International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies

UBICOMM 2007

November 4-9, 2007 - Papeete, French Polynesia (Tahiti)


Call for Papers

The rapid advances in ubiquitous technologies make fruition of more than 35 years of research in distributed computing systems, and more than two decades of mobile computing. The ubiquity vision is becoming a reality. Hardware and software components evolved to deliver functionality under failure-prone environments with limited resources. The advent of web services and the progress on wearable devices, ambient components, user-generated content, mobile communications, and new business models generated new applications and services. The conference makes a bridge between issues with software and hardware challenges through mobile communications.   

The goal of the International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies, UBICOMM 2007, is to bring together researchers from the academia and practitioners from the industry in order to address fundamentals of ubiquitous systems and the new applications related to them. The conference will provide a forum where researchers shall be able to present recent research results and new research problems and directions related to them. The conference seeks contributions presenting novel research in all aspects of ubiquitous techniques and technologies applied to advanced mobile applications.

Topics of interest (but not limited to):

Fundamentals

  • Semantics of ubiquity
  • Ubiquitous knowledge
  • Control of ubiquitous data
  • Profiling ubiquitous environments

Mobility

  • Ubiquitous computing
  • Ubiquitous networks
  • Mobile computing
  • Mobile services
  • Mobile commerce
  • Embedded systems

Web Services

  • Web 2.0
  • Semantic web
  • Web services
  • Ontology

Ubiquitous devices and networks

  • Networks and technology convergence
  • Mobile service and service convergence
  • RFID
  • Mobile devices
  • Wearable devices

Ubiquitous mobile services

  • Frameworks, architectures, and languages for ubiquitous services
  • SLA/QoS in ubiquitous services
  • Ontology based services
  • Protocols and interaction mechanisms for ubiquitous services
  • Mobile services and service convergence
  • Measurement, control, and management of ubiquitous services 
  • Design and development of ubiquitous services

Ubiquitous software

  • Ambient components
  • Software for spontaneous interoperation
  • Dependability guarantees
  • Security
  • Fault-tolerance

User and applications

  • Ubiquitous user-generated content (weblogs, wikis, etc.)
  • Evaluation of user models for ubiquitous environments
  • On-line analytical techniques
  • Ubiquitous e-Development (business, science, health, etc.)

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

The UBICOMM 2007 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes.

Important deadlines:

Full paper submission May 20, 2007
Authors notification June 16, 2007 June 25, 2007
Registration and camera ready July 1, 2007 July 10, 2007

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference’s CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to [email protected].

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to [email protected]

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.

For more information, [email protected]

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to [email protected].

 
 

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