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IEEE MobileCloud 2015 - Call for Papers<br>
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The 3rd IEEE International Conference on<br>
Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering<br>
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href="http://mobile-cloud.net/">http://mobile-cloud.net/</a><br>
San Francisco, CA, USA, March 30 - April 3, 2015<br>
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Annual Theme: MOBILE SENSORS MEET BIG DATA<br>
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* SCOPE<br>
In the recent years, cloud computing has cultivated the
outsourcing of computing resources like IT infrastructures,
service platforms, and software. With the emergence of ultra-fast
4G mobile networks and highly-featured smartphones, tablets, and
wearable computing devices(e.g., with always growing sensing
capabilities), the prerequisites are now met for bringing cloud
computing to the mobile domain. While first commercial products
are restricted to the sharing of files, contacts, and calendars
among different devices, more sophisticated applications still
have to be developed. Future applications of mobile cloud
computing will take advantage of the many sensors available on
mobile devices, enable new utilization of their generated big
data, and have an impact on almost all activities of our social
and business life, and include, but are not limited to, mobile
marketing, social networks, smart cities, health care, and
business processes.<br>
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This symposium will provide a great platform to allow researchers
and professionals in the industry to exchange their latest
research results and development activities on mobile cloud
computing and services. The primary objective is to share research
ideas and results, emerging industry technologies, and latest
advances. The symposium solicits original technical papers, not
previously published and not currently under review for
publication elsewhere. Topics of interest, in particular targeted
to the annual theme, include, but are not limited to:<br>
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* TRACK 1: Mobile Cloud Computing Models, Architectures, and
Platforms<br>
- Mobile cloud computing models, infrastructures, and approaches<br>
- Resource management, provisioning, and migration<br>
- Mobility modeling, management and measurement techniques<br>
- Mobility-aware cloud data/streams and associated
retrieval/processing techniques<br>
- Mobile cloud security architectures, security policy
enforcement, service models (e.g., BYOD, secure offloading, access
control, trust platform, and e-commerce models, etc.)<br>
- Secrecy, privacy, authentication, and integrity issues in mobile
clouds<br>
- Mobile multimedia content delivery, transferring, and migration<br>
- Green computing in networking and mobile computing and clouds<br>
- User-oriented mobile clouds (mobile
community/private/public/ad-hoc clouds)<br>
- Mobile big data computing models<br>
- Mobile crowd collaborating models and associated platforms <br>
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* TRACK 2: Mobile Cloud Infrastructure and Service Models<br>
- Mobile Software-as-a-Service (MSaaS), <br>
- Mobile Data-as-a-Service (MDaaS), <br>
- Mobile Platform-as-a-Service (MPaaS) <br>
- Mobile Infrastructure-as-a-Service (MIaaS) <br>
- Mobile Network-as-a-Service (MNaaS) <br>
- Mobile-based Testing-as-a-Service (MTaaS) <br>
- Mobile multimedia and mobile social community services <br>
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* TRACK 3: Engineering Mobile Cloud-based Systems <br>
- Modeling, analysis, design methods, and tools <br>
- Innovative infrastructures, architectures, and middlewares <br>
- Bridging the gap between mobile and cloud optimized usage, e.g.,
via edge gateway-based architectures for integrating cloud and
mobile localities<br>
- Resource collaboration and management for mobile clouds <br>
- Monitoring solutions and evaluation techniques <br>
- Mobile testing tools and techniques <br>
- Resource-effective quality of service on mobile clouds and
applications <br>
- Mobile-to-cloud protocol optimizations and mobile cloud-specific
resource scheduling<br>
- Knowledge engineering and data mining techniques <br>
- Virtualization of mobile device resources, e.g., storage and
wireless networking<br>
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* TRACK 4: Enabling Technologies<br>
- Embedded mobile platforms and technologies for mobile clouds <br>
- Energy-saving wireless communication technologies <br>
- Novel mobile middleware <br>
- Innovative mobile platforms and client technologies <br>
- Urban (crowd) sensing and smart sensor platforms<br>
- Emergent barcode/RFID/NFC-based mobile technologies <br>
- Mobile cloud data centers and storage/persistency technologies<br>
- Mobile cloud networking, communication, and tunneling
technologies <br>
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* TRACK 5: Disruptively Innovative Applications<br>
- Next generation mobile applications enabled by the cloud <br>
- Cloud-based mobile media systems and social networks <br>
- Smart mobile SaaS on clouds <br>
