Call for Papers
                IEEE Personal Communications Magzine
                Special Issue on Pervasive Computing
                    Publication Date: April 2001
    http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~gupta/pervasiveComp-cfp.html


SCOPE:

The importance of pervasive or ubiquitous computing is rapidly
increasing with the current trend towards universal presence of mobile
computing, computer networks, and wireless communication in everyday
life. The word pervasive means having power to spread
throughout. Pervasive Computing essentially means to enable network
devices to be aware of their surroundings and peers, and to be capable
of providing services to and using services from peers effectively.

The purpose of this special issue is to bring together the researchers
and practitioners working on diverse aspects of this important
emerging area in order to identify current status, fundamental issues,
future problems and applications. We invite papers describing both
theoretical and experimental research as well as experience reports
and vision papers. Specific areas of interest include (but are not
limited to):

  - Computing and communication Paradigms
  - Infrastructures Issues
  - Data Management Issues
  - Security and Authentication Issues
  - E-commerce
  - Service Issues: Interface and Semantics
  - Discovery/Advertisement and Applications
  - Resource Discovery and Utilization
  - Power Conservation
  - User Interfaces
  - Agents, Brokers
  - Information Sharing, Access, Storage and Management
  - Dynamic Context (e.g., time, space, and events)
  - Enabling Technologies

Papers should report well-defined innovative ideas and practical
results in real-life applications; they should include evaluations
through analysis, simulation and experiments. Papers must be written
in the IEEE Personal Communications style. Please submit your
manuscript to either of the guest editors by September 30, 2000 :


Wang-Chien Lee
GTE Laboratories Inc.
40 Sylvan Road
Waltham, MA 02451
Voice: (781) 466-3321
Fax: (781) 466-4387
wlee@gte.com


Sandeep K. S. Gupta
Dept. of Computer Science
Colorado State University
Ft. Collins, CO 80523
Voice: (970) 491-7323
Fax: (970) 491-2466
gupta@cs.colostate.edu


Apratim Purakayastha
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
30 Saw Mill River Road
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Voice: (914) 784-7004
Fax: (914) 784-3812
apu@us.ibm.com


Pradip K. Srimani
Dept. of Computer Science
Colorado State University
Ft. Collins, CO 80523
Voice: (970) 491-7097
Fax: (970) 491-2466
srimani@CS.ColoState.Edu


Instructions for submitting papers: Papers should include a 200 word
abstract and five to ten index words. Authors must follow the IEEE
Personal Communications guidelines regarding the manuscript and its
format. For more details, please refer to "Information for Authors" in
each IEEE Personal Communications issue, or check
guidelines. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged.

Schedule:

Submission Deadline September 30, 2000
Acceptance Decision January 10, 2001
Final manuscript  February 15, 2001
Publication  April, 2001