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________________________________________________________________ International Workshop
on Ubiquitous
Computing (IWUC
2005)
May 24-25, 2005 - Miami, USA
In conjunction with the
Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2005
(http://www.iceis.org/)
________________________________________________________________
Workshop Background and Goals
The
development and availability of new computing and communication devices, and the
increased connectivity between these devices, thanks to wired and wireless
networks, are enabling new opportunities for people to perform their operations
anywhere and anytime. Furthermore, due to the high acceptance rate of such
devices by the user community, it is expected that these devices will become so
pervasive that most users will take them for granted. Generally known as
Ubiquitous Computing (UC), the vision of UC is to push computational services
out of conventional desktop interfaces into environments characterized by
transparent forms of interactivity.
Despite the growing interest in UC,
there is still some progress to be made before UC shifts from the research mode
to the commercial and intensive use modes. The support technologies, however,
are improving at an impressive pace. Most of the research and development
activities are currently aimed at improving the devices themselves and the
technologies these devices will use to communicate. At present, the main use of
mobile devices is still voice-oriented, but several indicators show that this is
changing. 3G networks (e.g., GPRS, UMTS) and recent development of communication
and presentation protocols (e.g., XML, WAP) are being combined to give users a
high-quality experience of data-centric services.
Besides the
central role that hardware infrastructure plays in the expansion and penetration
of UC, other issues still need to be tackled to better assist developers of UC
applications. Developers are put on the front line of satisfying the promise of
businesses and service providers for delivering Internet content to mobile
devices. Indeed, the fact that an application for mobile users has different
requirements, calls for new techniques to identify and specify these
requirements. With regard to users, it is expected that they will be frequently
engaged in complex operations such as searching the net for better business
opportunities. Therefore, their association with intelligent components, to act
as proxies, is deemed appropriate. UC environments of the near future will be
populated by a large number of computing devices, spread across the network, and
often invisible. These devices need to be coordinated for better interactions.
Devices, whether carried on by people or embedded into other systems (within the
home or at other sites), will constitute a global networking infrastructure --
and likely to provide a new level of openness and dynamics. These interactions
raise many new issues that draw upon existing research areas, as well as
introduce new research and development challenges, in technical areas (such as
device design, wireless communication, location sensing, etc), psychology
(privacy concerns, attention focus, multi-person interaction, etc), and design
(direct interaction, work patterns, etc).
Existing global efforts in Grid
Computing also shares some similarities with the aims of this workshop, although
Grid computing at present is restricted to high-end computational
resources. Making the Grid more open, and accessible to a wider range of
users will also require the need to address similar
challenges.
Topics of interest
In this
workshop, we aim to identify ecent and significant developments in the general
area of ubiquitous computing. Topics of interests include, but are not limited
to:
- Mobile computing vs. Pervasive computing vs. Ubiquitous computing.
-
Design methodologies and evaluation techniques.
- New interfaces and modes of
interactions between people and ubiquitous computing devices, applications
or environments.
- Grid Computing technologies for Wireless
networks
- Context awareness.
- Agent-based ubiquitous
applications.
- Services for ubiquitous applications.
- Middleware for
service discovery.
- Integration of wired and wireless networks.
-
Enabling technologies such as Bluetooth, 802.11, etc.
- Security and privacy
issues.
- Visionary future scenarios.
- Mobile services
-
Performance tuning of mobile applications
Format of the Workshop
The workshop will
consist of oral presentations. The proceedings of the workshop will be published
in the form of a book by ICEIS.
Submission of Papers
There will be two types of papers: long (approx. 5000 words) and
short (approx. 2000 words). Furthermore, a keynote speaker and a discussion
panel are planned. Postscript/RTF versions of the manuscript should be submitted
thru ICEIS
web-based paper submission procedure.
Important Dates
Full paper submission: January
25, 2005
Author notification: March 4, 2005
Camera-ready paper submission:
March 18, 2005
Co-Chairs:
Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui (primary
contact)
Dep. of Computer Science
University of Fribourg
Chemin Du
Musée 03 CH-1700
Phone: (41) 26 300 84 72
Fax: (41) 26 300 97
31
Zakaria Maamar
College of ISs
Zayed University
P.O. Box
19282, Dubai U.A.E
Phone: (971) 4 2082 461
Fax: (971) 4 2640
854
Workshop Program Committee:
A. Elgorashi, George
Washington University, USA
J. Shepherdson, British Telecommunications plc,
UK
M. Brian Blake, George Washington University, USA
B. König-Ries, TU
München, Germany
W. Binder, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
Switzerland
S. Kouadri Mostéfaoui, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
G. Kouadri Mostéfaoui, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
P.
Mihailescu, British Telecommunications plc, UK
A. Gómez Skarmeta,
Universidad de Murcia, Spain
S. Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology,
Austria
P. Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
K.
Drira, LAAS, Toulouse, France
J. Al-Muhtadi, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA
L. Esmahi, Athabasca University, Canada
L. Ruf,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
H. Ammar, West
Virginia University, USA
Q. Z. Sheng, the University of New South Wales,
Australia
N.C. Narendra, IBM Software Labs, India
C. van Aart, Acklin
agent based support, The Netherlands
A. Karageorgos, University of Thessaly,
Greece
E. Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada
M. Berger, Siemens
Corporate Technology, Germany
M. Ouzzani, Purdue University, USA
A.
Messer, Samsung, USA
R. A. Haraty, Lebanese American University,
Lebanon
M.
Khedr,
T.Nadour, ENST,
T. Ahmed, LABRI,
A.
Zeid, American
A. Lahlou, IUT
D.
F. Belghoul, Eurecom
Mobile Communication, France
O.
Fouial, ENST, France
S.
Kurkovsky,
Venue
The
workshop will be held at
Registration Information
To attend the workshop you need to register at http://www.iceis.org
Secretariat
ICEIS 2005 Secretariat - International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing (IWUC 2005)
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web site: http://www.iceis.org
Kind regards | Maa salama | Meilleures salutations
Soraya Kouadri
Mostéfaoui Tel: +41 26 300 84 74
PhD
Student
Fax: +41 26 300 97 31
Computer
Science Departement Office 2.61 Pérolles
University of
Fribourg Chemin Du Musée 03
Switzerland
CH-1700
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