CFP: UMICS 2004 workshop

Final Call for Papers
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UMICS 2004
Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems
http://www.elet.polimi.it/conferences/umics2004/

Riga, Latvia, 7 - 8 June, 2004

Held in conjunction with CAiSE'04

Accepted papers will be published in a Springer Verlag LNCS volume.

A selection of best papers will be also published as special issue on
"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing", an international journal published
by ACM-Springer Verlag (http://www.personal-ubicomp.com/).

IMPORTANT DATES

February 7th 2004: Paper submission
March 5th 2004: Author notification
April 1st 2004: Camera-Ready copy due

Rationale 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 a software infrastructure that enables 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 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.

Moreover people need to move across organizational boundaries and
collaborate with others within the organization as well as between
organizations. The ability to query the company's distributed knowledge
base and to cooperate with co-workers is still a requirement, but
mobility brings new access scenarios and higher complexity. Therefore,
some issues also arise about how to enable users to retain their ability
to cooperate while displaced in a different point of the enterprise, the
role of context and location in determining cooperation, the support for
ad-hoc cooperation in situations where the fixed network infrastructure
is absent or cannot be used.

The approaches and technologies for supporting these new ways of work
are still the subject of research. Nevertheless, they are likely to
"borrow" concepts and technologies from a variety of fields, such as
workflow systems, groupware and CSCW, event-based systems, software
architecture, distributed database systems, mobile computing, ubiquitous
information systems, and so on. A particularly interesting line of
re-search is exploring a peer-to-peer paradigm enriched with sharing
abstractions in which each network node is both a potential user and
provided of information for the rest of the community.

UMICS 2004 aims at being the natural continuation of last year UMICS,
where we have had some 15 good papers and 25 attendees. UMICS 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
    * Conceptual models 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.)


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

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'04: UMICS2004-PABsLib4K1h2gtSFtTw2zA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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, DERI, Ireland
Stavros Christodoulakis, MUSIC/TUC, Crete, Greece
Fabio Casati, HP Labs, USA
Marlon Dumas, Quinsland University of Technology, Australia
Wolfgang Emmerich , University College London, UK
Jose Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, UK
Jim Gemmell, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center, USA
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia.com, Telcordia R&D, USA
Manfred Hauswirth, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research Labs, USA
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Frank Maurer, University of Calgary, Canada
Moira Norrie, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Massimo Paolucci, CMU, USA
Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer Institut FIT, Germany
Gustavo Rossi, LIFIA-Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Thanh von Do, Telenor R&D, Norway
Florian Waas, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA

Submission Guidelines

Authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format.
Manuscripts of approximately 5,000 words must be prepaired according to
the CAISE style and sent to UMICS2004-PABsLib4K1jh4yYLOf7dog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Submissions should
be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats.

Full details, including more specific guidelines on the preparation of
papers, as well as styles for LaTeX2e, Tex, and MS Word (not
encouraged), can be found on the Springer LNCS Web site. Please, do NOT
edit the styles.

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


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Schahram Dustdar - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Associate Professor
Distributed Systems Group (DSG), Information Systems Institute
A-1040 Wien, Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
Tel +43-1-58801-18414   Fax +43-1-58801-18491
URL: http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/sd/
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