Call for Participation: 8th IEEE Mobile Data Management Conference (MDM 2007)

   8th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'07)

		 Mannheim, Germany, May 7 - 11, 2007

		    http://mdm2007.uni-mannheim.de

		  Sponsored by the IEEE CS and Infos
		In Cooperation with the VLDB Endowment


SCOPE:

The rapid advances in computing and wireless communication
technologies along with their integration into commodity devices such
as personal digital assistants, mobile phones, and portable computers
provide a technical infrastructure that enables a wealth of mobile
services and applications. These include scenarios where seamless
access to a computing infrastructure is provided, scenarios where
interaction and data sharing among mobile users occur in mobile ad-hoc
networks, and hybrid scenarios that combine these two.

The continued miniaturization of computing devices along with
improvements in the performance/price ratio enable new services and
applications, e.g., in environmental monitoring and transportation.
Although substantial research has been conducted, this area remains
ripe with open research challenges, e.g., in relation to context-aware
computing, including location-based services; ubiquitous computing;
mobile applications in hybrid networks; and data management in sensor
networks.

This year's conference has an exciting program:

* Keynotes by:

  - Karl Aberer, professor for distributed information systems at the
    EPFL and Director of the Swiss National Centre for Mobile
    Information and Communication Systems

  - Ralf Hartmut Güting, professor for database systems at the
    University of Hagen, Germany

* Presentations of 26 technical papers

* Presentations of 7 demos

* 3 advanced technology seminars:

  - Research Issues in Location-Aware Wireless Sensor Networks

  - Privacy in Location-Based Services: State-of-the-Art and Research
    Directions

  - Location-Aware Query Processing and Optimization

* 5 one-day workshops on important topics in data management,
  mobility, sensor networks, etc. The workshops will be held the day
  before and after the main conference (see program below).

Registration is now open: http://mdm2007.uni-mannheim.de/
		
The cut-off date for early registration is April 1, 2007.  Please
register today to guarantee the best rates.

The entire team of organizers looks forward to seeing you at MDM in
Mannheim!

Pedro Jose Marron
MDM2007 General Chair


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** -------- Technical Program -------- **
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Monday, 07.05.07:

  Workshops

    * Workshop 1: Second International Workshop on Managing
      Context Information and Semantics in Mobile Environments
      (MCISME)

    * Workshop 2: Tools and Applications for Mobile Contents (TAMC 07)


Tuesday, 08.05.07:

  Opening and Keynote 1, 9:00-10:30

  Session 1: Mobile P2P and Sensor Networks, 11:00-12:40

    * 11:00 Phenomenon-aware Stream Query Processing
      M. H. Ali, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Aref, Purdue University

    * 11:30 Mobile Peer-to-peer Data Dissemination with Resource Constraints
      Ouri Wolfson, Bo Xu, University of Illinois

    * 12:00 Optimizing Energy-Efficient Query Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks
      Ross Rosemark, Wang-Chien Lee, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University

    * 12:20 Collaboratively Querying Sensor Networks through Handheld Devices
      TszWai Chiu, Qiong Luo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  Session 2: Query Processing for moving objects, 14:30-16:00

    * 14:30 BORA: Routing and aggregation for distributed processing of spatio-temporal range queries
      Goce Trajcevski, Hui Ding, Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois

    * 15:00 PLACE*: A Distributed Spatio-temporal Data Stream Management System for Moving Objects
      Xiaopeng Xiong, Hicham G. Elmongui, Xiaoyong Chai, Walid G. Aref, Purdue University

    * 15:30 Semantics of Spatially-aware Windows over Streaming Moving Objects
      Kostas Patroumpas, Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens

  Session 3: Privacy and Security, 16:30-18:00

    * 16:30 Privacy-Preserving Data Mining on Moving Object Trajectories
      Gyozo Gidofalvi, Geomatic ApS, Xuegang Huang, Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University

    * 17:00 Anonymity in Location-based Services: towards a General Framework
      Claudio Bettini, Sergio Mascetti, University of Milan, X. Sean Wang, University of Vermont

    * 17:30 Enforcing Data Integrity in Very Large Ad Hoc Networks
      Daniela Gavidia, Maarten van Steen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Seminar 1, 14:30-16:00 & 16:30-18:00
    Research Issues in Location-Aware Wireless Sensor Networks
    Yingqi Xu and Wang-Chien Lee 


Wednesday, 09.05.07:

  Keynote 2, 9:00-10:30

  Session 4: Broadcast Environments, 11:00-12:30

    * 11:00 An Adaptive Control Method in the Hybrid Wireless Broadcast Environment
      Jing CAI, Tsutomu Terada, Takahiro Hara, Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University

    * 11:30 Variant Bandwidth Channel Allocation in the Data Broadcasting Environment
      Chung-Hua Chu, Hao-Ping Hung, Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University

