CFP: 2005 International Conference on Mobile Business - One Week Reminder

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Accepted papers will be published by IEEE and selected papers will be
invited to resubmit for potential inclusion in Special Issues of
international journals.


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                          Call For Papers
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        The Fourth International Conference on Mobile Business
                    IEEE Sponsored Conference
                          m-Business 2005
                         Sydney, Australia

                        July 11 - 13, 2005

           Conference URL: http://www.mbusiness2005.org
  The proceedings of ICMB05 will be published by the IEEE Computer Society
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The annual, International m-Business Conference, attracts leading scholars and
industry leaders in the m-Business/ wireless space from across the world. The
m-Business 2005 Conference takes place in Sydney, Australia, July 11-13, 2005
with the theme of Mobile Transformation - Enterprise transformation through
mobile technologies and applications.

The main aim of the m-Business 2005 Conference is to further research, business
understanding, strategy and policy in the m-Business wireless sector. The
conference will focus on major trends and challenges in the mobile domain and
will help provide a roadmap for future scholarship and business success in this
important and wide-ranging arena by fusing the state of the art in diverse
research fields with best practices in industry.

We are pleased to announce this Call for Papers and invite experts from
industry, academia, and government and policy makers to actively participate in
m-Business 2005. We expect and encourage a wide diversity of subjects across
m-Business. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society
and appear in IEEE Xplore. Authors of high quality papers will be invited
to resubmit versions for consideration for publication in special issues
of selected international journals.

IMPORTANT DATES

  February 21, 2005	Paper submissions
  March 31, 2005	Paper acceptance notifications
  April 30, 2005		Final camera-readies
  July 11-13, 2005	Conference

AREAS OF INTEREST
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

   - Mobile Enterprise implications for Society, Business and Security
     - National security applications of mobile computing
     - Mobile marketing
     - Mobile applications for logistics, learning, health
     - Mobile applications via industry sector
     - Adoption studies
   - e-Commerce Technologies and Applications
     - Web-based systems
     - Internet technologies
     - Web mining
     - Web enterprise systems
     - Information Systems
     - Technology adoption
   - Mobile Applications for the Extended Enterprise
     - Mobile commerce models and architecture
     - Mobile information systems applications in organizations
     - New collaboration paradigms
     - e-services in mobile information systems
     - Data management in mobile systems
     - Mobile workforce management
  - Enabling Technologies
     - Wireless sensor networks
     - Wireless LANs, 3G & 4G technologies, ZigBee
     - Wireless ad hoc networks
     - Client devices including 3G & 4G handsets, smartcards
     - RFID
  - Mobile Service Technologies
     - Ontology-based mobile systems and agents
     - XML-based mobile services
     - Location-based services
     - Mobile agents
     - Model-driven architectures
     - Interface design and usability
     - Mobile portals
  - Mobile to Consumer Applications
     - Mobile banking , Mobile investing
     - Mobile shopping, Mobile ticketing, Mobile epayments
     - Mobile passports, Mobile record keeping
     - Mobile games
  - Enabling Applications
     - Corporate and personal email
     - Instant messaging
     - Mobile chat
     - Mobile multimedia and video

PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

Submissions should be completed papers in MS-Word format. Please see the
conference Web site (http://www.mbusiness2005.org) for detailed formatting
and submission instructions.

The Program Committee will review all submissions. Accepted papers will be
published in the Conference Proceedings. High quality papers may be elligible
for journal publication. Authors of accepted papers are required to register
for the conference and present their papers in the allotted sessions.

For further information please contact:

	Dr Elaine Lawrence, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
	EMAIL: elaine AT it.uts.edu.au

	Dr Robert Steele, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
	EMAIL: rsteele AT it.uts.edu.au


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

General Co-chairs
	Elaine Lawrence 	University of Technology, Sydney
	Robert Steele		University oF Technology, Sydney

Program Co-chairs
	Elizabeth Chang		Curtin University of Technology
	Wayne Brookes		University of Technology, Sydney

Technical Chair
	Andy Simmonds		University of Technology, Sydney

Activities Chair
	Karla Felix-Navarro	University of Technology, Sydney

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      v   Senior Lecturer
          Department of Computer Systems
          Faculty of Information Technology
          University of Technology, Sydney
          PO Box 123 Broadway
          NSW 2007 Australia
          Tel: 61 2 9514 7872, Fax: 61 2 9514 1807

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