See: http://sigmobile.org/mobisys/2004/

   MobiSys 2004: Second International Conference on Mobile Systems,
   Applications, and Services, June, 2004, Boston, USA 


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   MobiSys 2004 seeks to present innovative, significant research in the
   area of mobile systems. This will be a 2.5-day conference, featuring
   refereed paper presentations, tutorials, demos, videos, and poster
   sessions. This conference builds on the success of the first MobiSys
   conference held in San Francisco, which featured 23 high caliber
   research papers and many interesting posters and demonstrations. The
   conference particularly values the practical experience gained from
   designing, building and using mobile systems, applications, and
   services.

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   The conference addresses broad systems issues in mobile computing.
   Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
     * Design, implementation, and evaluation of mobile systems
     * Middleware and service architectures for mobile applications
     * Data management for mobile applications
     * Disconnected and weakly connected operation
     * Proxies and data adaptation
     * Mobile agents
     * Operating systems for small devices
     * Infrastructure support for mobility
     * Security, privacy, authorization, and billing
     * System-level energy management for mobile devices
     * Wearable and handheld devices in the context of system design
     * Personal mobility
     * Personal-area networks and systems
     * Resource discovery of mobile services
     * Systems for location awareness and determination
     * Application interfaces and services supporting the mobile user
     * Systems support for mobile robots
     * Experience with mobile systems

   The ideal MobiSys submission should present novel research that has
   resulted in the implementation or evaluation of running systems.
   Papers that describe the design of and experience with mobile system
   architectures are favored over those narrowly focused on low-level
   components such as the device hardware or the routing, link, or
   physical network layers. Please feel free to contact the Program
   Chairs at mobisys_pcchairs @ acm.org to determine appropriateness.

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   Awards will be given at the conference for the best paper.

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   Submissions should be full papers, 12-14 single-spaced 8.5" × 11"
   pages, including figures, tables, and references, two-column format,
   using 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading. Submissions
   will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity,
   relevance, and correctness. Accepted papers may be shepherded through
   an editorial review process by a member of the program committee.
   MobiSys, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers must
   not be submitted simultaneously to any other conference or
   publication, that submissions must not be previously published, and
   that accepted papers must not be subsequently published elsewhere.
   Papers accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms are not
   acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. All
   submissions will be held in the highest confidentiality prior to
   publication in the Proceedings, both as a matter of policy and in
   accord with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.

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   Authors are required to submit the abstract by October 31, and the
   full paper by November 7, 2003. All submissions to MobiSys 2004 must
   be electronic and in PDF. Detailed submission instructions are
   available here.

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   Do you have interesting work you would like to share, or a cool idea
   that is not ready to be published? Poster sessions are for you! Poster
   sessions, scheduled during the technical sessions, introduce new or
   ongoing work. Demos and videos of working systems and applications are
   also encouraged. The MobiSys audience will provide valuable discussion
   and feedback. We are particularly interested in presentations of
   student work. To submit a poster, demo, or video, please send a
   proposal, one page or less, to the poster session coordinator (umar
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