    * 12:00 Multi-Resolution Data Management for Opportunistic Networking
      Iacopo Carreras, David Tacconi, Daniele Miorandi, Imrich Chlamtac, CREATE-NET

  Session 5: Replication, 14:30-16:00

    * 14:30 Exploiting Our Computational Surroundings for Better Mobile Collaboration
      Joao Barreto, Paulo Ferreira, Technical University of Lisbon

    * 15:00 Data Replication Considering Power Consumption in Ad Hoc Networks
      Masako Shinohara, Takahiro Hara, Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University

    * 15:30 Group Anti-Entropy - Achieving Eventual Consistency in Mobile Service Environments
      Klaus Herrmann, University of Stuttgart

  Demonstration Session, 16:30-18:00

  Invited Seminar, 11:00-12:30
    Location-Aware Query Processing and Optimization
    Mohamed Mokbel and Walid Aref

  Seminar 2, 14:30-16:00 & 16:30-18:00
    Privacy in Location-Based Services: State-of-the-Art and Research Directions
    Mohamed Mokbel 


Thursday, 10.05.07:

  Session 6: Query Processing and Data Management, 9:00-10:20

    * 9:00 ConQuer: A Peer Group-based Incentive Model for Constraint Querying in Mobile-P2P Networks
      Anirban Mondal, University of Tokyo, Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla,
      Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo

    * 9:20 Integrated Data Modeling for Querying Physical Objects in RFID-enabled Pervasive Computing
      Shaorong Liu, IBM Silicon Valley Lab, Fusheng Wang, Peiya Liu, Siemens Corporate Research

    * 9:40 Advanced Evasive Data Storage in Sensor Networks
      Zinaida Benenson, University of Mannheim, Peter M. Cholewinski, SAP,
      Felix C. Freiling, University of Mannheim

    * 10:00 Distributed Histograms for Processing Aggregate Data from Moving Objects
      Hairuo Xie, Egemen Tanin, Lars Kulik, University of Melbourne

  Panel: Location-based services: hype, fiction or future?, 11:00-12:30

  Session 7: Data Management for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, 14:00-16:00

    * 14:00 A Failure Tolerating Atomic Commit Protocol for Mobile Environments
      Stefan Böttcher, University of Paderborn, Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma,
      Sebastian Obermeier, University of Paderborn

    * 14:30 Quantifying Network Partitioning in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
      Jörg Hähner, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Dominique Dudkowski,
      Pedro Jose Marron, Kurt Rothermel, Universität Stuttgart

  Session 8: Query Processing in Sensor Networks, 14:00-16:00

    * 14:00 MINT Views: Materialized In-Network Top-k Views in Sensor Networks
      Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Panayiotis Andreou, University of Cyprus,
      Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, George Samaras, University of Cyprus

    * 14:30 On Join Location in Sensor Networks
      Alexandru Coman, Mario A. Nascimento, Joerg Sander, University of Alberta

    * 15:00 Infrastructure for Data Processing in Large-Scale Interconnected Sensor Networks
      Karl Aberer, EPFL, Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ali Salehi, EPFL

  Closing Remarks, 16:00

Friday, 11.05.07: 

  Workshops

    * The International Workshop on Privacy-Aware Location-based
      Mobile Services (PALMS)

    * Mobile Services-oriented Architectures and Ontologies (MoSO
      2007)

    * International Workshop on Data Intensive Sensor Networks
      2007 (DISN 07)


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** ------   Demos   ------ **
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Audio and Image Data Browser for Mobile Devices
      Tommi Lahti, Nokia Research Center, Finland,
      Paavo Pietarila, VTT Electronics, Finland
      Liu Yingfei, Timo Pylvänäinen, Nokia Research Center, Finland,
      Olli Vuorinen, VTT Electronics, Finland

A Sensed-Point-Oriented Geographic Routing for Camera Networks
      Hiroki Ishizuka, Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

iPDA: Enabling Privacy-Preserving Location-Based Services
      Jing DU, Jianliang XU, Hong Kong Baptist Univ., China
      Xueyan TANG, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore
      Haibo HU, Hong Kong Baptist Univ., China

Moppy: Mobile Object Position Prediction Application
      Lukasz Rosikiewicz, Logos sp.z o.o., Poznan, Poland
      Mikolaj Morzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

CADD: The Context-ADDICT Designer tool for context modeling and data tailoring
      C. Bolchini, C. A. Curino, G. Orsi, E. Quintarelli, F. A. Schreiber, L. Tanca
      Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Distribution of Fingerprints for 802.11-based Positioning Systems
      Thomas King, Thomas Butter, Matthias Brantner, Stephan Kopf, Thomas Haenselmann,
      Alexander Biskop, Andreas Färber, Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany

A Testbed for the Exploration of Novel Concepts in Mobile Service Delivery
      Rico Wind, Christian S. Jensen, Kristian Torp, Aalborg University, Denmark

Received on Thursday, 22 March 2007 02:13:38 UTC