The Fourth International Workshop on

Wireless Information Systems (WIS 2005)

May 24 - 25, 2005
Miami, USA

In conjunction with the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise
Information Systems (ICEIS 2005)


Chairs
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Dr. Hans Weghorn
Information Technology & Applied Computer Science
BA-University of Cooperative Education
Stuttgart, Germany
weghorn@ba-stuttgart.de

Dr. Qusay H. Mahmoud
Dept. of Computing & Information Science
University of Guelph
Guelph, Canada
qmahmoud@cis.uoguelph.ca


Background and Goals
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Wireless computing is an emerging field that promises new approaches for
developing information systems that offer benefits related to flexibility
of distribution, costs, and mobility. This emerging field poses new
challenges to the research community such as faster time-to-market,
quality of wireless information, security concerns, and others.

Following the success of the first WIS 2002 in Spain, WIS 2003 in France,
and WIS 2004 in Porto, this workshop will serve as a forum for researchers
and practitioners to meet and share expertise in this emerging field.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Innovative wireless applications, protocols, and systems
- Applications for the mobile enterprise
- Middleware for wireless information systems
- Location-based wireless services
- Context-aware wireless services
- Agents for wireless information systems
- Databases for wireless information systems
- Data mining in wireless information systems
- Design techniques and tools for wireless information systems
- Mobile commerce
- QoS for wireless data services
- Wireless information architectures
- Wireless security and privacy
- Papers on related topics are also welcome


Format of the Workshop
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The workshop will be for two days with oral presentations, discussions,
and invited talks.


Submission of Papers
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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the areas
listed above. All papers must be written in English, and the length of the
paper should not exceed 5,000 words or 10 pages (including figures and
tables). Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted online through the
online submission system.


Workshop Proceedings
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All accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings book with an
ISBN#, which will be printed by ICEIS Press. The

proceedings will be available at the time of the workshop.


Important Dates
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Full paper submission: January 25, 2005
Author notification: March 4, 2005
Camera-ready paper submission: March 18, 2005


Workshop Program Committee
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Michael Berger, Siemens (Germany)
Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin (Ireland)
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Christophe Claramunt, French Naval Academy (France)
Alfredo Goni, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Frank Hartung, Ericsson Eurolab (Germany)
Silke Holtmanns, Nokia Research (Finland)
Jarle G. Hulaas, EPFL (Switzerland)
Patrick C. K. Hung, UOIT (Canada)
Ahmed Kamel, North Dakota State University (USA)
Birgitta Koenig-Ries, University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
Soraya Kouadri Mostefaoui, University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, LMU, Germany
Seng Loke, Monash University (Australia)
Sergio Lujan-Mora, University of Alicante (Spain)
Alan Messer, Samsung (USA)
Patrik Mihailescu, BTexact Technologies (UK)
Micheal Sheng, University of New South Wales (Australia)
Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyvaskyla (Finland)
Yolanda Villate, University of Zaragoza (Spain)
Andy Zott, Nokia Mobile Phones (Germany)


Venue
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The workshop will be held at Deauville Beach Resort in Miami, USA.


Registration Information
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At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop.
If the registration fees are not received by March

4, 2005, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. To register,
go to http://www.iceis.org