7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA 2006)
Call For Papers

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Date: March 30-31, 2006
Location: Orcas Island, Washington, USA
Submission Deadline: Oct 1, 2005
http://research.ihost.com/wmcsa2006
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The Seventh IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on
mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying
state-of-the-art technologies. WMCSA's small workshop format makes it ideal
for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches.

We solicit submissions of position papers that focus primarily on
applications and systems and that propose new directions of research,
advocate non-traditional approaches to old (or new) ideas, or generate
controversy and discussion. We are particularly interested in the following
topic areas, although papers describing other challenges unique to or
exacerbated by mobility are also welcome:

    * Operating system and distributed systems support for mobile computing
    * Coordination, aggregation, and spontaneous interaction of mobile devices
    * Novel applications and environments supporting mobility
    * HCI issues related to mobile computing
    * Security and privacy of mobile computing
    * Management, configuration, and deployment of systems supporting mobility

Submissions describing new lower-level technologies are welcome if they
focus on how the technology is being used or integrated into a system or
application.

WMCSA 2006 will be a highly interactive workshop. Submissions will be judged
based upon originality, technical merit, topical relevance, and likelihood
of leading to insightful discussion at the workshop. Please do not submit
abbreviated versions of papers to be submitted within the next year to a
conference or journal.

To encourage an atmosphere conducive to participation, attendance will be
limited. Authors of submitted papers and accepted demo proposals will be
given first priority, with others able to register on a space-available
basis. A small number of graduate students will be granted a waiver of the
registration fee. Waiver proposal submission instructions will be posted
when available on the web site.

Submissions should contain 6 or fewer U.S letter pages. The conference
proceedings will be published by the IEEE, and we hope to publish a digest
of the workshop in a relevant journal. As is customary, papers must not have
been published elsewhere and may not be simultaneously under submission at
another venue. To further stimulate discussion, we welcome researchers who
would like to demonstrate working prototypes of their systems. Instructions
for submitting demo proposals will be posted when available on the web site.

How to Submit
Propsective authors will submit papers electronically on or before the paper
deadline of 1 Oct 05. Further details regarding submissions will be posted
on this web site as they become available.