CFP : 1st International Workshop on Services and Infrastructure for the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet, in conjunction with the 25th Int Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ICDCS 05

CFP : 1st International Workshop on Services and Infrastructure for the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet, in conjunction with the 25th Int Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ICDCS 05
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Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on Services and Infrastructure for the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet SIUMI 2005 In conjunction with the 25th Int. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'05) Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 6th, 2005 ( Web site: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/siumi/ pdf version of the SIUMI'05 cfp: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/siumi/cfp.pdf ) Advances in mobile and wireless communication are enlarging and enhancing the services provided by the Internet infrastructure towards any time, any place and any device features. Ubiquitous services impose new requirements to the entire infrastructure, from the system to the middleware and the applications that should be able to adapt traditional services to different mobile user terminals and profiles, and embed new functions and tools to support the new services and new requirements of the future scenario. The new Internet service infrastructure can only succeed on the basis of a strict synergism between the heterogeneous variety of mobile wireless devices and the fixed network organization that should suite and follow the requirements and constraints imposed by the wireless and mobile counterpart. The specific limitations of mobile wireless devices, such as discontinuity in connections, disconnection, and energy and resource shortages, connected with the new location- and context-sensitivity property, are challenging issues that call for a re-examination on the design of the middleware of both the fixed and the mobile counterpart. Only a new methodology to produce a synergic design of an integrated and unified middleware can permit the deployment of all viable and available services that make possible to consider new properties for fruition, mainly connected with the new features of context-awareness. Many different provisioning scenarios are on the way, from the possibility of providing non-strict real-time data streaming adapted to very different wireless devices, by taking advantage of caching and multicast wherever possible, to a possibility of creating dynamic and impromptu communities based on common current locality and on presently available heterogeneous devices, by taking into account different resources and energy consumption limitations. This first workshop intends to put together different experiences by providing a forum for researchers and engineers in academia and industry to compare and exchange new ideas, research results, experiences, and products about different aspects related to Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * Distributed platforms * Content delivery architectures * Caching and replication * Peer-to-peer schemes * Context-based services and applications * Middleware and software supports * Mobile-enabled middleware mechanisms * Personalization and transcoding * Mobile code and mobile agent technology * Service deployment and adaptation * Resource discovery algorithms * Performance evaluation * Resource and network monitoring * Security issues * QoS-based protocols and servers * Resource and service management PAPER SUBMISSION SIUMI 2005 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 8 pages in IEEE proceedings style. Authors should submit a PostScript or PDF file through the submission Web site (http://lia.deis.unibo.it/siumi/). Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Emails and hard copies will be accepted only if motivated reasons prevent electronic submission. In that case, contact first one of the Technical Co-chairs: Antonio Corradi DEIS, Università di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy Phone: +39-051-2093083 E-mail: acorradi@deis.unibo.it Philip S. Yu IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, New York, USA E-mail: psyu@us.ibm.com ________________________________________________________________________________ Important Dates: Paper submission deadline December 17, 2004 - the deadline is firm Notification of acceptance January 30, 2005 Final camera-ready manuscripts due February 15, 2005

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Call for Papers:

1st International Workshop on Services and Infrastructure for the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet

SIUMI 2005

In conjunction with the 25th Int. Conference on  Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'05)
Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 6th, 2005

(       Web site: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/siumi/
        pdf version of the SIUMI'05 cfp: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/siumi/cfp.pdf         )

Advances in mobile and wireless communication are enlarging and enhancing the
services provided by the Internet infrastructure towards any time, any place
and any device features. Ubiquitous services impose new requirements to the
entire infrastructure, from the system to the middleware and the applications
that should be able to adapt traditional services to different mobile user
terminals and profiles, and embed new functions and tools to support the new
services and new requirements of the future scenario.

The new Internet service infrastructure can only succeed on the basis of a
strict synergism between the heterogeneous variety of mobile wireless devices
and the fixed network organization that should suite and follow the
requirements and constraints imposed by the wireless and mobile counterpart.
The specific limitations of mobile wireless devices, such as discontinuity in
connections, disconnection, and energy and resource shortages, connected with
the new location- and context-sensitivity property, are challenging issues
that call for a re-examination on the design of the middleware of both the
fixed and the mobile counterpart. Only a new methodology to produce a
synergic design of an integrated and unified middleware can permit the
deployment of all viable and available services that make possible to
consider new properties for fruition, mainly connected with the new features
of context-awareness. Many different provisioning scenarios are on the way,
from the possibility of providing non-strict real-time data streaming adapted
to very different wireless devices, by taking advantage of caching and
multicast wherever possible, to a possibility of creating dynamic and
impromptu communities based on common current locality and on presently
available heterogeneous devices, by taking into account different resources
and energy consumption limitations.

This first workshop intends to put together different experiences by
providing a forum for researchers and engineers in academia and industry to
compare and exchange new ideas, research results, experiences, and products
about different aspects related to Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet. Topics of
particular interest include, but are not limited to:
* Distributed platforms
* Content delivery architectures
* Caching and replication
* Peer-to-peer schemes
* Context-based services and applications
* Middleware and software supports
* Mobile-enabled middleware mechanisms
* Personalization and transcoding
* Mobile code and mobile agent technology
* Service deployment and adaptation
* Resource discovery algorithms
* Performance evaluation
* Resource and network monitoring
* Security issues
* QoS-based protocols and servers
* Resource and service management

PAPER SUBMISSION
SIUMI 2005 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers
must be written in English and should not exceed 8 pages in IEEE proceedings
style. Authors should submit a PostScript or PDF file through the submission
Web site (http://lia.deis.unibo.it/siumi/). Submission implies that at least
one of the authors will register and present the paper. Accepted papers will
be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Emails and hard copies will
be accepted only if motivated reasons prevent electronic submission. In that
case, contact first one of the Technical Co-chairs:

Antonio Corradi
DEIS, Università di Bologna
Viale Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy
Phone: +39-051-2093083
E-mail: acorradi@deis.unibo.it

Philip S. Yu
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, New York, USA
E-mail: psyu@us.ibm.com

________________________________________________________________________________

Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline                               December 17, 2004       - the deadline is firm
Notification of acceptance                              January 30, 2005
Final camera-ready manuscripts due              February 15, 2005