m-Business 2005 ** 1 month reminder until papers due

**please note papers are due on 21. February**

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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
eligible 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@it.uts.edu.au

      Dr Robert Steele, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
      EMAIL: rsteele@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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Agnieszka Zmijewska
EMAIL: aga@it.uts.edu.au
University of Technology Sydney
Faculty of Information Technology
Building 10
235 Jones Street
Broadway NSW 2007
Australia
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Received on Saturday, 22 January 2005 05:18:41 UTC