- From: Roberto García González <roberto.garcia@upf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:56:12 +0100
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** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement ** ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** CfP for the First International Workshop on Managing Context Information in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (MCMP-05) May 09, 2005, Ayia Napa, CYPRUS http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~mkhedr/MCMP05 in conjunction with MDM 2005 http://www2.cs.ucy.ac.cy/mdm05/ Submissions deadline: December 22nd, 2004 MCMP'05 - Call for Papers ------------------------- General description The workshop addresses these challenging issues focusing on exploring novel methods to manage context information targeting pervasive and mobile environments. The main aim of the workshop is to provide application developers with facilities (middleware, infrastructures, agent systems, etc.) that facilitate the development and deployment of context-aware applications in pervasive environments. Technical issues The increasing popularity of mobile devices, such as laptops, mobile phones, and personal digital assistants, and advances in wireless networking technologies are enabling new classes of applications targeting environments characterized by being dynamic, mobile, reconfigurable, and personalized spontaneously. These applications and their targeted environments raised challenging problems to application developers, as they have to be aware of the variations in the execution context such as location, time, users’ activities, and devices’ capabilities in order to tune and adapt applications’ intended functionalities. Developing and managing these types of applications that are context-aware would be extremely hard, tedious, and error-prone if not supported by management facilities capable of acquiring, modeling, manipulating, reasoning, and disseminating context information. This is because application developers would have to deal with these issues in a proprietarily manner and consequently would be distracted from the actual requirements of the applications they are developing on one side and would hinder the interoperability of these context-aware applications on the other side. Unfortunately, current networking, computing, and management technologies do not fully support such model of automated adaptability based on context. For example, if a mobile user today wants to use the computing resources of a new environment, he has to manually or through an administrator figure out how to continue his activities using the local resources of that new environment and in such a way that resembles his usual actions in his home environment. This is unacceptable in pervasive computing environment since it will not scale smoothly with the increasing number of services, unpredicted user mobility, and frequent changes in the environment context. This workshop addresses these challenging issues focusing on exploring novel methods to manage context information targeting pervasive and mobile environments. The main aim of the workshop is to provide application developers with facilities (middleware, infrastructures, agent systems, etc) that facilitate the development and deployment of context-aware applications in pervasive environments. The workshop solicits papers addressing the following topics: - Novel algorithms for acquiring and disseminating context from physical and logical sensors. - Middleware, infrastructures and agent systems support for the management of context information in pervasive environments. - Innovative approaches for modeling, reasoning, storing, and manipulating context information. - Management of context information in deterministic and non-deterministic pervasive environments. - Facilities to provide persistence services based on context. - Exploiting new types of context information such as network-, social- and system-related context and approaches for managing these new types of context. - Managing multiple environments and processes of exchanging context among these environments. - Methods of leveraging Internet service providers from passive carriers to Context-oriented service providers addressing large scale pervasive environments. - Service discovery and invocation based on context. - Activity-based computing and its relation to the context aware mobile computing. - Context aware Mobile database transactions and query processing. - Metrics evaluating the effectiveness of generalized management techniques for context information. The workshop format will be focused around submission of research papers of no more than ten pages. Please submit your papers in PDF format by email to (mkhedr@site.uottawa.ca, wathiq.Mansoor@zu.ac.ae). Papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The review process will be based upon identifying the veracity of the state-of-the-art statement and the relevance and potential of the submitted papers to contribute to the elaboration of managing context information in pervasive and mobile environments. Important Dates Submissions: December 22nd, 2004 Notification: January 22nd, 2005 Camera-ready: February 22nd, 2005 Workshop: May 9th, 2005
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