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                          CALL FOR PAPERS

                          MUBICA 2007
First International Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Context Aware Systems and Applications  (MUBICA 2007)
                            August 6, 2007, Philadelphia, PA, USA

In conjunction with the 4th Annual Int. Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services
                                   (Mobiquitous 2007)

                      http://www.mubica.org

            Co-sponsored by Create-Net,ICST and Georgia Southern University


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Scope of the Workshop

Geographical mobility has become an essential component of today’s workforce. 
This type of mobility is an effective way of utilizing the finite time duration 
between any two activities such as the travel time duration between source and 
destination. This facility requires that the workforce is continuously connected 
to the global information space from where the desired data can be accessed. 
This workshop is concerned with the investigation, implementation, and validation 
of continuous connectivity state, which we define in terms of time and space. 
Significant amount of research work has been done in this area and industries are 
continuously enhancing the power of continuous connectivity to serve ever demanding 
consumers. However, a lot more needs to be done before we can claim that we have 
accomplished the present version of continuous connectivity state. The present list 
of mobile gadgets is not only impressive but it also shows us the tempting future 
of this technology. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from industry 
and academia to share their achievements. Furthermore, it aims to identify how the 
workforce is adapting to what is being presented to them. Some of the important 
topics it plans to cover are location aware computing, location-dependent query 
processing, management of mobile transactional activities, data caching, wireless 
data dissemination, mobile web, mobile databases, ubiquitous computing, etc., and 
the papers (non-proprietary) in these and more related areas will be on the venue 
of the workshop.

PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished 
research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are 
solicited. Technical papers clearly identifying how the specific 
contributions fit to an overall working solution are particularly of 
interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following feature 
topics as applied to mobile and ubiquitous environments:

- Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, limited bandwidth, 
  limited power and/or intermittent connectivity 

- Applications and services for mobile users 

- Context-aware data access and query processing 

- Data caching, replication and view materialization 

- Data publication modes: push, broadcast, and multicast 

- Data server models and architectures 

- Location-based and context-aware services 

- M-commerce 

- Mobile agent models and languages 

- Mobile transaction models and management 

- Mobile web services 

- Mobility awareness and adaptability 

- Mobile services: in transportation, agriculture, industries, etc. 

- Wireless technologies for ubiquitous computing 

- Prototype design for mobile data management systems 



SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled 
electronically (see the workshop web page for details). Authors should 
prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not 
exceed 8 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including 
text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points.

PUBLICATION: The proceedings will be published by IEEE and accepted papers 
will be available in IEEE Xplore.


IMPORTANT DATES:


Abstract Submission Deadline: March 27, 2007 (extended)
Paper Submission Deadline: April 6, 2007 (extended)
Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2007
Camera-Ready Submissions: June 5, 2007



CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

  General Chair
  Sanjay K. Madria
  Department of Computer Science
  University of Missouri-Rolla
  Rolla, MO 65409, USA
  madrias@umr.edu

  Workshop Co-Chairs
  Debopam Acharya
  Department of Computer Sciences
  Georgia Southern University
  Statesboro, GA 30460, USA
  dacharya@georgiasouthern.edu

 Vijay Kumar 
 Computer Science
 University of Missouri-Kansas City
 kumarv@umkc.edu

 Workshop Publicity Chair
 Ardian Greca
 Department of Computer Sciences
 Georgia Southern University
 Statesboro, GA 30460, USA
 agreca@georgiasouthern.edu
 
 PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

 Sham Navathe, Georgia Tech, USA 
 Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA
 Bharat Bhargava, Purdue Univ, USA
 Vladimir Zadorozhny, Univ of Pittsburgh, USA 
 George Samaras, Univ of Cyprus, Cyprus  
 Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern Univ, USA 
 Phani Kuruganti, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA 
 Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State, USA  
 Yugyung Lee, UMKC, USA 
 Ardian Greca, Georgia Southern Univ, USA
 Lotzi Boloni, UCF, USA
 Baihua Zheng, SMU, Singapore
 Margaret Dunham, SMU, USA
 Raj Kannan, LSU, USA
 Masato Takahashi, NICT, Japan
 Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State, USA
 Sanjay Ranka, Univ of Florida, USA  
 Anirban Mondal, Univ of Tokyo, Japan
 Takahiro Hara, Osaka Univ, Japan 
 Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan Univ, USA
 Le Gruenwald, NSF, USA