CFP: AMCIS2004 Mobile Services Minitrack

AMCIS 2004 Minitrack on Mobile Services
Sponsored by SIGeBiz

http://www.cis.uoguelph.ca/~qmahmoud/mobile-services/amcis2004/index.html

Submission deadline: Feb 22, 2004
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Call for Papers 

The nature of the wireless Internet will be different from simply accessing the 
Internet wirelessly. Users with handheld wireless devices, being mostly mobile, 
have different needs, motivations and capabilities from wired users. Mobile 
services are mobile/wireless computing applications and services that can be 
either pushed to user's handheld wireless devices (push mobile services) or 
downloaded and installed, over the air, on handheld wireless devices (pull 
mobile services). The explosive growth of the handheld wireless devices market, 
however, is stimulating the computing research community to clone almost any 
technology developed for desktop networked computers to handheld wireless 
devices connected to a wireless network. Wireless networks are, however, 
unreliable and suffer from low bandwidth and have a greater tendency for 
network errors. In addition, wireless connections can be lo
 st or degraded by mobility. As a result, future intelligent mobile services 
must be desig!
 ned from the ground up by taking fully into account the new design dimensions 
made accessible by the new technologies. This emerging field poses new 
challenges to the research community such as faster time-to-market, quality of 
wireless information, security concerns, and others. 

This mini-track aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the 
fields of information systems, computing, networking, and mobile and wireless 
computing to discuss most recent research findings and to further promote 
on-going research on mobile services. The mini-track is concerned with the 
foundations of mobile services, design and architectural issues, middleware, 
security and privacy issues, agents for mobile services, discovery protocols, 
and interaction of mobile services. Each potential participant should submit a 
paper that exposes a new problem, advocates a specific solution, or reports on 
actual experience. 

Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following: 

Novel mobile services and applications 
Push and pull mobile services 
Wireless Web services 
Analysis and design of mobile services 
Security and privacy issues in mobile services 
Location-dependent mobile services 
Content personalization 
Discovery protocols for mobile services 
Databases for mobile services 
XML for mobile services 
Middleware for mobile services 
Agents for mobile services 
 

Deadline: The deadline for submitting papers is 23:59EST Feb 22, 2004. To 
receive feedback on the suitability of your paper for this minitrack (an 
important step), please submit your abstract to me via email 
(qmahmoud-aOA1EkeDj/yhtfcYr7jNXg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) by 23:59EST, February 1, 
2004. Notifications will be sent on March 30, 2004. Camera ready copies are due 
Friday, May 15, 2005. See AMCIS'04 website for more details. 

How to submit papers: All submissions are to be made through the electronic 
submission and review system managed by AIS. Please visit AMCIS'04 website for 
more details. 

Note: Submission of a paper to the conference represents the author's agreement 
to allow AIS to publish the paper in any written or electronic format for 
distribution to all interested parties in perpetuity with or without 
compensation to AIS and without compensation to the author. The parties 
understand that the author is granting a nonexclusive license and all 
copyrights remain the property of the author. 

Minitrack Chairs:
Dr. Qusay H. Mahmoud
Dept. of Computing and Information Science
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
EMail: qmahmoud-aOA1EkeDj/yhtfcYr7jNXg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Dr. Upkar Varshney
Dep. of Computer Information Systems
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA, USA
Email: uvarshney-Avelm+Pj5+A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

The Wireless/Mobile Meta-Track at AMCIS2004 consists of the following three 
Mini-Tracks. Please check them all and submit your paper to the most 
appropriate mini-track: Mobile Commerce Strategy and Behavioral Issues 
Mobile Services 
Ubiquitous Mobile Information Systems (url to come) 
 

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