MobiWIS 2013: First Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals

10th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems
(MobiWIS 2013)

26-28 August 2013, Coral Beach Conference Hotel and Resort
Paphos, Cyprus

http://mobiwis2013.cs.ucy.ac.cy

*** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ***

The International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems  
(MobiWIS) aims to advance the state of the art in scientific and  
practical research on mobile Web and information systems. It provides  
a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and  
the public sector in an effort to disseminate latest research results  
and to share knowledge and experiences regarding tools, techniques,  
technologies, models, and methodologies that lead to better  
information and service provisioning in the mobile Web.

The conference comprises a set of carefully selected tracks that focus  
on the particular challenges regarding mobile Web Information Systems  
in research areas such as, among others, Web Engineering, Service- 
Oriented Computing, Web Search, Data and Knowledge Management, Cloud  
Computing, Security and Human-Computer Interaction.

Conference Tracks
* Mobile Web and social applications
* Middleware/SOA for mobile Web information systems
* Mobile Web searching
* Context- and location-aware services
* Data management in the mobile Web
* Mobile cloud services
* Mobile Internet of Things
* Mobile Web security, trust and privacy
* Mobile networks, protocols and applications
* Mobile commerce and business services
* Mobile Web for social and economic development
* HCI in mobile applications
* Industry track - Mobile Web and Information Systems
* General - Mobile Web and Information Systems

Important Dates
Workshop proposals: December 10, 2012
Paper submission deadline: April 21, 2013
Author notification: May 27, 2013
Final manuscript due: June 12, 2013

Submission Instructions
Papers must be in English and must not exceed 15 pages. Papers must be  
formatted in Springer’s LNCS format; see formatting instructions and  
stylesheets:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0
Papers are submitted as PDF files via the EasyChair conference  
management system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobiwis2013
Submitted research papers may not overlap with papers that have  
already been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a  
journal or a conference with proceedings.

Publication
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings  
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)  
series. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for  
the conference and plan to present the paper. Authors of selected  
papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper  
for a special issue on Mobile Web Information Systems in a major  
international journal (negotiations are ongoing).

General Chair
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

General Vice-Chairs
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

Program Chairs
Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
Philippe Thiran, Sirris and University of Namur, Belgium

Program Vice-Chairs (Conference Tracks)

- Mobile Web and social applications
Leondro Wives, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil

- Middleware/SOA for mobile Web information systems
Zaki Malik, Wayne State University, USA

- Mobile Web searching
Daqiang Zhang, Institute Telecom, France

- Context- and location-aware services
Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

  - Data management in the mobile Web
Roberto De Virgilio, Università Roma Tre, Italy

- Mobile cloud services
Claudio Geyer, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil

- Mobile Internet of Things
Federico M. Facca, CREATE-NET, Italy

  - Mobile Web security, trust and privacy
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli Studi di Milano,  
Italy

  - Mobile networks, protocols and applications
Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

  - Mobile commerce and business services
Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada

  - HCI in mobile applications
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK

  - Industry track - Mobile Web and Information Systems
Pikkarainen Minna, VTT, Finland

- General - Mobile Web and Information Systems
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK