Call for Papers

First International Workshop on Managing Context Information in Mobile and
Pervasive Environments (MCMP 2005)

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~mkhedr/MCMP05

In conjunction with The 6th International Conference on Mobile Data
Management (MDM'2005)

May 9, 2005 - Ayia Napa, Cyprus



Workshop Organizers

W. Mansoor, Zayad University, U.A.E
M. Khedr, University of Ottawa, Canada
D. Benslimane,  Lyon 1 University, France
Z. Maamar, Zayad University, U.A.E

 

Programme Committee

P. Bellavista, University of  Bologna, Italy
U. Bellur, IIT, India
P.-A. Champin, Lyon 1 University, France
G. Chen, Dartmouth University , USA
B. Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada
R. Garcia, UP, Spain
H. Harroud, University of Ottawa, Canada
G. Kouadri, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
S. Kouadri, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
T. Kanter, Ericsson, Sweden
T. Lemlouma, INRIA, France
J. Mäntyjärvi, VTT, Finland
N.C. Narendra, IBM Software Labs, India
K. Pousttchi, University of Augsburg , Germany
A. Schmidt, University of  München, Germany
D. Taniar, University of Monash , Australia
A. Vakali, University of Athena, Greece
	

Scope

The increasing popularity of mobile devices (e.g., laptops, mobile phones,
and PDAs), and advances in wireless networking technologies are enabling new
classes of applications targeting environments characterized by being
dynamic, mobile, reconfigurable, and personalized spontaneously. These
applications and their targeted environments raise challenges to application
developers, as they have to be aware of the variations in the execution
context such as location, time, users’ activities, and devices’
capabilities in order to tune and adapt applications’ intended
functionalities.

Developing and managing these types of applications that are context-aware
would be extremely complex and error-prone if not supported by management
facilities capable of acquiring, modelling, manipulating, reasoning, and
disseminating context information. This is because application developers
would have to deal with these issues in a proprietarily manner and
consequently would be distracted from the actual requirements of the
applications they are developing on one side and would hinder the
interoperability of these context-aware applications on the other side.
Unfortunately, current networking, computing, and management technologies do
not fully support such model of automated adaptability based on context. The
workshop will address these challenging issues focusing on exploring novel
methods to manage context information targeting pervasive and mobile
environments.

 
Relevant topics

 -  Novel algorithms for acquiring and disseminating context from physical
    and logical sensors.
 -  Middleware and agent systems support to managing context in pervasive
    environments.
 -  Innovative approaches for modelling, reasoning, storing, and manipulating
    context information.
 -  Management of context information in deterministic and non-deterministic
    pervasive environments.
 -  Facilities to provide persistence services based on context.
 -  Exploiting new types of context information such as network-, social- and
    system-related context and approaches for managing these new types of
    context.
 -  Managing multiple environments and processes of context exchange.
 -  Methods of leveraging Internet service providers from passive carriers to
    context-oriented service providers addressing large scale pervasive
    environments.
 -  Service discovery and invocation based on context.
 -  Activity-based computing and its relation to the context aware mobile
    computing.
 -  Context aware Mobile database transactions and query processing.
 -  Evaluation metrics of the effectiveness of management techniques for
    context information.

 

Papers and Evaluations

Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers in PDF format
to (mkhedr@site.uottawa.ca, wathiq.mansoor@zu.ac.ae). Papers length should
not exceed 8 pages in IEEE camera-ready style. All papers will be reviewed.
For more information, contact one of the workshop chairs at
mkhedr@site.uottawa.ca, wathiq.mansoor/zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae,
djamal.benslimane@liris.cnrs.fr.

 

Deadlines

                Submissions due: December 22, 2004
                Acceptance notification: January 22, 2005
                Camera-ready papers submission: February 22, 2005
                Workshop: May 9, 2005