MobiWIS 2013: Final Call for Papers (extended deadline) and Call for Demos

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

*** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (extended deadline) ***
*** CALL FOR DEMOS ***

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 
Paper submission deadline: April 29 (extended), 2013
Demo submissions: May 13, 2013
Author notification: May 27, 2013 
Final manuscript due: June 12, 2013 

Paper 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. 

Demo Submission Instructions
MobiWIS 2013 will offer the opportunity for demonstrations of systems
or applications that exhibit novel features regarding all thematic
areas of the conference. Proposals for demonstrations
describing the system/application, its novel features, and the demonstration
should be submitted through the conference submission system by the
demonstration deadline, track "Demonstrations":
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobiwis2013
Submissions of demonstration proposals are accepted in pdf format only.
Demonstration proposals should be up to 4 pages in length, and should
follow the LNCS paper formatting guidelines:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0.
Demonstration proposals should be up to 4 pages
in length, and should otherwise be in the format required for papers. 

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 the
Computing journal published by Springer.

Accepted demonstration papers will be included in the main conference proceedings to be published with Springer. At least one proposer of every accepted demonstration must register to the conference, attend the event, and present the demonstration live during a dedicated demonstration session. Suitable facilities (e.g., a table, chairs and power plugs) will be provided by the conference.

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