Call for Papers - PERVASIVE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - EDBT-Workshop 2004

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  CALL FOR PAPERS
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  PERVASIVE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

  International Workshop held in conjunction with EDBT 2004
  March 18, 2004, Heraklion - Crete, Greece

  http://www.dbs.ethz.ch/~tuerker/edbtpim/

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Wireless connectivity along with increasingly small and 
powerful mobile devices and sensors enables a wide 
range of new applications that will radically change the 
way information is managed and processed today. 
Information becomes ubiquitous, highly distributed and 
at the same time accessible from everywhere at any time. 
Information access takes place in highly dynamic and 
instable networks. Nevertheless, users and application 
developers will expect information processing to 
continue under similar guarantees as those offered by 
today's stationary and more or less centralized systems, 
even if some nodes of the pervasive information network 
are (temporarily) disconnected and/or are in motion. 
Examples for these guarantees are the ones given by 
database management systems, e.g., consistency and 
durability of data. Additional challenges stem from the 
fact that mobile devices, in particular embedded devices 
and sensors, are less powerful than their stationary 
counterparts; they are smaller (resulting, e.g., in smaller 
in- and output devices and less available storage), have 
restricted energy supplies and communicate via 
expensive and unreliable wireless communication media.

This workshop aims to be a forum for presenting and 
discussing ideas, challenges, and opportunities for data 
management and data access technology in pervasive 
information systems. New and existing concepts and 
techniques shall be considered in the light of the rapidly 
increasing mobility of users and the great advances in 
system infrastructures, mobile devices, and sensor 
technologies. Research papers presenting theoretical 
results, perspective solutions, and practical 
developments are welcome. Position papers are also 
welcome and encouraged.

TOPICS

- Modelling location and mobility semantics
- Infrastructure support for mobility
- Mobility awareness and adaptability 
- Location-dependent, context-based querying
- Designing location-aware, context-aware services
- Discovery and composition of ubiquitous services
- Tracking moving objects and mobile users
- Mobile sensor and stream data management
- Continuous querying and data stream processing
- Mobile data dissemination and delivery
- Mobile data replication and synchronization
- Self-organizing, self-tuning components
- Information usage in ad-hoc networks
- Pervasive transactional / workflow processing
- Quality of service for pervasive computing systems
- Mobile access and advanced user interfaces
- Security and privacy in ubiquitous systems

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not exceed 
12 pages strictly following Springer's LNCS style. LNCS 
formatting guidelines and templates can be found at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Authors shall submit their papers electronically to 
tuerker-gy3b+zu4XSAfv37vnLkPlQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx before January 9, 2004. PDF 
format 
is preferred, but postscript format is also acceptable. 
Accepted papers will be published in the informal 
workshop proceedings. Selected papers will appear in 
the post-proceedings, which most probably will be 
published in the LNCS series of Springer. At least one 
author of each accepted paper must attend the 
workshop to present their work.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline:   January 9, 2004
Notification of Acceptance:  February 6, 2004
Camera-Ready Copy:           February 27, 2004

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Karl Aberer (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Michel E. Adiba (Université de Grenoble, France)
- Christoph Gollmick, (University of Jena, Germany)
- Hagen Höpfner (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
- Valérie Issarny (INRIA, France)
- Christian Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
- Birgitta König-Ries (TU München, Germany, co-chair)
- Sanjay Kumar Madria (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA)
- Rainer Malaka (EML Heidelberg, Germany)
- Kia Makki (Florida International University, USA)
- Eduardo Mena (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
- Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece)
- George Samaras (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
- Kai-Uwe Sattler (University of Ilmenau, Germany)
- Heiko Schuldt (UMIT Innsbruck, Austria)
- Can Türker (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, chair)
- Özgür Ulusoy (Bilkent University, Turkey)
- Jari Veijalainen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
- Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois, USA)

ORGANIZERS

Can Türker
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich
Institute of Information Systems
ETH Zentrum, IFW C47.2
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Email: tuerker-gy3b+zu4XSAfv37vnLkPlQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Birgitta König-Ries
Technische Universität München
Faculty for Computer Science I 3
Boltzmannstr. 3
D-85747 Garching, Germany
Email: koenigri-xrfDFxQfymSzQB+pC5nmwQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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