- Mobile virtual and physical interactions and mobile enabled
virtual reality <br>
- Mobile context-aware services and computing for clouds <br>
- Cloud-based mobile commerce applications and systems <br>
- Location-aware mobile applications on clouds <br>
- Cloud-based mobile app stores and environments<br>
- Human-centered applications based on wearable computing devices
relating to clouds<br>
- Intuitive user interfaces for cloud-based mobile applications<br>
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* TRACK 6: Surveys and Experience Reports<br>
- State-of-the-art survey reports <br>
- Comparison and analysis reports <br>
- Research reviews on emergent topics in mobile clouds <br>
- Research case studies and experimental reports <br>
- Industry reports on experience and lessons learned <br>
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* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br>
General Chairs:<br>
- Sato Hiroyuki (University of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
- Dijiang Huang (Arizona State University, USA)<br>
- Axel Kuepper (TU Berlin/Telekom Innovation Laboratories,
Germany)<br>
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Program Chairs:<br>
- Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy)<br>
- Xiaoyan Hong (University of Alabama, USA) <br>
- Toru Kobayashi (Nagasaki University, Japan)<br>
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Workshop and Tutorial Chair:<br>
- Prasad Calyam (University of Missouri, USA)<br>
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Local Chair <br>
- Jerry Gao (San Jose State University, USA)<br>
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Publicity Chairs<br>
- Carlo Giannelli (University of Bologna, Italy)<br>
- Younghee Park (San Jose State University, USA)<br>
- Carlos Becker Westphal (UF Santa Catarina, Brazil)<br>
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Proceedings Chair<br>
Andrea Hahn (TU Berlin/Telekom Inn. Labs, Germany)<br>
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Web Chair<br>
- James Wu (San Jose State University, USA)<br>
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* IMPORTANT DATES<br>
- Abstract submission: October 15, 2014<br>
- Full paper submission: November 1, 2014<br>
- Workshop proposal submission: October 1, 2014<br>
- Tutorial proposal submission: December 1, 2014<br>
- Review notification: January 9, 2015<br>
- Camera-ready submission and conference registration: January 31,
2015<br>
- Conference: March 30 - April 3, 2015<br>
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* PAPER SUBMISSION<br>
The length of camera-ready papers will be limited to 10 pages. All
papers should be prepared using the IEEE format, please see<br>
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Each paper will be reviewed by at least three TPC members. Authors
must submit their manuscripts using the EasyChair conference
system, please follow this EasyChair link<br>
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* PAPER PUBLICATION<br>
All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society
Press (EI-Index) and included in IEEE Digital Library. For
publication, each accepted paper is required to be registered at
full rate by one of its authors and presented at IEEE MobileCloud
2015. Selected papers (extended versions) will be published in
journals, such as Journal of Internet Technology (SCIE indexed),
Journal of Communications, International Journal of Software
Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE-SCI indexed), and
International Journal of Handheld Computing Research.<br>
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* WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL PROPOSALS SUBMISSION<br>
MobileCloud 2015 will host multiple one-day or half-day workshops
in conjunction with the main conference; topics of interest
include any major research area associated with mobile cloud
middleware and applications, as well as relevant large-scale
experiences (from academic/research projects) in the field. The
proposed workshops should focus on creating discussions among
participants as well as community building. A workshop proposal
should contain at least the following information:<br>
* Name and possible acronym of the workshop<br>
* Motivation and rationale for the workshop<br>
* Draft call-for-papers, including introduction and topics of the
workshop<br>
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MobileCloud 2015 seeks half-day tutorial proposals, which should
provide clear and focused teaching material covering new and
emerging topics related to the main conference. A tutorial
proposal should describe concisely the content, importance, and
timeliness of the tutorial, as well as the targeted potential
audience.<br>
Workshop and tutorial proposals must be submitted via email to the
Workshop and Tutorial Chair Prasad Calyam (<a
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href="mailto:mobilecloud15wst.chair@gmail.com">mobilecloud15wst.chair@gmail.com</a>).<br>
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Carlo Giannelli, Ph.D.<br>
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University of Bologna<br>
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