UMICS 2003: Deadline extended

We received a few requests for deadline extension.  To be fair to all
authors, we have extended the submission deadline by one week to March 9. 

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                        UMICS 2003
Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems
        http://www.elet.polimi.it/conferences/umics2003/

        Klagenfurt/Velden, Austria, 16 - 17 June, 2003
               Held in conjunction with CAiSE'03
        http://www.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/caise03/01_home/

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Rational and Aims

Over the last years most business processes changed on various
dimensions (e.g. flexibility, interconnectivity, coordination style,
autonomy) due to market conditions, organizational models, and usage
scenarios of information systems. Frequently, information is relocated
within this geographically distributed system according to rules that
are only seldom defined as a well-codified business process. This
creates a need for software infrastructures that enable ubiquitous
mobile and collaboration systems (UMICS).

The anywhere/any time/any means paradigm is becoming the challenge in
conceiving, designing, and releasing next generation information
systems. New technologies, like Wi-fi (WLAN) networks and 3rd generation
mobile phones, are offering the infrastructure to conceive information
systems as ubiquitous information systems, that is, systems that are
accessible from anywhere, at any time, and with any device. Ubiquity is
not yet another buzzword pushed by emerging technologies, but is mainly
a means to support new business models and encourage new ways of work.
This new wave of UMICS will exploit the knowledge developed and deployed
for conventional information systems, but will also need new concepts,
models, methodologies, and supporting technologies to fully exploit the
potentials of the enabling infrastructure and be ready for the challenge.

UMICS 2003 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to
discuss the key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative
applications, and trends in this research area. The program committee
seeks position papers, high quality technical papers, and experience
reports for this workshop. A specific session of the workshop will be
dedicated to tool demonstrations of prototype tools of some of the
accepted papers.

Covered Topics

Areas of particular interest for the workshop include (but are not
limited to):

      * Software Engineering for UMICS
      * Adaptability and Personalization of UMICS
      * Security and integrity issues for UMICS
      * Architectures and Interoperability issues for UMICS
      * Peer-to-peer services and architectures for UMICS
      * Middleware for UMICS
      * HCI design for UMICS
      * Multimedia applications for UMICS
      * Mobile collaboration systems
      * Process- and context awareness for UMICS
      * Interaction patterns for UMICS
      * Coordination models and systems for UMICS
      * Transaction models for UMICS
      * Distributed resource management and Information distribution
      * Methodologies and techniques for web service composition
      * Standards and design principles for web service flows (e.g.
BPEL4WS, WSFL, XLANG, ebXML, etc.)

The 2-day Workshop will have 2 keynote speakers:

Fabio Casati, HP Labs, USA
Mehdi Jazayeri, Vienna University of Technology

Program Chairs:

Luciano Baresi
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione - Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 - I-20133 Milano -ITALY
Tel: +39-02 2399 3474
Fax:+39-02 2399 3411
E-mail: baresi-PABsLib4K1h2gtSFtTw2zA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sara Comai
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione - Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 - I-20133 Milano -ITALY
Tel: +39-02 2399 3474
Fax:+39-02 2399 3411
E-mail: comai-PABsLib4K1h2gtSFtTw2zA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Schahram Dustdar
Distributed Systems Group - Vienna University of Technology
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
A-1040 Vienna - Austria.
dustdar-cj8gakGGFqjzPE21tAIdciO7C/xPubJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Harald Gall
Distributed Systems Group - Vienna University of Technology
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
A-1040 Vienna - Austria
gall-cj8gakGGFqjzPE21tAIdciO7C/xPubJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Maristella Matera
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione - Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 - I-20133 MILANO, ITALY
Tel: +39-02 2399 3408
Fax:+39-02 2399 3411
E-mail: matera-PABsLib4K1h2gtSFtTw2zA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

E-mail of UMICS'03: UMICS2003-PABsLib4K1h2gtSFtTw2zA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Workshop Proceedings

Accepted papers will be published in a workshop proceedings printed by
an international publisher.

Selected papers will be considered for publication
as a special issue of ACM TOIT (Transactions on Internet Technology).

Program Commitee

Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology (EUT), The
Netherlands
Marios Angelides, Brunel University, UK
Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
Christoph Bussler, Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, USA
Fabio Casati, HP Labs, USA
Stavros Christodoulakis, MUSIC/TUC, Crete, Greece
Ernesto Damiani, Università di Crema, Italy
Marlon Dumas, Quinsland University of Technology, Australia
Jim Gemmell, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center, USA
Li Gong, Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, USA
Manfred Hauswirth, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research Labs, USA
Andrea Maurino, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Moira Norrie, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer Institut FIT, Germany
Gustavo Rossi, LIFIA-Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Florian Waas, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA

Submission Guidelines

Papers must be submitted electronically. Manuscripts of no more than
5,000 words (approximately 10 pages, Springer-Verlag LNCS style), in
either PDF or Postscript format, must be sent to the e-mail address of
the workshop (UMICS2003-PABsLib4K1h2gtSFtTw2zA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). Submissions 
should be printable
on a standard printer on common paper formats. Please use a Postscript
viewer such as Ghostview to check the portability of Postscript
documents. Acceptable compression formats are Zip and Tar.

In case of problems with the electronic submission or for any other
question, please feel free to contact the Workshop Chairs.

Important dates

Paper Submission: March 9th 2003
Author Notification: April 12th 2003
Camera-Ready Copy due: May 7th 2003


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