MOBILITY AND COLLABORATIVE WORK IN EUROPEAN VEHICLE EMERGENCY NETWORKS
1st Workshop on
Wireless Vehicular Communications and Services for Breakdown Support
and Car Maintenance (W-CarsCare’05)
April 10, 2005, Nicosia, Cyprus
organized by the IST-FP6 project MYCAREVENT http://www.mycarevent.com
Call For Papers
Scope of the Workshop
The Workshop on “Wireless Vehicular Communications and Services for
Breakdown Support and Car Maintenance
(W-CarsCare’05)” is the first workshop organised by the IST-MYCAREVENT
project. MYCAREVENT will improve the
collaboration of mobile users and workers by developing location and
circumstance based mobile services in
the automotive aftersales sector.
The workshop focuses on mobile technologies, protocols, services and
applications for the vehicular domain.
In particular, car maintenance, diagnostic, and roadside assistance turn out
to be a challenging application
area. The integration of wireless personal area networks, local area
networks, sensor networks, and next
generation cellular networks as well as new innovations of the computer
science offer advanced services and
applications to support drivers in breakdown situations, emergencies, and
daily use. In addition, the roadside
assistance can be supported to increase the efficiency of their operating
processes as well as the consumer
satisfaction. This workshop is directed to researchers and engineers of
mobile communication systems, mobile
services, applications, and business analysts with the special focus on
vehicular communication. The workshop’s
intention is to contribute to a mutual understanding between the wireless
research community and experts in the
automotive domain.
Topics
Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research are
invited for submission. Specific
topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
o Relevance of 4G Communication to Vehicular Communication
o Ambient Mobile Communication at the Car Aftersale Market
o Middleware and Software Platforms for Vehicular Application and
Services
o Ubiquitous and Fluid Computing for Vehicular Applications
o Novel Business Models for Car Maintenance
o Mobile Communication for Roadside Assistance
o Security for Mobile Vehicular Communication and Applications
o Car-to-Infrastructure, Car-to-Car Communication
o Transaction and Documentation Systems/ Technologies for Mobile
Services
o Localization for Breakdown Support and Maintenance
o Remote/Interactive Car Diagnostics
o Enhanced Car Software Management
o Multimedia Car Applications and Infotainment
o Vehicular Self Maintenance and Telematics
o Remote Services for a Vehicular Environment
o Policy Framework for Vehicular Systems
o Establishment of Trust Relationships for Vehicles and Roadside
Assistants
o Mobility Issues for Vehicular Communication
o User-centred development of vehicular support systems
o Ontologies for the automotive aftersales sector
o Adaptive and Multimedia User Interfaces
o Billing and Payment Systems/Technologies for Mobile Services
Paper Submission Instructions
Papers for the workshop should be written in English with a maximum of 7 A4
pages, two columns and single space.
The title page of the submission should contain the author’s names,
affiliations and contact details. Please
indicate the corresponding author. Accepted papers will be published in the
workshop proceedings of the
W-CarsCare’05. All the workshop participants will have to pay a registration
fee of about 150,- Euro.
Authors should submit full papers and send them in PDF format via email to
W-CarsCare@comnets.rwth-aachen.de.
Important Dates
Full Paper Submission Due: January 25, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: February 04, 2005
Camera-Ready Due: February 19, 2005
Organisation
The workshop will be co-located with the 11th European Wireless Conference
EW’05
at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Technical Program Committee
• Dr. Volker Stich (FIR, Germany)
• Dr. Carl-Herbert Rokitansky (Aachen University, Germany)
• Dr. Götz-Philip Brasche (Europ. Microsoft Innov. Center, Germany)
• Dorin Georgescu (EURO IT&C B.V, Netherlands)
• Dr. Birgitte Lønvig (Care2Wear A/S, Denmark)
• Dr. Peter Søbey Nielsen (Care2Wear A/S, Denmark)
• Richard Burke (Omitec, UK)
• Alonso Alvarez (TID, Spain)
• Xavier Castells (RACC, Spain)
• Peter Skilton (RAC, UK)
• Chris Jones (RAC, UK)
• Prof. Dr. Karin Coninx (LUC-EDM, Belgium)
• Prof. Dr. Paul Schönsleben (ETHZ, Switzerland)
• Dr. Adrian Specker (ETHZ, Switzerland)
• Stephan Pflieger (BMW, Germany)
• Martin Bryan (CSW Group Ltd, UK)
For further questions please contact:
Erik Weiss, RWTH, Aachen University: erik.weiss@comnets.rwth-aachen.de
Guido Gehlen, RWTH, Aachen University: guge@comnets.rwth-aachen.de
More details can be found at the conference and workshop website:
http://www.european-wireless2005.de
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