CFP: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2004)

                           Call for Papers
                               MDM 2004

           2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management
                          January 19-22, 2004
                           Berkeley, CA, USA
                     http://www.cs.duke.edu/mdm2004/

        Submission deadline               June 10, 2003
        Notification of acceptance        September 10, 2003
        Camera ready due                  October 24, 2003

We are rapidly heading towards a world in which the computing infrastructure 
will contain billions of devices, which will interact with other
computing/communications devices that are carried or worn by users as they go
through their daily routines. Such devices provide data access to mobile users
as they move within buildings, cities, or across the globe. This new 
infrastructure presents tremendous challenges for data management technology 
including: huge scale; variable and intermittent connectivity; location-centric 
and location-dependent applications; bandwidth, power, and device size 
limitations; and multimedia data delivery across hybrid networks and systems. 
Traditional data management technologies such as query processing, transaction 
management, workflow, business process management and metadata management must 
all be re-evaluated in this emerging environment. Furthermore, non-traditional 
issues such as semantics of mobile data, location-dependent querying, broadcast 
and multicast delivery and caching/pre-fetching techniques must all be 
addressed. 
The ability to track/monitor people raises serious issue of security and 
privacy. 
This conference aims to investigate these and other issues, focusing on the 
challenges and opportunities for data management and data access technology in 
the rapidly evolving world of mobile, pervasive, ubiquitous, invisible and 
wearable computing.

Conference Topics

* Theoretical foundations of mobility
* Modeling location and mobility semantics
* Data management for ubiquitous computing
* Metadata management and exchanges
* Query processing and optimization for mobile users
* Data placement, caching, replication and relocation to support mobility
* Resource advertising and discovery techniques to support mobility
* Mobile transaction management
* Multimedia in a mobile environment
* Mobile web access and internet applications
* Context aware adaptation of user interface and content
* Data mining for mobile application
* Mobile aware/adaptive/agent applications
* Mobile agent platforms
* Middleware support for mobility
* Data presentation, scripting and exchange languages
* Mobile and ubiquitous computing applications and systems 
* Workflow management for mobile environments
* Operating system and network support for ubiquitous mobile computing
* Security and privacy issues for ubiquitous systems
* Location dependent user and vehicle tracking
* Quality of service management for mobile systems
* Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems
* Data broadcasting in mobile environments

Submission Information

Both research and industrial papers are solicited. Research papers must be 
unpublished and not exceed 12 single-spaced pages. Industrial papers must not 
exceed 6 single-spaced pages and should describe interesting technical aspects 
of industrial applications, prototypes, experiences, and standards; performance 
and design details are encouraged and papers only describing high-level system 
designs are discouraged. Authors are invited to submit their papers 
electronically through the conference Web site at 
http://www.cs.duke.edu/mdm2004/ on or before June 10, 2003. PDF format is 
preferred but postscript format is acceptable. Conference proceedings will be 
published by IEEE Computer Society Press. We also solicit proposals for panels 
and tutorials. Proposals must be emailed to the respective chairs by June 10, 
2003.

Organizing Committee

* Conference Co-Chairs   
    Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
    Hui Lei, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
* Program Committee Co-Chairs
    Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
    Richard Muntz, UCLA, USA
* Industry Track Chair
    Ravi Jain, DoCoMo USA Labs, USA
* Panels Chair    
    George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
* Tutorials Chair 
    Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
* Local Arrangements Chair
    Jussi Myllymaki, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
* Publicity Chair
    Jun Yang, Duke University, USA
* Finance Chair
    Helen Wang, Microsoft Research, USA
* Registration Chair
    Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA

Program Committee

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany 
Elisa Bertino, University of Milano, Italy
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Dan Chalmers, Imperial College London, UK
Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ying Chen, IBM China Research Laboratory, China
Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Norman Cohen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
Alex Delis, Polytechnic University, USA
Maggie Dunham, Southern Methodist University, USA
Adrian Friday, Lancaster University, UK
Akira Fukuda, Kyushu University, Japan
Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France
Ravi Jain, DoCoMo USA Labs, USA
Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Hyunchul Kang, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Roger Kermode, Motorola Research, Australia
Myoung Ho Kim, KAIST, Korea
Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
George Kollios, Boston University, USA
Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Chiang Lee, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Dik L. Lee, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Guanling Lee, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hong-Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Vincenzo Liberatore, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Seng Wai Loke, Monash University, Australia
Sanjay Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Mihhail Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Sharad Mehrotra, UC Irvine, USA
Eduardo Mena, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China
Rebecca Montanari, University of Bologna, Italy
Badri Nath, Rutgers University, USA
Jignesh M. Patel, University of Michigan, USA
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Apratim Purakayastha, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA
George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts, USA
Morris Sloman, Imperial College London, UK
S. Sloman, I.I.T. Bombay, India
Kian Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Doug Terry, Microsoft Research, USA
Helen Thomas, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyvaskyla / Waseda University, Finland/Japan
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia

Industry Track Committee (preliminary)

Sujata Banerjee, HP Labs, USA
Jussi Myllamaki, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Yannis Labrou, Fujistsu Labs of America, USA

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