RTAS WIP 2005, Re: CfP: Mobile Commerce 2005

Hello,

This attached CFP may be of interest to you and your students.
Please circulate/announce.

Also, the URL is:

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/group/rtas05/Wip.html

Thanks,
Albert M. K. Cheng



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NEW TEXTBOOK by Prof. Albert Cheng:

Real-Time Systems: Scheduling, Analysis, and Verification (John
Wiley & Sons) ISBN # 0471-184063, 2002.

http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471184063,00.html

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=4LH82QYA7B&isbn=0471184063&itm=1

For senior-level undergraduate/first-year graduate courses in real-time
systems, embedded systems (software and hardware) engineering, and formal
methods. Serves as a supplement to courses in operating systems and system
design, as well as a reference for practitioners and researchers.

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Prof. Albert M. K. Cheng
Director, Real-Time Systems Laboratory
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and
International Journal of Embedded Systems
Senior Member, IEEE

University of Houston--University Park
Department of Computer Science
501 PGH Hall
Houston, TX  77204-3010
U.S.A.

Phone: (713) 743-3353
Fax:   (713) 743-3335
Email: cheng@cs.uh.edu
http://www.cs.uh.edu/~acheng/acheng.html
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien wrote:

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>                             Call for Papers
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>                 The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on
>                      Mobile Commerce and Services
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>                    July 18-19, 2005, Munich, Germany
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>                         in conjunction with the
>  IEEE International Conference on Electronic Commerce (IEEE CEC 2005)
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>                         http://www.wmcs2005.org/
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>              Paper submission deadline: February 14, 2005
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> While wired E-Commerce has been accepted and used widely in recent years
> and become significantly important in our daily life, mobile
> commerce (M-commerce) is still an emerging discipline that is currently
> experiencing massive growth rates. The success of M-Commerce is
> basically dependent on the development and acceptance of new wireless
> technologies over 3G and 4G networks as well as intelligent service
> platforms on mobile devices. However, to fully exploit the high growth
> potentials of M-commerce there is a strong need to adopt existing
> E-commerce approaches for wireless networks and to develop new
> sophisticated mobile applications to meet the needs of mobile
> subscribers, for
> example in the areas of financial transactions, mobile marketing and
> gaming, as well as location and context-aware services. Compared with
> the
> traditional wired E-commerce, wireless networks and mobile devices
> impose additional constraints, challenges, and requirements on building
> M-commerce platforms and applications, for example content adaptation,
> security and privacy issues, and mobile payment mechanisms.
>
> The Second IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services
> (WMCS) brings together researchers, scientists, software
> architects, and industry professionals with the aim of discussing and
> exchanging innovative ideas and research work in M-commerce and
> services. The topics for submissions include but are not limited to the
> following fields:
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> - Novel M-commerce applications and services
> - Location and context-aware M-commerce services
> - Service platforms for supporting M-commerce (mobile web enterprise)
> - Brokerage and service discovery mechanisms
> - Middleware, mobile components, and agent technologies supporting
> M-commerce
> - Platforms for client applications in mobile devices (J2ME, Symbian)
> - Digital Rights Management
> - Wireless security problems & solutions, and mobile privacy
> - Mobile payment solutions, systems and platforms
> - New wireless multimedia technologies and platforms for M-commerce
> (e.g., DVB-H)
> - Inter-organizational service provisioning (business models and their
> realization)
> - Wireless advertising solutions, systems and platforms
> - Mobile entertainment applications, services and platforms for digital
> mu-sic, videos and games
> - Case-studies and experiences (experience reports)
>
> Submissions
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> Authors are invited to submit original and significant research
> contributions in the aforementioned areas. All submissions will be
> peer-reviewed by
> the members of the international program committee. It is planned to
> publish the proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer
> Science (
> http://www.springeronline.de). In addition, a selection of the best
> papers will be published in a special issue of "Electronic Commerce
> Research
> and Applications".
> Full papers must not exceed 16 pages and conform to the LNCS style. We
> accept papers in PDF and PS format. Authors should submit a full
> paper via EDAS, see http://www.wmcs2005.org/ and
> http://edas.info/home.cgi?c=4440 for details.
>
> Important Dates
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> Paper submission: February 14, 2005
> Paper notification: March 31, 2005
> Camera-ready papers: April 30, 2005
> Workshop Date: July 18-19, 2005
>
> Workshop Chairs
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> Claudia Linnhoff-Popien (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)
> Axel Küpper (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)
> Jerry Gao (San José State University, USA)
>
> Program Committee
> -----------------
> Uwe Baumgarten (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
> Michael Berger (Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany)
> Bernard Burg (Hewlett Packard Laboratories, USA)
> Monique Calisti (Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland)
> Heikki Helin (TeliaSonera, Finland)
> Thomas Hess (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)
> Winfried Lamersdorf (Hamburg University, Germany)
> Jonathan C.L. Liu (University of Florida, USA)
> Seng Loke (Monash University, Australia)
> Tom Pfeifer (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)
> Norman M. Sadeh (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
> Simon Shim (San Jose State University, USA)
> John Shepherdson (BT Group, UK)
> Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Swit-zerland)
> Thomas Strang (German Aerospace Center)
> Reima Suomi (Turku School of Economics and Business Administration,
> Finland)
> Upkar Varshney (Georgia State University, USA)
> Ron Vetter (University of North Carolina, USA)
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> Contact
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> Axel Küpper
> Mobile and Distributed Systems Group
> Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
> Oettingenstr. 67
> D-80538 Munich, Germany
> Tel.:+49-89-2180-9421
> Fax.:+49-89-2180-9147
> info@wmcs2005.org
> http://www.wmcs2005.org
>