
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Mobile phones in sensor and ad hoc networks
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Application development on mobile and embedded devices
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Programming models
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* Experiences and case studies
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Lessons from deployments
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User experiences Performance studies
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Submission
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Submissions should not exceed 6 pages and should be formatted using the
ACM proceeding style (see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html">http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html</a>).
Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and
present the paper. Please submit your paper in PDF at <a
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href="http:/www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/m-mpac2009/openconf/">http:/www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/m-mpac2009/openconf/</a>
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Important Dates
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* Paper submission deadline: August 1 2009
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* Notification of acceptance: September 15 2009
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* Final camera ready papers due: October 1 2009
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* Workshop date: November 30 2009 <br>
Program Committee
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Paolo Bellavista, Università di Bologna, Italy
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Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK
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Cristian Borcea, NJIT, US Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio, Brazil
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Dan Chalmers, University of Sussex, UK
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Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy
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Didier Donsez, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I, France (Publicity
Chair)
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Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brazil
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Roy Friedman, Technion, Israel
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Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
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Fabio Kon, University of São Paulo, Brazil
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Rene Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan
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Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola Labs, US
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Oriana Riva, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Workshop Co-Chair)
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Luís Rodrigues, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
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Romain Rouvoy, Université Lille 1, Fance
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Patrick Stuedi, Microsoft Research, US Sotirios Terzis, University of
Strathclyde, UK (Workshop Co-Chair)
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Venu Vasudevan, Motorola Labs, US
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Luis Veiga, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (Proceedings
Chair)
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Lin Zhong, Rice University, US
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