CFP for The Fourth International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services (WMCS08)

  The Fourth International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services (WMCS 2008)  URL: http//www.engr.sjsu.edu/wmcs  in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC-2008) (http://grid.hust.edu/cn/gpc2008/index.htm)  Kunming, China, May 25-28.   
  Workshop Theme
   
  The wide deployment of wireless networks and mobile technologies and the significant increase in the 
  number of mobile device users have created a very strong demand for emerging mobile commerce 
  applications and services based on today’s wireless network technologies. This trend has provided many
  new business opportunities and challenges to e-commerce vendors, mobile service providers, mobile 
  content publishers and marketplaces, mobile technology providers and solution integrators. Living in a
  wireless world changes and enhances people’s life in many ways, such as communications, information 
  sharing and learning, e-commerce and mobile application services. At the same time, businesses and 
  government agencies are confronted with new pressure for technology update, that is, how to provide 
  customers and users with reliable and secure mobile commerce applications and efficient and user-friendly 
  mobile services.
   
  To meet this increasing demand on mobile commerce and mobile services, people are looking for 
  innovative ideas to create next generation mobile-commerce applications and service systems. Mobile 
  commerce and services has become a very hot research subject in both business and research communities. 
  The major theme of this workshop is to study and use new business models and structures to build the next 
  generation of mobile commerce service systems supporting mobile users anywhere at anytime.
   
  Goals
   
  The Fourth International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services (WMCS 2008) is a forum to bring 
  together business people, researchers, scientists, software architects, and industry professionals to discuss 
  innovative ideas and diverse topics on next generation of mobile-commerce and services. Using this forum, 
  researchers and practitioners can exchange issues, challenges, new business models and structures, and new 
  technologies and solutions. 
   
  Authors are invited to submit original and research papers addressing technical and engineering issues, 
  challenges, solutions, and technologies in building wireless-based software systems and applications. All 
  submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Accepted paper 
  will be included in the GPC 2008 workshop proceedings (EI-Indexing) published by IEEE Computer 
  Society Press. 
  The topics of interest for WMCS 2008 include, but are not limited to, the following: 
  ·         M-commerce business models, strategies, and market structure analysis
  ·         Mobile supply chain management
  ·         Context-aware and location-based technologies and solutions for M-commerce
  ·         Mobile advertising solutions, techniques, systems and platforms
  ·         Enabling technologies (such as RFID, Barcodes) for M-commerce and services
  ·         New mobile portals and marketplaces
  ·         Pricing and cost analysis of M-commerce services
  ·         Mobile database retrieval techniques, transaction models and services
  ·         Mobile agent, workflow models, and supporting technologies in M-commerce
  ·         Mobile connectivity for enterprise systems, services, and applications
  ·         Novel M-commerce applications and services
  ·         Ambient intelligent frameworks, platforms, systems and services
  ·         Ubiquitous computing platform and services for mobile users
  ·         Mobile brokerage and service discovery mechanisms
  ·         Mobile instant messaging systems and services
  ·         Mobile enabled architectures, middleware, components, and agent technologies
  ·         Platforms for client applications in mobile devices (J2ME, Symbian)
  ·         Mobile privacy, security problems and solutions in M-commerce and services
  ·         Mobile payment protocols, solutions, service systems and platforms
  ·         New wireless multimedia technologies and platforms for mobile commerce, e.g., DMB, DVB-H, mobile TV
  ·         Mobile entertainment services and platforms for digital music, videos, tickets, and games
  ·         Mobility discovery, management, and services
  ·         Mobile personalization, service management, and natural language support
  ·         Semantic web and services for M-commerce
  ·         Reliability support for M-commerce
  ·         Service platforms for supporting m-commerce (mobile web enterprise)
  ·         Mobile-based e-learning and education environments
  ·         Case studies in M-commerce and information services
  ·         Deployment, experience and lesson learned reports in M-commerce and services 
   
   
  Submission
  

Original papers that are not published previously or under review by other journals or conferences 

will be considered.  All submitted papers will be evaluated according to their originality, significance, 

correctness, presentation and relevance. Papers should be submitted electronically at http://grid.hust.edu/cn/gpc2008. 

Please follow the instructions given at the web page.  Manuscripts will be limited to 8 pages following 

IEEE conference proceedings style and guidelines. Papers that present novel ideas, criticize existing work, 

and discuss practical studies and experiments are especially encouraged.



Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (EI-Index) of the Third International 

Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC 2008), published by IEEE Computer Society Press. At 

least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the workshop to have 

the paper published in the proceedings.


  Important Dates
   
  January   10, 2008:         Paper submission due date
  February 15, 2008:         Decision Notification (electronic) 
  March 1,      2008:          Camera-ready copy due date & pre-registration due
  May 25-28, 2008:           GPC 2008 and WMCS 2008


  Workshop Organizers
   
  Workshop Co-Chairs:
  Jerry Gao                               San Jose State University, USA 
  Jingsha He                            Beijing University of Technology, China
   
  Workshop Program Co-Chairs:
  Keung Hae Lee                     Korea Aerospace University, Korea 
  Weider Yu                             San Jose State University, USA



Steering Committee (in alphabetical order):
  Jerry Gao                               San Jose State University, USA
  Axel Kupper                          Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
  Jingsha He                            Beijing University of Technology, China
  Keung Hae Lee                     Korea Aerospace University, Korea 
  Claudia Linnhoff-Popien     Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
  Simon Shim                           SAP Labs, USA
  Weider Yu                             San Jose State University, USA



Program Committee (in alphabetical order):

(This list is waiting to be confirmed and updated after we received the approval)


  Donggang Cao                     Peking University, China
  Narciso Cerpa                       University of Talca, Chile
  Ho-Jin Choi                           ICU, Korea 
  Seung Ho Cho                      Kangnam University, Korea
  Magdalini Eirinaki                San Jose State University, USA
  Volker Gruhn                         University Leipzig, Germany
  Zhangqin Huang                  Beijing University of Technology, China 
  Mei Hsing                             Fu Jen Catholic University, Republic of China
  Robert YoungChul Kim       Hongik University, Korea 
  Axel Kupper                          Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
  Guorui Li                                Beijing University of Technology, China
  Katina Michael                     University of Wollongong, Australia
  Claudia Linnhoff-Popien     Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
  George Roussos                   Bikbeck College, UK
  Qi Shen                                  Beijing University of Technology, China 
  Timothy K. Shih                   Tamkang University, Republic of China 
  Simon Shim                           SAP Labs, USA
  Xiao Su                                  San Jose State University, USA
  Qianxiang Wang                  Peking University, China
  Chuangbai Xiao                   Beijing University of Technology, China        
  Yong Ik Yoon                       Sookmyung Women's University, Korea
  Soe-Tsyr Yuan                     National ChengChi University, Republic of China
  Weishan Zhang                   Tongji University, China
   
  General Inquires 
  For further information on WMCS 2008, please contact jerrygao@email.sjsu.edu or jhe@bjut.edu.cn.
   

Received on Friday, 30 November 2007 19:25:42 UTC