[Dbworld] ACM SAC Track on Ubiquitous Computing

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ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2005
LAST CALL OFR PAPERS

SUBMISSION DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 3



Special Track on Ubiquitous Computing
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ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2005
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http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2005/

For the past nineteen years, the ACM Symposium on 
Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum 
for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, 
software engineers, and application developers from 
around the world. SAC 2005 is sponsored by the ACM 
Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, and is 
hosted by New Mexico Institute of Mining and 
Technology, Socorro, NM, USA.


Special Track on Ubiquitous Computing Applications
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Ubiquitous computing places humans in the centre of 
environments saturated with computing and wireless 
communications capabilities, yet gracefully integrated, so 
that technology recedes in the background of everyday 
activities. Indeed, the vision of an activated world is 
action oriented and rather than dictate, it follows and 
enhances human behaviour. This vision of seamless 
cohabitation of the world by humans and computers was 
first discussed in Mark Weiser's article "The Computer 
for the 21st Century," where it was stated that "the most 
profound technologies are those that disappear. They 
weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until 
they are indistinguishable from it."

The ubiquitous computing world then, is a world largely 
defined by applications. But such applications present an 
altogether new set of requirements: they are developed 
at the many layers of the physical world, that is they may 
be global, environmental, spatial, personal, handheld, 
wearable or embedded; they may be personal or social; 
they may be made up of any of a number of components 
coordinated centrally or built as a distributed and 
decentralised architecture, autonomous or un-affiliated; 
they may vary on their degree of physical integration as 
well as their integration with existing information 
infrastructures; they may show spontaneous behaviour; 
they may create an ambient intelligence landscape; and 
last but not least they may be embedded, pervasive or 
mobile.

Authors are invited to submit original papers that fall into 
one of the following categories:

- Original and unpublished research work
- Report of innovative computing applications in the 
arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas 
- Report of successful technology transfer to new 
problem domains
- Report of industrial experience and demos of new 
innovative systems
- Workshops and Panels

The ACM SAC 2005 track on ubiquitous computing 
applications welcomes paper submissions on all types of 
ubiquitous computing applications as well as on 
specialized infrastructures built for the deployment of 
targeted applications. Papers should place applications 
within their use context and make a significant 
contribution in terms of a use case, a novel and 
appropriate interaction paradigm, an innovative 
experience design approach and so on, addressing 
related technical, design, interaction, business, 
economics or legal aspects and opportunities or 
constraints accordingly.

Possible application areas include but are not restricted 
to:
- Entertainment, infotainment and gaming.
- Tourism and experience recording. 
- Ubiquitous commerce including shopping assistants, 
retail environments and home shopping.
- Smart home infrastructures including home 
automation, entertainment and commerce.
- Research infrastructures including ubiquitous 
computing support for laboratory work and remote 
monitoring and control.
- Ubiquitous cognitive assistance including ubiquitous 
valet or rememberer systems.
- Ubiquitous computing supported collaborative work.
- Ubiquitous learning in the classroom as well as in 
informal settings, for example during museum, gallery or 
exhibition visits.
- Health- and home-care including monitoring and 
processing of vital signs, and medication administration.
- Environmental control including self-configuring 
sensor and actuator networked applications.
- Transportation including fleet management 
applications.

This track will particularly welcome demonstrations of 
working prototypes of ubiquitous computing applications.


Paper Submission
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The body of the paper should not exceed 4,000 words. A 
separate cover sheet should be sent separately from the 
main paper. The cover sheet should include the title of 
the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and 
the address (including e-mail, telephone, and FAX) to 
which correspondence should be sent. Please note that 
must fit within five two-column pages following the ACM 
proceedings format with an optional three extra pages 
possible at additional cost to the authors.

Review of the papers will be "blind", meaning authors 
must not be identified in the submissions, either explicitly 
or by implication (for example, through the references or 
acknowledgments). Submissions will be judged on 
originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance to the 
SAC objectives, and correctness. Papers submitted to 
this track should not be submitted simultaneously to any 
other conference or publication, should not have been 
previously published, and should not be subsequently 
published in the same form elsewhere. Accepted papers 
may be shepherded through an editorial review process 
by a member of the program committee. Based on initial 
feedback from the program committee, authors of 
shepherded papers will submit an editorial revision of 
their paper to their program committee shepherd by 
November 15, 2004. The shepherd will review the paper 
and give the author additional comments.

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. 
Authors should prepare a PostScript or Portable 
Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. The 
server will be open for submission of papers between 1-3 
September 2004. The server will close at 23.59 PM 
GMT, 3 September 2004. No more papers will be 
accepted after that time.

Important Dates
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Sept 3, 2004: Submission of papers and demonstration 
proposals (strict)
Oct 15, 2004: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
Nov 15, 2004: Camera-Ready copies of accepted papers
March 13-17,2005: ACM SAC 2005

Track Program Chairs
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George Roussos
g.roussos-+9tF5d9GpIpaa/9Udqfwiw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
School of Computer Science and Information Systems
Birkbeck University of London

George Samaras
cssamara-AMVc+4RwNGbHCqZ3qdFy9g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus


Track Program Committee
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Jakob E. Bardram, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Jason Brotherton, University College London, UK
Sastry Duri, IBM Research, USA
Anatole Gershman, Accenture Labs, USA
Lars Eric Holmquist, Viktoria Institute, Sweden
Christian Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Achilles Kameas, Computer Technology Institute, Greece
George Karabatis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, US
Andy Marsh, VMWSolutions Ltd, UK
Irene Mavrommati, Computer Technology Institute, Greece
Jeff Pierce, Georgia Tech, USA
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Albrecht Schmidt, LMU Munich, Germany
Phil Stenton, HP Labs, UK
Martin Strassner, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan
Peter Thomas, Appliance Design, UK
Niall Winters, Institute of Educations, UK
Baihua Zheng, Singapore management University, Singapore
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