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IEEE Mobile Cloud 2015 - Call for Papers<br>
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The 3rd IEEE International Conference on<br>
Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 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 (full papers and
position papers, see below), 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
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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 (also
positions papers presenting relevant work-in-progress in the area
are welcomed, length limitation = 6 pages). <br>
All papers should be prepared using the IEEE format, please see<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html">http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a><br>
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>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeemobilecloud2015">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeemobilecloud2015</a><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 Mobile Cloud 2015. <br>
Selected papers (extended versions) will be published in journals,
such as a Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
(pending), the 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>
IEEE Mobile Cloud 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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IEEE Mobile Cloud 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 class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" 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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Center for Industrial Research on ICT (CIRI ICT)<br>
University of Bologna<br>
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40136 Bologna (BO) Italy<br>
Tel# +39-051-2093086<br>
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