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- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:18:32 -0800 (PST)
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The Fourth International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services (WMCS 2008) URL: http//www.engr.sjsu.edu/wmcs in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC-2008) (http://grid.hust.edu/cn/gpc2008/index.htm) Kunming, China, May 25-28. Workshop Theme The wide deployment of wireless networks and mobile technologies and the significant increase in the number of mobile device users have created a very strong demand for emerging mobile commerce applications and services based on today’s wireless network technologies. This trend has provided many new business opportunities and challenges to e-commerce vendors, mobile service providers, mobile content publishers and marketplaces, mobile technology providers and solution integrators. Living in a wireless world changes and enhances people’s life in many ways, such as communications, information sharing and learning, e-commerce and mobile application services. At the same time, businesses and government agencies are confronted with new pressure for technology update, that is, how to provide customers and users with reliable and secure mobile commerce applications and efficient and user-friendly mobile services. To meet this increasing demand on mobile commerce and mobile services, people are looking for innovative ideas to create next generation mobile-commerce applications and service systems. Mobile commerce and services has become a very hot research subject in both business and research communities. The major theme of this workshop is to study and use new business models and structures to build the next generation of mobile commerce service systems supporting mobile users anywhere at anytime. Goals The Fourth International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services (WMCS 2008) is a forum to bring together business people, researchers, scientists, software architects, and industry professionals to discuss innovative ideas and diverse topics on next generation of mobile-commerce and services. Using this forum, researchers and practitioners can exchange issues, challenges, new business models and structures, and new technologies and solutions. Authors are invited to submit original and research papers addressing technical and engineering issues, challenges, solutions, and technologies in building wireless-based software systems and applications. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Accepted paper will be included in the GPC 2008 workshop proceedings (EI-Indexing) published by IEEE Computer Society Press. The topics of interest for WMCS 2008 include, but are not limited to, the following: · M-commerce business models, strategies, and market structure analysis · Mobile supply chain management · Context-aware and location-based technologies and solutions for M-commerce · Mobile advertising solutions, techniques, systems and platforms · Enabling technologies (such as RFID, Barcodes) for M-commerce and services · New mobile portals and marketplaces · Pricing and cost analysis of M-commerce services · Mobile database retrieval techniques, transaction models and services · Mobile agent, workflow models, and supporting technologies in M-commerce · Mobile connectivity for enterprise systems, services, and applications · Novel M-commerce applications and services · Ambient intelligent frameworks, platforms, systems and services · Ubiquitous computing platform and services for mobile users · Mobile brokerage and service discovery mechanisms · Mobile instant messaging systems and services · Mobile enabled architectures, middleware, components, and agent technologies · Platforms for client applications in mobile devices (J2ME, Symbian) · Mobile privacy, security problems and solutions in M-commerce and services · Mobile payment protocols, solutions, service systems and platforms · New wireless multimedia technologies and platforms for mobile commerce, e.g., DMB, DVB-H, mobile TV · Mobile entertainment services and platforms for digital music, videos, tickets, and games · Mobility discovery, management, and services · Mobile personalization, service management, and natural language support · Semantic web and services for M-commerce · Reliability support for M-commerce · Service platforms for supporting m-commerce (mobile web enterprise) · Mobile-based e-learning and education environments · Case studies in M-commerce and information services · Deployment, experience and lesson learned reports in M-commerce and services Submission Original papers that are not published previously or under review by other journals or conferences will be considered. All submitted papers will be evaluated according to their originality, significance, correctness, presentation and relevance. Papers should be submitted electronically at http://grid.hust.edu/cn/gpc2008. Please follow the instructions given at the web page. Manuscripts will be limited to 8 pages following IEEE conference proceedings style and guidelines. Papers that present novel ideas, criticize existing work, and discuss practical studies and experiments are especially encouraged. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (EI-Index) of the Third International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC 2008), published by IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the workshop to have the paper published in the proceedings. Important Dates January 10, 2008: Paper submission due date February 15, 2008: Decision Notification (electronic) March 1, 2008: Camera-ready copy due date & pre-registration due May 25-28, 2008: GPC 2008 and WMCS 2008 Workshop Organizers Workshop Co-Chairs: Jerry Gao San Jose State University, USA Jingsha He Beijing University of Technology, China Workshop Program Co-Chairs: Keung Hae Lee Korea Aerospace University, Korea Weider Yu San Jose State University, USA Steering Committee (in alphabetical order): Jerry Gao San Jose State University, USA Axel Kupper Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Jingsha He Beijing University of Technology, China Keung Hae Lee Korea Aerospace University, Korea Claudia Linnhoff-Popien Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Simon Shim SAP Labs, USA Weider Yu San Jose State University, USA Program Committee (in alphabetical order): (This list is waiting to be confirmed and updated after we received the approval) Donggang Cao Peking University, China Narciso Cerpa University of Talca, Chile Ho-Jin Choi ICU, Korea Seung Ho Cho Kangnam University, Korea Magdalini Eirinaki San Jose State University, USA Volker Gruhn University Leipzig, Germany Zhangqin Huang Beijing University of Technology, China Mei Hsing Fu Jen Catholic University, Republic of China Robert YoungChul Kim Hongik University, Korea Axel Kupper Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Guorui Li Beijing University of Technology, China Katina Michael University of Wollongong, Australia Claudia Linnhoff-Popien Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany George Roussos Bikbeck College, UK Qi Shen Beijing University of Technology, China Timothy K. Shih Tamkang University, Republic of China Simon Shim SAP Labs, USA Xiao Su San Jose State University, USA Qianxiang Wang Peking University, China Chuangbai Xiao Beijing University of Technology, China Yong Ik Yoon Sookmyung Women's University, Korea Soe-Tsyr Yuan National ChengChi University, Republic of China Weishan Zhang Tongji University, China General Inquires For further information on WMCS 2008, please contact jerrygao@email.sjsu.edu or jhe@bjut.edu.cn.
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